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Offline LHAAP

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Re: Barbarian fur cloak
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2008, 13:57:53 »
Quote from: Martin Milner on July 20, 2008, 13:46:30
These specials were available from Playmobil UK for the first time on Friday, so I ordered 3 or each of the new ones.

Hello Martin :wave:

Are these Specials (4675, 4676, 4677, 4678, 4679 and 4680)  already available in the UK? I've always thought that every contry, but Germany, Austria and the Nordic countries, got them a year later.
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Re: Barbarian fur cloak
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2008, 15:35:36 »
Quote from: LHAAP on July 20, 2008, 13:57:53
Hello Martin :wave:

Are these Specials (4675, 4676, 4677, 4678, 4679 and 4680)  already available in the UK? I've always thought that every contry, but Germany, Austria and the Nordic countries, got them a year later.

Yes, they were made available on the Playmobil UK site on Friday 18th July as close as I can tell. I've been waiting eagerly for the new specials, so I've been checking more or less daily since they first showed (but were not yet for purchase) on the site in mid-June. There was supposed to be an automatic email advising me, but it didn't arrive before I found out for myself.

I don't know why the Specials are made available a year earlier than everything else, but I'm glad they are.They're on the US site too.
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Re: Barbarian fur cloak
« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2008, 17:42:45 »
As of today they still are not available. they have been on the US site for some time but it just gives you the option of putting in a email reminder when they become order-able . Same with the carwash garage, new cars & trucks  & all the new pirate sets . Still waiting to start my Christmas shopping for the boys .  :toot:
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Re: Barbarian fur cloak
« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2008, 00:55:58 »
Speaking of photo enhancements:

I had bought three of the new ghost pirate because the box pic made his face look green (I wanted a green face to customize the god Osiris).

Whoops!  Nope!

The buffalo cloak does look nice.  How can we purists justify the bison headdress?  There was a breed of "megafauna" cattle that roamed Europe 3,000 years ago, right?  But maybe not bison...?

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Re: Barbarian fur cloak
« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2008, 09:50:14 »
Quote from: Timotheos on July 21, 2008, 00:55:58
How can we purists justify the bison headdress?  There was a breed of "megafauna" cattle that roamed Europe 3,000 years ago, right?  But maybe not bison...?

-Tim

The same way we live with the horns on tsome Viking helmets, I guess ;)  we smile knowingly and look away. 
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Re: Barbarian fur cloak
« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2008, 12:08:31 »
Let's put it like that;

" we acknowledge the historical reality and embrace the fantasy " :-[

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Re: Barbarian fur cloak
« Reply #16 on: July 23, 2008, 21:34:48 »
There is in fact a still present European Bison  :)
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Re: Barbarian fur cloak
« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2008, 21:44:08 »


Quote from: Tiermann on July 23, 2008, 21:34:48

There is in fact a still present European Bison  :)


Very interesting, Tim ...  :wow:

I wonder if anyone has compared the DNA of the European and American Bisons?

Because of all the cowboy movies, books, TV shows, etc., the terms buffalo and Indians will always be in my head to describe two very important parts of the American west. So, when I looked at the photos of the European Bison, I saw a buffalo ... :klickygrin:

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« Reply #18 on: July 23, 2008, 22:05:04 »
Actually it looks like they are very closely related - they are right next to each other on the classification tree [Here
So more closely related to each other than to any of the other bovines.
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Re: Barbarian fur cloak
« Reply #19 on: July 25, 2008, 01:11:57 »
Quote from: Richard on July 23, 2008, 21:44:08

Very interesting, Tim ...  :wow:

I wonder if anyone has compared the DNA of the European and American Bisons?

Because of all the cowboy movies, books, TV shows, etc., the terms buffalo and Indians will always be in my head to describe two very important parts of the American west. So, when I looked at the photos of the European Bison, I saw a buffalo ... :klickygrin:

All the best,
Richard




In Portuguese (Brasil), we understand the name bison (bisão) as a regional variation of the general word buffalo (búfalo). There are buffalos. The North American ones are called bisons. I don't know the word origin, once it doesn't seem to come from Latin sources, but, by my own curiosity, I'll probably going to search, in near future ... If I find out anything different ...

There are South American buffalos. & Buffalos are a kind of savage ox, speaking about families ...

But the word "bison" is very related to North American Indian image & propaganda, all right, even in my generation (I'm from '76). In the '90s, Kevin Costner gave us the/a (?) Sioux name for them: tatanka ... ;D

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