Thursday, March 17, 2011

NICI Toys

NICI Toys: NICI Wolf in Sheep Clothing - Hugo

Hugo Wolf is our favorite NICI toy, he is a beautiful wolf plush in sheep's clothing. He can pull down his black hood to become a wolf and he can put on his hood with sheep ears to disguise as a sheep. Hugo Wolf is from the most popular NICI Jolly Mah series, he is the second generation of NICI wolf in sheep's clothing. One of the wonderful feature we like about him is his pocket on the left where he can put his hand in. Hugo is extremely soft and great to hug.


NICI Toys: NICI Sheep - Jolly Rosa

Jolly Rosa is our favorite NICI toy. She is simply adorable the first time we laid our eyes on her. Her round chubby smiling face, the lovely pink flower on her head, and the side pockets where she can put both her hands in. They are all so cute. Jolly Rosa is from the most popular Jolly Mah sheep series. Rumor has it that Hugo Wolf likes her very much. Jolly Rosa is the big sis in our family, she loves to give orders and bully other smaller NICI toys, thats what we love about her.


NICI Toys: NICI Wolf in Sheep Clothing - Jolly Wolf

Jolly Wolf is our favorite NICI toy also. He has been with us for a longest time. We have brought him to Europe and to the NICI shop in Germany. He is the luckiest NICI toy in the family. When we first saw him, he was sitting in a shelf full of NICI sheep plush and our eyes only got attracted by him. NICI wolf in sheep's clothing is the most interesting plush any toy company has created.




NICI Toys: NICI Sheep - Jolly Mah (Jolly Mäh)

This is Jolly Mah the white sheep plush. His official NICI name is Luise, the first generation of the most successful NICI toy ever made. Jolly Mah has been with us for almost as long as Jolly Wolf, he gets lots of love from us too. Jolly Mah is a lively, flamboyant and joyous sheep. He is our favorite NICI toy also.





NICI Toys: NICI Dogs - Pug & Mutt

On the left is Mutt and on the right is Pug doggie. This pair of NICI dogs are from a very old NICI series. Somewhere around 2005. We love them because of the things hanging out from their pocket. NICI Pug has a very cute dog bone and NICI Mutt we believe has a toy cat.






NICI Toys: NICI Wild Friends - NICI Lion

His official name given by NICI is called Big El Lion. We didn't really like the name, so we called him Paul. He is the newer generation of NICI Wild Friends. Paul is very handsome and charming, way cuter than his predecessor. He has a very nice plush, you can style his hair in many ways. Thats what attracted us to buy him. Though he may not be the most popular NICI toy but he is our favorite.




NICI Toys: NICI Foreset Friends - NICI Raccoon

NICI Raccoon, his official name given by NICI is Rob. We'd say Rob is arguably the cutest NICI toy ever made. This raccoon toy has mesmerized everyone we know so far. There are many raccoon toys on the market but NICI made the best. We love his ever cheeky smiling face, his cute 4-finger palm and his huge tail which is made from a very soft plush. We strongly recommend getting 35cm and 50cm as NICI uses a LQ plush on smaller raccoon toys.


NICI Toys: NICI Wild Friends - NICI Zebra

As far as we know, NICI Zebra did not have an official name. We found him sitting alone in the NICI Shop and it only took one second to decide to buy him. NICI Zebra and Lion are the Gatsby commercial gang at home because they are both plush with hair you can style. If you're from Asia you probably would know the very famous Gatsby hair commercial by Takuya Kimura in Japan.




NICI Toys: NICI Winter Friends - Snow Reindeer

NICI Snow Reindeer is from 2007 NICI Winter Series. He is almost as old as our Jolly Mah sheep at home. We love his extremely chubby face and I don't think anyone has mentioned before but he resembles a lot like Snoopy. His favorite idol is Bobby Singer, a character from the hit TV series Supernatural. We watch the show every week whenever its showing mainly because we love Dean Winchester, portrayed by Jensen Ackles.



NICI Toys: NICI Winter Friends - Jack and Jill Husky

Jack and Jill husky is from 2008 NICI Winter Series. Every winter, NICI will release toys related to winter. They were pretty hard to buy as they were always sold out immediately, usually its Jack Husky who gets sold out first. We saw an 80cm Jack Husky at a shop in Singapore once, a few days later we went back and he's gone. We actually prefer Jill Husky because her pink boots is made of very very soft plush. We saw a 120cm Jill for only 75euros at Germany NICI shop.



NICI Toys: NICI Sheep - Jolly Liselle (Blue Slipper)

Say hello to Jolly Liselle the lively NICI sheep from Côte d'Azur. You should kill yourself if you don't know this beautiful place in Nice, France. Go watch the movie "Killers" by Aston Kutcher and Katherine Heigl. Its a bad movie but the scenes from the beach resort in Côte d'Azur are absolutely beautiful. We love Jolly Liselle because she is very lively, her arms are always dangling in a cute way.




NICI Toys: NICI Sheep - Jolly Liselle (Pink Slipper)

Meet the other cute Liselle with pink slippers. Not sure whether did NICI give them each a special name to differentiate the two Liselles. We found this Liselle wrapped in a nice plastic looking at us so innocently with her big round eyes. The great feature about Jolly Liselle is their fat body which is rounder than other Jolly Mah sheep and their extremely fat arms that is simply so adorable. This 35cm Liselle is super soft to hug.



NICI Toys: NICI Sheep - Jolly Ben

Meet Jolly Ben! The black sheep of our NICI toys. We don't mean the metaphor, don't worry! Jolly Ben is a great buddy of Hugo the NICI wolf in sheep's clothing. Not sure whether Ben knows that Hugo is a wolf in disguise. What we love about Jolly Ben is his big round face. The newer Jolly Mah in recent years don't have this type of chubby face anymore..




NICI Toys: NICI Minily - Edward Horse

This is Edward Horse the NICI minily version. What is NICI minily? NICI minily takes their normal design of their NICI toys and converts them into an ultra big headed plush toy. The end result, you get a very cute horse plush. Edward is so adorable, he is now one of our top favorite NICI toys. Other NICI Minily includes jolly mah, tiger, lion, turtle, crocodile, bears and rabbits.




NICI Toys: NICI Minily - NICI Crocodile

As we mentioned earlier regarding NICI Minilys, this NICI Crocodile is our second favorite from the minily series. The classic crocodile plush toy from NICI Wild Friends series are not so adorable in our opinion but this big head crocodile plush is so cute, you definitely want to add him to your NICI toy collection.





NICI Toys: NICI Sheep - Jolly Jomo

This is Jolly Jomo the brown NICI sheep that loves to eat! We found him at Malaysia NICI Shop sitting alone with a lying Jomo and Jolly Ben. His plush was totally covering his eyes when he was spotted, but once his 'hair' is brushed up, you can see his cute eyes saying buy me. His NICI card says he's from 2003, hence it was a really rare NICI plush find as you can't Jomo nowadays, he is easily one of the last Jolly Jomo on the planet.



NICI Toys: NICI Wild Friends - NICI Monkey

NICI Monkey is also another super rare plush that we found together with Jolly Jomo. His NICI card also says he's from 2003, same time as Jomo. NICI Monkey has beans in his palm, very cute! If you have a bigger sized monkey, his long arms can totally embrace you. We are falling more and more in love with him each day.





NICI Toys: NICI Winter Friends - Jolly Sven & Svenja


Jolly Sven on the left and Jolly Svenja on the right are NICI 2010 Winter plush. Both of them are extremely adorable, Sven has a nice Russian hat with ear flaps while Svenja has a super cute pink ear muff and hand pockets. Yes you can stuff both her hands in. Thats why we love Svenja because she reminds us of Jolly Rosa. We recommend 25cm for Svenja and 35cm or 50cm for Sven. This batch of NICI sheep has pretty bad QC, we had a hard time going to many different shops choosing the best looking one.


NICI Toys: NICI Sheep - Jolly Sheebo

Meet Jolly Sheebo the NICI sheep with orange pullover. We have to tell you, we absolutely adore this NICI toy. Sheebo has the roundest face we've seen from any NICI sheep. 35cm and above would be the most ideal size for Sheebo. He is extremely huggable and he looks cute with his orange hood or without.





NICI Toys: NICI Foreset Friends - NICI Fox

This is Frederic the NICI fox. Frederic is truly a photogenic NICI toy because his face in actual is not as cute as in the pictures. Its true! When we first got him, we were not so in love with him. After taking pictures of him, we then realized he is so adorable. His plush is very soft, and huggable. Frederic too has a big fluffy tail that is ultra soft and smooth but not as big as Rob Raccoon's tail. We have seen all sizes of Frederic and we think that this is one of the rare NICI toys that looks great in all sizes!


NICI Toys: NICI Wolf in Sheep Clothing - Hugo

Meet mini Hugo, our 15cm Hugo Wolf. He has a pitiful face as if he got bullied by everyone or he is pleading you to give him something he wants. Just look at his eyes! We love small hugo too but his plush is quite rough, they used a different lower quality material for smaller NICI toys as usual. Nevertheless, hugo's attention to detail was done very well.




NICI Toys: NICI Wolf in Sheep Clothing - Hugo

This 80cm Hugo Wolf is our biggest pride of all! The most loved and most hugged NICI toy here. Although we find that 50cm is the cutest size for Hugo Wolf but 80cm is so comfortable to hug. I assure you, you will love him. If you ever see a big Hugo in any NICI shop, go ahead and give him a hug, you'll be surprised!

Thats it for now, more NICI toys introduction to come in the future. Ciao ~

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What a nice introduction of your sheep you gave here, you no doubt are really fond of your flock. The Jomo story makes me even more appreciate that I have Jolly Brown as well, just a month ago or so. After searching and searching and searching.

I think you are right, this sheep is very, very rare. Does he go back to 2003 already? Wow, and still as cute as he can be. Enjoy!

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