Penguin Palooza comparison

If this can be combined elsewhere feel free Admins. 
Here are my penguin species family groups. Others feel free to share yours too!
Emperor
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King
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Humboldt
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Chinstrap
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African
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Rockhopper
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Lonely gentoo
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Galapagos, little, yellow eyed
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Many variety of penguins,

I like especially the african ones.

Thanks for opening that topic Paige !

First of all, I'm interested in this older emperor chick but from what I remember, this is a retired Safari.

Then, the other thing that strikes me the most is how well the CollectA African penguin fits with the Schleich from an aesthetic point of view despite being slightly larger ! Maybe they could make a lovely pair.

Thanks! Honestly, penguins are a lesser interest of mine in general so this is a neglected part of my collection. But the African and blue littles are my favorite species. 

The larger emperor chick is K&M actually. And the CollectA and Schleich African do look nice together.

What a wonderful family, so many models and so many brands! I love the chicks, they're gorgeous!

So I love penguins. I will remember to show my penguins when I get them back.
AAA Emperors are just an invented thing. I don't understand why they can make an identifiable Humboldt that is less known but so weird Emperors.
The old Schleich King penguin, was always marketed like that but if it was marketed as an Emperor, it wouldn't change anything. The brand of the cute animals took a long time to get things correctly and now they are back to the abnormal things.
OK, they also made good penguins, the African Emperor chicks, king penguin II and the Emperor with chick.
i like the standard sized Safari models, I think I only miss the current African.
You need to pair your Gentoo, there's a beautiful partner to go with it.
I see you don't have my favorite species, the Adélie penguin.
Your comparisons are a treasure. I see a few missing in my collection.

Here is a useful chart to help with penguins' sizes.
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It shows how much the Schleich is better sized as a king than an emperor.

What a fabulous chart!

That's helpful in just remembering all the kinds of penguin, even if I'm not collecting them!

Beautieful penguins :)

Thank you everybody! I invite anyone to add theirs if you wish. :)

I might just do that

As previously announced, Andrés has been recently repainting a Schleich 14632 Emperor Penguin with Chick [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] into a king to go with my new 14617 King Penguin [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] which now replaces the 14652 Emperor Penguin in my collection [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] .

The result is absolutely faboulous and it's impossible to tell that this figure was not a king in the first place and that these two were not initially made for each other.
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Here they are with my new Emperor, the Papo model :
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And finally, a comparison with the original model.
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This is the first of many upcoming weddings as almost all my penguins are going to find love next week

George Murray Levick, turned famous the sexual depravity of penguins. Obviously there's no depravity at all so if you find any strange behaviour with your new couples, don't get surprised. Let's take a look at your new king penguin and obviously it was a good idea. Naturally I enjoy the baby and it is understandeable why brands avoid chicks of that particular species. They look beautifully ugly to me but I am not sure kids would enjoy them. I think the result is very beautiful, maybe the ear patch should be confined to a smaller extent with the black outline of the grizzled back extending to the dark face but it is not easy to explain and the pose may not give a perfect perception. It is beautiful and more than recognizable and now every of them look perfect, even the Papo emperor is giving a new dymmension to your Penguin Palooza.

Wonderful models! I can't wait to see your other pairs.

Roger wrote:

George Murray Levick, turned famous the sexual depravity of penguins. Obviously there's no depravity at all so if you find any strange behaviour with your new couples, don't get surprised. Let's take a look at your new king penguin and obviously it was a good idea. Naturally I enjoy the baby and it is understandeable why brands avoid chicks of that particular species. They look beautifully ugly to me but I am not sure kids would enjoy them. I think the result is very beautiful, maybe the ear patch should be confined to a smaller extent with the black outline of the grizzled back extending to the dark face but it is not easy to explain and the pose may not give a perfect perception. It is beautiful and more than recognizable and now every of them look perfect, even the Papo emperor is giving a new dymmension to your Penguin Palooza.

I'm not sure any kind of alleged depravity, not even a mixed-species penguin orgy is still able to surprise me.
Such a precise description is still a bit difficult to understand in English so I made a paint simulation to illustrate what I understood from what you said, am I right ?
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Well, that ear patch's shape was indeed very difficult to visualize in that particular pose and when Andrés showed me the picture, I was too afraid of spoiling what I considered as an amazing work that I didn't asked any change as I know too well how perfectionism can be counter-productive. But now you're telling it, yes, I can clearly see it and you are right, the repaint is slightly incomplete. I don't think I will ask Anne (a local painter who can do minor jobs for me, like restoring scratched figures and so on) to fix it though, that penguin is too precious to me and I don't think I will dare any further repaint.

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Wonderful models! I can't wait to see your other pairs.

It's gonna be very cute for sure, unfortunately I did not dare to order the new Safari rockhopper to go with the CollectA, I was not sure they would fit (not sizewise, aesthetically) and you don't have it yet (only the older version) so I was not able to see a comparison from you. As a consequence, the rockhopper, emperor (and upcoming chinstrap) will remain single but maybe the Colorata set could fix that (at least for the rockhopper and chinstrap).

Ben, I think you got it or at least very close. I wouldn't change it. It is just a detail, hard to see in that pose as we both pointed and it does not turns the repaint inaccurate. You have a beautiful and perfectly identifiable king penguin with a chick. The penguins that got known as depravated were the Adèlie penguins but what can you expect from a scientist that cannot tell a nun from a penguin?

As seen on my addition topic, here is my now complete penguin family from major brands :

King pair :
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Gentoo pair :
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Jackass pair :
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Singles :
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Whole group :
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Your King's pair is very special, of course. though, it is really surprising how these gentoos go together. It won't be hard to find a partner for your rockhopper but I am not sure your Chinstrap will find a mate.