Schleich 2020

Photos of Schleichs 2020 Dinosaurs are online

 There new models are mostly a joke just like the rest of the company.

I also seen them. I like the Augustinia. The Cryolophosaurus looks like he is frozen. ^^

I still need to know what the other Arabian looks like ! I'm bad at searching or it is really hard to find?
Can someone who has seen it describe it to me please?

Now i can see the new Eldrador. The Blizzard Bear is nice, but the Fire Eagle is extreme gorgeous. A must have.

Schleich site have photos of January models...
So can we to?

VASILIS wrote:

Schleich site have photos of January models...
So can we to?

Yes, Tessa is going to post them tomorrow.

I am going to tinker at the main post now. I'll be doing this in bursts, so if you see the post half edited, know I am still working on it.

When I started building a synoptic collection over the past year or so, I asked myself: 'what will I buy in 2019 that will have to be promptly replaced because a better example will come out in 2020'. Well, if that happens, it won't be a Schleich figure.

Their texture and paint are always nice, but why do most of them (wildlife and most domestic) have to have some anthropomorphized facial expressions. Uggh. [the tortoise isn't too bad though]

There we are, all done!

Gwaine wrote:

There we are, all done!

Thank you Tessa!!!

Thank you for all the work! I for one appreciate it.

The dinosaurs get weirder and weirder looking to me every year. I sort of like the baryonyx, but I have to see it in person. The fire eagle is neat too, who knows, maybe it will make it's way home too.

sorry for honesty but when I saw what schleich did for 2020 I don't know whether to laugh or cry wild animals are not so bad but also nothing special and in addition very little ,schleich goes to the bottom and I'm very sad,when I saw the list, I had great hope that I would see an attacking hyena and they give an old hyena with an old ostrich and I ask what it should be?the attacking lion's face is cool but the rest of the position is a failure,

Thanks Tessa for your dedication to Schleich thread!
As probably I am getting not very used with Schleich horses, these look all familiar to me, if they were not announced as new, I could easily think they were previously released figures. Though, I think they look better now than when the braids wave started. The saddlebred is probably the most attractive to me even if it looks a lot like a Morgan.
If the excuse of Schleich horses design is to turn them more appealing to children, take a look at the new CollectA Camarillo and tell me if it looks less appealing to children only because it is very well made.
I find, among wildlife, three very interesting species, not new in toy shape but new for Schleich. The red panda, wombat and snow leopard. The wombat looks weird from this picture but I will surely take a look at and other two, although not spectacular, good enough for my collection.
The reindeer looks like remastered from a white-tail buck figure, a good looking figure but quite far from what CollectA did with the woodland caribou.

Roger wrote:

Thanks Tessa for your dedication to Schleich thread!

You are very welcome

The new models from Schleich look more like toys. I am very disappointed with the current production of Schleich.

Wow, I love the fire eagle.

Roger wrote:

Thanks Tessa for your dedication to Schleich thread!
As probably I am getting not very used with Schleich horses, these look all familiar to me, if they were not announced as new, I could easily think they were previously released figures. Though, I think they look better now than when the braids wave started. The saddlebred is probably the most attractive to me even if it looks a lot like a Morgan.
If the excuse of Schleich horses design is to turn them more appealing to children, take a look at the new CollectA Camarillo and tell me if it looks less appealing to children only because it is very well made.
I find, among wildlife, three very interesting species, not new in toy shape but new for Schleich. The red panda, wombat and snow leopard. The wombat looks weird from this picture but I will surely take a look at and other two, although not spectacular, good enough for my collection.
The reindeer looks like remastered from a white-tail buck figure, a good looking figure but quite far from what CollectA did with the woodland caribou.

The Camarillo has a good sculpt, but a very bad painting. Schleich paintings are better and this is an irportant reason for me.

Tupolew Tu-154 wrote:

Roger wrote:

Thanks Tessa for your dedication to Schleich thread!
As probably I am getting not very used with Schleich horses, these look all familiar to me, if they were not announced as new, I could easily think they were previously released figures. Though, I think they look better now than when the braids wave started. The saddlebred is probably the most attractive to me even if it looks a lot like a Morgan.
If the excuse of Schleich horses design is to turn them more appealing to children, take a look at the new CollectA Camarillo and tell me if it looks less appealing to children only because it is very well made.
I find, among wildlife, three very interesting species, not new in toy shape but new for Schleich. The red panda, wombat and snow leopard. The wombat looks weird from this picture but I will surely take a look at and other two, although not spectacular, good enough for my collection.
The reindeer looks like remastered from a white-tail buck figure, a good looking figure but quite far from what CollectA did with the woodland caribou.

The Camarillo has a good sculpt, but a very bad painting. Schleich paintings are better and this is an irportant reason for me.

Undoubtfully, painting is important although I tend to pay more atention to sculpt, mainly when judging from official pictures once painting often differs greatly from what we see here. However, without wanting to contradict you, I'd love to read, on CollectA topic, what you think is wrong with the Camarillo painting. It is a pity that a company is not able of getting correctly the color of a horse that is pure white and not white/grey.

I'll only try to have the wombat, the reindeer, the snow leopard (to repaint) and the postosuchus! :)

I'll get the domestic Shorthair cat and kitten set but unsure of everything else. I'll have to see the snow leopard in person. I'm not a fan of how they are doing the paws / toes on the big cats at the moment. They seem to be very square and flat?

Roger wrote:

Undoubtfully, painting is important although I tend to pay more atention to sculpt, mainly when judging from official pictures once painting often differs greatly from what we see here. However, without wanting to contradict you, I'd love to read, on CollectA topic, what you think is wrong with the Camarillo painting. It is a pity that a company is not able of getting correctly the color of a horse that is pure white and not white/grey.

And their wild animals have wonderful paintjobs, so why not the horses?

With a good paint you can even change cheap china toys to beautiful ones. ^^

I found it very childish ... the eyes and the expression, I didn't like it!

Saarlooswolfhound wrote:

I think based on the photos its hard to judge the reindeer at the moment (angle, photo quality...), but yes to me it looks like "early growth" velvet antlers (I mean the antlers appear to me to be of an animal not done growing its rack, or perhaps just a young specimen) which is why I am most excited about this figure from their wildlife range.

I think you're right on that, at first I was a bit disappointed with the reindeer, it looked well made but a bit unrealistic, then I saw these pictures of young wild reindeer from Norway and it looks quite a good approach:

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These companies just keeping making the same old animals. Another Ankylosaurus? Groundbreaking...

Dear Sts Friends:

Hey, is anyone besides myself wondering just what else Schleich has planned for the second half of 2020? Just wondering, because I have an idea, which probably will never be made in PVC, but still it's good.: It is an Ice Phoenix! Now is that cool or what? Just saying, if anyone seconds this idea, then let me know. After all, I just made it up in my mind, so ... well ... what can I say? Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts on this then let me know.

Aschuck

P.S. Today at a museum, I saw the Star Pegasus mare, the Moon Unicorn stallion, and the Decorated Alicorn Foal, and I'm planning on getting them. Also, I finally bought the Kraken King from Eldrador.