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General => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: Giorginetto on February 28, 2010, 17:22:23
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Just bought these sets i have always wanted to add to the mediaval collection .
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The above is complete 100% and the only part i see missing is a red necklace but i have one ;). its not boxed but my primary concern was to get one complete . A rather rare set i must say ....
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The above is such a beatiful set in my opinion.... :love:. I have 4 tents as such but this one in wbite will make a fine addition to my mediaval town ....
When i set them all up with the rest of my mediaval collection i will take some pictures . i also bought a blue house to add to my collection . White, Red, yellow, gree, blue houses , playmobil got it so right with the old mediaval collection.... :love: :love: :love: :love: :love:
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Very beautiful buys Giorginetto!!!
They will look great with your medeval city! :yup:
My concentration is on the Romans right now,
but I will catch up my steck with yours after the summer! :P
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Great buys, Giorginetto !!!
And, you are absolutely correct when you say, "Playmobil got it right with Steck!"
Maybe, just maybe, someday Geobra will realize what a wonderful Medieval building system they created when they made their Playmobil Steck System.
Hopefully, they won't wait too long to bring back this fantastic system!
All the best,
Richard
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I'd like to see a bigger picture of the first set, I'm squinting at that tiny picture but can't enjoy the details.
The potter's wheel is a great piece, I wonder if they'll ever reproduce it as a DS item?
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I'd like to see a bigger picture of the first set, I'm squinting at that tiny picture but can't enjoy the details.
Your wish is our command, Mr. Milner ... :klickygrin:
Edit: Added second picture.
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Nice pictures Richard!
I too hope they bring back steck...
but for now I have devised a plan to continue making steck castles! ;)
Not he prettiest castles, but they'll keep my klickies safe!
Hope you come out with photos of your awsome city with your new houses soon Giorginetto!
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I too hope they bring back steck...
Can you just imagine, WoT ... What if Geobra had made the Playmobil Lighthouse, the Playmobil Colosseum, the Playmobil Pyramid, all the System-X buildings and castles, and all the other "snap together" structures out of Steck! AWESOME !!!
Don't know about you and everyone else, WoT, but I feel cheated. Almost betrayed!
Imagine the things that we all could have built!
What could they have been thinking in Zirndorf? ... :doh:
All the best,
Richard
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We can only wonder what goes through their minds Richard... 8}
If they just made steck 45* angle corner pieces they could make all the castles they are making with this X system... :P
Even without those 45* angle corners we could make a colleseum!
Just use a few rounded steck peices from the round steck towers!
Really geobra? We here could do this in our sleep!
And you seem to have to make an entirly new system! (One that by the way cannot be customised easily!)
If anyone here were to just land a job in their marketing department... :prays:
I could go on... beleive me I could go ON!
But I have found a way that we as collectors could still make steck castles without going to ebay!!!
I will be making a new topic with instructions soon if anyone wants.
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But I have found a way that we as collectors could still make steck castles without going to ebay!!!
I will be making a new topic with instructions soon if anyone wants.
Sounds very exciting, WoT!
I'm really looking forward to seeing your new topic (with instructions) about making Steck castles without going to eBay!
All the best,
Richard
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Excellent additions! I love the old timbered buidlings that PM made, and agree that steck is the best system ever.
I made a house like the Medieval Inn out of the farmhouse in DS, adding other parts I hade in my collection as well as from ebay.
These types of buildings are fantastic and I really hope that PM brings them back.
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Those are two wonderful sets to add to your collection. In the US those sets sell for a premium and are hard to find especially complete. The potters wheel & bakers window sure would be nice to see re-released.
Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
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Atleast we will get the blacksmithing tools with this next batch of knights...
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Thank you Playmobil!
I am a blacksmitth in "real life" so I was quite preturbed to find that there were blacksmithing tools in Playmobil and I didnt have them... :lol:
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A "blacksmith" in real life? You're full of surprises, WoT! ... ;D
As you probably know, Geobra made several Playmobil Blacksmith sets.
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I knew about the first and last one, but not the middle pic.
Thank you!
Yes I am part of a Historical recreational society called the SCA.
It is world wide, and unlike renissance fairs or reenactment groups we make our own battles.
My persona is a Crusader who goes off to the Holy Land and...
Well I have created a whole story but since this is not my post and I am getting WAY off topic with this I will leave it at that.
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Agree 100% about the steck. I think its pretty amazing quality and engineering wise that they are 100% as new after 30 years ...the only think people have to cerefull with steck walls is not to leave them under direct sunlight too long, they change colour etc etc . out of all the steck i have everything is 100% apart from a very few top wall fortifications ( of the original design) that seem to be a bit loose , mind you thats about 3-4 out of over 100 old fortifications, everything else snaps , klicks rather :love: :love:, perfectly
I am packing all the mediaval collection in boxes this weekend and it will be transported in the storage room that has been modified for all the playmobil collections . I will be bying 14 tables of 120cm x 70cm to put them all up covered with green , pool table cloth .. i estimate to have it all set round mid April . ... so i guess pictues of the full mediaval collection with the klickies have to wait a bit.... :-[ :-[ :-[
i was ready the other day to buy the new dragon sets but decided to go for these old houses instead. My blue house ( second one i have know) arrived today also. blue houses seem very rare and i bought both from well Austalia !!! excellent aussies dudes thank you ..Wil be looking for some 3667 set , best to get more steck ... never enough of it .. ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Where does one get pool table cloth?
Do playmos stand well on it?
How expensive is it??? :hmm:
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Most stores that sell pool tables should have the cloth or can direct you to someone who repairs tables and may have some remnants, lots of colors, different 'feel' or 'nap' available, not cheap though especially for large areas.
Gepetto
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Not cheap? Hmmm...
All the tables I use for Playmobil are cheap wood that I find in the garage,
So I will probably just paint them.
Thanks for the reply Gepetto!
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Most stores that sell pool tables should have the cloth or can direct you to someone who repairs tables and may have some remnants, lots of colors, different 'feel' or 'nap' available, not cheap though especially for large areas.
Gepetto
True . When it come to playmoibl sets i think the pool cloth is the best as its not too thick and therefore klickies stand up without any problems etc etc. Theer are many variations and prices , i found some good deals at a chinese shops that has lots and lots of materials . For a piece of appox 140cm x 100cm price was about 8 euros , i think thats pretty good. Another option was about 25 euros but to be honest for the playmo project i didnt see major differences. A slight darker shade is more prefereable i think and the one i will go for as its more realistic for sets and bear in mind same cloth is also available in blue ( for ' sea') ;D ;D ;D
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Can you just imagine, WoT ... What if Geobra had made the Playmobil Lighthouse, the Playmobil Colosseum, the Playmobil Pyramid, all the System-X buildings and castles, and all the other "snap together" structures out of Steck! AWESOME !!!
Don't know about you and everyone else, WoT, but I feel cheated. Almost betrayed!
Imagine the things that we all could have built!
What could they have been thinking in Zirndorf? ... :doh:
All the best,
Richard
Agreed Richard. I can't believe it was too hard for kids to create buildings with Steck, if the same kids can play with Lego with all its small pieces that fall apart far more easily than Steck.
Now we have not one but three, no, four building systems, which have no inter-connection possibilities? So much for the "Everything Fits" motto.
I was planning on buying the new Dragon castles when they come out here, but I'm not surfe I wouldn't be better off investing the same money on eBay Steck while there's still enough of it around to prevent the prices going insane. :-\
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Agreed Richard. I can't believe it was too hard for kids to create buildings with Steck, if the same kids can play with Lego with all its small pieces that fall apart far more easily than Steck.
Now we have not one but three, no, four building systems, which have no inter-connection possibilities? So much for the "Everything Fits" motto.
I was planning on buying the new Dragon castles when they come out here, but I'm not sure I wouldn't be better off investing the same money on eBay Steck while there's still enough of it around to prevent the prices going insane. :-\
It's so very, very frustrating, Martin ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/cussing.gif)
Before System-X was ever released, we pleaded with the very top people at Geobra. We asked them to please make transition pieces, so that we could connect Steck with System-X. They said, "No!"
There was no logical or rational reason given as to why. They just said, "No!"
We told them that they had made a transition piece to connect the old log fort palisade to Steck and a transition piece to connect the new plastic train track to the old brass train track. We told them that it just made good sense. Again, the answer was, "No!"
It's enough to just make you want to spit! ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/cussing.gif)
They just flushed our request right down the toilet ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/downtoilet.gif)
The same "top people" are still there, but we could make another run at them ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/crybaby.gif)
I just hate to be told, "No!" ... :hissyfit:
All the best,
Richard
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I think the people at the head of Playmobil are just stupid sometime! :hissyfit:
Oh yes, system X is waaay better then steck... ::)
It's not like we would want to customise out castles,
the original intention of making the steck system castles.
It's not possible to make transition pieces either...
(Probably because the marketing people thought if you had to buy whole new castles they'd get more money. :hmm: )
Although if they kept the old system then us collectors who really make geobra profit would be able to continue buying from them as opposed to people on ebay.
(Oh yes geobra, you will make sooo much more money by discontinuing steck... :hmm: )
What ever made them choose to change? We may never know,
but we do know that it was a completely stupid notion!
Like I said before... 45* angle connectors! Is that so hard to ask??? :no:
Time for Playmobil to wake up and smell the coffee! (or rather, the plastic)
Discontinue system X before it is too late and you run into the same problem with that as you have with steck now!
Hopefully we will all look back on these few years and say,
"Oh I remember those rare system X sets, yes I have a few in my garage from those years that Geobra went insane."
I say we make another run at them!
And another untill their resistance breaks, and we get our steck back!
Didn't work for Burnside, but we have nothing to loose! :hehe:
We'll remind them of their creator's wishes.
(Hans Beck should have wrote something about this in his will,
or maybe he thought the people who came after him wouldn't be so blunt!)
Well, that's my tirade for today...
And untill they bring back steck, Im changing my signature!
-Warrior of Toys
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Go get 'em, WoT !!! ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/horsey.gif)
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With you WoT , i will bring along all me mediaval soldiers to make a better attack !!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
This thread has answered the question ' new dragon sets or old steck buildings' as far asi am concerned . Thought i liek the new sets lots priority for me to get the old steck building i am missing , pricey but lovely sets they are.... :love: :love: :love: :love:
Steck is by far the best and hope to see it in parts catalogues, PM would make lots of money from it me reckons !!!! someone tell them please !!! dont they seehtese forums etc etc
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Thanks Richard... ;D
I really wish thy checked out these forums Giorginetto...
If they did they would see the huge mistakes they have made and (hopefully) fix them.
Steck is really much better.
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On the subject of steck, i bought from ebay ( librejoggen great playmo dealer) , 50 steck walls, 80 two sided connectors and 32 of these parts to stand behind the fortifications with the inteconnectors between them to close the gaps ... ;D ;D
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AMAZING!!! :o :o :o
You are sooo lucky Giorginetto!
Have fun making bigger and better castles...
(Please post them so we can see!)