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Offline portside3seat

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Re: Christmas, what is under the tree ?
« Reply #20 on: December 08, 2008, 01:50:11 »
The new Victorian.  I think it is smaller, which is better for me as my house is small and the girls' rooms are small.  I like the old fairy castle best of all the mega big sets but it is just too big.
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Re: Christmas, what is under the tree ?
« Reply #21 on: December 08, 2008, 22:18:11 »


Quote from: Timotheos on December 07, 2008, 20:41:49

After making big Christmas purchases, Richard has his Canadian-Mountie-garbed henchmen inject him with serum that erases his short term memory.  This has to be true because every Christmas Richard shows us pictures of his white beard to prove he is Santa.



It appears that you've found me out, Timmy ...  :xmascheer:
(And, have you been a good little boy this year?)

Ho!  Ho!  Ho!


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Re: Christmas, what is under the tree ?
« Reply #22 on: December 09, 2008, 05:59:34 »
Aha !!!

So you're Santa, Richard! But don't worry - your secret is safe with us.
I'll only tell my wife, my kids, sis, her kids ... and ...  :-\

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Re: Christmas, what is under the tree ?
« Reply #23 on: December 09, 2008, 13:58:54 »
Well my secrecy is going to cost you Richard , and i think you know what  ;)
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Re: Christmas, what is under the tree ?
« Reply #24 on: December 15, 2008, 16:37:52 »
Hi,

I will be gettings some very very rare Japanese Playmobil items from the early seventies (will be in the 3rd edition of the Collector). I'm expecting these rarities soon, hopefully I can put them under the Christmas tree  :lol:
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Re: Christmas, what is under the tree ?
« Reply #25 on: December 15, 2008, 17:52:53 »
 <*)Well, I have tried to be a good "old girl" and decided that Santa is going to bring me as much of the Jungle theme as I can get my hands on!  So far under the tree is the Jungle Ruin 3015, the jungle dino bones cave set, two gorillas, the monkey tree, a set of natives, #4564-native special, set 5754-crocodile boat, and the hopes for a few more sets.  I love it all!!  Two of my grandsons have all ready been trying out several of the pieces.  They seem to like the Indiana Jones looking figure.

My daughter has invested in the entire Victorian Doll house theme for her little girl, and for her son she has bought the dino sets, the Egyptians, and some odds and ends for other themes.

Talk about spoiled kids and grandkids!!  My husband teases me about my "thing" for Playmobil and I just tell him that I would have gone into a blissful state of delirium if I had had these things as a child, instead I played with a tin bandaid box with rocks inside, and clothespins/ rubberbands for a homemade gun, stringing buttons from my grandmother's button box was another improvised toy.  I never felt deprived because my mother always tried to get us one nice toy for Christmas along with our pajama sets, and then she would spend hours sewing dollclothes for our doll.

I love Christmas and children and am thankful for Christ's birth and the opportunity to celebrate the true meaning of love, not the commercial side of it.  Hope you all have a lovely holiday and have stockings and trees full of blue boxes....but also lots and lots of love.  :love:
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Re: Christmas, what is under the tree ?
« Reply #26 on: December 16, 2008, 06:25:31 »
Quote from: Janice on December 15, 2008, 17:52:53
... I love Christmas and children and am thankful for Christ's birth and the opportunity to celebrate the true meaning of love, not the commercial side of it.  Hope you all have a lovely holiday and have stockings and trees full of blue boxes....but also lots and lots of love.  :love: ...

hear, hear !!!

Well said, Janice. May the Christmas Spirit warm all heart everywhere.

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Re: Christmas, what is under the tree ?
« Reply #27 on: December 20, 2008, 17:34:35 »


I got three klickys for Christmas, at work ... Two in a blister pack (two pirates, I had already gotten, from a playmofriend, by the way ... they're very welcome! :yup: ), and one Special (another "Fletcher", very welcome one as well! ;D )

Not to say that my Blue Goblin arrived :love: Though, once grandma's here for Christmas & New year, I won't have chance to make pictures or stories, until January. Only the ones already shot, that are a bit dusty but, well ...

It's nice that grandma came. It's the fourth year, I think. She's been coming all ends of years, since 2004, and, if I'm not mistaken, 2002 and 2001 they came too. (Grandma, and my older aunt, with whom grandma lives.) Christmas = family, aye? ;)

(Internet obstacles mainly made me reduce a lot the rythm ...)


Quote from: Richard on November 28, 2008, 12:24:43

Our two daughters are now young ladies who have their own homes and careers. Neither of them are very interested in Playmobil. We have no grandchilden. So, the only big kid is me ...  :klickywink:



I have to say that was always a bit curious, mr. Rick, about your children ... I wander: how was it to raise children with a playmo-collection (like that of yours)? Were they never interested?

(My father always ... tried to convince me to like Tarzan adventures, but it never happened.)

I'm afraid of having kids, and having trouble with the condition of my playmo ... Collector's and children's things don't fit together. (My father's miniature war airplane collection went on my cousin's hands (before I was born), and nothing was left! ... (I never knew it.))


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Re: Christmas, what is under the tree ?
« Reply #28 on: December 20, 2008, 18:57:14 »


Hello, Gus ...


Quote from: Gustavo on December 20, 2008, 17:34:35

I have to say that was always a bit curious, mr. Rick, about your children ... I wander: how was it to raise children with a playmo-collection (like that of yours)? Were they never interested?



Yes. Actually, it was Stefanie and Jennifer who got me interested in Playmobil when they were both quite young.

They liked being able to "dress" their klickys with various hats, capes, collars, cuffs and belts. (That was back in the pre-print days when any klicky could be whatever they wanted them to be.) Their favourites were the western ladies, the western houses and the horses. Even though we had a castle and a pirate ship, they liked the western theme the best. Maybe it was because we lived in Texas ... ;)

Here are some of the sets that they enjoyed the most .. see attachments
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Re: Christmas, what is under the tree ?
« Reply #29 on: December 20, 2008, 18:59:02 »
Quote from: Richard on December 20, 2008, 18:45:59


Hello, Gus ...



Yes. Actually, it was Stefanie and Jennifer who got me interested in Playmobil when they were both quite young.

They liked being able to "dress" their klickys with various hats, capes, collars, cuffs and belts. (That was back in the pre-print days when any klicky could be whatever they wanted them to be.) Their favourites were the western ladies, the western houses and the horses. Even though we had a castle and a pirate ship, they liked the western theme the best. Maybe it was because we lived in Texas ... ;)

Here are some of the sets that they enjoyed the most .. see attachments


Nice! I grew up with the saloon, the drugstore, the sheriff ... In my childhood (79-87 ...), my favourite were western. About 82 I began with pirates ... We hadn't knights strong, in Brasil ... No castle. Only dreams (and dioramas, at the sides of boxes ...). I just got my first timbered house a few days ago! 8} I'm delighted! So, I went into pirates, and hospital, for a while. And racing carts. But after 1988, and 1990 (when I moved to Portugal), it was pirates (in Brasil), and medieval. (And citylife, because my cousins used to go at my dad's, to play ... And they liked citylife. But my favourites were pirates, by then.)

Oh, there was a time of Playmospace ... :yup:

So nice to remember these things.

Interesting to know that you went into playmobil because of the girls ... Who could tell? :lol: It's nice.


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