Papo 2012 ? PAPO 2012 !!!!!

Thanks Harriet, what interest to me is here, but not yet excited with the news! At a first looking I find the reindeer really poor.
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I like the baby mammoth's,,very nice

Oryx, mouflon, babycroc and caribou... Maybe, only maybe

My last hope is the PAPO tradition of bad pics... But it's a tiny hope

Ok, more money this year for COLLECTA and MOJO I guess

And it's time to hunt some old good LINEOL

I think I also want the oryx, it looks a toyish representation of Harriet's but brands have other limitations! :)
Looks better than the retired Schleich! I can't see the dark patches in the mouflon, as happens with the Bullyland but it is not a bighorn, I'm sure as I am with the Bully! I can't fit the reindeer with any of the subspecies! It looks cervides is a hard task for these brands! No new fox as I was expecting!
No spots in the doe, that's a good point. We should recognise when a brand corrects a mistake!

Roger wrote:

I think I also want the oryx, it looks a toyish representation of Harriet's but brands have other limitations! :)
Looks better than the retired Schleich! I can't see the dark patches in the mouflon, as happens with the Bullyland but it is not a bighorn, I'm sure as I am with the Bully! I can't fit the reindeer with any of the subspecies! It looks cervides is a hard task for these brands! No new fox as I was expecting!
No spots in the doe, that's a good point. We should recognise when a brand corrects a mistake!

Mouflon have at least 6 different color patterns and only a few are patterned well. My favorite is the Marco Polo sheep, it has the white saddle. The horns are wrong as well, at least if it is supposed to be a full grown ram, they need to spiral more completely.

Philter4 wrote:

Roger wrote:

I think I also want the oryx, it looks a toyish representation of Harriet's but brands have other limitations! :)
Looks better than the retired Schleich! I can't see the dark patches in the mouflon, as happens with the Bullyland but it is not a bighorn, I'm sure as I am with the Bully! I can't fit the reindeer with any of the subspecies! It looks cervides is a hard task for these brands! No new fox as I was expecting!
No spots in the doe, that's a good point. We should recognise when a brand corrects a mistake!

Mouflon have at least 6 different color patterns and only a few are patterned well. My favorite is the Marco Polo sheep, it has the white saddle. The horns are wrong as well, at least if it is supposed to be a full grown ram, they need to spiral more completely.

I agree, I'm not sure I can see correctly the shape of the horns but it looks more like a Dall's sheep! Maybe they will make a white version to save some money!

After seeing the pics, I think the caribou, mouflon, oryx are very nice figures (I like the young croc, just wonder how big? Young lion white re-paint's blah!), however, as most know..., just not into "hoof stock" (antelopes, sheep, deer although love zebras and giraffes!), nothing against them, but they just don't "turn me on" like a big cat, pachyderms(elephants, rhino, hippos), great apes/monkeys, bears, and crocodilians/Komodo dragons. Just the way it is for me. I'll never understand the "love affair" of antelopes,sheep, & deer. I know and respect that it's to each his/her own. So far from what I've seen, pretty disappointed with Papo 2012!

:) :)

Very good link,thanks.

I like reendeer and dinos .

Woooooow! I am very excited for that reindeer and baby crocs. Then I kept scrolling down and saw the black pegasus and many other animals that I just can't live without. Thanks for sharing this!

Thanks for posting the link! Extremely disappointed! That's all I can say(I thought there would be more than what I saw on the other thread). White repaints of the crocs and the lion, how uninventive!
As said before the oryx, mouflon, and caribou aren't bad, but not my favorite animals!

Is that a quagga?

pawprintzinsnow wrote:

Woooooow! I am very excited for that reindeer and baby crocs. Then I kept scrolling down and saw the black pegasus and many other animals that I just can't live without. Thanks for sharing this!

ze_neto wrote:

Is that a quagga?

pawprintzinsnow wrote:

Woooooow! I am very excited for that reindeer and baby crocs. Then I kept scrolling down and saw the black pegasus and many other animals that I just can't live without. Thanks for sharing this!

That is what I was thinking myself. If so I think they could have done a little bit more work on it.

It's not a quagga, it's a zebroid, or zorse, a hybrid of zebra and domestic horse. (I understand a tiny bit of Russian )

As a horse collector I find it interesting but I won't buy it, too cartoonish for me

Instead of a female wild boar, why couldn't they have made some other wild pig, such as a red river hog, babirusa or a warthog? I'm really dumbfounded by their lack of creativity!

Thanks, Magda. I think I'll buy it anyway and I'll call it a quagga. But what a pity they did not make a real one!

Mangalarga wrote:

It's not a quagga, it's a zebroid, or zorse, a hybrid of zebra and domestic horse. (I understand a tiny bit of Russian )

As a horse collector I find it interesting but I won't buy it, too cartoonish for me

I hope that isn't really a seam line where the antlers of the Reindeer come together with the head

Thank you for the link. :)

I like the Crox and the Dinos only. And a very few wildlife this year for Papo.

It's not an impressive year for the Papo after all.

It's confirmed, the year 2012 is belongs to the CollectA and the Mojo Fun.

Just think, I waited a whole year for these... : (
Not that they aren't nice, it's just the selection of species!

baltimore zoo wrote:

Just think, I waited a whole year for these... : (
Not that they aren't nice, it's just the selection of species!

I do agree with this and they not only focus on animals & many others area to cover too! Unlike Collecta & Mojofun is completely on animal.

I am realizing that. I do like the Mojo white rhino and I'll have to see the CollectA striped hyena and red river hog final product, however, I just prefer the Papo artistic style. I am really really really disappointed with this years Papo selection. Making alternate versions of the white lion and crocs is sooo lame!
I am also realizing that I'm on a totally different end of the spectrum with species selection than they are.
I am also realizing I probably will never get the Papo animals I want! Not trying to sound selfish, but as stated before, their(Papo) strengths are big cats, reptiles and apes(So I would love to see an Orang on all fours(Similar to Safari's WW, just smaller), silverback gorilla, bonobos, lying lion, lioness, tiger, & jag, Indian rhino, descent size elephants, striped hyenas, warthog, Baird's tapir, Grevy's zebra and a gharial!). If they made these, you wouldn't have to hear me complain!
What I really wonder is who consults for these companies?

Thank you !!!

I'm quite disapointed this year for Papo, The baby croc and oryx are the only things I like. VERY DISSAPOINTED.

Maybe the Caribou is too skinny, the antlers look a bit fossil like and the paint work hasn't had much thought put into it. I much prefer the Bullyland and Lineol one
I agree with Christophe, at least we can focus on collecting all the wonderful figurines released from Mojo and CollectA