Show us your Fantasy Figures

I have 2 dragons, a Safari one and a no name one.
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Please excuse the messy nightstand!


I do have two elves that were my daughter's, a mother one cradling a baby and one sitting in a water lily. I was planning on eBaying the mother one, but something chewed on the lily one. Maybe I will try and practice repairs on it.

Great dragons, Pips

It looks like the nightstand of a very active and inventive person , - GREAT

Bumping for the March '17 Show Us Yours, so a new one doesn't get started!

I have a couple new-since-last posted pieces I should add, and a few of my daughter's old ones I was trying to sell- I still own them, so they count right?

Safari unicorns- adult and foal
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Schleich fairies with Schleich Faraun dragon
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Safari Thunderchicken (sorry Thunderdragon) with Drake rider
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A weird dragon in a bin at Targets
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A Loch Ness monster I made out of a pumpkin stem, my only self made sculpt
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one of my Windstone dragons
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And a few more...
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And an Enesco figure.
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Thought I had pictures of my Schleich dragons, will have to take some new ones. Found the old ones... more photos in my thread in Collections if you want to see them.
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Do Star Wars fish count as fantasy?
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Nice pictures everyone ! i need to make so many pictures for the show us yours!
Like a hondred i have missed ... i like it so much its like looking at nice collections and
like getting to know poeple true that

But i need to ask ... pipsxlch:
Windstone dragons OMG .. those are so really, really, really cool.
Where can u buy these? Do they came in Orange?!
(form the Netherlands maybe hard?)

Hah, the corrupting begins...

Dum_my, Windstone Editions is an American based/manufactured company. Here's a link to their website: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

They have a pretty active collector's forum; I know there are and have been several European collectors, but by far the majority of their sales and collectors are Americans and Canadians. I don't know if they have any retailers anywhere in Europe at this time; you can contact (or I will for you if you like) their office manager Susie; she is very sweet and great to work with. Actually everyone in the company comes off as really cool. They do sell online worldwide.

They are quite expensive- most are several hundred US dollars, though some smaller ones are less than $100, and a great big one is over $1,000. They are very fragile, heavy and expensive to ship-- they are made out of cast gypsum stone. They are known for fantasy creatures- mostly dragons and griffins- but have/do produce some real animals. They also have a line of various 'virgin' models for you to paint yourself, and these are cheaper.

I don't remember a true orange production paint scheme, but there have been several orangey test paint schemes (they often sell test paints on eBay or in their webstore to gauge interest). You could also get one of the paint-your-own blanks and paint it however you wish.

I've been collecting these since I first saw them- in 1986 with the pay from my first job; that's about when they began selling them too. I love how truly realistic they are (if you can say that about a fantasy animal)- they look like they will blink, stretch and take off as soon as you look away. I've had people walk into my room and jump back because they thought that figure on the table was a real living animal- "IS THAT A REAL LIVE DINOSAUR?!? WTF IS THAT!?!"

For all the time, my collection is very small compared to many's- I haven't been able to add much of anything for a few years now. If you go to the Collector's Forum on the website, you will see some amazing collections. (it's an open view forum)

I can add more photos of mine- I have about 20- but I don't know if that would be wanted here; they are sculptures not toy figures after all.

pipsxlch wrote:

Hah, the corrupting begins...

Dum_my, Windstone Editions is an American based/manufactured company. Here's a link to their website: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

They have a pretty active collector's forum; I know there are and have been several European collectors, but by far the majority of their sales and collectors are Americans and Canadians. I don't know if they have any retailers anywhere in Europe at this time; you can contact (or I will for you if you like) their office manager Susie; she is very sweet and great to work with. Actually everyone in the company comes off as really cool. They do sell online worldwide.

They are quite expensive- most are several hundred US dollars, though some smaller ones are less than $100, and a great big one is over $1,000. They are very fragile, heavy and expensive to ship-- they are made out of cast gypsum stone. They are known for fantasy creatures- mostly dragons and griffins- but have/do produce some real animals. They also have a line of various 'virgin' models for you to paint yourself, and these are cheaper.

I don't remember a true orange production paint scheme, but there have been several orangey test paint schemes (they often sell test paints on eBay or in their webstore to gauge interest). You could also get one of the paint-your-own blanks and paint it however you wish.

I've been collecting these since I first saw them- in 1986 with the pay from my first job; that's about when they began selling them too. I love how truly realistic they are (if you can say that about a fantasy animal)- they look like they will blink, stretch and take off as soon as you look away. I've had people walk into my room and jump back because they thought that figure on the table was a real living animal- "IS THAT A REAL LIVE DINOSAUR?!? WTF IS THAT!?!"

For all the time, my collection is very small compared to many's- I haven't been able to add much of anything for a few years now. If you go to the Collector's Forum on the website, you will see some amazing collections. (it's an open view forum)

I can add more photos of mine- I have about 20- but I don't know if that would be wanted here; they are sculptures not toy figures after all.

Thank you so much!

These are amazing fantasy figures!  You did a wonderful job on the Loch Ness Monster, and I love the Star Wars fish.

I don't have many in my collection at all, but this was one of my very first Schleich figures and is still a personal favorite.

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That pegasus is just SO lovely !!!
I have it also, and it is still my favorite too

Thank you, Barracudacat! I like that pegasus, it looks much better than most of their new horses to me. It has a really nice motion and flow to it. Better proportions than the new pieces too.

Dum-my, if you see this I added some more pictures of my Windstones to my 'other collections and hobbies' thread. Plus a really nice English make of fantasy figures.

These two just HAD to come along last time I got some models

A WHITE phoenix from Papo, and the moon fox from Schleich
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Actually the foxy creature was for Roger...but I think I have to get one more for him

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OK, I will show you a few of what I have. I will start with this old unicorn I bought back in 1986 in a flea market. Someone told me it actually is a Knock-off from a Breyer horse. The second one is from the line "Dragons, Knights and Daggers" by Imperial, released in 1984. This line was meant to be played with "Masters Of The Universe" (Mattel) figures.

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I am continuing with two chinese dragons by Imperial. The first one is marked "1969", while the second one is marked "1978".

WOW !! THREE Imperial models

That unicorn is nice, - only the eyes are painted a bit spooky, aren't they

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Actually, I have more than three! Here are my Imperial Sabre-tooth Serpent (also from Dragons, Knights and Daggers), my Imperial Hydra (1983) and my Imperial European Dragon (1983).

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And here is my 1983 Imperial unicorn. Imperial released, in 1983, three different models of unicorns: a white-and-pink one running, a white-and-blue one rearing and a white-and-yellow one (the one above) trotting.

Nice ones !

Amazing, rare collection

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Amazing, rare collection

Thank you! But, you know, these pièces are not exactly rare. You can find them at relatively low prices on EBay.

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Here are four more that I have. They are mine since 1986. They are from a toyline called "Defenders of the Planets", a line inspired by Masters Of the Universe.

They are wonderful. Strange , great poses, - real dream/fantasy critters

What brand are they ? Does it say what animals they are ?

Papo makes a fantasy figure. It's their 2017 Smilodon

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They are wonderful. Strange , great poses, - real dream/fantasy critters

What brand are they ? Does it say what animals they are ?

They are from the 1980's line "Defenders Of the Planets" by Sparkles toys. Those animals also had large steed counterparts. The only large one I have is the Eagle Steed. I must have its picture somewhere, I will look for it.

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Here is a drawing of a unicorn found in an ancient edition of the Medieval Bestiaries. Doesn't it look delicate and sweet? Puere white, deer hooves, goat beard and a single horn growing on its forehead.
Many people in Europe and North America Believe the legend of unicorns come from deformed reports of rhinoceroses. Why? Because Pliny the Elder called the rhinoceros "unicornis". However, here is how he described his "unicornis":

"It is a large beast, grey in color. It has the body of a horse, the feet of an elephant, the tail of a boar. On the middle of its face, a long, curved, black horn points foreward. It is said that the unicornis is the fiercest animal on earth. It cannot be captured alive and charges all its ennemies with its black horn".

But look at the drawing above: it doesn't look anything like the animal Pliny the Elder described. It is not grey, its horn is not black and its feet are Nothing like an elephant's feet. Plus, looking at the plants drawn around it (strawberries, thistles, daisies), we see small plants drawn in a rather large size, which means the unicorn surrounded by them is not very big. This becomes even more obvious when the animal is drawn with humans:

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Am I the only one who sees the unicorn above is represented no bigger than a big dog?

But in the Medieval Bestiaries, is there a unicorn-like animal drawn Matching the description given by Pliny the Elder? Actually, there is: it is called the MONOCEROS. Here it is:
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Not convinced? Look at the ELEPHANT FEET, the BOAR TAIL and the GREY COLOR of the animal; plus, it is drawn looking like a horse, Pliny the Elder having compared the rhinoceros to a large horse, back in his time. So, to me, this drawing is clearly made by someone who never saw a rhinoceros, but was aware of the description Pliny the Elder gave it.

So, in the medieval times, people clearly made a difference between the large, grey, elephant-footed MONOCEROS and the small, white, goat-bearded and goat-footed UNICORN. So, if the rhinoceros is not behind the legend of the fluffy white unicorn, what animal is?

To answer this question, we need to travel to TIBET. Here is a picture of the WHEEL OD DHARMA, surrounded by two little unicorns (each one of these animals has one horn). There, unicorns are called "SHERU".
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And here is a statue of Dorje-Legpa, a pre-buddhist spirit who protects people from falling into crime, having becomed a criminal himself in his terrestrial life.  He is Always shown riding a goat with horns joined to each other, torsading around each other or "welded" to one other.

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Why are those goats represented with two joined horns, or Simply one horn? Answer: BECAUSE OF AN OPERATION BÖNTO SHEPHERDS PERFORMED ON THEIR GOATS DURING CENTURIES. What was this operation, exactly? Well, first, we all know angora goats, a fluffy, white breed of goats, come from the Hymalayas. When a new kid was born, the shepherds would incise and sew the fleshy horn buds to each other; this was performed before the kid was a Week old. When the wound healed, there was only one horn bud on the head of the goats. And this single horn bud eventually took root in the head bones of the animal and… VOILÀ! A REAL LIVING UNICORN!

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It is one of those animals Gengis Khan saw on the top of a mountain while he was planning to invade Tibet. But the sight of this "celestial, pure unicorn" convinced him not to. Skeptical? Well, Gengis Khan was Indeed cruel, sadistic and merciless. But he was certainly not blind nor stupid. So, if he claimed he saw a unicorn, it is because he saw a unicorn. He saw a tibetan goat with one horn.

But why did Arabians see unicorns as well? Well, it is because Bönto people were not the only one who had the habit of joining the horns of their goats: Ethiopian shepherds did it as well.
But why?
It seems that, in the beginning, shepherds in Tibet and Ethiopia did it to make their goats more capable to defend themselves against predators. As a matter of fact, two horns welded in a single one transformed them into lethal daggers. And no ennemy could attack one of those animals without being seriously injured by such a stabbing.

OK, now, we know what people who claimed they saw unicorns actually saw. But one question still remains: why did they become a symbol of purity?
The answe to this question is simple: BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT REPRODUCE AS IS. Many chinese emperors bought unicorns from tibetan shepherds. But the chine court would Always Wonder why in the world unicrons only gave Birth to two-horned animals? Mystery. Absolute mystery! And this mystery made the unicorns seem magical, celestial, of spiritual essence. And that is the start of the legend of the "Virgin unicorn".