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General => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: DrDalek6 on March 24, 2012, 12:35:19
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Hello I hope this is the right place to post this but, I've got some very old Pirate posters which are very special to me. I would guess would have come with these 2 sets as they were the only Pirate sets I had as a kid well until my Mum decided to give them away :'(
http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=3799
which was first released in 1991
http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=3750
which was first released in 1990
One of them has a number on it which is 306.158/06.92 although I can't see a number on the other 1
I'll have to try to scan some photos into the printer with my Dad's help as they're rather large but, here's some photos for know I don't know how common they are now but, I'd be interested to see if anyone else knows anything about them or has seen them before
(http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g462/DoctorDalek6/P1250981web.jpg)
(http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g462/DoctorDalek6/P1250983web.jpg)
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These are certainly treasures! Especially that first one! :inlove: They just don't make them like that anymore. I wish I had old posters from my childhood days.
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I amy still have the second one, but that first one is nowhere to be found! Really great treasures you have there DrDalek!
Thans for sharing them here!!!
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Those are cool posters. :)
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These are certainly treasures! Especially that first one! :inlove: They just don't make them like that anymore. I wish I had old posters from my childhood days.
Thanks they're very battered but, I'm so glad I've still got them and they've certainly got a lot of atmosphere in them whoever set that up and photographed it must have been very talented, I love them both but, for me the colours and the dramatic sky in the 1st one is really something :).
I amy still have the second one, but that first one is nowhere to be found! Really great treasures you have there DrDalek!
Thans for sharing them here!!!
Thanks I don't know a lot about them all that I've said above is just guesswork and logic really fitting pieces together there's a lot that I don't know about them :captain:
Those are cool posters. :)
Thanks they certainly are :arrr:
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I have both of these and one of these days i will post pics of all the posters i have, over 50 in total .... many are doubles though ... the playmo posters especially those of the early 90s are the very best i reckon , some are like art and i am planning to frame one in our next home ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
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I have both of these and one of these days i will post pics of all the posters i have, over 50 in total .... many are doubles though ... the playmo posters especially those of the early 90s are the very best i reckon , some are like art and i am planning to frame one in our next home ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
They're the only ones I've ever seen so I can't comment on any other ones, personally I'd love to see more posters. I also agree that I'd love to try and get them framed even if I've got nowhere to hang them at present at least that way they'll be preserved and safe from more wear and tear :).
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I've got some of these...somewhere :lol:
Picked them up quite recently actually for a few pence on ebay :)
Damo :)
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i like the drowning klicky and the other sailor hitting the shark with the paddle :lol: your not going to see that in any modern posters ;)
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:lol: Quite true!
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Those are beautiful posters! Thanks for sharing! :love:
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i have a couple from both , they were truly pieces of Art!!!!! :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: the first one came with all first edition large sets , 3799 , 3740, 3750, and the second with the second edition 3799 island , and 3750 ship :)
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i like the drowning klicky and the other sailor hitting the shark with the paddle :lol: your not going to see that in any modern posters ;)
Yes, those are great details. :lol:
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I've got some of these...somewhere :lol:
Picked them up quite recently actually for a few pence on ebay :)
Damo :)
Cool I'd say quite worth the price personally ;) :)
i like the drowning klicky and the other sailor hitting the shark with the paddle :lol: your not going to see that in any modern posters ;)
Yes I was just looking at it and it's great that there are little details like that in there, I never thoght that the little boy who is out fishing was using the paddle to hit the shark ;D :lol: if you look closely you can see he's lost his other paddle floating in the sea ;) incidentally is it just me or does the sea look like it's made of blue jelly?
Those are beautiful posters! Thanks for sharing! :love:
Thanks they are quite I hoped that they woudl be something interesting and something which may not necessarily have been seen a lot of before
i have a couple from both , they were truly pieces of Art!!!!! :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: the first one came with all first edition large sets , 3799 , 3740, 3750, and the second with the second edition 3799 island , and 3750 ship :)
Cool that would make sense I think, I've seen lots of ships which are the same all be it some with different flags but, which have come with different crews, the crew on the ship in the background of the 1st poster are probably the ones I had as a kid from what I can see but, the desert island figures in the 2nd photo look more like the ones I had.
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I like to compare the old ones to the new ones and what it say about societies. The old ones to me seem to have a lot of klickies doing various things. The boy on the ship is working, the stranded sailor is drinking, the other men sailors are also busy, not a lot of violence. If you look at say the 2012 catalog pirate cover you will notice that the emphasise is on sword drawn klickies, the sailor boy does not appear to be doing anything beyond swinging on the cargo loader. Geobra put a similar kid in the same spot but doing totally different things.
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well these days they focus more on gimmicks. they add gimmicks to sets and like to draw attention to that in the posters.
Back then the clickies where still the stars of the theme and not the special effects.
I do have to say that the pirate theme might be the strongest historical theme though, the formula is mostly the same as it was from the beginning, and each batch has enough nice things to counter the less good sets within the batch.
Theres plenty of figures that could just be a sailor or commoner instead of a pirate here as well since pirates dont have uniforms or such, which makes the figures quite versatile.
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well these days they focus more on gimmicks. they add gimmicks to sets and like to draw attention to that in the posters.
Back then the clickies where still the stars of the theme and not the special effects.
That is definitely true. These old posters show the more sincere feel of the scenes that were presented at that time. It was the same with a lot of other brands too, I'd say. All of the computer effects and such used in the "displays" now - if you can call them that still - are sort of disheartening to me. The scenes just aren't as real and vivid, and the details included by the designers who spent great amounts of time building the older sets just aren't there. Those are nice pieces you have there, DrDalek6.
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I like to compare the old ones to the new ones and what it say about societies. The old ones to me seem to have a lot of klickies doing various things. The boy on the ship is working, the stranded sailor is drinking, the other men sailors are also busy, not a lot of violence. If you look at say the 2012 catalog pirate cover you will notice that the emphasise is on sword drawn klickies, the sailor boy does not appear to be doing anything beyond swinging on the cargo loader. Geobra put a similar kid in the same spot but doing totally different things.
Very interesting observations you can't beat the good old stuff ;) for all that the new Playmobil is great I think I'd mostly be icnlined towards the older sutff it's ot it's own charm and character :)
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I like to compare the old ones to the new ones and what it say about societies. The old ones to me seem to have a lot of klickies doing various things. The boy on the ship is working, the stranded sailor is drinking, the other men sailors are also busy, not a lot of violence. If you look at say the 2012 catalog pirate cover you will notice that the emphasise is on sword drawn klickies, the sailor boy does not appear to be doing anything beyond swinging on the cargo loader. Geobra put a similar kid in the same spot but doing totally different things.
societies? what do you mean? was 20 years ago a different society than today? :hmm: :hmm: :hmm: :hmm: :hmm: the thing that destroyed playmo art is the computers i believe, they used their imagination to make these dioramas ,not photoshop :( the technology and photoshop could be a + to make even more beauties like these , but they are people with no taste and lazy ,regarding box art. They only look at the profit , which could be much more if they improved their boxes ....catalogs and genuraly their marketing ;)
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societies? what do you mean? was 20 years ago a different society than today? :hmm: :hmm: :hmm: :hmm: :hmm: the thing that destroyed playmo art is the computers i believe, they used their imagination to make these dioramas ,not photoshop :( the technology and photoshop could be a + to make even more beauties like these , but they are people with no taste and lazy ,regarding box art. They only look at the profit , which could be much more if they improved their boxes ....catalogs and genuraly their marketing ;)
Yes in my opinion we are more conditioned to accept violence as a norm .
The old poster showed Klickies, young and old working. Now they are portrayed as solving their differences with swords. That is not to say violence was not around but it is now normal and acceptable to advertise to children.
Its a business not an art gallery ;) Their formula seems to be working quite well in fact. Do we like it, well that is all opinions. Would we like it to be something else, always, but that is open to personal interpretation.
I would love to see more posters from different eras . Please share more
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The old poster showed Klickies, young and old working. Now they are portrayed as solving their differences with swords. That is not to say violence was not around but it is now normal and acceptable to advertise to children.
To compete with all of the terrible toys with guns and such that are out now, it seems this was one of the few ways to stay in the market. It's unfortunate, but true... I do think, however, that if more effort (which is probably equal to more pay and thus unlikely to happen :() were put into the layouts for images like this, they would still turn out great, even with possibly more violent depictions. As I said before, the computer effects put into the designs now (particularly in the backgrounds of the scenes in the catalogues) just make them seem so much less vivid and unrealistic. The violence can certainly be realistic, so long as it's portrayed in as stunning of a way that it was in the older images.
I would love to see more posters from different eras . Please share more
I'd like to see more too if you have them, DrDalek6.