The 2010 PAPO beaver by Kikimalou

Do you live near a forest ? With a nice river in it ? So this beaver would be a nice addition for you I think !

Beautiful Beaver Kiki! Congratulations on a very fine model.

Very nice beaver my friend!
A good and deetailed model too!

But i am not fond of those "hairy beavers" as i was, when i was younger...
I prefer the hairless types nowerdays...

great model, too bad it is so big, I would love a beaver and dam diorama, that would be something fun to do.

Philter4 wrote:

great model, too bad it is so big, I would love a beaver and dam diorama, that would be something fun to do.

I'm not sure it is too big... if you try to make a Beavers dio with Schleich, Bullyland, Lineol... You could do something really beautiful near a river...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

But i am not fond of those "hairy beavers" as i was, when i was younger...
I prefer the hairless types nowerdays...          

I hope you had nicer tooth then      

Wow, Christophe, that is a fantastic beaver - the best I've seen. I don't collect Papo, despite their proficiency with big cats and other mammalian models, but this beaver is a MUST-HAVE for me.

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Very nice beaver my friend!
A good and deetailed model too!

But i am not fond of those "hairy beavers" as i was, when i was younger...
I prefer the hairless types nowerdays...

Very amusing, Willy, but as they often say here in America nowadays, "TOO MUCH INFORMATION." :)

That's a cool Beaver, Christophe! I will catch this Beaver around Christmas season.
By the way, does anybody knows what the number 1209 meant? Initially, I thought it's a Papo's code only? As in it was manufactured sometime in December 2009? But the thing surprised me is, that the Safari Ltd's also has this number code.

Lasersword1973 wrote:

That's a cool Beaver, Christophe! I will catch this Beaver around Christmas season.
By the way, is anybody knows what the number 1209 meant? Initially, I thought it's a Papo's code only? As in it was manufactured sometime in December 2009? But the thing surprised me is, that the Safari Ltd's also has this number code.

I don't know about this number Ronald, it is the first time I see it and I didn't already buy some 2010 Safari's.

It's placed under my new Safari Ltd's Flamingo. I don't have any idea also what these numbers really meant?

Congratulations! a fine beaver for you & will you getting the new beaver from collecta too?

ken yeo wrote:

Congratulations! a fine beaver for you & will you getting the new beaver from collecta too?

Thank you Ken.

About the beavers, I must say that even the Papo wasn't on my 2010 wants list... But I saw it in a shop and  so began a love at first sight story  

European and north-American fauna are not my favourite preys but now I begin to reconsider my ideas and maybe I will buy the Beavers from Bullyland, CollectA and Schleich to create a whole tribe like I did with the meerkats...With the Papo and Lineol ones they could be five. Well, I will see...

There is nothing wrong with "older" beavers as it seems...

Yes Phil ,much information maybe, but ok, we like to give much information around here, haha.
You must see the fun of it, collecting and making fun can go together, istn't it...
I think you know that we are quit free here in Europe, and that things are quit different in your area's...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

I think you know that we are quit free here in Europe, and that things are quit different in your area's...

Especially, when you are a lion living in Zwolle

Yeah! About the same as a Celebes macaque living in Tourcoing, haha!

Awesome beaver. Thanks for the great pictures.

Get ready for the PAPO financed movie coming to a theater near you...
"ATTACK OF THE GIANT BEAVER!"
Seriously, "The Beav's" quite an artistic and well sculpted piece, however...too large(unfortunately, not to scale, like some other figures). Kind of like the Papo meerkats, very very nice, but to BIG!

Too big ? For what ???

It is not too big for the Schleich beaver , it is too small for the Schleich koala...

And it is already too big for the dwarvish mooses and elephants made by Schehchseleiccch indeed

Kikimalou wrote:

Too big ? For what ???
It is not too big for the Schleich beaver , it is too small for the Schleich koala...
And it is already too big for the dwarvish mooses and elephants made by Schehchseleiccch indeed

It must be too big for Schleich bears, wolves, deers and other Holarctic fauna, am I right?
And how does it look near Papo mooses, wolves and bears? I wonder...

Beautiful photos and beautiful model. We are thinking about buying, and therefore I have a few questions to Christophe. 1 - black on the photos back legs look a bit like a cartoon. Is this in reality.
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2 - TGF Toy indicate that its height is 2 inches (5.08 cm). Is this true.
3 - if you can insert pictures for comparison with the raccoon, or wolf from Schleich

I just wish all the animals that are made would be to scale, that's all! For example, if you have a savannah
diorama, the meerkats would be not of the same scale next to wildebeest etc..
I'm kind of surprised as collectors this doesn't bother you guys? I like my figs to be as close to proportion, so when displayed they look good!
So yes, if you were doing a North American woodland/pond diorama, and had the beaver near the moose, it would look disproportional!

Kiryuha wrote:

It must be too big for Schleich bears, wolves, deers and other Holarctic fauna, am I right?
And how does it look near Papo mooses, wolves and bears? I wonder...

zbyszek wrote:

Beautiful photos and beautiful model. We are thinking about buying, and therefore I have a few questions to Christophe. 1 - black on the photos back legs look a bit like a cartoon. Is this in reality.
2 - TGF Toy indicate that its height is 2 inches (5.08 cm). Is this true.
3 - if you can insert pictures for comparison with the raccoon, or wolf from Schleich

I know Kyril it's not the first time we discuss about this.    

the beaver is too big for the Schleich Holartic fauna, it is also too big for the Papo Holartic fauna. It doesn't mean it is too big   .

I bought that beaver because I think it is a good model and, the good thing is he can live with the Schleich beaver. If the Papo is too big, then the Schleich is also too big  

But again , the Schleich holartic fauna is not at one scale, some are too big... Others are too small. "Too big" means nothing.

I don't have the Schleich mooses and deers to make some comparison shots but I try to do this on the pics below.

Zbyszek, the beaver is 5cm tall.About the legs, the horrible truth is the real beavers have also cartoonish back legs    

baltimore zoo wrote:

I just wish all the animals that are made would be to scale, that's all! For example, if you have a savannah
diorama, the meerkats would be not of the same scale next to wildebeest etc..
I'm kind of surprised as collectors this doesn't bother you guys? I like my figs to be as close to proportion, so when displayed they look good!
So yes, if you were doing a North American woodland/pond diorama, and had the beaver near the moose, it would look disproportional!

I understand your wish Baltimore   .

But the only way I know to realise your wish is to do like Danny "Berlinzoo" who ask a sculptor to make 1/12 scale models for him.

Why it doesn't bother me ?

Easy, my first collection was vintage : animal toys from the 1920's to the 1970's. So Schleich is not the "standart" for me. I love models from different scales and I can't see why I must choose one scale and never collect a Schleich because it is too big or too small for the rest of my collection.
Another reason is the size of my collection, it is far smaller than Torben's collection but it is not exactly a small one : With more than 1500 wild animals it is impossible to have only one Scale. I don't want to choose  
When a collection reach a critical size, the scale question is inevitable.Look at Torben or Willy's collection, or mine of course, and you will see the only answer is : Scale doesn't matter !

Thank you for the pictures and commentary. Convinced me of this and bobr hit the shopping list. IMHO I continue looking at your picture in the real world that his legs look like the cartoons. I think that in the real world is feeling disappears.

baltimore zoo wrote:

I just wish all the animals that are made would be to scale, that's all! For example, if you have a savannah
diorama, the meerkats would be not of the same scale next to wildebeest etc..

These are my thoughts exactly. So not all the collectors don't bother about scales :) I think the majority of us are very sensitive to figurine scales.

baltimore zoo wrote:

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So yes, if you were doing a North American woodland/pond diorama, and had the beaver near the moose, it would look disproportional!

Agree 100%!
By the way, have you already set a North American woodland/pond diorama up? If you have, I'd be glad to see pics of it.

Kikimalou wrote:

The too big beaver
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Many thanks for the pics, Kiki!
And even more horrible truth is that Schleich bison is way too small...