the 17 least appropiate PM sets for children

[Lynx]

I don't know if this item ihas been on the board before, but I'm curious what you guys think of this:

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/07/the_17_least_appropriate_playmobil_sets_for_childr.php

In my humble opinion: hilarious!

[Baron Marshall]

Its poorly titled.... should be called ... 17 MOST AWESOME sets for children 

[Wolf Knight]

Yeap, talked about this topic before...

http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=7465.0

[bonniebeth]

I still laugh every time I see this, though! I agree, this is why playmobil is great. There's nothing politically correct about it.

[Rhalius]

Definatly a great article, theres a few sets missing on the list though: The Dentist and the dancing bear come to mind.

I still like all of them though, its these risks and out of the box thinking that sets Playmobil apart from other toys. Lego never tries anything remotely risky or controversial anymore.

[Bolingbroke]

I still laugh every time I see this, though! I agree, this is why playmobil is great. There's nothing politically correct about it.

Of course it is.

It's just that PC mores change with time.

They wouldn't dream of issuing a set featuring a homeless person nowadays for eg. Nor would they include alcohol in any set containing road workers.

Don't you think?

 

[Bolingbroke]

What is more, I think that PM's policy of not producing modern warfare toys is as much a product of its time (the mid-70s in Germany) as anything else.

Had they been around during the war I am sure that the tune would have been different. A bit like Hugo Boss (or whoever it was) designing uniforms for the Hitler Jugend.

 

[Rhalius]

It's probably for the best that Playmobil did not exist during Wolrd War 2, if there where Nazi clickies produced the company would not have survived outside germany, it would always have been associated with Nazi's long after the war. And I am pretty sure playmobil would have been forced by the government to create them to promote the cause.

What was Hans Beck's part in the war by the way?

[Bolingbroke]

I doubt it. Many large companies that exist to this day had an active role in Nazi Germany: producing vehicles, weapons, uniforms and so on. Everything's been forgotten now anyway ... which I think is fair too.

I have nothing against Germany and its people mind you. Quite the opposite 

I wouldn't know what Hans Beck did in the war. But I do personally know old people - 60 and 70 year olds - who used to be in the Youth and so on ... and yet they are perfectly likeable people. It's what you did at the time, I guess.

Everyone's smart with the benefit of hindsight 

[Bill Blackhurst]

They forgot to list the huge beer barrel & wooden beer mugs complete with foam add-on set,......sooooo, here's to 18!