CollectA retired items for 2014

CollectA Items Retiring December 2013

88228 Lipizzaner Stallion
88390 Clydesdale Mare - Bay
88368 Lipizzaner Foal (Walking)
88241 Dartmoor Pony (Dark Bay)
88311 Haflinger Foal (Grazing)
88312 Haflinger Foal (Looking Back)
88369 Lipizzaner Foal (Lying)
88368 Lipizzaner Foal (Walking)
88229 Lipizzaner Mare
88228 Lipizzaner Stallion
88245 Thoroughbred Foal (Running)
88244 Thoroughbred Foal (Standing)
88362 Dartmoor Pony (Chestnut)
88241 Dartmoor Pony (Dark Bay)
88032 Common Zebra
88030 Grizzly Bear
88029 Hippopotamus
88090 Hippopotamus Calf
88309 Lion Family

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Schleich_Figures_4U wrote:

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Thank you for this information.

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!! Do you know other brands too?

arafan wrote:

Thank you for this information.

MartinH wrote:

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!! Do you know other brands too?

You're both welcome! Yes, I have posted Scheich's, Safari Ltd.'s and Breyer's in their categories.

Thank you for the list! Now I need to find a few of those...  

Saarlooswolfhound wrote:

Thank you for the list! Now I need to find a few of those...  

You're welcome!  

are there going to be new hippos then and a zebra

Oh, interesting, thank you for sharing!

Thank you for this information   

Hi all

This is the first I have heard of the retiring models myself (although I havent asked for this info) there is no new zebra this year - there was no time but I hope to push this through for 2015 - fingers crossed! The African Wild Ass will temporarily replace the zebra for now I think   

Thank you for your information

Thanks again for sharing all the info with us, Orcagirl!
It is great that CollectA keeps giving us new and exciting species but it is also good some of older common animals are replaced. Zebra and hippos are good idea, they are under the average quality of CollectA current range, specially hippos.
Luckily next years crocodile, gorillas, rhinos are also replaced.
Reading Numaan comments it looks the new zebra will only arrive in 2015 what makes me think it will be not a regular standing one, curious to see new hippo, maybe lined with Papo and Lineol pieces?

Numaan wrote:

Hi all

This is the first I have heard of the retiring models myself (although I havent asked for this info)  there is no new zebra this year - there was no time but  I hope to push this through for 2015 - fingers crossed!  The African Wild Ass will temporarily replace the zebra for now I think   

Numaan, an African wild ass is again a fantastic news and I hope you're having troubles with new common zebra because of its pose, walking or running is a great pose to a zebra considering it is an iconic prey.

Ana wrote:

Oh, interesting, thank you for sharing!

widukind wrote:

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black unicorn wrote:

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Roger wrote:

Thanks again for sharing all the info with us, Orcagirl!
It is great that CollectA keeps giving us new and exciting species but it is also good some of older common animals are replaced. Zebra and hippos are good idea, they are under the average quality of CollectA current range, specially hippos.
Luckily next years crocodile, gorillas, rhinos are also replaced.
Reading Numaan comments it looks the new zebra will only arrive in 2015 what makes me think it will be not a regular standing one, curious to see new hippo, maybe lined with Papo and Lineol pieces?

You're welcome everyone!  

Look at the CollectA catalogue, this list isn't true?   

arafan wrote:

Look at the CollectA catalogue, this list isn't true?   

What do you mean? Are looking at a catalog for 2013 and not 2014?

Look I mean some figures(for example the zebra) are also on the 2014 catalogue.
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arafan wrote:

Look I mean some figures(for example the zebra) are also on the 2014 catalogue.
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That's natural. According with Numaan, CollectA was not able of finishing the new zebra to 2014 and the previous zebra, planed to be discontinued in 2014, needed to keep one more year in catalogue.
Almost surely they stopped the production of that version and it will be retired in 2015 and replaced by a newer version. I confess I have huge expectations to new CollectA zebra. When a figure takes so long to be produced it means often it is a hard challenge, maybe it has a dynamic pose or an intricate pattern.

arafan wrote:

Look I mean some figures(for example the zebra) are also on the 2014 catalogue.
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Hmm  that's strange. I got my info from H and H Winners Circle's Facebook page and there hasn't been any changes since the post was made: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]


EDIT: Thanks Roger for clarifying   

It's not only the Zebra Rogério
Yes it's very stange   

Oh, I'll take a long time to check them all. CollectA range is getting really huge.
We are very used with Schleich that prepares everything almost a year before than other brands and what we know are almost only official information. The meaning of discontinued to a collector is based on catalogues, for a manufacturer it is when the production of a certain article is stoped. For distribution it is when it is out of stock and not available anymore to distribution. We have an example with the Schleich whale shark that production stoped a long time ago but it was discontinued recently. If anyone can make a list of retired figures based on catalogues comparison I can edit original post.

I just sent a mail to Collecta and asked if they will tell us ...  

SUSANNE wrote:

I just sent a mail to Collecta and asked if they will tell us ...  

Thanks Susanne!

So this is the retried list!
88228 Lipizzaner Stallion (XL)
88390 Clydesdale Mare (Bay)
89296 Cerberus
89297 Minotaur
89298 Cyclops
89299 Apollo
89300 Medusa
89301 Satyr
89303 Griffin
89304 Chiron
89305 Poseidon
89306 Zeus
89307 Athena
89308 Hercules