Probably the best playmobil set in the world would be ....

[Giorginetto]

A PM millenium falcon would be awesome.

LEGO got the licence rights for Star Wars  , i doubt this will ever possibly happen , though it would be great but also very epxensive for playmobil given the bespoke parts they would have to create , most from scratch .....

I love star wars and no doubt i would go bananas if playmobil ever created stormtroopers , i think i would buy at least a  1000 the day they would become available ...   BUT realistically i would prefer a decent space theme . No, i wasnt impressed at all from the ugly system x spaceships and nor from the avatar copies / lookalikes of today . Sorry but the old playmospace was far more popular and respected as a toy whne released , i dare to say also educational in some respects. Playmobil as i suggested to them and NASA , with letters more than a year ago failed to put a klicky aboard any of the shuttle missions and thats a shame . LEGO on the otehr hand put three of their figures into a satellite so LEGO is in space as we speak . Playmobil should have collaborated with NASA and creates something realistic , a space shuttle ( now obsolete so too late now ) , a launch station, a rocket launcher, a satellite, even a lunar module / apollo 11 - i think they have failed greatly to grasp the 40th anniversary opportunity of the first humans on the moon in 2009 ; i wrote to playmobil about this but i never got a reply same as my email to them and NASA about a klicky in space. Plenty of space toys and alien toys BUT no NASA / science toys / playmobil has missed a great opportunity here i think. ANd such a set would be a greater than a 3666 revised ( did i say this??? really   )

[hauden_lukas]

...would be a Royal Navy trimaster with at least 12 guns below deck, based on a longer 3940 (US 3286) ship!   

I would love it! But make it two cannon decks, so 24 cannons should be no problem (they can use the fake ports for the lower deck - I wouldn't mid)

This would be really cool. It could me a collectors item - selling for 400-500 EUR.

I would sell my Steck to George for financing (... And then get a dozen of these ships...)
 

Season's greetings,
HDL

[Rhalius]

Licenses are no fun, plenty of games and movies to enjoy such settings in already.

I'd rather see playmobil staying the toy that inspires children their imagination instead of being like lego and dictating the child how to play. Thats pretty much what licensed sets do.

Much better for playmobil to develop their own space theme, I already made a topic about that so feel free to add ideas there. 

[Bolingbroke]

Licenses are no fun, plenty of games and movies to enjoy such settings in already.

I'd rather see playmobil staying the toy that inspires children their imagination instead of being like lego and dictating the child how to play. Thats pretty much what licensed sets do.

Much better for playmobil to develop their own space theme, I already made a topic about that so feel free to add ideas there. 

I can see where you're coming from, but I do not agree. Hasbro had been doing Star Wars for decades, but still ... Lego gave the license a new lease of life. And if you look at what fans are coming up with ... the Star Wars customs they create, there is still plenty of scope for letting the imagination run wild. Obviously they would be very expensive ... but so is Lego (the millenium falcon is c.150 euro and hardly the most expensive set) but people still buy them.

There would still be the regular set,  mind you ... but it would be within a more structured 'thing', like Lego's Kingdoms (or whatever it's called) knights theme, which as far as I'm concerned is a thousand times better than PM's current Middleages effort.

*sighs*

I think I'm crossing over to the dark side. I bought a Star Wars set last week and I'm looking forward to more, especially since I bought all the current PM sets I am interested in and still have some pocket money left.

[Rhalius]

But the children won't be doing the customizing though aside from a few rare exeptions. Its pretty much only adults that do the customising.

Star wars playmobil could indeed be interesting, mostly because they can portray the familiar characters much much better, but it would not be smart to do it because lego has already been doing it very succesfully for many years.

What I would like to see them do though, would be making a large space ship set in a similar way to star trek. With a bridge and various rooms and hallways.
If they ever do get the star wars license it would be best if Playmobil puts more effort into their own space themes. Lego does have a history of succesfull space themes before star wars after all. They took a dive in later years, but still had way more succesfull space themes than playmobil.

The large UFO from the late 90's from lego is a true marvel for example.. I own that set.
It has a small saurcer that can be removed to reveal an exploration wagon inside, which can be taken out by a mechanic arm and magnets. There is also a smaller exploration vehicle under a hatch at the side.

Playmobil does show some good ideas here and there, but they never really manage to embrace its full potential.
Lego really outdid them in pretty much every way when it comes to the space theme, I really got to say that space is playmobil's weakness.

Not even the rubbish later space sets aside from star wars that Lego released can erase the high quality sets released in the 80's and 90's.

[Baron Marshall]

Personally I think that Playmobil is much better suited to do Star Trek than Star Wars the Playmo-Space line has always felt more like that... as we have seen with Wolf Knight's customs/photostory...

http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=4411.0

[Giorginetto]

The large UFO from the late 90's from lego is a true marvel for example..

  which set is that 

[Bolingbroke]

Yes ... and I also think there's a market for a more expensive and larger set. There's Lego star wars sets that cost 400 bucks and people still buy them. I think PM should be more ambitious.

[PlaymoMan]

I'm sorry, but I don't understand the craze of licensed themes. In my opinion, they limit the child's creativity because children are more likely to recreate a certain scene from Star Wars or Spongebob Squarepants...etc. Whereas if you release a space theme that is not based on anything, except for the child's imagination, you get a diverse playing experience.
Just my two cents...

[Bolingbroke]

What about the Snow White and the Hansel and Gretel PM sets? Did those hamper a child's creativity?

What about the Santa and elve blister pack? Is there any other use for a Santa and an elve, apart from the obvious 

Just sayin', you know ...

I think that licensing should not be thought as detrimental to a company. As I said, Lego does good licensing, but it also does awesome 'in-house' stuff like the Medieval theme etc.