Sep 22nd

Fake Sylvanian Families

I kicked my fake toy problem about 4 years ago but sometimes you have to make an exception. I don’t think it surprising for a grown man to like Sylvanian Families, it would be a surprise if he DIDN’T like them. I love them, have lots of them and have spent a small fortune on the Japanese food sets for them.

Normal Sylvanian Families

Above is a small selection of my Sylvanians, that’s a little lamb in my hand.

Last night I found a knock off Sylvanian Family set called ‘Lovely Set’. They look great. The clothes are perfect and the accessories are high quality. The only down point is they have that horrible glue smell you got in cheap shoe shops in Dublin back in the 80′s.

Fake Sylvanian Families

Fake Sylvanian Families

But there has to be something weird about it to make a good knock off toy. Ignore the weird English sentences on the box ‘New series for your time fun’ etc.
And this set has one glaring oddity. They are mutants.

Instead of the usual 3 inch height these bad boys are 6+! Let me put it layman terms by using the imperical Doozer vs Smurf scale test.

Doozer Sylvanian and Smurf

God I love my life.

Posted in Blog, toys by Bob on Sep 22nd | comments icon 10 Comments

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  • http://www.thecomiccast.com Liam

    Sylvanians nerd myself. There’s just something about having a minature dining room set with tiny forks and plates that does it for me.

    Supremely jealous of the (wind-up?) Doozer. Ever since I spotted one in the two page merchandise spread of ‘Jim Henson: The Works’ I’ve wanted one.

  • http://www.theblogsthejob.blogspot.com uiscebot

    Sylvanian families and a war strategists bookshelf (overlord baybee). You’re the most juxtaposed motha fucka I know. Bravo.

  • http://qualitywaffle.wordpress.com/ Quality Waffle

    I have a whole village full of sylvanians in my parents’ attic, however there are a few mutants in there too. In my day, they went by the name of “forest families” and they were significantly bigger than the pure bred sylvanians. It wasn’t too bad because the family I had were brown bears so you would expect them to be bigger than hedgehogs, however their arms didn’t rotate like the sylvanians would and their bodies were a lot softer too.

  • http://www.fustar.info fústar

    You obviously get a higher quality of manky toy in Spain. I have exhausted local reserves, so may be making a fact-finding trip over very soon. You have been warned.

    Oh and the fake Sylvanian looks unsettlingly like a creepy child in a sheep mask.

  • noel griffith

    love that book in the background,the tunnels of cu chi! scary scary book!

  • Garageman

    ***Oh and the fake Sylvanian looks unsettlingly like a creepy child in a sheep mask.***

    Are you sure they’re not “the Wicker man” figures Bob?

  • http://www.clamnuts.com Bob

    First off that Tunnels of Chu Chi book was a let down for me. I’m reading Nemesis by Max Hastings right now and THAT’S a spicey meat-a-ball.
    Quality Waffle, you are 100% right, hats off to you. Forest Families were Japanese and a bit larger than the Sylvanians we know and love.

  • http://www.clamnuts.com Bob

    Yep they’re creepy. I’m staring into her vacant black eyes right now….the horror….they remind me of the oversized Snodule from my little seen Amperduke story The Big One. Read it or I’ll sulk:
    http://www.clamnuts.com/comics/amperduke/read.php

  • Stewbie

    Loser

  • http://madelinepetty.co.cc/ Madeline Petty

    I have a whole village full of sylvanians in my parents’ attic, however there are a few mutants in there too. In my day, they went by the name of “forest families” and they were significantly bigger than the pure bred sylvanians. It wasn’t too bad because the family I had were brown bears so you would expect them to be bigger than hedgehogs, however their arms didn’t rotate like the sylvanians would and their bodies were a lot softer too.

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