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Re: three spears/staves - are they playmo and if so which sets?
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2014, 03:34:17 »
All three fit snugly in ckliky hands?

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Re: three spears/staves - are they playmo and if so which sets?
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2014, 03:39:40 »
Yes, and all three came mixed in with random ebay purchases of playmo stuff.
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Re: three spears/staves - are they playmo and if so which sets?
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2014, 05:39:02 »
The middle one reminds me of the very first spears, from the native American sets (Indians as we called them then). I thought they were a lighter shade of brown though.
The one on the left is so short it might be lego.
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Re: three spears/staves - are they playmo and if so which sets?
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2014, 05:41:59 »
Yeah the silver one does look pretty l*go doesn't it.
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Re: three spears/staves - are they playmo and if so which sets?
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2014, 07:32:48 »
Is it important that they are Playmobil, or is the fact that they will fit, as cheng puts it, "snugly in klicky hands" the important thing?
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Re: three spears/staves - are they playmo and if so which sets?
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2014, 08:05:33 »
My gues is that the middle one is indeed the early indian spear, but dyed black.

The shape is just exactly that, its without a doubt playmobil.

The left one is too thick to be lego, their hands would break when trying to hold it. Maybe its from a playmobil harpoon gun or such? the quality of the toy does look beter than the average stuff so it could be playmobil.

The right one.. perhaps its missing something that should have been on top? Maybe its a carrying standard or such? Looks too blunt for a spear. Not sure if its playmobil though, but it could be.

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Re: three spears/staves - are they playmo and if so which sets?
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2014, 09:25:40 »
 You guys are the real masters of playmo...the characteristics u mentioned are educational to lesser masters like me...even if the correct answers might never be confirmed :love:

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Re: three spears/staves - are they playmo and if so which sets?
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2014, 09:39:37 »
I think the middle one is indeed an ancient indian spear... The right one is from the polar sets. The left one, somehow does not look playmobil to me... Reminds me of Airgam...

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Re: three spears/staves - are they playmo and if so which sets?
« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2014, 09:41:50 »
The right hand one is from Eskimo set 3465 or 3466
http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/klicky.pl?partnum=30-60-6080

The middle one looks like an early Indian spear, though considerably darker, as Cowabounga said.

I don't know about the short silver-grey one.

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