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General => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: AndrewL on July 24, 2009, 10:31:12
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Hi All.
In welcoming me to the forum, Martin Milner (hi Martin :wave:) asked whether I had any pictures of the old Klickies I mentioned in my introduction. Strangely enough, yes. I do get very slight pangs of nostalgia looking at them, but I do much prefer the more 'modern' figures (with moveable hands). Anyway, here they are...
Enjoy, and cheers,
AndrewL
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Some more pictures...
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And some more...
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Last one...
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EXCELLENT vintage collection Andrew :wow:! Thank you for sharing :camera:! I'm especially jealous of your firefighter collection :-[!
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Many thanks for showing your collection, Andrew. As Bill says, it is excellent. It's funny that though the figures have stayed so true to the original design for 35 years there is something just that bit different about the early figures.
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Thank you for bringing these childhood memories to people like me who played with the original ones :wow: !!!
Karim ;)
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wowwwww.... golden objects... I'm crazy about those...... ;D
Thank you for sharing, AndrewL!
It's very nice to know that you've kept them through the years! :wave:
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Thanks for a wonderful line up and a trip down memory lane, Andrew.
I only had the Cowboys & Indians when I was a lad, from your collection, plus some knights and consttruction workers. My two favourite cowboys were one with white body/legs and red arms, and one with green body/legs and white arms. I think the pirates, soldiers etc. came after I was already too old to be given Playmobil for birthday and Christmas presents.
One thing I liked about the early sets were what they to the imagination like horses bridles and reins. They were not really necessary, but now they exist in modern sets of course you want them in.
What I hated were those cowboy hats that look the same back to front, because they had a toggle in the back that was supposed to line up with a notch in the figure's hair, but 99% of the time dug into the softer plastic, because you hadn't got it on quite straight or even back to front, and caused hair damage. Happily they soon realised the pointlessness of the toggles and notches and designed them out, but not before all my cowboys had really bad hat-hair.
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Nice! So have I grown up with these ... :yup:
Thanks for the pictures!
Gus
:blackhair:
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Hi All,
I'm glad everyone's enjoyed these so much.
Most of the 'credit' (if the word really applies here) for their survival probably ought to go to my mother, and the slight 'pack-rat' tendencies I clearly inherited from her. And the fact that my mother has a house with a large enough attic that throwing away toys like these was never necessary. The only thing I wish I'd done was keep the boxes.
Actually, I did keep the boxes for many of the Lego sets I acquired as a child (this was after I migrated away from Playmobil). Happily, those never got thrown away, either, and over the past year or two, I managed to sell those boxed Lego sets for a tidy little sum. Which money, of course, got almost immediately spent on Playmobil :yup:
Cheers,
AndrewL
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andrew
thank you for showing your collection, and thank you for crediting your mom and her "pack-rat" habits. my mother threw out my precious shoe box of beatle cards collected in the early 60s so as a mom i vowed never to throw out any of my children's (now ages 32 and 30) favorite toys, at least not without their permission. little did i know that after we moved five years ago that i would be the one rediscovering all of the playmobil and adding to the collection myself. by the way, my son's legos, transformers and other things are safely packed away, filling the shelves in our basement, along with countless other vintage "collectible" toys. that's what a mom's basement is for!!!
kaethe
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My mom and dad always threw away my toys as a child. :( That's probably why I am such a pack rat today. Unfortunately, I do not have a whole lot of space to store all my stuff. :P