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General => What is this??? => Topic started by: pingo on December 25, 2016, 11:30:28

Title: Red lantern
Post by: pingo on December 25, 2016, 11:30:28: Hello :sherlock: can u help me I haw this red lantern
No clue where it Come from ??? Set No. :lens:
Title: Re: Red lantern
Post by: playmofire on December 25, 2016, 12:23:44: Possibly from one of the US train sets.
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Post by: tahra on December 25, 2016, 14:02:49: Or maybe from an advent calendar?
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Post by: Birdie on December 28, 2016, 12:09:58: Hmmm, this is a difficult one. I' m pretty sure I have one of those in red, but where did it come from...?
I'll let you know if it pops up in my head ;)
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Post by: Hadoque on December 28, 2016, 23:15:54: The last one responding will have the answer ;D
(the one at the end of a game is called "the red lantern carrier overhere)
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Post by: GrahamB on December 29, 2016, 13:56:04: It isn't from a Special, or a Game set, or an advent calendar....
Title: Re: Red lantern
Post by: GrahamB on December 29, 2016, 14:14:47: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Playmobil-Klicky-LATERNE-rot-Mittelalter-Ersatzteil-Zubehor-EXTREM-SELTEN-rar-/162330257305?hash=item25cba32799:g:9HwAAOSwa~BYW~kD (http://www.ebay.de/itm/Playmobil-Klicky-LATERNE-rot-Mittelalter-Ersatzteil-Zubehor-EXTREM-SELTEN-rar-/162330257305?hash=item25cba32799:g:9HwAAOSwa~BYW~kD)

The seller describes this as rare and Middle Ages!
Title: Re: Red lantern
Post by: macgayver on December 30, 2016, 11:49:56: I believe it used to be a chromed one

I have somewhere one that looks the same with leftover of chrome

So my guess , old medieval
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Post by: tahra on December 30, 2016, 15:04:53: Quote from: macgayver on December 30, 2016, 11:49:56
I believe it used to be a chromed one

I have somewhere one that looks the same with leftover of chrome

So my guess , old medieval

I really don't think so... I think it is too "bright" to be an old one... The old chrome ones always leave dullish colors - weird greenish/blueish... yellowish, whiteish or pinkish.. or that reddish-brown of that helmet once! At least mine always have been that way.

Today I remembered to check - I have one of those as well. ???
Title: Re: Red lantern
Post by: GrahamB on December 30, 2016, 19:51:36: I am with macguyver on this one. Having searched through all the sets on Klickywelt's Datenbank-Setinhalt, I couldn't find a red lantern. But several of these early sets have the chrome lanterns. So I checked my spares and found two with worn chrome, one with white plastic underneath and one with red:
(http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a621/GrahamB2013/IMG_9357_zpsha103qap.jpg)

For some reason, quite a lot of early chrome parts have a red plastic base. Sometimes the chrome wears off completely. Maybe there were red lanterns, but I think it looks likely that they were formerly chromed. Any traces of chrome anywhere on your red lanterns pingo or tahra?
Title: Re: Red lantern
Post by: tahra on December 30, 2016, 19:54:03: Nope, mine is NOT an old one. Brand new. AND the red is very different....

My sister adds camping, or maybe a train to the possibilities... or a western wagon.
Title: Re: Red lantern
Post by: playmofire on December 30, 2016, 20:01:10: Quote from: tahra on December 30, 2016, 19:54:03
Nope, mine is NOT an old one. Brand new. AND the red is very different....

My sister adds camping, or maybe a train to the possibilities... or a western wagon.

As I said, I think it is train related. I shall check my train catalogues and get back.
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Post by: playmofire on December 30, 2016, 21:08:06: Well, here's the answer - there is a red lantern with the Colorado Springs station, but not the mystery one.
Title: Re: Red lantern
Post by: macgayver on December 31, 2016, 23:55:56: Figured it out with the help of a fellow german collector

The lantern comes with the orange Safari Zelt from the 80 ties
Title: Re: Red lantern
Post by: GrahamB on January 01, 2017, 17:39:13: This (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=3413) one? It looks like a chrome one in the box picture (and on Klickywelt.de Datenbank-Setinhalt)!
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Post by: tahra on January 01, 2017, 18:04:46: I really think th red one is a LOT more recent than that....
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Post by: Hadoque on January 04, 2017, 03:44:48: I´m pretty sure it is not a peeled-off chrome lantern.
Over the years, I´ve seen it several times appear on ebay (never got it though as I´m not really interested in it).

Maybe it originates from a Chrismas Calender set? ???
Title: Re: Red lantern
Post by: Erik on January 04, 2017, 12:47:37: It's from the large Safari-set, 3189.
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Post by: tahra on January 04, 2017, 13:35:20: Thank you. This was starting to drive me nuts!

(found through google - then led here (link) (http://www.famobil.ekiwi.es/web%20famobil.htm))

(http://www.famobil.ekiwi.es/grandes/famobil%203189.jpg)
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Post by: playmofire on January 04, 2017, 14:27:08: Yes, thank you, Eric. :wave:
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Post by: leefert on January 04, 2017, 15:16:11: Macgayver was on the right track with it. Awesome work by all involved.
Title: Re: Red lantern
Post by: GrahamB on January 04, 2017, 17:00:30: It isn't shown in the 3189 set on Datenbank-Setinhalt (neither in the set contents nor on the original box art); that could be an error on the part of the person (playmorache) who supplied the pictures there, but such an omission would be unusual. If it is a Famobil part, that would fit in with other parts produced for/by Famobil, Shaper, Lyra, Antex, Playpeople, etc. where the part differs from 'standard' Playmobil parts/ klickies from the same era.