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General => News => Topic started by: flatcat on October 26, 2011, 08:38:56

Title: Playmobil at Van Hages
Post by: flatcat on October 26, 2011, 08:38:56
Van Hages, a UK garden centre chain, will be stocking Playmobil for Christmas, looking at their Christmas gift brochure.

Their website doesn't show any results for Playmobil, though, but the brochure does so whether it will be mail order only, or only in store I don't know.

Damo :)
Title: Re: Playmobil at Van Hages
Post by: Hadoque on October 26, 2011, 09:39:19
A garden-centre selling Playmo?  ???
Title: Re: Playmobil at Van Hages
Post by: flatcat on October 26, 2011, 09:56:54
I don't know about other countries, but garden centres in the UK sell anything; clothes, furniture, books, toys, kitchen wares etc

Damo :)
Title: Re: Playmobil at Van Hages
Post by: Rasputin on October 26, 2011, 15:37:04
makes sense if they sell the farm and garden sets. It would make as much sense to see a playmo hot-house at a garden shop as it would be to see a Klicky painter at a museum

In the US gardening is one of the most popular pastimes so why not try to get their kids playing with toys that copy such activities
Title: Re: Playmobil at Van Hages
Post by: bonniebeth on October 26, 2011, 20:49:45
Our garden centers only sell candy and other junk food, aside from gardening supplies, of course. :lol: But I agree, seeing the greenhouse theme there would make perfect sense!
Title: Re: Playmobil at Van Hages
Post by: joro75 on October 26, 2011, 23:06:31
I love garden centres back home in the U.K. We used to go and get Sunday Lunch at one local one, and they always had good breakfasts too! They are definitely very different over here in the U.S.
Title: Re: Playmobil at Van Hages
Post by: Hadoque on October 26, 2011, 23:25:08
We used to go and get Sunday Lunch at one local one, and they always had good breakfasts too!

So they're used as restaurants as well?!  8} Those garden-centres are really multifunctional!  :lol:
Title: Re: Playmobil at Van Hages
Post by: bonniebeth on October 27, 2011, 00:05:02
This is fascinating to me. I had never heard that garden centers were like this in the UK.
Title: Re: Playmobil at Van Hages
Post by: flatcat on October 27, 2011, 08:37:46
There's one local to me that also sells craft stuff, pets and supplies, fitted kitchens, luxury solid wood house furniture, and swimming pools and hot-tubs

They really do sell absolutely anything, which is why I like going to 'nurseries' which literally just sell the plants (and usually half the price of garden centres)

Back on topic; the sets the catalogue show are just Christmas ones (advent calenders etc) so I wonder if they will just literally be stocking the Christmas ones?

Damo :)