The adorable sloth 100117 from Safari 2007

This year Safari has delighted us with models of several species of animals which they have never made before  
One of them is this lovely sloth ! I just can't stop looking at her  
I wonder what specire, she is ? Does anybody know ?

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A real heart-belter, isn't she ?  
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Size, compared to Mojo and EIKOH :
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Oh such a wonderful model! Thank you SO much for sharing Susanne, I'm definitely going to get this slow beauty. It's nice to see sloths popping up everywhere

I think I found out what kind of sloth it is : Hoffmann's two-toed sloth

Am I right ?

Thank you for the pictures Susanne, it looks much better than on the catalogue pictures but there's something that doesn't make it look like a sloth. Hoverever, I'm very exhited to see what Papo and Schleich will make it better.

And yes, for me it looks like a Hoffman's too.

When you click on the image of the Sloth in Safari,s catalogue site, the information about it says it is indeed a Hoffmann,s two-toed sloth You are both so right:!    But I like the image in the catalogue site much better. On the picture shown here, you may actually see the seems where the animal is fused or glued together. And I also find the painting less good, and it looks very "plastic" to me  Sorry

Farm collector wrote:

When you click on the image of the Sloth in Safari,s catalogue site, the information about it says it is indeed a Hoffmann,s two-toed sloth You are both so right:!    But I like the image in the catalogue site much better. On the picture shown here, you may actually see the seems where the animal is fused or glued together. And I also find the painting less good, and it looks very "plastic" to me  Sorry

Please bear in mind that when I show these close-ups, the model is not only larger, but in direct, sharp light, - and probably so close to your eyes as you will very rarely see it in real.
As a model on a shelf you won't see any mould-lines, and the painting looks great

If you look back two years, the paintwork of Safari's models was getting real awful !!!
Or rather, there was almost no paint at all, and eyes were just a black blop.
They have improved immensely the last two years, and already people complain that the prices have gone up a bit.
These are mass produced toys, - I am sure we could get near-perfect models, if we wanted to pay 20 times as much for them

Now it is me, who is sorry. No offence meant

That is very o.k Susanne And I am sure you are right  It,s only me beeing to perfectionistic I belive  And I do agree Safaris paintwork has improved a lot, but sometimes they do the stranges things with their colorations of their figurines.If you look at their new cattle, the Gurnsey cow has this white ring around her eyes and muzzle. And the Ayrshire cow also have some strange coloration on her muzzle. It makes them look less authentic I think. Oh my God, here I go again, Sorry

Farm collector wrote:

That is very o.k Susanne And I am sure you are right  It,s only me beeing to perfectionistic I belive  And I do agree Safaris paintwork has improved a lot, but sometimes they do the stranges things with their colorations of their figurines.If you look at their new cattle, the Gurnsey cow has this white ring around her eyes and muzzle. And the Ayrshire cow also have some strange coloration on her muzzle. It makes them look less authentic I think. Oh my God, here I go again, Sorry

I agree with you i sold my safari brown swiss bull because of the paint finish.

I find that we are really lucky. Not long ago we were all crazy to get a sloth, we needed to find the rare Hausser, the not easy to get from Play Visions and a few more not very interesting. Now, we have the two species of two-toed sloths made by major brands, Mojö and Safari respectively, Papo is releasing a sloth and we are waiting for Schleich sloth still. I enjoy the solution Safari found in terms of pose and it looks enough weird to look like a convincent sloth. I am happy and I like what I see.

Wow, great model and big congrats! I was curious how big this one was since their sizes online seem a little bigger than usual but I think that this will fit in my shelves perfectly, thanks for the photos!

Congrats Susanne ! He was on my wishlist but I saw some pictures on Facebook and I found the quality of paint was bad in real ... so it wasn't in my priorities. However Safari made a great improvement this year ! I got the giganosaurus, which one is just wow, I also got the holwer monkey and the beautiful blue-footed booby, all from MPV :) I want them all this year !

I really like this adorable Sloth
And I`m sure, like Susanne also said, that it look`s really nice on real.
Susanne thank you very much for this great walkaround

Absolutly a must have!!

Very nice sloth! Thank you for the walk around, Susanne!

Thankyou, friends

I think it's a very nice sloth. And what's best, with it we can complete the two-toed sloths family! Thanks for the walk-around, Susanne!

javito wrote:

....... And what's best, with it we can complete the two-toed sloths family! ......

OMG, never thought about that this sloth could be a new species...and now I see, that the sloth-Family has become one more time richer
Now I´m curious which species papo will present.

Oh, what a sloth! I am sure he will find also a little place at me shelves!

Very nice sloth, congratulations!
I bet it will look great hanging or sitting on real branches