Schleich Horse Clube Magazine thread

How can it be.... the same foal and the same comic again?

Ive cancelled all my mags (x52) untill they return with answer on both the filling out of the schleich marks, and returning old figures.
Yes i get the mag home to denmark for alot of people

After the partnership with blueocean changed abit, blueocean got rights to start making the figures themself. Why they clayfilled the schleich logo and make a new castform, ponders me. Awaiting another response from schleich, and 2 from blueocean (which always are really really slow at responding)

Thats how far i got in the investigation sofar.

Thank you, a6point62, to sharing your work. I am excited of the answers.

Gitt redde dronningen.:-)

Zoodirektor wrote:

Thank you, a6point62, to sharing your work. I am excited of the answers.

Gitt redde dronningen.:-)

Well soon we wont have a queen anymore but a king, she leaves the throne at 14th january.

Heres the Highress Image
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So got the response from Blue Ocean:
We have taken your concerns very seriously and can understand your criticism.

Blue Ocean Entertainment has been producing the figures itself for some time. This is done with extremely high quality standards, analogous to the figures from Schleich's own production. Schleich itself ensures these high quality and design standards by releasing each of our figures for production in advance - in a precisely defined process. This ensures that the end product does not differ in quality from previous Schleich productions. As a result, our booklet additions are a figure officially licensed by Schleich, so it is still a branded product.

During the transition period of the production change described, the belly embossing was unfortunately no longer available on the first figures of the 2023 collection series. However, we are pleased to inform you that from 2024 the following embossing will be found on the magazine figures: “ Schleich GmbH Produced by Blue Ocean Entertainment”, so that the brand reference will again be included directly on the figures.

So thats good news i guess.

thank you for this informations.

It would be interesting to know where Blue Ocean has the figures produced. Perhaps the new Embossing will be show it too.

Thank you so much for all the information!

That's a very interesting piece of information. Thanks for sharing with us.

Still awaiting reponse on the reuse of older figures, i want to know if its a common thing in the future.

Right the next response, its both bad and good news.


The Bad:
Since we have a very changing target group for our children's magazines, we would also like to give the "new" Horse Club fans the chance to get to know the world in a new way - starting with all the main characters and horses.

That's why we decided to reissue the 8 horses of the regular Horse Club protagonists as figures. Afterwards it will continue as usual with exclusive figures and paint jobs to collect.


The Good:
We would also like to point out that the remaining content is of course all newly developed and designed. In addition, a special edition with a large figure will appear as an extra in issue 53/2024 (summer 2024). Such a special edition is also planned for summer 2025.

All new editions will continue to come with a second extra.



Best regards

Thank you for the information. This means that we "old" collectors can't expect anything new for another 1.5 years.
Is this simply foisted on the subscriptions?

Thank you for all this information!

I'm quite happy that the models will have their mold stamp again! I wonder if that also counts for their bayala line, as it was bothering me quite a bit.

Personally I am actually a little bit happy that their are reissuing the older Horse Club models as Storm was on my wishlist (maybe also Cayenne) but I can fully understand the frustration of other collectors who have every release so far. At least you can save some money I guess.
There is one thing that I don't really understand... 8 main characters? Whom do they mean appart from Storm, Blossom, Mistery and Cayenne?
Luna, Pino, Princess and Maya? Or does Snowflake count as a main character as well?
Anyways, hopefully the exclusive release will be better than last year's PRE. I want to see a different (and realistic) coat colour than the one from the original model.

Katy Leven wrote:

There is one thing that I don't really understand... 8 main characters? Whom do they mean apart from Storm, Blossom, Mystery and Cayenne?
Luna, Pino, Princess and Maya? Or does Snowflake count as a main character as well?

It should be these ones:
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Although "Maya" was released before "Luna" so it could be her instead, we'll have to see which one it is.
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Well im a very old collector, collected since 1985
I got all issues of pferdewelt and horseclub, fohlen etc.
Seems my cancellation of the mags was a good choice.

I do want to keep an eye out for the mags, maybe there can be some variant,
and the hint about issue 53/2024 is interesting to.

I think TheRedLupine hit that nail on the head with the 8 main characters.

Well time will show :)
Good night to everyone.

Thank you both!

Oh, yeah I totally forgot about Spotty (even though I really don't care about both the foal and the adult, I'm still shocked that from what I know it is meant to be a male)!
So maybe some more foals on my wishlist will find a new home (sometimes next year, unfortunately).

Katy Leven wrote:

Thank you both!

Oh, yeah I totally forgot about Spotty (even though I really don't care about both the foal and the adult, I'm still shocked that from what I know it is meant to be a male)!
So maybe some more foals on my wishlist will find a new home (sometimes next year, unfortunately).

Yeah same, but i might buy it at kiosks when its the double hitter (foal + large horse) 2 figurines.

Zoodirektor wrote:

Thank you for the information. This means that we "old" collectors can't expect anything new for another 1.5 years.
Is this simply foisted on the subscriptions?

I dont understand the question: Is this simply foisted on the subscriptions?
Sorry ;(

Blue Ocean's explanations are simply nonsense. Older editions can be reordered in your shop. In addition, older models are constantly added as an insert to the other Horse World magazine. Storm for the second time.

I also wrote to Blue Ocean and expressed my displeasure.

Wow look at the packaging i got my dragons in... Thank god they arrived unscathed
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My copy arrived today.
The fur/hair actually has some detail to it (she isn't just flat)
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Still no branding yet.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Thank you for showing her!

She is such a cutie! I think that I can't resist not getting her. But her coat colour still bothers me quite a bit. Schleich has even written the correct coat colours for this breed on their breed information page. Why can't she have a realistic coat then? Come on Schleich, just show a little bit more love to your products.

Just out of curiosity:
Did you also open the little package with the rings and the other thing? I would love to see how the rings look like.

Katy Leven wrote:

Just out of curiosity:
Did you also open the little package with the rings and the other thing? I would love to see how the rings look like.

No I haven’t opened the packet. I was planning on just leaving it attached to the cover.
But based on the image on the front of the packet they look very cheap.[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Kind of like this but just completely flat[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Alright!

I didn't also expect it to be something super special. To me it seems like a sort of excuse for increasing the price of the magazines while lowering the quality of the models, the packaging and making the magazines smaller.
Some of the things they include are neat but honestly not good enough to justify the decrease in quality.