Expositie: Playmobil 40 Jaar speelplezier / Playmobil 40 Years of fun play

[PlayMoto]

Well, we were pretty surprised to find this exposition in a Dutch Museum in one of our old cities called Hoorn.
In the local former jail on the "Noordereiland" you can find a very interesting museum called: The Museum of the 20th century. (Museum van de 20e eeuw)

They have a temporary exposition called Playmobil 40 Jaar speelplezier / Playmobil 40 Years of fun play, which they organised with help from Playmobil/Geobra and some collectors from NL, DE, B and LUX. Johhny, Elise, Brubil etc. etc. All very well known names and some of them also have dio's in the original German exposition. I found it strange there is no info whatsoever about this on the PCC website or PM sites. Strange. 

The expo runs from 3 april 2015 untill 3 januari 2016. So lot's of time to visit 
Sadly enough the klicky machine and moulding machine weren't there yesterday, but they should be there from the 8th of April (according to the signs).

Here's a small impression of our visit yesterday:



   














For the rest, well you will have to visit the museum yourselves! It's nice and surely worth it.
This expo is only a part of the museum, we spent about 4 hours there. The PM expo is not to big and there are several area's for the children to play with the playmo's. The shop is packed with lot's of PM for very reasonable prices aswell. They were even selling the Nachtwacht set here.

Prices in the restaurant are also very very nice. Parking is also very cheap nearby, but be carefull: There is NO parking space near the Museum itself. You will have to park on the "visserseiland" and then it's nice 5minute walk to the museum.

[Birdie]

Thanks for the info, Martin. 

[tahra]

That looks great! Thanks for sharing

[Tiermann]

Thanks for the photos Martin. I knew off Facebook from Brubil that there was a show there but didn't realize it was set to run so long. That is Brubil's Noah's Ark display, a version of which was at the Funpark in Zirndorf a couple of years ago. I wonder if the molding machine will be making the glow in the dark mice? I also wonder about what the machine at the new exhibit at Koblenz is making? Hopefully not new animal variations I will have to track down.

[hauden_lukas]

What a gorgeous ship! Who made it? Are there more pictures? 

The rest also looks like a very fun exhibition!!

[Tiermann]

The ship is the Santinisma Trinidad. Leo Vermeulen posted photos of it on Facebook in the Playmobil Fanbase group. I assume it is by him

[hauden_lukas]

The ship is the Santinisma Trinidad. Leo Vermeulen posted photos of it on Facebook in the Playmobil Fanbase group. I assume it is by him

Thanks, Tim!

The entire ship looks a bit awkward in shape... I prefer the zoomed in pictures. However, a nice piece of work!

[sunflower]

Thanks for sharing. This same museum had the Playmobil exposition in 2007. I really liked the museum. Brings back a lot of memories seeing all this stuff someone you know used to have!
Looking forward to visiting this one too.

You took nice pictures!

[Hadoque]

Thanks, Tim!

The entire ship looks a bit awkward in shape... I prefer the zoomed in pictures. However, a nice piece of work!

The ship is indeed the Spanish late 18th-century (launched in 1769, last action during the "Battle of Trafalgar in 1805) first-of-the-line "Santisima Trinidad" made by Dutch playmo-customizer "Playmoleo", who also built the "Redoutable".
His Playmo-version of the biggest warship of that era will be at display at the museum till 3 January. If things go as planned/agreed sofar, thereafter she will be transferred to another "homeport" .

Here a few pics of the ship under construction, which I took when visiting Leo during the summer of 2015.

[Hadoque]

Leo also built on request of the museum´s director a beautiful playmobil-replica of the (much smaller sized) Dutch 16th-century reconaissance-vessel "Halve Maen", which took part in the "Slag om de Zuiderzee" (Battle of the South-sea) in 1573, in which the Dutch defeated the Spanish fleet.