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Offline matchboxluc

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Re: Violent Playmobil.
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2005, 18:37:33 »
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Re: Violent Playmobil.
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2005, 18:38:15 »
US cavallery...
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Re: Violent Playmobil.
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2005, 18:38:48 »
and western.
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Re: Violent Playmobil.
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2005, 18:40:10 »
aw, they only put the blood in the hospital pictures

and how come there are no pirates??? >:(
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Re: Violent Playmobil.
« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2005, 18:46:56 »
Quote from: Meg on November 21, 2005, 18:40:10
and how come there are no pirates??? >:(
My guess is that the pirate theme didn't exist yet when this card game was released; these are cards from around 1976. Pirates first appeared in 1978...
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Re: Violent Playmobil.
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2005, 19:22:41 »
I love the old dioramas on old boxes as well. And in old catalogs. They are real pictures of real klickies. The modern photos are more animated and worked on in a computer. They don't "feel" so good. A old photo of a good old diorama can get you really exited  8}, the new pictures do not.  :(

The cards are cool, I fancy the bloody hospital cards. Guess kids have to learn about the brutal world  :-\
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Re: Violent Playmobil.
« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2005, 19:37:32 »
Playmobil's policy is not to show extreme or unusual violence I believe, and I think they manage to follow it pretty closely when you see some of the stuff put out for children today or which children have access to.
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Re: Violent Playmobil.
« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2005, 08:43:22 »
I completely agree with playmofire.

I especially think, that this policy became more and more important within the years.
So, one shouldn't forget that playmo started in the middle of the 70ties. So in Germany
a lot of things were pretty relaxed.

Thinking of pirates and cavellery and knights, these are topics that were pretty much
not an issue... Parents in the first place were happy when the kids got fresh air in the
backyard while playing blood-thirsty pirates and indians...

I still think that especially the game of man on man, let it be indians or knights, is an
important issue for little boys to get kind of a feeling of what is fair play and honor code.
And, hey, isn't there a pirates codex somewhere... ?  ;)

Oh, by the way, as far as I know, Playmobil ran into their first scandal when having an
advert where a construction worker fell from the scaffold on which he was drinking beer.
Some people then raised the question, why there has to be a box of beer in a construction
workers set...   ::)
Hmm... Okay, just realized there where actually 3 boxes of beer in the set...
http://www.collectobil.com/catalogue/items/3400.htm
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Re: Violent Playmobil.
« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2005, 15:34:18 »
Quote from: socrates on November 22, 2005, 08:43:22
Hmm... Okay, just realized there where actually 3 boxes of beer in the set...

 :lol: I love Playmobil  :lol:
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Re: Violent Playmobil.
« Reply #19 on: November 22, 2005, 16:59:57 »
Quote from: socrates on November 22, 2005, 08:43:22
Hmm... Okay, just realized there where actually 3 boxes of beer in the set...
Now that is what I call realistic... ;D
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