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General => News => Topic started by: Martin Milner on February 14, 2008, 10:28:20
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Woohoo!
Dear Mr Milner,
Thank you very much for your kind e-mail and your interest in our products.
We are happy to hear that you are a real Playmobil fan and that our toys give fun to people all over the world – children as well as grownups!
Your idea to make further items belonging to the antique themes is just marvellous. It is true that we have never had sets like Persians or Troja in our assortment. Thus, we did not hesitate to pass your suggestion on to our Research & Developing Department. My colleagues there are responsible for inventing new Playmobil items and they will now see what they can do with your idea!
Who knows, maybe one day you will see your Persians in one of our catalogues!
Again, we would like to thank you for the efforts you had to write to us.
Many greetings,
geobra Brandstätter GmbH & Co. KG
Jutta U.Steiner
CRM-Export
Address:
geobra Brandstätter GmbH & Co. KG
PO box: 12 60, 90511 Zirndorf
Brandstätter Str. 2-10, 90513 Zirndorf
Phone: 0049-(0)911-9666-157
Fax: 0049-(0)911-9666-303
e-mail: crm_export@playmobil.de
>>> "Martin Milner" Dienstag, 12. Februar
>>> 2008
11:43 >>>
Dear Playmobil,
I'd like to thank you for the recent Romans theme, and the upcoming Egyptians theme - I bought at least one of every Roman set, and they brought me back to Playmobil after several years away. As the Romans were in Britain for over 400 years, and we have sections of Roman wall still standing in London, it's been a great education for me to re-read about the Romans, spurred on my your marvellous toy.
The Egyptians look absolutely splendid, and I'm certainly going to be buying every set when they reach the UK.
Have you plans for further themes of ancient Civilisations? Ancient Greeks, Persians and Trojans would fit well with the Roman theme as opponents, and the buildings and artefacts of Ancient Greece would make spectacular sets.
best regards,
Martin Milner
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thats a very handy, personal and friendly reaction to your mail! :D
I am impressed. :wow:
So I invest all my money into products of the right company... :love:
best,
socrates
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Thanks to Phyrrus for the email address to use!
Whenever I've tried to use the emailing system on the UK website, I get a bounceback in German telling me what I can do with my email.
I've emailed again suggesting the Feudal Japanese theme.
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:wow: How about if we just go ahead and thank you now! :yup:
Thank you also for sharing the correspondence with us - it is a real pleasure to see the lovely response that you received to the excellent suggestions in your well-written note. 8-)
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That's very interesting, Martin. When I've written in the past, for example about fire items, I've always had an encouraging reply, sometimes from Jutta. She's worked for Playmobil now for over 10 years.
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:wow: How about if we just go ahead and thank you now! :yup:
Thank you also for sharing the correspondence with us - it is a real pleasure to see the lovely response that you received to the excellent suggestions in your well-written note. 8-)
DITTO FROM ME !!!
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Cool! That's a very positive response you received. :)9
Very nice to see that Ms. Steiner has taken the time to reply personally and at reasonable length. :)
She must be an extremely busy lady.
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Cool! That's a very positive response you received. :)9
Very nice to see that Ms. Steiner has taken the time to reply personally and at reasonable length. :)
She must be an extremely busy lady.
Maybe she's been assigned to Pyrrhus, Gordon and Martin (and their Playmofriends) ... ;)
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That is an interesting correspondence, and a very pleasant response.
I am sure that there are people at Playmobil who keep an eye on the collector discussion boards. There are some great ideas that show up here from time to time.
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this is a very friendly comment indeed :wow:
I once had something similar when I send a mail to PLaymobil about a Napoleonic line ;D
TT
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Congratulations Martin!!! :wow:
You had even a better and lenghtier response than me!!!
Here I attach what I asked Playmobil about the Hellenistic-Greek.
http://rapidshare.com/files/92899617/Greek-Hellenistic_line.pdf.html
Let us wait for those Greeks!
I was not personally interested on the Persians or Trojans (although they would be wonderful!), because with the Greek hoplites we can directly fight Romans (at the siege of Syracuse and conquest fo Greece); the same with the Hellenistic phalanges.
I now also regret having asked for Carthaginian war elephants, as Hellenistic armies had elephants by themselves, as the Hellenistic leader Pyrrhus (the real one) who carried elephants to Italy to fight Rome before the Carthaginians. Indeed, was Pyrrhus the one from whom the Carthaginians learned of using elephants at war (after fighting Rome, he moved to Sicily to fight Carthage on the side of Greek cities such as Syracuse, with their catapults)
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I now also regret having asked for Carthaginian war elephants, as Hellenistic armies had elephants by themselves, as the Hellenistic leader Pyrrhus (the real one) who carried elephants to Italy to fight Rome before the Carthaginians. Indeed, was Pyrrhus the one from whom the Carthaginians learned of using elephants at war (after fighting Rome, he moved to Sicily to fight Carthage on the side of Greek cities such as Syracuse, with their catapults)
Don't worry.
PM probably isn't rushing to implement the Carthage theme.
Though it's nice to believe we have that sort of influence!
-Tim
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Playmobil hardly ever rushes into something. It takes them two years from design to release.
So, even if they do start of NOW, you wouldn't see it in the shops before 2010.
Unless you're outside Germany and the Netherlands - then it's not before 2011 :(
Bogro
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I wasn't expecting to see these in the UK shops for the summer!
I know there's at least a 3 year delay between idea and production, which is why we need to prime the pump now.
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I bet something as obscure as Carthage won't bubble to the top of Playmobil's to do list, unless a Hannibal movie comes out and hits it really big. Even the recent Alexander the Great movies haven't spawned an Alexander theme. (with the exception of the Biblical sets and Cleopatra, PM even seems to shy from exact personages... example: the Rome set provides no obvious Julius Caesar or Marc Antony though most other toy companies would provide us with nothing but a 1000 different Marc Antonys)
But I can envision a Trojan horse. It would be swell if PM expanded the fairy tale theme to Greek myths. Maybe I should write!
-Tim
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Timotheos, I do not believe I am as important so that Playmobil will do anything I say. That kind of pedantry on my part would border stupidity. Just think that the more you ask to a person, the more likely is that the person we are talking about less attention pays. I think it most fruitful to ask for few things.
Not even in this case do I think they will do a line just because a person says them to. But if many people does, it is more probable... When we ask, we are just adding a bit more to that "many" (if it finally ends in a "many" after all). It is like when you vote, one by itself does almost nothing, just along with many other persons.
I wrote Playmobil back in 2001 for they to make a Roman line. I am not saying that because of me they made it, surely they heard many people interested (or looked many people was buying Roman-based toys).