When I first received a box in the mail containing Schleich figurines, I thought, "How cool!" These figurines are amazing -- they have accuracy in shape and color to the finest detail.
When my kids began pulling the figurines out of the box, we "Oooooo"ed and "Ahhhhhh"ed over each individual piece. Then my daughter found the goldmine, the Schleich catelog, and began flipping through its pages as well.
These animals are just adorable! They are so lifelike. They really shouldn't be called "toys" -- they are pieces of art; miniatures.
We first experienced Schleich figurines in 2006. At that time, we didn't know them by brand name. What we knew was that my 16 year old daughter found them in Europe when her home school co-op went on a field trip culminate their four-years of studying Tapestry of Grace. While in Europe my daughter bought a beautiful, life-like dragon as a souvineer for her 6-year-old brother.
Not knowing it as Schleich, it reminded us of the story in the Chronicles of Narnia where Eustace turns into a dragon (with a gold band on his arm), and Edmund (I think) is prepared to fight in full armor when he realizes it is no ordinary dragon. The following Christmas big sister was surprised and delighted to find a similar figurine that seemed to go with the dragon, and she bought the mounted knight set for her brother for Christmas.
Then, when the Schleich figurines came in the mail, we finally discovered that it was Schleich that we'd been loving all these years and we just didn't know it! My daughter found the well-loved figurines in their catelog. And, we figured out that the cute figurines that our local novelty toy store carries are all Schleich as well! And we've loved those figurines from long before we owned any!
Schleich carries a wide variety of types of figurines, from farm animals to wild animals, from smurfs to people, from Medieval figurines to prehistoric figurines. Follow the links and consider buying some from your local specialty store. You can't go wrong.
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These figurines look great - I'll have to look them up.