u/Synonymous-Ant

She had a good meal, many good meals 😂

We call this her cheese wheel sleeping pose 😂

When I first started collecting Sylvanians in May 2026 I came across a three piece set of the red panda family. I didn't know they were a discontinued family and when I later saw they had the striped poofy tails like the Mulberry raccoons which got me hooked, I wanted the red pandas so desperately! Unfortunately they were sold out everywhere I looked in Malaysia, and I kept kicking myself for not getting that set in May!

Imagine my excitement when I saw the four piece set from a seller online!! I didn't hesitate this time and I finally have the family with the little baby! The parcel came from Indonesia, Shopee sent it to the wrong delivery hub and it had to be rerouted and was finally delivered at 10pm tonight. The delivery drivers work so hard 🥹

But here is the family! The box is slightly damaged and is quite deteriorated, I tend to take everything out of the box as the adhesives and elastics don't do well in tropical weather. The figures have a bit of residue on them so I might have to give them a gentle wash. But I love them so much 🥰

I took some photos with the extended Mulberry raccoon family, I finally found the siblings which are on their way so that family is gonna grow again! 😆 I also compared the baby red panda with the older Mulberry baby and the newer one from Ibaraido Park which seems to use a different mold. I always enjoy the variations in different releases, a nightmare to keep track of but it gives variety!! 😺

Just for fun, I randomly arranged all my sitting cat babies in a circle and it turned into a spin the bottle game / summoning circle 😂 Featuring the Devon cat, Harvey cat, Whiskers cat, Ivory cat, Persian cat, Charcoal cat, Floral cat, and Silk cat sitting babies 😻😻😻

I got this tailess ivory cat from a second hand store about a month ago. He has been drawn on with what looked like solvent-based ink with a star stamped on his left hand. He went through several washes but the ink barely budged. Today I took the plunge and tried isopropyl alcohol and it worked! I used it sparingly as I also used isopropyl alcohol to strip the flocking off another damaged figure. I don't use it directly on the figure, I sprayed some alcohol on a cotton bud and used that to slowly tease the ink out. There is still some residual ink left but I'm happy with how he looks, if I continue he is gonna be bald! I dressed him in clothes I got off a second hand whiskers cat because those were actually the ivory cat dad's clothes 😂😂😂 I find all sorts of funny combos browsing second hand listings. Now my ivory cat family has a dad, and also a new sibling arrived in the mail today! Need to find some clothes for him too! I am thinking of making my own standing ivory cat baby by transferring heads, still need to find the right head and body donors 😁

Just want to share all my dog families so far! We have the ocher/Tailbury family, the hound/Huckleberry family, the maple dog family with their dark circles, and my single dad blended golden brown Labrador/Dalmatian family 😂 I got the brown Labrador dad as a factory reject, his flocking is blotchy, he has no tail, and he has a permanent smirk because of some damage, but I love him so much 🥰

Puppies assemble!! The babies from the ocher/marron/Tailbury dog, maple dog, and hound/Huckleberry dog families got together for a little party in the hedgehog's hideaway. I can't get over how cute they are! 💕💕💕

I've been working on this little display room box for over two months, although the time taken is actually only a week 😂 Took a while to figure out what to do with it! The room is made of reused cardboard from shipping boxes, the seaweed and corals are made of felt. It is perfect for my little silk cat dressed like a sunfish! The felt sea anemone ended up stealing the show however, I think it's super cute 🥰 I'm working on a forest themed box for one of the raccoon babies, so stay tuned for that one 🌿

She was cold. Second photo is from when she woke up because I moved to get a better pic 😭 Feel bad for waking her now!

Which do you prefer? I managed to get two versions of the floral cat family, one from the official Malaysia Sylvanian Families store (2nd pic) and one from AliExpress (3rd pic). I'm assuming the AliExpress one is a re-release or region specific set? I didn't like the clothes on the dad and baby in the first set, I kinda prefer the clothes for the whole family in the second set because there is just a bit more detail and they matched the clothes on the floral cat girl (last pic). I think I've managed to get the entire floral cat family which makes me very happy!! 😸😸😸

The official Sylvanian Families store in Malaysia is having a clearance sale and and are selling some really old stock on their Shopee Mall page. It was clear from the photos that there was some discoloration but I got them because I planned to repaint and customize them. I also got two of the babies because I wanted a five member family and they were from two different editions! Based on their boxes, 1485 and 5137, with 1485 being the smaller one and looks like an earlier version. I also didn't know the babies were not fully articulated. Now I'm trying to decide what pattern to paint them so that I can hide the discoloration, they look like they got punched in the face haha 😅 I adore them regardless. I was thinking of painting them like the ochre dogs but with a darker brown or black 😁 Any suggestions are welcome!! 😄

This is Pearl. Her sleeping face is always very entertaining. She is a full time sleeper, up to 23 hours or more a day 😂 She also has multiple cat beds but chooses the cardboard box most times.

She looks like an overripe white radish aaaa 😭😂 Her name is Pearl and I though this will suit this sub.

Cute aggression intensifies 😆😆😆 This baby Persian cat is dressed in the strawberry ice cream costume and looks so delectable 😭 I've got a soft plastic case from Daiso filled with pastel colored shiny pom poms as a little travel case for him! I can fit up to three baby figures in there but it's quite a squeeze by then 😂

I started on my collecting journey 3 months ago and was mostly focused on getting all the cats. Then I came across the Mulberry raccoons and got hooked, they are just so cute!! Raccoons are cat-adjacent enough for me so I went on the hunt. Managed to amass a few babies but had a huge heartbreak when I ordered two adults and a daughter figure only for the seller to send the wrong items... It was an honest mistake by them, the package was wrapped in opaque black bubble wrap and was the size of the raccoons. It was a cabinet instead. I returned the cabinet and was refunded but those raccoons had gone to someone else 😭😭😭 I do continue to order from them and they've never made the mistake again, back to using clear bubble wrap 😁

So I was elated when I saw two Mulberry raccoons from another shop!! One was actually mislabeled as a daughter figure 😅 Ah the perils of online shopping. So I turned one of them into the father raccoon and now my baby raccoons are no longer orphans 💖

I love the striped fluffy tails of the adults, and am keeping an eye out for the siblings!! The raccoons were quite worn out, especially the babies' markings, so I decided to do some touch ups with acrylic paint. I think it worked out alright! I might redo the face markings on the modern raccoons (the middle babies) to match the vintage ones.

Finally added some fairies to my collection and I can't get over how tiny and cute they are!! The hype is real 😆 I've got the Leaf, Flower, Mushroom, and Strawberry fairies and am waiting for the Water Drops of the Valley fairy with its little leaf boat, which will be arriving soon. The Leaf fairy came with a used Misty Forest Treehouse, which I'm in the process of fixing (it's missing all accessories except for 3 flowers!). I'm thinking of making little homes within the treehouse for each fairy themed around their name, lets see if that works out! In the meantime, enjoy the cuteness 💖

Little baby hedgehog, his little mole friend and beaver buddy are discussing the relatively fruitful tomato harvest. "Is tomato a fruit? Or vegetable? Shall we make soup? Or spaghetti?" 🍅 The little green cabbage frog is a random gachapon I found online.

The Baby Hedgehog Hideout is such a small and cute set!! However, I wish they didn't have a slide inside that took up so much space. I might do some drastic DIY and cut the slide out and redo the interior with clay and cardboard so more babies can hang out in the space. 😆

I finally got some beavers for my collection and I absolutely love them! It's the hiking set with the Woodbrook sister and baby boy that I got from KobeeJapan. I also happened to find another sister and baby beaver second hand from another seller. The sister had some damage to her face and her colour was also very pale, so I made her into a DIY experiment 😂

I always liked the look of the older vintage Waters beaver family with their richer, darker brown colour. I used acrylic paint, a mix of terracotta and vandyke brown, to get as close as I can to the shade of brown I wanted. The paint was watered down but not by too much as the coverage would become patchy if it was too watered down, and it would be too crusty if there was not enough water. 😅 For their noses I used terracotta colour straight from the tube and my smallest paintbrush. I started painting at the bottom of their feet to test out how the colour would look before painting the rest of the body in one go so everything will look even. Left them for a day to air dry and the end result was a little bit crunchy, similar to the painted areas of the maple cat's orange fur. It was an acceptable level of crunchiness to me, which I don't think you can avoid when using acrylic paint. One thing to keep in mind also is that acrylic paint will usually dry darker than it looks at first.

I also found the limp beaver tail unsatisfying and glued a piece of dark brown artificial suede to bulk it up a bit. I thought of adding a tail to the baby beaver but it would get in the way of his clothes so decided against it in the end.

For the baby boy, from the pictures online it looks like he has two front teeth in the Waters beaver mold, just that they were flocked over. I made the tiniest set of incisors out of watercolour paper (see the photo with the tweezers), painted it with titanium white for a warmer tone and glued it on and OMG I can't get over how cute the buck teeth made him look! Hope you enjoy this DIY makeover, I will keep the other Woodbrook beavers in their original colours but if I do find more second hand beavers I might repaint them and add front teeth to the babies as well 😆😆

I saw this on Carousell about a month ago and remembered that it came with three mice. I only started collecting in May 2026 so wasn't familiar with the different families but I really liked the look of the mice! I had issues with the Carousell app so thought I lost this forever, but then I found the them listed on Shopee this month!

I wasn't a huge fan of the Secret Island playhouse but I find that Sylvanian products don't seem to photograph well, either the contrast of the photos are too strong and you lose detail or the colours are off. When I got the set I fell in love with the whimsy of it, so many nooks and crannies to hide in! And the Thistlethorn mice are so cute!!! I like the shape of their snoots compared to the flatter modern mice. They were in pretty bad condition and wearing each others' clothes but I managed to clean them up and they look a lot better now (see last two photos). I will make a separate post about cleaning Sylvanians because I buy a lot of used, and fairly damaged figures and have been finding ways to get them spruced up 😊 None of the mice have tails so am thinking of ideas for that too.

I think the rest of the babies enjoy the playhouse very much. I had an extra rainbow fish that I bought before I saw this set so now there are two rainbow fishes!! 🌈🌈 I live in the hot, humid tropics and can see some UV damage on the playhouse. I plan to repaint it and add vegetation and stuff to make it look more jungly and by the sea. Added this to my list of more than 10 Sylvanian related projects hahaha! 🤣

This set was MYR 132 (approx USD 32) with free shipping so I think it was a good deal, especially since Thistlethorns are almost impossible to find here! 🐭 Along with the mice, it had the flag, the rainbow fish, and the goggles and pair of fins. Also randomly came with a piano chair and a child's school backpack 😂

I can't get enough of these two!! They are dressed in fan club clothes bought from KobeeJapan. The Charcoal Cat is from the Baby Shopping blind bag series and his little shopping cart is too cute! Midnight Cat is from the Kitten Cuties set. 😻