New Critter Came Out Last Week

So as I posted below, I have a TELUS hippo already which is huge and there is a new critter that is similar but much smaller. It is Polita the hippo. I have two of them and they are awesome. Here is a picture of my new hippo beside my old hippo.
This makes 26 critters in total in my collection.

Penguin and Pig - The Black and White pair.

Before I talk about the pig and penguin, here is a picture of all my rabbits together.



Here is Lucie the pig. She was a very popular TELUS critter and came in the 2009 holiday gift pack.



Here is one of my favorite critters. It is very old and an awesome teammate of mine gave it to me and it is a penguin Gund TELUS critter. Very nice. It is missing its Gund tag.

My 5 TELUS rabbit critters.

TELUS has made a number of bunny critters over the years and I have finally collected all 5 of them. The 5 in my collection are all by Gund. Here is a brief explanation in order:

1) This one is a white bunny and I got this one from a holiday critter pack that was given to employees in Christmas 2009.

2) This tan bunny is the oldest of all my critters. It dates from before 2005 and is the first bunny. It is missing its Gund tag. It was acquired from an employee who was moving to another province and so she gave me her critters and this was the gem of the bunch. I have never seen another bunny like this one.

3) This horribly blurry photo is my brown bunny. I got this from the wife of a TELUS installer who had lots of old critters. This dates from before 2006. I have only seen one other one like it which is owned by somebody in my department.

4) This brown and white bunny is really nice and I also got this from the installer's wife. It is from around 2006.

5) The final bunny is the floppy eared grey bunny. This is another critter that I got from an employee that moved away. I have seen 2 or 3 of these around but it is quite rare. I am not sure when it is from.

5 more of my critters.

The first critter I am presenting in this blog post is the TELUS flamingo. This critter is quite old. I believe it came out around 2006 and it is one of the rare critters that was not made by Gund. This is a Wild Republic critter. I acquired this in trade for another critter that I had extras of.



Here is the famous TELUS tree frog critter. I waited months to get my hands on one of these and now I have a few of them. It has magnetic hands so it can grasp onto things. It is by Gund.



This is a fairly new critter that I have a few of that is from a 2008 campaign. This meerkat is by Gund and was a very common critter that TELUS employees were able to get at employee roadshows.



Here is my TELUS monkey critter by Gund. It has magnetic legs and is very nice. I have a couple of these.



I purchased the hippo from ebay and it came out in Christmas of 2005. This is one of the TELUS critters that is a little different than the rest because it is not a Gund. It is from Wild Republic. It is also a lot larger than most critters. It is probably double or triple the average critter size. Her tag is crinkled which is sad but she is a nice critter. There is a new TELUS critter coming out soon which is a smaller version of this one. I will post it when I acquire one.

Spruce Meadows TELUS Critters

Here are my TELUS critters that are both not made by Gund like most critters. These are quite rare and are given out at various events in Calgary that are sponsored by TELUS at Spruce Meadows where they do horse jumping and other equestrian events. There are actually a total of 3 Spruce Meadows TELUS toys and I only have two. I have the brown mule and the black horse. Here is a picture of the pair together and then individually. Below is the third in the set that I do not have and it is rare as well. If you have it and would sell it or trade it please contact me.





I DO NOT OWN THIS ONE BELOW BUT WOULD LIKE TO ACQUIRE IT. IF YOU OWN IT AND WOULD SELL OR TRADE IT LET ME KNOW PLEASE BY MESSAGING ME ON HERE.

Here are all of my TELUS critter sets. Iguanas, fish, seahorses and goats.

These are my Telus iguana toys. They are all made by Gund and came out at various times. The most rare of them all is the blue one and I have only seen one other one other than mine. The green is also pretty rare. The pink ones were part of a Think breast cancer charity with Blackberry and Telus. The red one is pretty common as it was given out to employees at Christmas in 2009.



These are my 3 seahorses. I forget which year they came out but they all came out around the same time. This is the whole set of Telus Gund seahorses.



These pygmy goats came out in 2009 when Telus had pygmy goats features in their advertising campaigns. I got both at an employee road show. Both are made by Gund.



The Telus advertising campaign with the fish was very popular and these little Gund fish came out and were given to employees around the time the ads were popular.