>3rd kid's coming>1st girl>Get kind of excited because I keep seeing sylvanian families at toy stores and now I have a passable excuse to check 'em out >Start looking into them seriously >They seem stupid expensive So, are they actually the quality one would expect for that price or are they a rip-off?
>>11824237>and now I have a passable excuse to check 'em outfor the love of god, don't pass on your insecurities to your kids. you are going to fuck them up.
>>11825039I am probably going to pass many physical and psychological flaws down, just as I'll pass physical and psychological merits down.The worst of these flaws won't be the belief that little flocked figures of big headed critters are probably best suited to little girls.
Who's the father?
>>11825792Right? Should we expect a black cat in the picture?
>>11825792I think the one in shorts in the background, it's just foreshortened weird so he looks kid-scale.Imagine taking six kids and the wife out to a local bakery cafe.That's like 180 bucks worth of scones, good god man.
>>11824237Buy them secondhand, very affordable. They are pretty high quality though, most of my childhood ones look great.If you get into customising them, it might hit your insecurities less.
>>11825879Probably gonna take a laser cutter course at the library, buy laser cut patterns, and throw together a few houses/shops/ships when all the kids are past their destructive toddler phases.I don't know why more kids' playsets aren't ships, they seem like an ideal setting for diorama and imaginary play.
>>11825879>Buy them secondhand,for his newborn? with all that bacteria collected into their felt? no.
>>11826304These are gonna be 2+ years down the road.Any toy before then is just a chew toy.
>>11824237Sylvania is expensive because they are a Japanese line with a history of spotty distribution in the USWal Mart for a while had an off brand version called Honeybee but I don't remember if they still carry them.
Very cute series. Am a bit confused by the different imitations like Maple Town and Calico Critters. Not that I mind, just odd that there's different companies producing essentially the same flocked anthropomorphic animal families
>>11826304You can’t give this toy to a newborn full stop, dumbass.
>>11827188How's Anon supposed to know? They're such weird little aliens and more and more people are only kids or from entire families with no young kids.I've been seated at restaurants at least half a dozen times with an infant and the waitress or hostess has grabbed the infant a kid's menu and box of crayons.
>>11826997Calico Critters is just the American localization name of Sylvanian Family.
>>11826338They seem to have a pretty solid distribution deal with Barnes and Nobles, just like how Moomin has. Still crazy expensive, though. The blind-boxes for babies in themed costumes are, $11 and just a single 4 member family is $20-$25.
>>11824237They're cute, very solid figures but their clothes will be stripped off and lost to the dust bunnies in no time. The playsets are definitely the best part of the line, but there's also cheaper alternatives on the market for little kids to play with. >>11825939To be honest, there just aren't a lot of toy options out there to have a wide variety of ships. My kid has the big Spidey Ship and a larger Paw Patrol boat but as far as ships go that's really it. I'm sure you could find some cheapish brands on Amazon or something, and Playmobil makes some really nice boats, but there isn't tons of toys on the shelves these days, especially at retail stores. Now houses on the other hand, there's plenty of those. My kid has a full on city going with schools, fire houses, car washes, Paw Patrol towers and of course straight up homes. And don't get me started on castles, there's a Disney line of mini-castles that stack together and it's awful because you *will* need multiples of three of them for the sets to really make sense. But something I've noticed is that most pre-school toylines all seem to have an almost universal scale for figures going on. Every series is between 2-3" figures with some standard 3-5 poa and they all seem to go well together. Bluey, Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol, Disney, Seasame Street, Spidey and other kid friendly super heroes and even Calico Critters all sell toys with similar sizes so they all kind of work together. Even the Disney Princesses have this line of figures that despite having fairly accurate proportions compared to more tooney figures, still can work well with other brands. It's gonna sound weird but it kinda scratches a strange itch in the back of my head to have so many of my kids toys be similarly scaled with each other.>>11826322My kid never really went through a chewing toys stage. Even when she was teething she didn't really use a teething ring or anything of the kind. Never had a pacifier either.
>>11824237Imagine bragging about impregnating a woman on a toy board
>>11827946There should be more modularity in toy buildings.It would also be cool if you could have one that stick to the wall with plungers, so kids could add height- like a multi level apartment, without the obvios knockover risk of a kid vs a thing that is taller than it is wide.Would be cool too for like, a cutaway "jet" playset, have it seem like it's suspended in air.Preschooler is totally obsessed with ATC towers, that would have to be a whole custom job, and the risk of his two year old brother crushing and eating it has put me off.One day I'll dust off the 3D printer and make them some really sick environments for their toys to inhabit.
>>11825039You'll think differently when you have kids.I used to buy all kinds of stuff, now I'm much more choosy about what I spend money and space on.>Do I really need this?>Do I have the space to store it?>This costs X, could pay for groceries instead>Is this something my kids would play with too?
I need pictures of CC/SFs inside model trains.
>>11824237haii :3 as a sylvanian collector, they are very good quality for what theyr worth, if you see reviews of the items all the gadgets are intricately designed and everything has a function, it's perfect, plus, other toys have about the same circumference as sylvanian family dolls so you can mix and match them, i would reccomend getting your daughter the starter home or something bigger for future sets, because it's boring playing with the families whilst having no props.as for the actual dolls, they are very very small but everything is made with caution, they feel very soft, with some sort of micro fur aspect to them, the legs and hands are articulated, so is the neck, it can move 360°.it's a very special item for girls because albeit expensive it's amazing to play with
