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General => News => Topic started by: playmo1989 on August 11, 2010, 20:07:34
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the wedding theme didn't go so well on sales ? i see it's not in the german site anymore so it's dicontinioud :(
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Maybe, but themes don't seem to last so long these days. I love the church- I have my wedding sets on the dining room table right now. Still need the car.
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Maybe, but themes don't seem to last so long these days. I love the church- I have my wedding sets on the dining room table right now. Still need the car.
yes that's true , because most of the themes don't go very well so they have to stop them ,but the wedding i was thinking it would stay for one or 2 years more the piano the church :'(
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You hardly ever see the church on ebay now.
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You hardly ever see the church on ebay now.
no they are a lot of them:
http://shop.ebay.ca/i.html?_nkw=playmobil+4296&_sacat=0&_odkw=playmobil+church&_osacat=0&bkBtn=&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313
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I think the wedding them went quite well here in the UK.
Last week I bought the 4308 wedding guests set which is really good and I would love to buy the rest in the series but I have no room and more important things to be spending the money on right now.
Damo :)
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I just got the chrch a few months back and ustomise it to turn it into a medieval cathedral! But appart form that, the theme had no appeal to me whatsoever...apart from the wedding pavillion that leads back to the victorian theme...
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I just got the chrch a few months back and ustomise it to turn it into a medieval cathedral! But appart form that, the theme had no appeal to me whatsoever...apart from the wedding pavillion that leads back to the victorian theme...
i remember your churh ,very nice painted ;) i don't like it very much either only the church and a little the piano the pavillion i don't really like it i only bought it for having some extra clean windows for my mansions i f i need any big window
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My wife bought me the church for my birthday. I'm going to use it in my medieval theme as well.
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My wife bought me the church for my birthday. I'm going to use it in my medieval theme as well.
Great (medieval) minds think alike!!! ;D ;D ;D
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I did like a lot of the parts that came with this theme. The cake was a very sought after part as it was not around for a while. The 4308 reception tent along with the bottles and full wine glasses will be very useful when I get around to making a diorama of a vineyard w/party. I also found the well dressed Klickies to be very useful and unique. Now that I looked over some of the inventories I find the Chef # 30 00 4862 need to be added in large quantities to my parts order. It looks like his outfit will make a good addition to the Asian theme dioramas . One thing that really caught my attention was Kenc's cathedral (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=3029.msg35598#msg35598) that I do hope to someday copy.
Rasputin"The Mad Monk"
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Hi
I did like a lot of the parts that came with this theme. The cake was a very sought after part as it was not around for a while. The 4308 reception tent along with the bottles and full wine glasses will be very useful when I get around to making a diorama of a vineyard w/party. I also found the well dressed Klickies to be very useful and unique. Now that I looked over some of the inventories I find the Chef # 30 00 4862 need to be added in large quantities to my parts order. It looks like his outfit will make a good addition to the Asian theme dioramas . One thing that really caught my attention was Kenc's cathedral (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=3029.msg35598#msg35598) that I do hope to someday copy.
Rasputin"The Mad Monk"
It was Kenc's wonderful cathedral that prompted me to invest in a couple of churches, though so far only one is out of the box. :-[
I thought it funny that if you get the whole theme you end up with 3 bridal couples and two different wedding cakes. It would have been nice to have a non-Caucasian couple amongst those three, and maybe more guests, or some bridesmaids, father of the bride etc.
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It was Kenc's wonderful cathedral that prompted me to invest in a couple of churches, though so far only one is out of the box. :-[
I thought it funny that if you get the whole theme you end up with 3 bridal couples and two different wedding cakes. It would have been nice to have a non-Caucasian couple amongst those three, and maybe more guests, or some bridesmaids, father of the bride etc.
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I think he said it took him 4 sets to make it but I do not remember how many if any extra DS parts he had to order. Oh where is that Playmobil CAD software .
I too found it very strange that they were all Caucasians getting hitched. Your point about lack of guests seems to be a universal problem for Playmobil. We never get enough of the regular joe-shmo's in any themes. It always seems to be like hollywood movies where all the attention is on the star's and regular people just do not exist :eh?: Where are all the little people :hmm:
Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
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It would have been nice to have a non-Caucasian couple amongst those three, and maybe more guests, or some bridesmaids, father of the bride etc.
I too found it very strange that they were all Caucasians getting hitched. Your point about lack of guests seems to be a universal problem for Playmobil. We never get enough of the regular joe-shmo's in any themes. It always seems to be like hollywood movies where all the attention is on the star's and regular people just do not exist :eh?: Where are all the little people :hmm:
Rasputin "The Mad Monk"
like what people chinese ,and black well perhaps they didn't thought of that and about the guests ,we take things a little serious i think, they are toys and they are for kids what would 50 lets say klickys be ussfull in a child to play? with the knights and pirates can make wars with all these guests, what to do them? it has a few that could be as guests that could play if you see the church has a few chairs too ;) ;)
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I think it would have been nice to have just one bridal couple, and with each additional set, get another bridesmaid and groomsmen, all wearing the same clothes, but maybe different hair or even this is where you could bring in other races.
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You can tell we are all conditioned adults by reading some of these posts. LOL
Last night at ToysRUs I asked my daughters if they wanted the wedding car or the new black dragon. No matter how much I tried to convince them they wanted the wedding car ... *sigh*
They couldn't care in the least about anyone else at the wedding but the bride and groom. They don't even know or understand what a bridesmaid is, let alone would want them. It's all about focus on the key elements.
As for the ethnicity of the people, we have to remember this is a German toy with, I presume, a decidely German testing audience.
Just so the story has a happier ending, the dragon did come home with us, as well. (today the "prince", the groom, had to battle the dragon and rider to save the "princess" bride so they could drive away safely in their car)
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Great (medieval) minds think alike!!! ;D ;D ;D
Yes they do. :)
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I'm wondering if they took it out of the market in Germany so it can turn something like the Victorian sets. Maybe they are going to turn into old sets in the future.
Baden :)
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As for the ethnicity of the people, we have to remember this is a German toy with, I presume, a decidely German testing audience.
Yes this is the obvious reason they have mostly caucasian people in most of their sets. If it were made here in america it would seem quite strange. It does drive me crazy, though, to have almost all caucasians at my zoo, with only a few "token" people of other races.
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I'm wondering if they took it out of the market in Germany so it can turn something like the Victorian sets. Maybe they are going to turn into old sets in the future.
Baden :)
yes i think they did it it's not in the german site anymore ,what makes you think that it might turn to Victorian sets?
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Like the kind of sets they are....and that they aren't so common. Like a special edition.
Baden :wave:
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Like the kind of sets they are....and that they aren't so common. Like a special edition.
Baden :wave:
i don't think a new victorian series will be produced they have made the new dollhouse but it's not at all victorian :( :( :( :(
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What house the one in germany or the one here??
B-W :wave:
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What house the one in germany or the one here??
B-W :wave:
this one : http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Search-Show?cgid=Puppenhaus the other was the same as 5300 with different colours floors and rooms inside
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Yeah your right, but like you said it doesn't look so Victorian!
Baden :wave:
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Yeah your right, but like you said it doesn't look so Victorian!
Baden :wave:
yeah sad :( :( :( :wave:
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I think this new houseis going to come out here in the US and other places next here.
B-W :)
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You can tell we are all conditioned adults by reading some of these posts. LOL
Last night at ToysRUs I asked my daughters if they wanted the wedding car or the new black dragon. No matter how much I tried to convince them they wanted the wedding car ... *sigh*
They couldn't care in the least about anyone else at the wedding but the bride and groom. They don't even know or understand what a bridesmaid is, let alone would want them. It's all about focus on the key elements.
As for the ethnicity of the people, we have to remember this is a German toy with, I presume, a decidely German testing audience.
Just so the story has a happier ending, the dragon did come home with us, as well. (today the "prince", the groom, had to battle the dragon and rider to save the "princess" bride so they could drive away safely in their car)
LOL, I caught a brief few minutes of "Everyone Loves Raymond" yesterday (it's a popular US sitcom). It appeared to be a repeat of an early show where he is proposing to his then-girlfriend. She mentioned that she'd been planning her wedding since she was 12!
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I think this new houseis going to come out here in the US and other places next here.
B-W :)
perhaps..
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On the ethnicity issue, I'm mostly disturbed that there is only one African in the entire Africa theme... ???
As for the wedding theme, for my brothers wedding last summer, I needed to do some quick customizing to represent my non-Caucasian sister-in-law (and to represent the tattoos! ;D)
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs231.snc1/7816_1208312575418_1456818788_30595117_2901054_n.jpg)
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Very cute custom! If I had thought of it, I could have done something similar for my brother's wedding. except the girl he married is from mexico, so it would be a little harder, because the skin on her neck wouldn't be the right color.
Anyway, nice job!
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Very well done Coyote. They must have been nicely surprised.
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Wow! :o Very well done Coyote! Excellent custom! :wow: :wow: :wow: :wow:
Baden :wave:
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Very cute custom! If I had thought of it, I could have done something similar for my brother's wedding. except the girl he married is from mexico, so it would be a little harder, because the skin on her neck wouldn't be the right color.
Anyway, nice job!
You could have used the Mediterranean figures set 7981 for the skin differences.
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On the ethnicity issue, I'm mostly disturbed that there is only one African in the entire Africa theme... ???
As for the wedding theme, for my brothers wedding last summer, I needed to do some quick customizing to represent my non-Caucasian sister-in-law (and to represent the tattoos! ;D)
very nice customs :)9 i've never seen a bride with tatoos :lol: :lol: :lol: very good :)
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I love the wedding theme, but also wish there were more guests etc.
We made our own bridesmaids using this lady
30 14 1570 - Princess, captured by dragon (http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showpart.pl?partnum=30-14-1570)
With different styles of hair I think she fits in well as a bridesmaid ,,,,,,
(http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac300/skypurr/church1.jpg)
(apologies if I've posted this photo before!)
Elaine :)
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Good pic Elanie! :)9 I also like the church very much! Great idea of the bridesmaid!
B-W :wave:
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(apologies if I've posted this photo before!)
Elaine :)
I have never seen this photo before - absolutely stunning :love: :love: :love:
Damo :)
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yes that's true , because most of the themes don't go very well so they have to stop them ,but the wedding i was thinking it would stay for one or 2 years more the piano the church :'(
The fact that themes don't continue for a long time doesn't mean that they don't sell well. Playmobil operates to a different policy nowadays compared with earlier times by introducing new themes for a relatively short time and then withdrawing them. The Romans, for example, certainly seemed to sell well but are no longer in the German catalogue and so will soon vanish from the other catalogues. However, Playmobil still have the moulds and so they can re-introduce the theme again at no extra cost other than the materials for making the sets.
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The fact that themes don't continue for a long time doesn't mean that they don't sell well. Playmobil operates to a different policy nowadays compared with earlier times by introducing new themes for a relatively short time and then withdrawing them. The Romans, for example, certainly seemed to sell well but are no longer in the German catalogue and so will soon vanish from the other catalogues. However, Playmobil still have the moulds and so they can re-introduce the theme again at no extra cost other than the materials for making the sets.
well that's good in a way point many of the new sets are not that nice today so it's good to see new things althought the romans stayed for a while the system x castles stayed for a while where do you base that playmobil operates this different policy nowadays ? and in the past they were themes that stayed for a year
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For many years Playmobil operated with a small number of basic themes. When a new set was introduced, 10,000 were produced and stored until they were all sold. Once they were sold out, or close to selling out, Playmobil would then decide whether to produce more.
Now, producing in large quantities and storing them ties up money and also costs money so in the last 10 years or so, maybe longer, Playmobil have started producing to meet expected demand for the near future. If demand proves to be greater than expected, they will then quickly produce more. The fact that they do not carry large stocks of sets saves money and also means that it is easier to withdraw a theme quickly if it is not popular.
Playmobil also tries to limit the number of sets to about 300 so every time a new set comes out, an existing set somewhere needs to be withdrawn.
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I did not know of this latest policy Gordon! Good to know!!!
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intresting good to know!
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You certainly learn a lot here. :) Thanks Gordon. :wave:
Joe