This is a set from 1987 consisting of a small café or kiosk, owned or run by the eponymous Franky.
He sells hot dogs, ice creams, drinks (such as ‘Schoko drink’ and ‘Fruit Limo’ according to the signs outside the kiosk).
Also on offer is something in green bottles (bier? Nah, probably fruit juice) and sweets (gobstopper /gumballs).
In Britain a place like this might be called a ‘greasy spoon’, but the fact there are flowers on the tables suggests that, like McDonalds, Franky’s would style itself a ‘restaurant’.
There are four customers (a man, a woman, a boy and a man with a red waistcoat) plus the owner/proprietor, who wears a chef’s hat and a long white apron bearing the ‘Franky’s’ logo (I haven't got this apron
). All five Klickies have ‘old style’ torsos, legs and hair and ‘free’ wrists. In common with all adult Klickies before about 1990, all four adults have a hat to wear. Two adults have clip-on collars. There are cups (4), plates (12, in three sizes), jugs (2) and flower vases (2), all in blue, but no cutlery. There is a barbecue with a spit and five tools, but no meat. There are two dispenser machines and four signs which attach to the outside of the kiosk. The kiosk itself has 3 sides, a base and a roof which slot together neatly (see pictures).
There is a hatch in one wall supported by two poles.
There is no printing on any of the plastic pieces: all logos, signs and decoration (including the four red panels on the umbrella and Franky’s apron logo) are paper stickers. All plastic pieces apart from the Klickies’ heads, hair and hands are made from just six colours of plastic; red, yellow, blue, green, white and black.
I got one of these sets in a batch of second-hand Playmobil a little while ago. After some searching of my spares boxes (and several purchases on ebay), I now have most of the pieces, as far as I can tell from the box picture and the incomplete inventory on PlaymoDB here
http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/listinv.pl?setnum=3146. The Datenbank-Setinhalt on klickywelt.de (klickywelt forum membership needed to access this), which is usually a good source for set content pictures of pre-1990 sets, shows pictures of this set still sealed in the original plastic bags, which is of limited use for establishing the contents. So I have relied on the set box picture as the best source (though set box pictures are not always wholly accurate!).
According to Collector 3rd edition, this set was first released in 1987/8 and discontinued in 1991/2.
My set still has a few missing bits (see here if you can help!:
http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=13267.0) but here are the parts I do have:
I don’t think any parts for this set are still available from DS, with the exception of the barbecue tools (which I got from DS this month).
I think there are several additions and corrections needed to the text-only inventory on PlaymoDB. These are listed in the attached pdf ‘3146 update’.
What I like about this set
It comes from an era when parts (and klickies) were generally simple and basic, without too much printing or frippery. Colours are bold primary colours on the whole. My children first started getting to know Playmobil around the time this set was on the market, though they never had this one. The klickies and crockery are reminiscent of those in the hospital room 3495 (the first set we ever had) and the barbecue is found in the camper set 3148, which we also had. (Nostalgia!)
Nice construction, the parts of the kiosk fit together with customary PM precision, the walls, base and roof have notches to ensure they can only be assembled in the correct way and slots to ensure they hold together. I haven’t seen this on any other sets, though the kiosks in 3418 and 4370 have similar parts.
There are some nice parts which are special to this set- the bubble gum machine, the signs, the bottles with stickers.
Enough parts to give the set good play value, without too many little bits (like cutlery!) to get lost in the Dyson.
I would have liked this set as a child, using it as a truckstop for lorry drivers, an addition to a circus, park or beach layout, or as a suspect source of a food poisoning outbreak (only joking Franky!).
Edit: resized pictures
