Roselaar's All-new PB-free Collections Thread

[Roselaar]

Still one of the greatest play sets ever, but these colours are not an improvement...

[Roselaar]

Favorite dinosaurs, second line. Some amazing figures here.

[Mini Minmi]

Ooooooh I like those dinosaurs soft models! I'm not sure what it is about them but I find them very appealing.

[Shonisaurus]

Roselaar congratulate you for the soft models of Favorite are together with the coelacanth of the only prehistoric animals that I lack in my collection.

They are very good figures, I attest to that because I have the parasaurolophus and the ankylosaurus latest version and they look magnificent.

[Roselaar]

Painted Invicta Mammoth times two:

[Shonisaurus]

I congratulate you for your painted mammoth of Invicta. What I would like to know one day how many versions of Invicta in relation to the different monochrome figures of each species more repainted are in the toy market, rather have been. I have the traditional figures, but I did not know there were so many versions (in different colors) of the Invicta figures, even one with the figures covered in gold loaves.

[PhilSauria]

Yes I am quite a fan of the Favorite figures - one line that I have been able to collect all of. Kept the packs which are up in a cupboard while the figures are all lined up in a display cabinet. Do you also have the swimming Spinosaur and running Archaeopteryx? Their recent arrival filled me with optimism that further releases may occur in future.

[Roselaar]

Yes I am quite a fan of the Favorite figures - one line that I have been able to collect all of. Kept the packs which are up in a cupboard while the figures are all lined up in a display cabinet. Do you also have the swimming Spinosaur and running Archaeopteryx? Their recent arrival filled me with optimism that further releases may occur in future.

Yup, got those two as well. Fantastic pieces! Also some other recent Favorite figures in my collection, but not all of them. I can do without the Mammoth and Smilodon for example.

I congratulate you for your painted mammoth of Invicta. What I would like to know one day how many versions of Invicta in relation to the different monochrome figures of each species more repainted are in the toy market, rather have been. I have the traditional figures, but I did not know there were so many versions (in different colors) of the Invicta figures, even one with the figures covered in gold loaves.

Some people here have tried to keep up with all the different colour variations (both painted and unpainted), but unknown variations still pop up every now and then. It's a gargantuan task keeping track...

On to Hasbro's JP III. This is where quality dropped considerably and would continue to do so until very recently. 

[Bokisaurus]

Nice additions, love the Favorite sets.

[Roselaar]

Papo Wholly Rhino. I love it, aside from the weird horn.

[Shonisaurus]

Roselaar I also like the woolly rhinoceros of Papo. Hopefully next year Papo will make an elasmotherium to replace Papo's woolly rhinoceros.

[Roselaar]

A lovely Bullyland Ammonite, the larger of the two they made.

[Shonisaurus]

Roselaar I also really like Bullyland's big ammonite, its texture is fabulous and it's a very detailed figure.

[Roselaar]

More JP III human figures. Some of their dinosaur companions are okay.

[Roselaar]

All kinds of Chinasaurs thrown together:

[Roselaar]

Two Wild Republic mammals. The Glyptodon is excellent, the Mammoth has a nice colour scheme but is otherwise rather feeble.

[Shonisaurus]

I congratulate you Roselaar for your excellent acquisitions of Wild Republic. I have been tempted in my day to buy the glyptodon and mammoth from Wild Republic in fact they sell it in the Shop of the Science Museum of Madrid together with the megatherium.

The glyptodon of Wild Republic has nothing to envy to the glyptodon of the Schleich brand now discontinued.

[Roselaar]

Roselaar, is there any chance you are Dutch? If so I think I need to visite your collection.

Oh, there's a very good chance in fact. Don't have a Dutch passport for nothing I suppose. 

If you're serious about a visit, let me know. Even though I'm a very busy man these days, I wouldn't mind sharing my passion with others. As long as they don't steal anything of course.

[Roselaar]

Here's a better prehistoric mammal for you, the Collecta Deluxe Deinotherium. I love the detail, but I still prefer the classic Bullyland figure.

[Shonisaurus]

Collecta's deinotherium is spectacular, although as you say Bullyland's deinotherium is very good, we must bear in mind that this figure is from 1998 and comparatively is in many ways superior to that of Collecta 2013. I understand what you are saying about Roselaar.