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Getting Started => Welcome! => Topic started by: Rivka on August 31, 2010, 10:29:35

Title: May I join in?
Post by: Rivka on August 31, 2010, 10:29:35
Hello from Ireland!

I always wanted Playmobil as a kid, but ended up with Barbie. :( Delighted to have a five year old who loves Playmobil (particularly disassembly), and a seven month old who is eager to eat them.

Looking forward to getting some ideas here.

Rivka
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: Gis on August 31, 2010, 11:10:22
You are very welcome to join in Rivka.

Children have been the excuse for many of us to get more Playmobil. Are you looking for any specific ideas? have any specific themes?

Let us know what you are looking for and I am sure there is some expert on the subject floating around somewhere!

Enjoy your stay!
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: skypurr on August 31, 2010, 11:39:23
Hi Rivka
A warm welcome from Southern Scotland (http://planetsmilies.net/flag-smiley-7326.gif)
I started collecting Playmobil for our two boys,but as they became teenagers I had to admit that it was really
for me.  :lol:

Elaine  :)
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: basilsdad on August 31, 2010, 12:14:26
Welcome Rivka, from sunny Pennsylvania.  I have no children to blame my addiction  :-[  but they are a big hit with my grandnephews when they come to visit.    ;)
Joe
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: playmofire on August 31, 2010, 12:25:12
Welcome, Ruvka, from North Yorkshire!  :wave:  The very existence of Playmobil is the only excuse you need to collect it!
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: baden-wurttemberg on August 31, 2010, 12:33:06
Welcome Rivka,from Texas! (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/texas.gif)


Glad to have you here with us!  :wave:



Baden  :)
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: Jimbo on August 31, 2010, 13:23:26
Hi Rivka :wave:

Warm welcome from sunny Arizona.

Best regards,
Jimbo
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: WarriorOfToys on August 31, 2010, 13:50:08
Hello and Welcome to PlaymoFriends! :wave:
I am sure you will get lots of ideas here.
Hope you have a great time. :)
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: Wolf Knight on August 31, 2010, 14:18:01
Hello Rivka!! Welcome to Playmofriends!! Warm greetings from Greece!!!
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: Bill Blackhurst on August 31, 2010, 14:43:10
Welcome from South Carolina USA, Rivka :wave:! As others have already mentioned, you don't have to be ashamed of collecting this great toy line for yourself, but it's always great to have children as an excuse :lol:!
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: cowabounga on August 31, 2010, 15:28:21
Hello from Paris Rivkah!  :wave: My almost-a-year-old-daughter eats them too! I guess it tastes good  ;D! Still if they're not 123, it's better to remove their hair to the playmos so she won't swallow it.
Welcome on board!

Cheers.
Arnaud
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: henry_martini on August 31, 2010, 15:45:46

Glad to meet you.

I always wanted Playmobil as a kid, but ended up with Barbie. :(

A good friend told me exactly the same sad story about her youth a few days before. But it's never too late.

Have fun here.

H_M


Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: BlueWizard on August 31, 2010, 15:53:46
Hello Rivka and greetings from Victoria, British Columbia!  In our household, I collect the Playmobil and my wife collects the Barbies! I hope you have lots of fun here.

David
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: Rivka on August 31, 2010, 15:57:02
Thanks, all, for the warm welcome.

Barbie wasn't  so bad...but I'm still not that into clothes. And I had a very feminist mother and grew up in the seventies when toys weren't so horribly gendered. I love that Playmobil seems to live in a gender neutral section of the toystore.

Aside from a few 123s, we got our son his first Playmobil - the hospital bed - before having dental work done under GA. Playing beforehand seemed to make the hospital experience less scary.

He just started primary school yesterday and asked and asked for us to reassemble the school (we moved about six weeks ago - possibly to have enough room to separate the baby from the Playmobil -and everything is in disarray). He's not the type of kid who verbalizes his anxieties, and I find that the detailed little world of Playmobil helps him to talk about what he's feeling in life. Except for the parts where people shrink, get huge, or fly. ;).

He really enjoys watching the movies on Youtubr, so that may be our next project.  After I seek everyones help in finding assembly sheets for our stuff (I kept recycling them, foolishly assuming they'd be available online). ::)
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: Mina on August 31, 2010, 16:27:09
I always wanted Playmobil as a kid, but ended up with Barbie. :(


what an "awful" experience it was for me, too.... I was a real tommy boy and my parents hoped that if they gave me Barbie toys, I would become more girly... bleeeeeeeeeh

(and I kept using Barbie cars to make fabulous races in the corridors)

anyway, a warm welcoming hug from Switzerland, I hope you'll have fun with us!
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: shirona33 on August 31, 2010, 17:58:40
 :wave: Rivka!

Wish you a nice time here!  ;)
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Post by: Vauban on August 31, 2010, 19:27:59
Welcome, Rivka, and greetings from Germany!

Volker
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Post by: bonniebeth on August 31, 2010, 21:06:01
Hi!  :wave:

Welcome from Louisiana!
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Post by: kaethe on August 31, 2010, 22:51:49
welcome from san francisco.  you will find this forum very helpful and very addicting, as you have fun collecting playmobil with your family.  plus, you have a great excuse, you have all of those years of barbie dolls to make up for!
kaethe
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: Klickus Mobilius on September 01, 2010, 08:06:18
Welcome from Northern California!   :wave:
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: Elric on September 01, 2010, 16:56:50
Welcome from South Carolina.
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: Arizzo on September 01, 2010, 23:50:56
Hi Rivka  :wave:

Greetings from the beautiful baroque City of Ludwigsburg in southern Germany  ;)

you'll find much more interesting things here than Barbie ....  ;D
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: Justindo on September 02, 2010, 06:00:35
Welcome from Southern California! :wave:
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: Sylvia on September 03, 2010, 09:15:41

Hi Rivka! :)

Welcome from the Scottish Highlands. :wave:

Watching your children play with Playmobil can be very insightful as well as entertaining. :yup: I often eavesdrop on the conversations mine make up when playing with their klickies.

I'm another one who wasn't lucky enough to have Playmobil toys as a child, primarily because they were never available in the Australian town where I lived. I was a tomboy too - played as much with Lego and Matchbox cars as I did with dolls. I think if Playmobil had been around when I was a youngster, I would have been nagging my parents to buy it and I'm sure they would have capitulated, especially as they are both German. :lol:

Have fun at PlaymoFriends and please visit us often to share your experiences. :)
Title: Re: May I join in?
Post by: Richard on September 06, 2010, 13:54:59


Hello Rivka (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/ireland.gif)

A BIG (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/welcome-2.gif) to PlaymoFriends from the warm and sunny United States Virgin Islands (http://www.usvitourism.vi/) (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/usvi.gif) (America's Paradise)! (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/usa.gif)