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Title: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: playmo1989 on May 18, 2010, 14:26:19
when was playmobil using this black head for coloured men?
 
 http://www.peeketpoke.fr/im/articles/IMG_P2016.jpg
 
 
 and the usual one
 
 
http://www.collectobil.com/images/items/3059.jpg
 
 
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: CountBogro on May 19, 2010, 05:22:27
That's an easy one.
Never.

As far as I knew that head was only ever produced by Antex. Apparently, it was also produced by Lyra.
But it was never produced by Geobra.

Bogro
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: Wolf Knight on May 19, 2010, 05:38:23
That's an interesting info!!!! So my pirate klicky is quite collectable!!!!
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: playmo1989 on May 19, 2010, 16:18:33
thanks bongo !!!! i have one of these too . specifficly i have that set!
 
(well done pano you reached over 1000 posts :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:)
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: Wolf Knight on May 19, 2010, 18:46:02
thanks bongo !!!! i have one of these too . specifficly i have that set!
 
(well done pano you reached over 1000 posts :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:)

Yes I did not even notice....Well.... off to the next 1000!!! :D :D :D
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: Giorginetto on May 20, 2010, 09:10:18
Yes I did not even notice....Well.... off to the next 1000!!! :D :D :D

Wel done Sir Wolf for reaching 5 star general status here . We mortals salute you !! Ave !!!!   :wave:
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: Wolf Knight on May 20, 2010, 09:13:56
Wel done Sir Wolf for reaching 5 star general status here . We mortals salute you !! Ave !!!!   :wave:

Hey you're not very far Giorgnetto!!! Just leave your love for playmobil to overtake you!!!!  :D :D :D
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: Bill Blackhurst on May 20, 2010, 09:17:42
WOW :o! I've never seen that version before! Very good information!
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: Giorginetto on May 20, 2010, 13:46:02
I think that old version reminds me of the old silent movies where white folks were painted as coloured folks . similar paint paterns i think !!!  I think the later version are much better and more realistic , the older versions are weird looking . Have a couple of these klickies someplace  :wave:
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: Bill Blackhurst on May 20, 2010, 14:00:46
I think that old version reminds me of the old silent movies where white folks were painted as coloured folks . similar paint paterns i think !!!  I think the later version are much better and more realistic , the older versions are weird looking . Have a couple of these klickies someplace  :wave:

Now that you mentioned it, they do look like the old silent movie characters :hmm:!
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: Jimbo on May 20, 2010, 14:30:25
I like the figures with just black eyes and black smile like the children
figures.  The white/black eyes look to "vaudeville".  I wrote to Playmobil
when they first came out years ago , but it seems they like the "beady"
eyes.   :2c:

Best regards,
Jimbo
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: CountBogro on May 20, 2010, 19:15:56
Actually, I believe that the ones with the white-eyes aren't older.
The first ones I can remember were with the Pirateship (3550) and the acrobats (3512) from 1978.

Pretty early!

Can't find dates for the creepy face though.

Bogro
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: playmo1989 on May 20, 2010, 19:21:57
i know that too i've never seen it in the playmobil boxes !!!!!!! perhaps the white eyes were easily made than the others that's why antex and lyra used them!!!!!
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: Gustavo on May 23, 2010, 11:26:54
(Which made me think ... There's no black guys with eyepatchs, unshaved, and the like ...)
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: macgayver on May 23, 2010, 15:03:29
(Which made me think ... There's no black guys with eyepatchs, unshaved, and the like ...)

The new massai special is unshaved
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: Wolf Knight on May 23, 2010, 15:14:47
The new massai special is unshaved

True!! Lovely special !!!!
( Unfortunately in Greece the catalogue names him Zulu...this shows how limited our knowledge is of African history and society.... :no: :no: :no: )
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: playmo1989 on May 23, 2010, 16:04:27
 
True!! Lovely special !!!!
( Unfortunately in Greece the catalogue names him Zulu...this shows how limited our knowledge is of African history and society.... :no: :no: :no: )


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: don't take it so seriously they try to make the translation as quiqu as they can and make it attractive to children zoulu or massai which sounds better for children ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: Wolf Knight on May 23, 2010, 17:05:57
 

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: don't take it so seriously they try to make the translation as quiqu as they can and make it attractive to children zoulu or massai which sounds better for children ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Hmmm haven't thought of it that way... it would be more possible for children to know zulu rather than masai...
Title: Re: black faces - heads two different types
Post by: playmo1989 on May 23, 2010, 17:14:11
mom i want that  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D