NEW PRODUCT: JXK Studio: 1/6 African Bison (water buffalo) JXK160

Product：JXK
Name：1/6 Syncerus Caffer (African Bison aka Water Buffalo)
No.：JXK160
Weight：3000g（Subject to the actual shipment of the factory）
Material：Resin
Size：length width height：59×23×34cm
Packing box：67.5×42.5×32cm
Preorder is available before：3.42023
Release date：The third quarter of 2023
Notice：Surface tufting and should avoid bumping
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The detailing is excellent, and I want one -- just don't know if I need one.

Nice, but I'd like to see it next to a 1/6 scale figure for size reference. A water buffalo is huge.

I echo both sentiments. I love it, but don't need it. It would be cool if they made sure their lion figures could balance on top of its back. At 36 cm height (which they imply, although it is actually the shelf clearance -- maybe the right height is 34 cm as listed in the dimensios), this is actually supposed to be taller than the average male action figure. So yes, it is a pretty big boy. Maybe even slightly too big.

They even sprinkled little flocky hair pieces all over it.

Ovy wrote:They even sprinkled little flocky hair pieces all over it.

Yes, that was kinda cool, but I wonder if the contrast between them and the hard surface would not be distracting.

Can confirm, Water Buffalo are huge! Here’s an (old!) photo of me next to a taxidermy specimen I helped clean behind the scenes at the museum I volunteer with. I’m 5’6 and the buffalo was raised up slightly on a wooden base.

That’s awesome, Christine. I’m hoping this goes up for PO somewhere reliable.

Edit: By the way, where your one hand is resting by its head made me chuckle as it looks like it’s tongue is sticking out.

I love it. I don't know for what you could use that, but its just so cool. And nice pic, lynkhart

I’ve been gathering a menagerie if African animals for a female Tarzan/Indiana Jones type character and this would fit for that. (It was intended to be a comic book that I first came up with while in the hospital at Ramstein AFB back in ‘89, but never went anywhere as my research was taking too long, and after the Tomb Raider video game came out in the mid 90s and took the wind out of my sails).

Looks friendly, Christine. But why haven't you done an articulated version?

GubernatorFan wrote:Looks friendly, Christine. But why haven't you done an articulated version?

Don’t tempt me! I’ve been planning on attempting another horse at some point this year…

Honestly though, being around taxidermy makes you completely reassess your sense of scale - as they’re from different continents and environments you’d never see tapirs and musk oxen next to each other…and would never guess they were of comparable size!

You’re right. I never would have guessed they were that big. Pretty cool.

I read a sad article about the closing down of museum displays with taxidermy, thanks to the increasing reliance on virtual (online, TV) experiences. Which is such a waste of all those poor animals. Now they really lost their lives for nothing. I hope your museum preserves and makes good use of these gorgeous critters.

GubernatorFan wrote:I read a sad article about the closing down of museum displays with taxidermy, thanks to the increasing reliance on virtual (online, TV) experiences.

That's a sad situation. As Lynkhart points out, seeing things on a screen doesn't give a proper impression of size. Even seeing the diagrams isn't the same as seeing a thing in person. And the tapir v musk ox pic really surprised me! I had no idea tapirs were that large!

More and more people are thinking that screens can replace reality, and that animals, even ones long dead, should not be "exploited" for displays, even educational displays. I am coming to believe that our screen-based culture is leading us in to an intellectual dark age where people will have an increasingly tenuous grasp of physical, tangible reality.

But... we're talking about that buffalo, right?

BUFFALO! Not a freakin' bison! There's no such animal as an African Bison.

The African Buffalo - Syncerus caffer - is a totally different critter than the American Bison (formerly known colloquially as a "buffalo"). The African Buffalo has always been known in western tongues as buffalo.

Read all about it here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_buffalo

Now even the China-based manufacturers are adopting "correctness" when it comes to naming conventions, but in doing so, they are spreading more "disinformation." It's not even disinformation, it's just plain wrong.

This would be a cool figure to have if one were assembling a "Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" action figure diorama for junior high school literature class. But I'm not in junior high school anymore. And if you took a 1/6-scale Griffin & Howe Springfield big game rifle to school to complete your diorama, you'd probably get suspended.

Plus, I'm so annoyed by them calling it a "Bison" that I'll give it a pass.

https://www.hlj.com/1-6-scale-african-bison-jxk95607

THREE-HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS?!?

$215 on BBTS:

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/234688

Stryker2011 wrote:$215 on BBTS:

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/234688

Oh... good find. Somewhat more reasonable for a toy cow, I guess.  

davidd wrote:

Stryker2011 wrote:$215 on BBTS:

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/234688

Oh... good find. Somewhat more reasonable for a toy cow, I guess.  

Definitely much mooore reasonable.
Sorry, couldn't resist.

Two hundred bucks for a toy cow

This is pretty awesome.  I’ve seen them in real life and they are beautiful but intimidating animals.  I don’t need it though.  In terms of a market for 1/6 animals, smaller pets and domesticated animals probably have a better sales potential.  Given the size and price of this guy, I’d be more inclined to want something in metal as a piece of décor for the man cave.

MarkEl wrote:This is pretty awesome.  I’ve seen them in real life and they are beautiful but intimidating animals.  I don’t need it though.  In terms of a market for 1/6 animals, smaller pets and domesticated animals probably have a better sales potential.  Given the size and price of this guy, I’d be more inclined to want something in metal as a piece of décor for the man cave.

I agree, although they still manage to overprice those. I mean, we're talking about the same size and slightly better quality than kids' toys by Schleich and Safari Ltd.

It's always odd what does or doesn't capture our interest. I'm not feeling any connection to this but an American Bison ("Buffalo") of comparable quality would have engaged my interest so much more - just because of all the associations with a Wild West theme, Buffalo Bill etc, and the pleasure of upgrading those classic 1/6 Marx bisons I've had for half a century.

I actually like this. If it was a reasonable price, I'd get one. I'd be interested in a bison as well.

Moonbase Alpha Male wrote:It's always odd what does or doesn't capture our interest.  I'm not feeling any connection to this but an American Bison ("Buffalo") of comparable quality would have engaged my interest so much more - just because of all the associations with a Wild West theme, Buffalo Bill etc, and the pleasure of upgrading those classic 1/6 Marx bisons I've had for half a century.

Very true.