Greetings!

[JVM]

Hello everyone, my name is John, I'm 27, from the USA, and I've collected animal toys (and dinosaurs) from a young age, often as souvenirs on zoo and aquarium trips as a child as well as a few Animal Planet collections.

After a long break I have recently been trying to finish two specific sub-collections -- Safari Ltd's Toobs series and Wild Republic/K&M's Moveable Animals playsets. Recently looking into the toobs again has brought me here. Do either of these sublines have any dedicated threads here? I'm also curious what are the more iconic 'historical' lines for wild animals, ala Marx dinosaurs?

[bmathison1972]

Welcome JVM

I have toyed with the idea of having TOOB-specific part of my collection too!

I don't recall a separate thread for either of those topics, but you are welcome to start them on this child-board: https://animaltoyforum.com/index.php?board=16.0


Look forward to your contributions!

[Gwangi]

Welcome! Marx made extant animals too, not just dinosaurs. I've been on the lookout for their muskrat since it's the only toy muskrat that appears to exist. Britains is another vintage toy animal company I see mentioned fairly regularly. Starlux made extant animals as well as dinosaurs too. I suggest checking out the ToyAnimalWiki, it's a database of animal toys and you can search specific companies.

[AnimalToyForum]

Welcome to the forum @JVM!

[JVM]

Thank you for the kind words everyone! I made a few topics already.

@Gwangi - thank you for the notice about that. I have some hollow animals of the type usually sold in clear plastic baggies similar to the cloned Marx dinosaurs so I was wondering about them, though they don't seem to line up with Marx animals. Some of them look like descendents of the Britains figures though! Thank you for a helpful starting point to research.