Playmo-Friends 2018 - out now !

[The_Mad_Hadder]

Not going to lie, I do not enjoy the change in the klicky, I am sure others before me said the same thing about the moveable wrist but this is starting to look like the evolution of Polly Pocket:


http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rachelmariestone/2012/05/08/the-evolution-of-polly-pocket/

[tahra]

Not going to lie, I do not enjoy the change in the klicky, I am sure others before me said the same thing about the moveable wrist but this is starting to look like the evolution of Polly Pocket:

Thanks The_Mad_Hadder.. Scary stuff. (and I never had those, or found them interesting at ALL)

The speedos are skinny, the new fairys look sick.  I wish that they'd freaking stop it. Playmobil are not/cannot be dress up dolls. They are klickys. If geobra wants to do those, go ahead. Just make something new, and stop ruining playmobil.

Now. Before it's too late.

[Hadoque]

They should have used a "standard" klicky with short pants for making a girl with a jeans-short. The pants/legs of this "speedo/swimsuit"-figure hurt my eyes.

[The_Mad_Hadder]

The problem I have is they do not look the same, and at some point they may not even fit with old playmobil items such as vehicles, accessories etc.

[Macruran]

Great link Hadder, interesting read.    She's written similar analyses of other toy lines - this is a page where all the links are collected: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rachelmariestone/evolving-skinny-toys/

RE: PM, I hate to rain on people's parade, but it's already too late. The change has already happened. It's just a question of how much how soon now. The key change of course was the passing of the old guard, especially Brandstaetter. Once you take the human element out of an organization, it becomes just a machine, in this case a machine for making money. And PM is making money doing what it's doing. 

On the bright side they'll probably be trying lots of different things for a while, so we might get some nice historical stuff or throwback themes.   

[GrahamB]

That's an interesting page in your link, Macruran. I certainly think PM figures could be accused of becoming skinnier over time.

[Hadoque]

PM figures could be accused of becoming skinnier over time.

Sofar the heads have remained the same, so we can´t call them skinheads (yet).

[tahra]

Sofar the heads have remained the same, so we can´t call them skinheads (yet).

I wish. There's the silly super 4 heads - Alex's type and the fairies.

  Worse is that they'd be soooo nice.

[Oliver]

I'm also not a fan of the changes to the basic figures - the seperate legs are ugly, and lots of the random women can't sit down. They can't make a figure who can dress up properly, so why bother with these weird click on plastic dresses?

[tahra]

They can't make a figure who can dress up properly, so why bother with these weird click on plastic dresses?

Exactly!

And while the speedos are too skinny, the dressed up klickys look like little barrels.