I think the people at the head of Playmobil are just stupid sometime!
Oh yes, system X is waaay better then steck...
It's not like we would want to customise out castles,
the original intention of making the steck system castles.
It's not possible to make transition pieces either...
(Probably because the marketing people thought if you had to buy whole new castles they'd get more money.
)
Although if they kept the old system then us collectors who
really make geobra profit would be able to
continue buying from them as opposed to people on ebay.
(Oh yes geobra, you will make sooo much more money by discontinuing steck...
)
What ever made them choose to change? We may never know,
but we do know that it was a completely stupid notion!
Like I said before... 45* angle connectors! Is that so hard to ask???
Time for Playmobil to wake up and smell the coffee! (or rather, the plastic)
Discontinue system X before it is too late and you run into the same problem with that as you have with steck now!
Hopefully we will all look back on these few years and say,
"Oh I remember those rare system X sets, yes I have a few in my garage from those years that Geobra went insane."
I say we make another run at them!
And another untill their resistance breaks, and we get our steck back!
Didn't work for Burnside, but we have nothing to loose!
We'll remind them of their creator's wishes.
(Hans Beck should have wrote something about this in his will,
or maybe he thought the people who came after him wouldn't be so blunt!)
Well, that's my tirade for today...
And untill they bring back steck, Im changing my signature!
-Warrior of Toys
