Schleich retired 2012 – what will they discontinue?

Sartje wrote:

I have to get the dragons fast

Those Bayala dragons are very beautifull!

Thanks for the site Robert

This is no fair I'm saving up my money for the dragons next year but I guess I'll have to buy sooner or not at all

I think retiring the elephants will be a good thing, haven't they been around for a while.

Strange enough, but this year there are only few figures I need to buy before they're retired to have doubles (giraffe, gnu calf & young lion). Recent years there were 6-7 items each year...
By the way, I still see in my local shops retired wild boars, roes, okapis.

ken yeo wrote:

Kiryuha wrote:

I think the proportion is better in the richest Western countries, i.e. in USA there should be more than 312 serious collectors, and in Germany - definitely more than 81 collector.
But in developing countries, like Ukraine, there could be about 1 or even less collectors out of 1,000,000 people. For instance, I haven't still found another serious collector in my home country...

Same here! I never seen another Singaporean beside me in this forum.

Well, that's not too surprising - if we take Susanne's formula, then in Singapore should be not more than 5 serious collectors But what about the 48-million Ukraine? Am I alone here??
We can expand this discussion even further :) I have never met a single collector from, say, 73-million Turkey. Or 11-million Greece. 127-million Japan... 237-mln Indonesia...

What about Africa , I have never met a collector from there. I would certainly like to though.

smithyboy wrote:

What about Africa , I have never met a collector from there. I would certainly like to though.

Well, speaking of Africa - it's not surprising due to lower incomes there. And moreover - they have lots of living animals, so why collect figures? :)

That's very true.

on MPV in the antique shop! Look at that! Eventing, dressage, western and rodeo sets going to retire?! This is weird!
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Yes, they are retiring all equestrian sets. I'm just curious why they retire sets which are available since this September One thing's sure - these will be very expensive in the future.

Mangalarga wrote:

Yes, they are retiring all equestrian sets. I'm just curious why they retire sets which are available since this September One thing's sure - these will be very expensive in the future.

Because children can't pay them. They are to expensive. That's why shops doesn't get rid of them.

JackyLovertjex wrote:

Mangalarga wrote:

Yes, they are retiring all equestrian sets. I'm just curious why they retire sets which are available since this September One thing's sure - these will be very expensive in the future.

Because children can't pay them. They are to expensive. That's why shops doesn't get rid of them.

Makes sense. Those sets are a lot more expensive than single animals, and parents don't always have the money...