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Offline GrahamB

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Re: GrahamB’s collection
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2024, 21:16:03 »
Thanks for your comments, guys. Diligence or TV avoidance, your work lights up every day on PF, Jim!

Here is a friend for the scorpion, sent to me by a PM friend. They look like soulmates to me!
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Re: GrahamB’s collection
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2024, 21:28:12 »
They look great together
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Re: GrahamB’s collection
« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2024, 18:18:40 »
Next is Riverdale Station, 4301.
I wanted this beautiful set for a long time, but had almost given up hope of getting hold of it when one came up on eBay for a not-too-unreasonable price and I went for it. Its got RED STECK! And Red toasts!


The secondhand set I bought was almost complete. As usual with sets of this vintage (1987), the building instructions do not show all the set contents.

Trying to find out what the set originally contained was a bit of a challenge, especially what the figures are wearing. I eventually decided that the girl with the yellow dress is wearing a red bow round her neck, the same as the bow worn by the boy clown in set 4787 Musical Clowns.

Eventually, I amassed all the parts of the set, apart from one sticker. I appealed on here and, amazingly, Indianna was able to send me a scan of the original stickers!


So here are pictures of the set…








And here are the set contents, laid out



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Re: GrahamB’s collection
« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2024, 19:36:16 »
Your own Riverdale station, how very exciting  :yippee:
It's one of the few sets on my list of must-but-don't-haves.

Yours looks to be in supreme condition when it's a used set  :o

Red steck  :love:  Red toasts  :love:
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Re: GrahamB’s collection
« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2024, 19:57:08 »
That's a great addition to any collection, Graham
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Re: GrahamB’s collection
« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2024, 22:34:19 »
Great buy

I’ve also been watching out for a more complete train station but most on EBay go for very high prices. I’ve seen complete ones at $300

Your look very clean and complete , great find and addition to your collection

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Re: GrahamB’s collection
« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2024, 04:10:21 »
A real beauty of a set  :lens: :camera:
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Re: GrahamB’s collection
« Reply #17 on: February 08, 2024, 05:24:20 »
Quote from: GrahamB on February 07, 2024, 18:18:40
Next is Riverdale Station, 4301.
I wanted this beautiful set for a long time, but had almost given up hope of getting hold of it when one came up on eBay for a not-too-unreasonable price and I went for it. Its got RED STECK! And Red toasts!

That set is a real beauty, Graham - congrats on finding all the elements!  And thanks for the great photos! 
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Re: GrahamB’s collection
« Reply #18 on: February 08, 2024, 16:24:23 »
In my opinion this is a great example of how playmobil was once a great German design. It has childish colors but yet is appealing to adult collectors. The use of stecks system that kept production prices down. Stecks allowed for multiple sets to be combined if you chose, making builders want more of the same set. It fit with so many other stecks sets that you could combine other buildings or safari foundations  together. Simple yet very effective, thought out engineering but effective .

One of these days I think it would be prudent to get a Chinese manufacturer to mass produce the golden year parts and give Geobra the bird
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Re: GrahamB’s collection
« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2024, 02:07:27 »
It's an awesome set and yours is wonderfully complete.  Congratulations
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