Let's Gather Photos of "Reused/Reconfigured Mold" Schleich!

Carola wrote:

Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

Carola wrote:

Mangalarga wrote:

It could be also that their sculptor(s?) aren't capable of creating more interesting poses :PAfter all, majority of Schleich horses is just standing.

The Lusitano is a good example of the opposite...

And 13216 fullblood!  He's running so fast he succeeds in racing right past me every time I try to catch him.  

Oh he yes absolutely  (Not in my collection though, so i didn't think of that model).

Not in mine either!  

Roger wrote:

Interesting, is that you were able of photographing this camargue mare in a way that she looks another princess.

Thank you  This Camargue, she sure has something special. The stallions in my cabinet fall over, as she throws her glance at them

Carola wrote:

Roger wrote:

Interesting, is that you were able of photographing this camargue mare in a way that she looks another princess.

Thank you  This Camargue, she sure has something special. The stallions in my cabinet fall over, as she throws her glance at them

Surely she knows how to do it!

@ downscaling...
I guess they have some mechanism of doing it. Since "new" Parasaurolophus 14517 is just a smaller and repainted version of 16455. The same goes with new Spinosaurus 14521 compared to 16459 (oh..and new one has movable mandibles).

AlienMantis wrote:

@ downscaling...
I guess they have some mechanism of doing it. Since "new" Parasaurolophus 14517 is just a smaller and repainted version of 16455. The same goes with new Spinosaurus 14521 compared to 16459 (oh..and new one has movable mandibles).

Yes, I also suspect that they can do it. We can see also many Safari figures, sometimes in three different sizes. I really don't know if moulds are down sized or copied in smaller scale.

Exist any walkaraunds of Turag 70405, Sioux Chief on Horse 70300 and 70048 Queen on horse without people?

So all this talk recently about Schleich figures with reused and reconfigured molds, I was inspired to create this topic.  

What I mean by "reused mold" and "reconfigured mold" is that the figure is released once, then after that figure's discontinuation, the mold is used again to produce a different figure. This can happen once, or more than once. Schleich seems to be fond of doing this, so let's see what all of the examples are!

Please post your comparison photos here of the reused/reconfigured mold figures.

Here are mine:
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You can see here that the knight-horse is slightly larger, and the two front legs are reversed. The head is also turned downward slightly, and the mane fuller, shorter, and flattened.

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What do you have?

Interesting, some of those I never noticed before.

are those Zebra stripped animals official releases?

I seen them before, but I thought they were just custom painted

They were a promotion for their 75th anniversary.

I assume that most of these molds are not "reused" but rather "reconfigured" into new molds. With CAD type software, now quite prevalent, it would be much easier to do so, with the leg positions changed, the size of the model increased, etc.

Interesting:-)

Great subject  

There is also the western waggon, - the horses are standard models with another painting  

Great thread and great photos 4U  
There are ones I've never noticed before. Also indeed an official repaint can be considered reuse of a model. 

Here are some photos of those I've got. Camargue and ol' Haflinger.
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Despite some reuse, they certainly are two very different (wonderful) ladies  
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Palomino and Knabstrupper.
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Sweet guys!
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Ol' Camargue and Przewalski. These have been up for discussion though.
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And the obvious reuse of a popular model to make a popular colour variant Not ment negatively - I love this white friesian very much!
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Takama wrote:

are those Zebra stripped animals official releases?

I seen them before, but I thought they were just custom painted

Yes, there were codes inside the boxes for the zebra plane. You would enter the code on the site and they sent you a free limited edition zebra animal!

schleich61 wrote:

I assume that most of these molds are not "reused" but rather "reconfigured" into new molds.  With CAD type software, now quite prevalent, it would be much easier to do so, with the leg positions changed, the size of the model increased, etc.

"Reconfigured" would be a good word to use here too. Thanks for your input - I'll add that into the title.

SUSANNE wrote:

Great subject  

There is also the western waggon, - the horses are standard models with another painting  

Unfortunately I don't have the wagon.  But thank you for mentioning that here!



Carola, thank you for sharing your wonderful photos!  

Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

Carola, thank you for sharing your wonderful photos!  

Thank you  Anytime  

Here are some comparisons of different models of horses schleich: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] :)
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Although this subject was already discussed, I find this topic very interesting!
We see repainted figures using the same mold, slightly updated moulds, clearly updated and some completely redesigned to a new mould but with a recognizable origin.

Titwen wrote:

Here are some comparisons of different models of horses schleich: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] :)
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Thanks for this link, it is brilliant, if you need some help posting pictures just pm me or any other :Dmoderator.

Titwen wrote:

Here are some comparisons of different models of horses schleich: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] :)
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Fantastic link, Titwen! There are so many! Well done  

I just wanted to link to this topic with wonderful photos relevant to this thread:
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Some others I can think of but which I do not have pictures of at the moment. If anyone has some then please post:


1. The Schleich Dromedary and the Discontinued Arabian Rider and Dromedary - these are very similar but still different too.

2. Wildlife wolf (non howling one) and the Gregis Wolf

3. Noctis panther and Leopard model

4. Apricum Stag and Schleich Red deer stag (non bellowing one)

5. Kenjok Crocodile and wildlife croc

6. Black panther cub (sold with book) and leopard cub.

7. Standing racoon and the Marween fairy racoon (miniaturised version)

8. Schleich white llama and llama horst

9. Old indian rhino model and the later revised version

10. Both Hyena models with subtle differences

11. Current african elephants and previous versions - virtually similar!

12. White and brown pelican variants

13. Current male moose and previous version are very similar

14. Current hippo and previous version are also similar.

Ok I am on a roll here and thinking off the top of my head!

  

There are the Morgan stallion and the old Pegasus, too:

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Oh I never noticed that! Thanks for sharing!

I never noticed that either, thanks for sharing!