The STS 2015 Wildlife Figure: CollectA Chiru

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm very proud to show you the 10 Wildlife finalists for 2015.
The poll will run during 7 days and only 1 vote per member is allowed.
At the end of 30th January we will know the results.
The winning figure will participate in the overall 2015 Toy Animal Figure of the Year poll, along with the other category winners.
Enjoy!  

But Kiki explain me please! Why Kitan Club Sparrow is both 2 Categories Widlife and Woodland? But in the same time Polar Bear Papo - no?

The Kiwi is my favourite

Sergey wrote:

But Kiki explain me please! Why Kitan Club Sparrow is both 2 Categories Widlife and Woodland? But in the same time Polar Bear Papo - no?        

Because STS is a human forum made by, with, for human beings... We are not perfect
Why the Sparrow and not the Polar bear? The Polar bear could be in three categories: Woodland, Wildlife and Sealife. I even think the best category for an Ursus maritimus is the Sealife. So why it falls in the woodland? Just because for four years now I put the polar bears on the North-American map and nobody told me it was a bad idea.
Why the sparrow is in the two categories? Eurasian sparrow are not Sealife creatures . Where is the place for a Cape penguin? sealife? African Wildlife? Good questions with many answers. maybe we should make a Poll to know where STS decide to classified those animals?
Now why the Kitan sparrow is in the two poll? Many members add it on their pre-screening lists.

Bonobo wrote:

The Kiwi is my favourite

Bonobos and black crested macaques have the same taste

The Kiwi is awesome. I don't know what I'll vote for yet, though. I can't decide.

I'm a little surprised none of the Schleich models made it on. Too bad. I thought that the Hyena, the Crocodile, and the Alligator were particularly impressive. Not as sexy as a Babirusa, for sure, but still, it's arguable that the CollectA Babirusa was not as strong a sculpt as any of those three.

Sigh... I feel weird defending Schleich. It's like standing up for the kid at school who's being unfairly harassed even though he irritates the heck out of you too.

scot(t) wrote:

The Kiwi is awesome. I don't know what I'll vote for yet, though. I can't decide.

I'm a little surprised none of the Schleich models made it on. Too bad. I thought that the Hyena, the Crocodile, and the Alligator were particularly impressive. Not as sexy as a Babirusa, for sure, but still, it's arguable that the CollectA Babirusa was not as strong a sculpt as any of those three.

Sigh... I feel weird defending Schleich. It's like standing up for the kid at school who's being unfairly harassed even though he irritates the heck out of you too.

I think this forum was excesively Schleich oriented in its early years, now it is turning the oposite. Soon or later an average point will be achieved. I also think that there are some Schleich that could easily enter this category this year and I agree the babirusa is not CollectA's best figure. Though, it is a surprising species choice and the figure is generally competently sculpted. I believe that next year's pangolin will enter the top 10 for Wildlife. Cheetah and flamingo seeem promising too.

Roger wrote:

scot(t) wrote:

The Kiwi is awesome. I don't know what I'll vote for yet, though. I can't decide.

I'm a little surprised none of the Schleich models made it on. Too bad. I thought that the Hyena, the Crocodile, and the Alligator were particularly impressive. Not as sexy as a Babirusa, for sure, but still, it's arguable that the CollectA Babirusa was not as strong a sculpt as any of those three.

Sigh... I feel weird defending Schleich. It's like standing up for the kid at school who's being unfairly harassed even though he irritates the heck out of you too.

I think this forum was excesively Schleich oriented in its early years, now it is turning the oposite. Soon or later an average point will be achieved. I also think that there are some Schleich that could easily enter this category this year and I agree the babirusa is not CollectA's best figure. Though, it is a surprising species choice and the figure is generally competently sculpted.  I believe that next year's pangolin will enter the top 10 for Wildlife. Cheetah and flamingo seeem promising too.

The Schleich Tiger and croc had the 13th and 14th rank, with respectively 3 and 4 votes less than the number 10 (Kaiyodo shoebill). They were not so far

Yes, what about the 2016 Schleich oryx for next year? and I agree, I think the new schleich cheetah and pangolin will be in the top 10 next year as well.

SchleichWildlife wrote:

Yes, what about the 2016 Schleich oryx for next year? and I agree, I think the new schleich cheetah and pangolin will be in the top 10 next year as well.

Surely also a strong candidat despite apparently it is just remastered from the older oryx. A great antelope year, hirola eland calf and nilgai from CollectA and impala from Papo. We can't forget also the grevy's zebra, maybe strongest candidat, shoebil, Papo rearing tiger, etc. We're having extraordinary wild life releases, mainly thanks to CollectA and they will keep dominating these polls. Though, it is nice to see that the absolute winners of previous years to all categories were Mojo gaur and Papo snow leopard. Let's see what the new year results bring.

This was a hard choice! But I love the coloration of that Jaguar!

Roger wrote:

SchleichWildlife wrote:

Yes, what about the 2016 Schleich oryx for next year? and I agree, I think the new schleich cheetah and pangolin will be in the top 10 next year as well.

Surely also a strong candidat despite apparently it is just remastered from the older oryx. A great antelope year, hirola eland calf and nilgai from CollectA and impala from Papo. We can't forget also the grevy's zebra, maybe strongest candidat, shoebil, Papo rearing tiger, etc. We're having extraordinary wild life releases, mainly thanks to CollectA and they will keep dominating these polls. Though, it is nice to see that the absolute winners of previous years to all categories were Mojo gaur and Papo snow leopard. Let's see what the new year results bring.

I don't think the gemsbok is a remastered one. The older one was looking to the left and was more side looking that this one.

About the 2016 Wildlife, I agree there will be more competitors and not only from Africa, the Asian and Australian fauna have some interesting representatives.

Ladies and gentlemen,

The STS 2015 Wildlife Figure is the CollectA Chiru  

Below the Final ranking:

1 - CollectA Chiru
2 - Papo Roaring tiger
3 - CollectA Kiwi
4 - Kitan Club Sparrow
5 - Kaiyodo Shoebill
5 - Kitan Club Japanese serow
5 - Safari Ltd Jaguar
8 - CollectA Babirusa
9 - CollectA Chinchilla
9 - CollectA Orangutan

Interesting results, it is quite fair to see the superb kiwi on top3. I think also that chiru is a fair winner. On previous two years, the winner of this category won the final award, let's see what happens this year.

Well deserved! Rare and wonderful model! I didn´t know much about Chiru before this model realisation so... for me... award for education goes to this model also :)

Will be interesting to see if this one wins the final poll

I think the paint app helped this wonderful figure win this category. CollectA did a nice job this time.

This is a wonderful figure, I just didn't voted for it because it's saddly to big for a 1:20/1:22 scale collector.