Brand Identification topic

Any information about the symbol?
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Plastic, lenght: 4 cm + or -
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Nice unknown figure

Magofu, I don't know the symbol, but the characters at the bottom are Japanese katakana. Unfortunately, I am no good reading them. You might be able to figure it out with the tables in Wikipedia.

Hello,
I found a little white fox which looks like the bigger fox of SCHLEICH.
Have anybody an idea. Benno.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

That's from the National Geographic Morphing Matter Arctic Adventure set. Here is mine, also a gift from Kosta.
You can see the whole set [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Some time ago I sent pictures of this wildebeest and this impala. Now that I am organizing my boxes I am sending you pictures as they came. Obviously it is a set made by a collector but maybe, because of the figures it contains, you can find the brand of the wildebeest and impala.

In my opinion they are clearly from Hausser Elastolin (same series as the monkeys and tigers in the box). The thing is, they don't appear in any catalog, I've never seen them before, but the material, texture, color and character lead me to Hausser yes or yes. I am hopeful that someone has seen them before and can give some clue. Although I think they are prototypes, perhaps other African animals were billed.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

interesting that the homemade box has a single Britains in it - the eagle.

And the illustrations and writing are from Britains advertising.

What make is the peacock?
and can you take a clearer photo of it? side on, and front?

The peacock (and the brown bear cubs) are Hausser Elastolin 1:25 scale (hard plastic)

I'm sorry I still can't help

I couldn't see this wolf? on wiki

Do you have any ideas what brand/make it is? It is around 1/32nd scale
Thank you

beside Britains size ducks/geese
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

sunny wrote:

I couldn't see this wolf? on wiki

Do you have any ideas what brand/make it is? It is around 1/32nd scale
Thank you

beside Britains size ducks/geese
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

GI-JOE. There is also a lynx/bobcat, a python and a vulture that accompanied the GI-Joe soldiers.

Stripedhyena wrote:

sunny wrote:

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

GI-JOE. There is also a lynx/bobcat, a python and a vulture that accompanied the GI-Joe soldiers.

thank you Ricardo

bear
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]


and soft bendyish owl
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

The bear is a AAA sculpt- is there no stamp? No idea on the owl.

thank you Paige, no stamp at all
and very bright blue eyes - is that normal?

For a AAA its possible. This would be a copy though if there is no stamp. But I find it a very charming sculpt.

Annette, I think Paige is right. AAA, more than a brand, is a manufacturer. So, they produced their figures for many brands and sometimes, the custommer company, used to want AAA to remove their logo. A known example is this series from Wild Republic. Most of these figures were manufactured by AAA but they don't have the AAA logo. You can see te same figure, in black, in this 2004 Wild Republic Catalogue page.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Thank you Paige!

and thank you Roger!
that has cleared up some confusion for me.

I didn't realise that there was this difference between a brand and the same company manufacturing/producing it -also selling off these same models to other brands to then sell.

How confusing it can be

sunny wrote:

Thank you Paige!

and thank you Roger!
that has cleared up some confusion for me.

I didn't realise that there was this difference between a brand and the same company manufacturing/producing it -also selling off these same models to other brands to then sell.

How confusing it can be

Yes, it is absolutely confusing, especially when you are editing on TAW. So, we decided to list all AAA figures as AAA, even when we know the brand that sold them. First, we would never find the real brand in more than 90% of the figures and listing them under all brands could result very repetitive. Since I edit on TAW I have already seen AAA figures sold by Schleich, Bullyland, Safari Ltd, Mamejo Nature, Ravensden, Yolanda, Wild Republic, ELC and a few others I can't remember. It is the same with Nayab so we started listing Nayab as Nayab. Ironically, we can see the AAA figures on the Nayabe official website and it was said Nayab bought the AAA moulds. Though, the best topics to see how confuse it is are @Jill's topics. Jill is perfect to help us to solve some misteries but she is even better puzzling us.

Roger wrote:

sunny wrote:

Thank you Paige!

and thank you Roger!
that has cleared up some confusion for me.

I didn't realise that there was this difference between a brand and the same company manufacturing/producing it -also selling off these same models to other brands to then sell.

How confusing it can be

Yes, it is absolutely confusing, especially when you are editing on TAW. So, we decided to list all AAA figures as AAA, even when we know the brand that sold them. First, we would never find the real brand in more than 90% of the figures and listing them under all brands could result very repetitive. Since I edit on TAW I have already seen AAA figures sold by Schleich, Bullyland, Safari Ltd, Mamejo Nature, Ravensden, Yolanda, Wild Republic, ELC and a few others I can't remember. It is the same with Nayab so we started listing Nayab as Nayab. Ironically, we can see the AAA figures on the Nayabe official website and it was said Nayab bought the AAA moulds. Though, the best topics to see how confuse it is are @Jill's topics. Jill is perfect to help us to solve some misteries but she is even better puzzling us.  

Goodness me AAA figures are sold by Schleich? and all those others?? haha, that's funny because I thought that some of those companies had their own 'style' but if they are just using AAA models (which I have found to be very soft-lined and unrealistic) then it's just a quagmire

I knew the situation with Nayab and all the chinamal type figures, because some are 1/32nd scale and I would come across them often, but I had no idea it extended to the larger model brands.

I suppose I have been shielded from all this proliferation by Britains 'exclusivity'! - I thought brands would (want to ) protect their 'uniqueness' but it doesn't seem to the case.
When Britains went downhill I saw how cheap and rubbishy their figure production became - cheaper and worse quality plastics being used, models not as detailed and lacking so much compared to the original plastic models produced, and paint, or lack of - never improved a worsening product. The plastic snapping easily was such a put off! and then it was easy to recognize that I liked only their earlier models the best.

sunny wrote:

Roger wrote:

sunny wrote:

Thank you Paige!

and thank you Roger!
that has cleared up some confusion for me.

I didn't realise that there was this difference between a brand and the same company manufacturing/producing it -also selling off these same models to other brands to then sell.

How confusing it can be

Yes, it is absolutely confusing, especially when you are editing on TAW. So, we decided to list all AAA figures as AAA, even when we know the brand that sold them. First, we would never find the real brand in more than 90% of the figures and listing them under all brands could result very repetitive. Since I edit on TAW I have already seen AAA figures sold by Schleich, Bullyland, Safari Ltd, Mamejo Nature, Ravensden, Yolanda, Wild Republic, ELC and a few others I can't remember. It is the same with Nayab so we started listing Nayab as Nayab. Ironically, we can see the AAA figures on the Nayabe official website and it was said Nayab bought the AAA moulds. Though, the best topics to see how confuse it is are @Jill's topics. Jill is perfect to help us to solve some misteries but she is even better puzzling us.  

Goodness me AAA figures are sold by Schleich? and all those others?? haha, that's funny because I thought that some of those companies had their own 'style' but if they are just using AAA models (which I have found to be very soft-lined and unrealistic) then it's just a quagmire

I knew the situation with Nayab and all the chinamal type figures, because some are 1/32nd scale and I would come across them often, but I had no idea it extended to the larger model brands.

I suppose I have been shielded from all this proliferation by Britains 'exclusivity'! - I thought brands would (want to ) protect their 'uniqueness' but it doesn't seem to the case.
When Britains went downhill I saw how cheap and rubbishy their figure production became - cheaper and worse quality plastics being used, models not as detailed and lacking so much compared to the original plastic models produced, and paint, or lack of - never improved a worsening product. The plastic snapping easily was such a put off! and then it was easy to recognize that I liked only their earlier models the best.

Actually, major brands haven't been selling AAA figures for several decades. They did so in the earlier stages of their companies when it was much more economical to diversify the brand's range by selling AAA products rather than investing in new molds produced by themselves. In the case of Safari Ltd., they sold AAA Farm figures, allowing them to study market reactions before deciding to manufacture their own Farm figures. In the case of Schleich, they sold, for example, marine figures, whose market is very volatile and unpredictable. So, if it failed, the loss would be minimal. For smaller brands or those with less focus on the theme, AAA figures effectively made up the entire range. This is the case of Ravensden, Yolanda, or Mamejo Nature, the latter being responsible for most of the new AAA figures we find on the North American market.

Roger wrote:

Actually, major brands haven't been selling AAA figures for several decades. They did so in the earlier stages of their companies when it was much more economical to diversify the brand's range by selling AAA products rather than investing in new molds produced by themselves. In the case of Safari Ltd., they sold AAA Farm figures, allowing them to study market reactions before deciding to manufacture their own Farm figures. In the case of Schleich, they sold, for example, marine figures, whose market is very volatile and unpredictable. So, if it failed, the loss would be minimal. For smaller brands or those with less focus on the theme, AAA figures effectively made up the entire range. This is the case of Ravensden, Yolanda, or Mamejo Nature, the latter being responsible for most of the new AAA figures we find on the North American market.

ah okay, then there is quite a lot of history to all this!
and very understandable, from a marketing perspective about seeing how the figures sell.
Interesting, thank you Roger

Anyone knows the brand of this dairy cow? Picture is not mine, figure is made of a brittle hard plastic and it is not marked.

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]