Sylvanian Families: Meet the vintage Families who have arrived

Then there's old Captain Seadog, one of the most memorial characters there ever was in Sylvania, aye, indeed!

CAPTAIN HORATIO SEADOG is a very popular character, with an old blue peaked cap, threadbare sailors uniform and a big smile. Give him the chance and he will sit for hours telling tales of the seven seas! All his stories are of pirates and great adventures, with him cast as the hero. His 'Motley Crew' as he calls them love to spend their weekends sitting in with him hearing the same stories over and over again, not that they are exactly the same!

(The Motley crew were sold separately) Other Seadog/Tan Dog figures were also released in individual sets, but never as a family.  Captain Seadog came in a set as an individual figure with a boat. 

 Captain Horatio Seadog arrived in Sylvania in 1993 and was designed by Tomy for the UK Sylvanian Families range. His figure is based on the father of 1987 brown dog family from the Japanese Urban Life range of figures. The developers at Tomy added his sideburns to give him a more distinguished look.

Later on you could collect the rest of the family Jane and Drake Francis Seadog in a set together from 2007, and then complete the family with the sister and twins, Suzanne, Jacc & Shanta Seadog, available from 2008. An interesting point to note, is that baby Jacc was named after Jacc Batch (the Guiness World Record holder of the most complete Sylvanian Families Collection in the world)