Schleich is sold to a French Company

Bongo wrote:

Maybe-they said, they want to procue more licensed lines like Batman etc..Maybe also Starwars-from 2015, every year a new SW movie will come out-so Schleich can amke a lot of Money with Starwars, and next yera, a new Jurassic Park movie Comes out....I could magine, the new owner will stop the animal lines with thee xception of Dinos and Horses...I hope, he will do-the Quality of Schleich is down to a very low and poor Level, so we all could save the Money for These ugly figures and spend it for the really good brands...

Maybe also Lord of the Rings or the hobbit figures?!   

Bongo wrote:

The new Owner said,they want to get away from the figure, the only standing around, to toys..so don't expect again "realistic looking"figures or even ANTELOPES, Ha,Ha.I bet, we will get more and more comicstyle and childish style, cute puppies, rabbits, kittens, horses..

Bongo, where have you found that information?
It doesn't seem plausible to me once animals represent their main sales. :)
About minor quality of recent releases I have to agree with you but even if Schleich continues with a poor selection of figures, you can save easily your money just not buying them. This year I've bought only 3 for my collection.

Roger wrote:

Bongo wrote:

The new Owner said,they want to get away from the figure, the only standing around, to toys..so don't expect again "realistic looking"figures or even ANTELOPES, Ha,Ha.I bet, we will get more and more comicstyle and childish style, cute puppies, rabbits, kittens, horses..

Bongo, where have you found that information?

That's in the text. :)

Thank you for information, Yvette!
If to say fair, I already don't want to buy Schleich. I bought some animals of this year, but if to compare that with older models, the new figurines are really worse. It's really horrible that Schleich started to do just toys, quality became worse with each year. But nevertheless Schleich is the most popular brand on market. So, yesterday I visited one shop, where we could buy Papo, later this shop started sell Safari, and yesterday I found that the most part of figurines is Schleich and animals were horrible painted, I never seen such paint before. I feel like Schleich practice monopoly. It's everywhere.
But, for example, Papo is just in some places, and there are no all of models, but it has the best quality, I think.   
Yesterday I also bought the old lioness by Mojö and I should say she is better than the new lioness by Schleich, and prices very differ: Mojö is really cheaper.

I agree ! Of the old "big" brands, Papo is certinly leading in quality

SUSANNE wrote:

I agree ! Of the old "big" brands, Papo is certinly leading in quality

Very very true. Papo still puts out excellent figures, year after year.

…and I thought this image -- which has probably already been posted somewhere on this forum -- might be a good icon to use whenever we discuss the decline of Schleich.

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No ! I have never seen it before   

    

And unfortunately, even true.

So what do we expect????

We probably won't know what to expect until we can see what's being released in 2015 and even then we may have to wait til we see them in shops with the stock photos and all.

I think we'll have to wait until at least 2016 to judge any change (if there is to be any). I'm sure they already have the 2015 line already planned out. However, we should be able to compare quality of the figures to years previous, and see if that has changed.

I was thinking next year because the new owner may have already changed a few things the old owner had planned.

It has begun. According to their Facebook page, theres going to be a D.C. Line of figures next year. This one is going to be at San Diego Comic Con.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

And the animals?? Can't see the image...

Would it be possible that Schleich (previous owner) already made a deal/contract with D.C. Comics before the new company bought it? I mean I don't really mind that they broaden their figurine lines (similar to Bullyland) but I hope their animals don't go neglected.
I dunno about 2015/2016 years, I think that as far as planning and executing a new line the new owner would only be able to maybe change a few figures. I think to really see how things are going to be with the company.

Paige, I believe they did. I remember an article from before the sale, I need to find it...

Here, this one is dated June 11, 2013 : [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]


The second article Yvette posted, is dated May 18, 2014: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Thanks for the articles LeAnn!

Happy to help!