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General => News => Topic started by: Rasputin on January 02, 2009, 04:15:34
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Well i received a notice that the 5780 pirate raft is available so i went to see what it even was. I was now witnessing the new years changes to the site . new Police, construction, 123, specials & life in the city¿ pictures . Some new discontinued items :D, some new best buys :clap:, and some new higher prices >:(
check it out before things sell out in one day 8}
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Zdrasste, Ras,
I couldn't find the new specials, pirates, or police you mentioned.
-Tim
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Zdrasste, Ras,
I couldn't find the new specials, pirates, or police you mentioned.
-Tim
Neither could I. Maybe as I'm using a bookmark it's calling up an old page from the cache. (Although, using the same bookmark to get to the UK pages there are changes, but only deletions so far.)
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Hello Rasputin!
I couldn't find the new themes on the USA Playmobil website, but it looks quite barren @ the moment with very few items for sale! I hope it's just because of the holidays, & everyone bought everything, not a future trend with lack of available credit, causing limited stock! DS has been low on inventory lately also >:(!
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..it looks quite barren @ the moment with very few items for sale! I hope it's just because of the holidays, & everyone bought everything, not a future trend with lack of available credit, causing limited stock! DS has been low on inventory lately also >:(!
The UK site is the same as they are clearing out then discontinued items and haven't yet got the new stuff uploaded. (Well, I hope that's why!)
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Maybe i was not specific enough. Well actually i was not specific enough , The Pictures that are the Theme links are new and the sets inside the link have been cleared out but the new sets have not been added yet . Sorry for my misleading post .
"????????????"- pronounced "ZDRAS-tvuy-tye" Timotheos, being less formal in here "??????"- pronounced "pri-VET" works very well also . You have to remember the the R is not like an english R it is an vibrating kid motor sound with the tongue not the throat .
I guess the site does not recognize foreign text , It is in here (http://www.wikihow.com/Say-Hello-in-Russian)
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Maybe i was not specific enough. Well actually i was not specific enough , The Pictures that are the Theme links are new and the sets inside the link have been cleared out but the new sets have not been added yet . Sorry for my misleading post .
"????????????"- pronounced "ZDRAS-tvuy-tye" Timotheos, being less formal in here "??????"- pronounced "pri-VET" works very well also . You have to remember the the R is not like an english R it is an vibrating kid motor sound with the tongue not the throat .
I guess the site does not recognize foreign text , It is in here (http://www.wikihow.com/Say-Hello-in-Russian)
Thanks Ras!
I self-studied Russian for a year in highschool, but never got beyond the "graded readers" (trimmed down re-writes of Russian lit). I know next to nothing about how it is pronounced or how real people actually speak it.
I did learn to adore Mikhail Lermontov's "Geroi Nashevo Vremeni" (A Hero of our Times), an adventure novel about a Russian officer stationed in the Caucas Mountains.
There is (or was) a Russian Bookstore in Rockville, Maryland called "Viktor Kamkin's" that I used to order books from in the 1990s. Two of my pride of collection are Tolkien's "Fellowship of the Ring" (Khraniteli) and the "Two Towers" (Dve Tverdyni).
The "Return of the King" must not have been published at the time...
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if you are still wondering rasputin, this is the 5780 pirate's raft.
i bought one in 2006, so i guess it can't be considered a noveltie. :)
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Timotheos I am now rereading an edited version of " The Grand Inquisitor " by Dostoevsky 8}
wait a minute those pictures are of books written in Russian. You were able to learn to read? I struggle now-a-days to read and i have very few to speak with :-[.
Cachalote I find it odd that they sent me a "item available" notice now, its not even on the web site ???
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Rasputin,
The 5780 set is on their site now, several sets and items have been added since last night. Their is a pirate 3 pack in which the center figure looks like he would make a good Sinbad or Aladdin figure with the bald fellow on his left as a sidekick.
Gepetto
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Thanks Gepetto, Looks like a lot has been added in the last day or so . Like the 5705 Fire starter set that strangely commanded a high price on ebay . The return of last years blisters and Halloween pumpkins (after the holiday). and lots more in other themes
Update... looks like the add on Egyptians are here :yippee:
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They added a ton of great stuff! :love:
It's a shame, though, that it sometimes takes forever for the "available" stuff to go active (note if you try to buy it, it says "not available").
Timotheos I am now rereading an edited version of " The Grand Inquisitor " by Dostoevsky 8}
wait a minute those pictures are of books written in Russian. You were able to learn to read? I struggle now-a-days to read and i have very few to speak with :-[.
Hi Ras, I can read and write elementary Russian, or at least could when I was studying it. My vocabulary has dropped so low that most of the 50-syllable words otherwise known as Russian have left my grasp. I could read sixth-grade level books with the help of a dictionary (aka a book called a "reader", in simplified language).
-Tim
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I am really suprised to see some of the blister packs listed on their site, I wonder if this means that other retailers could order them? I had never seen the veterinarian and foal blister before and their prices are better than Fred Meyer or K Mart (strange).
Gepetto
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Has anyone noticed that the Roman add on figures and only the Romans are now $9.99 on the U.S. web site? >:( Can anyone explain this or is it a mistake on the web site? ???
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I did notice and I don't think it is a mistake. I am going to very quickly buy my Romans from a vendor who still has stock for $8.99!!
Gepetto
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Has anyone noticed that the Roman add on figures and only the Romans are now $9.99 on the U.S. web site? >:( Can anyone explain this or is it a mistake on the web site? ???
I could be mistaken, but I think there were a lot of price increases to various sets.
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I have to admit I did not pay attention to the prices of the sets just the specials and the figures, also noted that the Western theme did not appear with the other new icons.
Gepetto
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I have to admit I did not pay attention to the prices of the sets
Hey Guys, we need to turn Gepetto's response into a flame war.
Oh, I see, Captain Money Bags don't need to pay no attention to prices.
:lol: :lol:
But seriously, PM USA's pricing is frequently inconsistent. I haven't figured out whether this is sloppiness or related to some underlying cost we don't know about (example: the white tigers and orange tiger add-ons are not priced the same).
Obviously, for discontinued sets, the lower pricing reflects lack of demand. But does it mean one color of tigers is in higher demand? Or, that one color of tigers is more expensive to make? Or, is it just carelessness?
-Tim
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Well Gepetto i hope it was a mistake on the web site. But i'm with you on the notion of buying from other vendors before they follow suit. ;)
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Or, that one color of tigers is more expensive to make?
-Tim
Actually, yes different colours do have different production costs, so maybe one lot of tigers is more expensive. My wife is a qualified analytical chemist and used to work in the paint trade. Green paint is the cheapest paint to make and red one of the dearest, if not the dearest because it is a semi-transparent pigment and so you have to use a lot of it to get the coverage. But who wants green tigers?
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My understanding is that is one of the reasons fire trucks were originally red, visibility was a factor but so was the fact that it was a status color due to its cost.
Gepetto
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My understanding is that is one of the reasons fire trucks were originally red, visibility was a factor but so was the fact that it was a status color due to its cost.
Gepetto
I'd never heard that last theory for them being red, Gepetto. Thanks for mentioning it.
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I have a question . Does $60 for a Take-Along 4043 seem rather high ? Were the other Take-Along's like $30 ? I really wanted quite a few of these once i saw how well they make train sheds but at that price i think i might have to wait till they hit the clearance from lack of sales do to over pricing .
In fact all the new construction pricing seems rather high . the 4047 looks like a glorified 3126 ( yes is has a flashing light and a small trailer ) but at $35. The 3126 was what $17, thats a big jump . Then the other new sets are just as high, is the orange plastic rare? Is playmobil making up for selling the 4138 C.M.U. set so cheap ?
I just had to vent off some shock as i was looking forward to some of these new sets and was not expecting to be gouged . I sure hope the new mining set does not get included in the Construction theme and gets its own category ( Strip Mining , perhaps or Ra%$ and Pillage or Slash and Burn )
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The prices in euros are also high. The 4046 truck is in the region of 45 euros. You can check the prices in Europe to some extent by logging onto amazon.de and querying the set number.