new toysRus pirate sets...

[Martin Milner]

a new "french" soldiers blister is also available, this time in the us shops.

You've been had there cachalote, that's not a real blister, it's what someone would like in a blister.

Look closer, you'll see the soldiers are just placed under the blister outer cover, but there's no inner tray or leaflet, which appear in all genuine blisters.

Shame because many of us would buy those by the dozen.

[cachalote]

i am glad you warned me martin. 
i was just about to criticize playmobil's option of adding a bear hat to a french soldier but you stopped me. 
this is what comes from not speaking german... 
i hope the 5009 toys.are.us german exclusive is real though... 

[highlandcattle]

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3614363

The log cabin is released once again. I want

[cachalote]

the log cabin is indeed a beautiful set. 
it is one of those sets with a strange "other-world" quality that i love in playmobil. 
in my "family" - the pirates - this quality seems to be quite gone since the appearence (and disapprearence) of the 4136 superset seeräuberinsel / pirate island in 2007. 

[Klickus Mobilius]

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3614363

The log cabin is released once again. I want

I want, too!

[Martin Milner]

i am glad you warned me martin. 
i was just about to criticize playmobil's option of adding a bear hat to a french soldier but you stopped me. 
this is what comes from not speaking german... 

I forgot to mention this, but the bearskin hat on a French Soldier from Napoleon's Imperial Guard is quite correct.



Imperial Guard Cavalry


Napoleon bidding his Guard farewell at Fontainebleau 1814

The bearskin was awarded to the British Guards regiments after their defeat of the Imperial Guard at Waterloo. I only know this because I visited the Guards' Museum in Birdcage Walk last week.

[GRANT]

a new "french" soldiers blister is also available, this time in the us shops.

To bad that's not a real set.

The background is from the blister of the Chinese Mandarin set.

[cachalote]

just found some new better images of the 5009 set. 
i have mixed feelings about this one. 
i hate it when playmobil uses the exactly same set adding some other items to produce a "new" set with a "new" number. 
i bought the 4444 original boat and have a particular liking for it - sometimes i like to think that i was the one who was responsible for its existence (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=1666.0). 
at first i decided not to buy the 5009... 
but then, it comes with 2 different pirates and it has some french soldiers and maybe i could mix the 2 sets "crowding" the dinghy - i love a crowded set - and now i see myself wanting it, betraying my moral dislike for "repeated" sets... 

[Rasputin]

It does look like it has a new color scheme and a metal anchor this time around 

[cachalote]

you are quite right ras, thank you. 
i must confess i hadn't noticed all the differences. 
black hull and green deck instead of dark brown and cream.
black mast instead of dark brown.
grey cleats instead of yellow ones.
grey "pomegranates" decór in the stern instead of yellow.
a "world" of differences between the 2 sets. 
now i am sure ... i really must have it.