Martin's Papo newcommers

Admin wrote:

The beginning of my collecion was Schleich and i´m a german collector, therefor schleichtiersammler. In the last years the collection grows to one of the biggest i know. A lot of other producers came to it.
I think the best name for the site would be:
www.Schleich-Papo-Safari-Bullyland-AAA-Chapmei-Collecta-Colorata-ELC-Furuta-Kabaya-NewRay-andmanyothers-internationalanimalcollector.de
No, there are hundreds of collectors worldwide who know my homepage under the name schleichtiersammler. For me there´s no reason to change the name. I think every collector should be able to know 3 german words:
schleich = Schleich
tier = animal
sammler = collector

I knew you'd answer this way :)
I don't have anything against the current name except one thing: if we want to do, so to say, offical activity someday, we need a more neutral name. The lnik could be left the same, but the heading of the forum might be changed than.

Roger wrote:

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A forum called Schleich choosing a Papo animal as the figurine of the year it will be a big honour to Papo! I think that Schleich will be not very happy when an important forum of Schleich collectors is choosing a Papo animal as the best of 2010!..

By the way, why should it be definitely Papo?
As to me, the best figurine of 2010 is Collecta's Cape buffalo!

Kiryuha wrote:

Roger wrote:

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A forum called Schleich choosing a Papo animal as the figurine of the year it will be a big honour to Papo! I think that Schleich will be not very happy when an important forum of Schleich collectors is choosing a Papo animal as the best of 2010!..

By the way, why should it be definitely Papo?
As to me, the best figurine of 2010 is Collecta's Cape buffalo!

I agree with you about Bufallo! And it's very nice to see someone choosing a figurine from a very new brand! But CollectA is still very unknown from collectors and I think that the papo tigress will win.

Hi all,

how i said Schleich was my first animals, but i´m not married with Schleich. Papo and Safari made excellent figures too, i love them. I believe that Papo could win the title with the animal of the year.

But the name schleichtiersammler will not be changed.

Torben

I agree with all you said Roger. When I said "No OK" I mean "No, I guess I was wrong about schleich being the main brand, Ok Roger you're right".
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Now ok, Harriet!

Giving Papo figure of the year is fine!Because comparing Papo to Schleich, for the most part Papo figures are more refined(less bulkier looking) and have a more realistic look to them(especially their big cats, even look at the Papo Kudu, very artistic as well as detailed).

Admin wrote:

Hi all,

how i said Schleich was my first animals, but i´m not married with Schleich. Papo and Safari made excellent figures too, i love them. I believe that Papo could win the title with the animal of the year.

But the name schleichtiersammler will not be changed.

Torben

... I think:

1. It,s not need to change name forum, besides it,s not correct to Torben too. It,s his site and his right to do this way.
2. It,s not correct to knock brands heads together. So Papo has the best big cats, but for example zebras and geraffes are low any criticism. The same animals of Schleich 2010 season (zebras, geraffes) are the best of all without question. Collecta has the nice birds (at first the best swan) and etc.
3. The better model of year need to choose in the model lines of EACH brand because EACH brand has nice figurine in different nominations!
4. By the way - may be to make some nominations (cats, birds, hoofed animals, reptiles and etc.)?

Good night!

Sergey said :

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1. It,s no need to change name forum, besides it,s no correct to Torben too. It,s his site and his right to do this way.
2. It,s no correct to knock brands heads together. So Papo has the best big cats, but for example zebras and geraffes are low any criticism. The same animals of Schleich 2010 season (zebras, geraffes) are the best of all without question. Collecta has the nice birds (at first the best swan) and etc.
3. The better model of year need to choose in the model lines of EACH brand because EACH brand has nice figurine in different nominations!
4. By the way - may be to make some nominations (cats, birds, hoofed animals, reptiles and etc.)?

I agree with Sergey ~ not that I am taking sides ~ :)

If we were to do a survey or vote on the best brands/company - they should be each figure....best giraffe, best tiger, best buffalo, best swan...individually. It is the fair way. Being considered "the best" doesn't mean much if a company only makes 15 figures a year (just making up a number) in comparison to another company that comes out with 100 new figures a year. If only 5 are "the best" of company #1 while the company #2 has 50 that are "the best". Does this make sense? (I apologize if it is confusing to those that English isn't their first language) :) Are we seriously going to take an online survey? Line up the figures...one from each company... it would be fun! ~ Sue

Kiryuha wrote:

Roger wrote:

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A forum called Schleich choosing a Papo animal as the figurine of the year it will be a big honour to Papo! I think that Schleich will be not very happy when an important forum of Schleich collectors is choosing a Papo animal as the best of 2010!..

By the way, why should it be definitely Papo?
As to me, the best figurine of 2010 is Collecta's Cape buffalo!

I think every brand has its "no. 1" figurine... Papo tigress with cub, CollectA cape buffalo, Schleich eating zebra (for me), Safari Ltd. tapir and Bullyland... well... I don´t like Bullyland so... everyone wins

Using numbers as Sergey:
1. I never said to Torben change the name of this forum...
2. I prefer only one figurine to be choosenand that idea was not mine but I agree.
3. That idea is very nice to Torben forum, some other sites of figurines are present in development of figurines and why not this one that is the best of all, Torben?
4. I love Schleich but we have to recognise that other brandsare doing a very nice job, and Wild life of Papo has an average quality superior to Schleich and CollectA is growing.
5. Is the perfect time to do a tread about 2010 figurine because the end of the year will be very buzzy!
6. The best 2010 insect is a CollectA one (it was the only one!)
So is acceptable some cathegories: wild life, forest, horses, dogs and cats and dinos...

Roger wrote:

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4. ...Wild life of Papo has an average quality superior to Schleich and CollectA is growing...

Disagree! Papo may have a couple of figures of superior quality, but the highest average quality is and has ever been at the Schleich side.

Initially When I suggested most popular of new animal for 2010 and just wanted to find out which animal stand out among the 2010 releases.

My thoughts that came across my mind
Wild life
Farm life
Forest life
Sea life
insect
Dinosaur

Regardless of brand or any company produces more or less & just made it simple.

Schleichtiersammler.forumieren should remain and not to be changed and further more we are not running a business or doing "Branding strategics" for the future. Let keep it simple!

In a Safari site that I don't remember the name... perhaps Safaritieresambler or so... I said that Schleich was the most popular among collectors and children. Almost everybody in that site was desagreeing...
I have no doubt about it... Schleich is the most popular. And the reason because I love this site it's because it is simple... so don't forget, brands will ever make toys because children love toys, some collectors love toys, I love toys too!
And for brands Toys R Us!!! :)

Roger wrote:

In a Safari site that I don't remember the name... perhaps Safaritieresambler or so... I said that Schleich was the most popular among collectors and children. Almost everybody in that site was desagreeing...
I have no doubt about it... Schleich is the most popular. And the reason because I love this site it's because it is simple... so don't forget, brands will ever make toys because children love toys, some collectors love toys, I love toys too!
And for brands Toys R Us!!! :)

safaritieresammler ................... what a crackbrained name. tstststststststs

ken yeo wrote:

Initially When I suggested most popular of new animal for 2010 and just wanted to find out which animal stand out among the 2010 releases.

My thoughts that came across my mind
Wild life
Farm life
Forest life
Sea life
insect
Dinosaur

Regardless of brand or any company produces more or less & just made it simple.

Schleichtiersammler.forumieren should remain and not to be changed and further more we are not running a business or doing "Branding strategics" for the future. Let keep it simple!

...Ok, very nice! ...But may be one more nomination - "birds". Are you agree that "a tiger" is not the same " a swan" or "an owl"?...

Congrats on those two great additions Martin, i love the tigress!

Of course we can't and shouldn't change the name of this forum, as it is Torbens forum, and he is know as "The Schleichtiersammler" everywere!
I don't think that everyone is collecting Schleich in the first place, but most of us have a lot of them anyway...

I think, when we decide here, to make the Papo tigres with young the best figurine for 2010, that wouldn't be bad, not even on this forum, as we should wake up some of the manufacturers to make better models in some cases!

Set the alarm clocks for the other manufacturers!
Wake up call is this...Papo Tigress for 2010' best figure!
Safari ltd Wildlife Wonders is an awesome figure too, have to say
the runner up figure!

Kiryuha wrote:

Disagree! Papo may have a couple of figures of superior quality, but the highest average quality is and has ever been at the Schleich side.

Absolutely disagree... As you may know

Schleich's figures need better paint jobs as well as more attention to detail with sculpting(too bulky need to be more refined looking).

Schleich has some nice figurines, but are not my favourite too, i have to agree with my friend Christophe.
I do have my favourites in several brnads, small or big!

2010 orangutan


2010 tapir


retired bison


with kangaroo baby by Schleich

Beautyful ! Thanks for the pictures.
Papo makes some really neat stuff

And this Tapir does not have white feet like the Schleich one

Great figurines!!!
I'm very happy with Papo choices, it is some hard to find but 'til now, I'm very happy!!!
I think that my future orangutan will be this Papo. What do you think about it, Martin?
My bison will be a CollectA and the tapir I still don't know...

Thanks for the pictures,Martin! I need orang too! (I have tapir already... I don,t like Papo,s old model bizon, but I,ll buy new model, it,s very realistic... And I,ll buy Schleich,s kangaroo baby too of course...)

Congratulations Martin, lovely additions!!