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General => News => Topic started by: Heronimus on December 01, 2011, 14:47:14

Title: Coincidence??
Post by: Heronimus on December 01, 2011, 14:47:14
(http://bricker.ru/images/sets/8806_brickset.jpg)

Do they have Uncle Sam in the Lego minifigures??
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Playmoholics on December 01, 2011, 15:04:05
I've noticed that too. Even the packages look very similar.
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: bonniebeth on December 01, 2011, 15:09:15
I know, sometimes I accidentally reach for a L#$% packet instead of a playmo one. Same colors and everything. Though it seems the playmo ones will be a different color with each series, so that will maake it easier, and less like they're copying L@#$.
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Wolf Knight on December 01, 2011, 16:01:27
I have to admit that legionaire looks great... not as great as the klicky one, but still looks good. At some point both companies copy each other, its a marketing race, lets face it.
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Bolingbroke on December 01, 2011, 16:02:02
These Lego figures are really cute. I would collect them if they were one euro each ... but they're not worth more than that. And they're useless for customising or for building armies and so on.
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: tonguello on December 01, 2011, 17:09:50
There is a great thread in another forum about this that I will try to bring here. gotta find it, ask permission etc.
It shows one by one the lego and the playmobil figures. There is one of each. Not a coincidence I think.
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Wolf Knight on December 01, 2011, 17:27:46
There is a great thread in another forum about this that I will try to bring here. gotta find it, ask permission etc.
It shows one by one the lego and the playmobil figures. There is one of each. Not a coincidence I think.

oh yes please!! Try and show us these here, I'd be very much interested to see them side by side!!!
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: bonniebeth on December 01, 2011, 19:41:22
Oh yeah, I'd love to see!
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Rhalius on December 01, 2011, 21:27:12
Problem with the lego figures series is that its very difficult to find any of them that can actually be put to use amongst the existing themes.

The playmobil figures seem more versatile, although there are some oddballs that dont have much use. Like when are you going to use an Uncle Sam clickie?

Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: tahra on December 01, 2011, 21:41:26
The playmobil figures seem more versatile, although there are some oddballs that dont have much use. Like when are you going to use an Uncle Sam clickie?

Parade or circus  ;D

Worse is the injured mummy. What a silly idea.
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: tonguello on December 01, 2011, 21:52:01
Worse is the injured mummy. What a silly idea.

I was thinking exactly that!  8}
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: bonniebeth on December 01, 2011, 22:51:23
Uncle sam is great for making a barbershop quartet.
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Robbie on December 01, 2011, 22:55:32
The mummy is perfect for Halloween!  

OMG perfect idea, Bonnie! :hatoff: :hatoff:
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: tigana123 on December 01, 2011, 22:59:48
I have heard this in the past, that PM has an almost one to one correspondence to Lego. It went as much as when new Lego themes came out, PM fans wondering how similar the new PM themes would be!

I'd love to this the thread mentioned above.
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Ace on December 02, 2011, 00:16:58
Uncle sam is great for making a barbershop quartet.

Yeah, he's really versatile  ;D! I even made a all-Uncle Sam rock band a while ago: Uncle Rock (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=8591.0)   ;)!
Ace :brownhair:
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: cheng on December 02, 2011, 01:18:21
There is a great thread in another forum about this that I will try to bring here. gotta find it, ask permission etc.
It shows one by one the lego and the playmobil figures. There is one of each. Not a coincidence I think.

me too! me too! might also give us new customising ideas ;)

we wont buy more than 1 Uncle Sam etc each but want many red coats...luckily its not difficult to feel the ones we want, and unlikily for the innocent kids...they end up with several 'uncle sams' because of us :-[ :P
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Luis on December 02, 2011, 01:43:38
i want to see too!!! :D

btw are these figures meant to be taken apart like the fi?ures?

and what's with the dude and a teddy bear on the right? :hmm:
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Robbie on December 02, 2011, 01:53:29
and what's with the dude and a teddy bear on the right? :hmm:

He looks like a kid who had a nightmare!  :-X
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: bonniebeth on December 02, 2011, 04:26:56
Yeah... that's a little strange. Maybe he's yawning. ???
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Robbie on December 02, 2011, 05:19:13
Yeah... that's a little strange. Maybe he's yawning. ???

That makes more sense!!   :lol:
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: cowabounga on December 02, 2011, 08:29:54
The Minotaur is great!
I wish PM would make one... ::)
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: tahra on December 02, 2011, 08:38:04
The Minotaur is great!
I wish PM would make one... ::)

YES.. and centaurs! Been wanting one since I saw Andi's  :love: :love: :love:
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: conniefrere on December 02, 2011, 19:53:10
Yes a minotaur would be great. And then we need of course: a theseus, minos, ariadne, icarus, daedalus, maybe some greek soldier....a zeus, hades etc..... hmm maybe a Greek Theme. :evilplan: :evilplan: :evilplan: :evilplan: :yup: :yup: :yup: :yup:

I keep hoping. :prays:
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Luis on December 02, 2011, 22:24:16
Yeah... that's a little strange. Maybe he's yawning. ???

yeah, he seems to be yawning but isn't he a little old to carry a teddy bear? :P
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Gustavo on December 02, 2011, 22:56:42
Lol! They're very cool! :)
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: tonguello on December 03, 2011, 01:38:13
Here are the photos I talked about. Elo, our fellow Mexican collector from Playclicks,  has graciously allowed me to post these.

The comparisons are from series 1 and 2, but looks like enough to answer the question of the title in this thread.



Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Playmoholics on December 03, 2011, 01:39:35
Very, very similar.....but PM is so much better looking  :love:
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Robbie on December 03, 2011, 03:25:41
That lego witch is just plain creepy!...I think I want one.  :toot:
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: CountBogro on December 03, 2011, 11:09:22
That lego witch is just plain creepy!...I think I want one.  :toot:

I have one  :-[
But she isn't as well build as the PM ones  :lol:
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: conniefrere on December 03, 2011, 11:34:06
As playmoguy uncle sam is cool :lol:
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: conniefrere on December 03, 2011, 11:35:16
I mean on some of these posters, he looks a little creepy.
Title: Re: Coincidence??
Post by: Heronimus on December 03, 2011, 13:06:05
And the Scottish guy is going to show up in the next series.....hope playmobil could just mimic them.