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General => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: Mangusdog on January 15, 2012, 02:53:31
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Well I had this grand master plan of taking wonderful pictures of all my (ahem my DD's) collection and posting them and so on and so forth. Unfortunately/fortunately the collection is growing faster than I can take pics so I guess I'll just start with what I have and then go from there. I do have some pics which I will share as I get them uploaded.
Oh the other problem is instead of wonderful pics, I ended up with sub-par pics, despite my taking at least 50 shots per session LOL.
So basically we started out buying a non-playmobil castle for my DD for her birthday (great deal, got it half-price when we bought the train table for her for Christmas - her birthday is in December). Of course we had to populate the castle, and that is where our journey started (as you can see it's looking pretty empty):
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6698490785_265734c764_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6698490785/)
Castle 001 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6698490785/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
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So we started out with a few random (cheap :P) knights. None of which I got good pictures of yet myself:
4633 - Dragon Warrior Special http://www.collectobil.com/catalogue/items/4633.htm
4912 - Dragon Knights Duel http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=4912
5890 - Dragon Land Carrying Case http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=5890
5825 - Crusaders http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=5825
After coming here and reading about customizing I decided to do a small change and swith 4633's face with the green guy from 5890 since it seems we have a sort of green=good red=not so good thing going on. I'll have to take a pic, maybe I should switch them back.
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Anyway besides getting into the figures, which added the green knight and blue knight to our collection (which is all I was really going for at first). I started buying Playmo when I saw it on sale. So I bought
4887 - St. Nicholas and Angel http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=4887
4162 - Dinosaur Expedition http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=4162
Both of which are un-opened so far
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Then came my pirate catastrophe :-\
I bought 5191(soldier's fort) http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=5919 at Costco because I thought it was a pretty good price. I wish I would have read the review on here first. Not that it's not a nice little set but for $49 CD I don't really feel it was worth it for us. I like the two pirate klickies, the soldiers are fine but I don't really have much use for them yet. I do like a the accessories (the skeleton, the treasure chests and gold etc.) and I like the way the rocks make a sort of cove. I'm wondering if I could use it to make a mermaid lagoon (think Peter Pan) but the fort itself wouldn't really go. OK, now that I'm talking about it I fell a little better.
Then today, to add insult to injury, I bought 5869 (Red Corsair) http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=5869 for half price at TRU because the box was damaged WITHOUT realizing (because I was excited to get any playmo at 1/2 price) that it comes with the EXACT two klickies as 5191. WTH :hmm: . Honestly I can't believe out of the only two sets I buy I got the EXACT same figures. Blahhhh. I haven't opened the box yet, I hope all the pieces are there. At least there is an additional pirate that I don't have yet and the boat seems nice (on the box at least) though I don't really have a use for pirate ships yet. Will update once I decide to open it.
PS please tell me if I'm not doing something right here. These are my first posts on the forum (besides my intro) and I don't want to mess up LOL.
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Looks like your collection is expanding really fast!!! Of course, after joining here, it will probably grow even faster. ;D Thanks for sharing your collection with us! :)
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OK now for some pics. I am addicted to the playmo mystery fi?ures. I've pretty much got all the boy ones I want (the two knights) none of the rest are really worth the risk of ending up with more repeats (I have two pizza guys :-\ which I have decided are brothers). The girl figures though . . . It's so unlike me but I really like them best this go around. So for figures I have:
Boys:
Blue Knight x1
Green Knight x1
Rock star x1
Pizza Guy x2
Boxer x1
Girls:
Bird Princess x2
Snow Queen x2
Cave Woman x1
Mermaid x2
Hoodie Girl x2
Witch x1
I still want the pink princess, the fairy, the and the highwaywoman (seriously what IS up with the dagger LOL). Repeats don't bother me so much with the girls because I like them better for customization pieces. They are easier to mix and match than the boys IMO.
For some reason I've really mostley taken pictures of the bird princess, but here they are. And I'm sure I'm commiting some kind of blastphomy for combining playmobil with other toys but I couldn't help myself :-[
My Avatar larged up:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7163/6688065983_3fbd42d4ea.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6688065983/)
Snow Fairy (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6688065983/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
Bird Princess:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6690882355_da846870ac.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6690882355/)
Bird Princess 2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6690882355/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
Just having some Fun with Editing:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7010/6690919013_8a899b0a73.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6690919013/)
Bird Princess 3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6690919013/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
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Just loved the way the colours worked together:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6692108957_b66fd67d8d.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6692108957/)
Playmo & LPS 3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6692108957/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6692111351_67373b22b5.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6692111351/)
Playmo & LPS 1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6692111351/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
The castle is starting to fill up:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/6691857937_6deb934cff.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6691857937/)
Castle (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6691857937/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
My favorite part . . .
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6692106161_baf6221113.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6692106161/)
Feeding the bird? (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6692106161/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
Heeeere birdy birdy birdy :lol:
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Buying playmo fast indeed. The pic of the castle looks great. Furthermore your avatar and the princes.
Seems like you're having fun.
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Then today, to add insult to injury, I bought 5869 (Red Corsair) http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=5869 for half price at TRU because the box was damaged WITHOUT realizing (because I was excited to get any playmo at 1/2 price) that it comes with the EXACT two klickies as 5191. WTH :hmm: . Honestly I can't believe out of the only two sets I buy I got the EXACT same figures.
Unfortunately, playmobil does that ALL the time. I have NO idea why.
I still want the pink princess, the fairy, the and the highwaywoman (seriously what IS up with the dagger LOL).
Wondered that myself.. the figure would be SOOOO much better without that stupid ridiculous drawing. :(
They seem to fit that castle welll.
LOVE the pic of the princess feeding the huge bird! :)
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Great start. If you hang around here long enough, you will spiral out control with your wallet!
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the pic of Snow Fairy is really nice !
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Finally opened up the damaged box pirate ship.
I was worried there may be some pieces missing. You can see how it was taped up all around the bottom:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6722844771_0f7a73d406.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6722844771/)
Playmobil 013 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6722844771/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
But it seems to be all still there in it's original packaging:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6722777575_657b10f0d6.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6722777575/)
Playmobil 009 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6722777575/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
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Last night I sort of came up with a couple project ideas so at least I have some sort of direction now when I'm looking at things. Playmobil was on sale today (3 hours only :hmm:) so I came home with this:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6722785325_40e3577de8.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6722785325/)
Playmobil 021 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6722785325/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
The jousting tent was a fluke find at the bookstore afterwards. So far I've only opened up one of the Spanish Knights. Got an extra glove so that was cool:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6722786149_b14fb505a6.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6722786149/)
Playmobil 032 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6722786149/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
Waiting for DD2 to go to sleep so maybe I can open up the rest.
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A great collection in progress, but just realize eventually that neat & tidy look will be over run as the quantities increase! ;)
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A great collection in progress, but just realize eventually that neat & tidy look will be over run as the quantities increase! ;)
Bah, there is no neat and tidy already. That was only to try and get a decent picture :lol:
OK so DD actually fell asleep early which is a shocker so I did get to open everything up tonight :love: . Started small and put together the Indian Chief first:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6723485913_c2fecb9523.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6723485913/)
Playmobil 066 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6723485913/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
I like him very much, just hope the headpiece will fall more naturally after a while. It's rubber and tends to bend how it was packaged.
Then the (non-playmobil) jousting tent. Perfect size IMO:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6723483269_8fe5b58282.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6723483269/)
Playmobil 060 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6723483269/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
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Very excited to get the two Lion Knight sets out of the box. Absolutely thrilled with eveything except I could not put the bolt onto the wagon door because of a defect on the door :'( . You can see here how the latch thing is broken; I am going to e-mail them and see if I can get a replacement part:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7025/6723476717_fd9561ea73.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6723476717/)
Playmobil 039 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6723476717/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
Very happy with everything else. Honestly I don't really care particularily for cannons or the large weaopons but I was pleasantly surprised to find I could shoot the bolt clear accross the room. I forgot to add the cannon and other horse in the picture but here are the two knights and the transport.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7029/6723480551_a5ee8ebbf0.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6723480551/)
Playmobil 058 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6723480551/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
I made a few minor changes to the lion knight troop klickies (after reading the review on here). I switched the legs on the two heavily armoured klickies on the right. I also gave the 3rd guy the breast plate off of my extra Conquistador. It's not the best (there is nothing covering his back, so it looks a little weird from behind) but I still prefer it to the original version.
All in all I felt a little guilty for spending the money, but now that I've "played" with everything I'm quite pleased ;D
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6723477567_1f2f0eabce_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6723477567/)
Playmobil 052 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24556613@N08/6723477567/) by Mangusdog (http://www.flickr.com/people/24556613@N08/), on Flickr
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That jousting tent looks awesome!! Thanks for sharing these items!
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Wow.. wish I could find that tent at that price....
Thanks for the pics!
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Yes that's a great price on the tent. A nice group of sets there and you're already an accomplished customizer.
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Always nice to see other collections growing. :)
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Those Schleich tents DO look great with Playmo, I mostly use the larger white ones as "siege" tents! :)