DS ACW (US civil war) soldiers worldwide removed from Online Shops & Funstores

[Baron Marshall]

Right. 

To me, they will always be indians. As opposed to cowboys.

Chief Powhatan is my 12th Great grandfather and "Indians" is fine with me

[Macruran]

2 comments:

 - This is the flipside of wanting more diversity and political awareness and so forth in PM sets. The price for that is losing the distinct cultural sets that frankly made PM something special. Merry Men's Hideout? Too eurocentric - we'll not see its like again. Christmas is oppressive. History itself must be rewritten to conform with modern notions of what's right. I'd guess this is why PM isn't rushing to cash in on the obvious moneymaker that the Luther klicky and his cultural brothers have pointed out: PM just doesn't want the trouble that would inevitably descend on them. O tempora, O mores.

- Snap up every 3783 you can find. A day might (will?) come when there will be legal penalties for purchasing one.

[PlaymoMan]

I don't know how much of this is about political correctness. I think that if PM wanted to jump on the whole "PC" bandwagon, they wouldn't have released this particular batch of figures in the first place. Remember, the whole phenomenon of political correctness has been in motion for several years now, and since this iteration of Union/Confederate soldiers was released in 2013 (correct me if I'm wrong) I doubt that they would have entertained the notion of Confederate figures at all if cultural sensitivities have really been much of a factor in determining what hits the assembly line over the past few years. I think something else might be at play here, I just have no clue what it might be. What's strange is how sudden this decision seems to be - was there any advance warning or indication that these sets might be on the chopping block?

[Oliver]

Right. 

To me, they will always be indians. As opposed to cowboys.

I'm not sure that trying to avoid offending people warrants an eye roll.

While I love the aesthetic of the western town buildings, and collect them, I do find them problematic as a childrens toy, and I wonder if the only reason they're still making them is a bit of fan service. Even when I was a kid, the only interest I had in the 'wild west' was the Little House books, and I feel there was a lot more of it around then.

I think they wouldn't make any 'colonial' sets, and the wild west ones do strandle that border, so I'm not suprised they want to simplify it.

I don't think that Playmobil it going out of it's way to be PC - they're still very undiverse, and in fact avoided doing any religious figures for a long time, and have had far more in recent years....

[tahra]

I'm not sure that trying to avoid offending people warrants an eye roll.

What I mean is that these days, EVERYTHING seems to be offensive for someone. Sometimes I have no idea what to say.

[Hadoque]

I don't know how much of this is about political correctness. I think that if PM wanted to jump on the whole "PC" bandwagon, they wouldn't have released this particular batch of figures in the first place.

Probably they changed their mind with recent events in the USA. Why would they otherwise suddenly pull only the ACW-soldiers from their online shops and funstores, and leave everything else? They weren´t scheduled for discontinuation.
And as they have been around for years, I won´t believe there suddenly is a "technical" issue or such with (only) these particular figures.
When these were released, there was not so much commotion about ACW, confederates, flags, etc. as there is now. At least a few years ago it certainly wasn´t  such a newsitem and all over the TV here in Europe.

[Hadoque]

What I mean is that these days, EVERYTHING seems to be offensive for someone.

Exactly.

[Bolingbroke]

Am I the only European who misses the 70s and 80s, when European companies didn't have to pander to the rest of the world? 

[Junker Jörg]

Endlich gibt's hierzu mehr Infos. Die* Fakten sind, daß Playmobil laut einer Twittermitteilung des Präsidenten der USA beschuldigt wird, das urheberrechtlich geschütze Design der Uniformen widerrechtlich genutzt zu haben...

Finally more information is given. Theres are the* facts: According to a tweed by Mr President Donald Trump Playmobil is accused of a breech of copy rights by using trademarked US Uniform designs. That's why they had to withdraw all those figurines...

jj:












*alternativen, versteht sich - alternative, of course

[Hadoque]

Endlich gibt's hierzu mehr Infos. Die* Fakten sind, daß Playmobil laut einer Twittermitteilung des Präsidenten der USA beschuldigt wird, das urheberrechtlich geschütze Design der Uniformen widerrechtlich genutzt zu haben...

Finally more information is given. Theres are the* facts: According to a tweed by Mr President Donald Trump Playmobil is accused of a breech of copy rights by using trademarked US Uniform designs. That's why they had to withdraw all those figurines...

jj:




*alternativen, versteht sich - alternative, of course

No, the real fake news comes from the Commander-in-Chief of the Playtagon:
"All ACW-soldiers have been recalled to active duty and are underway to Guam as a deterrent to the North-Korean threath."