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Title: Help me with my Playmobil Thesis :)
Post by: Fenna_historical on February 09, 2025, 18:23:42: Hi Everybody,

My name is Fenna and I am a Playmobil fan from the Netherlands. I am currently writing my master thesis on historical Playmobil sets. For this research I am looking for PDF files of the Playmobil catalogus from 1974-2024. I know that these were once uploaded to the German Playmobil website, so I am hoping somebody downloaded then and can share them with me. This would be super helpful for my thesis!
The language of the catalogus does not matter, any catologue can help me! Also if anybody is interested in the research feel free to message me.
Title: Re: Help me with my Playmobil Thesis :)
Post by: Birdie on February 09, 2025, 21:38:58: Ha, writing a thesis on historical Playmobil sets, the dream :love: What field of research are you in?
I don't have any catalogues but I'd looove to hear more/read your thesis once it's done (I'm Flemish).
Title: Re: Help me with my Playmobil Thesis :)
Post by: tahra on February 10, 2025, 10:11:38: Welcome from Portugal!

(weren't the cats still available, just the links not on the site? There was a thread about it.. somewhere... :-[ )

I am also interested in that thesis.... Details please! ;)
Title: Re: Help me with my Playmobil Thesis :)
Post by: GrahamB on February 10, 2025, 10:20:46: Helo Fenna and welcome to Playmofriends from me in Stroud, England.

I am sure we will be able to help you with your thesis!

Scans of all German DS catalogues are here (https://klickywelt.de/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=50705) and a catalogue of the contents of most of them here (https://www.playmofanatic.org/contents-of-all-ds-catalogues-1983-to-2016/).

I don't have any links for scans of main catalogues. I do have actual German catalogues from 1995 on and UK catalogues from 1981-2 on. But I think scanning those would be very time-consuming, so hopefully you will find someone else has already done it.

Amclicks (Spanish) and Klickywelt (German) are two playmobil forums with far more active members than Playmofriends so it might be worth posting requests there.

Please feel free to make use of anything on my website which you find useful.
Title: Re: Help me with my Playmobil Thesis :)
Post by: Pynedor on April 06, 2025, 21:05:24: Welcome! :)

That certainly seems like an interesting topic!
Title: Re: Help me with my Playmobil Thesis :)
Post by: tigana123 on April 09, 2025, 15:33:12: Check your messages...
Title: Re: Help me with my Playmobil Thesis :)
Post by: JPSA on April 10, 2025, 03:45:52: For what it's worth, if you have deep pockets, many (most?) of the catalogues can be bought on Ebay.

There is also an actual book, that might help: Playmobil Collector, 3rd edition (1974-2009), written by Axel Hennel and published in 2010 by Fantasia Verlag, which goes for $35 on the US Amazon.

(https://i.imgur.com/gb7fiAc.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/TIgcxiH.png)
Title: Re: Help me with my Playmobil Thesis :)
Post by: kaethe on May 03, 2025, 01:11:36: I assume you have found a copy of the Playmobil, The Story of a Smile by Felicitas Bachmann published in Germany in 2006. There is a lot of peeking into the history of the early development of the Playmobil system, as well as a glimpse into the early production facilities. It is a hardcover book with beautiful color photographs of the earlier vignettes, that later became part of the box art.
Title: Re: Help me with my Playmobil Thesis :)
Post by: Macruran on May 17, 2025, 04:51:28: That cover image nicely captures the three main eras of PM. There's a fourth one of course, the one we're in now.