First Half 2014

[Jay]

A few people mention Mystery Series 7.  Where is the info on MS 6?  I haven't seen anything on that .

[Tiermann]

Fi?ures 6 and 7 are both in the new catalog.

6 has a Highlander figure with an over shoulder kilt that is great. Also Roman gladiator, cowboy, baywatch dude, spy, Aladdin type, green alien, pirate captain (fat again), karate guy, construction with jackhammer, surfing santa, and guy in red plaid pajamas. Girls are princess big skirt, lady cop, Australian woman in ranger outfit with koala, princess long dress, Chinese opera singer (?), hiker, rhythmic gymnast, fairy with tutu, another princess big skirt, Cleopatra, green witch (cool helmet with horns), shopper or party girl.

7 has prince, chef, clown with rings, SCUBA diver, skateboarder, Roman, fencer, spaceman (darkster type), gangster, Robin Hood, camera man, Neptune only no fish tail. Girls are princess big gold dress, cowgirl, snake handler with boa constrictor in metallic green, ice cream shop worker, runner black ipod, woman in short skirt and high heels, fairy in mauve and gold, nun with old milkmaid type hat, India princess, hipster woman, dressage rider, miner

In both cases there are some pretty good female figures and only one or two interesting male ones. I think they have run out of steam on the boy side. I think some of that is because historically they have done tons of boys and few females so they have more ground to cover with the female figures.

[tahra]

It would help if they were a bit more original. Take the romans... at least DIFFERENT COLORS.

(And I STILL can't believe the lost fishtail )

[Rasputin]

I kind of like the kids playhouse. It makes me think of maybe a fire safety day activity at school, like maybe the kids are just pretending to put out a fire or something. I think that would be fun for kids in real life, so it's kind of cool.

And I like the gold transport and SWAT vehicles. Chris is dying to get them, for sure. In fact he had already made a custom SWAT vehicle and was thinking about doing an armored car, so it saves him some trouble.

maybe it could be added to the carnival as a sort of game.

We really like the swat vehicle and as tahar also experienced once we saw the spy team one we (kids and I) wanted more uses for it. This new one we will want many to go with the other US black SUV swat truck. All there needs to be is a ramming vehicle where the front end is tank like.

I wish that tank had been leaked before I got the Top Agents one.. The first time we saw it we thought it'd make a great carrier.. and NOW they made one.

We were wondering when we got the spy one what it would take to cut it up. This is much better. I still do not like the fish tank on the spy one but the kids find it playful. They put all the translucent red crystals in it for color effects.

It would help if they were a bit more original. Take the romans... at least DIFFERENT COLORS.

(And I STILL can't believe the lost fishtail )

That is what I would also like to see. Some, quite a few of 6 and 7 look like actual specials

[Rasputin]

I hope it will be fairly easy to put say 3 or 4 of the 5553 carnival swings in a row. Have the twisting rods all connect, then add a motor on one end and have it automated.

I bet the gold in the armored car is the new plastic ones. I really liked the metal ones. At least the plastic ones could be solid so they were heavy.

The RC boat motor separately will be very useful

At train shows we want to get away from the western we have been doing and have a modern layout. then we can use the RC cars and trucks. Some of them would have the cameras so the RC police car that fits the camera will be used a lot. Then a pool for RC boats. It would be an interactive playmobil diorama with grand theft auto high speed pursuit action. One could get away by driving onto the RC car carrying boat.

[Rhalius]

for figures I am not too concerned about originality, more about useability.  I'd gues originality is fun for collecting them, but personly I just want those that fit my themes.

[Rasputin]

for figures I am not too concerned about originality, more about useability.  I'd gues originality is fun for collecting them, but personly I just want those that fit my themes.

For us its about being about to add more klickies to our larger collections and to avoid constant repetition. If we get 10 clowns we run out of options in changing them up for play (we have 3 kids who each want a unique one) or a diorama. Now if years later a new clown comes out if it had different prints or colors we can run the same cycle ending  up with 20 or more semi different clowns. If the figure one is identical to the old one then we have no more new options of variety, same goes for the romans, chefs, etc......

I just noticed the handsome klicky in set 5359, then I kicked his image to the curb when I saw the opening present boxes  Must have many of those, at least 2 dozen, as long as they are plastic and not paper. Please make more of those in lots of colors, deep colors

[Ismene]

I do want the Nun looking girl many times. It is so frustrating not being able to get enough of the ones I want duplicates of. Something really special the pcc could do is let collectors buy them identified .

Yeah, I would like a bunch of nuns as well, but I doubt that is going to happen.

[Jay]

Thanks for the run down on the myster figures. I can't wait to see the Highlanders.  I guess some of them might be neat, and a lot of them sound boring.  Is the nun like the special they had 4 or 5 years ago?

[Hadoque]

6 has ... , pirate captain (fat again),...

Slight correction: Not fat, but peglegged again. 

He comes with a darkblue longcoat though, so IF the colourshade matches that of existing soldiers (  ) it will save me work on painting such coats for my British and French naval officers.

Rest of this figure is mostly recycling:
A beardtype like the ones introduced with the prehistoric figures,  the same red hairpiece-replacing-hatsuitable bandana as the rapper with sunglasses and microphone in one of the previous figures-series, the torso is the same as the one from the Britisch officer (with "Mozart-wig") in the Redcoats' Bastion 5139,  and the black pants with pegleg are the same as the ones from the Pirate Captain in sets 3133, 3174, 3369, 3619 and 3936.