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General => News => Topic started by: Playmofool on July 17, 2008, 12:26:03
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A brand new design for a fur cloak has turned up in the new July Specials. Here is what you get in the new Barbarian Special. Should make a fine addition to other cloaks already available :yup: . So the Gauls, Vikings and the other uncivilized nations won't run out of fashionable garments.
I hope that Tomplay doesn't mind me posting this here as it's part of his picture.
Hey, Tom, would you mind adding the complete picture here as well?
I didn't dare do it. :-[
PS: I only feel empathic with the poor mammoths. No wonder they disappeared so quickly from the face of the Earth when it turned out what you could make from their skins.
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Hey, Tom, would you mind adding the complete picture here as well?
I didn't dare do it. :-[
Certainly. ;D
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Thanks for posting the pictures! Great cloak :yup:
Me want.
Best regards,
Jimbo
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Thank you very much Simon and Tom!
GREAT photos, Tom!
The new gloves (with fingers) for the Musketeer are rather interesting.
And ...
This "woolly mammoth" cloak and helmet appears to be something that some Playmobil western fans might also want to use with their Indians (Native Americans) ...
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Hmmm ... Is that barbarian wearing the medicine man's buffalo headdress?
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Same form but different colors. >:D
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Thanks for the comparison photo, Tom!
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I am starting to not like the deceptive picture enhancements Playmobil is now using . It the picture from playmobil it would appear the horns on the headdress are chromed . The same thing happened with the new crusader knight . When i saw the pictures it looked like he was chrome . >:(
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I can see what you mean; but to be honest, I thought they would be the same colour as the sword.
But that's just me.
BTW - I think the coat opens loads of possibilities! I definitly need more than one of the Barbarian Special!
Bogro
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These specials were available from Playmobil UK for the first time on Friday, so I ordered 3 or each of the new ones.
I don't like the crazy colour schemes - blue boots? Pink boots? It's a shame the earth tones of the shield, belt, hat (hood?) and cloak couldn't be carried through. I didn't buy the Archer because of his stripey t-shirt, and although I am buying these, I'd have preferred more realistic colours.
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These specials were available from Playmobil UK for the first time on Friday, so I ordered 3 or each of the new ones.
Hello Martin :wave:
Are these Specials (4675, 4676, 4677, 4678, 4679 and 4680) already available in the UK? I've always thought that every contry, but Germany, Austria and the Nordic countries, got them a year later.
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Hello Martin :wave:
Are these Specials (4675, 4676, 4677, 4678, 4679 and 4680) already available in the UK? I've always thought that every contry, but Germany, Austria and the Nordic countries, got them a year later.
Yes, they were made available on the Playmobil UK site on Friday 18th July as close as I can tell. I've been waiting eagerly for the new specials, so I've been checking more or less daily since they first showed (but were not yet for purchase) on the site in mid-June. There was supposed to be an automatic email advising me, but it didn't arrive before I found out for myself.
I don't know why the Specials are made available a year earlier than everything else, but I'm glad they are.They're on the US site too.
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As of today they still are not available. they have been on the US site for some time but it just gives you the option of putting in a email reminder when they become order-able . Same with the carwash garage, new cars & trucks & all the new pirate sets . Still waiting to start my Christmas shopping for the boys . :toot:
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Speaking of photo enhancements:
I had bought three of the new ghost pirate because the box pic made his face look green (I wanted a green face to customize the god Osiris).
Whoops! Nope!
The buffalo cloak does look nice. How can we purists justify the bison headdress? There was a breed of "megafauna" cattle that roamed Europe 3,000 years ago, right? But maybe not bison...?
-Tim
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How can we purists justify the bison headdress? There was a breed of "megafauna" cattle that roamed Europe 3,000 years ago, right? But maybe not bison...?
-Tim
The same way we live with the horns on tsome Viking helmets, I guess ;) we smile knowingly and look away.
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Let's put it like that;
" we acknowledge the historical reality and embrace the fantasy " :-[
Bogro
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There is in fact a still present European Bison (http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Bison_bonasus.html) :)
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There is in fact a still present European Bison (http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Bison_bonasus.html) :)
Very interesting, Tim ... :wow:
I wonder if anyone has compared the DNA of the European and American Bisons?
Because of all the cowboy movies, books, TV shows, etc., the terms buffalo and Indians will always be in my head to describe two very important parts of the American west. So, when I looked at the photos of the European Bison, I saw a buffalo ... :klickygrin:
All the best,
Richard
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Actually it looks like they are very closely related - they are right next to each other on the classification tree [Here (http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Cetartiodactyla/Bovinae.html)
So more closely related to each other than to any of the other bovines.
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Very interesting, Tim ... :wow:
I wonder if anyone has compared the DNA of the European and American Bisons?
Because of all the cowboy movies, books, TV shows, etc., the terms buffalo and Indians will always be in my head to describe two very important parts of the American west. So, when I looked at the photos of the European Bison, I saw a buffalo ... :klickygrin:
All the best,
Richard
In Portuguese (Brasil), we understand the name bison (bisão) as a regional variation of the general word buffalo (búfalo). There are buffalos. The North American ones are called bisons. I don't know the word origin, once it doesn't seem to come from Latin sources, but, by my own curiosity, I'll probably going to search, in near future ... If I find out anything different ...
There are South American buffalos. & Buffalos are a kind of savage ox, speaking about families ...
But the word "bison" is very related to North American Indian image & propaganda, all right, even in my generation (I'm from '76). In the '90s, Kevin Costner gave us the/a (?) Sioux name for them: tatanka ... ;D
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Gus
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I wonder if anyone has compared the DNA of the European and American Bisons?
I'm more interested in what they taste like? Are they much different? ;D :-[
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I'm actually (almost) shocked ... I can say that I'm, well, am admired: "bíson" is Greek! A Greek word, for wild ox ...
Amazing!
Gus
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