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Offline Félix

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Hello from Québec, Canada
« on: January 18, 2013, 03:15:14 »
Hi everyone,

My brother and I played Playmobils during all our childhood. I must admit it was actually about 50 / 50 with Legos, but now that Lego has taken a very "different" approach to marketing, Playmobil remains as the undisputed leader of quality toys, in my opinion anyway.

As we grew older, we really enjoyed setting up dioramas of all kinds under the Christmas Tree instead of the usual Nativity (the walking of the plank was a favorite, and the Pirates the usual suspects). I always remained a big fan, but over the years I ended up keeping only my Western sets in the basement. Now that I have a 2 years old daughter, I have an excuse to start my collection again.  She really likes her construction crew, and calls them "les gars" (the boys), but what she really loves now is her 3 playmo dogs and playmo cat.  I'm curious to see how this will evolve...

So here I am.
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Offline basilsdad

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Re: Hello from Québec, Canada
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2013, 03:27:03 »
 :wave: Hello Felix!  A warm welcome from Pennsylvania.  Glad to hear you are able to share your interest in Playmobil with your daughter.  Does she like the 123 series animals too? 
Joe
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Offline Félix

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Re: Hello from Québec, Canada
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2013, 03:51:50 »
Actually, I didn't even bother with the 123 series... I went straight to the real thing. Ok, so maybe it wasn't entirely just for her ;D

But she does play with them - it's even one of her favorite toys, which, of course, makes me very proud. Now, obviously, I don't give her all the smaller parts yet, but she gets the klickys, vehicles, the bigger animals (i.e. no squirrels and such) and some of the bigger accessories.  And then when she grows up a bit she gets some more parts, and it's Christmas again for a few days, and so on.
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Offline Georgeag1972

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Re: Hello from Québec, Canada
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2013, 08:38:53 »
Hello and welcome from Greece. :wave:

George. :)
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Re: Hello from Québec, Canada
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2013, 09:02:44 »
Welcome from Portugal!

(around here, it will surely EVOLVE. :) )
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Re: Hello from Québec, Canada
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2013, 09:17:47 »
A warm welcome from a snow covered UK!   :wave:
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Offline Ismene

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Re: Hello from Québec, Canada
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2013, 10:35:41 »
Bienvenue!

Small children are always a great excuse for buying Playmobil. One for you, one for me...  ;D
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Offline Pynedor

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Re: Hello from Québec, Canada
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2013, 12:56:56 »
Welcome! :) Your Christmas displays sound like they were cool.
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Offline bonniebeth

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Re: Hello from Québec, Canada
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2013, 13:35:13 »
Hello and :welcome: from Louisiana, USA! Great story behind your collecting, and I'm glad you have a little excuse to get back into it. ;)
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Re: Hello from Québec, Canada
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2013, 14:33:26 »
A warm  :welcome: from Buenos Aires, Argentina!
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