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Offline Macruran

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Re: Space Patrol HQ
« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2020, 19:21:44 »
  • This type of illustration is known in German as a 'Wimmelbild', and are typically found in children-oriented books called Wimmelbilderbuch ( literally: "teeming pictures book" ).

Looks like PM likes them too! https://company.playmobil.com/Company/de-DE/interesting/wimmelbild
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Re: Space Patrol HQ
« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2020, 08:15:18 »
Thanks for pointing that out Macruran!

I like the Pterosaur in the duck pond best.
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Re: Space Patrol HQ
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2020, 00:45:15 »
I like the Pterosaur in the duck pond best.

Lots of great stuff in it, but my favorite has to be



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If you google the artist's name (Christoph Hoppenbrock) you can see he does a bunch of Wimmelbilder, though only two PM ones as far as I can tell through a multisecond internet search. This is the other one:

https://bildbauer.de/playmobil-image-illustration
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Re: Space Patrol HQ
« Reply #13 on: June 10, 2020, 13:04:05 »
Nice catch, Macruran.  I almost mentioned Hoppenbrock, but passed because some of his non-PM illustrations can be a bit 'risqué' ( not kid appropriate ).

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Re: Space Patrol HQ
« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2024, 03:20:33 »
An updated version of The Lightning Bolt spaceship was eventually built, and can be viewed here:

https://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=18072.0

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Re: Space Patrol HQ
« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2024, 00:08:55 »
That’s beautiful! I have a number of those sets, especially the vintage ones! I also have the structure and most parts of set 4875, a Top Agents Secret Hideouts set. I received it as a hand-me-down from one of my former daycare kids who is now 15 and has outgrown playing with them. Since I don’t have any other sets in this theme- and don’t have the money or storage space to add a whole new theme to my collection- I repurposed it as a “planetary outpost” for my Space themed collection. I think it fits the purpose pretty well!

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Re: Space Patrol HQ
« Reply #16 on: July 30, 2024, 00:27:11 »
That’s beautiful! I have a number of those sets, especially the vintage ones. I also have the structure and most parts of set 4875, a Top Agents Secret Hideouts set. I received it as a hand-me-down from one of my former daycare kids who is now 15 and has outgrown playing with them. Since I don’t have any other sets in this theme- and don’t have the money or storage space to add a whole new theme to my collection- I repurposed it as a “planetary outpost” for my Space themed collection. I think it fits the purpose pretty well!

My sets include 3509, 3534, 3536, 3559, 4553, 3908 (maybe? I definitely have that robot. Don’t have a complete black suited astronaut tho), 9489, 9491, and 70110.

My 3536 seems to be a rare version. Purchased new in the mid to late 1980s, it doesn’t come with the blue astronauts that have the domed white helmets. Instead it has 2 blue Klickies, helmets, vest and attachments that are otherwise identical to those in red, yellow and white. One of those klickies is African too! I’m not going to say it’s African-American because this is an international site, but that’s the skin color and it comes with hair that’s different as well. Finding images for my own personal catalog was hard! so it must be pretty uncommon.

I’ve done licensed daycare for 12 years in my current community, plus another 10 years caring for just one child at a time which doesn’t require a license in my area. I have always allowed the children who’ve outgrown naps to use one theme at a time while the littler ones sleep. So I’ve turned many kids onto it! Bonus: I’ve also received hand me downs from several of “my kiddos” as they’ve gotten older, even those I had given them for birthdays or Xmas lol.