Show us your Hyenas!

thank you sbell! :)

I had forgotten this porcelaine spotted hyaena from unknown brand (maybe "Klima" or "little Critterz"):

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and with old Schleich for scale comparison:

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I love hyenas and everyone’s collections are so amazing!

Looking through the thread the only one I don’t recognize is one from Caracal’s collection, it’s the little white one second row from the foreground all the way to the right, do you know who that ones maker is [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] ? I love all your repaints btw

Nice figure

Caracal wrote:

I had forgotten this porcelaine spotted hyaena from unknown brand (maybe "Klima" or "little Critterz"):

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Ohhh! So cute

Thank to you both Andreas and Susanne!.. I realise only now, that I had not forgotten at all this hyena in my SUY!!  

Mitsukuni wrote:

I love hyenas and everyone’s collections are so amazing!

Looking through the thread the only one I don’t recognize is one from Caracal’s collection, it’s the little white one second row from the foreground all the way to the right, do you know who that ones maker is [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] ? I love all your repaints btw

Mitsukuni, this white hyena is a copy of the brown one which is just on its left. This latter seems from the same mold as the "Clairet" one, but its ears are low and it's a little lighter (because it's of polystyren rather than acetate). Unfortunatly, it's not marqued, but it's clearly a copy of "Clairet" brand..

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..here you can see the difference between the Clairet one, on the left, and this mysterious "copy"..

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..and here, this mysterious hyena with bazar monochrom copies: copies of copies! :)

Where does someone find a Clairet hyena figure? It's one of the few I don't have!

It's easy to find on french ebay.. :)

Of course it is. I'll have to look there then!

Wow that’s so weird and interesting:D I remember thinking it really reminded me of the clairet hyena but I thought it couldn’t be a copy because of the different ears but you are definitely right, seeing them right next to each other it’s definitely a recast. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a copier go to the trouble of changing an aspect of a figure, it sort of makes me even more interested in the figure even though it’s a copyXD Thank you for the info!:)

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Lovely hyenas

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Wow that’s so weird and interesting:D I remember thinking it really reminded me of the clairet hyena but I thought it couldn’t be a copy because of the different ears but you are definitely right, seeing them right next to each other it’s definitely a recast. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a copier go to the trouble of changing an aspect of a figure, it sort of makes me even more interested in the figure even though it’s a copyXD Thank you for the info!:)

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] here’s a striped one :)
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welcome here

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Thanks for that. Although I'm going to hold out for one painted like a brown!

If I see any brown hyenas I’ll let you know [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

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If I see any brown hyenas I’ll let you know [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Me too please, but in all the years i never come across with a brown hyena

That copy one almost looks the closest! Until someone actually makes one for real.

I finally got around to taking pics of my striped hyenas.


From the back row to the front and left to right
Unknown composition
Chap Mei, CollectA, Elastolin
Lineol, unknown putz composition, etsy AnimalTotemFactory, Pfeffer porcelain
Clairet, Starlux
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Hope you guys like them

Seeing that picture, I'd really like to hunt down that Clairet.

A truely heartwarming collection of hyena models  

Me too, I love that clairet model , - it was made both with spots and with stripes  

About the Starlux beauty, - isn't mine a darker grey ?
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Or is it just the eternal problem of getting the right shade on a photo

maybe a little darker but there is a real darker version, see on my first picture on left.. :)

Mitsukuni, the one I prefer is the Lineol one!

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] I find the Clairet hyenas very charming, especially in real life, definitely recommend them for a hyena collector:D

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] thank you Andreas!

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] I’m glad you like it:D I like him too, though I will probably be replacing mine at some point because mine is missing his tail:(

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] thank you so much! We all seem to agree there’s something special about the Clairet hyena:D I hope to get the spotted one soon:) I’ve also seen some without spots or stripes almost indicative of a brown hyena maybe Yes yours is definitely darker Susanne, while I was hunting for mine I came across a wide range of color and even stripe variations
Here is one with very dark plastic and normal stripes
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And here’s one with darker plastic, two rows of stripes and an almost ombré effect going on
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I was really shocked to see that pretty much no two were alike really, I think it makes them very unique:D
Btw I really like yours Susanne:D

Mitsu, that is very interesting !
Those Starlux hyenas are from the time when there were REAL handpainted models
Uhh, if only I lived in France, I would certainly try to collect a little flock of different variations

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] yes, the good old days
It’s a shame shipping is so expensive from France, your pack of variants would be a sight to behold XD