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Getting Started => Welcome! => Topic started by: Dawniebird on January 29, 2009, 20:47:54
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Hello All
Well I was just doing a google search on my fathers name, Norman Brown and Playmobil and low and behold up came playmofriends!!!
So here I am - my name is Dawn Brown, and currently residing in Newport, South Wales. I am proud to be the daughter of Norman Brown, who was head of sales for Louis Marx who originally had the franchise for playpeople off Horst Brandstatter, and then dad, and Mr Miles Fletcher both set up Playmobil UK Ltd back in 1980.
I had a fantastic childhood - helping my dad and his collegues build up the display units, going round the factory to see the figures being made and watching my father sell a product he knew so well and loved.
Sadly my dad passed away in 2005 but I am still and always will be very proud of him, to find a forum like this and to see the joy of people still enjoying playmobil gives me a warmth in my heart that my dad and Miles touched so many starting the Playmobil dream!!!
Keep it going guys!
Dawn
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A very heartfelt welcome Dawn from the Great Pacific Northwest!! It is good to have someone who shared so much of the early history of Playmobil/Marx with us.
I think many of us would love to hear stories or see photos you wouldn't mind sharing with us of your father and his early work with Playmobil/Marx but in any event welcome! :wave: :wave:
Gepetto
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I will certainly raid my mum's photo albums on the weekend to find some photographs of dad and playmobil! i'm sure i can find some to post!
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I will certainly raid my mum's photo albums on the weekend to find some photographs of dad and playmobil! i'm sure i can find some to post!
Hello Dawn, from the South Eastern USA :wave:! It's great to have you with us! I'm sure I speak for many on this forum, when I say it will be fantastic to hear your stories regarding the history of Playmobil in the UK :wow:! I look forward to seeing your contributions :clap:!
Best Wishes,
Bill
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a triple pleasure to have you dawn: :wave:
you are the daughter of an actually playmo-from-the-early-days, :wow:
you are number 200 playmofriend, :lol:
you are a she-playmofriend, or a playmofriendesse, if you like, balancing things in a "men's" world. :lol:
be very welcome and i hope you like it here. :)
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Dear Dawn,
I am so sorry for your loss, it is so hard to loose your parents. I am glad that you have such wonderful memories from your childhood. I hope my grandchildren will remember me with love and many happy memories of putting playmobil together with their G-ma.
It was very nice to hear from you.
Janice
G-ma of eight
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Hi Dawniebird,
great to have you on board!
It seems to me you've had a wonderfull youth - must have been when you grew up surrounded by such a wonderfull toy :love:.
Do you still have a connection with Playmobil?
Bogro
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Hello Dawn! :wave:
Welcome to our forum! I'm sure you will enjoy yourself here. :D
I'm sorry to hear that your father has passed on. It sounds like your childhood was a very happy one and as Janice noted, you are blessed to have such special memories to look back on. :)
We will all enjoy getting a small peek at your past and present Playmobil experiences through any photos that you are able to share with us. (Hope your mum doesn't mind you raiding the photo album. ;))
Congratulations on becoming our 200th PlaymoFriend! :confetti: :*)
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Welcome Dawn, and lovely to meet you!
I grew up with Marx Playpeople, so I owe a chunk of my childhood happiness to your dad!
I'm still buying Playmobil and enjoying the services of Playmobil UK, so I owe that to your dad too.
Your dad certainly bought a lot of happiness into children's lives!
cheers, Martin
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Howdy Dawniebird :wave:
A warm welcome from sunny Arizona. 8-)
Best regards,
Jimbo
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Wow amazing I am the 200th Member! Lets hope we get more!!!!
I must say I think my favourite piece of playmobil I had when I was a child was my houseboat!!! I have noticed there have been a couple of entries on the site about this particular item - it was a brilliant piece of playmobil - with an engine so it would sail around the bath keeping me and my best friend Sara occupied for hours!!!!
I also loved Playmo Space, the spaceship and space station that was probably one of the first themes Playmobil UK Ltd brought out in the early 80's! I lost count of the amount of those I helped to put together for my dad so that the shop displays could be put together by his display manager David Viner!!
Most of my Playmobil has now either gone to the school my sister is a teacher, or to the local hospital, but my niece, who is now 13 still has a lot of Playmobil left - we have the fairytale castle still at 'nannies'!! She wont part with it cos 'Grampie' "made it" ha ha!
Look forward to being part of such a fantastic club!!! And promise i will try and get some photos and post soon!
Dawn
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Welcome Dawn.
I am from Spain, and yes I think all of us had a wonderful childhood plenty of playmobil :love:
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I also loved Playmo Space, the spaceship and space station that was probably one of the first themes Playmobil UK Ltd brought out in the early 80's! I lost count of the amount of those I helped to put together for my dad so that the shop displays could be put together by his display manager David Viner!!
Interestingly, the Space theme is regarded (possibly incorrectly) as a bit of a failure in the Playmobil world. I'd love to see a more realistic Space theme, but I don't think we'll see that until we see another manned moon landing. The ISS is all very exciting to those who follow these things, but it's not gripping the headlines and the public imagination.
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you made me wonder dawn, if maybe i should start collecting the space and playmospace themes. ::)
there are very few (compared to the pirates) sets and they are really lovely.
i guess someday they will turn into classics. :yup:
i bought an old one for my stepson for christmas that was staring at me, abandoned in a toy-shop a bookshelf.
i couldn't resist that strange green alien. :love:
looking at the archive imeges from playmobil and collectobil, it seems that playmobil really invested in these sets. :hmm:
so many new moulding and strange sets should not go to waste. ;)
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i should start collecting the space and playmospace themes. ::)
there are very few ;)
yes there are not many, but it a theme made for many coutries. so there are many interesting items like brazilian trol boxes, red spanish spaceman, mattel versions, etc..
I love this theme :) and you can see some of my boxes here:
http://www.playclicks.com/galeria/thumbnails.php?album=377
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Welcome, Dawn!
:wave:
It's a wonderful thing to have you here with us! You'll possibly may add a lot with history of Playmobil in the UK, which is biography of your father.
(What a funny coincidence that one of my main characters in playmostories is Fletcher, the name of your dad's associate, and coworker with him!)
Well, I hope this may be a home for you. Playmobil is a very important part of my life, and, as you can see, of many many people, thanks to Beck, Brandstätter, and a few other people (like your father) in other places around the globe, some, a bit unknown! (In Brasil, in the beginning, a factory called Troll brought playmo to our market, and Troll lasted for at least a decade. Now, all playmo we have is from Europe and the US.) Your presence here is, for sure, an honour to the memory of your father, I mean, I think you do a great thing in being here and letting us share a bit of what you lived, which was your father's life ... (A successful man's work is one of the best and loved parts of his life, along with his family.) I'll be glad to hear about him, anytime!
I'm very glad you decided to join us in Playmofriends! :)
See you around.
Gus
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bookman & Latin teacher
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Be welcome from the South of Germany :wave:
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Welcome from North Yorkshire, Dawn. It's good to have you here, both as an individual in your own write and as the daughter of the man who started Playmobil UK.
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Hello Dawn,
Welcome to Playmofriends,
I'm a Mint in sealed box (MISB) collector of Playpeople and Playmobil, I keep the Playpeople sets sealed but open the Playmobil boxes.
My colletion is mainly based on certain themes, Knights, Pirates, Native Americans and Western sets made by Playpeople and distributed by Playmobil UK. I have also been doing a little bit of research into the history of Marx Toys UK and Playmobil UK so your late Fathers work is of great interest to me and others.
I would really appreciate seeing any photos that you may manage to get hold of.
Regards,
Garry.