My whole collection in pics

Once every year, I take out my whole collection, count and categorize them.

This year was not an exeption, and because my collection is pretty large, it took me over a week

But this time was slightly different, as I decided to get rid of some of them (mostley ugly made in china/hong kong, and china dublettes) I got rid of almost 1500 animals

I also made new categories for them. Junk, ordinary, good and top 5.

Another thing that I havent done befor is that I took pics of al of them. Not in the boxes, but out on the table, side by side. It took forever and resulted in A LOT of pics (as my collection containes about 6000 animals)

So here they are, all of my animals in pics! (be warned again, it´s a lot of pics!!)
Al counts inklude dublettes, exept for the schleich dublettes, that have their own count.

Lets start from the bottom and work our way up


Junk animals (crappy animals that doesnt look very good, but that I still cant get rid of)

Made in hong kong
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Farm - 515 animals
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Wild - 340 animals

The made in hong kong are mostly bad copies of the britains ltd, and I think I got rid of about 500 of them, but I still kept most of them. They are great kids toys, and I will save them for my future kids. And another thing that is good about them, is that they make great herds for smal dioramas (with a little new paint)

McDonalds, Kinder
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94

Cartoonish animals if very hard plastic, that is not accurat in any way, but they have a sertain charm, thats why I´m not tossing al of them away. Often disney inspired (atleast the McD)


Ordinary animals (regular made in china. not to good looking, but not that bad eather)

Wild animals
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214

Farm animals
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214

Horses
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77

Dogs, cats
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296

Snakes, lizards
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snakes - 79
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lizards - 100

Turtles, frogs, croks and seals
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140

Disney etc
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117

Velour animals
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90

Bugs, spiders
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220

Whales, sharks (big)
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53

Marine life
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whales, sharks (small) - 82
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Fish, sealife - 135

Mixed lot (these are animals that didnt realy fit in any other category)
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120

Good ones (different brands, but also regular made in china that looks a little better)

Dinosaurs
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150

Older animals (inkluding a few lineol/elastolin)
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112

Raisler and raisler-like animals
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84

(Sorry Susanne, I know not al of these are raisler, but they al got that hard, shiny feeling, so I kept them in the same category )

Britains ltd
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133

New-ray
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70

Top toy, funrise
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top toy - 20, funrise - 35

It´s funny, the top toy animals I got are the only ones I´ve ever seen, anywhere
they look okey, but has a serious lack of personality.

Funrise is maybe not the best brand when it comes to accurasy and cool looking animals, but they are special to me, as I got some of the horses from my dad when I was seven

Chap mei
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47

Realy cool and expressive animals with much detailes.

M.E.G, Topps
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122

Not the most realistic animals, but when it comes to cutness and creativity, they take the price.

Farm animals
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94

Horses
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117

Dogs, cats
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143

Wild animals
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124

Minis
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159

The only thing that these animals have in common is that they are realy small (and many of them realy cute/cool)

AAA
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169

A very unstable brand. Some of their animals look realy wierd and almost a little crappy, while other look stunning. the biggest downside to this brand is that many of the animals are so BIG!

K&M international
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72

Playvision
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108

And last but not least;

The top 5

Dinosaurs
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55

CollectA
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43

Still not even 50 of these

Bullyland
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185

Papo
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107

My favorite brand when it comes to wild animals, But the worst of the top 5 when it comes to horses (collectA was worse befor, but since the 2011 arrivals, it´s now one of the best in my opinion)

Safari ltd
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160

Great brand with lots of creativity and unusual species, but sometimes lack a little in the coloring, and is not great when it comes to sertain animals.

Schleich
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ordinary - 519
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sets - 11
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classic, cute creatures, minis - 63
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dublettes - 216

The big boss in europe, you can find them anywhere! In my opinion, the most balansed brand. They can sometimes be a little chubby and mostly have pretty dull poses, but they almost always look good.

Since schleich is one of my favorite brands, I cant help buying one if I find it cheap, even if I already got that one. This mean that I have pretty many dublettes


Well, thats al of them, Just over 6000 animals (so far, I havent counted the ones I got last month yet)


Enyoy

Gosh, what a HUGE job you have done , - and SO many figueres

I look forward to having time to study them better, I had to take a look even if I am cooking dinner for me and my "little" son

Thankyou so much for showing us your collection, Wonderful, fabulous

:) :)

Amazing . Our love to animals figures, leads to big collections.
Congratulations

Anna, wow!!! Your collection is SO impressive!!! You have a gorgeous collection

Wonderful collection
You have 2 Papo lions with different colours?

Big big Congratulation! What a nice big collection!!



And i see 2 tamanduas- and i have none!! And a lot more!

oh. wow.
it's going to take me a week just to study your photos!
I've already seen a bunch of sheep I covet.

what an incredible amount of work! beautiful!

Ana! Your collection is amazing!
Such a great variety of animals!!!!

Wow!!! I really enjoyed those photos! Thanks for sharing your collection! :)

-Kristie

only one sentense...OH MY GOD!

Hooah !!!!!!!!!!, any collection, fantastic, wonderful ....
I saw in there a lot of great items, figurines that make me green with envy.
congratulations for the display, you have to spend a few hours ........

Ha ha, I´m glad you liked my collection, guys

It took me many, many hours of work to take these pics.

The hardest was to get them to stand nicely next to each other. Some brands were easy, others...

Well, have you ever heard of the domino-effect


@Robert; I´m not sure they are different colors, but one is in great condition, and the other is pretty damaged, so that could be the differense in them

@Widukind; Ye, I found the second one a few weeks ago in a flee market :) I like pv a lot, but the tamanduas are not one of my favorites. I love the wild canines (of course), but my favorites are the lizards/salamanders, especially the mudpuppy (the light blue/grey salamnder)

@Lucky luke; More like a few days But it was worth it! It feels great to have my whole collection, every single animal, in pics

Eh Anna! My previsions were right, already more than Torben!
Ah, you have more Schleich dubletts than I have figures from all brands!
Congratulations you have a huge and fantastic collection!
Also a very important topic for those who are starting in this world!
Congratulations! :)

I get a tear in my eye when I see the "Relative Proportion" of the Britain's
figures! To bad they can't do it like that today : ( If the other companies made the figures in "Relative proportion" you would miss me complaining sooooooo much!

Arrakai wrote:

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Well, have you ever heard of the domino-effect
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I can imagine, - eeeeek !

Congratulation again anna, what a collection... And what a work

Could you share closer pics of these models please ?

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Thanks Anna for showing us and attempt with efforts of arranging.

@Roger; Hmm, I dont think I have more than Torben. And even if I do, I only have more in numbers, not in quality
It´s not only good to have many animals, they take up a lot of space and demand a lot of work But I love all of them
It feels great if I can provide a little help and inspiration to new/future collectors, and it also feels good to be able to look at my collection without taking all of them out of the boxes all the time

@ Baltimore; I think Britains have a special place in many of our hearts, But I can somehow understand why many of todays brand are unwilling to work like them, when it comes to scale. It would mean that some animals would have to be extremly big, and other so smal that no children could play with them. But I guess if they put a little effort to it, they could figure it out, but I dont think that scale is the thing they care about most, unfortunetly.

@Susanne; Ye, I was ready to give up a coupple of times. Especially with the Made in Hong kong.
Everybody that has owned some of those know how hard it can be to get some of them to stand, especially the giraffes. And when one falls, everybody falls

Here is the pics you wanted Christophe

Safari IC golden lion tamarin
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A good figurine, althou a little big and you can se that the head is glued on.
But I can recomend it :)

Made in china komodo dragon
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A regular made in china, hollow. And the coloring of the eyes are not the best.

Three made in china lizards
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The charmeleon is realy nice. the one in the front looks good, but is completly hollow underneath

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The one to the left is made of soft, jelly-like material.
The one in the front is pretty dirty, but I dont want to clean it, because the dirt makes it look more alive It´s marked with XX

A big K&M octopus.
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Soft, rubberlike material.

K&M
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I love the littel monkeys hugging

PV warthog, maned wolf and fox
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PV Mudpuppy
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One of my favorite pv. I think it´s extremly cool, and an unusual species

Befor someone else ask me for closeup, I want you to take a look at this pic;
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See the three wardrobes in the back? They are also filled with boxes
Some of them that is on the top is easy for me to get out, but if you ask for a pic of an animal that is in a box far back, it´s just to much work for me to find it

Arrakai wrote:

@Roger; Hmm, I dont think I have more than Torben. And even if I do, I only have more in numbers, not in quality
It´s not only good to have many animals, they take up a lot of space and demand a lot of work But I love all of them
It feels great if I can provide a little help and inspiration to new/future collectors, and it also feels good to be able to look at my collection without taking all of them out of the boxes all the time

You are right! it takes a lot of space, I have a small 200 figures collection and I think it is to much! Anyway numbers are not important for me, I have 3 male adult elephants f. e. and I think I only need one! But is not easy to collect and select! :)

...Can I help you Christophe? The first you interesting lizard is - "desert short-horned lizard" (model #2) and second is "zebra-taled lizard" (model #3). The brand marked as '"XX". What it,s this brand? I don,t know. But I have some lizards and frogs by "XX". :)

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I went back to look at your collection this morning, the pictures are so full of great stuff, it is not possible to take it all in at first sight, - or second or...

Those velour-figueres, - WONDERFUL !!!!! I am a liiiiitle bit

In the first picture, - not all made in Hong Kong, I see some fine Reislers and VEB-Plahos. So there are also figueres Made in Denmark and Made in the DDR

And this is surely not the last time I will go back to your pictures, amazing pictures of an amazing collection