The new Maia & Borges water birds

You are wellcome Frank

WOW! And also new coral fish
Do you know if they will be completely new fish, or the old ones with new painting ?

I want the ducks!!! Many many thanks for this information!

I need to study it! I don't have Paypal so EBAY will not be a solution for me. As a Portuguese brand I need to contact them to see if they are distributing also in Portugal or mostly in Germany as usual. I'm very happy with that news you shared with us and I hope M&B continues with new animal figures.

@ susanne: I think the fish should be compleatly new.

@ Roger: Can´t you pay with bank transfer ? I think that you will get them in your country, soon.

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@ susanne: I think the fish should be compleatly new.

@ Roger: Can´t you pay with bank transfer ? I think that you will get them in your country, soon.

WOW! New fish ! I can`t wait

Roger, they DO take bank transfer ( I checked), but I think you can get the ducks cheaper if you find them locally, don`t you ?
It could be very interesting if you find s seller in Portugal

Thanks for info! Yes, I'll try to find them locally!

Those are great birds, I like them a lot. I will never see them here though, I think sell mainly in Germany and Portugal

They are gorgeous! I love them

Roger wrote:

Thanks for info! Yes, I'll try to find them locally!

Roger, I want some too

I'll let everybody know if I can find them here!

Thank you for pointing that out. I've found it here in Germany:

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75senta75 wrote:

Thank you for pointing that out. I've found it here in Germany:

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Yvette

Thanks for the link! That's a very interesting place to waste some money! I have a little hope of finding them here.

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Thank you for pointing that out. I've found it here in Germany:

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Yvette

Is this bad translation or almost 40 Euros for shipping?

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75senta75 wrote:

Thank you for pointing that out. I've found it here in Germany:

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Yvette

Is this bad translation or almost 40 Euros for shipping?

I think it's only 8 to 18 euros

figurenfundgrube.de

only 3,60 shipping worldwide !

75senta75 wrote:

Thank you for pointing that out. I've found it here in Germany:

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Yvette

"...und bringt teilweise "neue" Tierfiguren heraus, die mit den alten Schleich Formen hergestellt werden. Diese Figuren haben eine neue Bemalung erhalten."

If I understand this German text well, M+B uses the old Schleich molds (and new painting) to produce "new" figures under M+B name? I am not Schleich expert, so please can You - more experienced collectors - confirm if these water fowl birds have their counterparts in any older Schleich figures?

No, they do not !
And several of the whales and sharks are not Schleich moulds either, - or the dogs.
Actually M&B has a looooong range of comic figures which is their main line of products

Susanne is right, Schleich used original M&B moulds and introduced them in their range. Mainly those from sea life. What happens is that we know better Schleich brand and think in these replicas as originally from Schleich when they are really from Maia & Borges.
Figures like the dogs, penguin, otters, puffin and these new birds were never used by Schleich.

A good example is the tropical fishes, they were originally produced by M&B and then introduced in Schleich range with different painting.
Curiously this year Schleich descontinued the remaining original M&B moulds from their range and we see a completly new line of birds from the Portuguese brand.
I hope it means that M&B is trying to see how their animal lines work in the market again. I wish all luck to these brand and congratulate it for introducing such an interesting series with some unusual species. If that line goes well maybe the brand will surprise us in near future?
I think that serious Schleich collectors will have an uncomplete collection if M&B figures are not present in their collections. Not only because their moulds were an important part of some Schleich series as well as M&B sculptors contributed largely to the Schleich design we appreciated some years ago.

WOW

Thankyou for all this WONDERFUL information, Roger, I am very exited to know this !!!!
I knew, of cours, that the cooperation between M&B and Schelich goes a long way back, but not that Schleich borrowed the moulds from M & B .
It makes good sence, though ! Why would Schleich make a completely new range of 6 models, and then scrab it after only 2 years? Moulds are enormously expensive

Ohhh, yes, I hope and pray that M&B will get enormously successful !

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...und bringt teilweise "neue" Tierfiguren
heraus, die mit den alten Schleich Formen hergestellt werden. Diese
Figuren haben eine neue Bemalung erhalten."

I have ask the seller: These words refers to the series of see animals, such photos as Susanne has already shown very nicely.

Today my M&Bs are coming in, see the photos:

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M&B swan on the left side and Schleich on the right-hand side.
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Schleich on the left and M&B on the right-hand side.
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Schleich on the left, M&B on the right.
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Schleich mallard duck and M&B (last row, right side).

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Yvette

Roger, I think, you are absolutly right!

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Yvette

Big congratulations Yvette and many thanks for the link!!

Most of this birds are absolutly must haves for me for the next month.

WOW! Yvette, they are fantastic

I can`t wait to get them

I have been babbeling about water fowl whenever we were talking about new models, - and here they are

Beautyful, wonderful pictures ! Comparisons and all , thankyou, thankyou

Now I will hurry back and look more at your pictures

At the risk of repeating myself, wow! They're beautiful, and I can't get over how rare it is to see any kind of non-mallard duck model...

I SO much hope that the GM of M & B sees this

Please, please there are SO many wonderful, exotic, strange and interesting waterfowl