#Rare Schleich

[crystlelakefarm]

Hey everyone, it's been so long since I've posted anything! Anyway, look what I found at one of the local antique stores in my hometown; it's the retired Schleich Smilodon! I originally never planned on getting of the prehistoric models but I couldn't pass this guy up.

[horsefigureoftheday]

Horse figure of the day: Schleich Exclusive Jousting Horse #72008

[uluthrek]

au in which robert, the starks and the lannisters play monopoly instead of going hunting and pushing each other‘s kids from towers.

tyrion implements a tax system to make things more interesting and fights cersei over the cat for a solid ten minutes.

around thirty minutes into the game, catelyn realizes that she has free will and stops paying taxes.

arya and sansa haggle over new york avenue, which ends up being bought by theon. this causes the two to completely cast aside their differences, ally and subsequently start doing everything in their power to make theon‘s life hell.

theon himself is quite severely stoned the entire time throughout.

ned enters horrendous debt pretty much immediately and, after two hours of being financially sucked dry by both cersei and his tax evader of a wife, decides to just place his figurine in jail and never leave.

jon, playing the dog, controls the railroads and makes jaime, playing the ship, go completely broke within minutes. being beaten by a bastard and officially the first to lose the game makes jaime so mad he spends the rest of the evening perched on the family‘s ancestral armchair eating flaming hot cheetos and stifling sobs.

cersei is holding onto her last two dollars and her one house in atlantic avenue like a maniac and evades taxes like it‘s an olympic sport. she claims ownership of kentucky avenue on the grounds that red is her house‘s color at least twice. after three hours, she‘s consumed enough vintage red to kill a large mammal and keeps quoting the art of war. fascinatingly enough, she never goes completely broke.

robert, just as broke and drunk as his wife but not nearly as ferocious, proposes marriage for tax advantages to bran, who is in possession of the boardwalk and lets him dangle on his proposition for two rounds before accepting and feeling like a benevolent god.

sansa sees this and immediately proposes to arya, who accepts, only for them to be sued by their mother for public indecency („you‘re siblings, jesus christ!“). arya argues that this is just a game and that one could argue that robert‘s and bran‘s marital alliance is just as if not even more inappropriate, considering that bran is seven and robert thirtyseven. sansa countersues her mother for tax evasion, who promises she‘ll drop her lawsuit if her daughters let her keep hoarding perverse amounts of wealth. „love wins!“ arya says, which causes jaime, still perched on the armchair but now eating old nan‘s home made whiskey truffles, to hysterically sob. cersei stares him down.

robb, in a rare moment of almost prophetic foresight, excuses himself one hour in and goes on a very, VERY long walk with grey wind.

tyrion, whose tax system has spectacularly backfired in his face, proposes marriage to catelyn, jon and cersei in rapid succession, who all turn him down. „i wish i was the monster you think i am. i wish i had enough poison for the whole pack of you. i would gladly give my life to watch you all swallow it.“ he screams before he leaves the table.

at that, joffrey, who has refused to participate and instead sits on the couch playing doom on his nintendo ds, starts hysterically laughing. tyrion turns on his heel and awards his nephew with the bitchslap of the century. this causes cersei to completely abandon the game and chase after him with a broom. catelyn makes sure that everyone is distracted by the lannister antics and then reaches across the table and bags cersei‘s money and properties.

with a heavy heart, myrcella trades arya and sansa one of her limited edition bayala schleich unicorns for park place.

at this point, the game is between the tycoons that are catelyn and jon, the bran-robert alliance, the arya-sansa-alliance, and ned, who is still in jail and watching ice hockey on his phone under the table. that is when catelyn hears rickon gagging and discovers that he, in the absence of tyrion, the self declared bank manager, has managed to eat all bank notes from the box.

rickon gets his stomach pumped, cersei and tyrion have both been arrested, theon is still stoned, arya, sansa and myrcella have wandered off to go play schleich horses, and jon remains at the table, alone, content, and quietly considering himself the winner.

[thegreenwolf]

The Swedish Vallhund is an ancient and rare breed, developed as a herding dog over 1000 years ago. It very nearly went extinct in the 1940s but was saved and is now growing in popularity. Since Breyer, Schleich, and the like haven’t yet produced a Vallhund sculpt, I decided to rework a Breyer Pembroke Welsh corgi into this red sable Vallhund, now dubbed Värja, which means “shortsword”. He has entirely new ears and tail, and a lengthened and resculpted muzzle, and he’s been repainted in Earth Pigments and acrylics. The pictures don’t do him justice at all; while I am very, very tempted to keep this one, he’s available at https://www.etsy.com/listing/1388480260/varja-custom-red-sable-swedish-vallhund - take him home before I change my mind!

[mrcowboytoyou]

when watching Barbie for the second time i started looking out for the scenes where they had horse models in frame. not to brag but i own some of those... like don't think i don't see you retired rare Schleich horse 13666 Lusitano...

[therobotmonster]

A toy design soapbox, if you wish: Breakability.

I think you should be able to have toys that are comparatively difficult to break at all price points as well -- not just ones that are intended for gnawing and tossing, but for just dealing with even the most well-intentioned child's handling.

Breyers caused so much anxiety for my parents and I! The plastic -- or porcelain or whatever they use -- powders rather than snaps, meaning that gluing the delicate little legs back on is nigh-impossible. My father, endlessly patient as he was, even tried drilling a hole into the leg, and attaching a screw into the cannon bone. No dice.

I received Breyers at a very young age (my earliest being when I was about 5), and was often gifted with them, or similarly breakable but beautiful items, because I was "so mature" and "so careful". A broken leg for a Breyer is as deadly as it is for a real horse, and for someone who doesn't have a particularly good grasp on "real" and "not real", the vagaries of wall-to-wall loop carpeting seems like a preventable tragedy that was all their fault.

This is another reason I love Schleich (which were $4-$8 at my local zoo gift shop). The animals look beautiful and intelligent, but you could drop them 50 feet and they'd be fine.

Thank you for sharing your experiences on the subject.

My aunts had Breyer horses, they were beautiful sculpts but they weren't toys, they were collectables of the Hummel variety, and not a great match for actual kids, no.

Schleich is a very good option for kids that want that kind of high detail and sculptural beauty but with durability and playability, and the extra cost is directly reflected in the quality. Their fantasy stuff is also very creative. Some of the best monsters on the market.

There are the rare kids who really like delicate model kits, glass menagerie figurines, etc, but that's a specialty situation that parents or collectors should be aware of in advance.

[horsegamergirl]

You know those rare moments where you have inspiration and motivation and time? I'm currently in it and I decided to use this moment to transform one of the schleich doubles I had into one of my SSO horses. It's still a WIP and first I need to figure out the right shade (and how to do it), but so far I think it looks promising.

Photos of the WIP under the cut. The lighting isn't very good so the photos don't really show the real colours, but oh well

[karltface]

Time for another mail-exchange interlude, ladies and germs.

The box portends great things. What sort of fellow orders toys by the case?

The sort who takes requests, actually: we both wanted this guy. The Snizzard (it gets a "The" all through the Wiki, so you know it's serious) apparently menaced the Power Rangers on several occasions (and was initially voiced by Bryan Cranston of all people). But I never watched that show for some reason, so I'm going by what Bogleech tells me: apparently this thing was originally Dora Ladon, based on the serpent that guards the golden apples of the Hesperides. Jealous of the many youthful women on Earth, Bandora (Rita) summoned this horror to suck the youth out of them. It does so with the magical apple crown on its head, which generates parasitic apples on its victims that rapidly age them. You can see why that part was cut.

Anyway, this thing will blend right in on my burgeoning Demons and Things that Look Like Them table. It's like a hundred snakes swarmed together into a humanoid form, and then put on a possessed tsuchinoku costume.

Speaking of, a surprise. I was after a minotaur, any minotaur, and this one didn't disappoint. A quick dark wash will make this pop; this is good, because he's not much of a character. Just a Worf Barrage magnet that served as an early reason to get the Power Weapons into play. He has double-arm swinging action, a sweet shield, and a classic design. I was not expecting Rhinoblaster, who I initially took to be a bat. He's full of sports puns and lives to disrupt football teams. Gotta say, he's lucky he looks so cool.

Another specific pick, the Barracuda! It's not much of a vehicle, with a troop capacity of one, but compensated with a good strong missile launcher and an honest-to-gods baking powder dive mechanism. This one needs a cleaning, and perhaps some sealant on the stickers, but it really does spice up an ocean display.

Critters! Leading the charge is Major Legger Mutton of the Barnyard Commandos BK promotion. Like the rest of this shot, he's actually spare parts, missing the pontoons that folded into a bracelet. Honestly looks better without. There's a few Battle Beasts, all disarmed. I like the chunky rubber spider, and the Boreal Toad is kind of adorable.

Most intriguing are the Toad Air Marshall from Bucky O'Hare, another line I slept on and now feel I need to explore, and that Kronosaur. Looks familiar...

Could've been classic Schleich again; got a species name (in German where applicable), slight marbling in the plastic. But it's ABS, and has no makers' mark or country of origin. Some prominent mold lines, too. Gotta be a knockoff. Nice that they included an average size on the tail, there.

Bits and bobs are a Sectaurs harness (Pinsor, I believe; I've written about him before, but that may have been on Figurerealm....), two Galaxy Warriors shields, Soundwave's rifle, and the Double Duty Mace, an improbable weapon hailing from Tonka's Rock Lords. Well, the weapons are stupid rare, so I guess this is my cue to pick up another childhood favorite.

Yeah.

Rounding out the haul are an early Stephen King movie I actually haven't seen - Time to break out the bingo cards! Or the booze- and an IFC horror that looks like it might not be half bad. That's a couple nights' entertainment already. Also a red drawstring pouch, which will live in the Red Pouches Drawer. Yes, I have two, for light and dark red. Shut up, I can quit when I want to.

Anyhoo, that's another exchange with one of my out-of-state contacts. I guess I mostly do haul breakdowns now. I guess I'll roll with that.

[hapalopus]

For the Horse Figure ask game:

8, 13 and 21.

8. Do you have any customs? Nope! Customs tend to be quite expensive and I have yet to see one that caught my eye enough to spend $$$ on it. I fell a bit in love with a prehistoric horse made by Lupa (the Green Wolf), but it went to another buyer before I even had a chance to bid on it :')

13. Are you a brand loyalist, or do you just buy whatever horses you like? I'm brand disloyal. I was very into Schleich as a kid, but when they changed the material and texture of their figures around 2010 I lost interest. I was a bit lost and disillusioned about it until I realized that brands don't matter and the most important thing is that you like looking at your figures. Unless we're talking Bella Sara, in which case, I'm very loyal. But that brand has been dead for a decade, so it's fine :)

21. Give us your hot takes about horse collecting~ 'Rarity' is a useless concept and demand is only slightly less useless. Having rare figures doesn't inherently make your collection interesting - honestly, the "most rare collections" are often the most impersonal and uninteresting collections out there. Also, the idea of 'rarity' emboldens sellers outside the collectors communities to hike up prices on figures they think are rare/in-demand, leading to absurdism like this

If the donkey was really that rare, there wouldn't be dozens of identical listings jhkdglsfj

[princepestilence]

24, 25, 28, and 29!!

24. What’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for?

Genuinely so much. Not to make things heavy, but getting through this year as sane and okay as I am by this point is maybe my crowning achievement thus far, given... all of it.

25. Favourite season, and why?

Not summer! I naturally run very warm and really thrive in the cold as a result, so it's more about the average temperature than any specific season. A warm autumn is less ideal for me than a cold spring, for example.

28. Do you collect anything?

Oh yes. It's very much in my nature to create little archives and collections, so I am sort of having to push back against that impulse. At the moment, I have a few collections still around:

Decks of cards (playing & tarot cards) -- these are my preferred token from travel, I like to get a deck when I go somewhere new and exciting .

Schleich animal figurines -- I haven't added anything to this collection for over a decade, but it was one of my deepest loves as a kid. Every Christmas and birthday, these were on the list. I was known by all local and semi-local purveyers of animal figures back in the day. I don't have anywhere decent to put them out right now, but maybe one day I will have a nice cabinet again. .

Books -- not especially with any rhyme or reason, but when I come across something nice in my field of interests (and especially if it's a rare find), it is coming home with me. These are usually artbooks, which are catnip to me. .

29. What do you do when you’re sad?

The first reflex is definitely to step away from everyone and give myself space and silence to mull it over. But once that's gotten boring and I'm ready to feel better, then for sure I am either going through my old tags through my blog of things that make me laugh, or seeking out time with friends to the same end. If I can get myself to laugh, the spiral upwards into feeling bright again is pretty swift.

[zeephrr]

i think just found out i happen to have a kinda rare-ish schleich horse-

from my googling its a red armored mare from i think 2012? i also like found her for like 2 bucks at a small thrift shop and like the average price on ebay seems to be around $15-$30+ for just the horse so im hella lucky ig

sorry if the picture is iffy, its like 2am rn lol

the rider has a missing arm but besides that its literally in perfect condition, does anyone know how much this could possibly be worth?

[warcrimesimulator]

Waiting for the Ebay seller I bought that vintage Schleich beech marten from to combine my shipping. Also bought the Schleich black-backed jackal from them (which is also very rare and hard to find)

[horsefigureoftheday]

What does conga mean in a horse context?

When you have several different colorways of the same mold. It's a term that comes from the Breyer community, where collectors will often collect their favorite mold in as many colors as possible and display them all in a 'conga line' :)

Schleich used to have different molds for each horse, and rarely reused molds. But in the past decade they've slowly started reusing molds, especially for their online exclusive and set exclusive releases - so now you con conga Schleich horses too!

[bigtinytoys]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Vintage Schleich, Papo, Medieval CASTLE CATAPULT TOY 2000 Rare 3465000393465.

[crystlelakefarm]

Name: Cookie

Breed: Irish Cob

Gender: Filly

Number: 83044

Year: 2021

[is-the-primate-vid-cute]

Thought y’all would like to know that Schleich (a company that makes detailed animal figures) made a figure of a proboscis monkey!

https://www.schleich-s.com/en/US/wild-life/products/proboscis-monkey-14846.html

Oh how cute!

I always loved these figures as a kid, and its great to see such a rare and fascinating species showcased like this. What a great likeness too! I personally prefer them sitting so you really get to see the pot belly, but who can say no to a monkey in action and on the move?