Share the Smile?

[Birdie]

Well if Antwerp or Brussels are involved, I'll try to get you one in every colour, I promise 

If they are gifts, to be handed out, I think they'd be reluctant to put them in the Special PCC Sale and charge money for them afterwards.

You know what I think is extremely weird? On Facebook there's a contest by Playmobil to win giant clickies, you know, the ones that are impossible for the company to sell to collectors, because they're not up to proper safety standards.
Did I miss something?

[tahra]

Well if Antwerp or Brussels are involved, I'll try to get you one in every colour, I promise 

Thank you.

If they are gifts, to be handed out, I think they'd be reluctant to put them in the Special PCC Sale and charge money for them afterwards.

Repeat - (most of) the only people who are interested don't have access to him. Who else would be interested in a plain old klicky with a tag?

You know what I think is extremely weird? On Facebook there's a contest by Playmobil to win giant clickies, you know, the ones that are impossible for the company to sell to collectors, because they're not up to proper safety standards.
Did I miss something?

I think we all did.

I mostly quit TRYING to understand them.  Better not to waste my poor old braincell on it. It's beyond understanding.

[Birdie]

So the PCC says the cities are Berlin, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, Athens, Princeton (USA), Mexico City.

No Belgian location, alas. 

[tonguello]

well I didn't expect Buenos Aires to be in the list, but what about LONDON? Nowhere in the UK? 
No NYC either but the statue of Liberty is shown in the ilustration....
No offence, but Princeton and Warsaw?  what the heck? are there PM factories near these cities?

some are wondering if there'll be a second round of cities though, later in the year....
If not, it's a bit funny how the company loosly decided to use the term ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 

Bitter much? yep! 

[Baron Marshall]

Very disappointed that I was right.... perhaps they will update the ds figure pack to be a set of these giveaways? I doubt it but I sure hope these will be available... even though I'm technically  close enough to one of the cities, I can't drive three hours to Princeton on Saturday to go see about it either... I have three kids and we do have lives outside of playmobil.. maybe if they had given us a month's notice... but not three days notice.... grrr

[bonniebeth]

No offence, but Princeton and Warsaw?  what the heck? are there PM factories near these cities?

Yeah... I had to look up Princeton to even see where that is. There are 24 towns by the name of Princeton in the US, but I'm assuming they mean the one in New Jersey. There are very few US cities you can refer to without specifying which state, and Princeton isn't one of them unless perhaps you are from the immediate area. I think Mexico City is actually closer for me.

[tahra]

So the PCC says the cities are Berlin, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, Athens, Princeton (USA), Mexico City.

So few.

well I didn't expect Buenos Aires to be in the list, but what about LONDON? Nowhere in the UK? 

Same here.

Oh well. Suppose we will have to hunt them on ebay later...

[PlaymoMan]

I believe the US distribution centre for Playmobil is located near Princeton, although still, that's an odd decision. It is indeed baffling as to why cities such as London and New York were left out. Even Toronto, although that's just some wishful thinking on my part. Oh well, no chance that I'll be able to attend any of the events.

[Pippa]

I'm not sure what the point of this even is...why such a big build up for an event that for so few.  It just seems such a misguided waste of effort (and klickies) on their part.  Not really sure what handing out basic klicky's to random people who happen to be in the mystery places in those 8 cities at starting at some mystery tim on Saturday will accomplish. 

Princeton, NJ?

I'm actually going to be in Philadelphia that afternoon which is only an hour away but probably not until mid-to-late afternoon.  Plus we are already driving from Washington DC to a Strasburg, PA and then to Philadelphia.  I don't think I can convice DH that we should then drive to NJ.

[Rasputin]

Oh boy, the collectors who went sure had a few things to say to the pcc. Looks like the event was "share the frown"

My suggestion to the pcc was that if geobra truly wanted to share the smile all over the globe they could have deputized their most loyal fan base ,who happen to be in every major city, and had them "share the smile" similar to "random acts of kindness" that radio shows do.

Lots of PR hype and no pudding.

It was a great idea, all they need is to learn how to deliver.