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General => What is this??? => Topic started by: cachalote on January 18, 2009, 23:10:45
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hello, i need help with this set i just bought on ebay. :-[
it comes from germany as a give-away promotional figure. :hmm:
does anyone have some extra information on it? :love:
i will try to get better pictures of it when it arrives. :yup:
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mmm - as it's nearly all white ... ???
could it be meant to be painted or colored on; like the playmobil-colour of old ???
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could it be meant to be painted or colored on; like the playmobil-colour of old ???
That's what I was thinking too, Bogro. :yup:
In the 2nd edition of Playmobil Collector there are some very similar looking sets issued in 2001 and 2004. One of them is also a pirate, but different to the one shown in this topic (see attachment).
Here's the explanation from the book:
The Color Packages were intended for toy stores. They could be ordered for birthday parties or other celebrations in order to keep the young guests busy. Each package came with color pens and two different kinds of figures.
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He might be a Nordsee promotional figure; Playmobil have linked up with the Nordsee chain of fish restaurants in the past and created figures which appear nowhere else. They had three pirate theme figures last year (two pirates and a Spanish soldier) with a mini-game, and the pirate theme seems to tie in with their nautical nature.
Alternately he might be a figure representing a historical personage or theme, like the Knight of Malta figure. I have a couple of these, but they are not made available through the normal channels. There was also that Prince of Somewhere figure they did for a particular museum in Germany.
The Pharoah figure which was similarly packaged for a German Toy Show last year (I forget the exact details) has turned out to be much more common than I expected, and is now available as figure 7382 in the UK, so I'm glad I didn't spend £££s trying to snap him up on evilBay.
I don't think this is intended to be coloured with marker pens, or why would the legs be black?
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I don't think this is intended to be coloured with marker pens, or why would the legs be black?
I know that seems odd but it's still in keeping with the other color-in promos that were issued before. They were not entirely white all over either.
Maybe they didn't want to give the kids too much work to do. ;D
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having only the 1st edition, i was completely unaware that these sets existed. 8}
i think you are right sylvia - i think this pirate must be one of the color sets. :hmm:
now, i am on a quest to get the other one - the one you show on your picture.
i never saw one on ebay, so i guess it won't be easy.
like martin, i am puzzled by this, and i thought the color sets were "dead" long ago - but maybe playmobil had a lot of pens in stock and this was the way to get rid of them.
the dates don´t seem to go with the picture that comes in the leaflet - a 4290 ship would put this set in 2007. :-\
when i get it i will try to sort this affair out and i will post a picture of it for you.
meanwhile, i will leave you with 2 pictures from 2 other promo-pirates that i have in my data-base - i also don't know nothing about them although the 1st one is no doubt sylvia's pirate.
thank you all for your help. :wow:
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erm ... cachalote ...
I see a nice picture of Vikings in your background ... what is that ???
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dear count bogro,
i think this image comes from an item listed on an ebay auction. :-\
it is more than 1 year old and, if i remember well, all the items listed by the seller had the same background in their pictures - some kind of wallpaper with playmo-drawings on it. :yup:
that's all i can remember and i don't remember ever seeing playmo-wallpaper on sale (maybe it's a wrapping paper of some sort that the seller used to cover a wall). ???
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he has arrived. :love:
it is confirmed, it's an 2007 made in malta promotional pirate.
inside its plastic bag there is a number printed in the leaflet - 30898282.
does anyone know what these numbers mean?
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That sure looks like a part number to me and it is not in THE database (playmodb)!
Gepetto
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It does indeed look like a part number to me.
Question is - part number of what ???
Bogro
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he has arrived. :love:
it is confirmed, it's an 2007 made in malta promotional pirate.
inside its plastic bag there is a number printed in the leaflet - 30898282.
does anyone know what these numbers mean?
Could that be the part number of the leaflet, itself?
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i just got the other promo pirate on ebay (1 euro plus shipping) and i want to thank you all again for all the info about this pirate i was missing. :love:
so... thank you all, specially sylvia, for your help. :wow:
i will get some pictures of it when it arrives. ;D
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I placed a recent order with Playmobil USA and they sent me a similar Viking promo. Unfortunately I don't have any pics or a set number, but it was a figure from Malta with the following parts:
blonde stringy hair and ragged short beard
white shirt
blue pants with yellow boots with ties
dark grey helmet with eye and nose guards
silver axe
white round Viking shield with no printing or sticker
Has anyone else received a similar figure?
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Justindo , is it the same one that Sylvia has a picture of near the top of the page ( reply #2 attachment ) ?
I have a shipment coming soon and now I am curious as to what I will get
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Justindo , is it the same one that Sylvia has a picture of near the top of the page ( reply #2 attachment ) ?
I have a shipment coming soon and now I am curious as to what I will get
Yes, that's it! I completely missed that picture, but now that I look at it I also received the female klicky with the white voluminous skirt a month or two ago.
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Could that be the part number of the leaflet, itself?
A very high percentage of parts with numbers that start with 3089 are made of paper: stickers, instructions, or other cardboard bits, so I wouldn't be surprised if Indianna is right. (If there's a date printed with the number, that would clinch it.) I have a few catalogues (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/category.pl?category=Paper-Catalogue) in the database, but not too many, and not that one.
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he arrived. :yup:
more than 2 years later (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=808.0) i found one. :)
i call him "2000" because he came with a 2000 leaflet. :hmm:
he has nothing very special about him but he looks o.k. :)
please note the hair in the back - unusual? :-\
the little card that comes in the bag says 3080 359 0 (made in malta).
now i am only missing the "all white" promo pirate.
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and 2 more photos