Alternative buildings

[tahra]

Sylvanian stuff, from the PROCESS (easier for me to find, I guess  ) :

- Fridge, more to the end of the post.
- Bakery and foodstuffs
- Ice cream

A lot of the food is also on the romanish dio (LINK): namely - pt 2 (including my BELOVED grapes), pt 3 and pt 4 (loads of food)

[DrDalek6]

You had me scratching my head for a while until someone mentioned Sylvanina Families. We've got photos of a decent sized house we had as a kid think it had little paper chains up in it as well, I personally remember having a duck and a frog figure and having a piano which was quite good and a TV in a cabinet which I really liked because there was a slot for you to insert a bit of card which inevitably led to a few homemade cards  . They do seem to be good quality sets whether it would have ever occured to me to intermingle the with the Playmobil I don't know coudl have made for some interesting stories

[Hadoque]

Sylvanian Families do some nice vehicles too:

But not trimaster-ships I suppose?

[playmofire]

But not trimaster-ships I suppose?

'fraid not, Erwin.   

[Skywalker]

these are great sets 

[bonniebeth]

That vintage bus and the bakery are so fantastic!

[sunflower]

So cute 
I love the cars! But I am definitly not going to buy them.
The food also looks great though.

I still have some of my old sets a little house with the kitchen and some mouses and bears. I remember the furniture being less detailed and a bit bigger than Playmobil. I bought those in the eighties. I don't think I have seen it around for a long time in stores now.

[GrahamB]

Anyone know if Calico/Sylvanian does parts orders?  Occasionally I'll see an interesting accessory that would work with a Playmo project, but invariably I don't need the whole set.

I think not. Geobra must be the best toy manufacturer on the planet for supplying spare parts (Lego might be better, but I know very little about THAT toy!) which coupled with the fantastic resource which is PlaymoDB makes the tracking down of specific parts a realistic possibility. I suspect Lego probably is even easier to get spares for with sites such as Bricklink (what happened to that idea to do something similar for PM?).
Sylvanian Families is big in UK (my daughters love it, I don't 'do' fluffy bunnies) and searching on ebay.co.uk for spares is sometimes worthwhile.

[bonniebeth]

I remember having a little calico critters tea set when I was a kid, that consisted of a table and chairs, plus all the teacups and such but they were all attached to a tablecloth that could be put on the table or removed. So there weren't a lot of tiny pieces, but it still had all the details. I remember at some point I lost the tablecloth, though, and never did find it. I still wonder what happened to it.

[Pynedor]

They look a bit strange to me. At first I thought the little animals were kind of cool, but after looking at them some more they seem very odd. Some of the vehicles and buildings are nice-looking though.