Hello, here is my confession..
I`m a British ex pat living at `the source´ aka Germany.
I´ve been lucky, we started buying Playmobil for my daughter almost twenty years ago. First small sets from the Freetime and Wintertime themes.
Then, so at not to push the poor girl into a typical female role, but allow her to explore the world openly , I bought her a posse of cowboys, a tribe of Indians and a troop of U.S. Cavalry, western train (which she stepped on), a castle and a pirate ship. My wife began to wonder if my daughter`s world wasn`t becoming too adventurous, so I was forced to buy her a half-timbered house or two.
By this time I had to admit that, at the end of the day, all said and done, yes,maybe, I did rather like Playmobil myself!! Besides I had a son by then, who didn`t have a knight or a pirate to his name
Yes, I´m was a rotten father, but I made amends, believe me!
There`s hardly a knight or pirate that he didn`t have. ! say didn´t, because one day he bought himself an electric guitar and I haven´t seen him since; although I do hear him. His Playmo was given to his younger brother, well, most of it. I squirreled away some ... because it was too old.
One of my hobbies at the time was painting modal soldiers and I experimented on Playmobil. I was quite impressed, they looked fun. I entered a
collectobil competition and won a prize.
At the same time I discovered
gardenwargaming.com and how to take klickies apart. This was a major breakthrough and in a short time I had reduced a lot of figures to a pile of junk, or customs to some.
Richard of
Gardenwargaming contacted me and I began showing my customs , with others, on his site. So far my collection of Playmobil was, more or less, intact and growing; then I met our leader
Sylvia After a few weeks of slinging, more or less, humourous mails at one another, we decided to start a website for Playmostories.
justforklicks.com That was the downfall of my collection. Nothing destroys a collection of Playmobil faster than dioramas. Pieces were taken from every set imaginable for a photograph or two , then when the clicking was over, not always returned to their original place. And, do you know, I don`t care! I´m having more fun with my Playmo than ever . At the moment I´m buying the the new Fairytale Castle theme with an eye to the1001 Nights.
I´m delighted to be here with you all at this new forum, and would like to thank my co-founders
Sylvia, Diana, Meg and Serenity for the huge amount of work they put into the site. So, let`s enjoy it together!
Guarrenzino aka de Warrens aka David
