Crazy prices!

[sbblabotw]

anyway, sprues... 4296 has (according to the instructions - there's often spares thrown in)

6 light blue
9 white
6 red
... regular flowers. No multiples of 8. So a sprue of 8 whites, tahra, and a loose one? For what it's worth, the official spare-parts list for 4296 never included "30 51" parts for flowers, but it did for a pack of 32 red system-X plugs. It's all very mysterious.

[tahra]

anyway, sprues... 4296 has (according to the instructions - there's often spares thrown in)

6 light blue
9 white
6 red
... regular flowers. No multiples of 8. So a sprue of 8 whites, tahra, and a loose one? For what it's worth, the official spare-parts list for 4296 never included "30 51" parts for flowers, but it did for a pack of 32 red system-X plugs. It's all very mysterious.

No, I am quite sure there were more than one sprue on each of them (I opened two).

The roses and the light blue common ones were in tiny bags, no sprues. The white common ones were in sprues.

Guess I should have taken detailed pics of the contents    It's just I really dislike taking pics.. and it took long enough as is... 

[sbblabotw]

Minor, Tahra, don't worry about it. Very very detailed part-tracking we're getting into here. I open new sets so rarely (tiny tiny budget) that I can usually do this kind of unboxing for the record -  unless it's Christmas, at which time I'm lucky to end up with all the parts it came with!

[GrahamB]

..  unless it's Christmas, at which time I'm lucky to end up with all the parts it came with!

 

In our family, Dad supervises the opening of new Playmobil boxes... and the application of all stickers. Controlling? Moi?

[Ismene]

In our family, Dad supervises the opening of new Playmobil boxes... and the application of all stickers. Controlling? Moi?

   I'm a bit like that too. Official Playmo-assembler of the family.

[GrahamB]

Well, most of the New PM sets we buy are for the children, but PM is not a cheap toy, so it needs treating properly, bits kept safe, stickers applied carefully, that sort of thing! (I was not lucky enough to have PM as a child, but I always looked after my toys carefully, a habit I try to pass on to my children).

But mainly, I just want to be first to get my hands on the new PM

Mind you, I get to do ALL the sticker applications, even for  non-PM toys. And yes I even have to do Lego stickers too

[Macruran]

Stickers are a big deal. PM stickers are supersticky so you have to do them JUST right. I understand the need to control that.

Let's have no more talk of L*go stickers though.

[GrahamB]

Sorry, d*cals