Sylvnian Families
I have been collecting Sylvanian Families since 2012. At first I mostly collected babies and baby related set but over time my collection has grown to include all kinds of families, homes, shops and others. I do have a weak spot for the figures and I am always on the hunt for new ones. At my collections peak I had a few hundred figures, a ton of different sets. Now I mostly collect older sets and figures.
The Sylvnian Families toyline were first realised in 1985 by the gaming company Epoch and have been distribud by diffreent companies around the world over time. The toyline is a dollhouse line set in a fictional village in a 1950s setting. The dolls are animal figures in plastic with a flocked, fussy surface. The first releases of the dollhouses and other playsets were made of porcelain and the furniture was made of wood. Later they were made with plastic and metal and now the sets are now made all in plastic. Over time the sets have gone through a few style changes, but it has always been a toyline assosieted with quality. The older sets are highly collectable and loved by both childerns and adults.
In 1987 Tomy acquried exlusive rights for the brand in the United Kingdom.
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By the late 1990s, Sylvanian Families had been discontinued in the UK, although since 1999, they have been reintroduced by Flair.
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In 2013 Flair confirmed that the rights for the toys in the UK would be transferred to the newly formed Epoch UK which has distributed it since then.
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In 1993, Tomy, who had been distributing the toys worldwide, lost the rights to the name "Sylvanian Families" in Canada and the USA. Tomy reintroduced the line under the new name Calico Critters of Cloverleaf Corners, now simply just called Calico Critters. The Calico Critters line is currently distributed in the US and Canada by Epoch Everlasting Play, LLC.