Hello from Canada (and Happy Holidays)

[Gis]

A warm welcome from the Netherlands, Ds Dad!

Which themes are you collecting apart from the Pirates for your son...or are you one of those "any blue (or pink) box is good type" of guys *grin*

[Ds dad]

Thanks to all for the warm welcome. So far it's mostly pirates for us although, when given the chance, D has chosen the Egyptian soldiers, Cossack special, one of the wolf knights and the gladiator/tribune blister. In one of my closets I have hidden away most of the sets from the Roman theme.  I'm looking to get the trireme. catapult and warrior on horse to complete it but no luck yet.

[BlueWizard]

Hi Ds dad... welcome aboard and greetings from BC.  First Pirates, then Egyptians, Romans, specials and blister sets? It sounds like you are quickly become a "serious" collector! 

Winners had some Roman sets earlier in the season; maybe a store near you has a few left?

I hope you have lots of fun here!

David

[Sylvia]

Hello and welcome to PlaymoFriends!

Thanks for introducing yourself. It sounds like your collection is growing steadily and your son is no doubt delighted with his fabulous presents!

[Ds dad]

@Bluewizard

Thanks for the welcome. I managed to pick up the arena, 3 siege towers and the commanders tent at Winners all for really great prices. Of course I only managed it because of stuff I had read on Playmofriends so thanks to whoever started the Winners post (Wesley?) and a special thanks to Cachelote for his invaluable threads summing up the pirate sets. I would still be trying to figure out where to start without those.

[Wesley Myers]

@Bluewizard

Thanks for the welcome. I managed to pick up the arena, 3 siege towers and the commanders tent at Winners all for really great prices. Of course I only managed it because of stuff I had read on Playmofriends so thanks to whoever started the Winners post (Wesley?) and a special thanks to Cachelote for his invaluable threads summing up the pirate sets. I would still be trying to figure out where to start without those.

You're welcome.  I'm glad I was able to help someone. 

I never did find any of the seige towers here, sadly.  It was the figures that came with them that I really liked - especially the Asiatic archer.

[Ds dad]

Really? The towers were everywhere here as was the arena. I looked high and low for a 4444 with no luck and I made the mistake of thinking i could come back for a second commanders tent.  Of course when I did it was gone.

[Wesley Myers]

Really? The towers were everywhere here as was the arena. I looked high and low for a 4444 with no luck and I made the mistake of thinking i could come back for a second commanders tent.  Of course when I did it was gone.

The 4444 was here only once and that was pretty early on.  I was actually there at the store when the guy was putting them on the shelf so I grabbed one.  Only Home Sense here got the arenas and only two of them, at that.  The tents were at Winners but no seige towers - and trust me, I was going pretty much every single day on the way home from night class.

We still have a veritable herd of Brachiosauri and lots of the Wedding Pavilions here.

[BlueWizard]

Ds dad, you did great at Winners!  I never did see the tent set (which I would have bought one or two of!) and I left the 4444 ship for later - and it was gone of course.  I did get the one Siege Tower set that I saw.  I was really tempted to buy a second Arena set but I just couldn't see storing it let alone setting it up one day.

Wesley, our in-town Winners sold out of all of their Playmobil long ago but the Winners/Homesense out in Langford might still have some left.  I will have to get out there soon to have a look.

Ds dad, so where abouts are you? Out west like me and Wesley?

David

[Ds dad]

No, I'm in Montreal.