What is your best playmobil moment??

[Heronimus]

Be it playing with your kids in the funpark, or winning the ebay auction at the very last second, thanks to your bandwidth.

Please share with us your BEST PLAYMOBIL MOMENT

Mine would be a long time friend working overseas giving me a surprise when we met for reunion, bringing out a special that I have been looking for for months. I knew that could be purchased from ebay, but the price is just not reasonable for the rational inner me. And the best part is I have only mentioned this once in my facebook comment.

[Wolf Knight]

They are so many.... But i think this one time, a few days in the raw actuall, that I had a major naval battle with my 3750 pirate ship and the bottom of its box.... This was back in the first year of high school. Since I had no second ship to make the battle, I placed the redcoats int eh bax and started chasing the 3750 ship....What a glorious battle it was  !!!!

[cheng]

interesting question Heronimus! 

like most of us....PM has and continues to give us so many 'best' moments that we think the best is yet to come....launch of the Romans? launch of a whole Samurai theme? 

but I have an unforgetable moment many many years back,
you see, I liked these redcoats they were selling at our TRU, about 23 years ago but PM soon disappeared from countries around here....for years I thought Playmobil had closed down 

Everywhere I went and through travelling friends, I never failed to show them pictures of PM....

...until one day when I searched the internet and found GB very much alive and the redcoats I was pining for...can you imagine my excitement at that moment? 

[Martin Milner]

For me it has to be the day I saw the Romans in a department store in Ealing (about a mile from my house then), and bought several sets on the spot (with wifely approval). I went back about two hours later and bought more, having been limited by what I could carry safely on a bicycle! That started my current collecting craze, though I did have a few sets tucked away from previous years which I soon dug out to show my wife this was not a sudden obsession, but merely the renewal of a lifelong relationship.   

[Gis]

Great Question Heronimus!

For me it must have been this last May at Playmobil Planet. When I finally realized how many of "us" are out there. Which let to become active on ebay, my first castle, and joining here.

[Mina]

there are many great moments.... but, if I had to chose one of them, this one is unbeatable:

when I was a kid, I asked for the Victorian House... saying it could be a collective gift, or it could make for both my birthday and Christmas... I've asked for it for 5 years in a row, at every Christmas and every birthday... but I never got it (you would have thought that such a constancy would be noticed and rewarded, though... but...)...

when my husband (well he was my boyfriend at that time) and I moved together in our 1st appartment, in 2002, we had already a few Playmobils, Police things for him (as he had just begun the police school) and Farm things for me (I've been brought up in the countryside... and I'm fond of animals, cats especially...)...

Of course, the house was not in shops anymore, and we hadn't heard of auction sites yet... so, it was clear for me that, unless I'd found a time machine, I would never have it...

I didn't know that, going to make an inquiry in an old toy shop which had been robbed in a neigbouring town, my Titi would find a brand new 5300 mansion... he bought it directly, stored it at his job, brought it home when I was working...

On Christmas day, there was a huge pack in the living room for me... I really had no idea 'bout what it was... and, honestly, when I finally opened it, I cried in earnest... and jumped everywhere at the same time... since then, this house is my treasure, and I always pay much, much attention to it, and spend a lot of time rearranging things in it when we make a new dio.... I'm soooooo fond of it!!

[shirona33]

My best playmobil moment, is surly, when I fill up my car on several collector meetings in Germany.

Round about all two or three months, I drive to such a meeting. All the things I buy in the time between two meetings, are shipping to nice members of klickywelt in Germany, which also are on the meeting. So there are 4 or 5 different once who do this for me!

The last pics I made of such a kind, had been made in may this year. But this things, weren't for me. We picked up some parts for the fairy tail carcel, which my wife is building up right now.

But take a look what it looks like. So you could imagine, why these are the best moments.

[kenc]

I have a few:

Childhood:
-the moment I got a 3450 steck castle from 'Sint-Maarten'. At that time, I had a green tailor's house, a barn and a blacksmith. The 3450 addition made me dream of a medieval town.
-the moment I got a green drug's store. At that time, I had a grey sherrif's office and a yellow saloon. The green house made a western street kind of complete and I finally had the feeling that the cowboys had a real town to hide for the evil northern state soldiers from fort Randall.

As an adult collector:
-the collector's meeting at Brubil's place a few years ago in Belgium. Meeting so many Playmobil enthusiasts was fun. It's totally different than the one way Playmobil talk I usually have with family and friends.
-the completion of my castle Neveling.
-the find of 2 medieval inn 3448 and the museum in a tiny toy store in Sint-Niklaas some years ago. Although the seller was a real j*** it was my best find in a toy store ever.

But two weeks ago, le moment suprème, was, I almost don't dare to say it  :
-Exactly one year ago, I lost a box with almost 2000 parts in it: large barrel, planewagens, ox carts, market stands, rare klickies, some sys-x parts, some painted steck parts, and lots and lots of other accessories were gone. I searched the attic for days. I opened every box and checked and looked and searched, nothing... Until two weeks ago, I opened a gigantic box containing most of my steck castle parts. Burried under some of the wall parts, there was the box I lost last year. It's strange how people react at home, most of them are almost disappointed when I tell them I found back the collection on the attic. They expect some spectacular finding place like: 'oh, I thought the recycling company called you one second before the box was about to be crushed by a two ton hammer crusher' 

[Elric]

I don't have many moments yet but I do love it when my 3 1/2 year old daughter says “Daddy, can we play castle warriors?" She calls all playmobil castle warriors. Sometimes I just build and watch her and my two year old son just have a ball playing.

[socrates]

My best playmobil moments... that's an easy one.
In 1981 I got the 3550 for christmas as a present...
...and then, 25 years later, in 2006 I got the 3740 (MIB) as a present. 

Both events are hard to compare, as I haven't opened the 3740. 
...but, definitely, for me it is with pirate ships...

best,
socrates