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This is essentially nearly every toy company. We have a few hold-outs, like Schleich, Breyer, Safari Ltd. CollectA, The Bridge Direct and the Pokemon Company off the top of my head. But yeah, it's not limited solely to Hasbro.
Quote from: Leave a Whisper on April 29, 2018, 07:55:05 AMThis is essentially nearly every toy company. We have a few hold-outs, like Schleich, Breyer, Safari Ltd. CollectA, The Bridge Direct and the Pokemon Company off the top of my head. But yeah, it's not limited solely to Hasbro.Schleich have their issues elsewhere. Since they got their new CEO a while ago their sculpts and paintwork started to lack severely. We can be lucky if a figure is two-tone nowadays.Their new horses for 2018 look monstrous compared to CollectA, a company that invested in some great artists to help their figures look great and realistic.Schleich's horses look like misshapen aliens now. And I can say that, I was exposed to Schleich since birth They value cheapness over educational purposes. But hey, at least the plastic gets tested for safety.
I only keep track on Schleich horses and dinosaurs because I think their other figures are still good looking, even compared to the rival companies.But the issue is the horses and dinos belong to their top sellers and yet they started skimping out on them a lot.I am trying not to derail this too much but let's just say... I have always lived close to their headquarters, stores were full of them and it was sometimes impossible to get the rival figures because Schleich would dominate the market here.That was ok because they made good quality toys and prided themselves with "educational value" and would even put in their booklets that they valued education over sales (a way to endear the company to parents).Now this has become an empty promise. Their dinosaurs look ridiculous safe for one or two outliers (but they willingly make them inaccurate colors because kids go more for popping colors) and they upset educators with the shere monstrosity of some of the animals.You could put some of the natural horses and most of the dinos into the fantasy lines because they are fantastic beasts.As for quality, the paint schemes are lackluster, one tone, sometimes the horses don't even get accurate coat colors. Just stuff that sells like pure white foals and adult animals with giant almond eyes that remind me of Grey aliens.And yet their stuff is everywhere here and my new favorite company, Collecta, is basically online only because Schleich still dominates.Sometimes you spot a Safari and Papo dinosaurs in the museums. But Germany is basically Schleich + Bullyland paradise. If I see one more lime green JP monster raptor I am going to cry
I don't know what you mean by strange but one of my fave CollectA horses is the perlino Akhal-Teke. Schleich never entertained such a breed or color scheme.Odd colors are ok with dinosaurs if pigments haven't been detected. But even then there are still colors that seem impossible. Like a velociraptor being neon colors. Quite recently Schleich completely disregarded that a certain species was found out to be brown years ago. It also has no educational value to mimic JP, and badly. https://www.schleich-s.com/de/DE/dinosaurs/produkte/velociraptor-14585.htmlhttps://store.safariltd.com/products/feathered-velociraptorhttps://www.everythingdinosaur.com/product/papo-feathered-velociraptor-model/Would you believe this is supposed to be the same animal? Schleich's is a movie creature while Safari and Papo's is an animal.Schleich also got more expensive despite the sculpt and paint decline. What I do love from them are the fantasy girly lines like their mermaids or Bayala. Their mermaids and fairies actually have healthy anatomy. Wish their new horses had that.Schleich bought a Mojö mold for a pony and their version ended up looking worse with the same mold. I think I need to make my own thread with comparisons. This has bugging me for a long time. I guess I have added frustration because when I wad a kid Schleich horses were actually worth something to collectors. Now the new ones have lost a lot of collectability and are mostly being used as baits. A Schleich horse often needs it's pose and legs fixed before repainting. Back to Hasbro.I'm not into the new JP at all but I noticed some of Hasbro's offerings looked so shoddy. Maybe some of you know what 'real feel' skin is? It's a sort of rubber that used to be on many old JP toys and still holds up. I have an old Lost World stegosaurus and Hasbro still uses the mold. But the new ones look like knock-offs.I don't know what I would say if Hasbro bought out Mattel. And I'm not big on Mattel anymore but at the very least their sculpts have always appealed more to me. Imagening MLP by Mattel. That silky hair quality! Their new Fashionistas have great quality hair. They finally perfected curls and so many new dolls have afros. Would be great to get a pony like that.
I wonder how well the EG reboot dolls are doing.
My last reply on that subject, I swear.LAW, you are right. I googled and Schleich did have an Akhal family. I just never clocked them because the Schleich horses can look so samey. At least they tried doing the bodies differently.Some of their Shetlands look like MLP, so chubby complete with flank symbols
Quote from: DreamvalleyMLP on May 12, 2018, 07:08:59 AMI wonder how well the EG reboot dolls are doing.I don't know about other areas, but I literally have never seen a single one of these in a store. I only know they exist from reading about them online. I haven't seen much of anything EQG related in a long time. About 2 years ago there was a huge glut of Rainbow Rocks and Friendship Games dolls appearing in discount stores, and that's about the last I've seen besides those little Mini figures that were around for a little bit.