(I'd suggest to move this thread to the "Collector's Corner", if it's all right
...)
Nice pics!
The one I have below is from 1982, year when I became fanatic for playmobil
My first set was a gift from my great-grandmother, for my 2nd birthday, in 1978, but I was too young, then. (It was a firetruck of the old traditional ones.)
In 81-82, as I was turning 6, I began ask my parents for playmo, and, since then, always they asked me what I wanted, I'd say playmobil. In my 6th birthday, I had quite a bunch of pirates, city (hospital, construction, cars) and western. Also, two airplanes, like the ones Richard likes ... Only, one red, and the other yellow (mail).
The 6th birthday, mom and dad made a pirate ship cake, with playmobil over it.
When I was turning 7, an old aunt made a flying saucer, and there were klickys over it. (On that year, 1983, I was given the playmospace ship
)
At the 8th birthday, the decoration of the party was an airport table with the planes.
These were the beginnings of my collection (which didn't survive to my youth, though ...).
I remember one Christmas that I was given a set of TVI; and on another, the western soldier fort.
To have lived in Portugal in 1990-93 was wonderful, because I saw the first Victorian sets
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Gus
