Hello I am from Portugal. I am not a collector but I always find amazing Playmobils . I buy the first one to my son in 88 when he was almost 3 years old. The next years I buy many boxes as he play a lot.
Now I am organizing the boxes, and so many memories came back, some boxes have strong memories. But my function with playmobils was always organize, not play ;-). Some boxes it was me that have to follow the instructions, as my son was too young and my husband wasn't his style, I think as I was a lover of Lego when I was little in someways playmobil is a little like Lego.
I only have old playmobils, I don't buy neither I sell, one day who knows when my son has children, they will love to play with them :-)
I have learned so much about playmobils in the last weeks.
Now I wash the parts, clean the boxes, make the inventory of each box and close again!