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General => News => Topic started by: Tiermann on January 28, 2015, 16:24:04
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The Nuremberg Toyfair has started and we can now discuss what's in the rest of the 2015 catalog. As soon as they post it publicly at one of the sites someone can link to it for the non-PCC members to look at.
Generally I am pretty happy about the year, the new zoo and forest themes have some great new animal molds. The farm theme is a bit disappointing in the animals with just some new painted eyes and such but it's a nice looking theme. Animals wise they have released about the same number of new ones this year as last, in the range of 50 new variations and molds all together. New post about all that at Animoblog linked in my signature.
Love the new small space theme - nice to see them going for something more realistic. It's what collectors have suggested for a while. Hopefully it will sell well. The new furniture sets for the dollhouse are nice, would be good if the house itself wasn't so pink but at least that way they left the furniture alone. Pirates aren't too thrilling for me. Some ok figures but the hat dangles are a bit silly and the ships don't seem much of an improvement over the classic ones. I guess I will need the zamboni from the hockey theme for keeping the lake at Santa's castle nice and smooth for the hockey playing elves. Will be interesting to see how the hockey thing looks in TV ads or reviews with people actually playing with it. Will it be as good or better than the soccer?
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I am loving the new Zoo, The Outdoors, Water Park, and Children's Daycare, Children's Hospital, and Hockey game... Going to be an expensive year
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Thank you for the very informative blog! I really like the new animals. Great to see them all!
I was wondering about the new beaver I remember reading somewhere it was a darker Brown than the old ones.
I have bought some of the new zoo bags last week. I think they are quite expensive 6 euro's for two Alpaca's. The adult is smaller than the Great Dane... They're very cute though!
I also bought the chimpansees and the orang oetans.
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Thank you for the very informative blog! I really like the new animals. Great to see them all!
I was wondering about the new beaver I remember reading somewhere it was a darker Brown than the old ones.
I have bought some of the new zoo bags last week. I think they are quite expensive 6 euro's for two Alpaca's. The adult is smaller than the Great Dane... They're very cute though!
I also bought the chimpansees and the orang oetans.
That does sound expensive and not accurately proportioned. Alpacas in our area are bigger than ponies but not as big as a horse
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The Nuremberg Toyfair has started and we can now discuss what's in the rest of the 2015 catalog. As soon as they post it publicly at one of the sites someone can link to it for the non-PCC members to look at.
Here is the link for the new sets:
http://www.playmobil.de/NOVELTIES15.html (http://www.playmobil.de/NOVELTIES15.html)
Playmo_80
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Thanks for the link.
Yes, the alpacas are way undersized. They should be at least a third to half larger than they are.
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Photo By MICHAELA REHLE/REUTERS
This house doesn't look so "pinky" ;)
Playmo_80
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other pictures
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Pink is still pink. Have you ever looked at a real house painted pink? Even if the pink is muted, it's still a pink house at the end of the day. Now I am just hoping that it is expandable, paint will have to cure the bad color choices that geobra did. a house with a blue roof, really?
Just goes to show how much class the design team had with the 5300
Thanks for the close up picture, playmo 80 :wave:
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Oh my, the second picture where the house is in the background.....the house is so narrow, it's only one wall deep? More like a take along
Let me guess, geobra will say that kids chose, through extensive market research, that they preferred a smaller house...easier to clean, set up and store.
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:wave:
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Pink is still pink. Have you ever looked at a real house painted pink? Even if the pink is muted, it's still a pink house at the end of the day. Now I am just hoping that it is expandable, paint will have to cure the bad color choices that geobra did. a house with a blue roof, really?
may be, Geobra was inspired by this house, no? ;D
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Pink is still pink. Have you ever looked at a real house painted pink? Even if the pink is muted, it's still a pink house at the end of the day.
Yup...
I like how it looks on the outside, but the inside seems... Unfinished. Not even a hint of wallpaper or curtains anymore..
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may be, Geobra was inspired by this house, no? ;D
:hmm:
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may be, Geobra was inspired by this house, no? ;D
(http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/funny/1/vomit.gif) (http://www.sherv.net/)
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Hai zusammen, hi there!
Just a few more pics privately taken. Enjoy!
Ein paar private Photos von den Messeneuheiten. Viel Spaß!
jj:
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Mein absoluter Favorit ist...
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...der Biberbiß!
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Thanks!! Oh I really like that tree with the beavers too :love:
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Thank you Junker Jorg for the private pictures of some very nice looking wigs. I too like the felled tree and will be needing dozens of them.
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Thanks for all the great photos.
I really like that tree too, if you look at the instructions it's just a new piece for the chewed part, the rest of the tree is existing parts. So you could eventually order just the chewed parts from Parts department and adapt any regular trees you like.
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Thanks for the pictures! I like the new hair pieces, and am excited about the new outdoor set!
Have I missed it, or is the hiker sporting a new leg combo? I don't know that I've seen shoes like that before.
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Thanks for the pics - I love the hairpieces too!
Have I missed it, or is the hiker sporting a new leg combo? I don't know that I've seen shoes like that before.
Nope, space legs, with nice BROWN shoes ... AND a cavewoman hair in blonde! :love: :love:
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The pirate theme.. well its nice to get new pirates but sadly the sets they come with are awfull.
First, the soldiers.. The boat is kind of alright I gues, the red sails seem weird though.. It looks more like a pirate ship than a soldier ship. And that sorry exuse for a lighthouse is something I'd expect being thrown in as some exclusive or such, or released after the main batch. I mean.. they released a real lighthouse before, this one just looks pathedic in comparison. The huge window does not help it either since it makes the little tower look fragile. At least they should have made it a floor higher.
Also.. only two soldier sets and each comes with a soldier and an officer. While the uniforms dont look like much to me either, I just dont know why they even bothered putting soldiers in this batch. Might as well have left it out.
Then the pirates.. well the pirateship has no playable cabin. Overall design seems weird and too toyish too, with a cannon at the front. In every single way this ship is a downgrade from the current pirate ship found in stores. Only the clickies on it are nice and thats it. Not much accesoires on board either.
The pirate island is nothing interesting either.. just a rock bridge with a prison on one side, and what looks like an outhouse on the other. Why have two cramped little interiours in it like this? I'd rather see a proper island again, a real pirate hide out.
The raft has.. two cannons on it?! and the sail looks hard plastic. Its just so weird.. I mean why would a raft have mounted cannons on it? It makes that rowboat with the cannon on board of the last batch look very plausible in comparison. But there the cannon could easily be removed while on this raft you'd have raised opening ruining the appearance still without the cannons on there.
I must say that the pirates do look very nice, also neat to see a black pirate amongst them once more. They really should make more black pirates.
But my main issue is though, that they seemingly like a few features so much in a pirate that they give them to basicly half of them.
Just look at them and see how many have longcoats, bandanas with a tricone and evil eyebrows. They kind of did that with the last batch too though, only there they where overly fond of the long hair with painted on bandana in combination with a long coat.
Sure, long coats are neat but I dislike how it limits their freedom of movement with sitting. We need more cheap looking pirates. They can't all be the captain.
Still, there are some nice new hairstyles there, I will most definatly get the small set with treasure, the lady pirate and the gentleman pirate since both clickies look great and the rock with hiding place seems usefull too. Might get the advent calendar too and maybe one of the pirate captains with a cannon even though all of them are in horrid colors. A waste of a nice new cannon design, really. The shape does look beautifull.
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I agree with your pirate theme evaluation. Good thing for us though. At the rate geobra has been releasing themes and sets we need some that are so ugly we are not even tempted to buy them so we can catch up on our must have list. Let's just hope that the way geobra is running the long coat mold to death they don't do the same with the hybrid klicky molds they invested in.
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Yes, the alpacas are way undersized. They should be at least a third to half larger than they are.
Wrongly proportioned animals are a problem all across PM. I've been meaning to start a discussion about it.
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Thanks for the pics - I love the hairpieces too!
Nope, space legs, with nice BROWN shoes ... AND a cavewoman hair in blonde! :love: :love:
Ahhhh that's why I didn't recognize them! I don't have any of the space theme.
Wrongly proportioned animals are a problem all across PM. I've been meaning to start a discussion about it.
Like the way oversized Meercats?
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Well, here a summary of my pre-review I posted in the PCC about the renewal of my favourite Pirates Theme.
I like the pirate-figures and soldiers.
Some nice new accessories in a few sets, f.e. nice new musketeer-type hat and 17th-century (Louis XIV-style) hair/wig. Longcoats (V3, the ones "rounded" at the front) in darkblue with prints, very usable for customizing naval officers (without having to use paint).
Small "complementary" sets are okay (except for the raft).
The smallish rock-island, okay for me as I have the large(r) previous islands. For those not having an island yet, I'd recommend to order the figures/accessories from DS and to somewhere buy one of the older islands.
The mini-lighttower has an appropriate size to direct a rowboat in a pool to the shore a few inches further.
The soldiers´cannon-boat is the same of the existing one, though in other colours and comes with Spanish/French soldiers instead of Redcoats.
The raft is silly.
To answer Rhalius about it´s cannons; it is fashionable these days to buy combat-rafts instead of expensive destroyers/cruisers. US Navy has set the trend with their LCS (Littoral Combat Ship) designs. The Chinese do the opposite and are building a blue-water navy.
The Pirates´"Combat ship"; the design is a variation of the 4290 from 2008.
The hull's shape is exactly the same but the deck has been redesigned.
Positive
* Nice hull and deck colours, quite similar to those of the 5135 (the ship it is replacing).
* Hull of the new ship has been confirmed by PCC-team as being interchangable with the 4290's red hull.
Negative
* The cabin-windows on the rear are now stickers.
* The cabin inside the ship is gone, it´s space probably filled up with additional foam for floating purposes. Only remaining below-deck space is now the cargo-hold.
* Cargo-hold has been much reduced in size, I guess it´s proportions are now similar as found on the schooner-ships.
* Front-mast´s crane to haul cargo on and off the ship has been deleted as well.
* The front-topmast is the cheapest flagpole they could find, no provision to put a decent topmast like on the aft-mast without customizing or replacing the crownest.
* The "fake" below-deck cannon-mouths (3 now on instead of 4 on the 5135, port/starboard-sides) now also have no moving hatches anymore (half-sized hatches are now moulded horizontally on the fake gunmouths).
* No lanterns on the ship´s heck (stern) like on the 4290.
* Cabinboy (child-klicky) has "walked the plank" (as there is no cabin anymore, he got sacked) so crew is now down to 3 adult figures.
* Only 1 deck-cannon instead of 2 (oh, wait, the bow-figure is now a cannon-barrel so that makes 2 afterall?!)
* If the front box-picture is representative for the contents, then almost no accessories/equipment included with this ship.
Summary of the ship:
Somewhat a missed opportunity imho, it looks as if they started with a nice redesign of the 4290 but then decided to delete several important features and so they ended up with a cheap-looking/equipped version of their initial idea.
Btw, here is the promotional pirates' vid´s trailer on youtube, more details to be seen there... ;D
http://www.youtube.com/user/playmobil
(size of the lighthouse in the video is more like the large one from 2008, so not representative for the new one!)
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I have mixed emotions about this year's lineup. :) :D :o ???
The Mansion is a bit of a blunder. The color is all wrong....it's actually very bad and unrealistic. For a mansion, why is there only one very small table for eating? I don't notice the System-X holes in the flooring...now that is one good part about this home!
I really like the white deer from set 5370. The staff is also a great part to have and it hasn't shown up in that many sets.
The tree house looks great. The overall design isn't much different from the older ones but adding the bridge makes it much more enticing.
The children's birthday party will probably sell very well. It could have been executed much better but the idea of the sack race for the kiddos is creative. I'm not a fan of the green mixed with pink and orange though.
I love the "Jim's" food truck! There's even french fries, a hot dog, and ketchup. This fits in perfectly to the modern theme and a great alternative to pizza! ;D
Yay for a new hazmat crew!! This one should be very popular considering how much the old set sells for.
The Santa with sleigh is highly repetitive and underwhelming. I don't see the need for it really.
What's up with the dolphins on the side of the airplane?
The new produce stand for the farm is a must have. You can never have enough market stands.
The space theme is exciting! And do you see what I see?....a robot like the classic 3318 in an exciting new color! I think this theme will do very well.
The hospital is so small and disappointing. My guess is the last one was too expensive and they tried downsizing to sell more.
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The mini-lighttower has an appropriate size to direct a rowboat in a pool to the shore a few inches further.
:lmao:
I really like the white deer from set 5370. The staff is also a great part to have and it hasn't shown up in that many sets.
I think it common, especially in gold. Don't they have like... WOOD trees there? You know.. brown? What are the staffs supposed to be made of?
The children's birthday party will probably sell very well. It could have been executed much better but the idea of the sack race for the kiddos is creative. I'm not a fan of the green mixed with pink and orange though.
I love the "Jim's" food truck! There's even french fries, a hot dog, and ketchup. This fits in perfectly to the modern theme and a great alternative to pizza! ;D
I blame my old age, but I can't recall these :-[
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The mini-lighttower has an appropriate size to direct a rowboat in a pool to the shore a few inches further.
Naja... warum sollte der Leuchtturm hoch sein, wenn die Klippe, auf der er steht, hoch genug ist? Was ich tatsächlich unschön finde, ist, daß die Proportionen nicht zu den Figuren passen: Die Kette hängt in den Kniekehlen und läßt den Leuchtturmwärter erst recht stürzen, statt ihn zu halten :o.
I don't see, why a lighthouse has to be tall if there's a rock high enough to place it on. But those chains just reaching up to knee height seem to be a safety risk more than a safety railing ...
jj:
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Seeing how the entire lighthouse would be better used as a children's playhouse at a playground, the chains seem an appropriate height for children's safety.
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I really like the white deer from set 5370. The staff is also a great part to have and it hasn't shown up in that many sets.
I think it common, especially in gold. Don't they have like... WOOD trees there? You know.. brown? What are the staffs supposed to be made of?
I like that staff a lot too, but I definitely agree about the wood. I can't find any of them in real wood. All of them are strange colours...
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Like the way oversized Meercats?
I can't really speak as expertly as other people to say whether the animals are realistically scaled but, will trust other peoples analysis but, at least with meerkats I can see why they're scaled that size I mean look at this way if they were scaled realistically to a Klicky they'd be tiny!
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Naja... warum sollte der Leuchtturm hoch sein, wenn die Klippe, auf der er steht, hoch genug ist?
I don't see, why a lighthouse has to be tall if there's a rock high enough to place it on.
jj:
Dan muss man erst eine ausreichend hohe Klippe basteln...
Then one first hast to build a high enough cliff...
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Dan muss man erst eine ausreichend hohe Klippe basteln...
Then one first hast to build a high enough cliff...
Jou, that's right...
jj:
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Or just get the previous lighthouse online somewhere since it seems to be superiour in every possible way.
I just dont get why they never really do much with the soldiers. Why not split the sets somewhat 50/50? Give the pirates the smaller boat for a change and the soldiers the big one of the batch. Maybe have a larger fort instead of a pirate island.
If you just judge it based on this batch alone, how are four soldiers with a little lighthouse and a little boat ever going to pose a challenge to all these pirates?
The last batch did have it slightly better with a small fort with three soldiers and a cannoneer set. They seemed to have more of a fighting chance. Though I gues that through DS they will release the usual sets of 3 soldiers and 1 officer.
I'm more curious about the DS pirates that will accompany this theme though, since I dont like the soldier uniforms much.
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It's a vicious circle made of hapless designers and clueless market analysis suits. The best thing one can do is vote with one's wallet. This wave is yet another easy pass for me.
Incidentally Lego is re-launching the pirates theme this year. Nothing that beats the old stuff, but still more exciting than this.
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Just looked at the new lego stuff, I gues its not that bad but to me the company is dead since they gave up ground plates. You cant really build without that. These pirate sets should come with island plates and such, with water on it, maybe hills even.
But the older lego pirates where very strong, those of the late 80's/early 90's.
They did a lot of things with it that I would love to see with playmobil as well such as:
-trade post. It has a harbour, trade ship, wharehouse and a bit of a fort.
-Descent forts and soldier presence. Sadly too much officers and not enough common soldiers, but many great soldier sets.
-Pirate lairs. They had some beautifull pirate islands with rope bridges and such.
-Natives. Playmobil pirates have never been coupled with natives.
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Some sets still come with base plates, and of course you can still buy them individually and integrate them with the sets you have.
As for Playmobil, yes, it would be nice to switch it around every once in a while and focus on the soldiers/port town dwellers instead of the pirates. Otherwise what are the latter going to pillage? Continuations of current themese would be nice, but they don't seem to care about that. Oh well, as I said.
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I love the roof and outside design of the house :love: :love:
I am quite impressed with these 2015 new sets !
The Porsche looks gorgeous and the first one should be sent to our Friend Giorginetto :wave:
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all the new sets (except the super4 series) are available at:
www.playmobil.de (http://www.playmobil.de)
Playmo_80
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Thanks, this does give some more detailed pictures of the new sets!
By the way, what do you all think of the pirates with cannons that will be released ahead of the new pirate theme?
I quite like the idea of doing this though.. it was nice with the knights theme last year too, when they released four tournament knights a few months before the new medieval theme.
A shame they went with these somewhat weird cannons though.. while I love the shape of these larger cannons, I hate the colors. I dont care for the projectiles since I never use those anyways but I am just not quite sure what to do with these cannons.. Maybe if the paint can come off easily enough or better yet its stickers that can be left off I might get several.
Personly I hope these cannons will be high enough to go with medieval steck walls. Normal cannons are too low for that.
The pirates themselves look great though, aside from two having painted on belts that dont go under a coat. I quite like the old captain in green. That hat shape is nice but not used often, that hairpiece has not been made in grey before and the beard isnt common either. Green isnt used that often on pirates either, and while this fellow is quite colorfull, it works well here, the details on his printing too.
Also I think that weapon standard is a new part.. but the one he has with a ship on it looks great to use as a sign for a pirate tavern. The standards that come with the others look great for similar purposes too.
Other than that, it appears the new pirateship of the main theme is heavily overpriced at 70 euros, with the current pirateship listed at 75.
I got mine much cheaper, at 50 euros I think, but if the recommended price difference is that slight considering how little the new ship contains, that just doesnt sit right with me. I figured that at the very least the new ship would be much cheaper due to not having a cabin, accesoires other than a few weapons and only a single cannon. No kid either.
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By the way, what do you all think of the pirates with cannons that will be released ahead of the new pirate theme?
I love the skulls, but not sure what for. I kinda like the black cannon, especially..
The pirates themselves look great though, aside from two having painted on belts that dont go under a coat. I quite like the old captain in green. That hat shape is nice but not used often, that hairpiece has not been made in grey before and the beard isnt common either.
The hair with the headband does exist in grey - example:
(http://www.playkingdoms.com/temp/playmoproc/customs064.jpg)
It is welcome anyways.. gorgeous hair :)
Also I think that weapon standard is a new part.. but the one he has with a ship on it looks great to use as a sign for a pirate tavern. The standards that come with the others look great for similar purposes too.
I hadn't payed attention - you're VERY right on that..
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In a blog post over at PCC Grafschafter posted a link to their album of photos from the Toyfair displays. https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B7BFB6316259937!326&authkey=!ABJ3AKS-veGOQqY&ithint=folder%2cjpg (https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B7BFB6316259937!326&authkey=!ABJ3AKS-veGOQqY&ithint=folder%2cjpg)
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In a blog post over at PCC Grafschafter posted a link to their album of photos from the Toyfair displays. https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B7BFB6316259937!326&authkey=!ABJ3AKS-veGOQqY&ithint=folder%2cjpg (https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B7BFB6316259937!326&authkey=!ABJ3AKS-veGOQqY&ithint=folder%2cjpg)
So many great parts to be had.
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In a blog post over at PCC Grafschafter posted a link to their album of photos from the Toyfair displays. https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B7BFB6316259937!326&authkey=!ABJ3AKS-veGOQqY&ithint=folder%2cjpg (https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B7BFB6316259937!326&authkey=!ABJ3AKS-veGOQqY&ithint=folder%2cjpg)
Thanks for the link :)
It's a shame those aren't the actual klickys though.. (and the glue.. the glue all over the place drives me insane).
I'm VERY MUCH DROOLING over the female gladiator... WANT.
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Picture 116 of 213 what is that a clear pirate with a rat?
Picture 163, did they seriously put missiles on the space shuttle? Talk about a stupid idea. What next, oh farries won't sell if they arent waring
Pic 176, 177 this is not playmobil at all, GMO klickies here we go :'(
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Yes, that is a clear pirate with a rat, it's one of the Advent Calendars because nothing says Merry Christmas quite like ghost pirates and rats.
I dislike the missiles on the space theme too, sends the wrong message. We can pretend they are for some space exploration purpose instead I guess, but I think it's a miss on their part.
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because nothing says Merry Christmas quite like ghost pirates and rats.
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But those rats are gorgeous and an absolute must have. So is the scarecrow (with actual skull?) from the pirate rock.
I'm sorry if someone else already noticed and/or answered this question, but why on earth are the faces of the Super4Series clickies merely stickers...??? Weren't the actual figures ready in time for the Toyfair?
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I'm sorry if someone else already noticed and/or answered this question, but why on earth are the faces of the Super4Series clickies merely stickers...??? Weren't the actual figures ready in time for the Toyfair?
They never are... When they started to sell single klickys on the german site, the asian woman's face was also stickers... It looks dreadful. Actually, just look at any of the figure series preview...
Facces, printing... Even the ankles of the women when the high heels appeared weren't final...
I suppose generally now the quality of the photos is very good, and allow all these to be seen..
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Wow!!!! I love the new pictures! And those rats actually excite me! They have possibilities. A lit of what I saw has possibilities!!!
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They never are... When they started to sell single klickys on the german site, the asian woman's face was also stickers... It looks dreadful. Actually, just look at any of the figure series preview...
Aha, thanks. Well glad to hear that's not a permanent feature :)
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why on earth are the faces of the Super4Series clickies merely stickers...??? Weren't the actual figures ready in time for the Toyfair?
That's what they call "Handmuster". It's not only faces. Looking closely you'll also find skirts & Co being just stickers instead of prints. But as Tahra says: Sold they'll come properly printed. Many new products are presented that way at Spielwarenmesse - not only by Playmobil.
Das sind sogenannte "Handmuster". Wenn Du genau hinsiehst, siehst Du nicht nur Gesichter sondern z.B. auch Röcke, die nur geklebt sind. Wie Tahra schon schrieb: Sie werden dann gerdruckt verkauft werden. Viele Neuheiten werde so auf der Spielwarenmesse präsentiert - nicht nur von Playmobil.
jj: