#bayala

[schleichoftheday]

Today's Schleich is:

70728 Rainbow Dragon [2022]

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[neptunefairytales]

Happy Year of the Fire Horse! for @look-back-month-challenge day 17 "Lunar new year"

(Personal pic. Please REBLOG if you liked, do not use or repost. Thanks! NSFW AND KINK ACCOUNTS DO NOT INTERACT !!!)

[honsies]

Schleich Bayala Elementa Water Unicorn Mare (2022) #70757 & Schleich Bayala Elementa Water Flames Unicorn Foal (2022) #70758

[cutecollectingcatologue]

Gummy Fruit Unicorn

Unicorn

[j0them0971]

So i sorted all my 1:9s by sculptor and my 1:12s by color...

And I got my 1:16s in order too (schleich/bayala, papo, safari ltd, mojo, etc)

Will do some sculptor infodumping in a future post bc its a LOT to take in!

[toychive]

can i request a schleich figure? any one of them is fine!!

schleich : fairy sera with blossom unicorn bayala

[sketchyorsomething]

I visited my local flea market at the last weekend and since ranting to myself and together with my sister isn't enough; Let's talk about the brand Schleich

Because it is a german brand, I'm not sure if anyone outside of Germany knows them, but basically they produce toys, or to quote wikipedia "Schleich GmbH is an international german toy manufacturer of realistic figurines and toy sets" (please keep that in mind "realistic looking"). In addition to their normal animals (mainly horses) there are also a couple of production series on fantasy themes; One of them being the Bayala series, which also includes a storyline on its own.

Since december 2006 there where several changes of investors or company chairs until Lego bought them in 2015. Ever since that year, the general sales increased and the amount of money earned here in Germany decreased from 80% to about 50%. Therefore the sales in other countries rose.

That much as a short introduction and now let's actually start the rant. I'll mainly talk about the Bayala series btw

More below the cut

Before I start with the really bad things here are some of their dragons:

(https://www.amazon.de/Schleich-70418-Elfen-Faraun/dp/B00272HPD4#)

That's Faraun. She doesn't look too bad, right? Looks as realistic as a dragon could. My sister owned her as a kid so I'm guessing this figure was produced around 2010 to 2013.

(https://www.amazon.com/Schleich-bayala-2-Piece-Playset-Dragon/dp/B07Y2TCC8Q#)

Those two are from a more recent production line. Maybe you can tell where I'm going with this rant.

Sera (One of my favs)

(https://images.app.goo.gl/JdRqyRjMGcUq97uE9)

I mean look at her. She's so pretty and her horse is pretty and her wings have such a beautiful structure and the colors are so realistic. It's just wonderful

This is a slightly newer version of her, approximately from around 2016. I mean, it's not that bad, still a downgrade but not that bad. The colors are too vibrant, they did changes on the horse so it looks like it has a completely different personality and everything so fragile became bigger and chunkier, like her headband. But it is fine ig... at least in comparison to one of the most recent versions

(https://www.schleich-s.com/de/AT/bayala/produkte/sera-mit-blueten-einhorn-70565-2.html)

Yeah, I know. Wtf is this? What is her face?? Whose horse is that??? Certainly not her's. What kind of drugs did she take to make her eyes look like that???? What are those wings????? Did the plastic pollution so bad that even elves/fairys suffer from it?????? Hell???????

Marween

And at this point, I can not even rank the uglyness of the new figurines properly. They're all the worst

(https://www.amazon.de/Schleich-70427-Elfen-Marween/dp/B0031FTU7K#)

This is the oldest version of her I know. Look at her translucent wings, at the individual seems of her clothes, the wonderful autumn-vibe colors, her little fingers, the hairstrands and so on. It's realistic and so unique

(https://www.kastner-oehler.ch/schleich-sera-in-festlicher-kleidung-reitend-bayala-70503-0807104.html)

This is again a slightly newer version, probably also from around 2016. It's not that bad again. I mean her emo horse lost all his (I think he's a stallion, at least if I remember correctly) personality and a few other details got lost (the seams, parts of the wing structure, ...) but it's still fine

(https://www.amazon.de/Marween-mit-Glitzer-Einhorn/dp/B0B4X6Z17Y#)

But this isn't. They once again gave her a completely new horse with zero personality, every little detail was ignored and her face looks like a bad caricature (the face of the racoon too). I don't care that she has a magnet up her ass now, the clever ways of fairy and horse sticking together (by tiny dents of hands and feet, or her wings) was just that; way more clever. And more subtle. I hate the redesign. Also the product name, where she was just called "Marween" in the original and then "Marween in festive clothing", she now is called "Marween with gitter-unicorn". Is it possible to mske a name more tacky?

And because I can not put any new photos in this post I'll continue this on part 2 (click here whenever it might be available, it isn't right now)

[lady-stormwind]

The little Snow Queen

Snow Queen bjd doll

Bayala  by Schleich: Takkiti, Zimsi and Ki-Kuki