CollectA 2012 Photos: Giraffe & Calf

Lovely Giraffe calf!! The pattern is very good and I think it fits perfectly to the adult Giraffe.Can't wait to get one!!
Thanks Numaan.

Roger wrote:

Good work in the giraffe, So next year we will have new zebras!

Yes, please! I'd love to see some zebras of this quality

oh i like this calf very much... pose could be different but it´s much better than retired one :) I will def. buy it :)

Lovely!

Very cute calf!

Nice calf!!! Another one to buy!!!

The calf is disappointing for me...
The pattern is good, the shape of the head ok.
But the overall model is to chubby, and not sleek enough, as a giraffecalf is high on its legs from birth to, and the neck is almost the same in proportions as on an adult.
So in this model, the legs are to short, and the neck to, besides from the body which is to chubby...
A 6 out of 10 for me.

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very ordinary calf.giraffe has elegance like deers .each pose like running,neck bending,drinking,lying should be captured in the figure.the schleich,safari giraffes had done it and raised its standard and our expectation.eg the vanishing wildlife giraffe calf this calf is standing still.while making giraffe in the future others should concentrate both pose and coat patterns.but alteast i can concentrate on other 2012 items

I have to agree with Willy, the calf isn't the best compared to the dult and other new releases this year, sorry!

The thing with giraffe calfs is... calf are really flexible and they are in silly movements and Schleich (really bad one), Papo, Bullyland and now Collecta have standing calf and it´s boring. I was expecting some movement... But i like it still :)

So after all, a lying giraffe calf would have been a good choice!
But with a longer and slimmer neck, which resambles some flexibility.

Some of you have commented on the size of the adult giraffe in relation to the Schleich version. Here are two photos. I havent the exact measurement but you can see that the CollectA model is bigger than the Schleich version. This photo is of the prototype adult giraffe not the main plastic version which is the first picture I originally posted in this thread:

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Wow I love the paintwork and it's a nice size - I wish I could have the prototype
The paintwork doesn't look as good on the catalogue photo of the Adult Giraffe, in these photos it looks so much more realistic.

Oh so nice Collecta Giraffe! Lucky Martin!

Good size, although 1 more inch would be even better

Wow! I love the new giraffes!

HKHollinstone wrote:

Wow I love the paintwork and it's a nice size - I wish I could have the prototype
The paintwork doesn't look as good on the catalogue photo of the Adult Giraffe, in these photos it looks so much more realistic.

That's just it. Prototypes produced by any company are always the best version due to the material used and the attention to detail. Any model that is then mass produced in a factory almost inevitably lose some of this and there is nothing we can do about it.

In other ways models by Harriet or Ana can be seen as prototypes as each one is hand made and individually painted so that is the closes any of us can get other than specially commissioned works. I am glad you like the giraffe - we definitely need a bigger one that what we have on the market today.

Thanks for showing Numaan, I think it is exactly the same size of the previous CollectA giraffe! :)

The giraffe is beautiful and nice size, but as far as I know, the prototype is always around 8% bigger than the final PVC product So she may loose 1cm or more But still-I like this giraffe very much

WHAT MORE CAN I SAY THAN... I LOOOOVE HER!!!

Sergey wrote:

Oh so nice Collecta Giraffe! Lucky Martin!

you are damn right my friend!!! This giraffe is amazing!!! I can say now... this one is the best one!

ana wrote:

The giraffe is beautiful and nice size, but as far as I know, the prototype is always around 8% bigger than the final PVC product So she may loose 1cm or more But still-I like this giraffe very much

whay doest it happen? does it means that after the prototipe they make another figure copying the first one but smaller?

Abu Rai wrote:

ana wrote:

The giraffe is beautiful and nice size, but as far as I know, the prototype is always around 8% bigger than the final PVC product So she may loose 1cm or more But still-I like this giraffe very much

whay doest it happen? does it means that after the prototipe they make another figure copying the first one but smaller?

Noooo!!! They can´t do it!!! They have to make her in this size!!!
Nuuman please, tell them!!!

I think it is 8% of the general mass so it will be only some milimetters! That's what I think! But people always wants figure in scale with Schleich, so what's the problem?

Abu Rai wrote:

ana wrote:

The giraffe is beautiful and nice size, but as far as I know, the prototype is always around 8% bigger than the final PVC product So she may loose 1cm or more But still-I like this giraffe very much

whay doest it happen? does it means that after the prototipe they make another figure copying the first one but smaller?

No! They don't make new one but PVC shrinks during production process :)