Too many dragons
yes ...
I still only have the old model, which I quite like! I'll eventually try to get another one. Maybe green. (I have the red one.)
The blue steck house isn't so old as that, but indeed, it seems to have been around for a short while. (I got one, fortunately
... It's the only one I have, up till now ... I still intend to get a few others, but it'll have to wait.)
I like Martin's idea of goblins, orcs and trolls, but it's at the same time a little scary ... Maybe they'll put the klicky away!!!
And I don't think all this has to do with the recent passing of Hans Beck. It's too recent, don't you think? Besides, some symptoms of this way of making the business were already there for a while.
I agree with Rasputin, and I believe he knows what he's talking about, when he says that the new videogame generation may have been the main source of the market researches for Playmobil, it looks like so ... and geobra B. always seems to have thought on kids. And to make the minds of the kids (i.e. give them what some -- like me -- think they need) is probably more difficult than to give what they want.
"Educational toys" don't make the industry much of a living, they must think ... So, give 'em entertaining toys, based on games and a little in the movies (Pirates of the Caribbean, Eragon(s) &c. ...)
I can't say I miss the eighties ... I was too young in the eighties to tell. And now, I can buy through the internet. I only hope I'll still wish to buy
...
Hm ... (Gloomy subject
)
Merry Christmas!
Gustavo
