What species would you like to see figurines of?

Great Argus said:
Nice! Hoping to hit 200 standard figures by 2020 too, we'll see if I can! I have like 400 of the minis so haven't focused there much for a few years.
Interested to see what you have!
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I have a few hundred mini animals, I only kept them because my mom gave them to me, and because they were the first animal figurines I got.
 
After this thread, I discovered that really, and surprisingly, there is a lot of species that never has been made into figurine!!! So, answering the original purpose of this thread, I would like to see (and get) the next ones, in CollectA/Schleich/Papo style (very accurate and more or less 1:20-1:25 scale). Apparently none of them have been made into figurine:

-Bush dog
-Gerenuk
-Pallas's cat
-Spanish ibex
-Drill
-Rusty-spotted cat
-Crab-eating raccoon
-Beira
-Bharal
-Asian golden cat
-Aardwolf
-Giant otter
-Silky anteater
-Pacarana
-Baikal seal
-Ethiopian wolf
-Mediterranean monk seal
-Tibetan fox
-Przewalski's gazelle
-African manatee (or just buy a normal manatee and paint some light colour around eyes)
-Water chevrotain
-Kouprey
-Giant forest hog
-Baiji
-Klipspringer
-Vancouver island marmot
-Swift fox
-Dibatag
-Bear cuscus
-Volcano rabbit
-Binturong
-Marbled cat
-Flat-headed cat
-Pallid fox
-Grey fox
-Fishing cat
-Black-footed cat
-Geoffroy's cat
-Pampas cat
-Sand cat
-Oribi
-Mountain anoa
-Chacoan peccary
-Gelada
-Riverine rabbit
-Margay
-Lowland paca
-African palm civet
-Fanaloka
-Kodkod
-Ringtail
-Greater/lesser grison
-Visayan warty pig
-Annamese/vietnamese striped rabbit
-Banded hare wallaby
-Red-backed bearded saki
-Cuvier's beaked whale
-Dingiso
-Falanouc
-False orca
-Four-horned antelope
-Fraser's dolphin
-Grey rhebok
-Harbour porpoise
-Heaveside's dolphin
-Hog badger
-La Plata dolphin
-Maned rat
-Melon-headed whale
-Myanmar snub-nosed monkey
-Nilgiri marten
-Owston's palm civet
-Plains vizcacha
-Ross's seal
-Rough-toothed dolphin
-Steenbok
-Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
-Tucuxi
-Yellow-backed duiker
-Black duiker

(notice I only choose big birds, because small birds would be too difficult to replicate in enough accuracy to scale... for the same reason I didn't put small mammals)
-Siberian crane
-Siberian capercaillie
-Caucasian grouse
-Storm's stork
-Madagascar fish eagle
-Green junglefowl
-Mallee scrubfowl
-Houbara bustard
-Boat-billed heron
-Kagu
-Sarus crane
-Greater and lesser adjutant
-Helmeted hornbill
-Comb-crested duck
-Spix's macaw
-Lesser rhea
-Maleo
-Black-and-white hawk eagle
-Blue-throated macaw
-Single-wattled and dwarf cassowaries
-Arabian bustard
-Australian bustard
-Bengal florican
-Bulwer's pheasant
-Himalayan, Chinese and Sclater's monal
-Crested argus pheasant
-Crowned eagle
-Flightless cormorant
-Giant ibis
-Great bustard
-Great Indian bustard
-Green ibis
-Horned screamer
-Kori bustard
-Pel's fish owl
-Northern screamer
-White-naped ibis
-Ocellated turkey

-Painted river terrapin
-Mandarin ratsnake
-Russell's viper

-Chinese paddlefish
-Australian lungfish
-Flagtail characin (any)
-Flying gurnard (any)
-Slender sunfish
-Wedge-tail triggerfish
-Ocellated knifefish

-Angular rough shark
-Antenna ray
-Coffin ray
-Fiddler ray
-Australian ghostshark
-Epaulette shark
-Daggernose shark
-Longnosed skate
-Porbeagle
-Butterfly ray (any)
-Thornback guitarfish
-Winghead shark

-Pyrosoma atlanticum (with paint that make it glow in the dark)
-Venus's girdle
 
Dassie rat said:
Hello Kakapo. You may be interested in this cassowary: Cassowary Toy Miniature Bird Replica
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Thanks! It would be a nice addition to my collection because it's very accurate and have a perfect size (if I translated correctly the inches to cm), and it would be the first bird of my (very small) collection. I'm more interested in the page than in the figurine itself, because it looks like a source to get figurines of brands that are not for sale in the page where I use to buy. But looking into details, looks like that the page is based in Vancouver, so shipping costs would be prohibitive for me! I still lack many more easily available figurines (I'm not so rich for buying them all at once, hehe).
 
Thanks, Kakapo

I looked at various other websites, but I couldn't find any animals from your list.
 
Of course! I selected specifically for my list the animals that never have been made into figurine, as I explained above!
 
Kakapo said:
After this thread, I discovered that really, and surprisingly, there is a lot of species that never has been made into figurine!!! So, answering the original purpose of this thread, I would like to see (and get) the next ones, in CollectA/Schleich/Papo style (very accurate and more or less 1:20-1:25 scale). Apparently none of them have been made into figurine:

-Bush dog
-Gerenuk
-Pallas's cat
-Spanish ibex
-Drill
-Rusty-spotted cat
-Crab-eating raccoon
-Beira
-Bharal
-Asian golden cat
-Aardwolf
-Giant otter
-Silky anteater
-Pacarana
-Baikal seal
-Ethiopian wolf
-Mediterranean monk seal
-Tibetan fox
-Przewalski's gazelle
-African manatee (or just buy a normal manatee and paint some light colour around eyes)
-Water chevrotain
-Kouprey
-Giant forest hog
-Baiji
-Klipspringer
-Vancouver island marmot
-Swift fox
-Dibatag
-Bear cuscus
-Volcano rabbit
-Binturong
-Marbled cat
-Flat-headed cat
-Pallid fox
-Grey fox
-Fishing cat
-Black-footed cat
-Geoffroy's cat
-Pampas cat
-Sand cat
-Oribi
-Mountain anoa
-Chacoan peccary
-Gelada
-Riverine rabbit
-Margay
-Lowland paca
-African palm civet
-Fanaloka
-Kodkod
-Ringtail
-Greater/lesser grison
-Visayan warty pig
-Annamese/vietnamese striped rabbit
-Banded hare wallaby
-Red-backed bearded saki
-Cuvier's beaked whale
-Dingiso
-Falanouc
-False orca
-Four-horned antelope
-Fraser's dolphin
-Grey rhebok
-Harbour porpoise
-Heaveside's dolphin
-Hog badger
-La Plata dolphin
-Maned rat
-Melon-headed whale
-Myanmar snub-nosed monkey
-Nilgiri marten
-Owston's palm civet
-Plains vizcacha
-Ross's seal
-Rough-toothed dolphin
-Steenbok
-Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
-Tucuxi
-Yellow-backed duiker
-Black duiker

(notice I only choose big birds, because small birds would be too difficult to replicate in enough accuracy to scale... for the same reason I didn't put small mammals)
-Siberian crane
-Siberian capercaillie
-Caucasian grouse
-Storm's stork
-Madagascar fish eagle
-Green junglefowl
-Mallee scrubfowl
-Houbara bustard
-Boat-billed heron
-Kagu
-Sarus crane
-Greater and lesser adjutant
-Helmeted hornbill
-Comb-crested duck
-Spix's macaw
-Lesser rhea
-Maleo
-Black-and-white hawk eagle
-Blue-throated macaw
-Single-wattled and dwarf cassowaries
-Arabian bustard
-Australian bustard
-Bengal florican
-Bulwer's pheasant
-Himalayan, Chinese and Sclater's monal
-Crested argus pheasant
-Crowned eagle
-Flightless cormorant
-Giant ibis
-Great bustard
-Great Indian bustard
-Green ibis
-Horned screamer
-Kori bustard
-Pel's fish owl
-Northern screamer
-White-naped ibis
-Ocellated turkey

-Painted river terrapin
-Mandarin ratsnake
-Russell's viper

-Chinese paddlefish
-Australian lungfish
-Flagtail characin (any)
-Flying gurnard (any)
-Slender sunfish
-Wedge-tail triggerfish
-Ocellated knifefish

-Angular rough shark
-Antenna ray
-Coffin ray
-Fiddler ray
-Australian ghostshark
-Epaulette shark
-Daggernose shark
-Longnosed skate
-Porbeagle
-Butterfly ray (any)
-Thornback guitarfish
-Winghead shark

-Pyrosoma atlanticum (with paint that make it glow in the dark)
-Venus's girdle
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I agree, would love to see many of those made!

I actually have what is supposed to be a Binturong miniature, but it doesn't look like a Binturong in either shape or color... :rolleyes: I'm not sure what it was based off of, but it sure wasn't a Binturong...
 
I just took a photo of my small collection: animal figurines | ZooChat

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I don't collect them with any purpose - I just buy what I like the look of - so I don't care about scale or anything like that. I gave away a lot of my lesser ones which I didn't want any more.

The large and small Echidnas and the Leadbeater's Possum which I mentioned earlier in the thread can be seen in the photo (all in a row as it happens, although that was unintentional). The Thorny Devil and Giant Weta also mentioned are in there too.

Not all the animals are Schleich-type figurines. There's an Arapaima carved out of rubber (from Brazil) and a Komodo Dragon carved out of wood (from Komodo), as well as a few of the ones which come in pieces and you put together yourself (like in Yowie).
 
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Chlidonias said:
I just took a photo of my small collection: animal figurines | ZooChat

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I don't collect them with any purpose - I just buy what I like the look of - so I don't care about scale or anything like that. I gave away a lot of my lesser ones which I didn't want any more.

The large and small Echidnas and the Leadbeater's Possum which I mentioned earlier in the thread can be seen in the photo (all in a row as it happens, although that was unintentional). The Thorny Devil and Giant Weta also mentioned are in there too.

Not all the animals are Schleich-type figurines. There's an Arapaima carved out of rubber (from Brazil) and a Komodo Dragon carved out of wood (from Komodo), as well as a few of the ones which come in pieces and you put together yourself (like in Yowie).
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Curious, where did you get that Wobbegong? Looks nice!
 
Great Argus said:
Curious, where did you get that Wobbegong? Looks nice!
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All mine are bought in shops in New Zealand (some of them from shops in Australia). The Hammerhead and Frilled Shark are made by Safari Ltd. The Wobbegong is labelled as 2005 Schleich. It is a really nice model - about 11cm long (about 4.5 inches for you).
 
Chlidonias said:
I will readily admit that the photos they use make their figurines look utterly dreadful (like bad cartoons), but the few I have are mostly extremely good. I have the Thorny Devil, Leadbeater's Possum, and both small and large Echidnas, and am happy with all of them. I also have the Giant Weta and Kiwi which are not much good, and the Tuatara which is okay. I have never seen their exotic animals so I can't say whether they are as bad as the photos make them look. They do seem to have a rather variable quality in terms of realism.
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Funnily enough, regarding the above quote, when I took the photo of my figurines I realised that a lot of them look much worse in the photograph than in real life. I think your eyes process the image differently when it is a real item and when it is a photographic image.
 
Chlidonias said:
All mine are bought in shops in New Zealand (some of them from shops in Australia). The Hammerhead and Frilled Shark are made by Safari Ltd. The Wobbegong is labelled as 2005 Schleich. It is a really nice model - about 11cm long (about 4.5 inches for you).
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I just had a look on the Schleich website and Wobbegong gets "no result" from their Search function. But there seem to be examples available via Ebay etc.
 
Chlidonias said:
All mine are bought in shops in New Zealand (some of them from shops in Australia). The Hammerhead and Frilled Shark are made by Safari Ltd. The Wobbegong is labelled as 2005 Schleich. It is a really nice model - about 11cm long (about 4.5 inches for you).
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Thanks for the information! Looks like a few are still available here and there!

Chlidonias said:
Funnily enough, regarding the above quote, when I took the photo of my figurines I realised that a lot of them look much worse in the photograph than in real life. I think your eyes process the image differently when it is a real item and when it is a photographic image.
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I find that tends to happen a lot in pictures I take and pictures on the Internet. When looking at figurines online I tend to look for several photos to get an idea. I think our eyes interpret the lighting and colors differently in real life vs photos, like you suggested.
 
So for my collection:

1x Border Collie
1x French Bulldog
1x Bald Eagle
1x Llama
1x Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
3x White-Tailed Deer
1x Grey Wolf
1x Red Fox
1x Fennec Fox
1x Turkmenistan Caracal
2x Cougar
1x Texas Longhorn
1x American Bison
1x American Alligator
1x Great Horned Owl
8x Breyer Stablemate Horses
1x Andalusian Stallion
1x Dressage Hanoverian Mare
1x Knabstrupper Mare
1x Friesian Stallion
1x Eastern Chipmunk
1x Great White Pelican
1x Atlantic Puffin
1x Blue Shark
1x Tiger Shark
1x Great White Shark
2x Chinstrap Penguins
1x Mandrill
2x Burchell's Zebra
1x Greater Kudu
1x Reticulated Giraffe
1x African Elephant
1x Common Warthog
3x African Painted Dog
1x Hyacinth Macaw
1x Galapagos Tortoise
1x Jaguar
1x Giant Panda
1x White Tiger
3x White-Handed Gibbon
1x Red Panda
1x Bactrian Camel
2x Indian Rhino
3x Sumatran Rhino
2x Javan Rhino
3x Asian Elephant
 
ZooBinh said:
So for my collection:

1x Border Collie
1x French Bulldog
1x Bald Eagle
1x Llama
1x Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
3x White-Tailed Deer
1x Grey Wolf
1x Red Fox
1x Fennec Fox
1x Turkmenistan Caracal
2x Cougar
1x Texas Longhorn
1x American Bison
1x American Alligator
1x Great Horned Owl
8x Breyer Stablemate Horses
1x Andalusian Stallion
1x Dressage Hanoverian Mare
1x Knabstrupper Mare
1x Friesian Stallion
1x Eastern Chipmunk
1x Great White Pelican
1x Atlantic Puffin
1x Blue Shark
1x Tiger Shark
1x Great White Shark
2x Chinstrap Penguins
1x Mandrill
2x Burchell's Zebra
1x Greater Kudu
1x Reticulated Giraffe
1x African Elephant
1x Common Warthog
3x African Painted Dog
1x Hyacinth Macaw
1x Galapagos Tortoise
1x Jaguar
1x Giant Panda
1x White Tiger
3x White-Handed Gibbon
1x Red Panda
1x Bactrian Camel
2x Indian Rhino
3x Sumatran Rhino
2x Javan Rhino
3x Asian Elephant
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Nice! Got a few unusual ones in there!
 
Great Argus said:
I actually have what is supposed to be a Binturong miniature, but it doesn't look like a Binturong in either shape or color... :rolleyes: I'm not sure what it was based off of, but it sure wasn't a Binturong...
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You're talking about the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) made by PlayVisions and mislabelled as "binturong"?
http://toyanimal.info//images/d/d9/PV_genets_binturong.jpg

I didn't counted it as a species made into figurine, just because it's not a binturong, no way :P
 
ZooBinh said:
So for my collection:

1x Border Collie
1x French Bulldog
1x Bald Eagle
1x Llama
1x Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
3x White-Tailed Deer
1x Grey Wolf
1x Red Fox
1x Fennec Fox
1x Turkmenistan Caracal
2x Cougar
1x Texas Longhorn
1x American Bison
1x American Alligator
1x Great Horned Owl
8x Breyer Stablemate Horses
1x Andalusian Stallion
1x Dressage Hanoverian Mare
1x Knabstrupper Mare
1x Friesian Stallion
1x Eastern Chipmunk
1x Great White Pelican
1x Atlantic Puffin
1x Blue Shark
1x Tiger Shark
1x Great White Shark
2x Chinstrap Penguins
1x Mandrill
2x Burchell's Zebra
1x Greater Kudu
1x Reticulated Giraffe
1x African Elephant
1x Common Warthog
3x African Painted Dog
1x Hyacinth Macaw
1x Galapagos Tortoise
1x Jaguar
1x Giant Panda
1x White Tiger
3x White-Handed Gibbon
1x Red Panda
1x Bactrian Camel
2x Indian Rhino
3x Sumatran Rhino
2x Javan Rhino
3x Asian Elephant
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Most, if not all, these species are done by various brand and are very easily available!!! I'm surprised that your wishlist includes all these commonly made species.
 
Kakapo said:
Most, if not all, these species are done by various brand and are very easily available!!! I'm surprised that your wishlist includes all these commonly made species.
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That's a list of what he has, not what he wants...
 
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