I like them too. (Although I still have only one
but I intend to have a few more, at least three (or four) more ...)
They're great for story-telling. You need double way lighting. I've made some tests (an unpublished story ... secondary characters
), it's been great result. (I need to work more double lighting ...
I admit I haven't played with them as a child, though. We didn't have castles in Brasil, then, only in dioramas of boxes of pirate ships, and we wondered (my cousin and I) where would those lovely houses and castles be, once they weren't sold in Brasil. By then, it was very distant from our reallity, once there was no internet. (Nowadays, you know whatever you need about most everything, through the internet ... And can even get a few
)
And they are really pretty. Playmobil never produced any sort of building as beautiful as steck system houses and castles, to me