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General => Brainstorming For Playmobil => Topic started by: Ackie on October 27, 2019, 19:49:19
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I would like to see a Playmobil milk man set. The milk man would come with his hat and milk carrier with filled milk bottles. You could buy his milk float but make that as a add on pack.
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A nice idea, but I think the milkman is a peculiarly UK thing and so wouldn't generate many sales. Even in the UK it's a declining profession, the last time we had the milk delivered must be about nine years ago.
Having said that, on one of my train layouts at Kirkbean, I did have a crate of milk on one carriage for the more remote villages.
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the milkman is a peculiarly UK thing
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Even in the UK it's a declining profession
The Milkman used to be a common thing in Belgium as well. I remember the milkman used to come daily in the street where I grew up, later on with the number of customers in decline he came only twice a week, then only once, then it stopped. I think the last milkman in my area retired somewhere in the second half of the 90s.
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I would like such a set too..
I don't remember a milkman, but remember going with my grandmother with a tin vessel to get milk - and drinking it BEFORE it was... "boiled"? It was a totally different flavor. THE HORROR.... :P (but it never killed me)
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I'd like such a set so I could recreate that Father Ted episode.
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I would like such a set too..
I don't remember a milkman, but remember going with my grandmother with a tin vessel to get milk - and drinking it BEFORE it was... "boiled"?
I think you mean pasteurised?
Supposedly there is a minor revival of the milkman, due to concerns over plastic bottles.
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I think you mean pasteurised?
Right :-[
"pasteurizado" in portuguese... says so in the cartons, right?
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I think that's a great idea!
White bottles were included in some of the UK 'Playpeople' sets from the 1970s, e.g. 1725 (https://www.klickypedia.com/sets/1725-pla-builders-accessories/). Evidently British workers drink milk so maybe people here didn't like the green (=beer?) bottles in the German counterpart sets.
(https://i.postimg.cc/3NsvkWvG/3202x.jpg)
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I think that's a great idea!
White bottles were included in some of the UK 'Playpeople' sets from the 1970s, e.g. 1725 (https://www.klickypedia.com/sets/1725-pla-builders-accessories/). Evidently British workers drink milk so maybe people here didn't like the green (=beer?) bottles in the German counterpart sets.
(https://i.postimg.cc/3NsvkWvG/3202x.jpg)
The beer bottles in the original German sets were quickly phased out because of the reaction of the public.
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Yet in set 3206, they replaced two 'garbage cans' with a crate of green beer bottles, and put a sticker on the box to show the changed contents. See page 30 of Collector 3rd edition*. Perhaps they had to find a way to use up those bottles (3206 was a set of luggage with no klickies to get drunk).
*For newcomers to PM collecting, that's Playmobil Collector 1974-2009 3.Edition by Axel Hennel, a very useful reference book if you can get hold of one. Unfortunately it hasn't been updated, partly because Axel Hennel died a few years ago.
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I think I once used the campsite buggy as a milk float. I'll see if I can find a photo.
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A vintage milkman from the "Telefrisco" milk company. :)
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Nice one!
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A vintage milkman from the "Telefrisco" milk company. :)
Looks like you're most knowledgeable about promotional klickies, Erik.
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Here's the custom I made for Kirkbean in 2014.
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Here's the custom I made for Kirkbean in 2014.
Lovely!!! :love:
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Here's the custom I made for Kirkbean in 2014.
Nice use of that buggy!
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Lovely!!! :love:
Thank you. It must have been a rather quick custom as I see I didn't even bother putting a suitable label over the "Camping" wording on the side.
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Nice use of that buggy!
Thank you. It must have been a rather quick custom as I see I didn't even bother putting a suitable label over the "Camping" wording on the side.
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Looks like you're most knowledgeable about promotional klickies, Erik.
I agree! That one's from Spain, 1995, I believe from the writing on the package. Have you got any more Erik? It would be great to have a topic showing all known promotional klickies- there must be hundreds of them!
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Thanks for posting the pic of the Promo-milkman, and of the Kirkbean-custom. :)
Where I grew up, the milkmen were almost always a one-man business and so they didn´t wear a uniform.
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Thanks for posting the pic of the Promo-milkman, and of the Kirkbean-custom. :)
Where I grew up, the milkmen were almost always a one-man business and so they didn´t wear a uniform.
That was often the case in the UK. Even with the companies, the uniform tended to be a peaked cap and then either a white coat or a white or striped apron.