Schleich retired 2012 – what will they discontinue?

So maybe a new St.Bernard male will be produced???That would be great!!! I think no other new dogs will be produced.
I totally agree with you Martin,that horrible hippo should be retired!!!

New Elephants,HURRAY!!

Thank you so much for the info, Bongo!

In which toystore did you see the poster?

I'm so depressed to see the simmental bull is going he was only hear for 2 years
But maybe that means more cows for 2012

New Cows in 2012 sounds really good.

Poor hippo

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New cows are not bad, but not only Fleckvieh or Holstein. And they should have horns.

Thanks for the information! Hopefully to see a new saint bernard next year! I am also think of selling my african elephant family next year!

More retired items:

- ALL Dinosaurs
- Antylar
- Ophira
- all knight buildings and accressories
- King
- Prince
- Knight with axe (red)
- Knight with axe (blue)
- knight with big sword (red)
- Archer (blue)
- "Bidenhänder" (blue)
- some smurfs
- feeding girl
- farmer
- farmer wife
- western ride set
- jump ride set
- dressage ride set

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! not the elephants they are one of my favs
but hopefully we get some more dinos, Alaskan malamute family, red panda, and like a rare animals list like baiji, hispid hare, sumatran rhino, Red Wolf, Hairy-Nosed Wombat, Chinese Giant Salamander and FINALLY THE IBERIAN LYNX!!!

Finally it looks if Schleich is going to make new elephants, maybe even in both series!
The big question is if they will make them in a good size???
I understand when they retire items that won't sell god, although the retirement of the gnucalf means that we won't have afamily of gnu's then, and they were on the track of making families the last years...
I hope we will see the news very soon!

Schleich is being really strange once again. If they like families, then why are they retiring the Clyde mare and making that poor foal an orphan? That's cruel!

Tyler Loew wrote:

I'm so depressed to see the simmental bull is going he was only hear for 2 years
But maybe that means more cows for 2012

It is a shame as he was really nice. But Papo's one is so much more realistic, maybe that's why they retired him.

The prehistoric mammals and dinosaurs were probably not selling well. They were big, ugly, expensive, and inacurrate.All the other companies offer some better/cheaper ones instead.
I guess the end of some lines is approaching.

I hope they will make new elephants, but why on Earth not new hippos or a female ostrich??????????????????
Also, why no new dogs lately? Those sell well.

ken yeo wrote:

Hopefully to see a new saint bernard next year!

I totally agree with you!!! That would be great!!

Izzy wrote:

Poor hippo

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I love this photo Kristie!!!

@Wildheart. In germany, the Schleich Dinosaurs are very big sellers ! That's why they were sold such a long time, and I'm sure, the line isn't ending, just a few models, and nobody knows, if these models will be replaced or not, but I think so...

Nobody knows at this time, if there will be an ostrich female and or new hippos. Because the old hippos model ins't retired yet, is dosen't mean, no hippos will be published in 2012...

Bongo wrote:

@Abu Rai.Why Schleich should do that ? Don't Worry, they won't, I'm sure, the new elephants will have the same size as the present elephants.

And why not? Maybe you're right but they made it with the white new heroes elefant

Well, Schleich seems to disprove [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] once again... Does it mean that the long ago outdated hippo, bison male, squirrel eating will remain at the market? And the older ostrich male? and rhino female? white-tailed deers?

Schleichzoo wrote:

However I think the adult hippo will go for sure due to its age ...

Maybe they think this hippo is still young in heart, Numaan?

HKHollinstone wrote:

Africa, they have to retire that hippo!

Africa seems not to have heard you, Harriet....

maybe they have a big stock of this figures and they can't sell it...

Schleich is weird...

@Abu Rai. Yes, but the White Heroes elephant is a complete diffrent line....

I think Martin is right, schleich is weird.

I think they are good at making money

At least here all the kids want "Schleich-animals", so that is what they buy and what they get for christmas.
These "bread"-customers do not care a thing if the model has been made for 25 years

As long as those sell well, why spend money on new tools, pictures, distribution etc...there is only a little, tiny flock of serious collectors who want a new one...and how many are we? Max 1 out of 1,000,000 people even in the rich countries ?

There is already two topics about Schleich 2012 retired... I will merge them, ladies and gentlemen

Kikimalou wrote:

There is already two topics about Schleich 2012 retired... I will merge them, ladies and gentlemen

Sure, it should be done.

SUSANNE wrote:

...there is only a little, tiny flock of serious collectors who want a new one...and how many are we? Max 1 out of 1,000,000 people even in the rich countries ?

That's a good question, by the way.
I think the proportion is better in the richest Western countries, i.e. in USA there should be more than 312 serious collectors, and in Germany - definitely more than 81 collector.
But in developing countries, like Ukraine, there could be about 1 or even less collectors out of 1,000,000 people. For instance, I haven't still found another serious collector in my home country...

Kiryuha wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

...there is only a little, tiny flock of serious collectors who want a new one...and how many are we? Max 1 out of 1,000,000 people even in the rich countries ?

That's a good question, by the way.
I think the proportion is better in the richest Western countries, i.e. in USA there should be more than 312 serious collectors, and in Germany - definitely more than 81 collector.
But in developing countries, like Ukraine, there could be about 1 or even less collectors out of 1,000,000 people. For instance, I haven't still found another serious collector in my home country...

I know only of one more serious collector of model animals out of the 5 million inhabitants in Denmark
There may be others, of course

Has someone else seen this retirement poster in a shop? Maybe somebody could take a picture of it and post here?

1 page back i read,,the prehistoric mammals were big and not good

wel,

the schleich prehistoric mammals are great

my 2 cents

Kiryuha wrote:

Has someone else seen this retirement poster in a shop? Maybe somebody could take a picture of it and post here?

I found the poster in a toy-store also and made a pic of it. The problem is I'm really stupid with some internet-things.
At least I managed to send it from the handy to the computer but it's not a .jpg-pic. So I could not save it as a picture on the pc but I could copy it and paste it in a word-doc. Is there any possibilty to post a pic as a word-document here? Or maybe I can send the word-doc to someone who know how to post it here?

Mia wrote:

Kiryuha wrote:

Has someone else seen this retirement poster in a shop? Maybe somebody could take a picture of it and post here?

I found the poster in a toy-store also and made a pic of it. The problem is I'm really stupid with some internet-things.
At least I managed to send it from the handy to the computer but it's not a .jpg-pic. So I could not save it as a picture on the pc but I could copy it and paste it in a word-doc. Is there any possibilty to post a pic as a word-document here? Or maybe I can send the word-doc to someone who know how to post it here?

Hi Mia, send it to me and I'll see if I can post it here for you, PM me for my email address...

HKHollinstone wrote:

Mia wrote:

Kiryuha wrote:

Has someone else seen this retirement poster in a shop? Maybe somebody could take a picture of it and post here?

I found the poster in a toy-store also and made a pic of it. The problem is I'm really stupid with some internet-things.
At least I managed to send it from the handy to the computer but it's not a .jpg-pic. So I could not save it as a picture on the pc but I could copy it and paste it in a word-doc. Is there any possibilty to post a pic as a word-document here? Or maybe I can send the word-doc to someone who know how to post it here?

Hi Mia, send it to me and I'll see if I can post it here for you, PM me for my email address...

Harriet, could you please check you inbox? I'm not sure if it worked, it was the first PM I send here on the forum.

Mia wrote:

HKHollinstone wrote:

Mia wrote:

Kiryuha wrote:

Has someone else seen this retirement poster in a shop? Maybe somebody could take a picture of it and post here?

I found the poster in a toy-store also and made a pic of it. The problem is I'm really stupid with some internet-things.
At least I managed to send it from the handy to the computer but it's not a .jpg-pic. So I could not save it as a picture on the pc but I could copy it and paste it in a word-doc. Is there any possibilty to post a pic as a word-document here? Or maybe I can send the word-doc to someone who know how to post it here?

Hi Mia, send it to me and I'll see if I can post it here for you, PM me for my email address...

Harriet, could you please check you inbox? I'm not sure if it worked, it was the first PM I send here on the forum.

Yep I received your messge fine and replied

HKHollinstone wrote:

Mia wrote:

HKHollinstone wrote:

Mia wrote:

Kiryuha wrote:

Has someone else seen this retirement poster in a shop? Maybe somebody could take a picture of it and post here?

I found the poster in a toy-store also and made a pic of it. The problem is I'm really stupid with some internet-things.
At least I managed to send it from the handy to the computer but it's not a .jpg-pic. So I could not save it as a picture on the pc but I could copy it and paste it in a word-doc. Is there any possibilty to post a pic as a word-document here? Or maybe I can send the word-doc to someone who know how to post it here?

Hi Mia, send it to me and I'll see if I can post it here for you, PM me for my email address...

Harriet, could you please check you inbox? I'm not sure if it worked, it was the first PM I send here on the forum.

Yep I received your messge fine and replied

Please Mia, do waht ever you need to do, so, we can see the things that are doing Schleich for next year.
In avance thank you , very much... Ciao.....

MARTINLATIN wrote:

HKHollinstone wrote:

Mia wrote:

HKHollinstone wrote:

Mia wrote:

Kiryuha wrote:

Has someone else seen this retirement poster in a shop? Maybe somebody could take a picture of it and post here?

I found the poster in a toy-store also and made a pic of it. The problem is I'm really stupid with some internet-things.
At least I managed to send it from the handy to the computer but it's not a .jpg-pic. So I could not save it as a picture on the pc but I could copy it and paste it in a word-doc. Is there any possibilty to post a pic as a word-document here? Or maybe I can send the word-doc to someone who know how to post it here?

Hi Mia, send it to me and I'll see if I can post it here for you, PM me for my email address...

Harriet, could you please check you inbox? I'm not sure if it worked, it was the first PM I send here on the forum.

Yep I received your messge fine and replied

Please Mia, do waht ever you need to do, so, we can see the things that are doing Schleich for next year.
In avance thank you , very much... Ciao.....

The poster was with the figurines which will retire in 2012, not with the new items, sorry.

Harriet, I just sent it to your email-addy. Thanks so much for your help!

Mia wrote:

Harriet, I just sent it to your email-addy. Thanks so much for your help!

You're welcome
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I can't believe they're retiring those horse sets already, they were only released this year!

Ah, gamekeeper will be gone, I must get one of those...

HKHollinstone wrote:

I can't believe they're retiring those horse sets already, they were only released this year!

I was thinking exactly the same, Harriet.

Thanks for posting the picture for me, you did a great job!

Thankyou for the picture, this is very interesting

Gosh, they are retiring all the elefants ! They must then make new ones, - aaaarrrr, I don`t have room for more elefants

And the two playsets ! They must have cost a fortune to make !
Perhaps they sat between two chairs in the market ?
They are not cute enough for the little girls, and they are not interesting enough for most grown-up collectors

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I sort of like the girl and her pony at the local club-show, though
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I´m sad about drinking giraffe... she is amazing! Also clydasdale mare, gnu calf and simental bull... fantastic items. And finally young lion with his weird front leg is on his way

I freakin' can't believe they're not retiring the kangaroo-rex!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And that horrible green velociraptor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the older polar bears look far better than the new ones...

Mia wrote:

HKHollinstone wrote:

I can't believe they're retiring those horse sets already, they were only released this year!

I was thinking exactly the same, Harriet.

Very strange They can't have done well on the market, which is surprising as they are so full of action, you'd think kids would love them

SUSANNE wrote:

Kiryuha wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

...there is only a little, tiny flock of serious collectors who want a new one...and how many are we? Max 1 out of 1,000,000 people even in the rich countries ?

That's a good question, by the way.
I think the proportion is better in the richest Western countries, i.e. in USA there should be more than 312 serious collectors, and in Germany - definitely more than 81 collector.
But in developing countries, like Ukraine, there could be about 1 or even less collectors out of 1,000,000 people. For instance, I haven't still found another serious collector in my home country...

I know only of one more serious collector of model animals out of the 5 million inhabitants in Denmark
There may be others, of course

Same here! I never seen another Singaporean beside me in this forum.

Most of dinosaurs are done! which means expecting to see new dinos to be introduces.

I have to safe some money for the horse sets, I didn't buy them because I thought they will not retire this year... I think I going to the shop next week. My problem going to buy schleich... I allways come back with more schleich I wanted to buy :)

LittleLady wrote:

.... My problem going to buy schleich... I allways come back with more schleich I wanted to buy :)

Horrible problem

I almost always shop on the net. And most of the E-shops have this terrible policy that if you buy more, the cost of shipping gets cheaper

So I save a lot of shipping cost over time

10 minitus away from my home with the car there's a schleich store. I suppost to be a internetstore, but when I go there myself there's going 10% of the prise, so I allways go there.

I have to get the dragons fast