Guest Posted January 1, 2009 Posted January 1, 2009 Hi - Happy new year to everyone Am going to be doing some work on ice etc after holdiays and was wondering where people have bought their arctic animals from as I am having difficulty finding sets of them reasonably priced. Ems
Guest Posted January 2, 2009 Posted January 2, 2009 of course! Why didnt I think of that - thanks they have some on their website so gonna pop to my nearest one and see if they have any now! x
Guest Posted January 29, 2010 Posted January 29, 2010 I was just wondering if you ever managed to find any and if so where from? I have been trawling the internet looking for some reasonably priced ones. ELC has nothing as far as I can see and neither does ebay. Anyone know of anywhere else I can buy a nice set of artic animals, preferably plastic rather than wood?
AnonyMouse_13453 Posted January 29, 2010 Posted January 29, 2010 Have you tried your local toyshop? There's a range of plastic animals - similar to 'Britains' type, Schuco or some foreign-sounding name. I know they have polar bears because I've bought them in the past
AnonyMouse_25331 Posted January 29, 2010 Posted January 29, 2010 Have you tried your local toyshop? There's a range of plastic animals - similar to 'Britains' type, Schuco or some foreign-sounding name. I know they have polar bears because I've bought them in the past It's SCHLEICH and you can get them in most toyshops and Toys R Us!! Expensive but anatomically correct and all to exact scale - so you can't beat them!!
AnonyMouse_13453 Posted January 29, 2010 Posted January 29, 2010 It's SCHLEICH and you can get them in most toyshops and Toys R Us!! Expensive but anatomically correct and all to exact scale - so you can't beat them!! Ta - that's it!!
Guest Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 Wow they are expensive and Toys R Us don't seem to sell the arctic ones anyway I'm hoping to persuade the head to buy them so it would be better if I could find a set of them from a shop or educational supplier but I seem to be out of luck.
AnonyMouse_19782 Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 (edited) Galt used to do an Innuit village set but that was wooden. We got all of ours from Early Learning Centre, polar bear, penguins, arctic fox whales, etc. I'm sure I saw a polar bear in our store recently. Hi just an up-date, have just rung our Early Learning Centre store, they don't have any arctic animals left they also said that they had had them in a complete set in a tin - all these items had been in the sale recently and have gone, they don't really sell individual animals through the website, she suggested I tried one of their larger stores to see if they had any left - perhaps arctic stuff is seasonal! Edited January 30, 2010 by Panders
Guest Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 http://www.bumblekids.com/item-PolarAnimal...Collection.html I bought a similar set with 6 penguins but they seem to be out of stock now! Also picked up a tin of Polar animals from elc in the sale £12.50 I think? Keep an eye on ebay, or if you have a zoo shop nearby they always have little animal sets!
AnonyMouse_4544 Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 Yellow door do a set of 11 penguins for £7.50 they also do acrylic ice blocks but don't seem to have other creatures in their new catalogue
AnonyMouse_19782 Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 i see in the latest Galt Catalogue they are quite expensive there is a set called Ice and Snow Deluxe for£49.95 and the Inuit house is a similar price (not comfortable with this item though - I think it would perpetuate the theory that all Inuit people live in igloos, rather than some of them continuing with the old ways and to use them just as overnight places to shelter when they are out hunting)
Guest Posted January 31, 2010 Posted January 31, 2010 Tesco had a set of arctic animals at Christmas which were a good size-wild animals and farm animals too
Guest Posted January 31, 2010 Posted January 31, 2010 Darn I seem to have 'missed the bus' so to speak with many of these, obviously Christmas was the time for getting hold of them. Thanks for all the info though I'll keep looking and hopefully something will turn up. The ones on that Bumble site seem quite nice as a starting set so I might get them and hope to build on them later for more variety.
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