Hello to all!
I am new here, & am very impressed with the family of members! I started collecting Playmobil in 1997 when the new fire series first came out with the sets of 3880,3879,3881,3882,3883, etc. It all started so innocently enough when I purchased a lone 3882 firefighter
. The attention to detail caught my never ending devotion, the realism of these little items is fantastic, with the SCBA systems, hose systems that you can actually make pump water, the jaws of life rescue equipment, generous supply of tools &, OK, I'll stop now because you all know what I mean
! Plus they are larger than LEGO, which is good in some ways, & bad in others! Bad being you need much more room to display them
. Most of my original collection had to be sold a few years ago, but I my obsession was rekindled later when I accidentally saw the next generation of the Fire Department series. Now to my demise, I started to collect the original items I had, plus added multiples of the newer fire department series! It seems I have too many fire department items to even count now along with all of the police, hospital, EMS, construction, harbour, airports, city life, rescue, grocery store, TV crews series, & so forth! It seems to be an addiction to having multiples of these items! Does anyone else suffer from this situation also
? To tell you how bad it is, I have 7 of 3880 fire engines, 2 of 5716 fire engines, 3 of 3879 ladder trucks, 3 of 3182 ladder trucks, hundreds of firefighters of all the newest designs since 1997, 7 of 3181 fire SUV, 7 of 3179 equipment trailers, 5 of 3177 chiefs cars, 2 of 3175 fire stations, plus station add on extensions, 2 of 3128 fire boats, 2 of 5721 fire raft sets, 2 of 5705 burning building sets,7 of 3180 haz mat crews, 2 of 4428 fire helicopter sea rescue, 2 of 5704 fire helicopter, 12 of 3176 fire command sets, 2 of 3525 early red ladder trucks, 4 3881 jump teams, 3 of 3789 white fire helicopters, 2 self made custom brush fire fighting units, 2 self made custom water tanker units, plus all of the many, many, many DS orders to customise everything
! It's hopeless, I'm ruined! I like to set up displays showing the items working, but it takes a very large space to accomplish this endeavour! Plus it is not received well to take up a whole room to do this by the home team, if you know what I mean!! My main interests are the modern themes only, & try hard to stay away from getting addicted to the knight, roman, pirate series, etc., because it could become a very serious problem
!!! I look forward to communicating to everyone in the future, & hope to be of some assistance when ever I can.
