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Re: Barbie theme as Geobra and Mattel team up
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2025, 00:07:45 »
I expect that these sets will likely end up taking the place of some of the sets in a few of the modern themes. Hopefully that trend will not continue though. Not many classic themes remain.

The Monster High sets might have some interesting pieces though.
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Re: Barbie theme as Geobra and Mattel team up
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2025, 00:07:54 »
As was pointed out in the German forum, what is the point of a miniature Barbie doll if you cannot comb their hair?
There are the Horses of Waterfall you can comb the hair so I wouldn't be surprised if some playmobil troll doll appeared in future.

Not everything Barbie has to be like the doll, there are movies for instance and you can't comb the tv - well not if you're sane anyway.

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Re: Barbie theme as Geobra and Mattel team up
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2025, 06:22:18 »
They're going to use one toy to represent another toy and lose the unique attributes of both?

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Re: Barbie theme as Geobra and Mattel team up
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2025, 06:47:01 »
They're going to use one toy to represent another toy and lose the unique attributes of both?

Like the "my little pony" - if people want my little pony, they buy my little pony.  I completely agree.

They should be playmobil. Which is basically the best to be. Or at least it was.  :'(

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Re: Barbie theme as Geobra and Mattel team up
« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2025, 09:42:47 »
An extremely weird decision (and I'm fairly generous about giving the benefit of the doubt).

I assume it will basically be a re-hash of the beach theme with some Barbie Logos stuck on the figures (of course, the beach theme has literally had a re-fresh last month...).

The only real overlap is that children do play with Playmobil and Barbies in very similar ways, but I'm not sure that's enough to make this make sense.

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Re: Barbie theme as Geobra and Mattel team up
« Reply #15 on: August 23, 2025, 15:37:38 »
They need to give Barbie a laser rocket launcher.
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Re: Barbie theme as Geobra and Mattel team up
« Reply #16 on: August 24, 2025, 15:29:02 »
Barbie has it's own toy, it just makes zero sense. Just seems like they will just release the same old pink girly sets they have for over two decades now, only more expensive due to the Barbie license most likely.

It's just another sign that makes it clear they really don't know what they are doing at Playmobil, and that the company seems done for. Just another bad decision in a very long line of them.

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Re: Barbie theme as Geobra and Mattel team up
« Reply #17 on: August 24, 2025, 16:06:42 »
They're going to use one toy to represent another toy and lose the unique attributes of both?

That sums it up

They need to give Barbie a laser rocket launcher.

A pink launcher with purple missiles 


Came to see the toy, stayed for the comments
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Re: Barbie theme as Geobra and Mattel team up
« Reply #18 on: August 26, 2025, 02:25:30 »
That sums it up

A pink launcher with purple missiles 


Came to see the toy, stayed for the comments

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Re: Barbie theme as Geobra and Mattel team up
« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2025, 05:00:25 »
I would be interested in a MOTU line if they ever do it.