A Family of animals who are big in real life, and even in their miniature Sylvanian form they are still big in popularity! The original Sylvanian Families Goats were the Nettlefields, but in more recent years in Australia we have seen the Brightfield Goat Family. The Brightfield Goat family is made up of Mum, Dad, big sister and little baby sister goat.

are the Calico Critters Lamb baby on a train carry case set. Sylvanian Families Honey Fox Family – The Slydale Family And the Sylvanian Families Cow baby twins, by the name of Dolly & Fennel Buttercup. (Don’t you love the way they name these Sylvanian Families figures?) Interestingly enough there were only girls in this family – a sister and a baby sister. Sylvanian Families Hamster Family The Van Dyke Otter Family have been released several times over the years. The first release of this Van Dyke Family was 1993. The only noticeable difference in this release, from other later releases, is that Mrs Van Dyke’s dress is a darker shade of blue. They were released again in 2002, 2007 and finally in 2012.The Dale family are: Father, Ewen runs an orchard and mother Barbara is his right-hand lady. Children, Winton and Iona Dale complete the family of 4. There is a Sheep Grandparents set, but they are very hard to find.

There were also a family of Sylvanian Families pig triplets released about the same time, by the names of Little, Minor and Tiny Grunt – who are renowned for their appetites, no surprises! Sylvanian Families Neptune Otter Family Dolly is in sitting pose with a yellow outfit, and Fennel is in a crawling pose wearing a green outfit. The Robinson Red Panda Family don’t follow the usual pattern of releases. Initially, in 2010, they were released as a family of 4 called the Redwood Pandas. Later their name was changed to The Redwood Pandas for their UK release in 2013. The Dale Sheep Family have been available in Australia up until fairly recently. They were probably last available in stores in Australia around 2014, but have now joined the “retired/discontinued” list of Sylvanian Families. It would be lovely to have a re-release of the Dale Sheep Family at some point. Sylvanian Families distributed by Flair call this family the Trunk Elephant Family, but their Trans-Atlantic cousins, the USA Calico Critters, are known as the Ellwood Elephant Family. These are still available in store.There is also a Japanese Goat Pharmacist set, which is very hard to find nowadays, with an auntie, who is the local Sylvanian Goat pharmacist. The Hamilton Hamster twins are also available in store. According to their official biographies, Neil and Christine Hamilton, the Hamster twins, are very good at sleeping and drinking yogurt smoothies!

Imelda Von Elkin is just as passionate about her hobby as her parents. But it’s not stamps or engineering for Imelda; her favourite hobby is collecting shoes! She has smart ones, flat ones, shiny ones, high ones, a shoe for every occasion. Imelda has a special cupboard in her bedroom designed especially to store and show off her prized collection. The Panda Family will win anyone’s heart. The Bamboo Panda Family were first released in UK in 1992. Since then they have had several re-releases. The most recent release was in 2012. There is a standing baby cow, who comes with his own crib - which we sometimes have available in our Sylvanian Treasure Trove. Now don’t be confused with the early 1980’s Tomy Slydale Fox family and the more recent 2005 Slydale Fox Family! The modern Fox family are known as the Honey Fox Family. They are completely different in looks, as you will see. However, Flair decided to re-use the same family names for this release of Fox family, so the little tyrant, Buster Slydale, lives on! Elm Snowdrift works together with Jolly on deliveries. She's even stronger than Jolly! She's good at coming up with ideas—when there's a difficult delivery, it's Elm who has the answer!

In a poll, conducted in 2017, without a doubt, the clear favourite Sylvanian Families winner was….The Buttercup Cow Family! Later we were introduced to the Brown Spotted Dalmatians, the finely named Henry-Lloyd Dalmatian Family. This family are ardent sailors, and were brought out at the same time as the Sylvanian Families Marita May pleasure Cruise boat. Promotional material displays the Henry-Lloyd family as the accompanying yacht owners. Rolf and Matilda Billabong and their two babies were first on sale in UK in 1994. Later on, in 2010, they were re-released, this time with Rolf and Matilda and a son and daughter children (rather the baby figures) The Sylvanian Families Polaris Polar Bear family appeared in 2015, and have fairly recently been retired from stores in Australia. They are the second Sylvanian Families Polar Bear Family to be released. Before the Polaris family came the Beaufort Polar Bear Family.

The twin sheep were also released as a special limited edition Sheep Baby Kindergarten set, kitted out in their very school kindy uniforms. The Sylvanian Families Grunt Pig Family were originally released in UK in 2009 and became available in Australia about the same time. They consist of Father - Richard Grunt, Mother - Constance Grunt, Brother – Hugh Grunt and sister – May Grunt.

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Bouquet indeed! These humourously named Sylvanian Families Skunk’s first names are well worth mentioning too. Father is named Stilton Bouquet. Mother is named Rosemary Bouquet. Brother and sister skunk are Sage and Jasmin and their babies are Parsley and Lavender!