Author Topic: 6876 - Review Motorradstreife mit Blinklicht (Read 5404 times)

PlayMoto · « **on:** February 01, 2016, 18:41:19 »

6876 - Motorradstreife mit LED blinklicht

Set: 6876
Description: Motorradstreife mit LED blinklicht
Theme: Polizei / Police
Release date: 2016
Value for money: High
Extra parts: No

Review:

This new 2016 motorcycleset has some very nice features and changes. With respect to the used colourscheme and logo's etc, it is looking more like the first of these modern police motorcycles sets, the 4261.

The motorcycle and rear flasher unit are in blue and grey/silver, where the previous one was all grey/silver.

This set also has a very nice feature: the new blue flashers on both sides of the motorcycle, really function and they flash contra to the rear flasher.
These flashers are actually litt up through a plastic-fiber, which runs from the rear flasher module, through the body to the flasher units. So, it only has the battery's in the rear module for that. Nice simple and tech solution!

The front of the box displays the rider patrolling on his new patrolbike. The sides show the regular small pictures, legal information and very importantly that blue "F".
The rear displays the motorcycle and the rider with his helmet on, and the dimensions of the klicky. It also clearly displays how many and which type of battery are used in this set.
After opening the box, it encloses a Playmobil® leaflet, (for a motorcycle set pretty large) instructions leaflet, bag with parts & klicky, and last but not least the motorcycle.
The instruction leaflet is large for a set like this, and actually folds 3 ways. It shows how to assemble the set and contains all the part numbers.

The klicky is in the same light blue colourscheme as the 4261's klicky. It has the words Polizei (police) written on his chest and back. His uniform has white stripes on the sides. In this case, my klicky was pretty dirty and the prints were damaged on several places.
Very odd to see that Playmobil® first started of with using the German Federal logo for the Polizei-sets for several years, then reverted back to the "generally" used police emblem, and now go back to that Federal logo again. This klicky has dark hands and cuffs, while the old one had white. No gloves.
A new thing on the klicky is a very odd part sticking out on the right side of his torso. This knob sticks out pretty far and is pretty bulky. It is used to attach the holster for his gun. Although it is very sturdy and probably a better solution for the smaller children, then the old one. Even so, it looks really bulky and chunky. because of this "knob" the holster stands out much further to accomodate the gun, and now is as wide as the arm of the klicky.
A real issue, is when you remove the holster, that part still sticks out and the klicky can't move his arms around. With the old slide/klick-in type, at least the klicky could move his arms freely around when that was removed. A negative thing also, when this part breaks, it is no longer possible to have a gun on his side. In my opinion a surprising and wrong change.

All the needs to be assembled are the rear flasher unit, the visor on the helmet and some parts on the klicky. Before mounting the unit, you need to pull the white plastic safety-piece out, to enable the battery contact.
No stickers need to be applied. The numberplate on the rear has the setnr. on it: PM - 16 6876

Another noticable change, is the rear flasher unit. The rear flasher has moved from the right-rear to the left front of that box and the button has moved to the top right. The unit is also more "square" then the old one and a bit bigger.
The motorcycle has Polizei printed on both sides and the sides of the rear flasher unit. It is no longer printed on the windscreen.

All in all, i think it is a great motorcycle and love the new flashers. The printing on this specific klicky was not the best.
I will add a comparison of all 3 motorcycles (4161,5180 and 6876) later on, together with the international versions.

The Box:

Box - Front

Box - top

Box - rear

Contents

The Set:

Instructions

Klicky

Set - Front

Set - Left

Set - Right

Set - Rear

Set - Top

Detail flasher unit

Comparison 6876 & 5180 (latest German Polizei motorcycleset):

Together

Right

Front

Left

Rear

playmofire · « **Reply #1 on:** February 01, 2016, 21:26:52 »

Thanks for the review, very interesting, especially the change made to the lighting system so that the front lights flash too.

I've often thought it a pity that the rear lights on the fire engines don't flash (although I accept that this is more difficult as the roof of the cab comes off and so there would need to be some form of connector used), but maybe the airport fire engine will have flashing lights all round.

Thanks again for the review.

Tiermann · « **Reply #2 on:** February 02, 2016, 21:53:49 »

The images aren't working for me Martin. I've tried from multiple locations.

playmofire · « **Reply #3 on:** February 02, 2016, 22:48:40 »

Quote from: Tiermann on February 02, 2016, 21:53:49

The images aren't working for me Martin. I've tried from multiple locations.

I think Martin is going to add them later, Tim.

PlayMoto · « **Reply #4 on:** February 05, 2016, 20:50:28 »

oh that's weird, no the images should be there. I'll check. Thnx.

Well off topic: in the new line, it's the same again: no flashing rear blue lights

Salamander · « **Reply #5 on:** February 06, 2016, 02:26:24 »

Same for me - the very first image (from the box) is there, and then there's blank space (the size of the missing picture) under each caption.

PlayMoto · « **Reply #6 on:** February 07, 2016, 20:28:19 »

Let's try again $:-\$

6876 - Motorradstreife mit LED blinklicht

Set: 6876
Description: Motorradstreife mit LED blinklicht
Theme: Polizei / Police
Release date: 2016
Value for money: High
Extra parts: No

Review:

This new 2016 motorcycleset has some very nice features and changes. With respect to the used colourscheme and logo's etc, it is looking more like the first of these modern police motorcycles sets, the 4261.

The motorcycle and rear flasher unit are in blue and grey/silver, where the previous one was all grey/silver.

This set also has a very nice feature: the new blue flashers on both sides of the motorcycle, really function and they flash contra to the rear flasher.
These flashers are actually litt up through a plastic-fiber, which runs from the rear flasher module, through the body to the flasher units. So, it only has the battery's in the rear module for that. Nice simple and tech solution!

The front of the box displays the rider patrolling on his new patrolbike. The sides show the regular small pictures, legal information and very importantly that blue "F".
The rear displays the motorcycle and the rider with his helmet on, and the dimensions of the klicky. It also clearly displays how many and which type of battery are used in this set.
After opening the box, it encloses a Playmobil® leaflet, (for a motorcycle set pretty large) instructions leaflet, bag with parts & klicky, and last but not least the motorcycle.
The instruction leaflet is large for a set like this, and actually folds 3 ways. It shows how to assemble the set and contains all the part numbers.

The klicky is in the same light blue colourscheme as the 4261's klicky. It has the words Polizei (police) written on his chest and back. His uniform has white stripes on the sides. In this case, my klicky was pretty dirty and the prints were damaged on several places.
Very odd to see that Playmobil® first started of with using the German Federal logo for the Polizei-sets for several years, then reverted back to the "generally" used police emblem, and now go back to that Federal logo again. This klicky has dark hands and cuffs, while the old one had white. No gloves.
A new thing on the klicky is a very odd part sticking out on the right side of his torso. This knob sticks out pretty far and is pretty bulky. It is used to attach the holster for his gun. Although it is very sturdy and probably a better solution for the smaller children, then the old one. Even so, it looks really bulky and chunky. because of this "knob" the holster stands out much further to accomodate the gun, and now is as wide as the arm of the klicky.
A real issue, is when you remove the holster, that part still sticks out and the klicky can't move his arms around. With the old slide/klick-in type, at least the klicky could move his arms freely around when that was removed. A negative thing also, when this part breaks, it is no longer possible to have a gun on his side. In my opinion a surprising and wrong change.

All the needs to be assembled are the rear flasher unit, the visor on the helmet and some parts on the klicky. Before mounting the unit, you need to pull the white plastic safety-piece out, to enable the battery contact.
No stickers need to be applied. The numberplate on the rear has the setnr. on it: PM - 16 6876

Another noticable change, is the rear flasher unit. The rear flasher has moved from the right-rear to the left front of that box and the button has moved to the top right. The unit is also more "square" then the old one and a bit bigger.
The motorcycle has Polizei printed on both sides and the sides of the rear flasher unit. It is no longer printed on the windscreen.

All in all, i think it is a great motorcycle and love the new flashers. The printing on this specific klicky was not the best.
I will add a comparison of all 3 motorcycles (4161,5180 and 6876) later on, together with the international versions.

The Box:

Box - Front