Blacksmith purchase question

[bhellman75]

I have the same reaction to the removal of words from the sign, but in terms of it being a larger pattern, they did leave the German on the bakery update.  It's kind of terrifying to think of a bunch of suits sitting around a boardroom arguing over whether Bäckerei is more acceptable than Schmiede to the international market. 

However, here's a question -- is the new forge really not as good as the old one?  I just bought an old one for really too much money, so I definitely wanted one, but in terms of looks, the new one is more intricate.  It has more texture and color to it.  I would think that would make it more expensive for them to make.  I think the old one looks more like something from a workshop, which is why I like it, but I don't think it's exactly right.

[bonniebeth]

(Another way to help perpetuate the false idea that medieval people were so backward and uneducated and could not read ... ?! -

I don't know who you think has that idea... I think most people are quite aware that medieval people were by no means cave people.

Like you said, I'm sure they just wanted to make it have better international appeal without printing the sign in multiple languages.

[Wesley Myers]

I don't know who you think has that idea... I think most people are quite aware that medieval people were by no means cave people.

Surely you remember the discussions on here where people did not even think medieval people wore shoes or understood about pollution or the use of toilets.   

As for "cavemen":

“To-day all our novels and newspapers will be found to be swarming with numberless allusions to the popular character called a Cave-Man. He seems to be quite familiar to us, not only as a public character but as a private character. His psychology is seriously taken into account in psychological fiction and psychological medicine. So far as I can understand, his chief occupation in life was knocking his wife about, or treating women in general with what is, I believe, known in the world of the film as 'rough stuff.' I have never happeend to come upon the evidence for this idea; and I do not know on what primitive diaries or prehistoric divorce-reports it is founded. Nor, as I have explained elsewhere, have I ever been able to see the probability of it, even considered a priori. We are always told without any explanation or authority that primitive man waved a club and knocked the woman down before he carried her off. But on every animal analogy, it would seem an almost morbid modesty and reluctance, on the part of the lady, always to insist on being knocked down before consenting to be carried off. And I repeat that I can never comprehend why, when the male was so very rude, the female should have been so very refined. The cave-man may have been a brute, but there is no reason why he should have been more brutal than the brutes. And the loves of the giraffes and the river romances of the hippopotami are affected without any of this preliminary fracas or shindy.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

[mike1003]

he strikes back

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Playmobil-NEW-3740-3055-vintage-victorian-Marine-Schooner-Ship-/151055968524

[Sylvia]

he strikes back

Oooooh! What a sneak.

See how he hides the DS set number on the instruction booklet under a casually arranged bag of parts.

[tahra]

Oooooh! What a sneak.

See how he hides the DS set number on the instruction booklet under a casually arranged bag of parts.

That is REALLY fraud. Not ignorance. If he didn't mention the old set numbers... it's a buyer's beware thing... Like this... 

[Playmo_80]

he strikes back

and again

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Playmobil-NEW-vintage-Oldtimer-Truck-Car-like-4083-5640-LGB-Train-G-Scale-L-G-B/151058006993?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D11%26meid%3D8160575861079076531%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D3%26sd%3D151055392549%26

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Playmobil-Train-Oil-Tanker-Car-factory-NEW-LGB-G-Scale-L-G-B-/150946725864?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item2325203fe8

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Playmobil-vintage-MUSEUM-Framework-House-factory-NEW-LGB-Train-G-Scale-L-G-B-/150978881955?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item23270ae9a3

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Playmobil-NEW-Blacksmith-Medieval-Knights-ancient-Castle-House-LGB-Train-G-Scale-/151056033704?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item232ba427a8

IMO, Playmobil Company should not sell anymore to this guy...

Playmo_80

[mike1003]

well.. thats ok.. no setnumbers nothing missleading on those

[tahra]

IMO, Playmobil Company should not sell anymore to this guy...

Well, don't forget playmobil refuses to sell to a LARGE part of the world. So, if they don't, there BETTER be someone who does.

well.. thats ok.. no setnumbers nothing missleading on those

Well, I think it IS meant to mislead. Like Sylvia noted, the parts covering the set ref consistently can NOT be a coincidence. But then again, it is not the seller's responsability to teach the buyer to save money. Research is the buyer's responsability.

[bhellman75]

Oooooh! What a sneak.

See how he hides the DS set number on the instruction booklet under a casually arranged bag of parts.

He does the same thing with the museum and the blacksmith shop.  It's amazing how the numbers keep getting conveniently covered.