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Offline GrahamB

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Rollerskates
« on: November 01, 2013, 20:32:06 »
I have three loose roller skates (in-line skates, rollerblades), in black, purple and dark blue. I can't place the set which the dark blue one comes from- can anyone help?
Here they are:



Here are all the sets I could find with black rollerskates:
Sets with black rollerblades
Two sets have blue rollerskates (looks a lot lighter than my one though):
Sets with blue rollerblades
Two Specials have silver rollerskates:
Sets with Silver rollerblades
and one special has purple rollerskates:
Sets with purple rollerblades
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Re: Rollerskates
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2013, 11:35:13 »
A couple more, but also black and silver/gray ones... ???
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Re: Rollerskates
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2013, 19:48:32 »
Oh yes, thanks Erik. Mind you that second one (series 3 Mystery figure) has ice skates not roller skates (I made that mistake myself by buying one to get a spare set of rollerskates  :-[).
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Re: Rollerskates
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2013, 20:19:04 »
Quote from: GrahamB on November 03, 2013, 19:48:32
Oh yes, thanks Erik. Mind you that second one (series 3 Mystery figure) has ice skates not roller skates (I made that mistake myself by buying one to get a spare set of rollerskates  :-[).

Worse, they're MOLDED  >:(
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Re: Rollerskates
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2013, 01:16:21 »
They were probably thinking the blade by itself would just get lost or they would have to create a whole boot to go on (which would be a good idea but would lead to a whole new revolution in how the figures are made but would probably never be done because of all the lost shoes and boots that parents would be complaining about ...).
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Re: Rollerskates
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2013, 16:40:50 »
... and those early clip-on ice skates that look more like crampons just don't 'fit' with the more modern styling of klickies.

But there is a tendency with PM towards the BLP style of plastic toys, e.g. some parts of the more recent castles. BLP means 'big lump of plastic' by the way (my wife and I coined this phrase when we were looking at some of those Wendy/Play House creations you see in Toysaurus- they are essentially large hunks of plastic with little charm or detail- and that figure skater mystery figure is in the same vein- albeit a SLP (small lump of plastic)  ;) ).

Anyway, back to the rollerskates...
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Re: Rollerskates
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2013, 17:13:31 »
I've never seen that dark blue one before either. The dark blue ones from set 4415 look a lighter shade of blue anyway.

Maybe it's just your picture, but the dark blue one looks similar to the purple one. Maybe the colour is just a bit off and it's actually a purple one?
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Re: Rollerskates
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2013, 18:38:48 »
I think that is the simplest and most likely explanation, Birdie. I just wondered if anyone knew of an obscure set with dark blue roller skates!
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