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General => News => Topic started by: conniefrere on August 03, 2014, 06:42:36
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While on holidays in France Les Vosges we found a charming little city called Colmar. I will post some pictures of some of the houses in the centre there, they look like the playmobil steck houses. However, when strolling and site seeing I noticed a mall toy museum which had a exhibition of playmobil at the moment. A collector named Claude Steible made some great diorama' depicting movies.
I made some pictures, to bad they're not that oke, but the diorama's where behind glass and I made the pictures with my mobile.
Can you tell which movies are shown. (Some pics are of biblical sceneries, not sure if both are movies too)
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(http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff509/conniefrere/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/01_zpsafd4cf84.jpg) (http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/conniefrere/media/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/01_zpsafd4cf84.jpg.html)
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(http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff509/conniefrere/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/02_zpsee0f20c7.jpg) (http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/conniefrere/media/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/02_zpsee0f20c7.jpg.html)
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(http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff509/conniefrere/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/03_zps5ae4e9a3.jpg) (http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/conniefrere/media/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/03_zps5ae4e9a3.jpg.html)
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4
(http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff509/conniefrere/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/04_zpsc17dd688.jpg) (http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/conniefrere/media/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/04_zpsc17dd688.jpg.html)
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(http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff509/conniefrere/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/05_zps18258c8d.jpg) (http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/conniefrere/media/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/05_zps18258c8d.jpg.html)
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(http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff509/conniefrere/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/06_zps7e32962e.jpg) (http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/conniefrere/media/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/06_zps7e32962e.jpg.html)
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7 (I really love the house made of sweets!)
(http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff509/conniefrere/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/07_zps5c2f32e2.jpg) (http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/conniefrere/media/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/07_zps5c2f32e2.jpg.html)
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(http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff509/conniefrere/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/08_zps7d86e416.jpg) (http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/conniefrere/media/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/08_zps7d86e416.jpg.html)
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(http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff509/conniefrere/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/09_zps79d45f4d.jpg) (http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/conniefrere/media/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/09_zps79d45f4d.jpg.html)
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10
(http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff509/conniefrere/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/11_zps0297c4de.jpg) (http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/conniefrere/media/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/11_zps0297c4de.jpg.html)
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(http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff509/conniefrere/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/10_zpsdaa709c9.jpg) (http://s1239.photobucket.com/user/conniefrere/media/special/Colmar%20en%20Western/10_zpsdaa709c9.jpg.html)
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I don't know anything about movies, but I'm really glad to see these wonderful dioramas - thank you for posting them.
I especially love the Noach's Ark (number 9), and the divers (number 10).
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Thanks for sharing these great pictures.
10 may refer to Jules Verne's story
4 Is from Ice Age the first movie I think.
6 Jurrassic Parc?
2 Might be building the tower of Babel (a bible story). Love this one too!
That Candy house is indeed great!
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1. Gladiator?????? (opening scene)
3. The Lord Of the Rings Return of the King (Battle of Pylendor Fields)
4. Ice Age
5. The Four Feathers??????
6. Jurassic Park (I love the landscaping of this one)
8. The Day After Tomorrow????? (again an opening scene)
9. Looks like a Noah's Ark
They are all very nice dioramas! Thank you for sharing them with us!
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5. is Zulu! My dad's favorite movie.
Those are really cool. Thanks for sharing the pics!
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Those are great, what a wonderful find!
Thnak you for sharing :)
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Thanks for your nice replies and trying solving the question. Love to make pictures, post them and hope you like them.
1) Gladiator (Indeed leefert..!, historically it mimicked the Battle of Teutoburg forest)
2) Hannibal, le pire ennemi de Rome (French movie about Hannibal from Carthage who crossed the Alps with elephant and a big army to try defeat Rome in 200 BC)
3) Lord of the Rings (Retern of the King, a Mumakil of the Haradrim, Leefert knows his classics ;))
4) Ice Age
5) Zulu (Spotted nicely BB)
6) Jurassic Park
7) Hansel and Gretel (The question in French: Qui a ecrit le conte de Hansel et Gretel? Translates something like Who has written the story of H & G? The answer is Grimm brothers)
8) The Thing (Yeah, the space ship is a little strange..)
9) Noah's ark
10) The Abyss
11) Samson and Goliath
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5. is Zulu! My dad's favorite movie.
Those are really cool. Thanks for sharing the pics!
Also liking that movie, and Monty Pythons parody made me feel very old ;)
Those Zulu warriors in great numbers looks great, its rather hard to customize them to look individually unique but from the same tribe
Thanks for sharing the dioramas Conniefrere :wave:
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What awesome pictures. I especially love the Roman display. Wish I could inspect it up close.
Another thumbs up for Zulu. I learned "Men of Harlech" by heart because of it. I recently saw Zulu Dawn too, it's not as good but still decent.
1) Gladiator (Indeed leefert..!, historically it mimicked the Battle of Teutoburg forest)
This is not possible. The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest was an ambush by Germans of a marching Roman column that resulted in the complete destruction of three legions. The battle at the beginning of Gladiator is a pitched battle between Germans and a Roman army formed up for battle that results in the total defeat of the Germans. Entirely different!
The battle also erroneously depicts siege equipment being used like modern field artillery - very inaccurate.
And finally, the hooting noises the Germans make before the fighting begins are a direct reference by the director Ridley Scott to the Zulu war call heard in the movie Zulu, to which the British respond with "Men of Harlech"!
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Wow!! Wonderful pictures with very nice ideas!!! Many thanks for the sharing.
George. :)
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What a fantastic Playmo exhibition dear Friend :love:
I am myself very much looking forward to discovering Les Vosges and the lake city of Gérardmer !
I also plan to visit Colmar next ;)
All my congratulations to Leefert and his very impressive knowledge of movies as I woud only have found a couple...
Karim
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What awesome pictures. I especially love the Roman display. Wish I could inspect it up close.
Another thumbs up for Zulu. I learned "Men of Harlech" by heart because of it. I recently saw Zulu Dawn too, it's not as good but still decent.
This is not possible. The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest was an ambush by Germans of a marching Roman column that resulted in the complete destruction of three legions. The battle at the beginning of Gladiator is a pitched battle between Germans and a Roman army formed up for battle that results in the total defeat of the Germans. Entirely different!
The battle also erroneously depicts siege equipment being used like modern field artillery - very inaccurate.
And finally, the hooting noises the Germans make before the fighting begins are a direct reference by the director Ridley Scott to the Zulu war call heard in the movie Zulu, to which the British respond with "Men of Harlech"!
Ah a real connaisseur, well you're right of course it more resembles the later campaigns of Germanicus...
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What a fantastic Playmo exhibition dear Friend :love:
I am myself very much looking forward to discovering Les Vosges and the lake city of Gérardmer !
I also plan to visit Colmar next ;)
Gérardmer is also a nice place to stroll around, had a good time there also.
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Sure 8 is THE THING?
It looks more like the opening of the X-files the movie. :-\
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I did not take pictures from the cards which said what movie was depicted. I had to do it by heart, but I'm definite 8 was the thing, because I did not recognise te scene either. At home I looked for some pictures and indeed the resemblance isn't that good.
Love the scenery anyway One of my all time favorites the artic explorers.
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Wonderful displays, thanks for sharing! :)
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Nice displays I like the Hanzel and Gretel cottage (the doorway and pumpkins are particularly nice) and the fact the Romans are doing their famous turtle maneouver with their shields that elephant is huge though with it's 4 tusks :o. I could guess some of the dispalys were biblical only ones I could guess were Noah's Ark, Haanzel and Gretel although the title gave it away anyway and the Ice Age one I recognised( good idea turning the meerkat into Sid The Sloth).
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These diorama's are amazing!! Must have been so nice stumbling upon them :) Thanks for sharing the pictures, I really enjoyed them.