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[Oliver]

I don't think so.... nice!  No idea about the game, it involves whacking balls with a hammer/mallet thing through those hoops, I think?  (seen in.... some cartoon.. Alice in Wonderland, maybe?)

Yes, it features in Alice in Wonderland. And yes, you have the jist of it. I've only played it once but I think you have to get them through in a certain order. I don't think we've had the mallet before either, but my knowledge is not encyclopaedic!

[tahra]

Yes, it features in Alice in Wonderland. And yes, you have the jist of it. I've only played it once but I think you have to get them through in a certain order. I don't think we've had the mallet before either, but my knowledge is not encyclopaedic!

Not THAT mallet - would never guess what the thing is if not in use... My (poor) memory is of a "normal" mallet... not a strange contraption.

[Oliver]

It is a peculiar object, I guess the fact that Playmobil don't have posable elbows makes it hard 

[Rasputin]

I think it would have been possible to make a proper croquet mallet, this one is more of an x large headed golf club

[GrahamB]

In Disney's Alice in Wonderland the mallets were flamingos, the balls were hedgehogs and the hoops were playing cards. I think those were in Lewis Carroll's original too. Makes for a much more interesting game than ordinary croquet (not to be confused with crotchet).

[Oliver]

Yes, they were lifted from the book. I think Disney was relatively faithful, except that he took elements from both books and amalgamated them.

[Macruran]

Makes for a much more interesting game than ordinary croquet (not to be confused with crotchet).

Or with croquette. 

[Hadoque]

The 'WWII Bomb' will go well with the 'Novelmore-Steampunkish-Zeppelinesk-Intercontinental-Stealth-Bomber'.

[StJohn]

American kids won't understand the set at all, we have no ongoing problem with unexploded munitions from past wars...

A very common experience for German kids, though. The bomb defusers provide essential services, as is demonstrated on occasion: Sometimes the incendiaries don't get noticed, like today in my city, where building works set off a 250 kg American bomb, luckily still buried 2 or 3 meters underground. Yet the blast almost tore off the leg of a construction worker. More info in the Sueddeutsche

[Macruran]

A very common experience for German kids, though. The bomb defusers provide essential services, as is demonstrated on occasion: Sometimes the incendiaries don't get noticed, like today in my city, where building works set off a 250 kg American bomb, luckily still buried 2 or 3 meters underground. Yet the blast almost tore off the leg of a construction worker. More info in the Sueddeutsche

  Sorry about that!