So . . . firstly, the new one is the lion,
bottom left, to his left and running back up to the top are the grey ones from
a while ago and the rest is a complete vintage set in white polystyrene, along
with a creamy-white plastic 'Euro-premium' variant of the lioness - bottom
right-hand corner.
Secondly, the TRUE Coca-cola premiums (of which I have none!) have deeper bases with
title messages running around the rim, ergo; I now believe these probably came
first as 'Euro-premiums', and a deeper base was employed for the Coke premiums, making the South African
addition (a Springbok) worth its 'premium' price, as it must be a separate,
small tool, never re-issued.
Coke's
Fanta brand issued 12 birds, with the same heavy bases
and also in addition to - or because of the Sprinkbok - Coke didn't use the camel sculpt from this set, presumably/or
because the offer was in sub-Saharan Southern-Africa, and camels are from the
Sahel and Arabia far to the North?
But . . . thirdly; the original set's tool
(for the other 21 animals) does seem to have been re-used, and quite recently,
I've been collecting these for an age, and to find two new types a few months
apart, in a new plastic type and colours, looking very new is more than simple coincidence?
I increasingly suspect something
interactive (like hollow building-blocks, or Phidal type books, but for even younger readers) however; they
might just be out there as Cracker-prizes or gum-ball machine capsule contents?
Last time I was wont to suggest they are
recent, now I think they might be, I also highlighted the water-buffalo's heavy
base as being more like the Coke
ones, but it was always heavier, and lastly I now think these were probably
first or stand-alone, not a re-shot of the Coca-cola
mould, but rather something in a product mould-catalogue for Coke (and/or others) to pick-out.
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I found a whole bunch of them in different colours
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