Show us yours - Moose and Reindeer

WONDERFUL walkaround, Christophe

SUSANNE wrote:

Andreas, Arrrh, yes ! Isn`t that the Plaho moose you have ?

skysthelimit wrote:

Susanne, when you find extra time - could you please take a few pictures of the 3 mooses - big Bullyland, CollectA and Papo from several angles?

I hope these will do ?
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Yes, i have this VEB Plaho animals since my childhood.

What is the name of your dancing moose ensemle?

Yes, what is it called

The Mooscular Moosical Moosies perhaps
Does anybody have a better idea ?

Fantastic collection Martin , wonderful herd Andreas and lovely animals Krista Thank You all for showing very nice photos
I think Bullyland moose is a great one, and I love the walk around photos Thank You Kiki! This figure is surely on my wish list

I also have some moose and reindeer, not many and not new for this topic though. However I think they are very cute and it's nothing wrong to show the same models again here :)

So, older schleich and CollectA moose bulls :)
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New schleich moose family:
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And my 2 reindeer Schleich and Bullyland
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Still not enough to pull Santa's sleigh... they would better stay with me
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They are wonderful, Ana

You are so right, - it is great to see everyone`s pictures even if some models are the same.
Like here, - your photoes show them in another way, and other comparisons
Your photoes are beautyful, thankyou for sharing

Wonderful collections ! I love deers. I wish I had the Schleich reindeer. Maybe one day !!

SUSANNE wrote:

Yes, what is it called

The Mooscular Moosical Moosies perhaps
Does anybody have a better idea ?

I like it. And short the MMMs

I thought this SUY was dedicated to all Capreolinae subfamily but it is dedicated to 2 beautiful species, the moose and reindeer.
First my only 2 reindeers, both from modern brands, the Bullyland caribou and Safari. Reindeers are not only known as caribous in USA but sometimes also it is used as a way to identify the group of North American subspecies from European.
The 2 representative of my collection are clearly different. While Bullyland represents the typical caribou with traditional colouring and and huge flatened antlers. Safari shows a little almost white figure with deer like smaller antlers.
I think it is also an American subspecies, more precisely the whitish Northern known as Peari caribou,
See here a picture
The dark back and head are characteristics of this population, they are relatively small and with less complex antlers. The only difference I see with the figure is that it has the legs much darker that those I can find searching in the Internet.
If someone has a better idea I'd loved to see!
I don't have an European (usually domesticated) reindeer, Kristie is showing in this topic the Bullyland one that represents a reindeer that will be never called a caribou.
This topic is also nice to help me finding a 54mm reindeer for my collection.
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Bullyland and Safari caribous

Later I'll show my 2 mooses and congrats to all of your beautiful figures!

Bullyland Moose just added on my list!!

Thankyou, Roger , for the good explanation of the different reindeer
The first time I saw a live reindeer I was very surprised how small, they are.
We maynly see pictures of the almost-tame ones from Finland , and they looked much larger, - perhaps the Sames arent tall people ?

Roger wrote:

I thought this SUY was dedicated to all Capreolinae subfamily but it is dedicated to 2 beautiful species, the moose and reindeer.

You are right, first I suggested just "deer". But as you said, that is much too wide a subject
So I canged it to Capreolinae, - but as the roe deer ( And White-tailed deer) are also in that group I found it a little strange way to divide them.

We have here in Denmark 3 kinds of deer : Red deer (we call them Crown-deer), fallow deer and roe deer, so to me they belong together

The moose and the reindeer belong together in my amateur mind

But you are right, it is good to learn that the deer are divided in two groups, even if it is the structure of the ankle and not the looks that determine them

These are obviously favourites with a lot of us, it's nice to see so many beautiful models!

Here are some old ones. During their long lives, some of these old composition animals have lost their metal antlers and replacements have been made by loving owners (and loving owners' parents).

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Two different Elastolin composition Moose bodies. The one on the right lost its antlers and someone has filled in the antler-socket to make a "female".

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The old Elastolin Moose on the left has replacement antlers cut from a tin can; the sharp edges have been carefully rounded off with putty. The Moose on the right was made by Lineol in the 1950's. It is wearing replacement antlers from a Britains plastic Moose (!)

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1:32 scale. Two metal Moose by Charbens in different colours, and a plastic Moose by Britains.

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Papo bull Moose with the Schleich Moose family.

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Elastolin composition Reindeer. The Reindeer on the right was a childhood toy of Lesley's father back in the 1920's. It has been repaired and repainted many times.

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Tipple-Topple composition Reindeer: 1930's on the left, 1950's on the right.

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On the left, 1930's Tipple-Topple Reindeer; on the right, a Lineol composition Reindeer from the 1950's.

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Plastics by AAA and Safari.

Sue & Lesley
castlerigg

Elastolin Moose is nice and thanks for sharing Sue & Lesley!!

Ohhh, so many lovely models

And the one from Lesley`s father, - almost 100 years old !!!!

Do you know how old the AAA-one is ?

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Sorry, Susanne, we don't know the date of the AAA Reindeer. We bought him on eBay last year because he is in scale with our 1/12th scale horses and we could use him in scenes like the one above.

You will have to ask one of the AAA experts on this forum!

Sue & Lesley
castlerigg

So many old reindeers and mooses!! Phantastic!!

What a beautyful, lovely schenery, Sue and Lesley
The tame and the wild animals meeting in the snowy wood
FABULOUS

Now I will have too keep my eyes open for an AAA-reindeer
That is one of the funny things about collecting AAAs . - there are so many, that most collectors never heard about

Wow, what a wonderful collection of moose and reindeer figures! So fantastic And that snowy scene is beautiful
Thank You for showing to us these photos of great animal figures! Thank You Sue and Lesley

Very interesting old antlered friends!
I love to see your pictures of them and mainly to read their stories and peculiarities like the Britains antlers in a Lineol figure. That's funny once they are in different scales!
Thanks for showing Sue and Lesley!

Glad you like the snowy scene! The background's a cheap, unframed print form the local art shop and the animals are standing on a fluffy white towel (with its surface smoothed over a bit in Paint Shop Pro).

Sue & Lesley
castlerigg

Roger wrote:

I love to see your pictures of them and mainly to read their stories and peculiarities like the Britains antlers in a Lineol figure. That's funny once they are in different scales!

Yes, this is so interesting! All these stories And the one with handmade antlers is so fantastic too, someone had to put so much work to restore this moose and the effect looks great And the reindeer which was repainted many times, these figures are special

Ana, I love your pics, I love the light and the green

Sue, Lesley, I love watching your incredible collection. Thank you very much for sharing your treasure

My two cents

Sue and Lesley, those Elastolin are wonderful!! Thank you for sharing!

Christophe, great collection!

May I ask what brand the reindeer on the far right is?