Dim memories of sets we had as children

[Macruran]

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

It actually isn't - I was looking up the origin of the concept nostalgia recently and it was something quite different at the beginning - it was a malady Swiss people got, with actual physical symptoms.

[Ismene]

It actually isn't - I was looking up the origin of the concept nostalgia recently and it was something quite different at the beginning - it was a malady Swiss people got, with actual physical symptoms.

Just Swiss people? 

[Macruran]

Just Swiss people? 

Yes.

The term was coined in 1688 by Johannes Hofer (1669–1752) in his Basel dissertation. Hofer introduced nostalgia or mal du pays "homesickness" for the condition also known as mal du Suisse "Swiss illness" or Schweizerheimweh "Swiss homesickness," because of its frequent occurrence in Swiss mercenaries who in the plains of lowlands of France or Italy were pining for their native mountain landscapes. Symptoms were also thought to include fainting, high fever, indigestion, stomach pain, and death. Military physicians hypothesized that the malady was due to damage to the victims' brain cells and ear drums by the constant clanging of cowbells in the pastures of Switzerland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia#As_a_medical_condition

[Ismene]

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia#As_a_medical_condition

So the cows did it? 
I'm pretty sure battlefield noises, even in the 17th century, would be more likely to damage ear drums and brain cells than cowbells. But let's blame the cows.

[Macruran]

I sense the possibility of a diorama - or even a photo contest theme.

[Redmao]

My first Playmobil figure was the Indian that was available at McDonald's in the early 80's.
The Esso gas stations had promo sets in about 1984 which were several bagged figures of red and gray Esso employees, an orange motorcycle and a lady on a bicycle and there was a huge set of a Esso gas station with a yellow car, a green jeep and a few figures. I got the whole line and they constituted my only childhood Playmobil toys as they were not widely available where I lived.

[Macruran]

I've just remembered that I had a covered wagon.