Roger's Arrivals! 1st part

The Oryx is stunning! I love it! Congrats!

Rogers, fantastic addition to your beautiful collections all figures

Wonderful additions. Congratulations.

Roger wrote:

Safari is really growing on me! More and even more I like this brand.
Safari, if you want to be the better find the right forum!

thanks Larry, Sylvia, Luc, Amy and Kiki!
Larry, your help is appreciated! :)

The foxes have to be one of my favorites. I own both the old and the new red foxes as well as the habitat authentic red fox. they can be viewed at this link:
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weaselfan93 wrote:

The foxes have to be one of my favorites. I own both the old and the new red foxes as well as the habitat authentic red fox. they can be viewed at this link:
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What a fabulous collection

Roger wrote:

Thanks friends! I'm really happy with these additions!

Susanne and Harriet, the aardvark is not too big! Unless my weird ant don't looks impressed! :)

Sorry, I know this pic hurts!

Arrrr, such a cute little Ardwark ! I hope the ant doesn`t eat him

Is that a "mini"land ant, Roger ? Did you get the insects ?

weaselfan93 wrote:

The foxes have to be one of my favorites. I own both the old and the new red foxes as well as the habitat authentic red fox. they can be viewed at this link:
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Nice collection Weaselfan, Is missing me the Authentics, I also want the Safari Arctic fox and those K&M are from polybags or regular range??
Yes, I also love weasels but there's no weasels in regular brands!

SUSANNE wrote:

Roger wrote:

Thanks friends! I'm really happy with these additions!

Susanne and Harriet, the aardvark is not too big! Unless my weird ant don't looks impressed! :)

Sorry, I know this pic hurts!

Arrrr, such a cute little Ardwark ! I hope the ant doesn`t eat him

Is that a "mini"land ant, Roger ? Did you get the insects ?

I have no idea which ant is this, but people is always saying that my aardvark anteater is huge and I've found something to show that he is not...

...Good additions! But the aardvark size is like Papo or Schleich lioness?

Congratulation Roger, I also have the aardvark and it isn't big... Just impressive

Could you share more pics of the new SAFARI ltd fox ?

No they are not from polybags. most, if not all of them came in nature tubes.
Does anyone know why none of the main companies have made a weasel?

weaselfan93 wrote:

No they are not from polybags. most, if not all of them came in nature tubes.
Does anyone know why none of the main companies have made a weasel?

Thanks! :)
Maybe there are many weasel species and even other mustelides that ressembles it... maybe!
Well, not known as a weasel but from the same genus, retired in 2009, you have a Schleich ferret under pets series...
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Kikimalou wrote:

Congratulation Roger, I also have the aardvark and it isn't big... Just impressive

Could you share more pics of the new SAFARI ltd fox ?

Sorry Christophe for bad pics but I hope it is helpful! :)

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Sergey wrote:

...Good additions! But the aardvark size is like Papo or Schleich lioness?

Sergey, I hope my measurements will not shock anybody!
Using only shoulder of Papo lioness and length of aardvark we can have 2 figures of 1:15 scale! So see, the Papo lioness is 6 cm high, it represents a female of 90 cm at shoulder in 1:15 scale, a large female. The aardvark with tail has slightly more than 13 cm, it represents about 2 m in length, an aardvark as about 1 and 1,3 m length more a tail of about 70 cm, so arround 2 m. In 1:15 scale often used for Safari you can play with these 2 figures.
I don't have the Schleich lioness but I'm sure she is to small!

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There is some aardvark at the Antwerpen zoo and they are smaller than this one

This pic is a rare event : The encounter of a very small lioness and a very big aardvark

By the way, thank you for the fox pics I was thinking about buying one but now I'm not sure Maybe the eyes ? What do you think Rogério ?

Thank you for the pictures of the Safari fox Roger - I really like this figurine, but I don't think much of the painting

I want this aardvark so badly, I realised he's retired a bit too late :<

Mangalarga wrote:

I want this aardvark so badly, I realised he's retired a bit too late :<

Me too !
I was so stupid, they had some on ebay.uk, but I took the time to ask them for cost of shipping, and they were gone before I got the ansver, - stupid me

Kikimalou wrote:

There is some aardvark at the Antwerpen zoo and they are smaller than this one

This pic is a rare event : The encounter of a very small lioness and a very big aardvark

By the way, thank you for the fox pics I was thinking about buying one but now I'm not sure Maybe the eyes ? What do you think Rogério ?

Kiki, foxes are regarded as a number in brand ranges, only a mandatory figure!
It looks that brands are not devoting particular atention to the figure even they always include it in their ranges!
About my Safari fox, this exemplar is not carefully painted as you can see. The eyes are slightly better than it looks in the picture with the flas but pupils are different and that's not nice.
Eyes should be oblong and oblique in the face, the dark patch is too dropped verticaly and lacrimal patch is absent. It doesn't help to turn the figure with the characteristic fox appearance. The body is painted like a flag, we se exactly when a color is gives place to another and it works fantastic in some species like a zebra but not in a fox where the transition of the colors of the coat are smoother! Also the texture is not excelent and for those who cares with size, it is a very large red fox, the largest I own! The pose is clearly a correction from the hardly balanced older version but honestly the running Safari fox has a fantastic pose and paws! Maybe someone has a better painted version of this fox to show you, the layout of colours is theorically correct but roughly painted.
As you also know there are many subspecies of foxes and the patterns are slightly different as some morphological details, I'm sure this is a North American furry subspecies.
Oops, to long and with a weird English I hope you understand! :)
About the aardvark I'm sure that those you saw in Antwerp Zoo are larger than mine!

SUSANNE wrote:

Mangalarga wrote:

I want this aardvark so badly, I realised he's retired a bit too late :<

Me too !
I was so stupid, they had some on ebay.uk, but I took the time to ask them for cost of shipping, and they were gone before I got the ansver, - stupid me

Me too! Fortunately Kristie sent me this one, it's a very rare species in plastic world and very interesting! Im very proud of own one! I hope both of you find one very soon because it is something completly different from the rest of our collections!

Roger wrote:

Im very proud of own one!

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HKHollinstone wrote:

Thank you for the pictures of the Safari fox Roger - I really like this figurine, but I don't think much of the painting

You're welcome Harriet! I agree with you. One more Safari to HK repainting! :)

Kikimalou wrote:

There is some aardvark at the Antwerpen zoo and they are smaller than this one

This pic is a rare event : The encounter of a very small lioness and a very big aardvark

By the way, thank you for the fox pics I was thinking about buying one but now I'm not sure Maybe the eyes ? What do you think Rogério ?

Christophe, could you please take a picture of your aardvark with Mr. Kobayashi?
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Aardvark size comparison with 2m human!