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Short spear in black, what set is it from?

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Rhalius:
Nope, it is still a total mystery where it's from.

It hasn't been chrome plated, I never had those, all these spears I did get from sets, I don't think I ever got one second hand either.

Pynedor:

--- Quote from: Rhalius on April 11, 2025, 11:51:51 ---It hasn't been chrome plated, I never had those, all these spears I did get from sets, I don't think I ever got one second hand either.

--- End quote ---

Do you think it was from a recent set or an older one?

Rhalius:
Well I have barely bought any playmobil in recent years, last year quite a bit but that was not mixed yet with the other stuff when I build up everything, I did have the short spear stored in a box of weapons, put with the other spears.
And none of that was brand new sets either, it was pretty much all older sets too.

GrahamB:
It's probably from a set which normally had a dark grey spear. Maybe the stock of spears used to make up the sets ran out and a few hundred more were created, but the colour wasn't matched properly. Maybe the dark grey colour was called for, but perhaps an injection moulding operative thought black was near enough!

There are other examples of sets containing slightly different coloured parts in different examples. For example, Color set 3624 is shown on the box and most pictures of real examples of the set as having a white saddle, a white shield and a chrome breastplate, but examples do exist of sets with a black saddle, a black shield or a white breastplate. Black saddles and shields are found in several other sets, so they would be readily available to use when the white ones ran out and the time and money involved in creating more white ones could be avoided. With the breastplate, I imagine it would be much easier to create white ones than chrome ones if the stock of chrome ones ran out. I believe that breastplate, in white, was not used in any other set, so it would have to be created specially.

Most sets have 'alternative parts' which were probably replacements for parts where stock had run out. Take the famous set 3666, for example. At the bottom of the Playmodb inventory page are 10 'Extra parts not include in inventory.' Most of these are identical to other, included parts. But 30077100 'Keys on keyring' is gold, not bronze. Perhaps another example of less-than-exact colour matching?

Pynedor:
It certainly seems like a possibility that it was from a set that would ordinarily contain the spear in the normal colour as GrahamB noted.

This seems even more likely since Rhalius noted that he got it from an older set himself, so the other potential explanation that it was an unreleased part that he purchased from someone is probably not the case. Some unreleased (but almost certainly genuine Playmobil) parts occasionally appear for sale, and they are sometimes in very desirable colours! I've seen many of them appear in pictures here. I'd consider a black spear like this to be quite a good find. :)

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