Hi detective team. Let's talk magazines. I've been digging in to this area of collecting (virtually, thank goodness says my wallet) and found out a bunch of interesting stuff.
With some sleuthing I downloaded pictures for over a hundred of them, straight from the official site - all with their set numbers! Not too many with names, though, just pictures. They're in the 80000 range (along with a pile of other merchandise, which I'm leaving alone for now). I completed the remaining few from amclicks.org, who keep
a thread of all the official pictures, although without set numbers, so until I got the official ones it was hard to match up. The pictures (from both places) are the German printing, since they're from the German site, but I know there's English, French, Spanish/Portuguese, Italian and Greek ones too. (And they all seem to have different release-dates and issue-numbers, which muddies the waters significantly.) I've just named them by the same model, that's used on the site where the names are given, like
https://www.playmobil.de/online-shop/lizenzartikel?prefn1=subCategory&srule=Topseller&prefv1=license_books_magazines&content=false .
However, I'm less concerned with the paper magazines than what comes with them! The "30 79" (or "30 74" for non-klicky-containing) part numbers are printed on the card backing, which should in theory make handling them not too hard - the inserts can be parts belonging to the sets, and the klickies, animals, accessories etc. can be subparts of each.
Luckily the official pictures are large enough that I've managed to read quite a few of the "30 79" number printed on the inserts, so I can crop the picture of the insert from the main pic, and add the corresponding part to the set. The different languages have different 30 79 numbers though - makes sense, since the card itself is different. The contents SEEM to be identical. There's no way to get the klicky numbers, and they're purposely unique klickies, so "k80000" etc. they shall be. Many cards are too small or blurry though
http://blue-ocean.de is the official publisher, so I'll use the pictures from there. I'd rather not use unofficial pictures from sellers, though, so I have what I have, for the moment. There are 138 of these things, most in several languages (and they keep making more!) so that'll do for a while! I'll also add Graham's English insert-list for this thread a few years ago:
http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=14703.0 and make sure his list of set-numbers corresponds to what I've got.
THE REQUEST
Who's got magazine inserts they can photograph for me, and/or list 30 79 numbers? anyone want to do klicky-describing, or accessory-parts sleuthing? I can make Google forms to help with this, rather than piling it all into the thread. Tiermann, I bet you'd like a word in here, too, since there are lots of animals and it'd be good to get them put in the right places. Maybe we can get some part-numbers, too, if we can nail down when they were released. Many hands etc.!
