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General => News => Topic started by: tonguello on November 27, 2015, 21:29:33
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I was going to post this as a review but as this is more a rant than a review :lol: I decided to post it here.
I really liked the 6150 set (Red carpet Star) when I first saw it was going to be released, so when I found it here in B.A. and could take a look at the box I didn't doubt and got it.
The set is fine, don't get me wrong, the accessories are interesting, even the new-style face seems to work, but I was very disappointed when I opened it.
This is the thing: When I saw the box illustration, but most of all when I saw the back of the box, I said: I HAVE TO HAVE IT. Look at those shiny, metallic-looking dresses!!!
(http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb432/tonguello/6150_back_zpsw3pk9qgz.jpg) (http://s1205.photobucket.com/user/tonguello/media/6150_back_zpsw3pk9qgz.jpg.html)
I feel cheated to say the least. The material and the colors are not even close to what you see in the box, but plain pink and horrible yellow plastic (which to be honest looks worst in real life than in the pic). The plastic of the luggage carrier (is there a name for that?) is very bendy and the red carpet looks like very cheap cartboard. :'(
(http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb432/tonguello/6150_zpsv0xn4tld.jpg) (http://s1205.photobucket.com/user/tonguello/media/6150_zpsv0xn4tld.jpg.html)
What upsets me is that the box looks different, and I wanted what the box showed me I was getting.
I understand companies have to embellish the illustrations in their products boxes for commercial reasons, but how much alteration is TOO much alteration? And how much alteration is plain deceit?
This happened lots of times. The one I always remember, and maybe the first time I noticed this issue, was when I got the truck 3817, which looks black and red in the pictures but is in fact black and HOT PINK! >:( >:( >:( >:(
And it's not only color. It's size too. Everyone I know who got the Special 4765 (woman with lambs) would agree on the lambs looking at least twice as big in the box as in fact they really are. >:(
Maybe some people don't pay too much attention to the boxes, like the woman who bought the pirate ship with the "slave collar" and then complained it was part of the set, but OTHERS DO!
I also understand that a slight change of color is OK, but the question remains; how much is too much and how much is something else?
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Welcome to the rant club
A word of advice....
If you rant like this at the pcc.....
A green goblin will attack.....
Just a heads up.......
Fully agree about all your observations and then some.......
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Wow, that is incredibly disappointing! I thought they would be shiny and metallic, too. :(
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Wow, it does look like they photographed different dresses.
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:o Yes, very disappointing.. Misleading actually.
Like the new horses - boxes showed the hooves "straight", then they have that ugly connection..
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If you rant like this at the pcc.....
A green goblin will attack.....
Do they not allow criticism at the PCC?!
I agree that the dresses are not what you'd expect from the box. Disappointing!
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Wow. This deserves the label of epic fail! Very misleading!
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Do they not allow criticism at the PCC?!
I agree that the dresses are not what you'd expect from the box. Disappointing!
It's a very complicated and volatile subject, but that's true with in any club "persecute the non believer"
On this subject ....I am aware of a few of these misleading box images. I wonder if a list of examples such as Tonguello's above geobra could be shown.......in a rainbow way ::)
Chrome parts images on the box is the biggest culprit in my opinion
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Do they not allow criticism at the PCC?!
The staff are very low profile but professional when they say something. They tend to the vague more than anything else.
The goblin in question is a certain member there who engages in lengthy argument.
As for the dresses, and the theatre binoculars, they're not shiny in real life which is very misleading, particularly as the dresses would be one of the feature parts of the set, a bit like some of the coins that have appeared in other sets.
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That's a shame. I bought a few photographic model sets, but not this one ... simply because none of the outfits seemed like something the klicky could also wear going shopping ... and I like things to have more than one use.
But I was tempted.
There's the blue bottle of champagne for a start, and the dress/luggage carrier (luggage carrier is a very good description as it is also used - in a different colour - for the 5270 Hotel Porter's luggage carrier) which I like, and is useful. But also, I thought, I would rather like those lovely shimmering pink and yellow dresses. So beautiful and ideal for an expensive clothes store.
And no: not in reality. That yellow dress looks more like some ill-fitting cheap outfit that Auntie thought was a bargain and then insisted on wearing to the party....
However - that klicky's face is nicer than it appears on the box illustration, and the stole/shawl looks nicer in reality too.
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What does she look like in the black skinmp thing :P it's black right?
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yes, it's black.
she looks horrible.... (with the accent in the first two letters ;)) :lol:
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Wow, it does look like they photographed different dresses.
Could be rendered images.
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Could be rendered images.
They don't look rendered images, but photographs.
And if they were rendered they should render the dresses in the right material. Anyway it is, the box doesn't match the reality. :'(
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Does anybody got this set? or knows someone who has it?
Now I'd like to know if this is actually a mistake mith my set (which I doubt) or in fact the dresses are all like the ones I got. :hmm:
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If you look at this picture that was taken from a display at a toyfair (so before they were released), they appear to be metallic:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YC8K0_hj3zk/maxresdefault.jpg (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YC8K0_hj3zk/maxresdefault.jpg)
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Where was it made?
The toy fair pictures look like the box image
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I saw a review of this set on youtube and the contents look the same as here, no shiny dresses.
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This set is on sale at amazon for $5.82, too bad the dress colors are different
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If you look at this picture that was taken from a display at a toyfair (so before they were released), they appear to be metallic:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YC8K0_hj3zk/maxresdefault.jpg (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YC8K0_hj3zk/maxresdefault.jpg)
The dress from the toy fair looks sparkly like the one on the box, indeed. They probably changed the material during production, when the prototype and the box art were already made.
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The early PM boxes had the words "farben unverbindlich" ('colours may vary') printed on. But nowadays this courtesy seems to be omitted. I would have felt cheated like you, Tonguello, had I bought this set.
I agree with Klickteryx that some of the gold coins look more like pewter!
Tonguello, you should write to Geobra, posing as a 7-year old and expressing how disappointed you are that the Playmobil you bought looks nothing like the box picture. Really lay it on them (' I saved up my pocket money for 14 weeks, I fell in love with this set in the catalogue, it reminded me of my dead grandmother's best dress', etc.)
Worth a try?
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:lol:
Well I was thinking about writting but as myself tbh. Probably what Birdie said is what happened and they changed the design after the boxes were done.
That reminded me that something like that happened with some truck wheels in 2013. They were different from the ones in the box, so I wrote and that's what they told me, design changed between the printing of the boxes and the time they started putting the sets together ...
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Probably what Birdie said is what happened and they changed the design after the boxes were done.
I ordered the newest pirates´ ship 6678 over the weekend. Now I hope they changed the design to a Navy trimaster after the boxart was done. ;D
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Well I was thinking about writting but as myself tbh.
Yes, h (as in tbh) is definitely best! They should respond to the (former) Pope of Playmobil just as readily as they would a 7 year-old!
I think the box art probably does come into being long before the sets are marketed. They should change the box art though, imo. I think this is what happened with 4600, they changed the contents but they also changed the box art.
(http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a621/GrahamB2013/4600versions1and2_resize_zps7f27b71c.jpg)
(back wheel of tractor differs between the two versions)
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I think the box art probably does come into being long before the sets are marketed. They should change the box art though, imo. I think this is what happened with 4600, they changed the contents but they also changed the box art.
(http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a621/GrahamB2013/4600versions1and2_resize_zps7f27b71c.jpg)
(back wheel of tractor differs between the two versions)
How subtle!
Just like those companies that don't put the price up but slightly reduce the quantity you get so that it looks the same.
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Welcome to the rant club
A word of advice....
If you rant like this at the pcc.....
A green goblin will attack.....
Just a heads up.......
Fully agree about all your observations and then some.......
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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Do they not allow criticism at the PCC?!
I agree that the dresses are not what you'd expect from the box. Disappointing!
The PCC does allow criticism, no problem at all.
I think Ras' is pointing towards a certain "green" individual (hence: goblin) who likes to hijack topics with any pov in them, just for the sake of it....and he still doesn't seem to get it. :hmm: ::)
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hmm i could accept another colour of one item, or something changed, but this doesn't look at all at what is depicted on the box, other than the form of the parts.... :-\
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a certain "green" individual
:!:
The Hulk?
A Mutant Ninja Turtle?
Shrek?
Kermit the frog?
The Green Woman?
;D ;)
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:!:
The Hulk?
A Mutant Ninja Turtle?
Shrek?
Kermit the frog?
The Green Woman?
;D ;)
Could be the hulk, he is a vagrant who walks around messing in people's lives until something angers him and then he takes steroids to flair up and......destroy........Wakes up in a ditch to move on and repeat ....
Mutant turtle.... Radioactive mutants running around acting like vigilantes never facing the social law of the land?? Could be
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What offence did this guy Kermit?
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What offence did this guy Kermit?
Some one asked "why did you eat the fly?" oh my
He ate the fly to feed the spider
He ate the spider to feed the bird
........... 8}
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Let's keep the thread on track guys <*)
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Let's keep the thread on track guys <*)
Just bought two of this set from amazon for $5 each. Really did not realize the Molly shaw was around but it makes sense with all the dress up sets now. Well on track ;) thanks for the helpful criticism of the set
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I remember from the 90's I purchased the Pony Ranch 3775 and the set came with two red folding chairs and not the ones shown on the front of the box.
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Maybe if they produced in China instead of Europe the accuracy and quality would be higher.