Roger's Arrivals! 1st part

Ana, Harriet, Bojan, Kelsey, Kristie, Taylor, Andreas, Jonesee, Scott and Susanne, !!!
Scott, as a hyenas lover I am sure you will make a fantastic work with yours.

Bojan wrote:

Sometimes I think that people that now work at Schleich are idiots or just greedy. They can make such nice animals for their "fantasy" series, but not for their normal animal line. That porcupine is very good and the pose of the cheetah, the black jaguar (even if it's a repaint) looks much better than this new panther. And the mighty elephant and rhinoceros are just beautiful, but with all the attachments I don't want them. I'm still thinking about getting that hyena (freaking collar!!!!) since it's going to be retired in 2013. Make that hyena for animal line without the collar!
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Congratulations Roger & Yvette!

Bojan, surely Schleich designers are not idiot. What happens is that the animal series is getting more and more designed to very young children. You can see the figures smiling, the choices of very known animals and the cuteness being the main factor of their design. Bayala looks targeted to pre-teenagers what result in figures with a more impressive and realistic looking. Like you, I spend a lot of time in local shops and we can see clearly the enthusiasm of little kids with the small cute animals while older boys and girls give more atention to Baialas and fantasy lines. Schleich is taking their targets too seriously and unfortunately they are forgeting that their horses (mainly) are often collected for adultes, I know, mainly ladies love a touch of cuteness but I am afraid the Barbie exagerated looking will make some of older collectors indecisive. It doesn't surprise me seeing some of those collectors being more and more interested in CollectA horses.

Congratulationes my friend on your newbies! (o)):
Great catches!
For me it is the same as for Christophe, i don't want the Bayala figurines, and to buy these makes that expensive.
Sooner or later they will be coming to my collection, but they are low on my list for obvious reasons...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Congratulationes my friend on your newbies! (o)):
Great catches!
For me it is the same as for Christophe, i don't want the Bayala figurines, and to buy these makes that expensive.
Sooner or later they will be coming to my collection, but they are low on my list for obvious reasons...

Thanks friend Willy! I am glad you love them and that you had the chance of congratulate me!

I can make chances for you!

Yes Roger another crested porcupine owner .And cheetah too!! Congrats!

AlvinCK wrote:

Yes Roger another crested porcupine owner .And cheetah too!! Congrats!

Thanks Alvin!
Yours with the beautiness enriched by an artist and mine with the beautiness of the original state.

I'll use this topic to show my additions during 2013 and maybe also show some of the last of previous year.
It is an exciting year and it is starting in a very generous way.

The first figure I've bought is surprisingly the Safari red lady bug. I don't collect insects, it is only the favorite animal of my wife. Doesn anyone knows the species?
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Safari red lady bird

Then 2 cheap finds on a Portuguese auction website. The New-Ray anteater and a retired Schleich polar bear cub sitting. This last one will almost surely enter my niece's collection.
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New-Ray Giant anteater
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Schleich polar bear cub sitting and Safari Arctic fox

Extraordinarily exciting was to receive my first Epoch figure. This tremendous Egyptian vulture, a gift from Christophe, together with the little and old Safari Arctic fox above and some Good Luck minis.
I love so much that Japanese figures that I opened a topic to make some considerations about it. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
The old Safari Arctic fox will join all my other foxes. Does anyone knows from what series that figure belongs?

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Epoch Egyptian Vulture

Also exciting gifts are these 2 wonderful Papo meerkats, those are also generous gifts from our friend Gab, unfortunately less active these days but kind enough to send these figures to me. Although all good opinions of everyone about them, they overlaped my expectations, these figures are superb. The sitting meerkat with the tail pointed forwards is already my favorite suricate of all.
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Finally, also my first Tipple Topple figure, the Barbarie Ape. It was broken and forgoten in Holand waiting for Ana coming from Poland, geting it, showing on forum and after a good restoration sending it to Portugal. I wonder how was the story of that figure before arriving to Dutch shop. Surely many stories to tell has this very old composition macaque.
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Thanks Christophe, Gab and Ana!!! Even without a 2013 figure in my collection, this year is being already fantastic! :D

congrats Roger. they are great! (o)):

Phantastic newcomers my friend!! Big congratulations- especially for the egyptian vulture

Congrats Roger, I love those Meerkats and the Vulture is awesome

Wonderful additions, Roger

I LOVE them all ! The vulture, of course ! Christophe is a true friend !!!!

And the Barbarie monkey is SO lovely

CONGRATULATIONS, and hurraayyy for TST-friends

Congrats on your new additions! I really like also the sitting meerkat. I love the anteater, too! Your little arctic fox is a charming fellow as well. :)

-Kristie

Congratulations Roger, very beautiful additions! I love those meerkats :)

Great arrivals with lovely stories Roger! I'm glad to see You like monkey

Meerkats are great, too bad they will be retired from this year. I like also anteater from New Ray And of course vulture

Oh and fox is extremely funny! What a cute figure

Thanks everyone, even my crazy fox has some supporters!
Nobody loves my lady bug? Ahah!
It is a joy to collect and having the chance of sharing with all of you.

That arctic fox... Not sure to laugh or cry, he's like . But somehow there's a certain charm of the imperfect.

Great additions Roger. I like the wide eyed fox too.

That bird is awesome!!! Congratulations!

Congrats Roger, all your new additions are good but that polar bear from schleich

Congrats my friend, very nice new additions!

At least Schleich is being consistent. The new 2013 baby crocodile is also listed as a Osteolaemus tetraspis, a Dwarf Crocodile. (I find this slightly odd, quite honestly.)

scot(t) wrote:

At least Schleich is being consistent. The new 2013 baby crocodile is also listed as a Osteolaemus tetraspis, a Dwarf Crocodile. (I find this slightly odd, quite honestly.)

This is one of the few Schleich misteries. It is great that the baby is identified as being the same species although we know those are not dwarf crocodiles.
This year we have the seals but I noticed that Schleich is not identifying their gazelles as Couvier's gazelles anymore. Now they are labeled as Thomson's gazelles what we always thought they were. It is great that they corrected it but it is hard to understand why it happens.

Thanks Carola, Paige, Bojan, Alvaro and Willy!

In a luso-serbian cooperation, Robert helped me finding some more CollectA and a fox. Some are returning others are completely new

First some European little animals and a red deer. I was curious about the deer, it is nice but still not a deer like I'd loved to have. I hope some brand can find a way to make a really excelent red deer. Little boys have found some place because they were cheap but I have to stop with these little things next time.
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CollectA red deer, rabbit, brown hare, beaver and badger

Here a new and very interesting representation of a mountain goat, it has some very good points, first it doesn't look like a goat what is good considering that it is not a goat indeed. The body is bulky and fur looks also nice. The skunk is one more.
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CollectA Mountain goat and striped skunk

My only modern ostrich was the famous Schleich with 3 toes I received from Susanne, after the funny character, here a serious ostrich as long as it is possible to this kind of companies. I acquired also the new Schleich chimp, not as nice as it looked in Scott pictures but generally it has a good shape and it is less comic than previous one.
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CollectA ostrich and Schleich chimpanzee

Sorry for my pictures, the ladybug is very dark, it is an excelent figure and is joining my Safari ladybug. Surprisingly realistic! Also, the beautiful Arctic fox from Schleich, the famous short haired fox like in Summer but the beautiful white color of Winter. This is the made in Germany version that will join my Chinese sister!
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CollectA ladybug and Schleich Arctic fox (Germany)

Some figures are good, others are very good and some can give us the big joy of being collectors! This eland is magnificent and I'm glad Robert found it because locally they haven't arrived yet. I hope I'll be able of geting the waterbuck too!
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CollectA giant eland

The Eland is fantastic,Roger!! It really lights up every collector's life
And I've always wanted that red deer,it surely isn't perfect,but in my opinion it's a very charming model Congratulations,dear friend

Another interesting batch Rogério

I especially like the COLLECTA ostrich which is a SOMALI ostrich I will try to catch one and make a meeting with the SAFARI Ltd one

I don't like, in the other hand, the beaver... There is something I can't understand on this toy

Now a few requests: Could you make a walkaround of the deer and a comparison topic between the COLLECTA and the MÖJO skunks ?

Big congratulation for this eland (o)):