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General => News => Topic started by: Rasputin on May 02, 2008, 02:07:21
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I was going through my monthly check up for what is going to be discontinued and came across some Stecks add ons ?
7276 (http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=7267&cgid=Ds_Gebaeude_Erweiterungen)
7144 (http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=7144&CatalogCategoryID=Ds_Ritter)
7122 (http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=7122&CatalogCategoryID=Ds_Ritter)
Were these allways here and i missed them or are they making their rounds again soon to come to the US once again ? Right now all we have is the SystemX add ons and i have yet to buy any X castle parts.
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7144 and 7122 are long-standing add-ons. I'm not sure about the other one, that may be new (certainly newer than the other two).
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So do you think they may make their way back to the US ?
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I do.
If it appears on the German site, it usually appears on the UK and US sites sometime later. I haven't seen the 7267 set appear on the UK site, but I'm not looking specifically for Steck parts.
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Hello, Rasputin ... :wave:
All three of these "Add-Ons"" have been around for about eight years.
7122 (http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=7122&CatalogCategoryID=Ds_Ritter)
7144 (http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=7144&CatalogCategoryID=Ds_Ritter)
7167 (http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Show?pid=7267&cgid=Ds_Gebaeude_Erweiterungen)
If they're "popping up" again, then there's probably a good chance they'll make it across to the USA!
I was going through my monthly check up for what is going to be discontinued and came across some Stecks add ons ?
7267
7144
7122
Were these always here and i missed them or are they making their rounds again soon to come to the US once again ? Right now all we have is the SystemX add ons and i have yet to buy any X castle parts.
I just checked the US Playmobil site and I was pleasantly surprised by the number of Steck sets that are stlll available.
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All the best,
Richard
Edit: Left out an "it" ... :-[
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i mut confess i don't give the add-ons form other families besides the pirates the attention they deserve... :-[
this thread made me take a closer look. :o
i loved the 7267 "burgruine" tower - very scotish in its ambience - and the 7857 goldmine - a very easy set to convert into robinson crusoe's cave (i am reading the book for the 3rd time). :love:
i just hope some customizer could make a robinson's diorama. :yup:
of all the calssic stories ever written this is the one that couls "be put" into klickies with the least effort - shipwreck, palisade, guns, food, island, friday, etc. - are all available with no need to transform parts. ;)
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Hello, Cachalote ...
- and the 7857 goldmine - a very easy set to convert into robinson crusoe's cave (i am reading the book for the 3rd time). :love:
i just hope some customizer could make a robinson's diorama. :yup:
of all the classic stories ever written this is the one that could "be put" into klickies with the least effort - shipwreck, palisade, guns, food, island, friday, etc. - are all available with no need to transform parts. ;)
GREAT IDEA!
A Robinson Crusoe diorama would be a really cool thing to do!
About a half dozen years ago, Bart De Smet's Collectobil (http://www.collectobil.com/collectofun/customizobil/historical.html) held their first (and only) customizing contest. The Playmobil community was still very new, and Bart thought a contest might help to bring together a few interested Playmobil fans.
Bart's suspicions were correct and the response to the customizing contest was overwhelming!
One of the contestants was a new Playmobil customizer by the name of David Hamer. One of David's entries was Robinson Crusoe and Friday.
I looked through my old files and found a photo!
All the best,
Richard
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Dont forget the 7785 Red Framework house .
I was just wondering if these would make it back around or it was some sort of inventory liquidation that might only be available in Germany. If they are going to be in the US again are the molds still being used or is it just a lot of parts left over ?
I sure hope Playmobil intends on keeping the Steck castle parts flowing . :crossed:
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Hello, Rasputin ... :wave:
I sure hope Playmobil intends on keeping the Steck castle parts flowing . :crossed:
I'll bet if we keep buying ... they'll keep making ... ;)
All the best,
Richard
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One of the contestants was a new Playmobil customizer by the name of David Hamer. One of David's entries was Robinson Crusoe and Friday.
Which leads to the next question:
Where are they now?
Breathes new life into the saying: Old collectors never die, they just fade away.
On another forum, somebody was circulating a thread from 2003, and the line-up resembled a graveyard of vanished faces.
Do people get bored, move on? Do their kids grow up and they lose the passion / camouflage? A new forum draws them off? (There's only like six forums in the world, though, right?)
It's nice to know we have Richard to count on to never quit!
-Tim
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People that go to these extremes are ex-centric people & little is known what makes them tick . If marketers could figure this out they would be subjected to their will.
How many "sane" people have absurd amounts of one thing displayed all over their homes ?
That question Tim is like a Dude trying to figure out what makes a Chick do the things they do & why ? 8} good luck ( some things are best left a mystery )
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Which leads to the next question:
Where are they now?
Breathes new life into the saying: Old collectors never die, they just fade away.
On another forum, somebody was circulating a thread from 2003, and the line-up resembled a graveyard of vanished faces.
Do people get bored, move on? Do their kids grow up and they lose the passion / camouflage? A new forum draws them off? (There's only like six forums in the world, though, right?)
It's nice to know we have Richard to count on to never quit!
-Tim
One, possibly an only, way of solving it, which makes impossible such a solution in a broad way ( 8}, & ...) would be to make meetings. Impossible, I think, because in a forum like this, there's people from the Caribbean, from Alaska (is there? ...), from Patagonia, from Rio de Janeiro, from Zirndorf, from Lapland, from Srilanka, from Australia, from Scotland ... Don't these places all look like so far away from each other? ... :'(
Anyway, some (maybe many) in here, I believe, live near from someone else ... These who live nearer might get together, someday, if ever they change impathy, sympathy, if they like each other ... 8} lol!, maybe there's really no way of solving it ... We might indeed invade from the four corners of the world, by surprise, Richard's gardens, and take breakfast there, and stay for lunch and later for tea, ... I am a bit inspired by that post about the bunnies' tree house (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=1984.0), which I'd like to order, as soon as I manage to go around my present Amazon.com shipping-limitations obstacle ... 8} 8} 8}
;)
G.--
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People that go to these extremes are ex-centric people & little is known what makes them tick . If marketers could figure this out they would be subjected to their will.
How many "sane" people have absurd amounts of one thing displayed all over their homes ?
That question Tim is like a Dude trying to figure out what makes a Chick do the things they do & why ? 8} good luck ( some things are best left a mystery )
Hey Ras!
Would you believe I actually understand women more or less?
(The motivations that so puzzle us are somewhat predictable if you think of us as primates seeking to maximise our sense of security. People fail to understand, I think, because they want to believe we humans have somehow transcended nature and our motivations are in some way "sophisticated beyond all reckoning").
Once you regard human beings as baboons, everything suddenly makes so much sense.
Seriously. It goes the same for oneself. We're all just a bunch of animals who want to survive with as little worry and as little effort as possible. In addition, we follow a sort of cult of the individual, which tells us that we individually are extremely significant and anything, whether act of god or man, that leads us to believe we aren't so important tends to be upsetting. Like these random natural disasters that religious people like to blame on sin or human failing (like the tsunami in Indonesia a few years back). Our entire survival rationale centers around the belief that we matter enough to try to survive. When random things or unsatisfying things occur, we feel threatened and seek to reassert control--tantrums, if necessary.
It's really rather not terribly exciting.
-Tim
Human beings aren't rocket science, my friend!
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thanks for the robinson and friday image richard. :wow:
i hope someone can get excited with the idea and produce the entire island. :)
maybe this would be an idea for geobra to produce it themselves. :yup:
there aren't that many "classical" stories around and they have already made a noah's ark, a little red riding hood, hansel and gretel ...
a moby dick set (there is a sperm whale now available) and a robinson crusoe one would be nice additions, i think. :love:
all using with steck system parts, so that you, richard, would be happier. :)
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all using with steck system parts, so that you, richard, would be happier. :)
Thanks, Cachalote ... :-[
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Hey Tim i would like to hear the reaction from a Woman when you tell her you have figured out the female species by studying a baboon :lol:
As the greeks say " If you want to understand People's behavior, study the dogs "
Perhaps if one wants to understand Collectors one needs to strip it down to it bare basic's and visit an insane asylum. ;D
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maybe this would be an idea for geobra to produce it themselves. :yup:
Don't you think, Cachalote, that the Pirate Island (3799 (http://www.collectobil.com/images/items/3799.jpg)) is pretty much of the idea? ... Although it isn't named so. (And, of course it isn't exaclty the Robinson Crusoe story ... Actually, the old fellow -- o velhinho -- looks quite like that crazy character out of adaptations of The Count of Montecristo's story, which I haven't read yet (...).
there aren't that many "classical" stories around and they have already made a noah's ark, a little red riding hood, hansel and gretel ...
a moby dick set (there is a sperm whale now available) and a robinson crusoe one would be nice additions, i think. :love:
Moby Dick & Robinson Crusoe may be a bit too heavy for Geobra to make, I think ... (Little Red Riding Hood & Hansel and Gretel are children's fabulae, fairy tales, short stories to make children sleep (...), and Noah is religious education (...).) I think it's nice that Playmobil keeps producing all "neutral" stuff, and we can give them names ;)
However, these are absolutely great ideas for dioramas! And I think we will have the chance to see them, because people look at that whale and there must be few people who don't think about it :yup: ...
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O, by the way, speaking about literature, they have been doing musketeers, in the Special series :) ... Among other things.
G.--