Arrakai's newcomers for 2011

Congratulations on so many wonderful acquisitions! I love the Nayab birdies!

I'd like to know more about these oldies. They have a lot of character. Are they all composition? Can you post more photos ot them?
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Mastiffcat wrote:

Congratulations on so many wonderful acquisitions! I love the Nayab birdies!

I'd like to know more about these oldies. They have a lot of character. Are they all composition? Can you post more photos ot them?

Unfortunetly, I dont have time to post more photos of them right now (They are stuffed away in boxes, and I´m going out of town tomorrow and has a lot of other stuff to do for that)

But I can say that yes, thay are al composition animals (If you mean older, hard and fragile ) The rooster are lineol, the croc I think is elastolin (it was sold as elastolin), the others I dont know, exept that the lioncub and hyena was made befor the 60´s

Really like the New Ray deer-the one on the right with the interesting pose is a very nice fallow deer
The larger animals by britains were made as young britains and they made both farm and zoo animals but they were made in the 80s/90s for a really short time.I have a camel and some big cats myself.

taos wrote:

The larger animals by britains were made as young britains and they made both farm and zoo animals but they were made in the 80s/90s for a really short time.I have a camel and some big cats myself.

Thankyou for the info
Do you have time to show us those cats and the camel ?

Like always, I buy everything I see that I like (Ok, not everything, then I would be more broke than possible )
But at least I found a few interesting stuff;

Two small lioncubs of unknown brand (size similar to schleich). Realy nice ones.
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Three Hood hounds (I realy realy like these ones ) and two mini puppys.
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One pretty nice horse from bluebox and a schleich-copy
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The chap mei Oryx and orangutan with baby
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Three new-ray horses
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Many of you liked the new-ray deers I bought a while back. I found two more last month (well, one deer and one moose to be exact) I like them, exept for the mooses horns, they could have colored it much better.
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I´m posting my new AAA here to, since theres only three of them

The lovely mouse mum with kids (it says "rat" under it, but I think it looks more like a mouse)
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One "big" (about 15-20cm) green lizard
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One cute little donkey foal
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Thank you good addition!
Which brand is the rat with young people?
and what scale is on?

More congratulations to Anna! :)
I don't remember the size of New Ray deers, could you please remember me? :)
That's an elk with the moose, isn't it? :)

@Lucky luke; The rat is AAA, and it´s a big one, about 1:1 scale of a real mouse.

@Roger; They are a little smaler than the schleich deers, the elk is about 8cm long and 6cm high (not counting antlers). Yes I think it´s an elk, but I call all of them deers

Thanks Anna, they are deers indeed! But the Doe from the other vintage tread I'm not able to know the species!

Congratulations Anna! The Mouse mum with kids is beautiful!!

Aaaarh ! So many lovely news

I LOVE those mose-deer-dear, and the Chap Meis are just fabilous, gollly, so many fine models

AND the DONKEY FOAL

Isn`t the mouse AAA ? I think somebody showed it to us a while ago

Really great additions!
I like the Hoodhounds very much,how big are they and are they from the brand Hey Homies?

@Ken yeo; Thanx Yes it is, sometimes, AAA makes great models

@Susanne; "I´m posting my new AAA here to, since theres only three of them" Yupp, both the mouse, lizard and donkey are AAA


@Viven; hmm, isnt those the same? I´m not very good at that brand, but these three are pretty small, I have some hood hounds that are twise as big.

Very nice and interesting animals!!! Most of them i have never see before.

A little late, but here are the last schleich animals I got last year

As a combined birthday/christmas gift from my mum, I got five sets from schleich!
And that is especially amazing, since my mum often nag about my hobby, she doesnt like that I spend so much money on toy-animals
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When it first came out, I thought the croc was the same as the old croc, just different colors. But it turned out to be a complet new model, so of course I had to get it
I still miss the porcupine, the dressage set and the eventing horse set, but I´m planning to buy them this year :)

From my dad and little brother, I got all the 2011 schleich I was still missing, plus the grand danois with pup I was still missing from 2010
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As a christmas gift to myself, I got a bunch of sea-animals
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I also found a coupple of old ones last month

Two old cows with calves. The funny thing is, the calves patterns dont look at al like the ones in the gaschers catalog Maybe I will try to find the other variations to :)
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And lastly, the oldest lion (not counting classic) and the old version giraffe (I had the lighter version from befor, so now I have both )
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It´s exiting to see what this new year brings to my collection

Very very nice gifts and models !! Congratulations !!

Gosh,that's a beautiful bunch of Christmas and Birthday presents!
The old cows are charming,I hope to find them someday...
Your picture reminds me that I still have to get the retired Bald Eagle. The old Giraffe is the loveliest Giraffe I've ever seen,I want one,I want one!! And maybe I'll break my rules and buy some Bayala this year and maybe some Sea Life,too and... But I guess my wallet is not so fat that I can do this...

What a fantastic, beautyful, amazing lot you got

Congratulations and Merry Christmas and HURRAYYYYYY
Great photoes too

I love those little calves.
There are SO many variants Eeeekkk

Here is the last animals I got last year. I will include both AAA and bullyland here, since I didnt buy that many of those.

First of, a herd of camels. They look like reisler.
Susanne, you are our reisler expert, are they ?
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Donkey! from shrek I love this guy. He became my idol when the movie first came out, and I still think he is the best caracter in all thefilms
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A pretty cool looking two headed wolf(?) E.L.C
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A very wierd-looking creature. Is it a prehistoric animal, or a mytological animal? Does anybody know?? (I´m willing to trade it, if anybody is interested)
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A bunch of colorful fishies. Always happy when I get new fishies
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And even more colorful bugs, all made in china.
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Some new AAA. I first thougt the big shark was part of the external sea serie, but it´s only 26cm and acording to gaschers, the external sea one is 36cm, so I guess this is another one.
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Two new dinosaurs. The big one is AAA and the small one is invicta, for the brittish museum of natural history.
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A pretty nice made in china kudu(?). It´s pretty small, as you can see on the second pic, next to the new schleich kudu
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Some realy nice, but very small, horses. I think their sice is about 1/5 of a schleich horse.
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A k&m wolf (the one on the left). I think this is an older version, as the one on the right is also a k&m wolf, and that one looks more like an accual wolf.
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A realy beautiful old camel. Unfortunetly, the front hoof is damaged, but maybe I can fix is somehow. Other than that, it´s in realy good condition, and I like it a lot
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Two old cows
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A little lineol seal.
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And lastly, a few new bullyland
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Thats all of them

Wow! Awesome additions Anna they are fantastic gifts an finds.
The whale shark, I've always loved it, but I don't collect sea life

@Arnaud; Thanx

@Vivien; trust me, I (and most other here) know the feeling. Sometimes I just wish I were a millionair, so that I could buy all the animals I wanted, and get a huge house full of vitrines for them

@Susanne; Thanx Yes sometimes I feel like theres just too many of them. You find a figurine that you have been searching for for a long time, and when you get it, it turnes out to be a variation, and then of course, you want both of them
The search never ends

HKHollinstone wrote:

Wow! Awesome additions Anna they are fantastic gifts an finds.
The whale shark, I've always loved it, but I don't collect sea life

Thanx Harriet

I also said that about a year or so ago; I wont collect sea life or sets, they are just too expensive and big... But oh well

What a fantastic lot! Most of these models I've never even seen before.
The little horses are micro-sized copies of Breyer's 1st generation Stablemates line, originally sculpted by Maureen Love for Hagen Renaker.
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Wow,so many new additions,Congratulations! I like all fishes a lot but I LOVE the fishes in the top row,they are so nice!

More great finds
The old camel is so beautiful, is it Lineol?