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Report & Review / Re: My last purchase 3769 + 71436
« Last post by Klickteryx on April 18, 2024, 02:16:41 »Why not do a review of the car? Are you going to open the farm house set?
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Brainstorming For Playmobil / Re: What's wrong with Playmobil? 2
« Last post by Klickteryx on April 18, 2024, 02:11:51 »WOW PM is now LOSING money?!? Holy cow... The only silver lining I see is in the example of Lego -- they came right to the brink of bankruptcy before they made the necessary changes to save the company. Whether PM can do the same, only the future knows.It's been a problem for a long time. German collectors fought hard to get the adult fanbase a foot in the door several years ago but the resultant club was treated with disdain by those at the top and very little interaction took place. The vast majority of the members were interested in history but instead the club provided modern themes for sale and the lack of interest in those coupled with the disgruntled comments due to lack of wanted merchandise ended the club after about four years.
On a side note, for a country as highly regarded as Germany is in the field of manufacturing, they sure have a hard time producing decent management talent. The degradation of the company's image and profits is entirely the fault of top management, period.
I don't know about Germany, but as another article mentioned a quarter of toy sales in Spain are to adult collectors. That's a huge customer base being ignored currently.
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Brainstorming For Playmobil / Re: Lay off the Militarism
« Last post by Klickteryx on April 18, 2024, 02:02:10 »I just got the image off the net, but it could be a fan creation rather than a Gerry Anderson original, which might explain the discrepancy.It's well made. I thought it was cgi at first.
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Report & Review / My last purchase 3769 + 71436
« Last post by pingo on April 17, 2024, 18:45:59 »New and old 
71436 
love those colors 3769 MISB 
71436 love those colors 3769 MISB 26
Brainstorming For Playmobil / Re: What's wrong with Playmobil? 2
« Last post by playmofire on April 17, 2024, 16:19:13 »WOW PM is now LOSING money?!? Holy cow... The only silver lining I see is in the example of Lego -- they came right to the brink of bankruptcy before they made the necessary changes to save the company. Whether PM can do the same, only the future knows.
On a side note, for a country as highly regarded as Germany is in the field of manufacturing, they sure have a hard time producing decent management talent. The degradation of the company's image and profits is entirely the fault of top management, period.
Many German businesses are family owned and though it is not exactly so in this there is an old British Victorian in relation to such firms "Clogs to clogs in three generations", meaning the first generation start the business and build sound foundations, the second generation build on these and expand the business successfully while the third generation run the business down. Broadly speaking, this seems to be what has happened with Playmobil, not in terms of family generations but in terms of management generations.
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Brainstorming For Playmobil / Re: What's wrong with Playmobil? 2
« Last post by Alex4420 on April 17, 2024, 12:57:15 »WOW PM is now LOSING money?!? Holy cow... The only silver lining I see is in the example of Lego -- they came right to the brink of bankruptcy before they made the necessary changes to save the company. Whether PM can do the same, only the future knows.
On a side note, for a country as highly regarded as Germany is in the field of manufacturing, they sure have a hard time producing decent management talent. The degradation of the company's image and profits is entirely the fault of top management, period.
On a side note, for a country as highly regarded as Germany is in the field of manufacturing, they sure have a hard time producing decent management talent. The degradation of the company's image and profits is entirely the fault of top management, period.
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Brainstorming For Playmobil / Re: Lay off the Militarism
« Last post by GrahamB on April 17, 2024, 12:48:04 »I just got the image off the net, but it could be a fan creation rather than a Gerry Anderson original, which might explain the discrepancy.
