Schleich New for 2017

[Flaffy]

Eh, to be honest I prefer Recur feathers over Schleich feathers, there is just something about Schleich feathers that's very off putting.
And to be fair, Schleich has been on market way longer than Recur. And Schleich has proven themselves in the past to produce decent figures like the elasmosaurus and desmatosuchus, but somewhere along the way they decided to do monsters instead of actual animals.
A little offtopic, Recur produced a velocisaurus figure, at least what they claim to be one. Has anyone produced a velocisaurus before?

Clearly inspired by this drawing

[Halichoeres]

Boy, that Utahraptor looks pretty darn revolting, even for a Schleich. It looks like some old, washed up, niccotine stained glam-rock singer who was cool in the 70's, but now he's just a creepy old guy performing in dingy bars as he tries to relive the glory days.
I honestly cannot comprehend how somebody designs things to look that ugly, and gets away with it because "Hey, kids are stupid right? So who cares!" It's not even stylisation, you can design a stylised and grossly inaccurate dinosaur to still look very aesthetically pleasing, even in a naive way. But these are just... it's as though they've hired somebody who failed in a career at designing monsters for ghost-train rides, and just told them to make some dinosaurs.

*giggles*

The utahraptor is a mere caricature of a feathered dinosaur. It reflects Schleich's lack of professionalism in realizing his figures and his lack of seriousness. I understand that this figure will be another failure of sales by this company.

Neither it is scientific and what is worse neither educative nor by what. It is a shame that a company makes such figures, without a doubt it is even much better companies like Recur to put an example compared to the company Schleich.

Summarizing neither serves for children nor for collectors such figures. They are the Schleich dinosaurs in their vast majority unfortunately a cruel esperpento (except honorable exceptions).

"Esperpento" is a new word for my Spanish vocabulary, thank you!

[Shonisaurus]

From my point of view the deinonychus of Recur is much better than any of the feathered dinosaurs that makes Schleich, another case is the velociraptor of the same brand.

On the other hand I am sincerely very hard in my assertions regarding Schleich because I am hurt with his company, as it is said before they made dinosaurs and prehistoric animals better achieved within what was the brand Schleich, as already mentioned the elasmosaurus, Shonisaurus or desmatosuchus were graphic examples including edmontonia.

But today except for some figures (kentrosaurus, stegosaurus 2017, pentaceratops and dunkleosteus) do not make memorable figures.


Anyway what I mean by comparison with Recur that company with many less means than Schleich and being figures designed for children, as they have commented many times, have made figures within which it compares with Schleich much more worthy than The ones made by this company are majungatholus or majunghasaurus, mosasaurus and even dimetrodon, although it is a mixture of dimetrodon and gorgonopside.

As far as the word esperpento is a Spanish word created by a writer of the last century XX and means among other assertions. Person or notable thing for its ugliness, slowness or bad trace.

I recognize that I am very hard on Schleich but honestly they could make remarkable figures (in fact the kentrosaurus, pentaceratops or dunkleosteus) are good, within what fits and could make much better figures if they proposed it and not figures like many that do baladas of A grotesque work like the utahraptor.

I also recognize that Schleich has a long history and that he should not go so poorly when he continually catalogs and discontinues his figures year after year. It must be taken into account that a plate in which the matrix of these figures is made cost a pastry and then destroy it if it is not tradable or time passes.

That does apply from my point of view the criteria of savage mercantilism as that of large companies or supermarket stores. They produce a certain number of figures and if they come out well they can have them in stock in their catalogs for a certain time and if they do not they will be discontinued from one year to another

[stargatedalek]

Eh, to be honest I prefer Recur feathers over Schleich feathers, there is just something about Schleich feathers that's very off putting.
And to be fair, Schleich has been on market way longer than Recur. And Schleich has proven themselves in the past to produce decent figures like the elasmosaurus and desmatosuchus, but somewhere along the way they decided to do monsters instead of actual animals.
A little offtopic, Recur produced a velocisaurus figure, at least what they claim to be one. Has anyone produced a velocisaurus before?

Clearly inspired by this drawing

Schleich even has trouble getting the feathers on birds correct. RECUR has them beat simply on quality alone, nevermind accuracy.

[AcroSauroTaurus]

Eh, to be honest I prefer Recur feathers over Schleich feathers, there is just something about Schleich feathers that's very off putting.
And to be fair, Schleich has been on market way longer than Recur. And Schleich has proven themselves in the past to produce decent figures like the elasmosaurus and desmatosuchus, but somewhere along the way they decided to do monsters instead of actual animals.
A little offtopic, Recur produced a velocisaurus figure, at least what they claim to be one. Has anyone produced a velocisaurus before?

Clearly inspired by this drawing

You sure its not meant to be a Velociraptor? Because thats what it looks like. It was probably a typing error. And I don't see much resemblance to the Velocisaurus image, besides the yellow head, hands, and feet.

[Flaffy]

It wasn't a typing error (or they just went with the error)
In many occasions they've marketed this figure as velocisaurus.

[Takama]

It wasn't a typing error (or they just went with the error)
In many occasions they've marketed this figure as velocisaurus.

They also call there Triceratops an Outdated name.   It is my understanding that Recur does not know crap about dinosaur names, but that does not mean there products are as bad as the company this thread is dedicated to. At least with Recur I cant find them at EVERY OTHER Store withen a 100 mile radius.

[Sim]

@FlaffyRaptors

Recur's Velociraptor that looks like Blue from Jurassic World was also labelled "Velocisaurus" on their website, despite the info for it saying it was from Mongolia (Velociraptor is from Mongolia, Velocisaurus is from Argentina).

I hadn't seen that figure you posted before.  Looking on Recur's Facebook page it's new and they call it "Velocisaurus".  But Velocisaurus is a noasaurid ceratosaur, while the figure doesn't look anything like one, it looks like a dromaeosaurid.  I think that figure is meant to represent Velociraptor, but again like with their Jurassic World Blue rip-off, they are calling it the name of an obscure dinosaur (Velocisaurus).  The only resemblance I see between the figure and picture you posted is they both have yellow faces, hands and feet, so I'm not sure it was inspired by that Velocisaurus picture, especially since the figure appears to represent Velociraptor.   Recur mislabelling their Velociraptor figures is like how instead of calling a Triceratops figure they made "Triceratops", they called it "Sterrholophus Marsh": http://dinotoyblog.com/2016/09/20/sterrholophus-marsh-aka-triceratops-recur/  "Sterrholophus" is an obscure synonym of Triceratops, and Marsh is the surname of the author of that name... so to call a figure of a dinosaur that makes no sense.  This weird mislabelling is even more bizarre since Velociraptor and Triceratops are among the most famous dinosaurs.  It's not giving me a good impression of Recur.

A comparison of Recur's "Velocisaurus" with that Velocisaurus image from Wikipedia at a bigger size.  I really think the Recur figure is meant to be Velociraptor.

[Roselaar]

It's got sickle claws, Velocisaurus didn't. On that basis I ban it from the USL, if it's indeed intended to be a Velocisaurus, which to my knowledge would be a first for that species.

[Killekor]

Hi,
In this days i've seen this thread, and recently have benn an "off-topic" part about last year Dunkleosteus. So, i have decided to create a topic about It. So, if someone want to Say something about It, he/she Can post It in that thread.

Here Is It: http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=5271

Hope that you like it.

Killekor

[Sim]

It's got sickle claws, Velocisaurus didn't. On that basis I ban it from the USL, if it's indeed intended to be a Velocisaurus, which to my knowledge would be a first for that species.

Recur's figure that's a rip-off of Blue from Jurassic World was also labelled "Velocisaurus", so that should exclude both that figure and this new feathered figure from the USL, right?   I'm pretty sure both of Recur's "Velocisaurus" figures are meant to represent Velociraptor despite what Recur has called them.

[SpartanSquat]

Schleich recently updated its website with the new figures and I see they retired triceratops! They are preparing a new mold?

[CityRaptor]

They actually retired a lot figures, including all single release Minis:
14513 Allosaurus
14515 Brachiosaurus
14518 Quetzalcoatlus
14522 Triceratops
14532 Tyrannosaurus Rex, Mini
14533 Velociraptor, Mini
14534 Triceratops, Mini
14535 Pentaceratops, Mini
14536 Saichania, Mini
14537 Stegosaurus, Mini
14538 Spinosaurus, Mini
14539 Quetzalcoatlus, Mini
14570 Suchomimus, Mini
14571 Kentrosaurus, Mini
82938 Velociraptor, Mini
82939 Triceratops, Mini

They still seems to sell them in 4-packs however.

[Killekor]

They actually retired a lot figures, including all single release Minis:
14513 Allosaurus
14515 Brachiosaurus
14518 Quetzalcoatlus
14522 Triceratops
14532 Tyrannosaurus Rex, Mini
14533 Velociraptor, Mini
14534 Triceratops, Mini
14535 Pentaceratops, Mini
14536 Saichania, Mini
14537 Stegosaurus, Mini
14538 Spinosaurus, Mini
14539 Quetzalcoatlus, Mini
14570 Suchomimus, Mini
14571 Kentrosaurus, Mini
82938 Velociraptor, Mini
82939 Triceratops, Mini

They still seems to sell them in 4-packs however.

Can you post some pictures?

Thanks

Killekor

[CityRaptor]

That is your Mr. Rex before you repainted him.

[RobinGoodfellow]

They actually retired a lot figures, including all single release Minis:
14513 Allosaurus
14515 Brachiosaurus
14518 Quetzalcoatlus
14522 Triceratops
14532 Tyrannosaurus Rex, Mini
14533 Velociraptor, Mini
14534 Triceratops, Mini
14535 Pentaceratops, Mini
14536 Saichania, Mini
14537 Stegosaurus, Mini
14538 Spinosaurus, Mini
14539 Quetzalcoatlus, Mini
14570 Suchomimus, Mini
14571 Kentrosaurus, Mini
82938 Velociraptor, Mini
82939 Triceratops, Mini

They still seems to sell them in 4-packs however.

Can you post some pictures?

Thanks

Killekor

It's quite easy to find pictures with a Schleich code + Google:
https://www.amazon.de/Schleich-14532-Tyrannosaurus-Mini-Dinosaurier/dp/B00PESXVQ8

[Killekor]

That is your Mr. Rex before you repainted him.

Ops!!!

Sorry, i had forget Mr.Rex and confused it with the new one...

Killekor

[Reptilia]

I wonder if there are indeed more prehistoric figures planned for the second half of the year. The first wave was announced as early as august, and I think that during Christmas holidays Schleich started to reveal new figures for next summer, but still nothing in the prehistoric range.

[Killekor]

I wonder if there are indeed more prehistoric figures planned for the second half of the year. The first wave was announced as early as august, and I think that during Christmas holidays Schleich started to reveal new figures for next summer, but still nothing in the prehistoric range.

If they reveal other models this summer, probsably will be that fantmatic Plesiosaurus that Schleich had posted in their site (without the image) for a time, and also some dinosaur Mini Puzzle. unfortunately and certainly not a feathered Rexy  ...

Killeor

[BlueKrono]

I can't wait for a fantmatic Plesiosaurus of my very own!