Brand Identification topic

Animal_Figures_4U wrote:

Topps is a brand, I believe some were sold in prize backs, and I have a basset hound that I think was made for the "Puppy in my Pocket." :DMost of them look like Hong Kong Britians copies.

Thanks for information!  

You're welcome! Sorry I couldn't be of much help.

Is there is no money in that old china/hong kong stuff ?  
I Found them just ... ugly (sorry for the one who love them)
Maybe a little repaint/sculpt project   
Ore someone want to have them like they are know because then that someone kan have them!!

Yes they're ugly, most of them...    But sometimes you noticed one who looks nice so you buy the whole pack with the uglies  

Dum_my wrote:

Is there is no money in that old china/hong kong stuff ?  
I Found them just ... ugly (sorry for the one who love them)
Maybe a little repaint/sculpt project   
Ore someone want to have them like they are know because then that someone kan have them!!

China/Hong Kong stuff has generally been regarded as junk by the worldwide collecting community until very recently, but they are just beginning to become collectable and (some of them) valued. It will probably take a few more years for a wide spectrum of China/Hong Kong items to be valued, but so far a few are, such as the Transogram, a company with HQ in new York City USA but all production in HK, copies of Britains Knights of the Wars of the Roses and the 'Shell Liberty' American War of Independence copies of Britains + extra figures. Some original figures by 'Blue Box, who produced in HK & Singapore are now valued as well.

Probably the best source of info about HK items can be found in STS member Hugh's (a.k.a. 'smallscaleworld') site. Look in the links section for a link - the uber geek plastic expert. Warning - it will take several hours to look though his site properly, but all fascinating stuff, if you like that sort of thing.     

Tanks DaveScriv,
If i have got some time, i will go look for them ...
If i don't find them tere are going to be nice litlle projects ^^

I have these tiny dinosaurs for a very long time. Most of them came in the little purple box, which my mother bought for me when she was in London, like, 10 years ago xD


Can someone tell me what these are?

They're cute!

Animal_Figures_4U wrote:

They're cute!

Haha just my words   

Aww, those tiny dinos are adorable.

Animal_Figures_4U wrote:

Topps is a brand, I believe some were sold in prize backs, and I have a basset hound that I think was made for the "Puppy in my Pocket." :D

The hippo is from Topps series called Baby Wild Animals.
The TOPPS dog series is called Precious Puppies. (Puppy in my Pocket series is by MEG).

Both of the TOPPS series were sold as blind bags. Each series has 24 figures. There's also a similar series called Precious Kitties.

:)

Arrrw ! Those dinos are the cutest ever    

Yes they totally are! :drunken:But I still don't know which brand they are! 

I have another question. I'm pretty confused at the moment xD I have this beautiful old dinosaurs and their bellies say they're from Safari LTD. But when I search on the internet (and it's in my Gascher's Schleich-S Guide as well), it says they're Schleich's (Carnegie Collection). I see the same with the Vanishing Wild series. Sometimes I see them as Safari LTD, sometimes as Schleich-S. Can someone help me out?  Here are the photographs of my Safari LTD/Schleich-S dinosaurs:

Wasn't it so, that they were made by safari but sell by Schleich?   

Yes, both series were produced by Safari and sold by Schleich and Safari.

Bonobo wrote:

Wasn't it so, that they were made by safari but sell by Schleich?  

Roger wrote:

Yes, both series were produced by Safari and sold by Schleich and Safari.

That's very confusing  But thanks anyway!

It is the same thing with vanishing wild

The same with AAA models.
Several of the old sea animlas in Gascher's were made by AAA and are marked AAA, - but they were sold by both Bullyland and Schleich...and probably a dozen others

SUSANNE wrote:

The same with AAA models.
Several of the old sea animlas in Gascher's were made by AAA and are marked AAA,  - but they were sold by both Bullyland and Schleich...and probably a dozen others

interesting, thanks for the informations, Susanne  

Tarunyada wrote:

Bonobo wrote:

Wasn't it so, that they were made by safari but sell by Schleich?  

Roger wrote:

Yes, both series were produced by Safari and sold by Schleich and Safari.

That's very confusing  But thanks anyway!

It's often called "cross-licensing" and many figurine makers have done this.  Maia y Borges made a subline of marine life that Schleich
sold in the mid-nineties (as with AAA and Safari, Ltd. with Schleich).  In this same period, AAA cross-licensed sublines of birds and wild animals were sold by Bullyland.

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schleich61 wrote:

Tarunyada wrote:

That's very confusing  But thanks anyway!

It's often called "cross-licensing" and many figurine makers have done this.  Maia y Borges made a subline of marine life that Schleich
sold in the mid-nineties (as with AAA and Safari, Ltd. with Schleich).  In this same period, AAA cross-licensed sublines of birds and wild animals were sold by Bullyland.

That's very interesting! Thanks for the information!

Tarunyada wrote:

schleich61 wrote:

Tarunyada wrote:

That's very confusing  But thanks anyway!

It's often called "cross-licensing" and many figurine makers have done this.  Maia y Borges made a subline of marine life that Schleich
sold in the mid-nineties (as with AAA and Safari, Ltd. with Schleich).  In this same period, AAA cross-licensed sublines of birds and wild animals were sold by Bullyland.

That's very interesting! Thanks for the information!

It can be just as confusing, if not more so, with vintage (made 50+ years ago) stuff, as there were lots of blatant copies made, and companies bought and sold moulds from each other, and there were some figures of which numerous moulds existed (so same figure made by several companies at the same time) and there were packaging/wholesale companies who bought (usually unpainted) figures from various manufacturers and made up their own boxed sets (so sometimes old boxed sets found with figures from 2 or 3 companies together) plus all the people involved died decades ago, so no one left alive to tell present day collectors what was going on.  

Thanks Dave, that's very interesting! It's a pity no one's left to tell us what was going on back then

I have some other animals from which I have <i>no</i> ideas where they came from. I still don't know anything about my cute little dinosaurs and I have some others as well. Can someone help me out?


Please let me know if you know anything about one of these animals!

Love the little giraffe! I wonder if Martin has that one?

Animal_Figures_4U wrote:

Love the little giraffe! :DI wonder if Martin has that one?

Yes I love him as well! Especially the tongue that's sticking out I've never had the pleasure to meet Martin here on the forum, as far as I remember  But this giraffe really looks like it came out a surprise egg, because you had to put it together (you can see that at the neck) and it's pretty small, so it could fit in a surprise egg. But I couldn't find any information about him anywhere  

Tarunyada wrote:

Animal_Figures_4U wrote:

Love the little giraffe! :DI wonder if Martin has that one?

Yes I love him as well! Especially the tongue that's sticking out :DI've never had the pleasure to meet Martin here on the forum, as far as I remember  But this giraffe really looks like it came out a surprise egg, because you had to put it together (you can see that at the neck) and it's pretty small, so it could fit in a surprise egg. But I couldn't find any information about him anywhere  

Aww I noticed that when you said it! So cute!   Im in loove    give us an extra pic from the front, please