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Offline tonguello

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Re: Museum of Not-Playmobil
« Reply #120 on: July 24, 2015, 14:50:47 »
It's SOOOOO vintage Playmobil that they are from BEFORE Geobra even existed.  :lol:
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Re: Museum of Not-Playmobil
« Reply #121 on: July 24, 2015, 15:40:52 »
Right! My bad   ;D
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Re: Museum of Not-Playmobil
« Reply #122 on: July 24, 2015, 20:26:59 »
:) maybe the past can turn out to be the future.
sometimes all that is needed is a little patent-war-pressure.
i guess that's why lego is going back to "natural" - http://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news-room/2015/june/sustainable-materials-centre
they started as a wood-toy company.
geobra started as a tin-toy company.
maybe aluminium will be the future of playmobil figures.
the technology is not that different - moulding and injection.
:hmm: coloring is an entire different subject though...
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Re: Museum of Not-Playmobil
« Reply #123 on: July 24, 2015, 21:02:40 »
On the subject of Not Playmobil, one of these is My Little Pony and one is Playmobil, but which is which?


When our local Macdonalds did a Happy Meal promotion a few years ago, the signs read

MY LITTLE PONY
Tasty, but bony.

Maybe I misremembered it?
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Re: Museum of Not-Playmobil
« Reply #124 on: July 25, 2015, 14:11:30 »
re: hairy horses: So Playmobil is now doing knockoffs of other companies' toy lines. We should start a new thread: Museum of Not-Not-Playmobil. And when the Chinese start doing knockoffs of PM knockoffs of MLP, then it will be time to produce the Baudrillard klicky.
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Re: Museum of Not-Playmobil
« Reply #125 on: July 25, 2015, 16:44:15 »
It is so funny to read/hear geobra so aggressively legally attack other companies for even remotely resembling playmo and yet they sure love copying so many. Could geobra be any more hypocritical ? Yes is the answer  :P

I will dig out a few knockoffs that even tricked me.
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Re: Museum of Not-Playmobil
« Reply #126 on: July 26, 2015, 22:22:52 »
brainstorming thread, 2nd and 3rd post.
http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=14677.0

"imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."  ;)
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Re: Museum of Not-Playmobil
« Reply #127 on: July 26, 2015, 23:39:02 »
I'd argue that PM/L*go is a separate beast. They are rivals from way back in the day. When they copy each other, it's to be expected.

PM copying MLP is weird and wrong.
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Re: Museum of Not-Playmobil
« Reply #128 on: July 27, 2015, 22:36:17 »
talking about beasts - play movil, somewhere form south america, with noses...
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Re: Museum of Not-Playmobil
« Reply #129 on: July 28, 2015, 02:15:43 »
OMG! I've never seen those before  :lol: :lol: :lol:
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