Is there a "Guide to the Kingdoms and Clans of Playmobil" of sorts?

[sbblabotw]

For a quick overview of devices, see my "Shields" category:

PlaymoDB Part Categories - Tool (Shield)

I know it's not near all of them, but it's a start.  I'd love to contribute to a wiki, grouping things that don't fit within my cataloguing scheme, and linking back and forth.
edit: fixed link RS

[Timotheos]

PlaymoDB is pretty amazing

[core]

Thank you all for the input!  Obviously my intention is not to limit how Playmobil should be played; fwiw this topic came about with my 2 kids - 4.5yr old just loves to mix and match clickys to create his own custom knights (complete with sunglasses from the cops ) - whereas +7yr old brother is sort of in the stage of having to categorize the knights into clans.  You can imagine the never-ending arguments 

At any rate, when I find a little more time I'll come up with a rough draft of something
For starters, I'll take the Black Lions (since we're on a castle building spree for them) - their different troops (regular, 'elite', leaders, catapult crew, etc), heraldry, sets/castle in which they appear, their (apparent) allies and axis, their typical weapons and armour.

As for the 'original' knights (chrome, orange), let's say we can consider this the early period between warring clans (akin to early Chinese history before Emperor Qin) and before united kingdoms (and to go along the same analogy, the 3 kingdoms era)?

Ant the story telling aspect? I'll leave that to someone with much better skills than I have; and the kids

-peter-

[Martin Milner]

As for the 'original' knights (chrome, orange), let's say we can consider this the early period between warring clans (akin to early Chinese history before Emperor Qin) and before united kingdoms (and to go along the same analogy, the 3 kingdoms era)?

I had the original set of 5 knights (crome bodies with white, red, blue, green or orange limbs) when I was a kid. I always thought of them as more like the Knights of the Round Table - all on the same side, but differentiated by their colours. Of course I only hadd one of each figure...

[Timotheos]

I had the original set of 5 knights (crome bodies with white, red, blue, green or orange limbs) when I was a kid. I always thought of them as more like the Knights of the Round Table - all on the same side, but differentiated by their colours. Of course I only hadd one of each figure...

I was in the same situation.  I considered those knights "knights of the round table."  The blue armed guy was my king arthur, the white limb was Lancelot (I actually still have all of them in the basement, but the chrome helmets have tarnished to a creamy color). 

When the breastplates and movable visors came out with that jousting set, I thought that was the greatest.  Those earlier knights were so simple that even as a kid I think remember thinking them to be simple (though I liked them).

Or maybe my standards were just higher when I was a kid.