This is a review of all the fairy figures issued by Playmobil up to the current time. I found 126 of them. I haven’t included the Winter Fairies Duopack 9447 released on March 1st this year (2 fairies) and there will be another fairy in Fi?ures Series 14 available from August this year, There are probably a few others I have missed!
Other people have done great photo-stories with fairies (
here and
here) and reviews of fairy sets (
here). So here I want to show the complete range of fairy klickies which have graced the Playmobil world to date.
The first fairies appeared in 1995 in sets 3836 and 4520, but these had no wings. The first wings appeared two years later in set 4537. There has been a great variety of adult female fairies with various skirt/leg combinations and different wings (more details below).
Child fairies first appeared in 2007. Most have a ‘flip hem’ top or a ‘standard’ top and tutu or mini-skirt. Most have medium-length shorts and a couple have curly-toed footwear. Many child fairies have lovely hats shaped like flowers or fruits.
Male fairies appeared in 2017. Super4 fairies and fairy babies are also recent additions to the PM fairy world.
Fairy figures are found in several themes, apart from the obvious one (Fairy World). The following list shows the number of fairies in each theme:
Christmas 6 (advent calendars 4158 and 5492)
Easter Eggs 7
Fairy Tales 6
Fairy World 77
Fi?ures 12 (every series except for 3 and 11; two in series 10)
Gift series 3
Magic 5
Promotional 2
Quick 6
Special 8
Super 4 4 (1 as a ‘Quick’ give-away)
Other 3 (exhibition give-away, girls’ magazine no.9, Toy shop bag)
Total 139
I have included any fairies I could find which were of more ‘limited release’, such as a Playmobil Magazine figure, seven Quick restaurant figures, a couple of give-aways and a toy shop single figure bag 30797543.
In the pictures, I have shown the front and back of each fairy figure and included accessories such as cloaks, bracelets and headgear which were in the original set. Sometimes I have included a wand or other accessory, but I have not attempted to show the whole contents of the set from which each figure came.
Each picture has the number of the set from which it came. Eight figures came in more than one set. Some fairies are based on the same figure as others, but with different wings. Most fairy figures have a known part number (e.g.30 14 1050) but I have not included these- they can be found by looking up the set on PlaymoDB.
I have put the pictures in groups depending on the wing and leg/skirt types.
The wings are attached to the fairy in two ways.
1. A wing holder or collar which fits over the shoulders, with two pins on the back to which a pair of wings fit. Adults have either ‘standard’ (rounded) or ‘long’ wings. Child fairies have smaller wings and a short wing holder, or a longer one which clips onto the lower edge of the torso. Some child fairies have longer, dragonfly-like wings. Super4 fairies have the pins for the wings on their torso.
2. Plug-in wings; one piece with a System-X style ‘plug’ that fits into a hole in the back of a fairy’s torso. These will only fit if the hole is present. There are four types of plug-in wings which I have called lobed, butterfly, pointed and dragonfly.
Adult female fairies have eight different skirt/leg styles:
1. Two types of standard long skirts (most have a recessed centre panel, some lack this)
2. long skirts with asymmetric hemline (raised on the left) and pleated fishtail (unable to sit)
3. long skirts with asymmetric hemline (raised on the left), no fishtail
4. long skirts with asymmetric hemline (raised on the right), plain fishtail
5. flared long skirts (unable to sit)
6. midi skirts with a zig-zag hem (unable to sit)
7. trousers and boots
8. ‘speedo’ legs with either a tutu or mini-skirt.
