vintage playmobil specials on toy stores

[playmo1989]

i have seen on a toy store and on the new catalog that some playmobil specials of the90's and 00's are on the market again they are:                   
 
http://www.collectobil.com/images/items/s4529.jpg   :4529
 
http://www.latoys.com/playmobil/images/4611_gif.jpg   :4611
 
 http://www.thomasthetankenginetoys.com/playmobil/images/4623_jpg.jpg   ;4623
 
http://www.latoys.com/playmobil/images/4612_jpg.jpg   ;4612
 

 also on a greek fast food restaurant in the childrens meal  4551 is included
http://www.collectobil.com/images/items/s4551.jpg

[playmo1989]

here are the other figures included in the childrens meal with 4551

http://www.goodysnet.com/page/default.asp?id=2180&la=1

[Wolf Knight]

I think this is only the case for greece.
The german catalogue has different specials, which i can't wait gatting my hands on!!!

[playmo1989]

really  so i must run to get as many 4611 soldiers i can  !!but how has this happened?

[Wolf Knight]

Who knows? One of the many mysteries of playmobil!!!
Until last christmas you could get set 3030 in jumbo for 50 euros.... and 3030 is quite old.... So i got my self 3

[playmo1989]

this set you bought yes it is old i remember taking it as one of the last playmobil i had as a child in 2001. i've seen it on google now and the box is different it is made in usa perhaps as an exclusive set and it's wasn't in the katalogs it must be recently made because you bought it from jumbo which is a big store and the toys are not staying there for a long time. about these old playmobil specials available on big stores and existing on the katalogue today they can't be from stock they have been reprodused. they are available only in greece?

[Wolf Knight]

about these old playmobil specials available on big stores and existing on the katalogue today they can't be from stock they have been reprodused. they are available only in greece?

I think that yes, this is the case.
You can visit the playmobil home page www.playmobil.com and go throught the catalogues of various diffenet countries.
You will see that apart from exclusives, playmobil offers older sets to some of these countries.

[playmofire]

The new Specials this year are not worldwide and some countries are getting re-issues of old ones.

This thread here may help:

http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=3981.0

and maybe this one:

http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=3823.0

[playmo1989]

thank you for clearing it up playmofire    wolf night you will be getting the new specials from the net as they won't come to the greek market!!! i haven't seen them yet are they so impressive?

[Wolf Knight]

i haven't seen them yet are they so impressive?

I believe you can judge for yourself... the colors are fantastic!!! There is also a golden dragonland price who although i bought him, i am not really crazy about him...