PlaymoFriends
Getting Started => Welcome! => Topic started by: IslandOfToys on February 02, 2008, 01:32:11
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Hello all!
I'm very new to the board and have only within the past month rediscovered the great Playmobil toys. I had quite a few as a boy some 25-30 years ago, but I progressed through other toys and left my little friends behind. GI Joe in 1982 was too strong a force for me to deny. :)
So late 2007 as I was broadening my toy collecting horizons, I stumbled across an auction on ebay and then just decided to do some searching on Playmobil. What I saw were the familiar figures I had loved as a boy, but they were even more detailed and intricate than I remembered, but at the same time they didn't forsake their inherent simplicity.
I became enamored with them and started by buying a few of the single figures a couple weeks ago. I think they'll continue to join my collection of toys for years to come. Right now I'm primarily interested in the knights, pirates, Halloween, and ocean themed sets.
I'm primarily a collector of 1/6th scale figures, but I also like Gundam models, 1/18th scale GI Joes, Fisher-Price Adventure People, Playmobil, and other odds and ends. I'm not a zealot about any one toy line really and I think all toys should have equal opportunity to be enjoyed. :) I'm not a MIB person. I typically like to unpackage things and check them out.
So that's me in (not so) brief and I look forward to learning more about the Plamobil lines and interacting with the other members here. Cheers!
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Ahoy,IslandOfToys,
Welcome to Playmofriends from sunny Arizona.
Jimbo
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Welcome from the UK. :wave:
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Hello Island of Toys from another newbie,
I know the mixed frustration of accumulating (collecting seems too precise) in several scales, I am just facing the reality of space needed to set up a castle in this scale. My main saving grace is that my wife views Playmobil as being more benign than Warhammer so I can afford to leave it around the house with relative impunity.
I am sure you will enjoy your time here!
Gepetto
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Helo, IOT ...
A big welcome from the warm and sunny United States Virgin Islands!
All the best,
Richard
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Welcome from the Pacific Northwest! I collected/built/painted Gundam models up until 3 years ago. I managed to amass quite a large amount of kits. My favorite were the perfect grade Zaku kits (which are still prominently displayed in my office). I can safely say that Playmobil has completely taken over my toy budget.
Which castle sets do you have?
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Welcome Islandoftoys!
My way back into Playmobil started with the single figures, but before long you'll want some buildings for them to live in. Then you've got to choose Steck (old building system) vs System-X (new building system) and before you know it you've got both.
Glad to hear you're not a MIB guy, seems a bit pointless to me not to get it all out and at least have a play once, but I admit I do have soem stuff still in boxes, just because I have so much there's no need to get it all out yet.
Are you interested in the Romans? Then there's the Egyptians coming in a couple of years...
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Hello and welcome from Scotland! :wave:
I like the image the title of this topic conjures up. ;D
I think it's quite healthy to have an interest in all kinds of toys, and it's wonderful that you have rediscovered your love of Playmobil. :D
What I saw were the familiar figures I had loved as a boy, but they were even more detailed and intricate than I remembered, but at the same time they didn't forsake their inherent simplicity.
You seem to have summed up the essence of these toys in that one statement. The figures still retain enough of their original design to be instantly recognisable. I think that's part of the reason why there are so many adult collectors out there. :yup:
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My way back into Playmobil started with the single figures, but before long you'll want some buildings for them to live in. Then you've got to choose Steck (old building system) vs System-X (new building system) and before you know it you've got both.
Ahhh ... You've just shown IOT the way to Klicky "heaven," Martin ... 8}
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just a warm welcome from the Netherlands!
Bogro
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Wow, thank you for all the welcomes!
I like the image the title of this topic conjures up.
When I set out to create my toy-centric web site, I decided it should be an escape from everything wrong in the world and be a fun place and about fun stuff...so I imagined an island of toys. :) No more in depth answer than that really. Just daydreaming while at work one day.
Glad to hear you're not a MIB guy, seems a bit pointless to me not to get it all out and at least have a play once, but I admit I do have some stuff still in boxes, just because I have so much there's no need to get it all out yet.
This is why I have things still MIB also. :) Sometimes if the packaging is really nice though I'll save it. When I rotate what's displayed on my shelves, I'll put some back in their temporary cardboard homes.
I collected/built/painted Gundam models up until 3 years ago. I managed to amass quite a large amount of kits. My favorite were the perfect grade Zaku kits
Oddly enough my very first Gundam kit was a PG Zaku II (green). Might have been silly to jump right into the PG's, but they fit in nicely with my 1/6 figures at about 12" tall. I have a red version also, but he's still boxed up. Those take a LONG time to assemble. :lol:
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Be welcome from the South of Germany :wave:
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Hi Islandoftoys,
Welcome to PlaymoFriends.
Garry.
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Hi, welcome from Oregon!
I used to collect some 1/6 figures but Playmo and other smaller scale stuff has taken over my attention.
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Hi and welcome to this forum,
I'm new and still learning "how to". I've been working on my Pirates and Knights and had my daughter in-law take some pictures for me. Maybe one day I will learn what to do with them :lol:.
Janice
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I decided it should be an escape from everything wrong in the world
Hi Iot!
I'm guessing your Playmobil collection doesn't yet have the striped-T-shirt wearing new Robin Hood special.
Playmobil isn't the retro-childhood utopia it once was, but a smiling (leering) veneer, a monument to castles in the sky and the shadows that fall between ideas and their conception.*
* I got that from the 2008 3D Playmobil catalog page 6, the artist's commentary.
-Tim Ashur Turk al-Ghazi.