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General => News => Topic started by: JLMatterer on March 18, 2024, 17:32:21

Title: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: JLMatterer on March 18, 2024, 17:32:21
(https://i.imgur.com/bq2G6SK.png) (https://www.otz.de/regionen/jena/article241913072/Carl-Zeiss-kehrt-zurueck-nach-Jena.html)

(https://i.imgur.com/9M7Dc6g.png) (https://www.jenaer-nachrichten.de/stadtleben/23495-zurueck-in-jena-carl-zeiss-jetzt-playmobil-figur?fbclid=IwAR2Q2ST-N-eSRtvpeIQeyDPcypa7Ou6RFhjN3Lgtq2C4bC6zovIsXTB3KSQ)

(https://i.imgur.com/9M7Dc6g.png) (https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/thueringen/ost-thueringen/jena/video-playmobil-carl-zeiss-figur-100.html)

(https://i.imgur.com/hW3CdVv.png) (https://www.jenatv.de/mediathek/75418/Zeiss_ist_zurueck_jenakultur_stellt_Playmobil_Sonderfigur_vor.html)
Title: Re: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: Macruran on March 19, 2024, 01:13:02
Nice figure. The microscope isn't new, is it? :crossed:
Title: Re: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: Tiermann on March 19, 2024, 01:24:17
Not as a mold, but I think the color is new. I don't remember it in black before, it's usually grey.

It's a nice figure, we will see how available it ends up being.
Title: Re: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: JLMatterer on March 19, 2024, 03:24:08
(https://i.imgur.com/iWrNnvp.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/6S1q9Ir.png)
Title: Re: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: playmofire on March 19, 2024, 10:13:57
I can remember when Zeiss or Leica cameras were the cameras to own.  My first "proper" camera was a folding Zeiss Ikon Nettar folding camera taking 2.25in by 2.25in photos on roll film.  This was in the mid-1950s.

In the 1960s, my father had a 35mm Zeiss Ikon Contaflex Super SLR and also, later after he had sold then and then restarted photography, a second hand rollfilm Zeiss Ikon Ikonta I bought him as a present (it was maybe even a Super Ikonta).

In those days, there were also Carl Zeiss cameras and my first 35mm camera was a Carl Zeiss Werra.

The reason for there being two Zeiss camera makers was WW2.  The old Carl Zeiss factory was in East Germany, but many of the workers there had fled to West Germany at the end of the war to avoid the Russian occupation of the region.  There were long legal tussles over names and tradmarks and names, and eventually the West German company was recognised as Zeiss Ikon and the East German one as Carl Zeiss Jena. 

I actually still have a pre-war Zeiss Ikon Ikoflex 1 twin-lens reflex camerain working order.   I must try it out.

Entirely irrelevant to Playmobil, but your knowledge has been enlarged.
Title: Re: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: Rasputin on March 19, 2024, 13:57:19
These special exclusive klickies sure are attractive and what I’d love to see in regular assortment of playmobil

The rainbow bright klickies with their tacky outfits are tiresome

Put some traditional class back into Playmobil similar to this handsome klicky
Title: Re: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: Klickteryx on March 20, 2024, 10:33:35
Why's his top hat on sideways? They even have the box art for reference. I think the people who wrote the article need some more zeiss in their lives. At least he's not on a skateboard.
Title: Re: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: GrahamB on March 20, 2024, 14:14:58
Quote from: playmofire on March 19, 2024, 10:13:57
My first "proper" camera was a folding Zeiss Ikon Nettar folding camera taking 2.25in by 2.25in photos on roll film.

Mine was a Zenit B. Hand crafted by skilled technicians in Russia. 8}

Interesting to hear about the twin Zeisses and the twin-lens Zeiss!
Title: Re: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: playmofire on March 20, 2024, 18:00:35
Quote from: GrahamB on March 20, 2024, 14:14:58
Mine was a Zenit B. Hand crafted by skilled technicians in Russia. 8}

Interesting to hear about the twin Zeisses and the twin-lens Zeiss!

Glad you liked my reminscing, Graham.  Now I'm 80. you'll probably get much more of it.
Title: Re: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: Eplay on March 20, 2024, 20:19:38
Quote from: Rasputin on March 19, 2024, 13:57:19
These special exclusive klickies sure are attractive and what I’d love to see in regular assortment of playmobil

I second that
Title: Re: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: Riccardo on March 20, 2024, 21:24:14
Quote from: playmofire on March 20, 2024, 18:00:35
Glad you liked my reminscing, Graham.  Now I'm 80. you'll probably get much more of it.

I enjoyed it as well, thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: Macruran on March 21, 2024, 04:34:45
Quote from: Rasputin on March 19, 2024, 13:57:19
These special exclusive klickies sure are attractive and what I’d love to see in regular assortment of playmobil

The rainbow bright klickies with their tacky outfits are tiresome

Put some traditional class back into Playmobil similar to this handsome klicky

The Gnomes don't seem to understand that this is the strength of the brand, their natural forte. Clean, classic, cultural. Sure, experiment with laser badgers and Taylor Swope, but why not have a choice of classic-type themes? What if all the energy wasted on Everdreamerz had been put into say a German historical theme. HOTCAKES I tell you.

They say they're trying to appeal to the kidult collector but they are totally missing this aspect of that market.  :eh?:
Title: Re: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: playmofire on March 21, 2024, 04:49:17
Quote from: Riccardo on March 20, 2024, 21:24:14
I enjoyed it as well, thanks for sharing!

Thank you.  ;)
Title: Re: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: Rasputin on March 21, 2024, 19:12:22
Quote from: Macruran on March 21, 2024, 04:34:45
The Gnomes don't seem to understand that this is the strength of the brand, their natural forte. Clean, classic, cultural. Sure, experiment with laser badgers and Taylor Swope, but why not have a choice of classic-type themes? What if all the energy wasted on Everdreamerz had been put into say a German historical theme. HOTCAKES I tell you.

They say they're trying to appeal to the kidult collector but they are totally missing this aspect of that market.  :eh?:

Exactly
Title: Re: New Figure: Carl Zeiss
Post by: Rasputin on March 21, 2024, 19:13:32
Plus your educating the youth about history