2016 Toy Animal Figure of the Year - Preface

STS Forum for the 4th time will vote the figure of the year! We apologize for starting it one month later than usual but some personal constraints made it impossible to start it earlier.
As it happened last year, we'll split it in 7 categories: Wildlife, woodland, prehistoric, farm, sealife, horses and dogs.
Later, the winner of these categories, will be voted in a poll to find the 2016 animal figure of the year.
We'll start choosing figures for all categories (except Dogs) at 17th February:

- Wildlife (Max. 10 choices)
- Woodland (Max. 5 choices)
- Sea Life (Max. 5 choices)
- Prehistoric (Max. 5 choices)
- Farm (Max. 5 choices)
- Horses (Max. 5 choices)
- Dogs, no preliminar choices due to the little number of known releases

Links to topics will be added as soon as they're started.

Topics will be active during 6 days.

At 23th January, we will start polls to all 7 categories (Dogs included) with a maximum of 10 figures with the biggest number of choices.
These polls will run until 28th February in single vote mode and obviously the most voted in each category will be the animal figure of the year of the respective category.

The final poll will start at 1st March and run for a week, again in single vote mode.
The winning figure will be considered officially the 2016 Toy Animal Figure of the Year!

We are not using adjectives as the best, favorite or any other because it depends of any collector perception. We only want to be fair to what is the general perception of our community that proudly joins very young collectors with some already with a "respectable" age. Just vote in what gives you joy!
The only thing we ask is to everyone try to be fair, choosing according with the figure without thinking in the brand marked on it, also, we don't have to collect them to make our choices, we only have to like them.
We'll provide pictures of 2015 releases to all categories to turn easier our choices.
All 2016 releases are eligible, even if they're not in these topics and as long as they are toy animal replicas. The only remark is that figures that only differ in painting will be considered as a single one.
Your participation is very important and appreciated!

Any doubt or suggestion just feel free to comment here.

Only 5 for wildlife?

Wow, I didn't tought that it could be so difficult to choose, not because there were many nice models but because there were very few ones that I would call great. I just hope that 2017 will be better.

I think that 10 choices is not enough for wildlife figures this time, its very hard for me to select only 10 choices .

donny ong wrote:

Only 5 for wildlife?

No, 10

SUSANNE wrote:

donny ong wrote:

Only 5 for wildlife?

No, 10

I am bad and I originally psoted 5 choices to all categories.
Opportunely, was we can see through comments, Kiki? changed it to 10.

msdmhd wrote:

I think that 10 choices is not enough for wildlife figures this time, its very hard for me to select only 10 choices .

I THINK IT MUST BE AT LEAST 13 THIS YEAR

Roger wrote:

SUSANNE wrote:

donny ong wrote:

Only 5 for wildlife?

No, 10

I am bad and I originally psoted 5 choices to all categories.
Opportunely, was we can see through comments, Kiki? changed it to 10.

Yes you are bad But I'm worse

We have got eight beautiful new dogs from mayor brands in 2016. It is a shame if they can not be woted for. I therefore suggest to put the dogs in the farm animal category this year.

Tove wrote:

We have got eight beautiful new dogs from mayor brands in 2016. It is a shame if they can not be woted for.  I therefore suggest to put the dogs in the farm animal category this year.

I found theese:
Schleich: Border Collie, Dalmation and Dalmation puppy.
CollectA: Schnauser.
Mojo: Dalmation and Dalmation puppy.
Safari: Bulldog.
Papo: Australian Shepherd.

Tove wrote:

We have got eight beautiful new dogs from mayor brands in 2016. It is a shame if they can not be woted for. I therefore suggest to put the dogs in the farm animal category this year.

They will be voted in their own poll. As the preliminar choices are only to narrow to a poll of a maximum of 10 figures, it was useless to start a topic of preliminar choices for dogs in a year where only 8 releases are known. So, at 23th, we will start a poll with all the 8 dogs released and the most voted will be the 2016 dog of the year.

Roger wrote:

.......They will be voted in their own poll........... at 23th, we will start a poll with all the 8 dogs released and the most voted will be the 2016 dog of the year.

Good to hear. Thank you.

Tove wrote:

Roger wrote:

.......They will be voted in their own poll...........  at 23th, we will start a poll with all the 8 dogs released and the most voted will be the 2016 dog of the year.

Good to hear. Thank you.

that makes excellent sense !!