Bobcat 2012 Wild Safari North American Wildlife, walkaround by Kikimalou

Here is a new figure from SAFARI Ltd this year, a so rare bobcat...

The bobcat is the smallest of the four extant species of lynx. It ranges from southern Canada to northern Mexico, including most of the continental United States. The bobcat is an adaptable predator that inhabits wooded areas, as well as semi-desert, urban edge, forest edges, and swampland environments. It persists in much of its original range and populations are healthy.
With a gray to brown coat, whiskered face, and black-tufted ears, the bobcat resembles the other species of the mid-sized Lynx genus. It is smaller than the Canada lynx, with which it shares parts of its range, but is about twice as large as the domestic cat. It has distinctive black bars on its forelegs and a black-tipped, stubby tail, from which it derives its name.
The bobcat is believed to have evolved from the Eurasian lynx, which crossed into North America by way of the Bering land bridge during the Pleistocene, with progenitors arriving as early as 2.6 ma. The first wave moved into the southern portion of North America, which was soon cut off from the north by glaciers. This population evolved into modern bobcats around 20,000 years ago. A second population arrived from Asia and settled in the north, developing into the modern Canada Lynx.
The adult male bobcat is 71 to 100 cm long, averaging 89 cm with a stubby 10 to 18 cm tail, which has a "bobbed" appearance and gives the species its name. An adult stands about 51 to 61 cm at the shoulders.

It means the SAFARI LTD Bobcat is a 1:12 scale model.

Thankyou for the great photoes, Christophe

It is fun to see them together

A nice bobcat!!!!

Thanks for the description and pictures! This cat is in my wish list for a long time! Not excelent but very interesting!
Ah, I have the Schleich Eurooasian and not the Papo! Is true that the Schleich looks like a cute regular cat but the Papo is very bad balanced, it looks they sculpted some elements separately (some caricatural)!
Back again to the Safari, my congratulations to the brand making an unusual species!
Also congrats for your new addition and fantastic topic!

Congrats Chris! It seen like look better than Schleich lynx. This Bob Cat look with pride

Thank you all for your nice comments, I always think about you when I take my pics.

Roger wrote:

Thanks for the description and pictures! This cat is in my wish list for a long time! Not excelent but very interesting!
Ah, I have the Schleich Eurooasian and not the Papo! Is true that the Schleich looks like a cute regular cat but the Papo is very bad balanced, it looks they sculpted some elements separately (some caricatural)!
Back again to the Safari, my congratulations to the brand making an unusual species!
Also congrats for your new addition and fantastic topic!

You are right my Croc

Not the "Masterpiece" but an excellent and rare bobcat. I think the sculpting is very fine and ii would be far better with another painting. But ok, those are toys and we can't expect to see the same level of painting than on Ana, Harriet, Ralf................... models. But the painting could be a little better
Each time I have a new SAFARI Ltd, I'm really amazing by the quality level of the sculpting. Not too childish and cute, that's my personnal taste

I don't know why but it seems lynx are very uneasy to sculpt. It's true the SCHLEICH is better sculpted than the PAPO but when I look at it, I can't think it's a lynx, it's only a cat who wants to be a lynx. The PAPO is not a great sculpt, many many flaws, but it let me think more about a lynx, the way he walks... Thats' why he will stay with me.

Congrats Christophe and thank you for the excellent walk around
I agree it's a very nice sculpt, but purple spots? I think I can see what they were trying to achieve, but they should have done a better paint job to live up to the great sculpting.

HKHollinstone wrote:

Congrats Christophe and thank you for the excellent walk around
I agree it's a very nice sculpt, but purple spots? I think I can see what they were trying to achieve, but they should have done a better paint job to live up to the great sculpting.

I'm affraid they are less purple in real life

What's up with the "nose" job? Were they a bit intoxicated when they painted it?

I think the body looks okey, but why oh why is it so hard to make the face look good

First papo and now safari, their faces look awfull! If they can make other cats look great, why not the lynxes/bobcats????

I can agree that the schleich lynx is not the best eather, but compared to papo and safari, I accually think schleich made the best one

And I agree with baltimore, whats up with the nose It looks as if someone punched it and made it grow doubble in size

'Bozo" the lynx...

this is a lynx, look now, papo and safari

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It's so simple, Papo and Safari, just make a figure of Arrakai's lynx photo!

Arrakai wrote:

this is a lynx, look now, papo and safari

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Yes this is a lynx...

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THIS NOT A LYNX

The Papo lynx is more educational, the typical lynx are featured in the figure but the general result is poor, Schleich neglected some of the typical lynx characteristics and the result is 2 poor figures! Schleich is better balanced as I told before, not more educative! The Safari is a bobcat not an European lynx and they are different enought to not be compared directly!
Lynxes are harder to make because they have very complex paterns, proportions and some elements hard to do in such a small figure! Beards, tufts and even eyes, fur, etc. Big cats are easier but are much more replicated and we see that in many brands older lions are really poorly sculpted!

...Well, Christophe I think Schleich,s lynx is better? No? This bobcat maybe (on my opinion) has some problems with the muzzle...

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I don't say the SAFARI ltd Bobcat is perfect, I can see the muzzle is a big flaw... But I think it is more a bad painting problem than a sculpting one.

I don't say the SCHLEICH Eurasian lynx is awful. Each time I go in a shop, I look at it, at least to understand why I don't want to have it. It doesn't look like a lynx for me but why ? I'm still searching.

All what I say is : despite the big flaws, the SAFARI ltd bobcat let me think more about a lynx than the SCHLEICH .

Ah, much more I see the different lynxes more I think that we need a nice lynx! Even the Playvisions, with the longer body and rised back, that are two nice points, has a toyish face! I continue saying that the Papo looks clearly a lynx, sculptors have read the characteristics of the species but were not talented enough to show them in correct proportions! The Schleich looks a regular cat with a short tail, dots are deeply marked remembering other species, the head is large, nose also wrong, neck very strange and for furry figure it looks much more it is fat than furry or muscular. Also the walking style makes me think more in a regular cat! Almost no tufts and not nicely sculpted beards! Lynxes are fantastic animals, maybe in larger scales it is possible to make a more detailed figure! Is one of the species missing a excelent replica.

Kikimalou wrote:

I don't say the SAFARI ltd Bobcat is perfect, I can see the muzzle is a big flaw... But I think it is more a bad painting problem than a sculpting one.

I don't say the SCHLEICH Eurasian lynx is awful. Each time I go in a shop, I look at it, at least to understand why I don't want to have it. It doesn't look like a lynx for me but why ? I'm still searching.

All what I say is : despite the big flaws, the SAFARI ltd bobcat let me think more about a lynx than the SCHLEICH .

...Thank Christiphe. I think that Schleich eurasian lynx not perfect too. There is something... maybe too long body, and maybe paiting...

Generally I love his sculpt, he's much better than Schleich lynx. About the face - except for a nose, it's a matter of bad paintjob. But the nose...
I'm going to buy him anyway, he just needs a little nose-job (and a repaint, of course) and then he should be all pretty

Thanks for the great walkabout my friend!
I think, it is the best lynx at the moment.
Schleich is always to cute, as normal for them, the Papo is really off with his strange proportions.
So congrats on you new bobcat!

Yes the nose,
same problem that ruined the Safari Jaguar,....
But what about the AAA Lynx?
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It's very interesting to hear everyone's comments on the different figures, especially of the species i don't collect.
it seems that because i don't collect them, i don't have to decide if i like it well enough to get it, so i look at them quite differently than i look at sheep figures. it's like i'm more free when i look at them. i learn much listening to you all.
thanks!

I want to add my few cts here on the lynxes, as Christophe likes to say...
The bobcat is not a bad model at all, but almost every model ha some, isn't it...
i like the Schleich lynx to, to be honest, i saw worser models, and even would buy them...
Here are my lynxes to compare:

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5329 Hausser Elastolin Iberian lynx, scale 1:32

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1774 Starlux Eurasian lynx

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Playvisions Bobcat

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K&M Bobcat

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Ferrero U-Ei Eurasian lynx

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HP/Wild Republic Eurasian lynx

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Schleich/Safari Ltd Authentics Eurasian lynx

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Made in China Eurasian lynx

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14232 Schleich Iberian lynx

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14627 Schleich Eurasian lynx

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14628 Schleich Eurasian lynxcub

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64435 Bullyland Eurasian lynx

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Wild Republic Eurasian lynx, my biggest model

ooo! Willy, i really like the Starlux Eurasian Lynx and the K&M Bobcat!

Playvisions Bobcat looks decidedly unhappy about a startling turn of events and what on earth has the Schleich/Safari Ltd Authentics Eurasian lynx seen that he's making that FACE?!?!?!