My NF animals made in Hong Kong

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Hi! Here is a NF billygoat I found in a local store where they sell donations from the public. Unfortunately, his horns are broken off. Looking at it, I'm wondering if it's not the model I took for a chamois when I first saw it in 1985 or so...

Nice figure

Very interesting!

I am looking for the camel, the giraffe, the black panther, the hen, the goose, the rabbit and the donkey from NF. They also made a line of horses and it seems here they made a line of domestic dogs.

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Yesterday, my bendable NF lion arriverd via mail. It is already on TAW, in company of the Bendable NF elephant and the Bendable NF Rhinoceros.

You're building a bendable jungle. Congrautlations;)

Really interesting bendable lion!

Looks like a very hungry lion

widukind wrote:

Looks like a very hungry lion

On Toy Animal Wiki, you will see, in its company, a starving elephant and a starving rhinoceros.

Roger wrote:

You're building a bendable jungle. Congrautlations;)

Yeah, but the bendable rhino and elephant are not mine...

SUSANNE wrote:

A new brand to me , and very interesting
It is very unusual that sturdy models like the rhino is bendable , I wonder if he CAN bend ?

As we know, Schleich started their toy business after the War with the so called "Biegefiguren" - bendies in English.
Safari has also made some, Bullyland too, and lately Papo made two bendable snakes, but most other brands are more cartton models, so it is really interesting to see these !
Do you have a<n idea how old they are ?  

They can. I now have the NF Bendable Lion and it has thin metal wires in its body and limbs.

Guess what?
I just made some research about NF toys (as you may imagine, I was looking for the vintage NF animals that are still missing in my collection) and I found something worth mentionning here. On Amazon, these days, there is a set of mini farm animals for sale. The page says they are from the company NF and, in the details, it is said that NF stand for NYLSA FASHION. Now I'm wondering: could Nylsa Fashion be the NF name we have been looking for all these years? Because, except for the very small size, the NF animals on sale on Amazon look rather like the vintage, bigger ones that I am collecting right now. What do you think?

Oh!,I remember having these models as a kid,I think there was a bendable tiger as well.

Taos wrote:

Oh!,I remember having these models as a kid,I think there was a bendable tiger as well.

There is a whole set of bendable animals by NF. I noticed Dutch Bear has the NF bendable polar bear.

Searching for Nylsa Fashion it seems it is an Indian company and among many other things, they make clothes for Barbie sized dolls. I cannot confirm they are the responsible for these models but I think you've found a good way.

Roger wrote:

Searching for Nylsa Fashion  it seems it is an Indian company and among many other things, they make clothes for Barbie sized dolls. I cannot confirm they are the responsible for these models but I think you've found a good way.

One of the clues we need to find is since WHEN Nylsa Fashion exists as a company. Because the NF animals seem to have been created in the 1970's.

Because, even if this manufacturer is specialized in doll clothes, it could have done like Larami back in the 1990's: making an experience by manufacturing something that is completely new for this company. Larami, which was specialised in water guns, decided to made four animal lines (sharks, whales, dinosaurs and turtles). Maybe Nylsa Fashion did the same...

I just put the NF Irish Setter and the NF Boxer on TAW. Why? Because not long ago, on Ebay, I saw a NF German Shepherd. I did try to get it and put a bid on it, but I was outbid at the very last minute. So, I didn't get it. But it was enough to convince me that NF has a specific "Dogs" line, featuring at least three different breeds. I am sure there are more breeds in that line. But for now, we have two and a third page is open for the German Shepherd in case someone puts his/her hands on it and shares it with us.

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Do you have the bunny in double? Because I'm willing to trade for it.

This morning, I received via mail a very unique NF piece: a Thouroughbred Horse with its original card. They are already on TAW.
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It seems to come from a series only containing thoroughbred horses. The line also contains a rearing white one, a grey one with white mane and tail and a running lighter bay one. Maybe there are more, but I'm not certain.

Youhou! Nobody here? I thought many people here collected horses...

I think maybe the manufacturer didn't know too much about horses... they seem to have used 'thoroughbred' in the 'purebred' sense without stopping to think that with horses it is the name of a breed. That's definitely a Tennessee Walker! It's actually a nice model of one.

pipsxlch wrote:

I think maybe the manufacturer didn't know too much about horses... they seem to have used 'thoroughbred' in the 'purebred' sense without stopping to think that with horses it is the name of a breed. That's definitely a Tennessee Walker! It's actually a nice model of one.

Especially when we look at the card: it shows horses free in what we could identify as Texas or Nevada. But you know, if there is a mistake, they made it, I didn't.

So now, what do I do? I leave it this way on TAW or do I correct NF's mistake on the site?

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Anyway, here is my newly arrived NF Bendable Hippopotamus! It is now the 140th hippopotamus toy on Toy Animal Wiki.

Bowhead Whale wrote:

pipsxlch wrote:

I think maybe the manufacturer didn't know too much about horses... they seem to have used 'thoroughbred' in the 'purebred' sense without stopping to think that with horses it is the name of a breed. That's definitely a Tennessee Walker! It's actually a nice model of one.

Especially when we look at the card: it shows horses free in what we could identify as Texas or Nevada. But you know, if there is a mistake, they made it, I didn't.

So now, what do I do? I leave it this way on TAW or do I correct NF's mistake on the site?

Finally, I decided to correct NF's mistake: my horse is now identified as a Tennessee Walking Horse.

Bowhead Whale wrote:

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Anyway, here is my newly arrived NF Bendable Hippopotamus! It is now the 140th hippopotamus toy on Toy Animal Wiki.

This hippopotamus was one of my first figures when I was a child still very very very very very very small.... I still have it, one of my emotional jewels