Penguins family meeting

Hi,

I have just received two new penguins (Gentoo and Rockhopper) from collectA and wanted to share with you a picture where they appear next to my other Schleich penguins.

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Ohh, so nice they look together

I also love figures of penguins although from these I only have the gentoo and the African. I see you missed the Schleich king penguin that uses the same mould of your emperor. Safari Ltd has a good group of different penguin species, namely the chinstrap, Humboldt and a few more.

Very nice penguins.

Yes safari Ltd does, I was only looking yesterday.

Roger wrote:

I also love figures of penguins although from these I only have the gentoo and the African. I see you missed the Schleich king penguin that uses the same mould of your emperor. Safari Ltd has a good group of different penguin species, namely the chinstrap, Humboldt and a few more.

Yes, never found neither the Schleich King penguin nor the pack of King/Emperor penguin chicks. The scale would be more accurate with the Schleich mould as a king rather than as an emperor and a good strategy would be to get both the king from Schleich and the emperor from Papo which is taller/bigger. However I may love my emperor pair too much to think about replacing them !

Doesn't Safari Ltd make larger penguins (and larger figures in general) than Schleich and Collecta ? I am always afraid of starting collecting a new brand because you can never really know what size is a figure you order on the internet and scale is quite important to me.

Could you please share your penguin figures with me ? I would really like to see the CollectA African penguin for example, as well as the Safari ones in order to figure out their size.

The Schleich king penguin is not anymore easy to find. It was available for a single year once they needed to fix it and repaint to an emperor because they also mixed the chicks calling them king penguins when they were, undoubtfully, emperor penguin chicks.
Safari figures are not very consistent in terms of size. Some are larger but many others work perfectly with the Schleich figures. Penguins are generally larger but not too much.

This picture is not new but you can see most of my penguins. Schleich king penguin is the 7th standing penguin when counting from the right side.
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You can also visit [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] with several pictures comparing penguins.

Thanks, I'll have a look at this topic.