I didn't really start collecting catalogues until about June last year and I'm only interesred in UK ones and of course they have to be in good condition. UK catalogues do turn up on UK Ebay regulary but mainly those from the later 90's It's mainly catalogues from the 80's that I'm still searching for.
The years that I have so far are, 81/82? ( not confirmed yet), 1985, 1990,1991,1992, 1995,1999 (25 year),1999, then they go from 01/02 up to now 2008.
I do have others 1998, 2000 and 2001 but they are well used and falling apart and I want to replace them.
It's difficult to state what years I am interested in until I have all of the catalogues which will then give me the full History of Playmobil releases to the UK.
As we all know what ever sets are released in Germany we usually get the following year here in the UK, apart from the odd limited items such as the eggs. This has not always been the case, comparing my 1985 catalogue with the same years releases in the Playmobil collector we actually got a lot of the sets at the same time, so when did we become a year behind?
Going back to the eggs, for those of us that have the 2nd edition of the playmobil collector you will all see on page 299 that the eggs released in 2000 number 3060 are shown as an exclusive to BNL.
The odd thing is that in my 1999 25 year catalogue those same eggs are shown as being available to the UK market one year earlier?
I'm also interested in DS sets and would like to find out when DS was 1st available to the UK market and I'm sure when I get either 1993's or 1994's catalogue this question will be answered.
Once I have all of the catalogues I will be able to do an accurate archive of Uk releases by each year Similar to the archive on Playmobil.de.
