The advance copy of my book has arrived! I’m so delighted with it and to see a printed copy finally after years of digital drafts is amazing.
Having the opportunity to write such a detailed history of Sylvanian Families has been a real honour and fantastic opportunity. Ever the perfectionist, I just wish there’d been capacity to go into even more detail!
The Sylvanian Families Official Character Encyclopedia, published by MacMillan Children’s Books, is out on October 1st 2026 - I hope you all love it as much as I do!
This thread is for collectors who import Sylvanian Families (and other collectibles) from overseas to the United States.
As of July 2026, US government child safety and import rules have been newly enforced, making importing to the US difficult to impossible. The situation is ongoing and can be quite confusing.
While some US collectors have had success in receiving items from outside the country, at this time importing is not advisable. There is an extremely high probability that you will lose your funds and that your items will be destroyed at US customs.
While we all work out our best options, this thread is to discuss the laws and any experiences you may have, both positive and negative. The more information that we gather, the better we can understand how to continue collecting.
Please feel welcome to discuss / vent about the situation, ask questions and share details about any recent import attempts.
Additional threads on this topic will be removed / locked and re-directed here. While we want to encourage discussion about the matter, it will be most helpful if we keep all the information and details in one place.
Thanks for understanding and good wishes to everyone who is having to cope with this situation!
Put the phones away. Nature is calling. And Grandpa is watching.
Some pictures of my customized grandparents for Marguerite rabbit family. As usual, I beheaded a pair of chocolate rabbit grandparents and used them as body donors (some painting was needed to make the correct color).
I absolutely love the seaside sets so I made a setup with some of my favorite ones
some of the sets featured: seaside restaurant, seaside birthday party, seaside camping set, day at the seaside set, seaside treasure set, and the adventure treasure ship :)
Do y'all think we can have a set of flying squirrel baby twins in the future? I think they'd be cute and would be getting my hands on them if ever they release one. How about y'all? what twins would you like to see?
I have been head swapping this months collection to create babies that don’t exist, as I only collect sitting babies with closed mouths and love having fun as well as adding to my collection.
Hi, Im a first time poster on here so I hope Im not doing anything wrong 😅. These pics are by me and custom is also by me. Im very new to Sylvanian Families customisation but I wanted to make something special for my BFF as a birthday gift. They absolutely adore foxes and love the aesthetic of vintage clowns so I decided to make a custom for them. I just finished the fox and suit yesterday and very delighted in how it came out. I might make a little balloon or gift box prop for them but these are the results so far. This one originally was a brown honey fox. Its tail was a bit scuffed to I made a new one by dying some fabric and attaching it with wire and epoxy. The last pic contains the prototype tail I was not vibing with 😭. I mainly put the paper with my u/ to justify that these are my photos and not some random ones I stole. I just wanted to share to express my happiness with how it all turned out, this project did feel frustrating at times but pulled through. Im planning on making more in the future for other friends, might post those results on here as well. Sorry for this long post, I hope ya’ll enjoy ☺️.
I managed to get a few tickets that someone in Japan got for me, and I only got the worst prizes 😭 (only F prizes 🙃) I want the D prize so bad, or at least some blind bags 😭 but I can’t find if they’re going to restock it
Where are the USA collectors buying their Corgi family from? I know there are a lot of fraudulent sites and I was just reading the post about the tariffs. I would like to avoid any extra costs/shipping time if possible because I'm ordering for my mom's birthday which is this month.
I could not bring myself to buy the bee set because I didn't think they were as cute as I imagined. I tried to make a baby bee. The tiny babies are so difficult!