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General => Report & Review => Topic started by: GrahamB on October 26, 2013, 18:27:42
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This is a set from 1987 consisting of a small café or kiosk, owned or run by the eponymous Franky.
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He sells hot dogs, ice creams, drinks (such as ‘Schoko drink’ and ‘Fruit Limo’ according to the signs outside the kiosk).
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Also on offer is something in green bottles (bier? Nah, probably fruit juice) and sweets (gobstopper /gumballs).
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In Britain a place like this might be called a ‘greasy spoon’, but the fact there are flowers on the tables suggests that, like McDonalds, Franky’s would style itself a ‘restaurant’.
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There are four customers (a man, a woman, a boy and a man with a red waistcoat) plus the owner/proprietor, who wears a chef’s hat and a long white apron bearing the ‘Franky’s’ logo (I haven't got this apron :(). All five Klickies have ‘old style’ torsos, legs and hair and ‘free’ wrists. In common with all adult Klickies before about 1990, all four adults have a hat to wear. Two adults have clip-on collars. There are cups (4), plates (12, in three sizes), jugs (2) and flower vases (2), all in blue, but no cutlery. There is a barbecue with a spit and five tools, but no meat. There are two dispenser machines and four signs which attach to the outside of the kiosk. The kiosk itself has 3 sides, a base and a roof which slot together neatly (see pictures).
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There is a hatch in one wall supported by two poles.
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There is no printing on any of the plastic pieces: all logos, signs and decoration (including the four red panels on the umbrella and Franky’s apron logo) are paper stickers. All plastic pieces apart from the Klickies’ heads, hair and hands are made from just six colours of plastic; red, yellow, blue, green, white and black.
I got one of these sets in a batch of second-hand Playmobil a little while ago. After some searching of my spares boxes (and several purchases on ebay), I now have most of the pieces, as far as I can tell from the box picture and the incomplete inventory on PlaymoDB here http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/listinv.pl?setnum=3146 (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/listinv.pl?setnum=3146). The Datenbank-Setinhalt on klickywelt.de (klickywelt forum membership needed to access this), which is usually a good source for set content pictures of pre-1990 sets, shows pictures of this set still sealed in the original plastic bags, which is of limited use for establishing the contents. So I have relied on the set box picture as the best source (though set box pictures are not always wholly accurate!).
According to Collector 3rd edition, this set was first released in 1987/8 and discontinued in 1991/2.
My set still has a few missing bits (see here if you can help!: http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=13267.0 (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=13267.0)) but here are the parts I do have:
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I don’t think any parts for this set are still available from DS, with the exception of the barbecue tools (which I got from DS this month).
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I think there are several additions and corrections needed to the text-only inventory on PlaymoDB. These are listed in the attached pdf ‘3146 update’.
What I like about this set
It comes from an era when parts (and klickies) were generally simple and basic, without too much printing or frippery. Colours are bold primary colours on the whole. My children first started getting to know Playmobil around the time this set was on the market, though they never had this one. The klickies and crockery are reminiscent of those in the hospital room 3495 (the first set we ever had) and the barbecue is found in the camper set 3148, which we also had. (Nostalgia!)
Nice construction, the parts of the kiosk fit together with customary PM precision, the walls, base and roof have notches to ensure they can only be assembled in the correct way and slots to ensure they hold together. I haven’t seen this on any other sets, though the kiosks in 3418 and 4370 have similar parts.
There are some nice parts which are special to this set- the bubble gum machine, the signs, the bottles with stickers.
Enough parts to give the set good play value, without too many little bits (like cutlery!) to get lost in the Dyson.
I would have liked this set as a child, using it as a truckstop for lorry drivers, an addition to a circus, park or beach layout, or as a suspect source of a food poisoning outbreak (only joking Franky!).
Edit: resized pictures
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Ow I remember when I had a playmobil camper set +/- 1985.
On the back there was a print of all other sets of the camping theme back then.... this Franky's Place was there too!
I never knew it was from a real official set.
PS: this set doesn't propose a restaurant or mc Donalds... but it's an ''Imbiss (https://www.google.nl/search?q=imbiss&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=FB1sUuKCOoaYtQaFvYCgBQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1422&bih=713)'' it's a typical German snackbar where people come to eat, its a typical place where neighbors meet each other in spare time.
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I have one of these I got a while back. It's a great set. Very useful in all sorts of modern settings.
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What a wonderful review!
I love this set :love: When I was about 12, I found it in a toy store when I was on holiday.
But I think mine is a different edition or something, because I have two bubble gum machines (two different ones) and the green bottles are of the see-through glass-like type.
Actually, following the link for the inventory of this set in PlaymoDB, I can't seem to find either of the bubble gum machines in the list. Am I just overlooking them?
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This is a great set! Love the gumball dispenser.
Joe
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it's an ''Imbiss (https://www.google.nl/search?q=imbiss&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=FB1sUuKCOoaYtQaFvYCgBQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1422&bih=713)'' it's a typical German snackbar where people come to eat, its a typical place where neighbors meet each other in spare time.
Thanks, Basilsdad- Imbissen sound more upmarket than (what I took to be) the British 'greasy spoon' equivalent, often roadside cafes in laybys on major roads- I was going to try to include a couple of pictures, but an Imbiss is a good example in the real world!
What a wonderful review!
I love this set :love: When I was about 12, I found it in a toy store when I was on holiday.
But I think mine is a different edition or something, because I have two bubble gum machines (two different ones) and the green bottles are of the see-through glass-like type.
Actually, following the link for the inventory of this set in PlaymoDB, I can't seem to find either of the bubble gum machines in the list. Am I just overlooking them?
Thank you for that, Birdie. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be though, is it?
There are two machines (but I have only one), described in PlaymoDB as "30 60 6430 1x Furniture for kiosk: 2 containers, flag, supports for window shutter (blue)". Here is the illustration (which also shows stickers to be applied to three of the parts):
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PlaymoDB also describes the bottles as clear, green (which is what you have Birdie), but both the set box picture and the 'unopened' set pictured on klickywelt.de show the opaque green bottles like the ones I have (pictured above). No doubt this is an example of set contents changing slightly over the lifetime of the set. Not enough of a change for it to be regarded as a different 'version' though, I assume.
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Gotta agree with you comments mate I was born in 1991 but, my sister was born 3 years earlier so our first sets had 1980's style simpler figures and I grew up at a time when the figures were just beginning to gain more detail. As much as I love the newer more detailed figures I always have a fondnesss for the brightly coloured simple desing of those old figures and a love of sets like these, this one's not familiar to me but, I like the look of it a simple but, well desinged construction it looks like a friendly place and I like the sign even if the drinks do sound a bit weird. I also had the hospital bed from the early 1990's and the bright yellow and orange camper van a great set for any kid to have :)
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I thought I'd posted a thank you for taking the time with this review, but I don't see it ... :hmm:
Anyway, thank you! I think this is a really neat set that has some great unique parts and would have been fantastic for kids to have.
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I've just realised the set also includes a tranparent piece that I really don't know how to identify... does anyone know?
Thanks in advance for any information.
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A description or picture? Is it a flat square with a raised center section? That would be a stand to hold a klicky upright. Other than that no idea what would be clear in this set.
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Thanks for the review. Love this set!! :love:
George. :)
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This is the piece I was talking about, if anyone has the set instructions please let us know what it could be.
Many thanks!
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That one's not from Franky's. It's a stand for magazines or other items. http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-23-1050 (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-23-1050)
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Franky's Place looks like a wonderful set - the snack counter itself, of course, and also the flower vases, the chef's hat, and the other hats too ... and the signs, bottles, and the gumball machine. And it all looks great the way it is displayed on the grass.
It must be a very happy thing to have this set!
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I also agree it's a great vintage set. Does anyone here have the original instructions of the set?
I'd like to take a look. I'm trying to get one soon!
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Thanks to Mansave75 for reminding me of this review. I now have all the parts, so I will post a new picture and submit one to LittleDive at Klickywelt for inclusion there too.
Yes, if anyone has the instruction sheet (it does exist (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-69-5370) in black and white, but its not found its way onto the playmobil website pdfs yet) it would be good to see them. Don't post them here, but you could PM Mansave75 and me if you have them, please? :yup:
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Yes! please, I think someone must have these instructions. As I'm trying to complete the whole reference.