Is the Add Ons Stecks something new on the German site?

[Rasputin]

People that go to these extremes are ex-centric people & little is known what makes them tick . If marketers could figure this out they would be subjected to their will.

How many "sane" people have absurd amounts of one thing displayed all over their homes ?

That question Tim is like a Dude trying to figure out what makes a Chick do the things they do & why ? good luck ( some things are best left a mystery )

[Gustavo]

Which leads to the next question:

Where are they now?

Breathes new life into the saying: Old collectors never die, they just fade away. 

On another forum, somebody was circulating a thread from 2003, and the line-up resembled a graveyard of vanished faces. 

Do people get bored, move on?  Do their kids grow up and they lose the passion / camouflage?  A new forum draws them off?  (There's only like six forums in the world, though, right?)

It's nice to know we have Richard to count on to never quit!

-Tim

One, possibly an only, way of solving it, which makes impossible such a solution in a broad way (  , & ...) would be to make meetings. Impossible, I think, because in a forum like this, there's people from the Caribbean, from Alaska (is there? ...), from Patagonia, from Rio de Janeiro, from Zirndorf, from Lapland, from Srilanka, from Australia, from Scotland ... Don't these places all look like so far away from each other? ...

Anyway, some (maybe many) in here, I believe, live near from someone else ... These who live nearer might get together, someday, if ever they change impathy, sympathy, if they like each other ... lol!, maybe there's really no way of solving it ... We might indeed invade from the four corners of the world, by surprise, Richard's gardens, and take breakfast there, and stay for lunch and later for tea, ... I am a bit inspired by that post about the bunnies' tree house, which I'd like to order, as soon as I manage to go around my present Amazon.com shipping-limitations obstacle ...

 
G.--

[Timotheos]

People that go to these extremes are ex-centric people & little is known what makes them tick . If marketers could figure this out they would be subjected to their will.

How many "sane" people have absurd amounts of one thing displayed all over their homes ?

That question Tim is like a Dude trying to figure out what makes a Chick do the things they do & why ? good luck ( some things are best left a mystery )

Hey Ras!

Would you believe I actually understand women more or less?

(The motivations that so puzzle us are somewhat predictable if you think of us as primates seeking to maximise our sense of security.  People fail to understand, I think, because they want to believe we humans have somehow transcended nature and our motivations are in some way "sophisticated beyond all reckoning").

Once you regard human beings as baboons, everything suddenly makes so much sense.

Seriously.  It goes the same for oneself.  We're all just a bunch of animals who want to survive with as little worry and as little effort as possible.  In addition, we follow a sort of cult of the individual, which tells us that we individually are extremely significant and anything, whether act of god or man, that leads us to believe we aren't so important tends to be upsetting.   Like these random natural disasters that religious people like to blame on sin or human failing (like the tsunami in Indonesia a few years back).  Our entire survival rationale centers around the belief that we matter enough to try to survive.  When random things or unsatisfying things occur, we feel threatened and seek to reassert control--tantrums, if necessary.

It's really rather not terribly exciting. 

-Tim
Human beings aren't rocket science, my friend!

[cachalote]

thanks for the robinson and friday image richard. 
i hope someone can get excited with the idea and produce the entire island. 
maybe this would be an idea for geobra to produce it themselves. 
there aren't that many "classical" stories around and they have already made a noah's ark, a little red riding hood, hansel and gretel ...
a moby dick set (there is a sperm whale now available) and a robinson crusoe one would be nice additions, i think. 
all using with steck system parts, so that you, richard, would be happier. 

[Richard]

all using with steck system parts, so that you, richard, would be happier. 

Thanks, Cachalote ... 

[Rasputin]

Hey Tim i would like to hear the reaction from a Woman when you tell her you have figured out the female species by studying a baboon

As the greeks say " If you want to understand People's behavior, study the dogs "

Perhaps if one wants to understand Collectors one needs to strip it down to it bare basic's and visit an insane asylum.

[Gustavo]

maybe this would be an idea for geobra to produce it themselves. 

Don't you think, Cachalote, that the Pirate Island (3799) is pretty much of the idea? ... Although it isn't named so. (And, of course it isn't exaclty the Robinson Crusoe story ... Actually, the old fellow -- o velhinho -- looks quite like that crazy character out of adaptations of The Count of Montecristo's story, which I haven't read yet (...).

there aren't that many "classical" stories around and they have already made a noah's ark, a little red riding hood, hansel and gretel ...
a moby dick set (there is a sperm whale now available) and a robinson crusoe one would be nice additions, i think. 

Moby Dick & Robinson Crusoe may be a bit too heavy for Geobra to make, I think ... (Little Red Riding Hood & Hansel and Gretel are children's fabulae, fairy tales, short stories to make children sleep (...), and Noah is religious education (...).) I think it's nice that Playmobil keeps producing all "neutral" stuff, and we can give them names

However, these are absolutely great ideas for dioramas! And I think we will have the chance to see them, because people look at that whale and there must be few people who don't think about it ...

-x-

O, by the way, speaking about literature, they have been doing musketeers, in the Special series ... Among other things.

G.--