2017 Asian wildlife from all brands - Updated 8 january

Here is a place to post and discuss all the 2017 Asian wildlife models from all brands.

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Yay, the best time in the year is startig again! Thank you so much for doing this every year!
I just would say that the leopard is actualy a Jaguar, so it would belong to South America, and the Sloth bear should go to the Indian subcontinent, or Ceylon. :)

Yay, the first ones are up! Always an exciting moment when these topic appear, great work Kiki

Hehehe, the last sentence... Any answer yet??

arafan wrote:

Yay, the best time in the year is startig again! Thank you so much for doing this every year! ....

YESSSS !!! Hurrayyy

I was thinking, - is the Safari orangutan actually a new one ? Or is he just a re-launch ? He looks SO much like the one wich was retired in 2014 [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

arafan wrote:

Yay, the best time in the year is startig again! Thank you so much for doing this every year!
I just would say that the leopard is actualy a Jaguar, so it would belong to South America, and the Sloth bear should go to the Indian subcontinent, or Ceylon. :)

Thank you Bryan You are right about the black panther I was so sure it had something to do with the Jungle book taht I saw a leopard

I know for the sloth bear, I have the problem every time with these maps: It is really difficult to put exactly the animals at teh good location so i always have to find some compromise.

NightLioness wrote:

Yay, the first ones are up! Always an exciting moment when these topic appear, great work Kiki

Hehehe, the last sentence... Any answer yet??

No answer yet... Astonishing no?

Yay, I need the sloth bear and the moon bear
Why don't we have a bear emoticon on the forum?

Congratulations Christophe good job!
Yes to an emoticon bear and a peak birds!

Now that only Schleich and Safari releases are known. I can tell that from Asia, my interest is only in Schleich sloth bear and Safari Asiatic black bear. I have a big hope that CollectA releases an important ungulate to this continent too. Maybe a saiga?
I think the IC gibbon is a nice piece but these are always so large and I believe it is just another lar gibbon. Thanks for your great work and I think the idea of a emoticons Zoo is nice and adjusted to STS-Forum. They're easy to design, maybe we can invite some mebers to do it or something like that.

arafan wrote:

Yay, the best time in the year is startig again! Thank you so much for doing this every year!
I just would say that the leopard is actualy a Jaguar, so it would belong to South America, and the Sloth bear should go to the Indian subcontinent, or Ceylon. :)

The job is done

Why does the Safari ltd. Moon bear have bright yellow eyebrows?

Bloodrayne wrote:

Why does the Safari ltd. Moon bear have bright yellow eyebrows?

Indeed, I was searching what was wrong with this bear and you pointedit perfectly!

Yes, Simone is right, rarely, some Asiatic bears have whitish airs around the orbital area but it never looks like that. I find the white markings in that bear quite disturbing. Maybe we can tell Safari to remove these eyebrows or to find a less contrasting color that fades gradually from the nose. I really dislike it a lot and it is more obvious in the picture below:
They could also use a less contrasting color as Kosta explained very well some time ago. Maybe a grey instead of white could work much better for markings, I guess.

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CollectA added!

Thank you very much Christophe. Asia richly garnished this year with a lot on my wish list
It is probably not finished

I agree it is a good year for Asiatic fauna collectors

Now, we have to wait for Papo... Something new like... A new tiger

Mojo Asian elephant added

Papo added

Science & Nature have released, during 2016, a tiger, cheetah, camel and red panda. They're announced as new 2017 figures although I don't know if these are S&N original sculpts. They can be found here!

Some real delish figures coming in 2017! Finally we will get a Saiga antelope hurray! Such interesting species

The Saiga is a must have for me. And the sloth and the moon bear could be interesting :)

I think there is another 2017 Papo release that could be introduced in this topic. Sorry Christophe!
The new mandarin duck.
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I thought about it but since Papo introduced it in its Farm range, I avoid it here. It is the same for the Safari Ltd Koi.

That's fine for me.

Bullyland added

A HUGE spider