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General => Report & Review => Topic started by: JLMatterer on January 21, 2024, 21:05:18

Title: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: JLMatterer on January 21, 2024, 21:05:18: This is the back of the "50th Anniversary" Statue of Liberty figure. (The front is here: https://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=15477.msg325192#msg325192 (https://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=15477.msg325192#msg325192) ) Can anyone translate? What sticks out to me is:

70298/30660436

(https://i.imgur.com/SwjS0PL.jpg)
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Alex4420 on January 21, 2024, 21:09:50: playmobil
Playmobil World
Product name: Statue of Liberty
Model:70298/30660436
Origin: Malta (originally imported)
Suitable age: 5-99 years old
Main ingredients: ABS plastic

0-3
Manufacturer: Branded, Germany
Contact address: 2-10 Brandedstrasse, Zierndorf, Germany 90513
Distributor: PlayPlay Toys (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Address: No. 26, Lane 320, Tianping Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China, No. 326, Tianping Road
Contact number: +86 (21)-64179712
Implementation standards: GB6675.1-2014/GB6675.2-2014/GB6675.3-2014/
GB6675.4-2014
Warning: The packaging contains important information, please
retain it for future reference. Please put away the packaging materials in time
to avoid suffocation and danger caused by children playing. Contains
small parts, not suitable for children under 3 years old.
qualified
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Alex4420 on January 21, 2024, 21:10:42: Courtesy of Google Translate's image tool
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: JLMatterer on January 21, 2024, 21:39:34: Quote from: Alex4420 on January 21, 2024, 21:10:42
Courtesy of Google Translate's image tool

Wow. Thanks! :wow:

Does this answer any questions about its origins, or just add to the mystery?
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Rasputin on January 22, 2024, 01:42:12: Quote from: JLMatterer on January 21, 2024, 21:39:34
Wow. Thanks! :wow:

Does this answer any questions about its origins, or just add to the mystery?

Why would it “add to the mystery” ?

It’s says right there in plain Chinese / mandarin “origin: Malta”
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Macruran on January 22, 2024, 07:48:40: Looks like a straight repackaging for the Chinese market, presumably illicit. They got a shipment of loose figures from Malta and boxed them up for sale.
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: StJohn on January 22, 2024, 08:45:03: Quote from: Macruran on January 22, 2024, 07:48:40
Looks like a straight repackaging for the Chinese market, presumably illicit. They got a shipment of loose figures from Malta and boxed them up for sale.

That is not possible if Jim is right and Lady Liberty has a regular head. Then it can only be a new product, as such head didn’t yet exist (in the public eye).
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Macruran on January 22, 2024, 08:53:43: Hm then we have a mystery :sherlock:
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Oliver on January 22, 2024, 10:57:12: I live in China and so I have this figure - but what do you mean by a regular head? It is a Fi?gure, you have to assemble it like all the others
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: JLMatterer on January 22, 2024, 12:44:37: Quote from: Oliver on January 22, 2024, 10:57:12
I live in China and so I have this figure - but what do you mean by a regular head? It is a Fi?gure, you have to assemble it like all the others

Yes, I worked with it & it disassembled. It arrived already put together & I couldn't pull it apart at first.
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Indianna on January 22, 2024, 16:37:25: As GrahamB already pointed out:

Quote from: GrahamB on January 21, 2024, 10:39:09
Set 70298 is Dr. Emmet Brown, a Back to the Future set from 2020, so nice though these figures are, they are unlikely to be manufactured by Geobra!

But a web search of "Playmobil 70298" also shows other images including a 12 piece set of figures boxed in the same manner as Jim's Lady Liberty.

Also interesting, I searched unsuccessfully for "PlayPlay Toys Shanghai" but discovered instead that there is an official Playmobil Experience Center in Shanghai (https://www.horst-brandstaetter-group.com/en/news/playmobil-experience-center-in-shanghai-eroeffnet)! Did we know about this??? :o
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Alex4420 on January 22, 2024, 17:29:56: Quote from: Indianna on January 22, 2024, 16:37:25
As GrahamB already pointed out:

But a web search of "Playmobil 70298" also shows other images including a 12 piece set of figures boxed in the same manner as Jim's Lady Liberty.

Also interesting, I searched unsuccessfully for "PlayPlay Toys Shanghai" but discovered instead that there is an official Playmobil Experience Center in Shanghai (https://www.horst-brandstaetter-group.com/en/news/playmobil-experience-center-in-shanghai-eroeffnet)! Did we know about this??? :o

PM looking to capture all the future growth from China's new and fervent push for more children?
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: JLMatterer on January 22, 2024, 18:25:12: Quote from: Indianna on January 22, 2024, 16:37:25
Also interesting, I searched unsuccessfully for "PlayPlay Toys Shanghai" but discovered instead that there is an official Playmobil Experience Center in Shanghai (https://www.horst-brandstaetter-group.com/en/news/playmobil-experience-center-in-shanghai-eroeffnet)! Did we know about this??? :o

Yes, there were several articles about it in PM In The News at the time. :)
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Oliver on January 23, 2024, 00:20:17: Quote from: Alex4420 on January 22, 2024, 17:29:56
PM looking to capture all the future growth from China's new and fervent push for more children?

:lol: Joking aside, there probably would be a good market for Playmobil if they could tap it logistically. Most 'nicer' malls have a Lego store, and there's probably a market for European toys (the fact that they stick a German flag on the box points to this).

Quote from: JLMatterer on January 22, 2024, 12:44:37
Yes, I worked with it & it disassembled. It arrived already put together & I couldn't pull it apart at first.

Interesting, mine came in pieces.

A funny thing is that I bought these figures online, and they vary the price, presumably based on demand. So when I bought the Statue of Liberty she was about 40RMB, but now she's 88RMB
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Macruran on January 23, 2024, 04:10:12: China's birthrate is below replacement with nothing they've tried so far seeming to have any effect turning it around. So the market, while still huge, will continue to shrink. :uhoh:
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Oliver on January 23, 2024, 13:09:47: Quote from: Macruran on January 23, 2024, 04:10:12
China's birthrate is below replacement with nothing they've tried so far seeming to have any effect turning it around. So the market, while still huge, will continue to shrink. :uhoh:

The birth rate in every country that Playmobil is likely to sell to is below replacement (and in it's principle market has been below replacement since before Playmobil was invented), so I don't think that should hold them back :lol: But logistically I don't think they could crack China
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Alex4420 on January 23, 2024, 13:22:58: The bigger problem is screens... I see more young children (5 and under) in public in the US holding a tablet or phone as opposed to a toy... media has become the "toy" of choice and this attachment just strengthens as children age
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Indianna on January 23, 2024, 16:29:56: Quote from: JLMatterer on January 22, 2024, 18:25:12
Yes, there were several articles about it in PM In The News at the time. :)

I must have missed that article - I should have known that you were on top of this! :)
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Oliver on January 24, 2024, 03:23:54: Quote from: Alex4420 on January 23, 2024, 13:22:58
The bigger problem is screens... I see more young children (5 and under) in public in the US holding a tablet or phone as opposed to a toy... media has become the "toy" of choice and this attachment just strengthens as children age

I know, and I hate to be a old grump about it, but one of my pet hates is people taking their children to a restaurant and then parking them in front of a screen. Is that what they do at home?
Title: Re: Does Anyone Read Chinese?
Post by: Rasputin on January 25, 2024, 16:14:51: Quote from: Oliver on January 24, 2024, 03:23:54
I know, and I hate to be a old grump about it, but one of my pet hates is people taking their children to a restaurant and then parking them in front of a screen. Is that what they do at home?

While we’re all in front of a “screen” :lol: