Future of CollectA Brand in jeopardy(False Alarm)

[Archinto]

Being a collector of vintage Breyer horses, i know that the company puts a lot of care into their horse and animal sculpts. I have no doubt that their figures will still be good.

[terrorchicken]

guess we just have to wait and see. Hopefully it just means that they are using Reeves as a distributor for the US and Canada.

[Archinto]

That may likely be the case. We will just have to see.

[laticauda]

We'll see how it goes, at least my daughter likes horses!

[Takama]

http://sts-forum.forumieren.de/t17828-info-on-collecta-breyer-relationship

New info.

[Killekor]

http://sts-forum.forumieren.de/t17828-info-on-collecta-breyer-relationship

New info.

I don't understand a thing: CollectA Will continue to do dinosaur Deluxe and supreme models? If the answer is no, i'm more happy that CollectA don't retire the Deluxe models (like the Spinosaurus), and the Supreme models (like the Guidraco); if the answer is Yes... OH MY GOD! IT'S TERRIBILE!

Killekor

[Takama]

http://sts-forum.forumieren.de/t17828-info-on-collecta-breyer-relationship

New info.

I don't understand a thing: CollectA Will continue to do dinosaur Deluxe and supreme models? If the answer is no, i'm more happy that CollectA don't retire the Deluxe models (like the Spinosaurus), and the Supreme models (like the Guidraco); if the answer is Yes... OH MY GOD! IT'S TERRIBILE!

Killekor

as far as we know, Reeves is ONLY interested in Horses. however that does not mean CollectA will not create more dinosaurs(yet). If they do make more dinosaurs, it might be from a diffrent companey

[stargatedalek]

If they don't at least release what was revealed this year, well actually I guess it'll be all to easy never to buy their products again if they're all horses anyway...

[Jose S.M.]

I think it's really weird that they announced their wild, marine and prehistoric life figures if those are going to.disappear next year. If I remember well this thread started before the announcement of next year releases.

Edit: it was started shortly after the announcement. It's still weird to me.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I think all Reeves has done is purchase the CollectA farm animals to rebrand as their own.  CollectA will still produce everything else on it's own. It just takes some of the burden off of CollectA financially to keep making horses and such.

[suspsy]

I think all Reeves has done is purchase the CollectA farm animals to rebrand as their own.  CollectA will still produce everything else on it's own. It just takes some of the burden off of CollectA financially to keep making horses and such.

That sounds like a more logical explanation to me.

[Roselaar]

From what I gather, the bit in that thread about discontinuation only applies to Reeves itself, the Collecta side of things is hardly addressed at all so I don't think they're gonna stop producing what they do now. Unless I misunderstand completely...

[Shonisaurus]

We will not know what will happen. Let's hope that an emblematic company that has taken giant steps not only in dinosaurs and prehistoric animals but in current farm animals, wild, marine and high quality horses disappears.

My opinion is that the company Collecta may not be well economically speaking and that has been absorbed by that Reeves company and that imposes its philosophy. Let's hope that does not happen that way. Safari would then be virtually without a serious rival in the company of the toy dinosaur after the disappearance also of the company Battat.

But anyway Anthony Besson would have given a statement that he gives up on the making of dinosaurs and prehistoric toy animals. The same company is bought Collecta and appears another with part of the equipment as happened as Mojo with the difference that will follow the philosophy of the company Collecta in the realization of prehistoric animals among other figures.

I see it from this point of view otherwise the news is catastrophic and unhappy.

[suspsy]

Shonisaurus, you have absolutely no proof for any of that. All you're doing right now is fearmongering, and there's no need for it.

[Neosodon]

I find it highly unlikely that the top producer of model dinosaurs would go out of business over something like a change of ownership.

The only major dinosaur line to go extinct that I'm aware of is Carnegie. Carnegie is owned by safari which all ready has the wild safari line so I saw it as safari consolidating into one line instead of a company going out of business. The wild safari line has grown in quality and quantity since to make up for the loss. So I think it's safe to say no major dinosaur model producing company has ever gone out of business.

[stargatedalek]

I find it highly unlikely that the top producer of model dinosaurs would go out of business over something like a change of ownership.

The only major dinosaur line to go extinct that I'm aware of is Carnegie. Carnegie is owned by safari which all ready has the wild safari line so I saw it as safari consolidating into one line instead of a company going out of business. The wild safari line has grown in quality and quantity since to make up for the loss. So I think it's safe to say no major dinosaur model producing company has ever gone out of business.

Invicta went out of business, and I think Marx did too, and obviously others also but those two are/were quite prominent.

[Killekor]

You're right, Carnegie and CollectA are/were some of the most important dinosaur Toy producers of the world (think that Wikipedia had do a page about the Carnegie collection, with all the dinosaurs of the line).

Killekor

[Neosodon]

I find it highly unlikely that the top producer of model dinosaurs would go out of business over something like a change of ownership.

The only major dinosaur line to go extinct that I'm aware of is Carnegie. Carnegie is owned by safari which all ready has the wild safari line so I saw it as safari consolidating into one line instead of a company going out of business. The wild safari line has grown in quality and quantity since to make up for the loss. So I think it's safe to say no major dinosaur model producing company has ever gone out of business.

Invicta went out of business, and I think Marx did too, and obviously others also but those two are/were quite prominent.

Although this is kind of subjective I wouldn't really describe them as a "dinosaur model producing company." More like a cheap toy producing company but given when they were made it may be difficult to distinguish a model from cheap toys.

[Killekor]

You're right, Carnegie and CollectA are/were some of the most important dinosaur Toy producers of the world (think that Wikipedia had do a page about the Carnegie collection, with all the dinosaurs of the line).

Killekor

I was forget that: this Is the Wikipedia page (there's only in english):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_collection

Killekor

[SBell]

I think all Reeves has done is purchase the CollectA farm animals to rebrand as their own.  CollectA will still produce everything else on it's own. It just takes some of the burden off of CollectA financially to keep making horses and such.

That sounds like a more logical explanation to me.

From what I was told, Reeves entered into a partnership--they are supposed to be the source of CollectA in North America. The problem for many of us is that they will only stock the domestic animal lines (and apparently have influence over them--on the STS someone listed all of the models in the horses that are being cut).

They will apparently bring in, on-demand, the other figures for retailers, but will not stock them. Which means supplies will be limited.

So the lines will be made--but will be tougher to get in North America. The bigger fear is that either Reeves decides not to care about the non-domestic animals completely; or that CollectA, since it has a ready market for only domestic, will focus there more.

Plus, I don't know first hand about Reeves, but I've never heard good things about the company.