Schleich's Vintage mini rubber animals

They were maybe my first collection of animal models, when I was a kid in West Germany in the 1980's. 

They were produced by Schleich and I remember they were sold in cardboard boxes.
Very often,  after school, my mom stopped at the department store and bought us a few of them. I owned about 100 of these little animals, and I still have some today. 

Who used to play with them ?

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Nice collection. I have also a few

I also have a number of these models and remember getting them in Vienna when I was on holidays in 1990s.

I only know them from the forum. I don't remember seeing them during my youth but, living in the province I doubt we could find Schleich at the time.

Yup played with these when i was kid. Had some wooden blocks as my grand father was a carpenter. So i used that to build the zoo out of it :) They been in my collections since the 80's
They were not only sold :) In Denmark (here) we got the chance to pick one when we were at the dentist ^^ Think i was 6 or 7 years of age then... God dang im getting old rofl

I was born in 1965, and I always received the little Schleich animals as gifts from my pediatrician.

Even back then, I collected all the small dog figures, and until a few years ago, I didn't even know they were made by Schleich!

I was born in 1964, one year before this series dawn. I never saw one in my youth and discovered them on STS.

Kikimalou wrote:

I was born in 1964, one year before this series dawn. I never saw one in my youth and discovered them on STS.

I don't remember they were ever sold in France. Only in W. Germany and a few other countries, maybe.

I think so