Southlands Replicas

Dear friends,

NEW BRAND Coming Soon!!

We've been working hard around the clock over the last year to develop and launch an entirely new brand of collectable animal figurines. We're now very close to making that dream a reality  

I really wanted to make this announcement here because the 'homemade models' section of STS is where I first discovered this amazing community of collectors and sculptors, plus.. all the original sculpts have been literally homemade!

The models are being mass produced and are equivalent in materials, price and quality to the other well known figurine brands. For today I'm super excited to reveal our logo below - and to direct you to our Facebook page.. Southlands Replicas

We will be gradually revealing images of our first batch of figurines over the coming weeks as we build towards the official launch.

I look forward to answering questions!
Jason - aka MiniZoo :)

Phantastic news, especially for me as specie collector :)

Jason, did you make models for this brand ? I think about your thylacoleo

This is SO enormously exiting

Congratulations, Jason !!! This must be the dream of all sculpturers come true

I just can't wait to see the models

Thanks Andreas and Susanne. Florian you are quite the detective!!

@MiniZoo wrote:

Thanks Andreas and Susanne. Florian you are quite the detective!!

Wow so it is a promising brand !

Wow, pleasant surprise !! . I hope it is a brand with great success.

Ohhh what wonderful news !!! Can't wait to see the list and the models... I m pretty sure that if you are involved in the first person, Jason, the models will be quite interesting

Thank you !!

What a surprise! Love the line: Nature at play <3
I assume models will be for sale in your shop when they come out? :3

Very curious what kind of animals and what kind of lines will be coming out soon!!

@Signatus wrote:

Wow, pleasant surprise !! . I hope it is a brand with great success. Very Happy

Thanks Miguel!

@pm64 wrote:

Ohhh what wonderful news !!! Can't wait to see the list and the models... I m pretty sure that if you are involved in the first person, Jason, the models will be quite interesting Very Happy bounce

There will be some species never before modeled as well as some fresh takes and new poses of better known figures

@NightLioness wrote:

What a surprise! Love the line: Nature at play <3
I assume models will be for sale in your shop when they come out? :3

Very curious what kind of animals and what kind of lines will be coming out soon!! Very Happy

Thanks! - Yes they'll be available through MiniZoo of course and over time we hope to wholesale them into other figurine stores. I hope everyone will be pleasantly surprised with our figurine selection and fresh approach!

Wow, what an amazing news!

Thanks Anna

What types of animals will there be?

@bun2013 wrote:

What types of animals will there be?

Australian animals :)

When you think we can see the first pics :)

@widukind wrote:

When you think we can see the first pics :)

Not too far away - we are just waiting on some samples from the factory for our photo shoots :)

I think that it's a good thing for collectors when a new brand is launched.
There are many endemic species in Australia, and some of them are in danger of extinction.
I don't know if you want to produce as Collecta animal replicas of endangered species, or especially
animal replicas of Australia's (so amazing) wildlife ?
Will your brand be different ?
I sincerely wish a lot of success to Southlands Replicas

Retoric

@MiniZoo wrote:

@widukind wrote:

When you think we can see the first pics :)

Not too far away - we are just waiting on some samples from the factory for our photo shoots :)

It is so enormously exiting

Excellent can't wait to see! :

@retoric wrote:

I don't know if you want to produce as Collecta animal replicas of endangered species, or especially
animal replicas of Australia's (so amazing) wildlife ? Will your brand be different ?

Southlands Replicas will have a focus on quality, realism, collectability and educational play value. As our name implies we are concentrating on reproducing the wonderful & fascinating animal species (both extinct and extant) from lands and waters around & largely south of the equator.

Expanding further, we believe our figures will be the most true to life depictions of Australian Wildlife available with a lot of emphasis on unique features. We're also paying close attention to scale. The majority of figures will be 1:15 scale (as 1:20 or 1:22 is too small for many of the animals we are bringing to you). Some of the very small animals will be 1:12 or less. The main thing is that you will be able to create a diorama with all animals in relative scale.

Some of the species are completely unique to the brand (to the best of our knowledge). We are also bringing you interesting sub-species and some poses that have definitely never been produced in this format before.

While we're starting with Australian animals we have plans for much more than that..  

A little bit about our image..
Our logo incorporates the natural colours associated with waterways, grasslands, deserts, woodlands & rainforests found under the Southern Cross star system and also pays tribute to the ancient cultures that inhabited and cared for the lands.

Our motto ‘nature at play’ summarises the value that these toys will have in educating our young people on the importance of understanding and preserving the animal kingdom.

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Wow !

@MiniZoo wrote:

@widukind wrote:

When you think we can see the first pics :)

Not too far away - we are just waiting on some samples from the factory for our photo shoots :)

Can´t wait for a list Very excited and hope for the best :)

Congrats! Very exciting! Best wishes for a successful launch!

Thankyou Duck-Anch-Amun and Wilorvise!

Jason, I couldn't dream a better news this year It is fabulous and, since I really enjoy the models you made for S&N, I have no doubt 2017 will be a "full of emotions" year!

I can't wait to paste your models on the 2017 Oceanian wildlife map

Thankyou Christophe!! We are very excited about the prospects ahead. Can you please send me a link to this map - I didn't know about it before?

@MiniZoo wrote:

Thankyou Christophe!! We are very excited about the prospects ahead. Can you please send me a link to this map - I didn't know about it before?

Of course, I made one every year.

Here are the 2017 one, the 2016 and 2015 by example.

That's a fantastic news, a promising project and very brave from you to start a new brand. You're a magnificent sculptor and an enthusiast of animal toy figures and wild life diversity. I really wish all the luck to your project!

Thanks Roger, much appreciated..

First colour view of the Southlands Replicas model #00000. Thylacine (or better known as the Tasmanian Tiger).

Very nice, Big mouth seems very impressive

Seriously Jason... MOoooore pics

And please, could you show a commercial picture (the one for catalogue) so I can add it to my map?

Ohhhh! He is fabulous

Lovely Thylacine!!

Wow  It looks great    

@widukind wrote:

@MiniZoo wrote:

@widukind wrote:

When you think we can see the first pics :)

Not too far away - we are just waiting on some samples from the factory for our photo shoots :)

Nice start :)

Yesssss <3 <3

@Kikimalou wrote:

please, could you show a commercial picture (the one for catalogue) so I can add it to my map? Very Happy

 ... more photos are coming soon

Thanks also so much for your kind comments:
Susanne, Anna, Farm Collector, Lucky Luke, Andreas, and Karin

It's a very nervous time starting something like this so your support means everything

Dear STS members, this is just a quick post to advise that we now have a new Southlands Replicas profile on the forum so any questions can now be directed here

Official photos of the Thylacine. Thanks for your patience

Wow, great to see a new brand on the market! I wish you the best of luck! :)

The thylacine looks great, I like it's coloration and the mouth details.

The Good news! Good luck!

Thankyou Arafan & Sergey!

Congrats Jason and Southlands!

Jason congratulations and not just my wishes to this Brand to grow and become successful but also my contribution in purchasing/owning the wonderful critters that Southland Replicas produces !!

Thanks to Susanne she directed me lazy butt to this link and the facebook site..that Thylacine is classical .. and WOW !!! just when the sun seems to set on some brands .. we have a another SUNRISE .. Bravo Jason and the other team members wish you success

Southlands is now on TAI : http://toyanimal.info//index.php?title=Southlands_Replicas

Congratulations Jason and Southlands Replicas good luck and I hope a lot of success for your business!

WoW, congratulation ! I would like to see all  animals of the world and not only Australians, for example, all species of giraffe,.. all species of lemurs.. that come out at the same time, with the name/country of origin under the belly and 1 card of educational informations. thank

Great photos of this lovely Thylacine !