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Offline Rasputin

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Re: playmobil's history revised by target
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2010, 05:31:57 »
Hello  :wave:

   Ok so it is TRU. I can change the signs. They raised their prices again so that is the last straw. I will never go there again, at least not until they have a decent sale  ;) My bank account will also be much happier if I stay clear of TRU's . Anyways Playmobil.com has some great new sales this month on Roman's and City life stuff, and as Martin showed they give fathering credit to Hans  :**: So does that make Horst the Mother of Playmobil  :hmm:

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Re: playmobil's history revised by target
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2010, 09:00:36 »
Quote from: Rasputin on January 12, 2010, 05:31:57
Hello  :wave::**: So does that make Horst the Mother of Playmobil  :hmm:

Or perhaps the midwife? Or obstetrician?

I can feel the metaphor being over-stretched even as I write...

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Re: playmobil's history revised by target
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2010, 13:55:45 »
Quote from: AndrewL on January 12, 2010, 09:00:36
Or perhaps the midwife? Or obstetrician?

I can feel the metaphor being over-stretched even as I write...

Andrew

Ouch!  Nice pun, Andrew!   :clap:
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Re: playmobil's history revised by target
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2010, 14:53:39 »
Quote from: AndrewL on January 12, 2010, 09:00:36
Or perhaps the midwife? Or obstetrician?

I can feel the metaphor being over-stretched even as I write...

Andrew

Speaking of which, I interpet the future release of the new adventure series with the turbo swamp boat & 6 wheeled swamp buggy, equipped with the new harpoon launcher G.I. Joe wanna be's are possibly a Rose Mary's baby remake  >:D  :0  ?  :lol:
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Re: playmobil's history revised by toys r' us
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2010, 19:06:38 »
i made a terrible mistake - it was not in target's website, it was in toys r' us.  :-[
i am really sorry if i misled someone.  :-[
i am not saying that this message was different before - i really have no idea, i just saw it a couple of days ago.
also, i am not saying that geobra is to blame for the "revision" - they didn't made this mistake in their american site.
finally, i don't think mr. brandstatter has no credit in creating playmobil (quite the opposite).
i just make a distinction between the person who owns the business, and pays for it, and the person who owns the idea. :yup:
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Re: playmobil's history revised by toys r' us
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2010, 19:56:08 »
Quote from: cachalote on January 12, 2010, 19:06:38

i just make a distinction between the person who owns the business, and pays for it, and the person who owns the idea. :yup:

Hi Cachalote  :wave:

   I guess I see it as Mr. Mom owns it all and it was all done on his Euro. It would be the gentlemanly ladylike thing to give credit to Mr. Beck but that in itself is up to the man in the company wearing the pants skirt. Business is rarely gentlemanly ladylike though.  ;D

   As far as the brief history I doubt TRU just pulled it out of their  :hehe: toy chest. There must be boilerplate press releases for companies to use in advertising descriptions  :eh?:

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Re: playmobil's history revised by toys r' us
« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2010, 17:53:11 »
Quote from: cachalote on January 12, 2010, 19:06:38
i made a terrible mistake - it was not in target's website, it was in toys r' us.  :-[
i am really sorry if i misled someone.  :-[
i am not saying that this message was different before - i really have no idea, i just saw it a couple of days ago.
also, i am not saying that geobra is to blame for the "revision" - they didn't made this mistake in their american site.
finally, i don't think mr. brandstatter has no credit in creating playmobil (quite the opposite).
i just make a distinction between the person who owns the business, and pays for it, and the person who owns the idea. :yup:

Rasputin's and my point is, Brandstatter also owns the idea because Hans Beck had it and developed it while employed by Brandstatter. We've been over this ground before anyway, if Hans Beck had had the business sense to set up his own company to manufacture Playmobil, he'd the one puffing the big cigars.
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