Gulliverlândia

[Artifex]

Hi there!

We had this toy in Brazil called Gulliverlândia (Gulliverland; lândia = land in Portuguese). It was released by Gulliver, a Brazilian toy company that sometimes released foreign toys too. It was a really lovely toy, with small houses that looked like telephones, mixers and the like. The characters were anthropomorphic animals and you could change legs, torsos and heads among them.

Thing is: I've been trying to find out if gulliverlândia was an original Brazilian toy or if it was a foreign toy released in Brazil. But I can't find anything related to it! I have no idea what the name could be, if Gulliverlândia was in fact a foreign toy, so here I am looking for your help.

The link below is to Google Images, where you can see a few pics of what Gulliverlândia looked like. If you know anything about it, can you please post it in here or PM me? Please, please, pretty please with sugar on top. Gulliverlândia is a very hard to find toy these days, and I've tried many name combinations -- all of them guesses -- in ebay and Google, but I can't seem to find anything about it in the "non-Brazilian world".

Here you go:

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&safe=off&hl=en&authuser=0&biw=1280&bih=905&tbm=isch&tbnid=YNcEWKdKA4DBRM:&imgrefurl=http://www.compararprecos.cc/goods/gulliverl%25C3%25A2ndia-casa-doce-bonequinha-gulliver_869711.html&docid=ZfuD0s9aBRMtYM&imgurl=http://i.novobuscar.com/index.aspx%253Fp%253D%25252FPic%25252Fbr%25252F2012%25252F9%25252F26%25252Fd58a2000-e77f-4e09-81cd-1cfc073e6022.jpg&w=1200&h=800&ei=9QYRUtbTHJT9yAHasIDgAw&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:9,s:0,i:106&iact=rc&page=1&tbnh=167&tbnw=180&start=0&ndsp=32&tx=63&ty=40

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[jimmynick]

It looks like some of the animals have Fabuland heads!

From what I can tell, Tomy (a Japanese company) released a product called "Busy Bears of Hippity Hollow" which was released in America. Gulliverlândia was the Brazilian version which substituted various animals for bears. The site I linked to says that there was a Spanish version called "Geyperland" which had dolls modeled after little girls instead of bears or animals.

The products seem to crop up on eBay every now and again. I hope this helps.

Edited August 18, 2013 by jamesn

[Artifex]

Oh, thanks a lot! I thought I'd have to give up on this! Thanks-thanks-thanks!!! :thumbup: