#I have this exact schleich toy

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[erdariel]

Okay feel free to ignore me. But I'm mad. Because I went to look at the toy company Schleich's website. And apparently they no longer do the AMAZING fairy and knight figures they used to (or at least their Finnish website doesn't seem to sell those). Sure, there's some fairies, but they're all... ya know, soft and pastel colored and riding unicorns and don't look like you could use them for action. I mean, okay, fair, some of mine are pastel-colored too but least they're riding actual horses instead of pink unicorns and look such that I never had any trouble imagining epic (and bloody, because little girls don't always play as cute as media would have you think, but the exact stories I played here are for another time) adventures and grand fantasy fights against my brother's Schleich knight figures for them. Also, can I yell about how amazing those figures are, how high-quality?

These are my mounted fairies (I also had two on foot, one a young woman, another an old and wise-looking one who's intended gender I never figured out so they changed between a man or a woman or undefined about every time I played). Excuse the fact that the mother is riding on Momo the mouse in that one picture, but I wanted to show them unmounted and she's formed in such a way that she doesn't stay properly balanced without the horse. I'd like to show you how amazingly detailed they are but this is gonna be long anyway so I just hoped you can see a bit from these.

But what's even more amazing is that you can switch their horses (or even put them on the unicorn or pegasus which weren't intended to be ridden) and sure, they don't fit quite as perfectly and firmly, and fall of easier, but they can still ride those! And two of them can even stay on the pegasus when you put it on it lashing out, balanced on its hind legs, without falling off!

Like, seriously, do you know how amazing that was for playing, that if the story demanded, you didn't have to pretend one was riding another's horse, you could actually have them ride another's horse? Also I loved that you could balance the pegasus either on four legs or on just two (and the tail) depending on what you wanted/needed.

Also, extra fun fact: my brother's two mounted knights can apparently also switch horses. And those two pikemen? There's extra pieces to their pikes, so that you can have them use pikes twice as long or the lenght you see here, depending on what you want.

Honestly, I'm just so sad these knight/soldier figures and that sort of fairy figures apparently aren't made anymore, because they are so much fun and I loved playing with these. Of course Schleigh still probably makes really amazing and high quality other animals and stuff, but these medieval knights (which are technically my brother's, but I played with them as well) and mythical animals (there's a dragon and phoenix that are my brother's, and a pegasus and a unicorn that are mine), and the fairies just were so great and much more fun for a little!me, as I always have been a history/fantasy nerd