What about the Snow White and the Hansel and Gretel PM sets? Did those hamper a child's creativity?
What about the Santa and elve blister pack? Is there any other use for a Santa and an elve, apart from the obvious
I'm not crazy about any of those.
I'm against licensing. Think about it.... it wouldn't be a one-time novelty, and we'd still keep getting all our unlicensed stuff, too. If they did licensed star wars or star trek, we'd most likely never have a regular, unlicensed space theme again. Have a pirates of the carribean theme, and we can forget just having generic pirates to make our own creative customs with. I think it would be the end of playmobil as we know it.