Gwaine's Non Schleich Reviews

If this is not the correct topic, mods, please yeet this where you think it should go ^^

I couldn't find if I had already begun doing this, so here I am, reviewing all not schleich figurines in my collection.
The brands include; Breyer, Bullyland, CollectA, Lego, Mojo Fun, Papo, Playmobil, Safari LTD and some miscelaniosu figurines.

I'll mix up the brands on rotation, but know that I got far more CollectA, Safari, Papo and Playmobil than the other brands on the roster.

Now which of my pretties to start with?
 

OK, I moved it to the General Reviews and Discussions which is the right section.
Also, you don't have another topic about it, what do you have is a topic about your non Schleich additions and another about Schleich reviews. So this one is different. Looking forward to see your impressions about your non Schleich figures.

Roger wrote:

OK, I moved it to the General Reviews and Discussions which is the right section.
Also, you don't have another topic about it, what do you have is a topic about your non Schleich additions and another about Schleich reviews. So this one is different. Looking forward to see your impressions about your non Schleich figures.

Thank you for your help Roger <3

I choose, to start me off the Breyer that set the fire for this brand in my heart.



This is model 1470 in the Breyer Traditional collection. It is the portrait model of race horse Sato. The base mold was first published under the name Cigar and was debuted in 1998. The Sato iteration ran from 2011 to 2012 with only a year of runtime.
I got this specific model for my birthday from my Father in Law, which he allowed me to pick via ebay. He was one of my first Breyer's and still one of my most prized items in my collection.


Overall Opinion: This model is one of the first breyers I fell head over heels in love with, the one that I was determined to have. And by the Gods did I do everything to get it and I got it!! It remains one of my favourite breyers and I will not trade him for the world!!
He is absolutely stunning and I love that it is a portrait model, made after an actual horse. He is very well made, both in the sculpt and the paint. And for a second/thrid/fourth hand find, he is not at all damaged.

Sato is magnificent! He has such a unique colouring. I don't know which of breyer traditional thoroughbreds is my favourite (they just have so many) but Cigar is definitely on the top of that list.
I am really excited to see more of your reviews for your non schleich animals.

Very delicate sculpt, I like it.

This figure is the rare and elusive Andalusian Stallion in the CollectA line up. He had a runtime of only a single year and thusly is quite the collectors item. He is the first Andalusian Stallion in the CollectA line up, though he was quickly replaced by 88463, which is now available in three coat shades.
I found this beautiful man on Marktplaats for what we call in dutch a 'habbekrats' next to nothing. I got him right away and he is one of my gems and shares my profile's name.


Overall Opinion: One of my most precious gems. I will cherrish Gwaine for ever, honouring him as my user name and saving him a good spot on the shelf. I am very carefull with this one, because he is so rare.
It is a very well made figure, but so out of style for CollectA. I adore him and I will keep him until the absolute end of my days.

That's fabulous, Tessa! I love this figure and the fact it is so rare turns it into a very special item. I remember the first time I've seen it and how I thought it could represent a step forward for CollectA horses. I was absolutely wrong since it was immediately retired and a new generation of horse figures was released in a very different style from this one. This is a kind of lost figure since there's no other horse in the whole range of CollectA which looks like this one. I would surely pick one if I had the chance since I was not collecting horse when I saw it locally.

This is the Papo 51571 Clydesdale Stallion, he debuted in 2022 and is currently still in the collection.
I learned he was available when I was at work, like the day I had gotten by paycheck, so I ordered him right away. I am so utterly in love with him. He is one of my Papo favs!


Overall Opinion: This is one of my all time favourites, from papo and in general. He is magnificent and I love every little detail of him. From his expressive eyes to the slightly windswept mane. He is so stunning and I adore him so much!

It is so nice to see a Papo horse receiving so much love. Papo is not known as a reference brand for horse figures but they really have a few great models and this Clydesdale is one of them.

This beauty is the fifth tinker in Safari LTD's collection, though the second one of regular size with no rider attached. He premiered in 2018 and is still part of the current line up. He is a shade smaller than the CollectA and the Schleich tinker stallions.
I got him as soon as he was available, via Modelpferdeversand.


Overall Opinion: This guy is genuinly one of my favourite figurines. He is just so pretty and I love his pattern and his pose and he is just a smol guy and he just wants to be cuddled and scritched. I called him Boxer after the male horse out of George Orwell's Animal Farm.
He's on my coldblood shelf, beside the other brand tinkers, who are all bigger than him. Pity him.

I have the previous Tinker at this scale and it is also smaller than the corresponding models from other brands. This figure is absolutely wonderful, probably one of the best Safari horses. Fortunately, all brands have good representatives of Tinkers.

Roger wrote:

I have the previous Tinker at this scale and it is also smaller than the corresponding models from other brands. This figure is absolutely wonderful, probably one of the best Safari horses. Fortunately, all brands have good representatives of Tinkers.

Oh yeah, Tinkers are very consistently well done by all brands.

This is Mojo Fun's most recent Friesian as of Dec 2023. He was debuted in 2019 and is currently still in the collection.
The figure in my collection I have bought via MPV.


Overall Opinion: This is a very well made Friesian figurine. It is immediately recognisable as a Friesian and has such a beautiful pose. I really adore this one and got him as soon as he was available online.

I love this Frisian horse, it is an exceptionally good sculpt from our Anna-Dobrowolska. Most Frisian horse figures are beautiful but even among them, this one stands out. How is the material of yours? I know the early productions were made in a not very pleasant softer material.

Roger wrote:

I love this Frisian horse, it is an exceptionally good sculpt from our Anna-Dobrowolska. Most Frisian horse figures are beautiful but even among them, this one stands out. How is the material of yours? I know the early productions were made in a not very pleasant softer material.

He is a bit waxy, like the schleich 2024 friesian.

Gwaine wrote:

Roger wrote:

I love this Frisian horse, it is an exceptionally good sculpt from our Anna-Dobrowolska. Most Frisian horse figures are beautiful but even among them, this one stands out. How is the material of yours? I know the early productions were made in a not very pleasant softer material.

He is a bit waxy, like the schleich 2024 friesian.

Thanks for letting me know and actually that's a good example because I know exactly how the plastic of the Schleich Shire stallion is. I believe Mojö Fun returned to a more dense plastic meanwhile, the few Mojö horses I own are earlier releases and they have a very dense pvc, even more than what Schleich is using these days.

Roger wrote:

Gwaine wrote:

Roger wrote:

I love this Frisian horse, it is an exceptionally good sculpt from our Anna-Dobrowolska. Most Frisian horse figures are beautiful but even among them, this one stands out. How is the material of yours? I know the early productions were made in a not very pleasant softer material.

He is a bit waxy, like the schleich 2024 friesian.

Thanks for letting me know and actually that's a good example because I know exactly how the plastic of the Schleich Shire stallion is. I believe Mojö Fun returned to a more dense plastic meanwhile, the few Mojö horses I own are earlier releases and they have a very dense pvc, even more than what Schleich is using these days.

The texture just bothers me so much, but I love this guy non the less.

Gwaine wrote:

Roger wrote:

Gwaine wrote:

Roger wrote:

I love this Frisian horse, it is an exceptionally good sculpt from our Anna-Dobrowolska. Most Frisian horse figures are beautiful but even among them, this one stands out. How is the material of yours? I know the early productions were made in a not very pleasant softer material.

He is a bit waxy, like the schleich 2024 friesian.

Thanks for letting me know and actually that's a good example because I know exactly how the plastic of the Schleich Shire stallion is. I believe Mojö Fun returned to a more dense plastic meanwhile, the few Mojö horses I own are earlier releases and they have a very dense pvc, even more than what Schleich is using these days.

The texture just bothers me so much, but I love this guy non the less.

The way Anna's sculpts are textured is usually very realistic, I mean, at such a reduced scale, fur texture shouldn't be visible and Anna takes it seriously. Most of the figures of the recent years are overtextured, often it gives a more modern finish to the model but sometimes it is too much. This fine and subtle texture works better for resin homemade models replicated in small numbers. When these figures are molded for mass production, they loose slightly the subtle texture and more the factory mold is used, less textured is the figure produced. All these factors influenced the way how most figures are manufactured these days. I have the Mojo gaur, a figure which easily looks like an outdated model for today's collectors but I really love so much how it is sculpted and textured.

Geat horse, hurray for Anna

This pretty pegasus was debuted in 2019 in the Playmobil Movie range. It uses body 30 65 1934 wings 30 51 9032. It is the only playmobil pegasus with a normal horse body colour and this large a body to wing colour difference.


Overall Opinion: This is a very very wonderful figurine from playmobil. I got it for dirt cheap and think it is so underappreciated, more people need to know about how pretty she is.

Lovely range of horse figures, I really love Sato, I've never seen him before. The mold was released right around the time I stopped collecting for awhile so I never got one, but I do remember it coming out. It was pretty sensational, the most dramatic racing thoroughbred up to that point. The "thinness" is due to the dry muscle on a fit body, he's in fact in quite fine shape and not too thin at all, kind of like a sighthound. I love how each of these figures has a very distinct personality and style and yet all of them are good representations of their breed. I agree with Roger about the subtle detail of the fur texture on the Friesian, that works so well on this scale. I have never really been a fan of the highly textured figures, unless you are going for a horse in its winter coat. That Friesian has a perfect sweet spot between too smooth and looking plastic and too textured and also looking plastic.

The playmobile is pretty cute, my playmobile horses as a kid looked like this and had a different kind of charm. I remembering wishing they came in more colors.

That Playmobil creature with real horse color is quite beautiful.

Jill wrote:

The playmobile is pretty cute, my playmobile horses as a kid looked like this and had a different kind of charm. I remembering wishing they came in more colors.

I owned a Playmobil horse exactly like that when I was a kid. When I started seeing people on forum discussing Playmobil I got surprised to see the brand here but I was not aware the newer models are much more realistic. They're not yet my cup of tea but some of these models looks really beautiful. :)

This is one of the amazing figurines that come into the Safari LTD Elemental Dragons Toob. It is, rather evidently, the fire elemental dragon, though considering it has long wings, it is a drake in truth. The toob was debuted in 2021 and is still in the collection.
I bought the toob from MPV.


Overall Opinion: This is absolutely one of my favourite Safari figures. It is a small figurine, but it is has lovely details and is so well made. I literally cannot get enough of it!!! Shame I had to store it due to the move.

Very cute, looks like a seahorse with legs.