Show us your Hyenas!

Yvette was so enormously kind as to get some old composition models for me on Ebay.
One is this wonderful, charming striped hyena, - isn't she adorable ?   
She feels and looks like she is made from sawdust over a metal frame. Does anybody know about the barnd, and perhaps the age ?

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Interesting hyena Susanne    

The most crazy hyena ever!     

  

But this one - from Hausser Elastolin - is wonderful, IMHO
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Hmmm, perhaps a bit crazy also
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Composition figures are all special and true collectibles! Of course it is a fantastic Elastolin hyena, crazy too!

Very nice addition Susanne! I really like it. I have no composition figures in my collection and feel it is a major omission. Roger is right that they are particularly special.

What a sweet pair of crazy hyenas Susanne

I don't know why I like so much crazy figurines

Nice new old hyena:)

Thankyou, faithful knights    

Kikimalou wrote:

What a sweet pair of crazy hyenas Susanne

 I don't know why I like so much crazy figurines

Rearly nice figures, Susanne!

Kikimalou wrote:

.. don't know why I like so much crazy figurines

Hm... yes ... I think, there are perhaps some of these crazy ones :

my new CollectA striped hyena

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Congrats Andreas :)

Great model ! Congratulations, Andreas

How have I missed this thread? I have so many, I need to get them here. Soon...

And now I start! I begin by cribbing from a different forum because I am efficient, not lazy. It is, however, from 2010, so fortunately I have additions!

One note--I won't say the species unless it is unique. In other words, they are almost always Striped or Spotted hyenas. Only the Schleich mini could be reasonable construed as a brown hyena, and nobody makes an aardwolf. However, if anyone can definitively prove otherwise I will be grateful--if they can prove it by adding them to my collection, I will be ridiculously happy and grateful.

First, big ones (again, up to March 2010):

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Top row: Wild Safari, Papo, Dosco, Chap Mei, AAA
Middle row: Lineol (Elastolin? Taylor & Barrett), AAA, Schleich (newer one), Schleich (older one), Ricolino (Mexican candy company), Bullyland
Bottom row: Jakk/Discovery Kids/Scanopedia, Unknown, Ral Partha Chasmaporthetes, Timpo, Ral Partha Giant Hyena (Pachycrocuta?), Ral Partha, Bandai (standing & sitting), Schleich mini Brown Hyena (darker version), Play Visions, Starlux, K&M International, Aussini, Panini, Schleich mini Brown hyena (lighter version, with some paint highlights).

Here is a second picture, zooming in on the smaller ones at the front (no idea why it turned blue):
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And some other, not so much toy ones:

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A porcelain one from Germany, a malachite one, a blown glass one (my first ebay win!), and a family of wooden ones made by Jalu Wood Creations (yeah, they're supposed to be toys, but not for $32!). Somewhere I have one carved from a Tagua Nut, but I have no photo.

And then the later comers:

Customized chasmporthetes:
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Later Schleich models with earlier attempts (again, reused. Again, I am efficient):
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The Marolin gnawing hyena:
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The CollectA:
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The Mojo:
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Animal Planet micro series:
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Wizards of the Coast D&D figure:
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And just to highlight this fun one, from Mexican candy company Riccolino, on its base (it's in the group picture):

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I think that's it, other than a few plush toys.

Oh Sbell, this topic is not the same anymore. Your famous hyena collection needed to be here and now we're lucky of having your precious contribution! Thanks!

Roger wrote:

Oh Sbell, this topic is not the same anymore. Your famous hyena collection needed to be here and now we're lucky of having your precious contribution!  Thanks!

Thanks for having it! It's the most complete record of them all anywhere right now. Although I did miss one--the Playmobil!

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And I still need to get a photo of my tagua carving.

And a question for all--on the toy animal wiki there are claims of a brown hyena by CBG Minot. Does anyone have one, or a source? Or even confirmation that it is a brown (it doesn't look like one to me--the Elastolin? one looks closer)?

Many thanks Kosta and Susanne :)

Great collection of hyenas Sbell

sbell wrote:

How have I missed this thread? I have so many, I need to get them here. Soon...

And now I start! I begin by cribbing from a different forum because I am efficient, not lazy. It is, however, from 2010, so fortunately I have additions!

One note--I won't say the species unless it is unique. In other words, they are almost always Striped or Spotted hyenas. Only the Schleich mini could be reasonable construed as a brown hyena, and nobody makes an aardwolf. However, if anyone can definitively prove otherwise I will be grateful--if they can prove it by adding them to my collection, I will be ridiculously happy and grateful.

First, big ones (again, up to March 2010):

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Top row: Wild Safari, Papo, Dosco, Chap Mei, AAA
Middle row: Lineol (Elastolin? Taylor & Barrett), AAA, Schleich (newer one), Schleich (older one), Ricolino (Mexican candy company), Bullyland
Bottom row: Jakk/Discovery Kids/Scanopedia, Unknown, Ral Partha Chasmaporthetes, Timpo, Ral Partha Giant Hyena (Pachycrocuta?), Ral Partha, Bandai (standing & sitting), Schleich mini Brown Hyena (darker version), Play Visions, Starlux, K&M International, Aussini, Panini, Schleich mini Brown hyena (lighter version, with some paint highlights).

Here is a second picture, zooming in on the smaller ones at the front (no idea why it turned blue):
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And some other, not so much toy ones:

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A porcelain one from Germany, a malachite one, a blown glass one (my first ebay win!), and a family of wooden ones made by Jalu Wood Creations (yeah, they're supposed to be toys, but not for $32!). Somewhere I have one carved from a Tagua Nut, but I have no photo.

And then the later comers:

Customized chasmporthetes:
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Later Schleich models with earlier attempts (again, reused. Again, I am efficient):
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The Marolin gnawing hyena:
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The CollectA:
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The Mojo:
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Animal Planet micro series:
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Wizards of the Coast D&D figure:
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And just to highlight this fun one, from Mexican candy company Riccolino, on its base (it's in the group picture):

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I think that's it, other than a few plush toys.

A beautiful collection of hyenas,  congratulations!  Have you more informations about the Riccolino stuff?  What are the other animals?

The only other Ricolino (I messed up the spelling) I know of is a lion (which I have no interest in)--if you get the whole set, they fit together to form a map of Africa, and as you turn a wheel they all turn with it (the rod is attached to a gear). I can try and find the paper I got with it, but I have never seen another figure from the set, although I recall a friend that found one from a different set, I want to say a koala or saltwater croc or something.

I'm very happy your collection joined the hyena's SUY, is is a much more serious topic now

About the Brown hyena, CBG mignot made a lead hyena called "hyena", She is not striped, not spotted and she is brown...  So we could say it is a brown hyena.

I agree she looks a little bit like a spotted unspotted hyena

Here is an old pic because I am trying to be more efficient now

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sbell wrote:

The only other Ricolino (I messed up the spelling) I know of is a lion (which I have no interest in)--if you get the whole set, they fit together to form a map of Africa, and as you turn a wheel they all turn with it (the rod is attached to a gear). I can try and find the paper I got with it, but I have never seen another figure from the set, although I recall a friend that found one from a different set, I want to say a koala or saltwater croc or something.

Sounds very interesting:)

Kikimalou wrote:

I'm very happy your collection joined the hyena's SUY, is is a much more serious topic now

About the Brown hyena, CBG mignot made a lead hyena called "hyena", She is not striped, not spotted and she is brown...  So we could say it is a brown hyena.

I agree she looks a little bit like a spotted unspotted hyena  

Here is an old pic because I am trying to be more efficient now

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It is a lead figurine? Thank you for this information:)

Kikimalou wrote:

I'm very happy your collection joined the hyena's SUY, is is a much more serious topic now

About the Brown hyena, CBG mignot made a lead hyena called "hyena", She is not striped, not spotted and she is brown...  So we could say it is a brown hyena.

I agree she looks a little bit like a spotted unspotted hyena  

Here is an old pic because I am trying to be more efficient now

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It look almost jackal-ish, but then, that's not uncommon for many early hyena toys (which tried to play up the dig-like appearance).

Are they still available? Or at least find-able?