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General => News => Topic started by: Customizer on February 02, 2009, 13:35:24
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Hi PF,
a very sad message !!
HANS BECK IS DEAD !
READ HERE:
http://de.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.n-tv.de%2F1096058.html&lp=de_en&btnTrUrl=%C3%9Cbersetzen (http://de.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.n-tv.de%2F1096058.html&lp=de_en&btnTrUrl=%C3%9Cbersetzen)
Andi
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This is very sad news. However, the Playmobil figures will always mean he is remembered gratefully.
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Is Obi-Wan Kenobi dead? Maybe there is some young designer at Playmobil being swayed to the darkside (ie. snap-permanently-together fantasy knight towers) and Beck, lacking a badge to the Geobra compound, needed another way to provide him/her moral support.
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May he rest in peace 0) and live forever in his little plastic people :) He was able to create such a simple joyful item which spread so much happiness to children and adults alike . Not many get this opportunity and hopefully Playmobil will never forget his vision
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May he rest in peace 0) and live forever in his little plastic people :) He was able to create such a simple joyful item which spread so much happiness to children and adults alike . Not many get this opportunity and hopefully Playmobil will never forget his vision
Beautiful contritribution Rasputin :wow:, in regards to Hans Beck the great Playmobil world creator 0)! BTW, Ditto on the positive comments!
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I'm sorry to hear this. :(
The article says he had a serious illness.
I do hope that he wasn't in pain and that he had the chance to say goodbye to his loved ones before he died.
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very sad news indeed. :'(
rest in peace hans and rest assured - i will take good care of your little pirate sons and daughters that live in my home. :love:
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I'm sorry to hear this. :(
The article says he had a serious illness.
I do hope that he wasn't in pain and that he had the chance to say goodbye to his loved ones before he died.
Yes Silvia he had say goodbye , there are a last message in a german newspaper last dezember !
I had only a photo so i must translate it first if you intereseted. There are some hard words to playmobil !
world greets
Andi
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Yes Silvia he had say goodbye , there are a last message in a german newspaper last dezember !
I had only a photo so i must translate it first if you intereseted. There are some hard words to playmobil !
world greets
Andi
Yes I too am interested :hmm:
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i decided to post another picture, ad perpetuam rei memoriam...
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Yes Silvia he had say goodbye , there are a last message in a german newspaper last dezember !
I had only a photo so i must translate it first if you intereseted. There are some hard words to playmobil !
world greets
Andi
When I was writing my reply I wondered how he would view some of the more recent developments such as the fantasy series. Unfavourably, I felt, after all, to a child a knight doesn't need wings to be able to fly.
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May he rest in peace 0) and live forever in his little plastic people :) He was able to create such a simple joyful item which spread so much happiness to children and adults alike . Not many get this opportunity and hopefully Playmobil will never forget his vision
Well put Rasputin, not many people are able to make such a positive impact in the world during their lifetime.
Gepetto
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Sad news. We're lost a few popular people of late, Bill Frindall the BBC Test Match Special Scorer (cricket) last week is one I will miss.
79 still seems young, in this day and age.
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Thank you for everything Mr. Beck and may you rest in peace !
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I am saddened.
A great visionary in a child's play has gone forever. He has had a great influence on my early childhood, though he never knew me and I never met him. I was one of the many, many children that loved to play with the plastic figures and was drawn into play with them. In that way, every child he saw playing with it was somehow a bit me. And in every new voyage of make-believe I made with my favourite figures, I discovered a part of him. So we did meet. Somewhere in my playing world.
For that I am gratefull.
Now, I see my children picking up old and new klickies and sailing away into their dreams and fantasy. From time to time I catch a glimp of them and sometimes I can fly with them.
For that I am gratefull too.
Thank you, Mr. Beck, thank you for all of that.
Mark & Bogro
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after all, to a child a knight doesn't need wings to be able to fly.
beautiful and wise words playmofire. :wow:
no wings are needed, you are right, a smile is enough. :yup:
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:( surprisingly, no news in the playmobil official site.
all there is in the company info link is:
Brandstätter Gruppe - die wichtigsten Daten
2008: 452 Mio. € Umsatz, 2973 Beschäftigte
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I do hope that he wasn't in pain and that he had the chance to say goodbye to his loved ones before he died.
Ouch, Sylvia.
The only upside of having a serious illness is that you usually have plenty of time to say goodbye...
Here's to life!
But seriously the memoriams posted here are all pretty sweet. Maybe PM courtesy of Mr. Beck has driven me to invest myself in medieval studies far too seriously...
What was the medieval expression?
Pushing up daisies... wormfood...
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:'(
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... What was the medieval expression? ...
Momento mori
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an artist is dead~
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Here is an opportunity for playmobil to make a new commemorative set . "its business time, ohh ya business time"
Lets see First a Hans Klicky, a drafting table with tiny klickies drawn on it, then lots of micro klickies in the classic style .
Hans could live on in all our collections.
( my wife makes me watch those New Zealanders )
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Hi PF,
here comes the official press briefing !
ENJOY !!
world greets
Andi
Hans Beck,
“father” of the PLAYMOBIL-figure, died at the age of 79
Zirndorf/Germanay – The 35th birthday of the worldwide known PLAYMOBIL-figures and play system has been clouded by the sudden death of its creator, Hans Beck. Mr. Beck has joined the company, geobra Brandstätter, in Zirndorf Nuremberg in 1958. It was then when Mr. Horst Brandstätter, owner of the company, chose the cabinetmaker from several applicants and it proved to be a lucky choice for the future of the company. For years Mr. Beck enriched the company’s assortment of kids’ toys, furniture and sports accessories made of plastics with innovative concepts as chief developer.
But he gave his masterpiece 13 years later, when he designed the first PLAYMOBIL-figures. Due to the oil crisis plastics had become very expensive at the beginning of the seventies, so Horst Brandstätter told his chief developer Hans Beck to work on a play system for kids. Whereas he was rather thinking of a set of vehicles, Hans Beck concentrated on working on a figure in the centre of the new play world, then called PLAYMOBIL. In 1974 the first three characters were presented to the buyers: a Construction Worker, an Indian and a knight. Meanwhile 2.2 billion figures have entered children’s rooms worldwide and taken kids into numerous adventures through creative role play. And the company has achieved a worldwide PLAYMOBIL turnover of 452 million Euros in 2008.
Mr. Beck’s creativity, his outstanding talent to observe kids and to put himself into their perspective and his never ending ideas have laid the basis not only for a unique play system called PLAYMOBIL, but for the success of the Brandstätter Group and above all for the wonderful play memories of kids’ generations since 1974.
Mr. Beck retired in 1998 and then lived near Lake Constance in the Southern part of Germany, where he now sadly passed away after a longer illness only a few months before his 80th birthday. He is survived by his wife and a son. Mr. Hans Beck will live forever in his figures and millions of adults and kids will remain grateful for his masterpiece: the PLAYMOBIL-figure.
February 2, 2009
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Lets see First a Hans Klicky, a drafting table with tiny klickies drawn on it, then lots of micro klickies in the classic style .
Hans could live on in all our collections.
I was thinking of making a commemorative pic for Just For Kl!cks home page, but I just couldn't come up with anything that would convey the appropriate atmosphere.
This scene you've described would make a great Playmobil photo (if no-one has already done it before)! :D
Thanks for the idea. :)9 Hope you don't mind if I steal it at some point. ;)
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You can express your condolence here:
http://www.playmobil.com/kondolenz/kondolenz_Beck.html
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Hi Tomplay,
thx for your link but there comes a english Version for the international pages soon.
world greets
Andi
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there are a last message in a german newspaper last dezember !
I had only a photo so i must translate it first if you intereseted. There are some hard words to playmobil !
world greets
Andi
Please do not forget , I was interested as to what he said to Playmobil ???
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This is sad news, indeed! He will long be remembered as a man who made the world a better place.
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:'( As I read through these posts.
If the Egyptians were right (that a soul survives as long as a person is remembered), then he will survive a very long time to see the ever returning smile that his toy brings around the world.
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There was an article abou Hans Beck in The Independent newspaper today. I'll scan it over the weekend and post it in this thread.
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geobra took almost one week (five days) to post the announcement of hans beck's death on the main page of their playmobil.de page. >:(
on the other regional sites nothing appears. >:(
i am starting to wish to know what were the "strong" words hans beck had for playmobil before he died.... :'(
can you help with this subject andi? :hmm:
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geobra took one week to post the announcement of hans beck's death on the main page of their playmobil.de page. >:(
The announcement was online on Wednesday.
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thanks for the correction lhaap - 5 days instead of a week. :wow:
i could have sworn it wasn't there yesterday but i simply missed it. :-[
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Articles and tributes abound on the internet, just do a Google search on "Hans Beck" and you'll find dozens from around the world.
Some interesting facts, and some possibly incorrect ones, being aired.
A common quote in many articles: “No horror, no superficial violence, not short-lived trends,” was Beck’s motto
I'm wondering what his definition of superficial violence was, as there's plenty of regular everyday violence depicted, but the last one, no short-lived trends, is interesting.
Space Aliens, Ghost Pirates, Winged Dragon Warriors? Are these short-lived trends, and would Hans object?
Some of Beck's favorite Playmobil creations presented slices of history that were deemed politically incorrect, such as a group of 19th century Chinese railroad workers that was never sold in stores.
"When you're presenting a picture of a time past, you have to show all sides of it," Beck told the Christian Science Monitor in 1997. But it must be done with "Fingerspitzengefuhl," he said, employing a German word that translates as "instinctive feeling."
Interesting that not all Beck's ideas were accepted, and that Playmobil no longer feel it necessary to show all aspects of past times, but mostly just the warriors.
There is an online Guest Book http://www.legacy.com/gb/guestbookview.aspx?personId=123727022 where you can leave your own message of appreciation for his great gift to us all.
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i am starting to wish to know what were the "strong" words hans beck had for playmobil before he died.... :'(
can you help with this subject andi? :hmm:
Andi has sent me a babelfish translation of the last interview Hans Beck gave to the press in December 2008.
I think it needs some tidying up before I post it or much of the meaning will be lost. I haven't much time to look at it properly this weekend, but I will try to do so early next week. :)
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You can express your condolence here:
http://www.playmobil.com/kondolenz/kondolenz_Beck.html
I wrote something there, but it wasn't shown ...
I'll leave it here, therefore. It's what I ... felt.
"It's a loss to everyone who ever played with a tiny plastic piece of thing that clicks to sit, and to pick things ...
"The amount of children he made was far beyond any family he had. A great great part of the world, way beyond Germany's borders are sad, in this day.
"May he rest in peace. May all the happiness of all the children that was a bit happier as a fruit of his work be taken in consideration, though most of us didn't ever know his name, by then.
"May he rest."
:sadklicky:
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Andi has sent me a babelfish translation of the last interview Hans Beck gave to the press in December 2008.
I think it needs some tidying up before I post it or much of the meaning will be lost. I haven't much time to look at it properly this weekend, but I will try to do so early next week. :)
Thank you ,Andi sent both the German and a traslation and it is a bit hard to understand . After reading the english version i asked for the origonal and i was hoping to find a German translator to read it to me to get the full meaning of his critisism of Playmboil .
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I wrote something there, but it wasn't shown ...
I'll leave it here, therefore. It's what I ... felt.
If you wrote that after my comment it may turn up yet, they have to check for content before posting, in case people post rude things.
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Martin brought it to my attention and this (http://daddytypes.com/2009/02/06/hans_beck_father_of_playmobil_79.php) never happened to me before and i am honored to have been used for this sad occasion . It is a web-blog that i have never heard of and i really do not even know what a blog is :-[
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Actuall, it was one of the first images that came to my mind when I had read that Mr. Beck had died.
They couldn't have used a better picture; after all - a king (of sorts) had died.
Bogro
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Congratulations Rasputin, very fitting pictures.
Gepetto
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Rasputin, that blog is pretty popular among parents of young kids in the US, that's cool that they used your pic (which is great by the way.)
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Congratulations, Ras.
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Thank you Count Borgo, Gepetto, Wonderland & Gordon :wow: I am saddened as to the event but I do think it does fit nicely for the Inventor of Playmobil :'(
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i found some pictures that made me think about hans beck again (we latins like to mourn longly). :'(
one is maybe one of the last pictures we have of him, taken in the end of 2008.
in the cardbox seem to rest the first klickies ever to be made. :yup:
the other one is, i think, a drawing of a klicky patent. :)
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The discussion of Hans Beck's newspaper coverage (including his relationship with his former employer) can now be found here:
http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=2932.0 (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=2932.new#new)
You might need to re-subscribe to the new topic in order to get further notifications of replies. :)
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i found some pictures that made me think about hans beck again (we latins like to mourn longly). :'(
one is maybe one of the last pictures we have of him, taken in the end of 2008.
in the cardbox seem to rest the first klickies ever to be made. :yup:
the other one is, i think, a drawing of a klicky patent. :)
Hi,
These 6 figures were the first prototypes, the first pictures he molded out of plastic.
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Hi,
These 6 figures were the first prototypes, the first pictures he molded out of plastic.
I'm sorry I meant figures, not pictures.