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General => News => Topic started by: Luis on March 21, 2011, 16:54:27
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somebody on the Spanish forum posted this link - not sure if this has been discussed before but the authors listed what they consider the 17 least appropiate playmobil sets :hmm:
anyway, after reading the descriptons twice (and knowing that sarcastic humor is part of the American culture) i think the authors (Kevin J. Guhl and Brian Heiler) were actually joking and trying to make their audience laugh about Playmobil's 'lack of accuracy' :lol: (or so I think? :o) - otherwise this will be the most ridiculous personal opinions on political correction i've ever heard/read in my life :P
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/07/the_17_least_appropriate_playmobil_sets_for_childr.php
PS There were a few things that I hadn't noticed until i read this article, such as the overreaction on the bike accident :lol:
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In the same vain:
http://www.millionaireplayboy.com/mpb/index.php/essential-7-offbeat-playmobil/
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I think these articles are hilarious! :lol: I have to admit it's kind of true; some sets don't seem entirely kid friendly. The hooded executioner is scary, and the box art with the wolves attacking the moose is so inappropriate! :lol: But that's what I love so much about playmobil; the realism. They never run from more delicate issues. They bravely take them on with cheerful little smiles!
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Not one of those sets I wouldn't buy immediately if it was still available at a reasonable price and I didn't already have it.
The world is not hygenically plastic shrink-wrapped with a pink bow for children's convenience, and I applaud Playmobil's willingness to produce some unusual sets to show the grimier side of life.
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It's hard not to imagine Playmobil's toy designers giggling to themselves as they received approval to release a whole set dedicated to losing a few pounds from your colon in one of those aromatic portable commodes.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/luwerner/gif/icon_rofl.gif) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/luwerner/gif/icon_rofl.gif) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/luwerner/gif/icon_rofl.gif) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/luwerner/gif/icon_rofl.gif) (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/luwerner/gif/icon_rofl.gif)
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
it's really funny!!! thanx Luis for the laughs!!
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I am not sure if I want to laugh or cry ::) ... I will argee with Martin and Bonnie!
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Realism is one of them main reasons that drew me to Playmobil in the first place! It should contain the grimer events that occur everyday in real life. Children are able to see these events on TV 6 O clock news! Watch CNN where repeat bodies are being removed from disasters, & CBS drama shows that parents watch contain worse. It's an everyday occurance that children need to be able to come to terms with in their own way, & Playmobil makes them able to reconstruct these issues in their own way. BTW, they have beer commericals on the Super Bowl Game, so what if the play sets come with a huge keg & foam filled mugs, most parents are drinking alcohol in front of their children at the same time, so get over it, it's everyday life! :lol:
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Absolutely hilarious!!! :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
"explosively defecate" !!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Thanks for the link! :D
Damo :)
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BTW, they have beer commericals on the Super Bowl Game
not only can kids see beer commercials during the super bowl...they can also see singers performing and ripping off their duet partner's clothes live... :o
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Yup.
And I have nearly all of those. Why I <3 Playmobil so much!!!
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not only can kids see beer commercials during the super bowl...they can also see singers performing and ripping off their duet partner's clothes live... :o
True, lol. But let's hope geobra doesn't produce that set!
But it's like Bill says, one way kids work through the troubling things they see in the world around them is through play. I remember reading an article shortly after the twin towers fell, where a woman wrote about walking through the park and seeing children piling up stacks of tires and one would be the airplane and run into them as the others jumped from the top. She felt it was very sad to see that. And it is sad. But that is how children deal with the real life things they see happening around them. Seeing those images on TV is scary, and it's on their mind. Instinctively, they start recreating what they saw through play, and after playing it enough times, it doesn't seem so scary anymore. Playmobil allows kids a way to do that, to sort things out in their minds. Sometimes I think it works that way for some of us adults, too.
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A real shame the medieval torture-set never got passed the prototype-stage... ;D
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Sometimes I think it works that way for some of us adults, too.
Except when you have difficulties in killing your klickys :-[ Even this can be solved in a creative way ::) ... :P
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I love the realistic scenes :lol: And by the way, everyone has to have access to a bathroom, right? :P
Thanks for sharing those with us :lol:
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I thoroughly enjoyed those articles! Thanks for the links, have enjoyed my morning coffee even more than usual thinking about the port-a-loos.
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The set with the Gypsies and the Bear was banned in many countries and rightfully so I think as in certain countries this was big problem .
Also , the executioner ( i love this klicky ) is also wrong and i think it was banned also but not so sure !!!!
I can recall my father in the late seventies telling me that these workers shouldnt be drinking beer!!!!! What was Horst thinking back then ?? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol
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does it say anywhere that those bottles are of beer? The green ones could be Sprite, 7up, Mountaindew and many others.
I think our grown ups twisted imaginations took us to believe it was beer. Now WE are the one making stereotypes thinking all workers drink beer while at work.
;D ;D
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does it say anywhere that those bottles are of beer? The green ones could be Sprite, 7up, Mountaindew and many others.
I think our grown ups twisted imaginations took us to believe it was beer. Now WE are the one making stereotypes thinking all workers drink beer while at work.
;D ;D
There were Beer stickers .... LOWENBRAU if i remember correctly !!!!
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There were Beer stickers .... LOWENBRAU if i remember correctly !!!!
really? I had a coulpe of construction sets when I was a kid and don't remember them having beer stickers. But that could explain why everyone thinks it is beer. can someone confirm ? :P
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Yeah, I've always thought of the green bottles as cokes.I haven't ever seen stickers for these bottles. But maybe they did in the early days. ???
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really? I had a coulpe of construction sets when I was a kid and don't remember them having beer stickers. But that could explain why everyone thinks it is beer. can someone confirm ? :P
They did.. If i was near my playmoden i would take pictures and show here as i still have these very old crates/ stickers !!! . Clear stickers with the LOWENBRAU beer brand name on ....
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They did.. If i was near my playmoden i would take pictures and show here as i still have these very old crates/ stickers !!! . Clear stickers with the LOWENBRAU beer brand name on ....
wow, I didn't know that!
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A real shame the medieval torture-set never got passed the prototype-stage... ;D
It is...
Imagine, a viking torture chamber,
and on the back wall there could be a klicky in the bloody eagle... >:D
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Yes, George is correct! I have some old yellow crates with Lowenbrau on them! But no worse than the ultimate large keg with wooden frothy mugs! :**:
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It is...
Imagine, a viking torture chamber,
and on the back wall there could be a klicky in the bloody eagle... >:D
I have the rotating wheel with the holes fo knifes for liek torture in the mediavak set up and also the metal cages from the mediaval cart that i put on the hoists of the round steck towers... oooppss i havent doen this yet but these two are the torture thingies in my mediaval set up and as far as i would go i reckon with a playmo set up of that kind....
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I have the rotating wheel with the holes fo knifes for liek torture in the mediavak set up and also the metal cages from the mediaval cart that i put on the hoists of the round steck towers... oooppss i havent doen this yet but these two are the torture thingies in my mediaval set up and as far as i would go i reckon with a playmo set up of that kind....
Good idea. :yup:
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So, when Bobby leans the kitchen table against the wall, straps his sister to its surface and begins hurling Mom's best steak knives at her, who's to blame? Playmobil and its Knife-throwing Circus Act set, of course.
This made me think of my brother. I can remember when i was very little, my mom walkied into the room to find me tied to the bedpost with shoelaces, with lincoln logs piled around my feet, pretending he was burning me at the stake! :lol: He also had me walk the plank off my parents bed with my hands tied behind my back, and I had a carpet burn on my face. :lol: Good memories! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I have yet to meet anybody in the trades that does not drink beer. Beer would be the least of my worries as to what is available nowadays. I think it is quite accurate and just shows playmobil is in touch with reality .
Now if they made a pill pop-in klicky today that might not go over so well today seeing as everyone is so concerned about being politically correct -blahhh
Maybe they should take the Vet clinic and make it a plastic surgery office for bo-tox, mammary gland enhancements, face lifts, etc........
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Yes, george is correct! I have some old yellow crates with Lowenbrau on them! But no worse than the ultimate large keg with wooden frothy mugs! :**:
Exactly. Thank you.
I think children need to be taught what's right and what's wrong. Protecting them from the adult world and censoring left and right is not, as far as I can see, the way to go about it.
I wouldn't object to the executioner, either. It was part of medieval life, and certainly no worse than morning-star-wielding 'barbarians'. Though again, I am aware that it's hard to draw a line. Because at the end of the day there's little difference between an exectutioner and a moder day electric chair set.
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Exactly. Thank you.
I think children need to be taught what's right and what's wrong. Protecting them from the adult world and censoring left and right is not, as far as I can see, the way to go about it.
I wouldn't object to the executioner, either. It was part of medieval life, and certainly no worse than morning-star-wielding 'barbarians'. Though again, I am aware that it's hard to draw a line. Because at the end of the day there's little difference between an exectutioner and a moder day electric chair set.
oh yes and a gas chamber too, come on playmobil, kids need to learn about it through play ;)
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Though I'm the first to say that education is much more effective then pretending something does not exist, drinking at work is pretty hard to justify, nowadays or even back then.
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Though again, I am aware that it's hard to draw a line. Because at the end of the day there's little difference between an exectutioner and a moder day electric chair set.
what's the difference? ???
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what's the difference? ???
In mediaeval times if they thought you'd done it, they'd cut your head off anyway. In modern times, even if they know you've done it, you get appeal, after appeal after appeal. Any child with a toy electric chair would have passed it on to their grandchildren before it actually got used :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Seriously, the difference is that executions were part of everyday life 5, 6, 700 years ago. Even 150 years ago they were a popular public spectacle, but in modern times, most countries no longer have capital punishment (ie the death penalty).
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Not trying to defend anyone, but just don't forget the executioner is a historical figure. It's not something you see on the 6 o'clock news. So this is a prime example where education does wonders.
I'm not PC, and always prefer to have things the way they are and not sugar coated, but showing some guys having their fill of bear at a job is hard to defend. If my 4yo asks "Dad, are they drinking while they're working? But didn't you say that drinking is bad for your health?", how will I justify that?
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Just tell him that with each generation we learn by the mistakes of earlier generations. Things which we know to be bad for us today weren't always considered quite so unhealthy, and the health and safety restrictions that most of us abide by didn't always exist.
Then show him this
http://www.popartuk.com/photography/people-bw/men-on-a-girder-eating-lunch-mcpp60015-slim-print.asp (http://www.popartuk.com/photography/people-bw/men-on-a-girder-eating-lunch-mcpp60015-slim-print.asp)
Incidentally, I always thought the bottles were wine bottles (although red wine doesn't actually come in red bottles, I know!)
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And you have to remember the cultural differences, Luciano. In germany, beer is just part of everyday life, not what you drink when you're out with friends trying to get a buzz and have some fun. Some of the beers they drink are a much lower alcohol content than what you find in the US for example, and people drink it for the purpose of quenching thirst and cooling off. So when you look at it from that point of view, it makes perfect sense for men who are working hard to be drinking beer, simply because they are thirsty, not because they are partying.
Some friends of mine traveled to Germany for a religious convention, which was held in a large outdoor stadium. It was summertime, and they were having a terrible heatwave. Being from the US, my friends were surprised to hear the ministers encouraging everyone to drink plenty of beer during the convention so that they would not get overheated. But this was low-alcohol beer, being served to keep people cool and hydrated. There it was just not looked at the same as how it is viewed here.
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;D Thanks for the great posts, I thought they were very funny!
I too thought the green and red bottles were for wine, but I never thought about workmen drinking it :-\ I have a regular customer at work who is a Gas fitter who often comes into work in the middle of the day smelling of booze to buy beer while in his work clothes ( I just hope it's for after work.)
I think the executioner is brillant and I'd also love some torture devices!! When ever I see that knife throwing set I think of the film The Vikings with Kirk Douglas throwing axes at a womens hair to see if she was unfaithful!
In mediaeval times if they thought you'd done it, they'd cut your head off anyway. In modern times, even if they know you've done it, you get appeal, after appeal after appeal. Any child with a toy electric chair would have passed it on to their grandchildren before it actually got used :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ....
Would the electric chair light up? :P and could you get sponges and an extra large lever the throw!
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And you have to remember the cultural differences, Luciano. In germany, beer is just part of everyday life, not what you drink when you're out with friends trying to get a buzz and have some fun. Some of the beers they drink are a much lower alcohol content than what you find in the US for example, and people drink it for the purpose of quenching thirst and cooling off. So when you look at it from that point of view, it makes perfect sense for men who are working hard to be drinking beer, simply because they are thirsty, not because they are partying.
Some friends of mine traveled to Germany for a religious convention, which was held in a large outdoor stadium. It was summertime, and they were having a terrible heatwave. Being from the US, my friends were surprised to hear the ministers encouraging everyone to drink plenty of beer during the convention so that they would not get overheated. But this was low-alcohol beer, being served to keep people cool and hydrated. There it was just not looked at the same as how it is viewed here.
Sorry Bonnie, but "cultural differences" doesn't cut it. Even if they do that over there, it's wrong. Alcohol is not what you need to stay hydrated - in fact, it worsens the problem. And even if they're not partying, they're getting a buzz. Therefor, it's not safe, be it in Germany, in the US or in Bali. I doubt a German physician will condone beer consumption at work.
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As you wish. ;) I know I personally wouldn't drink beer at work, I almost never drink, and have never been buzzed in my life, much less drunk. So I'm certainly not condoning it.
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Next time i am at the 'den i will set up the prison area / torture devices/ prisoners ( from pirates jail ) and take some pictures of these poor klickies !!!!
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And you have to remember the cultural differences, Luciano. In germany, beer is just part of everyday life, not what you drink when you're out with friends trying to get a buzz and have some fun. Some of the beers they drink are a much lower alcohol content than what you find in the US for example, and people drink it for the purpose of quenching thirst and cooling off. So when you look at it from that point of view, it makes perfect sense for men who are working hard to be drinking beer, simply because they are thirsty, not because they are partying.
Some friends of mine traveled to Germany for a religious convention, which was held in a large outdoor stadium. It was summertime, and they were having a terrible heatwave. Being from the US, my friends were surprised to hear the ministers encouraging everyone to drink plenty of beer during the convention so that they would not get overheated. But this was low-alcohol beer, being served to keep people cool and hydrated. There it was just not looked at the same as how it is viewed here.
Maybe the convention was sponsored by Lowenbrau (one of the worst beers Ive ever had the misfortune to sample, I might add).
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Maybe the convention was sponsored by Lowenbrau (one of the worst beers Ive ever had the misfortune to sample, I might add).
That would certainly add insult to injury ::).
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Drinking alcohol can be just as bad as the other addictions if things become harmful to your health. It's better to educate children to the harms of misuse than to pretend they will never be confronted by it in their life. There is a strict bible college in my area that doesn't like to discuss any bad habits, & a lot of students when they get the opportunity to have access to those things, jump in both feet first & end up with addiction issues. It makes me believe that if properly educated because temptation is everywhere, the children can make educated decisions not going into things blind & ending up addicted. Pretending things don't exist doesn't make them disappear.
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hear hear !
Bogro
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Drinking alcohol can be just as bad as the other addictions if things become harmful to your health. It's better to educate children to the harms of misuse than to pretend they will never be confronted by it in their life. There is a strict bible college in my area that doesn't like to discuss any bad habits, & a lot of students when they get the opportunity to have access to those things, jump in both feet first & end up with addiction issues. It makes me believe that if properly educated because temptation is everywhere, the children can make educated decisions not going into things blind & ending up addicted. Pretending things don't exist doesn't make them disappear.
Amen.
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As I've mentioned before, we use our Playmobil to reflect what goes on in our day to day lives (or rather Isaac does, as I have just bought a unicorn ::)) and there are none of these sets I would shy away from, but from the point of view of the construction workers hut and the Portaloo, we have one of each because
(a) My husband's original office was very similar to the Playmobil one (and to think, the first time we met was in there, and I actually let him make me a cup of tea - it was foul :lol:). His current place of work at least has a door between the loo and the kitchen, but they are dangerously close!! No bunk beds though!
(b) In real life, Portaloos are everywhere!!
(http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss209/Alison01326/Miscellaneous/ace86091.jpg)
This one's been about 400 yards/metres from home for the past fortnight whilst the pavements are being resurfaced. We walk past it twice a day on the way to/from school.
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(http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss209/Alison01326/Miscellaneous/ace86091.jpg)
Hmm. I see a port a loo, a camper, a road sign, the mini excavator, traffic cones, lots of playmobil look-a-likes in your picture ;D
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Pretending things don't exist doesn't make them disappear.
True, but you don't need to show them to children as something normal and expected.
Sex is normal and healthy, everyone here does it, but do you expose your 4yo to it?
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Of course not, but drinking is not the same. Many parents the world over consume alcohol in front of their children -- wine with dinner, a cold beer on a hot day. There is nothing wrong with that. Getting drunk in front of them would be different. But treating alcohol as some kind of taboo could lead to undue curiosity on the part of a child, making them more likely to satisfy that curiosity later by drinking with friends while they are still underage. Better not to treat it as some kind of forbidden fruit.
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You're missing the point: I'm not against alcohol per se - though I'm not very found of beer and wine, once in a while I have some. My whole issue is about drinking at the job.
I wouldn't have absolutely nothing against a PM brewery or a pub. But boozing up at the job (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/luwerner/gif/hmm-1.gif)?
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I'm pretty sure the point is that few of us would have a problem with a Playmobil pub, but a beer drinking school bus driver, for example, is another matter.
A beer-swilling group of power tool-wielding construction workers is just a bit odd.
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Yep, that's what I'm saying.
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I definitely understand your point. I'm only saying that in certain cultures, beer is just the natural thing to drink to quench your thirst. As I said, some of the beers they drink in these cultures have a very low alcohol content. They are not trying to portray anyone getting staggering drunk and then operating heavy machinery. It's just that is what comes to our minds (yes, mine too) when we see this.
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Guys, guys..... please set this topic back on track. This was a really fun thread, let's keep the serious conversation for another time and place please! I respect every personal opinion. I just think this last part of the thread was not what the topic meant to be.
On behalf of the Mod Team.
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You're right! Sorry.
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Guys, guys..... please set this topic back on track. This was a really fun thread, let's keep the serious conversation for another time and place please! I respect every personal opinion. I just think this last part of the thread was not what the topic meant to be.
On behalf of the Mod Team.
Agreed.
And what you you know, maybe PM designers back then had a sense of humour. 'Hey Rolf, how about including a case of beer with this construnction set? Wouldnt that be a laugh? Har har?' Everything's so serious these days ... and the sad thing is that children aren't growing into better adults, despite all the psychological mollycoddling. Rather the opposite, I would say.
But yeah, back to the topic. :) :) :) :)
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I am glad we are back on topic , too many threats derail off topic these days and makes me wonder if that has to do with the fact far less posts are made here, lots of posts are now non playmo related inside playmobil topics.... :( :( :( :(...
I think the Top Agents series is too violent and depicts excess force and i am really dissapointed playmobil is making those horrid playmobil faces. Mr Beck wouldnt approve nor be happy with where the famous playmobil smile is going, also some of these jungle/ treasure hunt sets are very similar in that violent nature of the Top agents.
I am really dissapointed with the way the new sets are going , I dont care about Playmobil being a big company and changing their products to suit the market needs etc , in fact i dont care at all about that. I would ratehr see playmobil close rather than make horrible violent toy lines and destroy what they have achieved in terms of toy standards and ethics . I dont approve at all of some of these new sets and doubt if they will a sucess at all. THat incudes the avatar ' space like' new series which i also think is not appropriate and I doubt any of these sets will last over a year. Shame really they didnt exapnd into the roman theme and create a market and thetre and generally something more educational rather than just a violent place as an arena. I think playmobil is getting worse and worse in that respect every year and personally i refuse to buy any of these horrible angry playmo faces without the trademarked smile and these chinese like toys agents sets, trasure hunt, avatar like. All inapproprioate and rubbish if you ask me , i hope they prove a flop and nener make these rubbish again and rather make again some historic referecen and more educational sets .
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I wonder why so many people get upset about a playmobil construction set that has a case of beer, if that is what it even is. It shows the reality that most if not all people in the trades drink something while working. I would say a much more inappropriate set would be a banker in some kind of expensive car. The construction worker is only going to hurt himself or co-workers using those light equipment tools. Now a banker can do harm to whole countries from their greed. Or how about saying the airplane is inappropriate when sold with a tall building. 8}
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I wonder why so many people get upset about a playmobil construction set that has a case of beer, if that is what it even is. It shows the reality that most if not all people in the trades drink something while working. I would say a much more inappropriate set would be a banker in some kind of expensive car. The construction worker is only going to hurt himself or co-workers using those light equipment tools. Now a banker can do harm to whole countries from their greed. Or how about saying the airplane is inappropriate when sold with a tall building. 8}
Greed is good, especially when it comes to buying more and more PM.
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Greed is good, especially when it comes to buying more and more PM.
:lol: point well taken
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Greed is good, especially when it comes to buying more and more PM.
Eeeeerrrrrr,hhhhmmmmmm,
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;D
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Hmm. I see a port a loo, a camper, a road sign, the mini excavator, traffic cones, lots of playmobil look-a-likes in your picture ;D
Hmmmmmmmm!! Maybe I'm just 3 inches tall and live in someone's toy box :lol: :lol: :lol:
Now a banker can do harm to whole countries from their greed
:clap: :clap: Well said! And extremely true. On a lighter note, how about a 21st century super set with a couple of bankers, a politician, a crooked politician, a bailiff and a few boarded up houses and businesses. And maybe the homeless guy on the bench.
I think the Top Agents series is too violent and depicts excess force and i am really dissapointed playmobil is making those horrid playmobil faces. Mr Beck wouldnt approve nor be happy with where the famous playmobil smile is going, also some of these jungle/ treasure hunt sets are very similar in that violent nature of the Top agents.
.That's because you are a grown-up, George, and your thinking has been influenced by watching grown up films. Isaac doesn't have the top agents set yet (not sure if it's even available or whether I can afford it) but he would like it because it has some cool gadgets. Likewise he doesn't see the jungle set as violent, because he's never watched Indiana Jones. He sees that set as explorers who have knives for cutting through undergrowth and guns for shooting lions or other wild animals.
I agree about the evil faces, but then again, a facial expression says a lot about a person and in any child's game there is always a baddie (or at least in any boy's game). That's why we use smilies on the forum.
Anyway, you didn't assemble a vast army so that they could drink tea and exchange knitting patterns, surely?! ;)
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Anyway, you didn't assemble a vast army so that they could drink tea and exchange knitting patterns, surely?! ;)
Who, George? :lol: Exchange knitting patterns?
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Anyway, you didn't assemble a vast army so that they could drink tea and exchange knitting patterns, surely?! ;)
Good point,
So George, Playmobil did not make violent themes in the 70's, 80's & 90's? I know you could never agree to this statement because playmobil has always and I safely bet always will make violent, AKA good guy/bad guy themes
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Which is why there are so many "boys" on this forum. ;)
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I like the angry faces! They give more variety to the toy! Better distinction between good and evil, notions that are so clear to a young kid but when growing up he/she has to find out that not all are black and white... most of thing in life are grey...
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On a lighter note, how about a 21st century super set with a couple of bankers, a politician, a crooked politician, a bailiff and a few boarded up houses and businesses. And maybe the homeless guy on the bench.
How could you tell the difference between the politician and the crooked politician - they would look the same surely? ;D
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How could you tell the difference between the politician and the crooked politician - they would look the same surely? ;D
Good point! :lol:
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An "NSFW" tag would have been nice. Thanks. >:( >:( >:(
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How could you tell the difference between the politician and the crooked politician - they would look the same surely? ;D
The crooked one could have his sponsors logos all over his suit :P
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How could you tell the difference between the politician and the crooked politician - they would look the same surely? ;D
Oh, don’t worry- Pick one. Call him the “crooked politician.” You’d be right.
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Anyway, you didn't assemble a vast army so that they could drink tea and exchange knitting patterns, surely?! ;)
First , I will disagree about the violent faces. True what Rasputin said playmnobil has always made toys with weapons from teh very beginning BUT i think that the angry face expression , the red lines on klikcy faces and the looks of example the mediaval weapons that are now excaggerated have taken the playmobil toy designs to a different violent level and thats my conclusion. The fact that playmobil is deviating from the smilies is basically changing entirely its toy philoshophy and i think equally with gaining some customers it will lose probably also.
With the referce to Kids notr growing up with Indianna Jones etc etc I think thre are plenty of other similar movies far more violent of otday withing the same theme and overall movie violence and portrayed violence all together has escalated to much higher levels than say 20-30 years ago
As for the statement above, well the answer is no...all the vast army is there to look after all the trees and bushes and forrest animals in my playmobil set up . Really ...
which reminds me i have to pick up my 102 black lion guards today. They will be ' Tree Curators Group E '... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Oh, don’t worry- Pick one. Call him the “crooked politician.” You’d be right.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
And what does NSFW stand for, please, Andy R?
With the referce to Kids notr growing up with Indianna Jones etc etc I think thre are plenty of other similar movies far more violent of otday withing the same theme and overall movie violence and portrayed violence all together has escalated to much higher levels than say 20-30 years ago
I entirely agree with you but as Playmobil's target market is the 4 to 10 age group, hopefully the majority of those 4 to 10s are not watching films which are unsuitable for their age group.
all the vast army is there to look after all the trees and bushes and forrest animals in my playmobil set up . Really ...
which reminds me i have to pick up my 102 black lion guards today. They will be ' Tree Curators Group E '... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I am going to my home where the playmo den is very late tonite and hopefully setting up early tomorrow and take pictures late on Friday . I am away for the weekend so hopefully i shall post progress pictures late sunday . I will start setting up my town people and shops/ houses, still thinking of creating double walls in the inside of the castle set up and hopefully i will set up some of my armies or at elast unpack some of the 300+ packed balck lion guards and clear up some table space to start setting up the rest and the forrest etc etc sooooo much more to do ....
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I am curious to see where will all the lion knights be on the castle! It will be so crowded!!! Have fun and :picsplz: :picsplz: :picsplz:
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And what does NSFW stand for, please, Andy R?
“Not Safe For Work.”
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“Not Safe For Work.”
Thank you. If the health & safety police here had their way, that would be almost everything :lol:
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Oh, don’t worry- Pick one. Call him the “crooked politician.” You’d be right.
That was a good one,....too bad it's so true! :lol:
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The computers at my work read “Topless” in the site name, and blocked it. That’s what was “NSFW.”
Kind of my bad guys. (Kinda not…)
But anyways (I’m home now so I can see it), they have a good point…“Hey, at least it can double as the Playmobil TARDIS…”
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Hi All,
Back with the 'beer on the construction site' theme, is it worth pointing out that the set noted on the '17 Least appropriate sets...' is quite old? There are several construction-theme sets in the Playmobil.de product archive from the 1970s that include cases of (what was probably meant to represent) beer, such as:
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=3112-A&cgid=1974
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=3202-A&cgid=1974
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=3207-A&cgid=1976
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=3400-A&cgid=1976 (this is the one shown in the '17 least appropriate...' list, I think)
Note the dates of these sets. I can't speak from personal experience, but I would not be terribly surprised if having a case of beer around on a construction site was acceptable in Germany (and perhaps elsewhere) in the 1970s. Doing so is not (in my opinion) a good idea, but if it was common and acceptable at the time, Playmobil -- in their desire to reflect accurately the real world of the times -- chose to include the cases of beer on the grounds of realism. Times and perceptions of what is acceptable change. So do health and safety regulations.
My own childhood memories include the campaigns by MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) in the late 1970s and into the 1980s. It took considerable efforts on the part of many people to change the (widespread but not universal) attitude that it was reasonable and acceptable to have a few drinks and then drive yourself (and companions) home. Now, that idea is, I think, almost universally unacceptable; so, too, the idea that having a beer while on a construction site is OK.
Back to the Playmobil product archive, even a couple of years later, the cases of beer are absent from some construction-theme sets:
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=3239-A&cgid=1978
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=3472-A&cgid=1979
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=3508-A&cgid=1980
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=3474-A&cgid=1981
But still there in others:
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=3690-A&cgid=1979
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=3492-A&cgid=1980
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=3562-A&cgid=1982
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=3745-A&cgid=1987
Anyway, my point is that it's worth considering the social context in which the sets were originally released.
And for the record, I don't think drinking on the job is OK!
Cheers,
AndrewL
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Note the dates of these sets. I can't speak from personal experience, but I would not be terribly surprised if having a case of beer around on a construction site was acceptable in Germany (and perhaps elsewhere) in the 1970s.
Actually, it was ok up until the 199Ø’s (at least in California) except in road construction. That only lasted until the mid-‘8Ø’s (due to changes in attitudes towards driving drunk).
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I keep coming back to this thread just for the laughs! :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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I know, I love it! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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number 10 is hilarious to me... maybe because I work in construction and I know this is so true :lol:
and that is a first world situatuion... imagine a third world one :lol: :lol:
"Continuing the unbreakable union of construction workers and the need to explosively defecate" that line cracks me up-
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sorry to bring it up again :lol:
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A great list, although it could have been even longer. :)
Like the dentist for example, who else but playmobil would release a dentist to play with? :lol:
Now that would be a clickie you need an executioner for, right after you get back from the dentist.
The dancing bear doesnt seem to be on the list, I believe they released a dancing bear twice though.
But if you truly think about those construction sets, it does seem to follow up nicely.
First the construction workers get lots of beer, and in later sets there are toilets everywhere. Kind of like playmobil is telling a story there. ;)
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my grandma thinks like that. come on people its rubbish talking from those websites. in that case children shouldnt watch transformers cos its about robot wars, power rangers cos its always about killing the enemy with special weapons and fighting, jackie chan hes always fighting even if comedy so children cant watch, karate kid no its fighting again, simpsons family guy american dad cleveland show its cartoons for adults only than, sound of music movie its about the war period so no kids you cant see that too. harry potter wow thats to scary for children to. sory if i mention this but being fro malta i cant not do it-- the bible children thats a story for adults too cos poeple die or kill or crusify orwhat ever..... why dont we close the kids in a house with fot toy and leave them there. playmobil products are made on real life images which kid s will see out side the street and by playing with such situation toys they learn what life is like out there and they learn to go with the flow hehehehehehe
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First the construction workers get lots of beer, and in later sets there are toilets everywhere. Kind of like playmobil is telling a story there. ;)
This thread is hilarious .. it seems also there is a lot of talk reference playmo toilets modern and medieval ones these days... hilarious ..... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I bet lego people look with envy at these toilets, they never had any. Probably why many of them are not smiling anymore in recent years while all clickies still smile.
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Just love this post. My favourite is definately the construction workers "beering it up" at work! Thanks for making us laugh.