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General => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: Little Jo on January 01, 2006, 17:43:25
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Hm, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this here ???, but I didn't find another suitable category, so I associated it with "catalogue" (http://www.jr-x.de/pics/symbol/rarr.png) "collector" and with this decided for this place ...
Did anybody noticed that on the Playmobil dioramas shown in the catalogues and the small flyers from the boxes the figures shown are always looking at the spectator or at least the faces are shown from the side (with a slight tendency to the front)?
Ok, for the photos on the boxes this seems to be clear (presenting the content), but every figure in the dioramas?
I noticed this just by today, looking thoughtless on a flyer lying around on my table (cf. below). I was wondering about the DHL postman with the trolley and the bakery delivery man also with the trolley, which are obviously shown from behind but are turning their heads, so that the spectator can see their faces. - Maybe it tracked my attention because both has been doing so in the same diorama at the same time, which looks to me a little but "unnatural". Even the lady on the far back left in front the Bankomat is looking back.
Then I had a look on different flyers and catalgue pages and didn't find any figure shown just from the back (without seeing its face).
Quite interesting. If there is an instruction how clickies have to be positioned on diorama photos?
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That's interesting - I had never noticed it. Now I will have to go back through mine to see if that's been the case for a long time. I would guess so.
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But it makes sense - the klickies are making eye contact with the reader of the catalogue or flyer, inviting them in, as it were.
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But it makes sense - the klickies are making eye contact with the reader of the catalogue or flyer, inviting them in, as it were.
;D Yes, that makes sense. Especially on the boxes. But every klicky doing so within the dioramas?!? There seem to be a lot of invitations :)
Does anybody know a Playmobil catalogue/flyer diorama, where a klicky is only facing with its back to the spectator?
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(http://gardenwargaming.com/pirates/images/ashore.jpg)
Here's one from and old catalogue (side view) ... But, it is true that very few photos ever show the side or back of a klicky's head. As you can see in this "side view," the Klicky pirate isn't as handsome from the side. Could it be because he's missing his proboscis?
All the best and thanks for getting us thinking, Jochen ... :eh?:
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Found it on page 49, 55, 69, 75 and 81 of the collector
But that are all older catalogues, i'll take a look on some of the old flyers i have.
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OK ... Here's a photo from the 1991 Catalogue which shows the backs of Klickys. But, it doesn't seem like Zirndorf wants to show the backs of Klickys much anymore, Jochen ... ???
(http://gardenwargaming.com/pirates/images/attack.gif)
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Even the Redcoat hanging in the ropes is seen from the front while shooting his gun.
Looks almost impossible to me.
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Hello, Jochen ...
I think that I might have figured it out! ... :eh?:
Our little Klicky friends may be very keen on foto opportunities ... 8-)
Even if it means hanging almost impossibly from the rigging of a Playmobil ship as Arab Warrior so perspicaciously pointed out ... ;D
All the best,
Richard
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In the catalogues from the eighties are several sceneries with klickys from the backside, like this one (the klickys are quite small but it is noticeable):
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@ Richard: Ah, yes, I think you are right. This must be the reason. Maybe, because they became more famous within the years, because as Matchboxluc pointed out in his last post, in their early days this was not the case ;D
@ Matchboxluc: Thank you for showing this. Unfortunately I do not have that old flyers or catalogues. -- Are these white dots at the sets markers of sets you own, or sets you wish to get your hands on? ;)
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@ Matchboxluc: Thank you for showing this. Unfortunately I do not have that old flyers or catalogues. -- Are these white dots at the sets markers of sets you own, or sets you wish to get your hands on? ;)
I guess the dots could be used for both options, or they could be used to fill in the prices of those sets.
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This is a very interesting observation. I never looked at it like this but the theory of the Klickies keeping eye-contact sounds pretty logical to me.
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Yes, pretty well spotted.
I too think it a rather modern way to make a commercial or message more inviting. Just like all commercials for clocks, they are all between 10:08 or 10:11.
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Just like all commercials for clocks, they are all between 10:08 or 10:11.
Never noticed that either, Why is that for Kvart?
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Well, for the clocks, if it is an analog clock, you want to be able to see both hands.
M
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Well, for the clocks, if it is an analog clock, you want to be able to see both hands.
Yes, you are right about that. But you could also have seen both of them it was 03:00, 16:55, 23:15, 01:45 and so on. So why always around 10:10?
I think there are several reasons:
1) It looks like a smile :) The clock is smiling to you, happy, inviting you to buy it and take part in it's happy life :D
2) Put your hands up in the air, put your hands together above your head, raise your hands in joy and happiness for this new clock ;D Just like the analog clock is doing!
3) 10:10 is a good time of the day, not to late, you can still manage to do all you planned to. And if it's in the evening, well the evening is still young ;) If it had been 11:55, five minutes to ghost-hour, or judgement-time in five minutes... Better with 10:10 :yup:
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??? never thought of that and the 10:10 time ot the day beeing not to early and not too late is a clever explanation
Thanks Kvart