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Title: Hello from Greece
Post by: Georgeag1972 on May 12, 2012, 21:26:33: Hello everybody :wave:

My name is George I’m 40 years old and I’m from Thessaloniki, Greece.
I'm married and I have a daughter 1,5 years old (Renia) and my wife (Fotini) is pregnant to our second child who is a girl again and she will born about the end of July.
Of course all my family loves playmobil and I’m playing with these from when I was a child.
As a kid I had two collections from playmobil Lyra that we had here in Greece.
My first collection was stolen when I went with my mother an excursion with my school. I forgot my playmos out to our yard and it was a big mistake. It was one of my worst days of my life.
So after this, I started to collect again. My plan was to get 100 figures (it was a very big number for me then). And finally I did it. I was keeping all the money that my parents were giving me to buy playmobil. I had everything that I wanted but I hadn’t buildings, were very expensive. I went to my uncle who was woodworker and I took some woods. I made a very nice west city with saloon, bank, ranch, sheriff and many houses. Unfortunately I don’t have photos with these.
But time passes very fast. My sister married when I was 13 years old. I wasn’t playing with playmobil anymore. My cousin who lives in Germany came for the wedding. He had a son 4 years old. I decided to give my collection to the little boy. He is 27 years old now and he keeps the collection for his own kids. I am very glad for this.
I'm longer now about 18 years old, my sister has two sons and I buy playmobil for my nephews. We have now the original playmobil and the sets are fantastic and so I started to collect again. That collection was small and only with West sets.
But it's the time that I must go to the army and I decided to give my collection to my sister's sons. And guess what, a few months ago my nephews gave my collection back with many other sets that they had as kids. Between these the big steck castle 3666, the ship 3740 and the farm 3716!!! I was lucky and I’m very happy for that.
When I was 25 years old I met my wife (Fotini) and after a big fight that we had I went to a toy store and I bought for her the Victorian house 5305. I wanted to ask her sorry because I was wrong at this fight. And that it was, I started to collect again and I didn't stop until today, it was from 1998 until now.
I collect Pirates, knights, West sets, Romans, Egyptians, Forest and Adventure sets and Safari. I have also some system-x buildings of City Life sets and I use these for customize old season's buildings.
Well, this is my story with my playmos and I’m here to share with all of you my work and my ideas. I have many pictures to show you and I will post these very soon.
I can't wait to know you all better. Many of you I believe that you know me from Tricornejock.com forum where I’m member too and a moderator.
I know also that you have here a great Greek community and I’m so excited for that.
I'm sure that I will have much fun here.
That's all for now and I will see you soon on the forum.

Greetings George. :hatoff:
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: bonniebeth on May 12, 2012, 22:16:14: Hello and :welcome: from Louisiana, USA! It's great to have you with us! I really enjoyed reading your story, sounds like you have a quite a long history with playmobil, and have been very generous with it over the years. Can't wait to see your pictures.

You're right, we do have quite a few Greek members, and the number is growing. In fact our top poster, one of the moderators here, is from Greece.
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: playmo1989 on May 12, 2012, 22:51:26: Hello!!! :wave: :welcome: to pf from NY-USA
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: Wolf Knight on May 12, 2012, 23:17:33: Hello and welcome to Playmofriends from Thessaloniki as well George!!! :wave:
Its great having another member from my hometown here!!!
Thanks for sharing your history with us, its pretty much what most of us have gone through, so its great knowing we have common grounds!!!
I hope you enjoy Playmofriends and looking forward seeing your contributions to our forum, as well as getting to know you better!!!
All best,
Panos :)
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: Pynedor on May 13, 2012, 00:39:30: Greetings! You collect some great themes! ;)
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: Bill Blackhurst on May 13, 2012, 01:01:01: Hello, & :welcome: to our Playmofriends forum from South Carolina USA, George! :wave:
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Post by: basilsdad on May 13, 2012, 01:50:36: :wave: Welcome from Pennsylvania!
Joe
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: Ace on May 13, 2012, 01:52:24: Hi and :welcome: to PlaymoFriends from Washington State! It's great to have you here!
Ace :brownhair:
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: Sylvia on May 13, 2012, 10:09:48: Hello and welcome from the Scottish Highlands! :ness:
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Post by: tigana123 on May 13, 2012, 10:43:53: Welcome from Athens ;D
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Post by: DrDalek6 on May 13, 2012, 11:07:11: Hello and a very warm welcome to you :welcome: :wave: what a great and interesting story really nice to hear that you've kept the Playmobil in the family and that they all enjoy it and took such good care of it for you very heartwarming. I look forward to seeing you collection.
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Post by: retronio22 on May 13, 2012, 12:52:39: Welcome George!!Me too from Greece!!!!!
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Post by: tonguello on May 13, 2012, 14:28:34: Hello and welcome from Buenos Aires, Argentina!
It was great to read your story about your life with Playmobil. I hope we can see your pics soon! :love:

:welcome:
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: conniefrere on May 13, 2012, 16:40:20: Hello and welcome from the netherlands. Hope to see a lot of posts with pics of your collection!
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: Georgeag1972 on May 13, 2012, 18:49:55: Many thanks for your very warm welcome. :thanks:
I'm happy that you liked my story. :)
I will post my pictures soon and I will start with the first diorama that I made about two years befor,with my Romans. :roman:

Friendly George. :)9
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: playmofire on May 13, 2012, 19:34:13: Welcome from the UK! :wave:
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: skypurr on May 14, 2012, 22:06:06: Hi George :wave:
A warm welcome from Southern Scotland (http://planetsmilies.net/flag-smiley-7326.gif)
Elaine (http://www.anchoredbygrace.com/smileys/mgqueen.gif)
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: grangel on May 15, 2012, 07:43:14: Hello George and welcome to our company from Greece!
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: Georgeag1972 on May 15, 2012, 09:02:12: Thank you guys you are all very kind. :thanks:

George
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: cowabounga on May 15, 2012, 12:28:05: Hello George and welcome from Paris, France! Though I have a strong grief about TJ, it's nothing personal with you, and I'm really happy you're here. It will be nice to see your Roman set up again.
Best,
Arnaud
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: Jimbo on May 15, 2012, 13:03:13: HI, :wave: and welcome from sunny Arizona. :cowboy:
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: Red Watch on May 15, 2012, 19:53:35: Hi and welcome from the U.K. :) :) :)
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: Georgeag1972 on May 15, 2012, 21:55:34: Thank you very much my friends. :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow:
I have already much fun and I'm very happy that I'm here with all of you.

George.
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: PlaymoMan on May 18, 2012, 01:18:22: Hi George and welcome from Ontario, Canada!
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: Justindo on May 22, 2012, 05:52:09: Welcome from Southern California! :wave:
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Post by: Lynx on May 22, 2012, 19:59:57: Hi there, I've been absent for 6 months so now I have to welcome all new members since then. Welcome from Amsterdam!
Wow, you collect a lot of themes! I do now the exotic and ancient warriors, try to make chess sets with them and I make a fantasy comic (see below).. maybe you've already seen it.
Have fun!
Title: Re: Hello from Greece
Post by: flatcat on July 24, 2012, 20:24:18: Welcome from the UK! :wave:

Damo :)
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Post by: tahra on July 27, 2012, 12:49:30: Welcome from Portugal!

I can't imagine having your playmobil stolen. Really.

(and I was gonna ask for pics of the buildings.... I suppose we all thought that.. )

(I'm catching up with the new members myself :-[ )