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General => Report & Review => Topic started by: Tiermann on June 05, 2011, 22:17:32

Title: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Tiermann on June 05, 2011, 22:17:32: This is a new release for June that I was lucky enough to get a copy of while I was in Germany. It is a typical bagged add-on set.
Here are the contents:

(http://animobil.info/playmo/6240/contents.jpg)
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Tiermann on June 05, 2011, 22:18:13: Here it is assembled

(http://animobil.info/playmo/6240/together.jpg)
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Tiermann on June 05, 2011, 22:19:25: Here is Karl from Transport Union showing us a comparison of the old truck and the new car. Note that the car is a darker green and the seats are not as red as in the old version.

(http://animobil.info/playmo/6240/compare.jpg)
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Tiermann on June 05, 2011, 22:19:54: Here Karl will give us a drive-by showing the driver's side

(http://animobil.info/playmo/6240/demo1.jpg)
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Tiermann on June 05, 2011, 22:20:08: the passenger side:

(http://animobil.info/playmo/6240/demo2.jpg)
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Post by: Tiermann on June 05, 2011, 22:20:54: Here is the rear showing the license plate

(http://animobil.info/playmo/6240/demo3.jpg)
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Tiermann on June 05, 2011, 22:22:22: and finally the front showing the working hand crank and the front grill

(http://animobil.info/playmo/6240/demo4.jpg)

The add-on is 14,99 Euro and only available in Germany so far. It will be in the export markets next year.
I think it is a great set at a good price. I really like this dark green color.
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: bonniebeth on June 05, 2011, 22:25:08: Thanks so much for the review and up-close pics, Tim! I can't wait til it comes out here; I will definitely be getting (at least) one!
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Luis on June 05, 2011, 22:43:24: thanks for the review, Tim :)
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Bill Blackhurst on June 05, 2011, 22:44:22: I think Playmobil has hit a home run with this new version! The colors are leaning more to a realistic look! Thank you for sharing this magnificent release with us Bling King! ;)
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: toyologist on June 05, 2011, 22:58:02: Very nice. Thank you. This is the first view I've had of the license plate, which is a nice detail. I can't wait to have one!
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Robbie on June 06, 2011, 00:44:25: Thanks for the review, Tim!

I think this could be a best seller! 8-)
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: skypurr on June 06, 2011, 00:49:43: Thanks for the review Tim, :thanks: I really want one of these now! :hissyfit:
(BTW hope Karl didn't get a parking ticket after taking the time to drive the car for us ! :lol: )

Elaine (http://www.anchoredbygrace.com/smileys/mgqueen.gif)
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: tonguello on June 06, 2011, 02:10:33: I absolutly love the colors!!!!! So victorian! Thank you Tim!! :love:
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: playmo1989 on June 06, 2011, 02:53:13: oh !! i wanted to see a review for that ,thank you tim it looks like the originall :) i wonder which child is going to buy this? because there is not any theme now that this can fit with ???
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Wolf Knight on June 06, 2011, 05:34:06: Fantastic!!! I like it so much!!! I 'd get a few of these!!! I guess both collectors and kids can buy this as it can be used with the currentt dollhouse series! I am sure our german and french friends who do all the great dioramas will buy lots and lots for their creations.
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: highlandcattle on June 06, 2011, 06:36:39: What is that police lady doing in the middle of the prairie? :hmm:
Thanks for the review, I can't wait for mine!
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: tonguello on June 06, 2011, 11:20:43: Quote from: highlandcattle on June 06, 2011, 06:36:39
What is that police lady doing in the middle of the prairie? :hmm:
Thanks for the review, I can't wait for mine!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I was so caught up by the car that I didn't notice the little story going on at the background! That's very funny Tim! :lol: :lol:
thanks highlandcattle for pointing it out! ;D
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: flatcat on June 06, 2011, 11:37:31: Great review, Tim! :lol: :lol: :lol:

This is definately a must have set for me! ;D

Damo :)
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: bonniebeth on June 06, 2011, 12:14:27: Quote from: tonguello on June 06, 2011, 11:20:43
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I was so caught up by the car that I didn't notice the little story going on at the background! That's very funny Tim! :lol: :lol:
thanks highlandcattle for pointing it out! ;D

Oh! I hadn't noticed it either. So that's what Elaine was talking about!
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: flatcat on June 06, 2011, 12:17:06: Quote from: bonniebeth on June 06, 2011, 12:14:27
Oh! I hadn't noticed it either. So that's what Elaine was talking about!

How did you miss it? :lol:

I wasn't even looking at the car first time round! :lol:

Damo :)
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: el jefe on June 06, 2011, 12:31:27: Thanks for the review Tim. It is indeed a sweet car. Is there any way to put the steering wheel on the other side? ala non british style?
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: socrates on June 06, 2011, 12:45:29: Nice background story, Tim! :lol:

And thanks for the review. It made me wonder what the car would look like with red tires... :)
(esp. as I should have some spare ones from the Karstadt truck...)

best,
socrates
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Jimbo on June 06, 2011, 14:36:50: Thanks for the review, Tim. Neat little car!
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Post by: WarriorOfToys on June 06, 2011, 15:36:54: When I go to the German fun-park this summer,
This is going to be the thing that I get! :love:
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: bonniebeth on June 06, 2011, 19:15:18: What? You're going to the german funpark? :D
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Post by: WarriorOfToys on June 06, 2011, 19:17:10: This summer on our family trip to Europe. ;D
Well, it will really only be my mom and my sister and I in Germany,
We will be meeting the rest of the family later. ::)
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Giorginetto on June 06, 2011, 19:47:54: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love:
I need a few of these , desperately !!!! better get some victorian mansion also :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: playmofire on June 06, 2011, 20:04:01: excellent review, Tim, and I'm sure the car will be a great success.

I loved the humorous goings on in the background. :wave:
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Alison01326 on June 06, 2011, 20:59:21: Quote from: playmo1989 on June 06, 2011, 02:53:13
i wonder which child is going to buy this? because there is not any theme now that this can fit with ???
Mine will!! He's already earmarked the original one in his wish list (hard to get and expensive on EBay). He's nuts about cars and I know for sure it will be star of the show at one of the many "car shows" he puts on on the living room floor, and it will also no doubt be used giving rides at the next school fete he organises to raise money for a sick child (all in his Playmobil world). He can't put on the school summer fete until I buy him a 7859 Carousel, apparently :lol: :lol:

Great to see the review of the car, Tim. Glad I didn't pay over the odds for the last one I saw on EBay.
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: playmofire on June 06, 2011, 21:36:54: Quote from: playmo1989 on June 06, 2011, 02:53:13
i wonder which child is going to buy this? because there is not any theme now that this can fit with ???

Children don't think like that, Alex. When you want to get four or five knights quickly to the castle, then this car is ideal.
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Giorginetto on June 06, 2011, 21:40:07: ...on the subject of playmo cars , is there a review of the BMW Herpa Z4 car anywhere ?? I still hope playmobil makes one day a model car based on the most iconic german car ( the 911) , i am sure that would sell a bit !!!!
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Alison01326 on June 06, 2011, 21:56:12: Quote from: playmofire on June 06, 2011, 21:36:54
Children don't think like that, Alex. When you want to get four or five knights quickly to the castle, then this car is ideal.
Yep, four seated and one jammed in somewhere in an undignified manner.
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: playmo1989 on June 07, 2011, 03:29:48: Quote from: playmofire on June 06, 2011, 21:36:54
Children don't think like that, Alex. When you want to get four or five knights quickly to the castle, then this car is ideal.

hmm.... that's a thought :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Rasputin on June 07, 2011, 19:39:40: Thanks for the review Tim.

I think I like the older version color better. This green and red just seem odd. I will still get a half dozen of them but I may have to paint some of them to more appealing colors like silver, black, gray, maybe a chrome one etc.....

I am also glad all the parts will be available for the incomplete old ones I have
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: WarriorOfToys on June 07, 2011, 21:09:07: I was thinking of painting one when I get a second one when they arrive in the US. ;D
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Gis on June 08, 2011, 12:20:28: Great review Tim...also took me a second time to see the little story in the back going on.

I also was able to buy three of them...one of which I will paint black *grin*
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Lindama on June 08, 2011, 13:08:22: Thanks Tim. It looks great!
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Post by: Giorginetto on June 08, 2011, 13:30:27: I want a few also , i want a few also !!!!
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: WarriorOfToys on June 08, 2011, 20:56:06: Quote from: Gis on June 08, 2011, 12:20:28
Great review Tim...also took me a second time to see the little story in the back going on.

I also was able to buy three of them...one of which I will paint black *grin*

:lol: Really cleaver! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: tahra on June 08, 2011, 20:58:47: How about painting instructions for dummies? ;)
Title: Re: 6240 - Old Timer Touring Car
Post by: Justindo on August 04, 2011, 09:48:28: Thanks for the review, Tim. :) I can't wait to get one of these.