These are nice sets, with some interesting klickies, buildings, scenery and accessories. I would be very happy to be given them as presents (in case any of my family are reading this....
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Does anyone agree with me that showing the characters from the TV series
on the set boxes might be a bit of a mistake, because some of the PM versions hardly look like the on-screen versions at all? Heidi is OK, but the shopkeeper in 70257 is quite off (needs a PM double chin!), as is the lady in 70258 (needs a different hairstyle). IMO, of course.
The bendy arms and legs of the TV versions are an obvious difference, but the lack of variety in PM body shapes, head shapes and heights (all children are the same size, for example) means that some look little like their screen counterparts, IMO again.
This is a problem for all PM copies of licensed characters, of course. Children probably don't mind that the figures they play with are quite a lot different from the movie versions. This has certainly not limited Lego sales, it seems. If there are true-to-original versions produced by Mattel or whoever, my worry is that those will be preferred over the PM versions. Does PM have an exclusive license to market Heidi sets, or are there competitors?