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General => Collector's Corner => Topic started by: Wolf Knight on March 25, 2010, 18:56:26
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I always get nostalgic of the time I used to get into a toy store 10 or 20 years ago and look at all the playmobil boxes, the one on top of the other....I still have dreams about it...
Althought I can still do this today, I cannot see the sets that I used to love so much in a toy store any more. And remember, the older playmobil boxes were so beautiful because of the dioramas in the back and the sides...
I descided to start collecting older sets in their original boxes and promised myself never to open them just to keep the feelings satisfied! These two arrived yesterday...
So, any boxed sets in you collection whose pictures can stir memories???
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this is right i am disapointed as well that i don't see an artwork in the boxes of the new toys,they are making them with the computers now and photoshop.they want the boxes to be practical the pictures on the back of the boxes is not needed because a plan with the contents replased it because it was difficult especialy in the big sets to see the contents only from the front of the box. the playmobil doesn't care of what we like they look of what children want to see as every industry is looking the of group of people is going to sell!!!!
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Boxes these days lack the magic and great pictures that old sets had. I recently bought a 3445 and here are a couple of old pictures. I have some quite old catalogues and old boxes and the pictures on them are fantastic !!! Here is a sample of the pictures from the 3445 . I have a big box full of instructions ( over 400 i think) , catalogues from the 80s and 90s and 00s, posters ( i love the mediaval and western posters of the 90s !!!!) and i will be taking some pictures of them sometime in the future.
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/M3_Motorsport_/DSC04054.jpg)
(http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/M3_Motorsport_/DSC04053.jpg)
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Very nice pictures Giorginetto :)9!!! I love these dioramas!!! :love: :love: :love: I am so sad that I lost most of my older boxes in a flood... :'( :'( :'( the pirate island and ship, the prison tower...
These older boxes makes me feel more nostalgic. Newer boxes help me identify what parts I need in my collection.
I do agree that modern boxes lack imagination. But think about a child today at the age of ten getting one of these new sets. Modern boxes will have the same effect to him/her later on in life as the older boxes have on us today. Why? Because he/she was amazed with the colors, or connects the box with the time/date/person that bought it for him/her, or he/she wants to feel the same feeling connected to that box.
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yes this is correct that it could be her first toy at christmas that her parent's bought it and would be emotionally connected to it. but the old sets can't be connected with the new one!!
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I absolutely have NO boxed playmo here with me! =D
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If you like looking at those dioramas on the old boxes, there's a nice collection in this topic:
PLAYMOBIL box dioramas (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=2097.0) :)
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If you like looking at those dioramas on the old boxes, there's a nice collection in this topic
Thanks Sylvia! This helps a lot!!! We can get further inspired!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Those old boxes were great- I could never afford any of the big sets when I was a kid- I have made up for that now...
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Here is one more.... box diorama from 3781
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Here is one more.... box diorama from 3781
That's a beautiful scene Wolf Knight!
Although i'm not sure that a whole side of a timber building would be able to be lifted off like that in real life during a fire ;D
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:lol: :lol: That's true flatcat!!!! Still it looks great!!!
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I have lots of older boxed sets in my collection but the one that I like the most is from a used 3750 box that I sold on ebay.
I like it because of the battle damage that has been done to the ship on the left.
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I have lots of older boxed sets in my collection but the one that I like the most is from a used 3750 box that I sold on ebay.
I like it because of the battle damage that has been done to the ship on the left.
Noooooo..... :'( :'( :'( I have lost that box in the flood.... :'( :'( :'(
Thank you Sir Gareth for posting it...I can at least have a jpeg of it!!!
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hi wolf night you kept the boxes of your toys when you were a kid?
suddently all of my boxes of my toys i had as a kid are to the garbige because they were taking a lot of place according to my mother's oppinion. the only thing wich is left from a box is the back picture of the box of the 3740 i had as a kid i useded it to be underneath of a casle that's why i kept it now is in a frame! :P :P
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hi wolf night you kept the boxes of your toys when you were a kid?
Saddly, no... :( :( I did keep a number of boxes because it was nice to look at and practical for storage...
I still remember throwing away the box from the first edition G1 Optimus Prime....and various others...what i hated most was throwing away gijoe boxes... >:(
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I still remember throwing away the box from the first edition G1 Optimus Prime....and various others...what i hated most was throwing away gijoe boxes... >:(
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what are these ???
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Oh sorry, Transformers and GI Joe... or you never had any???
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still don't know what are these ? they are not playmobil??
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still don't know what are these ? they are not playmobil??
No they are not playmobil. They are toylines in the 80's, and still are, based on the cartoon series from Hasbro. They even produced movies last year...
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no i don't know them i only had playmobil as a kid.
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no i don't know them i only had playmobil as a kid.
You grew up in the 90's right? I guess that is why you dont know them.
Greek toyshops stopped importing these toys and there were no cartoons of them shown on tv those years...this is still the case...
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yes i guess that is the reason :(
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Here is the diorama box pictures from playmospace set 3509!!!! Enjoy!!!
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And a lyra boxed set from the early 80's.....(maybe late 70's???) ;D ;D ;D
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this playmospace's box is from lyra i thought that lyra was making only her own boxes like the other one you show on your second picture!! when was lyra stopped produce the toys? ???
And a lyra boxed set from the early 80's.....(maybe late 70's???) ;D ;D ;D
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this playmospace's box is from lyra i thought that lyra was making only her own boxes like the other one you show on your second picture!! when was lyra stopped produce the toys? ???
Lyra produced palymobil sets from 1977 to 1985 when Playmobil Hellas took over.
There were two series. One that was using exaclty the same boxes as german playmobil and the qualith was the same....
The second series used a slightly lower quality plastic and different boxes. I have opened a few buckets and the matterian unfortunately was laghable....the us cavalry cannon bx, i have never opened it, so i am no sure how it looks like...
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i don't think they were the same quality but i haven't seen any lyra toy with originall german box. i had as a kid many lyra playmobil , i bought them at 1998!!!! ??? i think the lyra disign boxes must have stopped producing in 1990.i have too many small boxes of the one or two figures and a bank. they were from very bad quality and even some Mangled i didn't play with them most of them are thrown away i only have the boxes .the boxes are kept because they could open- close and i could put things on them.
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dioramas from knights box sets 3052 and 3265! Hope you enjoy!!!! :wave: :wave:
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dioramas from knights box sets 3052 and 3265! Hope you enjoy!!!! :wave: :wave:
Some great scenes there Wolf Knight :)9
Interesting use of what I thought was a wagon from the Wild West in the last pic :eh?:
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are these from lyra as well??
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Hey congratulations on your avatar alexi!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:
No these are geobra.
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thank you it was difficult for me to do it so someone else helped me!!!
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Interesting use of what I thought was a wagon from the Wild West in the last pic :eh?:
Yeap. Set 3176 had these shiny armour knights and a wagon of these with green tent. ;)
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Yeap. Set 3176 had these shiny armour knights and a wagon of these with green tent. ;)
Interesting, I can't find a pic of it anywhere as a recent fire set seems to have stolen it's set number :(
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Yeap. Set 3176 had these shiny armour knights and a wagon of these with green tent. ;)
Yes you are right Giorginetto!!! That was an exclusive set!!! :love: :love: :love: How can we get one i wander????
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Yes you are right Giorginetto!!! That was an exclusive set!!! :love: :love: :love: How can we get one i wander????
I have never seen one for sale on ebay or anywhere else. Its a very very rare set and it was produced in limited numbers i assume. The green tent is a nice touch i must say ...
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it is a very rare set yes it doesen't even appear on the google search the number is used as all these numbers for the new sets. i saw it in my collector book it was prodused and it was on the market on 1978 :( :( but i don't think it is something so special :o 3260 better i like the nights with the silver shirt and cap these come second!!!!
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Thanks for the nice photos WolfKnight!
I really like the castle scenes... ;D
Set 3176 sounds like a really cool set,
And being that rare makes it even cooler!
Wouldn't it be great to find one on Ebay... :love:
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Wouldn't it be great to find one on Ebay... :love:
I have never come across one the 8 years or so i buy stuff on ebay. Actually one of my best friends ( who gave me all his klickies ) had one of these sets, bought it in 1980 or so and i remember us playing with it , shame his brother destroyed the wagon etc and only some of the soldiers and horses and stuff were absorbed into my collection. One think for sure if Playmobil made such old klickies as the Nuremberg guards ( they have the Nuremberg emblem) they would sell thousands through their spares catalogues - i would buy at least 400-500 of these awesome klickies , someone tell Geobra to make them again !!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Totally with you there Giorginetto!!! A huge lot of Nuremberg guards would be fantastic!!!
Lucky you have a friend to give you his old playmobil... Noone gave me theirs no matter how hard i begged for it...not even my cousins... mostly because they do not want to get in the process of start looking for it in attics or basements....
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I have never come across one the 8 years or so i buy stuff on ebay. Actually one of my best friends ( who gave me all his klickies ) had one of these sets, bought it in 1980 or so and i remember us playing with it , shame his brother destroyed the wagon etc and only some of the soldiers and horses and stuff were absorbed into my collection. One think for sure if Playmobil made such old klickies as the Nuremberg guards ( they have the Nuremberg emblem) they would sell thousands through their spares catalogues - i would buy at least 400-500 of these awesome klickies , someone tell Geobra to make them again !!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
witch is that Nuremberg guard???
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witch is that Nuremberg guard???
The old mediaval soldier klickies like in that set prev mentioned . The klickies with the shiny armour and the crest with the red lines on one side and the half eagle on the other side , its the crest of nuremberg !!!! Actually i didnt know this until afew days ago i read it from Richard in a thread i dont remember . Best mediaval klickies ever made with shiny armour !!!! :love: :love: :love: :love:
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don't like the other ones with the silver cap and shirt??
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Alexi here is a picture of the nuremberg guards!!!! Is what we grew up with!!!! :love: :love: :love:
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yes i understand witch they were ;) they weren't a lot of them only the set you showed above one more single clicky box and this exclusive set they were more? i like the silver parts of that they used in the 70's and 80's do you know why they stopped using this matterial?? :( :( was it expensive?
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I have no idea why they stoped producing them.... They were briliant at that time....And these knights were in all the medieval sets and castles apart from the civilian set klickies!!!
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they are at the sets i mentioned above and in some framework houses and the castle the original and the exclusive set castle 8-)
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I love those old klickies!
Unfourtunatly I have none, but my cousins who were collecting long before I was even born have several, and lots of shiney armor! :D
I see them once every 2 years or so, so I don't get to play with all of their klickies very often...
But when I do I am amazed at the stuff they have! :o
They have lots of civilians and farming tools and stuff.
They have many old (and what we may consider rare items) that they do not even know about! :lol:
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I have never come across one the 8 years or so i buy stuff on ebay. Actually one of my best friends ( who gave me all his klickies ) had one of these sets, bought it in 1980 or so and i remember us playing with it , shame his brother destroyed the wagon etc and only some of the soldiers and horses and stuff were absorbed into my collection. One think for sure if Playmobil made such old klickies as the Nuremberg guards ( they have the Nuremberg emblem) they would sell thousands through their spares catalogues - i would buy at least 400-500 of these awesome klickies , someone tell Geobra to make them again !!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
The 3176 has been in ebay twice last year, just a few months ago a used one sold with a 'buy it now' option. Exclusive sets were either made for specific export countries like France, Italy and Belgium or they were sold to a particular department store like Karstadt Quelle or Kaufhof. Speaking of boxed items my collection consists for 95 % of mint in box sets, here is a little 'preview'
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Some more pictures :)
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Holy Ceasars Ghost Batman :omg: :omg: :omg: :omg: :omg:!!!what a great collection :lens:!!! So many rare items and in such quatities!!!! So many exlusive sets!!! In such a great condition!!!! Even that fun fair roller coster !!! Is that a signed klicky in one of the display cases????
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Holy Ceasars Ghost Batman :omg: :omg: :omg: :omg: :omg:!!!what a great collection :lens:!!! So many rare items and in such quatities!!!! So many exlusive sets!!! In such a great condition!!!! Even that fun fair roller coster !!! Is that a signed klicky in one of the display cases????
Yes, it appears to be an authentic Hans Beck signature on this klicky. Here are some more pictures.
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I have nothing else to do, so here are some more pics :lol:
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Iam speechless playmped :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow: How mant years have you been amasing this collection???
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i've never seen 35996 this last knight box What production is it???
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I started 'collectin' in 2004, yes it has gotten completely out of control, but I love looking at my boxes every day. The pictures I have listed are my 'treasure room' which are my most treasured boxes, the more common boxes I have in my cellar :-[
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i've never seen 35996 this last knight box What production is it???
It was a French exclusive 'suitcase' (a combination of 3 existing sets I think) and was released in the nineties. I think it was a Carrefour (French supermarket chain) exclusive.
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I understand finding many boxed sets in such a good condition, but finding the stands as well...I mean that case with the single klickies is really something...it looks as if you bought it all together....
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I understand finding many boxed sets in such a good condition, but finding the stands as well...I mean that case with the single klickies is really something...it looks as if you bought it all together....
Hi Panos,
I'm from 1970 so Playmobil played a central role in my childhood, I even remember receiving my first blisterpacks from 1974 and 1975 for my birthday and Christmas. From my own childhood only 2 Western houses with their boxes and a loose 3550 pirateship are left. But now 40 years later I have caught up again :lol: and enjoy all the boxes I owned and wanted in my childhood. Yes nostalgia can make you do crazy things (like collecting Playmobil). I just became daddy again and my wife said that now she has 3 children (my 2 daughters and me).
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:clap: :wow: :wow: All in only 6 years!! :(o):
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@playmoed: This is really an impressive collection you have. :love:
I also started getting the things I always wanted as a kid. But I focussed on huge used collection, because I wanted to play with them! :P
I once got a western church, brand new but not sealed anymore. This is marvellous. Having a long discontinued set, brand new in perfect condition and just build it up...
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Anyway, I got sidetracked! Very impressive and just wunderful, playmoed. Thank you for sharing. :)
best,
socrates
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:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
WOW! You have an absolute whopper of a collection Playmoed :wow: :wow: :wow:
You have some of the most rarest Playmo sets ever made! :love: :love:
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You have a really fantastic collection Playmoed :wow:
How do you resist the temptation not to open them? I must admit that I would get frustrated just looking at the boxes - I'd want to build up the sets to play with :-[.
Do you have any loose Playmo at all?
Elaine
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wow :o where did you find these you have the 3444 house in first edition, the exclusive set 3190 with the saloon and this playpeople hospital 2507 witch cost a fortune in the new condition you have them :o :o you bought them from ebay?
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You have a really fantastic collection Playmoed :wow:
How do you resist the temptation not to open them? I must admit that I would get frustrated just looking at the boxes - I'd want to build up the sets to play with :-[.
Do you have any loose Playmo at all?
Elaine
Hi Elaine,
Well I am 40 so playing time is over for me :'(, I do buy some sets for my little daughter (she's 3) once in a while. I do have some loose Playmobil as well, for instance some rare knights with white capes (in the very first knight sets sometimes white capes and shields instead of orange ones could be found), keychains, medieval parts and the old klickys like the early indians etc. etc.. I also collect old catalogs, displays, posters etc. etc..
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... for instance some rare knights with white capes (in the very first knight sets sometimes white capes and shields instead of orange ones could be found),
That sound really interesting!!! Can we see a picture of these knights and their white capes????
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Amzing!!! :o :o :o :o :o
That is a brilliant collection Playmoed!
It's so HUGE! :love: :love: :love:
And in only 6 years!!! :omg:
:inlove: :inlove: :inlove:
Like I said... AMAZING!
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hello playmoed you bought them from ebay?
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Well I am 40 so playing time is over for me.
You're never too old to play!
Perhaps when you get as old as some of us you'll find time to play ;D
meanwhile you can use your daughters as an excuse.... Glad to hear you're buying playmo for them too :)
Elaine
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hello playmoed you bought them from ebay?
Ebay, toystores, faires, trades with other collectors, flea markets, other auction sites etc. etc.
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That sound really interesting!!! Can we see a picture of these knights and their white capes????
Some quick snapshots :D
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Some quick snapshots :D
These are SO great playmoed!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!
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These are SO great playmoed!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!
Actually the white capes and shields were depicted on the early green knight boxes.
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you have some of these as well a i'm so jelous we try to grasp anything we can on ebay but these are not available at all there you found other ways as well to buy them but for most of us difficult!! :( thank's for sharing
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Thanks for sharing , thats the best boxed collection i have seen ever and congragulations !!!!!!!. ( Please dont take insult in my offer or in any way be offended ... :-[) but If you ever , ever , ever decide to sell it and find your collection a ' good home' where it wil all stay intact i will offer a good premium for the lot !!! i am amazed by this collection as it brings great memories . Great stuff and once again cngragulations and thanks for sharing and please do not be offened by me offer !!! :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave: :wave:
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@playmoed: Fantastic collection! You have the 3588 which is on my wish list. :omg:
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@playmoed: Fantastic collection! You have the 3588 which is on my wish list. :omg:
Hey, he has a lot that is on my wishlist!!! ;) :) :) :)
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Hi playmoed, this is so amazing, and your collection just made me speechless. Congratulations on this~~~!!!! 8-)
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Well I am 40 so playing time is over for me :'
I'm 43 and still make time to play, and don't even have children as an excuse! :lol:
However I fully understand you keeping these very old sets in mint condition, they are far more valuable that way. You can always buy modern sets for actual playing.
Thanks for all these pictures of the old sets - I had Playpeople, mostly knights and western, with a few construction guys. The simple bright colors and interchangeability of the figures are a far cry from today's figures, and very pleasing in the way they allow more room for a child's imagination.
I never saw the knights' white shields and cloaks before, I guess they only came out in Germany and didn't reach the UK, or maybe my "collection" was completed before they were released.
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I open all my boxes so I can play with their contents. You're never too old to play! :)
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I open all my boxes so I can play with their contents. You're never too old to play! :)
Agree 1000% and salute you Sir !!!!
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I open all my boxes so I can play with their contents. You're never too old to play! :)
no :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 don't destroy the boxes!!!!!
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no :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 :0 don't destroy the boxes!!!!!
....i had to throw away four big boxes today....... :'( :'( :'( :'( at least they went to the recycling bin.... it could not be any other way unfortunately....they caught up too much space that i could put in better use....
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....i had to throw away four big boxes today....... :'( :'( :'( :'( at least they went to the recycling bin.... it could not be any other way unfortunately....they caught up too much space that i could put in better use....
it depends what boxes they were . what boxes were these??
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it depends what boxes they were . what boxes were these??
the two boxes from the two latest dragonland castles, two pyramid boxes, (i've kept one) and a really bad condition 3666 box... so no real loss...still....
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the two boxes from the two latest dragonland castles, two pyramid boxes, (i've kept one) and a really bad condition 3666 box... so no real loss...still....
oh yes not loss ......
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Actually the white capes and shields were depicted on the early green knight boxes.
I knew it!!!!!! In the Collectors Guide 3rd edition there are pictures of the very first green boxes with knight. The flags and capes in the pictures seem colored in later. I always wondered about that.
In the foreground is a caped knight on a horse. It is out of focus and a bit fuzzy. It hase a white cape!!!!
I always thought it was a prototype or something. Never new they were actually on the market. None of my mates had klickies with white capes, flags or shield back in those days. Must be very rare.
Greaty to have these, playmoed. Thanks for sharing these pics.
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I'm 43 and still make time to play, and don't even have children as an excuse! :lol:
However I fully understand you keeping these very old sets in mint condition, they are far more valuable that way. You can always buy modern sets for actual playing.
Thanks for all these pictures of the old sets - I had Playpeople, mostly knights and western, with a few construction guys. The simple bright colors and interchangeability of the figures are a far cry from today's figures, and very pleasing in the way they allow more room for a child's imagination.
I never saw the knights' white shields and cloaks before, I guess they only came out in Germany and didn't reach the UK, or maybe my "collection" was completed before they were released.
Hi Martin,
So far I have only found these (in very limited numbers) in The Netherlands. You might know that the Dutch toy wholesaler Otto Simon was the very first company which placed an order for 1 million klickys in 1974. I think that the very first batches/series of the green knight sets only went to The Netherlands and they included those white capes, shields and flags for a very limited period I assume. In the picture you can see Wim Remken, who placed the first order for Playmobil for Otto Simon, with a golden suitcase. It is funny that he holds a Spanish boybis figure in his hand.Regards,
Ed
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I open all my boxes so I can play with their contents. You're never too old to play! :)
I have to agree with Justindo. I admire the restraint of others though.
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I have to agree with Justindo. I admire the restraint of others though.
you play alone or with friends ?
also basilsand where is this hat your avatar wears from ??? ???
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also basilsand where is this hat your avatar wears from ??? ???
I think the headband and bald head came from a klicky from a pirate. Here is one that is similar: Part Number: 30 00 5092.
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I think the headband and bald head came from a klicky from a pirate. Here is one that is similar: Part Number: 30 00 5092.
you don't remember from witch klicky it is i know there is a yellow one with dark skin ,but i haven't seen this ???
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I think it came as part of a used lot that I got on EBay a few years ago. ??? It had probably been customized by someone before I got it. I took the Klicky apart and made a new character out of him. I am not really up on all the sets and their numbers. I generally just buy what I like and can afford.
Joe
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I think it came as part of a used lot that I got on EBay a few years ago. ??? It had probably been customized by someone before I got it. I took the Klicky apart and made a new character out of him. I am not really up on all the sets and their numbers. I generally just buy what I like and can afford.
Joe
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Today I found a shop selling a load of 4649 spelcials for 50 ct a piece. I bought 2. I´ll keep one in it´s original box sealed. Maybe I´ll buy a couple more.