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Offline Gustavo

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Re: HANS BECK IS DEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2009, 14:41:31 »
an artist is dead~
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Re: HANS BECK IS DEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2009, 14:48:13 »
Here is an opportunity for playmobil to make a new commemorative set . "its business time, ohh ya business time"

Lets see First a Hans Klicky, a drafting table with tiny klickies drawn on it, then lots of micro klickies in the classic style .

Hans could live on in all our collections.


( my wife makes me watch those New Zealanders )
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Re: HANS BECK IS DEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #22 on: February 03, 2009, 15:14:23 »
Hi PF,

here comes the official press briefing !

ENJOY !!

world greets

Andi

Hans Beck,
“father” of the PLAYMOBIL-figure, died at the age of 79

Zirndorf/Germanay – The 35th birthday of the worldwide known PLAYMOBIL-figures and play system has been clouded by the sudden death of its creator, Hans Beck. Mr. Beck has joined the company, geobra Brandstätter, in Zirndorf Nuremberg in 1958. It was then when Mr. Horst Brandstätter, owner of the company, chose the cabinetmaker from several applicants and it proved to be a lucky choice for the future of the company. For years Mr. Beck enriched the company’s assortment of kids’ toys, furniture and sports accessories made of plastics with innovative concepts as chief developer.

But he gave his masterpiece 13 years later, when he designed the first PLAYMOBIL-figures. Due to the oil crisis plastics had become very expensive at the beginning of the seventies, so Horst Brandstätter told his chief developer Hans Beck to work on a play system for kids. Whereas he was rather thinking of a set of vehicles, Hans Beck concentrated on working on a figure in the centre of the new play world, then called PLAYMOBIL. In 1974 the first three characters were presented to the buyers: a Construction Worker, an Indian and a knight. Meanwhile 2.2 billion figures have entered children’s rooms worldwide and taken kids into numerous adventures through creative role play. And the company has achieved a worldwide PLAYMOBIL turnover of 452 million Euros in 2008.

Mr. Beck’s creativity, his outstanding talent to observe kids and to put himself into their perspective and his never ending ideas have laid the basis not only for a unique play system called PLAYMOBIL, but for the success of the Brandstätter Group and above all for the wonderful play memories of kids’ generations since 1974.

Mr. Beck retired in 1998 and then lived near Lake Constance in the Southern part of Germany, where he now sadly passed away after a longer illness only a few months before his 80th birthday. He is survived by his wife and a son. Mr. Hans Beck will live forever in his figures and millions of adults and kids will remain grateful for his masterpiece: the PLAYMOBIL-figure.


February 2, 2009
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Re: HANS BECK IS DEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2009, 15:14:49 »

Quote from: Rasputin on February 03, 2009, 14:48:13

Lets see First a Hans Klicky, a drafting table with tiny klickies drawn on it, then lots of micro klickies in the classic style .

Hans could live on in all our collections.


I was thinking of making a commemorative pic for Just For Kl!cks home page, but I just couldn't come up with anything that would convey the appropriate atmosphere.

This scene you've described would make a great Playmobil photo (if no-one has already done it before)! :D

Thanks for the idea. :)9 Hope you don't mind if I steal it at some point. ;)
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Re: HANS BECK IS DEAD - UPDATE !!!!!!!
« Reply #24 on: February 03, 2009, 15:19:08 »
You can express your condolence here:

http://www.playmobil.com/kondolenz/kondolenz_Beck.html
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Re: HANS BECK IS DEAD - UPDATE !!!!!!!
« Reply #25 on: February 03, 2009, 15:21:22 »
Hi Tomplay,

thx for your link but there comes a english Version for the international pages soon.

world greets

Andi
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Re: HANS BECK IS DEAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #26 on: February 03, 2009, 15:33:29 »
Quote from: Customizer on February 02, 2009, 15:22:18
there are a last message in a german newspaper last dezember !
I had only a photo so i must translate it first if you intereseted. There are some hard words to playmobil  !

world greets

Andi

Please do not forget , I was interested as to what he said to Playmobil  ???
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Re: HANS BECK IS DEAD - UPDATE !!!!!!!
« Reply #27 on: February 03, 2009, 16:07:15 »
This is sad news, indeed!  He will long be remembered as a man who made the world a better place.
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Re: HANS BECK IS DEAD - UPDATE !!!!!!!
« Reply #28 on: February 03, 2009, 18:42:38 »
 :'( As I read through these posts.

If the Egyptians were right (that a soul survives as long as a person is remembered), then he will survive a very long time to see the ever returning smile that his toy brings around the world.
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Re: HANS BECK IS DEAD - UPDATE !!!!!!!
« Reply #29 on: February 06, 2009, 19:05:53 »
There was an article abou Hans Beck in The Independent newspaper today.  I'll scan it over the weekend and post it in this thread.
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