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Re: How many set numbers are left?
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2015, 03:39:12 »
Henceforward I shall be referring to it as the

PLAYMOCALYPSE

or the

Brandstätterdämmerung
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Re: How many set numbers are left?
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2015, 06:36:42 »
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Re: How many set numbers are left?
« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2015, 10:51:48 »
Hmmm or maybe they just switch to 6 digits like Lego did? ;-)

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Re: How many set numbers are left?
« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2015, 14:20:16 »
Plenty of numbers left and plenty of new sets too !!!!  :love:
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Re: How many set numbers are left?
« Reply #14 on: February 02, 2024, 03:58:39 »
I feel as though my prediction of the Brandstätterdämmerung may have been a jinx, as the decline began around the time they switched to five digit numbers  :'( I am so sorry everyone  :skull: :whip:
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Re: How many set numbers are left?
« Reply #15 on: February 02, 2024, 11:30:44 »
Five digit numbers always introduce problems because the maximum length of number the human brain can easily handle is 4 digits.  For 27 years I worked for an organisation where school premises had a three digit number and I can still remember a lot of these more or less automatically, for example, I might driving through a town and see a road name and automatically think "Ah, centre 379, so-and-so school is down there".  But when we switched to five digit ones, no way, even where three of the digits might be unchanged.
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Re: How many set numbers are left?
« Reply #16 on: February 02, 2024, 19:56:54 »
I feel as though my prediction of the Brandstätterdämmerung may have been a jinx, as the decline began around the time they switched to five digit numbers  :'( I am so sorry everyone  :skull: :whip:

Yes re-reading this thread was a bit sad  :'(

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Re: How many set numbers are left?
« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2024, 20:11:54 »
It's exactly 50 years ago today that Geobra Brandstätter introduced Playmobil at the Spielwarenmesse in Nürnberg. How are talking about its downfall right now?  :sorrow:

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Re: How many set numbers are left?
« Reply #18 on: February 03, 2024, 03:03:37 »
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Re: How many set numbers are left?
« Reply #19 on: February 03, 2024, 09:38:07 »
The birthday video is gorgeous. I was impressed :love:

Link on THAT site: https://www.facebook.com/playmobil/videos/366936942756187/