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Offline playmo1989

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« on: March 30, 2010, 18:50:47 »
how many and who were the designers of the 70's for playmobil?? :-\
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Re: playmobil designers
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2010, 23:40:03 »
:hmm: i guess they stayed anonymous behind hans beck design leadership.
 :) in collectobil there are some articles about playmobil designs - http://www.collectobil.com/guide/index.html
maybe you will enjoy this technical pictures of a playmo-figure.  ;D
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Re: playmobil designers
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2010, 00:39:54 »
Those are great blue prints Cachalote.
Do you have any of the new playmo design to compare to?
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Re: playmobil designers
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2010, 14:39:18 »
the disighner who was behind every  new production was hans beck?? ???
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Re: playmobil designers
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2010, 18:47:09 »
These are great blueprints. Never noticed them before...
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Re: playmobil designers
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2010, 18:58:14 »
Quote from: playmo1989 on March 31, 2010, 14:39:18
the disighner who was behind every  new production was hans beck?? ???

Hans Beck designed the original Playmobil figures and no doubt others too.  However, as the popularity of Playmobil grew other designers were employed as well but I think I am right in saying that Hans Beck was in overall charge for many years until he retired.  He also set the ethos as to what was acceptable in Playmobil design and themes, although this has changed in recent years.

The Playmobil design approach is very practical.  When a new theme is being developed or now models for an existing theme, designers go out to study the object in real life.  So with the new fire engines they will have visited local fire stations, maybe fire engine manufacturers, watched videos of fire engines and so on so as to get a "feel" for the new product and so as to try and make it as lifelike as possible.  Then there is work on the design in the design shop and factory - you can find out something about this here:

http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Link-Page?id=QUALITY2010
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Re: playmobil designers
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2010, 06:53:44 »
I would add that whatever is designed also has to be manufactured, which puts constraints on the designer.

With new developments in plastic injection moulding and printing, the latest figures are now much more detailed than the original 1970s figures, but still have the same overall dimensions, and can still fit alongside the new figures.
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Re: playmobil designers
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2010, 07:15:16 »
Quote from: Martin Milner on April 01, 2010, 06:53:44

With new developments in plastic injection moulding and printing, the latest figures are now much more detailed than the original 1970s figures, but still have the same overall dimensions, and can still fit alongside the new figures.

Playmobil lead the world in plastic injection moulding with the ability to work in three, four and, I believe, even five colour injection at one time.
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Re: playmobil designers
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2010, 10:30:31 »
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Re: playmobil designers
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2010, 10:54:15 »
Quote from: Wolf Knight on April 01, 2010, 10:30:31
That is one great video Gordon!!! can we find it in English as well???

I'm afraid not at the moment. :(
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