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General => News => Topic started by: Hadoque on May 19, 2011, 04:21:09
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Hi folks
I suppose it isn't known yet...
WARNING - READ THIS FIRST:
I personally & accidently found the information below, so no involvement from Klickywelt this time ;D
... that the 360°-view of the 5135 Pirates' ship (new version of 3940/US 3286), to be released in August in Germany & BeNeLux, is already operational?
Here's the link, just click on the 360°-view button when you get there...
http://www.playmobil.de/on/demandware.store/Sites-DE-Site/de_DE/Product-Detail?pid=5135&cgid=Piraten
IMO the ship looks awesome!! Also the stern looks nice! :love:
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It does look awesome! It has a lot of stickers on it.... not sure I like that. But it's a beautiful ship!
I liked your disclaimer, btw. ;)
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It does look awesome! It has a lot of stickers on it.... not sure I like that.
The 3940/3286 also had this amount of stickers... If you don't really like them you can allways leave them off, make your own ones or use the ones from it's 3940/3286-predecessor. I've made sure to have a few spare sheets of stickers from the 3940.
I liked your disclaimer, btw. ;)
Thanks ;D
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A beautiful creation! It's colors are reminiscent of the old Playmobil pirate ships! Very good customizing possibilities! Thank you for sharing this excellent future masterpiece!
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:woohoo:
gimme gimme gimme!!!
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A nice find, Hadoque, and thanks for sharing it. The new ship certainly looks very impressive, apart from the new style cannon on deck but those can easily be exchanged for the 3940 one.
I wonder who will be first to remove the dummy below decks cannon and replace them with 3940 ones (if it's possible, that is)?
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Thanks for sharing! I have a passion for the playmo pirate ships! :love:
I am very happy to see the 3940 coming back as for sure this was one of the most beautiful ships playmo has ever designed.
I wonder who will be first to remove the dummy below decks cannon and replace them with 3940 ones (if it's possible, that is)?
I am sure that this is possible. It clearly looks as if they used the old molds for the upper deck...
...but to be honest, I like the idea of fake cannons. They just should have make it a little more clever.
If they were to be pulled out a little so they look more than real cannons, I think this would fairly do it for the kids. They play with the upper deck cannon and the others are just virtually adding to the fire power of the vessel! :D
That way unfortunately, they look a little flat, fake that is. ::)
best,
socrates
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Well i dont like these fake cannons at all . sorry but i much prefer the previous version that could be loaded with 8 proper below deck cannons :love: :love: :love: :love:
I will still buy 3-4 of these ships though :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Thanks for the info Hadoque!
MUST NOT START ON THE PIRATES!! It's tempting though...very tempting which such beautiful creations!
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The sticker for the stern is funny!!! I like it!!!
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When turning the image 360° around and using max. zoom, you can clearly see that the gap in the front deck, to reach the 2 below-deck guns on the 3940, has now been sealed off.
So hopefully they installed a removable lid (instead of fixed lid moulded into the deckfloor), so if you want to install the real cannons below deck, and move these guns foward and backwards for shooting or reloading, you won't have to unscrew the upperdeck from the hull each time to be able to reach them!!
I will still buy 3-4 of these ships though :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Only 3 or 4 ?! I'm thinking in double digit numbers! :lol:
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When turning the image 360° around and using max. zoom, you can clearly see that the gap in the front deck, to reach the 2 below-deck guns on the 3940, has now been sealed off.
So hopefully they installed a removable lid (instead of fixed lid moulded into the deckfloor), so if you want to install the real cannons below deck, and move these guns foward and backwards for shooting or reloading, you won't have to unscrew the upperdeck from the hull each time to be able to reach them!!
Only 3 or 4 ?! I'm thinking in double digit numbers! :lol:
that is great news !!! if that proves to be the case i will be getting 6-8 of them and create my royal armada :love: :love:
HAdoque youy should get at least 12 of them !!! ;)
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For the occasion... ;)
Some pics (from a few years ago) of my trimaster Flagship "Licorne".
(I inspired Macgayver to build it, which he did fantastically, and then I bought it from him and made some small alterations, like adding the stickers and prolonging the front mast in the same way as the middle mast).
The ship is in my dad's house as I don't have enough space left to put it on display in my place, and there's also some damage I've still to repair (caused by housemovers, when my dad moved to a nursing-home in 2010)...
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HAdoque youy should get at least 12 of them !!! ;)
I've already the 3940 in double digit numbers... :-[ ...for use as a French fleet. Now I'm planning to base the English fleet on the 5135... :-[ :-[ :-[
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Some pics (from a few years ago) of my trimaster Flagship "Licorne".
:omg: :(o): :lens: :)9 :clap: :wow:
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What a treasure that ship is Hadoque. Marvelous!!!
And your general ship numbers sound AWESOME!! Can't wait to see more pictures of your collection!
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wow! that is a great ship, thanks a lor Hadoque!
Your custom is really great too! I so wish playmobil would do something like that!
Thanks for sharing. :wave:
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Thanks for the link, Hadoque
Well, I don't like much of the stickers and the red and yellow parts. But, since it's 3940-3286 mould, it's such a good news to see such "hardware" to mix for building new "ships of the line" ! One or two will do it for me ; let's not get to glutton...
Anyway, I'll hope you'll delight us soon with picture of your fleets in battle !
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Amazing...thanks for the news~~!! :love:
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Nice color scheme, shame they went from two courses of sails back to one, and shame about the giant skull and crossed cutlasses on the Mainsail. No Pirates ever had that in real life (that I know of), nor would it suit their purposes.
Pirates rarely operated big ships like this, they didn't work for their tactics. They were too slow, difficult to manoeuvre, difficult to hide, and difficult to maintain. Only a country with great resources to draw on could operate these big warships. Pirates liked smaller vessels which they would pack with men, sweep in to close quarters (often under false colors), possibly a combined attack on both flanks, and board a victim doing as little damage as possible to the prize in the process. They liked to threaten, not fight. That way they captured the maximum booty with minimum casualties. If possible they'd persuade the crew to join them, and as most crew were serving against their will it wasn't all that difficult. Then they'd steal the cargo, or take the ship too to sell it and the cargo.
This ship could be excellent if Playmobil provided DS packs of sails and flags for different nations - Spanish, British, French and Dutch, a DS pack of generic sailors (so they could sail under any flag), and DS packs of officers (Captain, Lieutenant, Mate) for each nation. Then we could dress up the ship for service in any navy, and have some real battles. As long as every ship in the pirate theme is dressed in pirate colors, they have nobody to attack.
How about something new for the Pirate theme, a merchant ship (I use the 3050/3053/3550) so the Pirates have someone to capture, and a Navy ship (Spanish, British, French and Dutch flags included) to come and try to recapture the merchant and fight the pirates? How about some historical accuracy combined with greater imagination, rather than just another variation on a gigantic pirate ship? How much do the design department get paid for rehashing the same old idea year after year after year?
Oh, and what's that big gold medallion hanging on the stern rail supposed to be?
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Oh, and what's that big gold medallion hanging on the stern rail supposed to be?
Rubbish this is. same with the new pirate island, despite som nice details its really weird looking. The first pirate island was by far the best :)
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:( I'm not seeing the 360 button....is in deutch? I'm not spotting it somehow :(
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Click on the item, and then click on it again, like you do to see the boxback, and the 360 button is right under the image.
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I know a blackbeard ship was already released in the 3050 mould, but I wonder if it's a coincidence that, with the release of the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie, this new 5135 ship bares the same historical colours as BlackBeard's Queen Anne's Revenge ship: Black, yellow, and red.
I think not.
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Hadoque
Your flagship "Licorne" is a beautiful creation, I love the golden unicorn bowsprit and the trimasted configuaration. I do not do any of the custom work that so many of you do, but I love to see the wonderful pieces that each of you create. Macguyver is such a craftsman, and some of the projects he tackles are immense and so cleverly executed.
kaethe
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The box art image is quite different from the 360 view one. Note all the stickers on the gunwhales are absent.
The image on the stern is interesting. They actually used a Playmobil face unlike in the Egyptian theme.
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Thanks for the information, Hadoque! Your custom ship looks amazing! I really wish Playmobil would make something like that. Your navy sounds impressive too. I have a similar idea, albeit smaller in scope. I'll be using the older red and blue version of this ship as my French flagship and this new one as my British flagship. I'm using the older Playmobil ships as merchant vessels for the pirates to capture and possibly occupy and the smaller ships as pirate vessels. The really small ships make good gunboats for all sides to use.
I was very much against the fake cannon at first, but now I'm not minding them so much, although I'll have to see them in the flesh before I make a final decision. I never fire the cannon and these fake cannon look better anyway. I'm really loving the new redcoats too.
Martin, I like your ideas!
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did i miss a review of this ship yet? And am I correct in believing this ship is a European release first before USA? I'm not sure why I'm so excited for this remould of the 3490 when the 3490 (3286) is still easily attainable on ebay.... I guess having a the ship moulded in new colours excites me, even though a 3286 could easily be repainted to any colour one wants, hehe.
All your ship are belong to us!
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I'll be using the older red and blue version of this ship as my French flagship and this new one as my British flagship.
I'm having the same idea; the red/blue-decked 3940's (US 3286) will be my French Fleet, while I'm planning to buy 5135's for use as an English Fleet. And a few of each version will serve as major pirates' ships, supported by smaller vessels. The Unicorn will remain a French pre-Revolution ship-of-the-line.
I've cut the hulls of a pair of 3940's and started to glue them to build a 2nd Unicorn-class French ship, but it's the first one of this kind I want to build myself (as most know, Macgayver did the Unicorn) and it's going slow... Also I'll probably have to defer working on it till next year or so, as we're selling my dad's (uninhabited) house and I can't really work well on such custom-ships in my place :-\ , I'm hoping to move again to a bigger house with a garden and such.
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did i miss a review of this ship yet?
Coming hopefully somewhere next week if nobody else is quicker with it; I've ordered 2 5135's on Playmobil-Belgium's site yesterday ;)
On the German Klickywelt-forum there are already a few images of the inside of the 5135, I'll post a pic in a separate thread.