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When did you first start collecting playmobil?

1974
1 (3.3%)
1975
1 (3.3%)
1976
1 (3.3%)
1977
1 (3.3%)
1978
0 (0%)
1979
1 (3.3%)
1980
0 (0%)
1981
1 (3.3%)
1982
1 (3.3%)
1983
1 (3.3%)
1984
0 (0%)
1985
0 (0%)
1986
1 (3.3%)
1987
0 (0%)
1988
0 (0%)
1989
1 (3.3%)
1990
0 (0%)
1991
0 (0%)
1992
2 (6.7%)
1993
0 (0%)
1994
0 (0%)
1995
0 (0%)
1996
1 (3.3%)
1997
0 (0%)
1998
1 (3.3%)
1999
2 (6.7%)
2000
2 (6.7%)
2001
2 (6.7%)
2002
0 (0%)
2003
1 (3.3%)
2004
2 (6.7%)
2005
2 (6.7%)
2006
3 (10%)
2007
0 (0%)
2008
2 (6.7%)
2009
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 30

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When did you start collecting Playmobil?
« on: September 30, 2009, 01:09:21 »
I hope you all remember!!  :P






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Re: playmobil
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2009, 02:26:05 »
1996, a fireman, not the then new orange coated one or the new grey uniformed one, but a single blue figure with a yellow helmet and face mask, a fire extinguisher and various tools.  It may also have had a hose reel, but I can't be sure now.  I'll check on Collectobil or in Playmobil Collector.
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Re: playmobil
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2009, 20:53:38 »
Hey Gordon, if you can,could you send me a picture
of it to see wich one it is,because i really can`t find
out wich one you are talking about.




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Re: playmobil
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2009, 21:05:23 »
Hey Gordon, if you can,could you send me a picture
of it to see wich one it is,because i really can`t find
out wich one you are talking about.




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I'll see what I can find, Baden.  It isn't on Collectobil.
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Re: playmobil
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2009, 21:09:20 »
hello baden.
as far as i can remember i started in 2001, when my nephew was 3.
i bought an old 3750 pirate ship for him on his birthday.
this set had been abandoned in a shelf of a book and toy store.
its box was in a very bad shape - i guess nobody wanted it because of this - and my nephew just considered it a relic /it still is now more than ever).
i helped him assemble the ship and got hooked since then.  :yup:
a few years later i bought myself another new 3750 and an used extra crew (version 3) on ebay.
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Re: playmobil
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2009, 21:10:19 »
Hey Gordon is Colletoble a web site or what?
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Re: playmobil
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2009, 21:37:34 »
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Re: playmobil
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2009, 01:44:43 »
Although I can't remember the exact date, based on my first sets and the dates from Collectobil and what I remember of my childhood, I'd estimate it to be around 1986.
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Re: When did you start collecting Playmobil?
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2009, 17:18:36 »
Probabaly the Early 1990's, with the Police Car and Ambulance. My parents also got me the speed boat.

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Re: When did you start collecting Playmobil?
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2009, 18:32:46 »
I put 1974, because that's when I first had Playmobil given to me. Unfortunately none of my original "collection" remained with me over the years.

From around 1988 I would buy occasional sets that caught my eye, US Union soldiers, the Vikign Longboat, several of the first specials, and those I do still have.

In 2007 I caught the bug badly with the Romans, and having plenty of money an (I thought) lots of space, my collection multiplied by a couple of thousand figures, and my first ever buildings.

Now I've had to pack most of my collection away ready for shipping to the US, I still have a squad of Romans on the mantlepiece.