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General => News => Topic started by: Customizer on January 13, 2007, 14:52:36
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Hello Playmofriends,
here in germany the new Super-Sets are in the shops !
Look the new Svan !
http://www.playmo-portal.com/playmobilforum/die-neuen-supersets-sind-da-t14578-30.html#158639 (http://www.playmo-portal.com/playmobilforum/die-neuen-supersets-sind-da-t14578-30.html#158639)
ENJOY the pics !
gentle greets
Andi
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more...........
real water !!
Price: 19,99 €
ENJOY !!
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Many thanks for the photos, andi. I must admit that only the building one appeals to me, and that only marginally with a view to using it in an emergency scene involving a klicky trapped under a pile of coal or something. However, by the time the sets reach us in 2008, I may have change my mind and want it desperately.
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Hi Andi.
Thanks for the great pictures...I really like the pirate ship with
that cool cannon! :yup:
Best regards,
Jimbo
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Has anyone more detailed pics from the Pirate-Superset?
I'd like to get a better look at the canon; when not mistaking I believe it's shape differs slightly from the actual one, and it might have a different firing mechanism...
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They look like fun. I totally missed the cygnet (baby swan) on the mother's back the first time around.
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It's a swivel gun, though probably too large and powerful to work in practice (they were long barrelled, small bore weapons). It looks to be modelled on the 3940 pirate cannon but maybe shorter than the this. An attempt at a carronade?
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They look like fun. I totally missed the cygnet (baby swan) on the mother's back the first time around.
Uh, yes, you're right. Even didn't spotted it on the large pic by myself.
:D Glad to see that's actually the same (light grey) like the one I made by myself (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=727.msg11445#msg11445).
Puh, this will become expensive: three of them really interests me (although the fairy tale one is only interesting due to the swan).
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I really like the ice cream parlour! I can think of at least 2 little girls who would have a lot of fun playing with that. :)
And very happy to know about the cygnet. You must have very keen eyesight, Tim! I also missed it. ;)
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It's a swivel gun, though probably too large and powerful to work in practice (they were long barrelled, small bore weapons). It looks to be modelled on the 3940 pirate cannon but maybe shorter than the this. An attempt at a carronade?
Yes, it's too large to be a true deck swivelling gun.
It is certainly modelled on the existing cannon, I think it has the same size and that the main difference is the addition of 2 small straight "extensions" at it's top (near the middle) and a kind of "button" (?) where in real the fuse would be located. And looking closer at the innerside of the gun-mouth (on pictures), I've the impression there might be some difference there as well...
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Thanks, Andi ...
The Pirate Ship Wreck is a must have for a pirate fan like me!
Even though the rail swivel gun is a bit oversized, I think that it's very cool!
Thanks again and all the best,
Richard
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8} more money to spend 8}
:lol: ;D
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:wow:
i want, i need, the pirate's super set.
it looks beautiful.
going to ebay now.
thank you customizer, for the news.
:)
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Here are 2 more pics of the Shipwreck-superset (posted by Dread Bonnet on the German forum). It looks like a cool set I certainly want to get! :arrr:
As previous images suggested, the cannon-barrel is based on the 3940's one with some alterations on it's top, and indeed has a kind of new firing mechanism: the cannonball is to be put in front of the gun-mouth to be fired instead of inside!! 8}
Regarding the pirates themselves, they look quite nice, the only odd thing to me is that the caucasian pirate has a blue vest painted on his chest, while the sides and back of his upperbody are white...
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Interesting, I assume the cannon actually fits in the indentation in the sand. My guess is that the strange firing mechanism is to make it sellable in the US market where the other cannons weren't. Is that the first time the amphora has been in gold? I think it may be.
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The mark of the cannon in the sand is a nice point of detail. Typical Playmobil! :)
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Hi Playmofriends,
i know who gets this cool pirate set !! ;D
ENJOY
gentle greets
Andi
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Yes, that pirate set is awesome! I really like it, and the adult pirate in yellow seems to be a grown up version of the child pirate in the microset (maybe this had already been mentioned).
I can't wait to get my hands on one! ;)
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For those who are more in modern stuff ... ;)
(Interested in some special details, just ask)
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Presumably you've been shopping, Jochen!
The detail on the ice-cream parlour is fantastic - Playmobil get better on this every year (but do they lose some of their charm as detail increases, leaving less room for imagination? - discuss).
The building yard one attracts me more and more. How much is it, Jochen, please? (If I replace the euro sign by a £ sign I then know how much it will be here roughly.)
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I really like the ice cream stand. It is nice it can work as both outdoors or indoors.
Gordon, I see what you mean but don't think so. I like the level of detail as it provides even more options of what to do. Play and creativity aren't the items themselves, but what is done with them. My Vikings after all run the floral center. Hmmm....The Raspberry Barbarian Sundae Parlor and Espresso Bar? ;D
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Presumably you've been shopping, Jochen!
;D Just those two yesterday (two New Dino sets recently) -- or to be precice: I wasn't shopping, but my wife. I told her, if she don't mind, if she could bring me one of the new SuperSets on her regular Saturday shopping tour (any but the pirate ship -- I'm not in pirates, and the fairy tale just because of the new swan). And surprise: she bought two of them! :D
The detail on the ice-cream parlour is fantastic - Playmobil get better on this every year (but do they lose some of their charm as detail increases, leaving less room for imagination? - discuss).
I wouldn't say, that room for imagination becomes less. In former times -- when the figures has been named klicky ;) -- it was quite easy to make a knight from a cowboy just be replacing the clickable clothings and accessories. Nowadays most clothing is given by imprints. This makes a single figure at first sight inflexible, because imprints can't be changed easily. On the other hand there had been produced much more different figures with different imprints, and with some creativity and "abstract view" e.g. a viking might become a medivial noble man just be replacing some accessories (or exchanging some legs, e.g.). So imagination still hadn't to remain imagination because of the variety of different figures and parts which can be combined exactly to what somebody has in mind. :2c:
The building yard one attracts me more and more. How much is it, Jochen, please? (If I replace the euro sign by a £ sign I then know how much it will be here roughly.)
Official price from Playmobil is 19.99 EUR; currently it is sold in large shop chains (Marktkauf, Müller, etc.) for 17.99 EUR -- quite a lot for a SuperSet, but as most already recognized Playmobil increased their prices in general already last year, and since January 1st government also raised the value-added tax from 16% to 19% in Germany.