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General => News => Topic started by: JLMatterer on January 23, 2024, 18:01:31

Title: 123 is Discontinued for Playmobil Jr
Post by: JLMatterer on January 23, 2024, 18:01:31: Playmobil’s toddler porfolio undergoes rebranding (https://toyworldmag.co.uk/playmobils-toddler-porfolio-undergoes-rebranding/?fbclid=IwAR1lN3IrAOpr4l5DOkiN-Z__zyV0nEKQiB15qlmFczGOuETR_U5U2DfQkww)
Title: Re: 123 is Discontinued for Playmobil Jr
Post by: tahra on January 24, 2024, 09:07:40: Hopefully the new packaging is not as wasteful as that idiotic animal packaging (with the animals out, a bucket of glue and several plastic bags)..

Also.. what is the durability of these new materials?

If they are as messed up color wise as playmobil claims (I STILL don't buy it!), they are unfit for anything that requires a matching color... The colors ARE beautiful.
Title: Re: 123 is Discontinued for Playmobil Jr
Post by: Rasputin on January 24, 2024, 21:06:44: Hmm, sounds like a pipe dream

“Bioplastics are being touted by industry marketers as the solution to plastics pollution. But the idea that bottles and packaging made of plant-based material can simply be discarded and then break down and disappear is false – recycling and reuse are the only strategies that can work.”

https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-bioplastics-will-not-solve-the-worlds-plastics-problem#:~:text=The%20two%20most%20commonly%20used,crops%20like%20corn%20and%20sugarcane.
Title: Re: 123 is Discontinued for Playmobil Jr
Post by: Luftgaengerin on January 25, 2024, 11:17:22: Quote from: Rasputin on January 24, 2024, 21:06:44
Hmm, sounds like a pipe dream

“Bioplastics are being touted by industry marketers as the solution to plastics pollution. But the idea that bottles and packaging made of plant-based material can simply be discarded and then break down and disappear is false – recycling and reuse are the only strategies that can work.”

https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-bioplastics-will-not-solve-the-worlds-plastics-problem#:~:text=The%20two%20most%20commonly%20used,crops%20like%20corn%20and%20sugarcane.

Thanks Rasputin for sharing this interesting article.
I have the same information. It seems to be a current selling strategy and not, as claimed in the article from toyworldmag, "(...) whilst helping to save the planet." :(
Title: Re: 123 is Discontinued for Playmobil Jr
Post by: Klickteryx on January 25, 2024, 20:09:13: Toys aren't the problem, it's packaging and disposables like cigarette filters. Yes, filters are made of plastic.
Title: Re: 123 is Discontinued for Playmobil Jr
Post by: tahra on January 26, 2024, 08:53:24: Quote from: Klickteryx on January 25, 2024, 20:09:13
Toys aren't the problem, it's packaging and disposables like cigarette filters. Yes, filters are made of plastic.

LASTING toys aren't the problem (or anything else, I guess) - IMO. The problem is flimsy disposable junk...
Title: Re: 123 is Discontinued for Playmobil Jr
Post by: playmofire on January 26, 2024, 12:09:12: Quote from: JLMatterer on January 23, 2024, 18:01:31
Playmobil’s toddler porfolio undergoes rebranding (https://toyworldmag.co.uk/playmobils-toddler-porfolio-undergoes-rebranding/?fbclid=IwAR1lN3IrAOpr4l5DOkiN-Z__zyV0nEKQiB15qlmFczGOuETR_U5U2DfQkww)

So it would appear to be not so much discontinuing as renaming.
Title: Re: 123 is Discontinued for Playmobil Jr
Post by: Eplay on January 27, 2024, 01:29:55: Quote from: tahra on January 26, 2024, 08:53:24
LASTING toys aren't the problem (or anything else, I guess) - IMO. The problem is flimsy disposable junk...

So true, packaging and those cheap toys that are easily broken or discarded or both