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Title: 9332+9333 Figures 13
Post by: tahra on March 05, 2018, 21:35:18
9332+9333 Figures 13

Review at playkingdoms: Figures 13 (direct link) (http://www.playkingdoms.com/pk2/library/figures/figs13/s13.aspx)

Hope you like it, and let me know if I missed anything!
Title: Re: 9232+9233 Figures 13
Post by: cheng on March 06, 2018, 01:48:40
I've been longing for this review...its like I've bought full sets myself...and enjoyed your customized 'kept ones' !
thank you so very much Tahra!  :love: :love: :love:
(a lot of new sculps and colours but nothing to improve my samurais with)
Title: Re: 9232+9233 Figures 13
Post by: Tiermann on March 06, 2018, 01:50:52
Great review as always!

Note that the deer fawn is a new color for that sculpt.

I think the "Egyptian" woman in those colors looks more like she might be Minoan, or maybe Phoenician? I prefer to think of her that way anyway. Maybe just a change in the hair to black in that hair style and a different crown piece?

Generally a really nice series. I am surprised there have been fewer people in the US co-op so far. Interest may be waning now that we are over 300 figures in the series so far.
Title: Re: 9232+9233 Figures 13
Post by: Ismene on March 06, 2018, 09:33:55
Thanks for posting!

My main gripe about this series is the number of ladies who can't sit down!  >:(

I want to join the co-op, but I need to make sure the finances will be there, first.  8}
Title: Re: 9332+9333 Figures 13
Post by: tahra on March 06, 2018, 13:00:54
Thank you :)

(a lot of new sculps and colours but nothing to improve my samurais with)

Really? :o  (but will probably have some diapers for you...)

Note that the deer fawn is a new color for that sculpt.

Really?  :-[  I think we had him... for years.. I need to check that! Thank you Tiermann!

I think the "Egyptian" woman in those colors looks more like she might be Minoan, or maybe Phoenician? I prefer to think of her that way anyway. Maybe just a change in the hair to black in that hair style and a different crown piece?

Ah, you may be right.. we no longer have an "official" guidance to what these are supposed to be... the next series has a couple that defy definition!

Generally a really nice series.

Yes, amazing one - I mean, we kept them all! :o 




I'm ashamed. No, beyond. I can't even copy the darn ref.  :-[  :wall:  Are you all blind too, or were you trying to spare me?

I need to fix that.
Title: Re: 9332+9333 Figures 13
Post by: cheng on March 06, 2018, 13:52:30
(but will probably have some diapers for you...)

thanks and I stand corrected, the brown(same light brown as the snow boarder?) diapers are samurai-able  :P
Title: Re: 9332+9333 Figures 13
Post by: bml87 on March 06, 2018, 19:07:33
Thank you tahra! These are always amazing guidelines throughout the series!!!  :clap: :thanks: :)9
Title: Re: 9332+9333 Figures 13
Post by: tahra on March 06, 2018, 21:39:48
Thank you tahra! These are always amazing guidelines throughout the series!!!  :clap: :thanks: :)9

Thank you :)

And.. Tiermann.. we have another bambi baby deer of that color. And not the one bought loose (cause those are more than one, a darker, smoother brown - kinda like chocolate  :-[ ).

Title: Re: 9332+9333 Figures 13
Post by: Luftgaengerin on March 07, 2018, 12:30:21
Hi Tahra, what an amazing work, thanks for sharing! The amount of detail and comments it's so helpful, it's like REALLY watching those figures for the first time. :)
Of course your paperboy-custom is amazing - and your biker and his friend are the cutest couple of the year  8-) OK, maybe your pilot-couple is... Oh, I don't know, I like them all  :love:
Title: Re: 9332+9333 Figures 13
Post by: tahra on March 07, 2018, 12:46:12
Hi Tahra, what an amazing work, thanks for sharing! The amount of detail and comments it's so helpful, it's like REALLY watching those figures for the first time. :)
Of course your paperboy-custom is amazing - and your biker and his friend are the cutest couple of the year  8-) OK, maybe your pilot-couple is... Oh, I don't know, I like them all  :love:

Thank you   ;D   
(though all of them are not core!)
Title: Re: 9332+9333 Figures 13
Post by: Klickteryx on April 04, 2018, 10:19:01
Great reviews Tahra.
You've probably found it by now but the yellow cape the knight has looks to be the same as the purple one the woman has in 7757, medieval family which takes a bow. I think there is a bridal version too.

The fat biker reminds me of John Belushi for some reason and the boxer seems based on Rocky Balboa.

The newspaper boy has nice eyebrows so it seems strange that the hair he's given covers them up.

I thought it interesting that the egyptian woman and arab man have the same mismatched cuffs. I had hoped the woman had sandy coloured hair but gold is okay too and she's a great looking fi?ure.

Kind of annoyed I didn't get the cowgirl when I found her as that white rope would be useful, a much better colour than the old orange and good to show things like match cord or wick.

Does the brown of the fairy man torso match the arms of the trapper?

While I liked the figure, it's a pity that the king is basically the same as the king from series 4, only real difference is the torso print and the series 4 king had red print on the crown.
Title: Re: 9332+9333 Figures 13
Post by: tahra on April 04, 2018, 13:28:22
Thank you :)

You've probably found it by now but the yellow cape the knight has looks to be the same as the purple one the woman has in 7757, medieval family which takes a bow. I think there is a bridal version too.

Nope, I hadn't. I couldn't find it on the cape boxes, or among the "fancy klickys".. I believe we must have that bride - but she's in the victorian box (don't ask) IF she is sorted at all.

At least I was right about it looking familiar.

Thank you - I will add that in the review!  Shall I name you?

The fat biker reminds me of John Belushi for some reason and the boxer seems based on Rocky Balboa.

Probably, regarding the boxer. Same as the first, maybe?  However, he looks too small with the others, so..

Kind of annoyed I didn't get the cowgirl when I found her as that white rope would be useful, a much better colour than the old orange and good to show things like match cord or wick.

It's great, yes, also for a "fake color" pic :)

Does the brown of the fairy man torso match the arms of the trapper?

I need to check - on the mount 3 ones - everything is put away, and I have no idea which arms are the ones from the trapper.

While I liked the figure, it's a pity that the king is basically the same as the king from series 4, only real difference is the torso print and the series 4 king had red print on the crown.

I think we have far too many kings. "Too many chiefs, too few indians", we say here.. Still... fixed. I like the torso.

Title: Re: 9332+9333 Figures 13
Post by: Tiermann on April 04, 2018, 23:28:29
I am sorting the box I got of them yesterday.
Yes the color of the fairy man torso matches the arms from the trapper.  :)
Title: Re: 9332+9333 Figures 13
Post by: Klickteryx on April 05, 2018, 00:02:32
Thank you :)

Nope, I hadn't. I couldn't find it on the cape boxes, or among the "fancy klickys".. I believe we must have that bride - but she's in the victorian box (don't ask) IF she is sorted at all.

At least I was right about it looking familiar.

Thank you - I will add that in the review!  Shall I name you?
No that's alright, I was hoping that it would be like the old one instead of that hole, it just looks odd having something hanging from the back of a cape.

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Probably, regarding the boxer. Same as the first, maybe?  However, he looks too small with the others, so..
I think the first is just generic. Rocky had the whole American thing going with American flag gear, flag around the shoulders. The overall colour scheme and stars and caveman hair just says Rocky to me, though in the films he had a yellow robe.

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I think we have far too many kings. "Too many chiefs, too few indians", we say here.. Still... fixed. I like the torso.
Too much royalty, almost no common people. Then the baker comes along and look how much interest there is. Nope can't have that, restrict sales to certain countries in Europe and don't offer anything similar... ::)

Some nice stuff in this series.

One of the advantages about those big skirts is if you want the legs underneath for something else, you can use them without having to replace them as the skirt still holds the figure up. You shouldn't be turning ladies upside down to check what's underneath anyway.
Title: Re: 9332+9333 Figures 13
Post by: tahra on April 05, 2018, 08:20:24
I am sorting the box I got of them yesterday.
Yes the color of the fairy man torso matches the arms from the trapper.  :)

Thanks Tiermann ;)

No that's alright, I was hoping that it would be like the old one instead of that hole, it just looks odd having something hanging from the back of a cape.

Yes, it is kinda odd. And a peg would give more options, imo.

I think the first is just generic. Rocky had the whole American thing going with American flag gear, flag around the shoulders. The overall colour scheme and stars and caveman hair just says Rocky to me, though in the films he had a yellow robe.

That american thing was mostly in Rocky 4...  (Stallone = :love: )


Too much royalty, almost no common people. Then the baker comes along and look how much interest there is. Nope can't have that, restrict sales to certain countries in Europe and don't offer anything similar... ::)

Of course. People would want to BUY him in numbers... Money. Worse, FOREIGN money.  We all know how playmobil feels about THAT, right?  ::) >:( ???

Didn't you get a klicky?

I am not sure if in the end the store shipped to Portugal, but bundling 2.5 Kg of food with a klicky, it would be about 50 eur in the end. Far too much.


Some nice stuff in this series.

Great series :)  (except for the diapers!)

One of the advantages about those big skirts is if you want the legs underneath for something else, you can use them without having to replace them as the skirt still holds the figure up.

Ah, no.. Klickys must have legs. But we do replace them with more common ones  :-[

You shouldn't be turning ladies upside down to check what's underneath anyway.

You shouldn't?   :-[  Oopsy.

Title: Re: 9332+9333 Figures 13
Post by: tahra on April 14, 2018, 18:38:00

Updated - thank you, Klickteryx!

S13, Boys, 3. Green Knight (http://www.playkingdoms.com/pk2/library/figures/figs13/s13b1.aspx#b03) (direct link on playkingdoms)
Title: Re: 9332+9333 Figures 13
Post by: Pynedor on June 23, 2018, 15:18:59
Great review, tahra! You got some nice extra pieces again too.

I'm glad you found out about the cape, haha. I used the white version of it on a knight a few years ago and used the hole to hold one of the Dragonland shields with the large jewel (maybe they used the idea? :D - the peg to hold stuff is much better though!). I like that cape design because it can fit over chest armour and between shoulder armour. However, I always thought that if Playmobil were going to make a cape like this (instead of reusing that one), they would remove or change the trim at the top.