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Getting Started => Welcome! => Topic started by: Ali Baba on May 26, 2010, 22:16:51
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Hello everyone,
I just became a member of this forum a couple of days ago.
When I grew up in the seventies I played a lot with playmobil. As I got older my interests changed. A couple of years ago I bought a little roman soldier at the Varusschlacht museum near Osnabruck (Germany).
Last year I bought a Cleopatra special at a fleemarket. And some other stuff.
Now I own a small Roman legion and a modest Egyptian army. I've started buying fantasy-stuff like undead, skeletons, wizards, withes, the druid, hooded phantom and so on.
I intend to use all of it in a sort of wargame in my garden next year. It's a long story, has to do something with my Dungeons and Dragons group. I intend to stop collecting after that. I'm not sure that I can, though.
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Welcome Ali!
I'm interested to hear that you bought a Roman legionary in a Museum, because I have never seen Playmobil in UK Museums and I keep urging Geobra to try to get Playmobil into museums. Your story illustrates how one figure can start a collection!
Welcome to the forum, and I hope to see some pictures of your growing collection soon!
cheers, Martin
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A big welcome from the Netherlands Ali!
Great to see there are more D&D enthusiasts here! I am really curious on what you are planning!
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Welcome from Southern California, Ali Baba! :wave:
I'm a big Roman and Egyptian fan as well with a small Roman and Egyptian army. I'd love to see pictures of your armies and your battles. You may be interested in the site below, which is dedicated to wargaming:
http://gardenwargaming.playclicks.com/forum/index.php
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Hello Ali Baba and welcome from the Great Pacific Northwest!! I am also interested to see what you have in mind! :wave:
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Welcome from Northern California! :wave: I love the Roman and Egyptian themes as well!
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Welcome from Thessaloniki, northern Greece which has a lot or Roman sites to see!!! I also have a small legion andloads of egyptians.... I wanted to plan somethig like you in the D&D universe a couple of years back, but it did not work as players started playing with the playmobil klickies and not with the actual rpg....
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Welcome from the UK :wave:
Damo :)
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Welcome from North Yorkshire in the UK, Ali! It's good to see you here. :wave:
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Warm welcome from sunny Arizona :wave:
Best regards,
Jimbo
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Welcome! :D
A D&D garden wargame? This has GOT to be fun!
I do something like that with my D&D group...
I made the charecters they created out of Playmo and used them as their figures...
They really seemed to like them, and were amazed at what I could do.
Could you post some pictures of the wargame when you have it? I would really love seeing it! :)
(And believe me, you wont be able to stop... you set a goal like, and century of Romans... Then you get another, maybe another, you see something really cool while out at the store trying to find your Romans, or while searching online at Ebay... It just goes on, and on, and on from there!!! 8} )
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welcome from greece athens !!!! :wave: :wave:
alexis!!
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Hi and welcome from the Scottish Highlands! :wave:
Wonderful to meet you, Ali Baba, and hear how your collection is growing! 8-)
I think a lot of us start off in a small way like you did with the single figures. Once the klicky obsession takes hold, it builds steadily, until one day you discover you have filled every nook and cranny of your house with Playmo! :lol:
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Thanks everbody for all the replies.
@Martin: they had a lot of playmo when I was there. But it got even better: they displayed an entire roman legion in playmobil, thousands of soldiers, cavalery, even a bagagetrain with oxcarts and tents. To my regret I have only seen it in pictures on internet.
The fact that few museums have playmobil may also have to do with Playmobil's marketing strategy.
@Gis: I'm also from the Netherlands. ;) All my pocketmoney goes to marktplaats.
@Justindo: I'll post some pictures now and then. I have only one wargame planned, for next summer. I will most certainly take pics of that and post them on the net.
@Wolf Knight: I will start my D&D-adventure the regular way and only the endgame will be played out in playmo in my garden. (Wonder what the neighbours will think of that!!! >:D). By then the players will already know who's who and they will have developed likes and dislikes for their adversaries and onther NPC's. Only to find them all portrayed in Playmobil. They already hate the romans.
@Warrior of Toys: That's exactly what I am going to do: portray their caracters in playmo. Not easy. One of them is a birdman and another is a gnome. I won't post too much here about the plot, because the players might stumble on to my posts and read them before the battle takes place. The battle is planned for the summer of 2011. AND THEY DON'T KNOW MY ROOM IN THE ATTICK IS SLOWLY FILLING WITH PLAYMO. Boy, will the be surprised.
About my background: I used to study archeology, hence my interest in Romans and Egyptians. I used to build model airplanes and nowadays I restore antique telephones. So I obviously will do some customizing.
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I prefer ebay over Marktplaats because Marktplaats doesnt have auction deadlines. stumbled upon a bargain and bid...got an email saying the item was already sold.
I love your idea for D&D and it made me think of doing D&D playbypost here (or at least try and see if we can make it work) I posted a thread on the Game board. So if you up for joining our adventure...please let us know there :-)
Groetjes! (greetz)
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Welcome from Western Australia Ali Baba.
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Hello Ali, Welcome from Southern Scotland (http://planetsmilies.net/flag-smiley-7326.gif)
Elaine
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Welcome to playmofriends from Houston, Texas! :wave:
I also like the Egyptian sets!
Baden
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Hello Ali Baba
welcome from British Columbia, Canada
Abbot Hamilton
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Hi Ali Baba,
from the crowded Athens in the sunny Greece!
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@Warrior of Toys: That's exactly what I am going to do: portray their caracters in playmo. Not easy. One of them is a birdman and another is a gnome. I won't post too much here about the plot, because the players might stumble on to my posts and read them before the battle takes place. The battle is planned for the summer of 2011. AND THEY DON'T KNOW MY ROOM IN THE ATTICK IS SLOWLY FILLING WITH PLAYMO. Boy, will the be surprised.
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The bird man and gnome can be done pretty easily with a little imagination. ;)
For the bird man I would use the witch's mask from the fairytale set.
And te gnome could easily be made with a dwarf from another of the fairytale sets.
Hope I could help. :)
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Thanks for the tips, WOT. I'll post some pics, when I've done these customs. I plan to make some grey aliens as well. Ooowwww, lots of plans.
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Thanks for the tips, WOT. I'll post some pics, when I've done these customs. I plan to make some grey aliens as well. Ooowwww, lots of plans.
I know the feeling... ;)
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welcome from san francisco. by the way, the words "stop" and "collecting" are not likely to be used in the same sentence without the modifier "cannot".
kaethe
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A very warm welcome to you from Windsor UK :wave:
Playmofriends is the best place to enjoy your passion :love:
Karim :)
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Hello, Ali Baba ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/welcome-2.gif)
A big welcome to PlaymoFriends from the warm and sunny United States Virgin Islands (http://www.usvitourism.vi/) (America's Paradise)!
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Welcome from South Carolina, Ali Baba :wave:! It appears you have found some fellow members here with the same interests as yours! You will find many people willing to assist you in your projects :yup:, & we look forward to seeing your contributions :)9.
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Thanks guys, I'm already very pleased to be a member of this forum!
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This is late but welcome aboard.
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Hello
Welcome to the board and it is great to see you get so comfortable so quickly. This is really a great group of friends that happen to all like Playmobil or is it the other way around ;)
Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
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This is really a great group of friends that happen to all like Playmobil or is it the other way around ;)
Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
A great group of Playmobils that happen to all like friends??
I don't get at Rasputin *wink*