Has anyone pronounced the L word ???

[playmovictorian]

Hi everyone

You may cover your eyes and hears, lock your front door and hold a silver cross and some garlic as I have a confession to make that involves the L word  ...

YES, I have dropped the Playmo Pirates for Lego Intergalactic adventures for about 2 years when I was young. I was with my best Pal a Nobel Prize level Scientist who loved planet jumping, saving universes...then stop sharp at 04.00pm for a hot chocolate and cookies break...and back to the space odyssey...

I will always remember the face of my Mumm  when she picked up a strange smell in the house, went to the kitchen and found out that 3 of her beloved copper pans were ruined by a mixture of shower gel, jam, chocolate and other strange ingredients that we had prepared in order to save some planet from an alien deadly disease.

I do remember that my Pal was not invited for a couple of Wednesdays afterwards  and when the space fever cooled off, we were back on the adventurous seas with our beloved Playmo Pirates !!!

You do not have to read Mark Twain to find little devils, they are all around you 

Karim

[Bill Blackhurst]

The only thing I can say about L _ _ _ is the parts are so small, & there is so many  ! Usually a child will loose 65% of the little boogers rendering it incomplete which causes the interest to subside, & then the parts are found everywhere, but where they should be, especially in the Hoover !

[Little Jo]

... and it's quite painful when you step on the small square-edged pieces ...

[Martin Milner]

I had a brief flirtation with Lego last year, because I hoped the smaller scale would lend itself to battle layouts on my display table.


Sadly (or happily, depending on your point of view) after I'd built the main castle and a few orc siege engines, the figures failed to inspire me, and I packed it all away. I even have unopened sets which I may sell on eBay, or hanf onto in the hopes they become rare and worth prove to be a good investment.

Playmobil figures have approximately 478% more character than Lego figures, and no matter how pretty the backgrounds, it's still the characters that interest me and generate an interesting story.

Having hopefully learnt my lesson as regards Lego (most of the fun is in the construction phase) I'm not plannign any more forays in that direction, but hope to set up some Knightly Sagas, albeit with fewer figures on the table.

[Gustavo]

I will always remember the face of my Mumm  when she picked up a strange smell in the house, went to the kitchen and found out that 3 of her beloved copper pans were ruined by a mixture of shower gel, jam, chocolate and other strange ingredients that we had prepared in order to save some planet from an alien deadly disease.

Hahaha! It sounds like Kevin & Harold

There's nothing like LEGO for spaceships. I miss them. But unfortunately it isn't viable to return to LEGO, not to me. The good thing of the bricks is to accumulate along your life. I should never have gotten rid of them, but, well: too late. Even so, I miss spaceships in the playmoworld so that I could make some space stories. I'd probably never use ships, because I do make my adventures in "futuristic" writing, and in my literature there's no 1. light-speed/warp/jump, 2. artificial gravity (unless epicentrical, and huge cylindric ships!), 3. alien contact, 4. laser weapons; and I'm VERY careful about a.i.. (You must think it's boring aye?) My stories are mainly about the colonization of the Solar system. I think of Jules Verne ... He wrote possible things.

I love some crazy sci-fi, though ... Aeon Flux, for example. And The 5th Element

[It'll be possible to make my stories with playmo, in the future. As long as I get more modern life playmo. Specially once all my stories are mainly based on characters ...]

Gus

[playmovictorian]

Well Guys 

Wanna know who is the vilain of this story ? Who has driven myself and my Pal away from the Caribbean Seas Adventures ?

Captain Future !!! Yes, the one and only who came from the Country of the Rising Sun one fine day in 1978 and swept every little kid in his path like a giant Tsunami !!!

There was a believable scenario, no non-sense dialogue and lots of technical explanations of the universe and I became such an fan that I vividly remember tapping the episodes on a audio tape recorder as we did not buy a vhs recorder until the mid nineties and I would know all the dialogues by heart...

I would be interested to know if the success was so enormous elsewhere ?

I thought you would enjoy the anecdote.

Karim