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Customs Gallery / 18th-century customised flags

« Last post by HDTM on April 18, 2024, 08:29:39 »

I keep working on it

Brainstorming For Playmobil / Re: What's wrong with Playmobil? 2

« Last post by Klickteryx on April 18, 2024, 07:34:21 »

Quote from: Rasputin on April 18, 2024, 03:06:01

This is not entirely true

There were a lot of collectors from all over who not only worked and petitioned but actually spent their personal money to make it happen from all over the globe. There are quite a few in here actually. I am still thankful to them for all the extra work they did. Some even flew to Germany

The high up were the ones who allowed it to happen at Playmobil. With out their blessing it never would have had 1 month let alone 3 years

The people at Playmobil who were tasked with babysitting irrational, sensitive, emotional & crazy collectors tired of all the drama

Go ask the Green Goblin who resides in a swamp of all the special treatment he demanded

I'm aware of your spat with The Green Musketeer? but the total lack of interest beyond the contact person who wasn't able to provide any information made the whole thing a waste of time. It felt like the club was set up for children, other than the yearly sale practically nothing happened for the rest of the year, it was disappointing.
Thanks for the bit about the international fans input into setting up, I just assumed it would have been people who were closer.

Brainstorming For Playmobil / Re: What's wrong with Playmobil? 2

« Last post by Rasputin on April 18, 2024, 03:06:01 »

Quote from: Klickteryx on April 18, 2024, 02:11:51

German collectors fought hard to get the adult fanbase a foot in the door several years ago but the resultant club was treated with disdain by those at the top and very little interaction took place. The vast majority of the members were interested in history

This is not entirely true

There were a lot of collectors from all over who not only worked and petitioned but actually spent their personal money to make it happen from all over the globe. There are quite a few in here actually. I am still thankful to them for all the extra work they did. Some even flew to Germany

The high up were the ones who allowed it to happen at Playmobil. With out their blessing it never would have had 1 month let alone 3 years

The people at Playmobil who were tasked with babysitting irrational, sensitive, emotional & crazy collectors tired of all the drama

Go ask the Green Goblin who resides in a swamp of all the special treatment he demanded

Brainstorming For Playmobil / Re: What's wrong with Playmobil? 2

« Last post by Rasputin on April 18, 2024, 02:57:29 »

They did it to themselves , Germany ate the goose that laid the golden eggs . It’s not just a Playmobil problem, the whole German manufacturing industry is apparently suicidal

Hope some one with a brain gets voted in and steers the ship away from the rocks

As for the PCC , it was just a pet project of a few and had no company wide backing , it was doomed to fail from its inception unfortunately .

Mr B didn’t want to leave the brand to his kids so he left it in the hands of a secretary. Great
I guess he tried to out smart Clogs to Clogs in 3 and failed

English subtitles did not work for me , only in German

Report & Review / Re: My last purchase 3769 + 71436

« Last post by Rasputin on April 18, 2024, 02:38:51 »

Open it , set it free

Report & Review / Re: My last purchase 3769 + 71436

« Last post by Klickteryx on April 18, 2024, 02:16:41 »

Why not do a review of the car? Are you going to open the farm house set?

Brainstorming For Playmobil / Re: What's wrong with Playmobil? 2

« Last post by Klickteryx on April 18, 2024, 02:11:51 »

Quote from: Alex4420 on April 17, 2024, 12:57:15

WOW PM is now LOSING money?!? Holy cow... The only silver lining I see is in the example of Lego -- they came right to the brink of bankruptcy before they made the necessary changes to save the company. Whether PM can do the same, only the future knows.
On a side note, for a country as highly regarded as Germany is in the field of manufacturing, they sure have a hard time producing decent management talent. The degradation of the company's image and profits is entirely the fault of top management, period.

It's been a problem for a long time. German collectors fought hard to get the adult fanbase a foot in the door several years ago but the resultant club was treated with disdain by those at the top and very little interaction took place. The vast majority of the members were interested in history but instead the club provided modern themes for sale and the lack of interest in those coupled with the disgruntled comments due to lack of wanted merchandise ended the club after about four years.
I don't know about Germany, but as another article mentioned a quarter of toy sales in Spain are to adult collectors. That's a huge customer base being ignored currently.