Mammals from Invicta

Mammals from Invicta Plastics

• Woolly Mammoth • Blue Whale • Glyptodon •

Woolly Mammoth This is an ususual figure. The body was made in a 2-segment mold (right, left), but the tusks are separate. I don't know how they're attached but there seems to be no danger of them falling out. The figure is a bit under-scaled. It's 3.25 inches (8.2 cm) long, not including the tusks, which at 1:45 would represent an animal 3.7 meters long, although Invicta gives "about 5m." as the length. Perhaps because this is one of the few prehistoric animals with a common name which is not its Linnaean name (Latin Genus + species), Invicta marked this figure as a Woolly Mammoth, rather than a Mammuthus primigenius (ex-Mamonteus primigenius, ex-Elephas primagenius). We've seen the same effect over at Marx and MPC. I think Invicta did a more accurate rendition than Marx of the tusks. Each tusk of the Marx figure is curved in one plane, but the Invicta tusks are closer to the slightly more complex curve characteristic of the typical M. primigenius tusk.
Markings - WOOLLY MAMMOTH Length about 5m. © BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) 1975
Blue Whale This was one of the first figures in the series (hard to say for sure, as it has no copyright date), and is of course a modern animal. I always assumed that they put it in to serve as a scale for the others. If so, it's an abject failure. The figure is 7 inches long, and if 1:45 scale, represents a whale 26 feet (8 meters) long - pretty anaemic for a blue whale. This figure is actually 1:167 scale. To scale to 30 meters (97.5 feet) the figure should be 26 inches (67 cm) long. As I recall, the record blue whale was a female, 110 feet overall. As in the case of the Woolly Mammoth (above), Invicta has given this figure the animal's common name, rather than its Linnaean one, Balaenoptera musculus. This figure was sold complete with that little plastic stand, identical to the one supplied with Ichthyosaurus
Markings - BRITISH MUSEUM © BLUE WHALE NATURAL HISTORY LENGTH 30M INVICTA LTD LEICESTER MADE IN ENGLAND
Glyptodon
Markings - GLYPTODON Length about 3m. TN 1789 © BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) 1975