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General => Trains! => Topic started by: Rasputin on April 13, 2012, 21:55:30
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I have a few of these trains and may want to clean them up. I came across this auction (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stickers-for-Playmobil-4053-LGB-Atlas-Train-RARE-HTF-/170672411957?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27bcde5535) and am having a hard time believing it. How does one end up with so many sticker sheets? Are they genuine playmobil or are they reprints like the Mexican who was selling knock off western stickers
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I'm interested in this: it's a part I haven't seen before. In the database I have a sticker sheet for the 1995 model of 4053, 30 81 1550 - Work train decal set (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-81-1550), which is shown on the plans for that set - those plans are dated 1995. The older plans for the 1986 set, 30 80 6950 - Instructions for 4053 (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30%2080%206950), are dated 1988, and show no accessories including stickers.
The mystery is that in the numbering scheme, 30 81 1550 is "near" other parts first released in 1985 and 1986... ten years before the set using them was released. So that's fine, it seems 30 81 1550 was used for the 1986 version as well. (That's why I included it in the inventories for both.) But 30 80 684, which is in this auction, makes more sense for the older set if you look at the black stickers used on the arm of the scoop: on the picture of the older set you can see they are short and rectangular, but in the newer, they are long and tapered and fit the arm exactly. You _could_ put 30 81 1550 on the older set, but it's not the one shown in the set-photo.
Moreover, 30 80 684 is placed in the numbering timeline as somewhere between 1977 and 1983, according to its neighbours. I wonder, in what set could it have been used that was first released during that time?
My concept of the "numbering timeline" is not always accurate, but there are often sets of consecutive numbers that were all first released in the same year, so I tend to look at a new part's "neighbours" to see when it might have been first released - often enlightening. This musing doesn't prove either way whether the stickers in the auction are real or fake, which was Ras' question - sorry Ras. (If they're real, it may be that the glue's no longer any good - that would be ironic!) Just wanted to bring the difference to light, and to see if anyone else had any information.
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Even if they are repros they look better than what many used trains have on them, uneven, improperly placed, & crooked. ;)
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Wow, Heather you are a wealth of knowledge 8} Was all that in your head or did you have to look it up. Either way thank you so much for bringing these seemingly insignificant details to light. I will now go look at the trains in detail to see which ones we have.
Also I did not even think about the years of drying that may have taken place and will be sure to ask the seller. $20 though for the sheet does put me off. New sheets from DS are only a few dollars so paying 10 times their original value is hard for me.
:*) :thanks: :hatoff:
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Wow, Heather you are a wealth of knowledge 8} Was all that in your head or did you have to look it up.
You're quite welcome. Oh, I have to look everything up, pretty much, but I do have the information right at my fingertips. It's detective work like this that keeps the data collection interesting.
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Are they still available from DS? ???