Author Topic: Hello from Frankfurt !  (Read 2209 times)

Offline MikeW

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Hello from Frankfurt !
« on: June 18, 2013, 08:46:50 »
Hello everyone,

My name is Mike, and I'm English but living near Frankfurt, Germany ! To cut a long story short, my first son is now 33 years old, so we were heavily in Playmobil in the early 1980's. Since then he has grown up, and life moved on......until a couple of years ago when, to our surprise, my partner became pregnant. We now have a lively son who is 30 months.
For many years I had a simple LGB Xmas Train that just ran around the Xmas tree. It has the Playmobil Santa with the four reindeer, plus a few other Playmobil figues. Last year I added a little bit more so that my son, who was just two at the time, could control the train. I also added a stop/go red/green light.
However, for this coming Xmas I've decided to 'go big'. I'll still have the train, but I want to create a sort of, 'Alte Stadt' (Old City) Xmas Market, using half-timbered buildings in the shadow of an old castle. It is meant to be modern, but based in an old part of the city....and of course, based on Playmobil stuff.
This has led me to become pretty active on E-Bay :-)

So without further ado, I'll start to join-in on some of the threads if you don't mind :-)
Love a lot, trust a few, and always paddle your own canoe.

Offline Ismene

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Re: Hello from Frankfurt !
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2013, 09:07:01 »
Welcome to the group!

Offline mike1003

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Re: Hello from Frankfurt !
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2013, 09:26:56 »
welcome..

Offline Georgeag1972

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Re: Hello from Frankfurt !
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2013, 09:36:50 »
Hello and welcomr from Greece. :wave:
Wish you a lot of fun here with us!! :)

George.
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Offline tahra

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Re: Hello from Frankfurt !
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2013, 10:04:21 »
Welcome from Portugal! :)

Offline Birdie

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Re: Hello from Frankfurt !
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2013, 11:19:54 »
Hi MikeW, looking forward to the Alte Stadt you're describing, sounds like a very cool project.
And living in Germany, you're close to the source anyway  :)

Welcome from Antwerp, Belgium!

Offline basilsdad

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Re: Hello from Frankfurt !
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2013, 11:41:42 »
 :wave: A warm welcome from Pennsylvania. 
Joe
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Offline zugpferdchen

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Re: Hello from Frankfurt !
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2013, 20:02:22 »
Hi,

welcome from Germany/Oberursel near Frankfurt!
(I am also interested in trains)

You have an E-Mail...

Daniel

Offline Kate

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Re: Hello from Frankfurt !
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2013, 22:26:15 »
Welcome! :wave:

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Re: Hello from Frankfurt !
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2013, 23:19:28 »
Welcome from Canada!  :wave:

That's amazing that you'll be playing with Playmo with your kids three decades apart!  ;D