Yellow Helicopter

[Wolf Knight]

I am not really sure...I had a look again at my antex plyamospace station and the mouls reeds playmobil geobra 1980....the quality of the plastic is excellent...like it was produced in germany...

But as to the helicopter...

[tonguello]

I'll check mine when I get home. Mine is Antex surely from de 80's so it is suppossed to be good. Antex is crap now, but before, it was very good cuality! oh dear good old days.....  

[Sir Gareth]

Nice find very interesting.

It is of course PlayPeople the big clue is in the number PP .

The set was shown in the marx toys catalogue 1978 in white set 1765, the stickers are genuine.

The Marx factory didn't make vehicles as far as I know, all where made in Germany and then sent over to the UK. As most of you know this helicopter was made in yellow for set 3247 the white one shown in the catalogue and collectors guide was  a PlayPeople idea. I think the earliest Playmobil white helicopter of this type was in set 3144 of 1988 ten years later.

So the question is did someone buy 3247 and put PP stickers on it from 1765 or did Playmobil send over a load of yellow helicopters and use the old "colour of contents may vary" excuse when you opened 1765 and found a yellow helicopter in the box rather than the white one shown?

[tonguello]

Sorry, but what is PlayPeople?

[sweetking]

Sorry, but what is PlayPeople?

Playmobil name in UK in late seventies and early eighties (produced under license by Marx Toys)

[Wolf Knight]

Nice find very interesting.

It is of course PlayPeople the big clue is in the number PP .

The set was shown in the marx toys catalogue 1978 in white set 1765, the stickers are genuine.

The Marx factory didn't make vehicles as far as I know, all where made in Germany and then sent over to the UK. As most of you know this helicopter was made in yellow for set 3247 the white one shown in the catalogue and collectors guide was  a PlayPeople idea. I think the earliest Playmobil white helicopter of this type was in set 3144 of 1988 ten years later.

So the question is did someone buy 3247 and put PP stickers on it from 1765 or did Playmobil send over a load of yellow helicopters and use the old "colour of contents may vary" excuse when you opened 1765 and found a yellow helicopter in the box rather than the white one shown?

Of course!! Forgot to look in the PlayPeople section in the collector...

[sweetking]

Of course!! Forgot to look in the PlayPeople section in the collector...

Skypurr forgot to mention he found this nice piece in Great Britain, that would have oriented the research a bit faster

[Sir Gareth]

Sorry, but what is PlayPeople?

Hi tonguello.

Playpeople was basically the UK version of Antex.

It was Playmobil made under a licence agreement with Marx Toys in their Swansea factory.
It was produced from 1975 -1980 here in the UK, production stopped because the parent company DCM (Dunbee Combex Marx) went into receivership.

[tonguello]

Thank you Sweetking and Sir Gareth. Now I understand that part of the thread 

[playmo1989]

Hi tonguello.

Playpeople was basically the UK version of Antex.

It was Playmobil made under a licence agreement with Marx Toys in their Swansea factory.
It was produced from 1975 -1980 here in the UK, production stopped because the parent company DCM (Dunbee Combex Marx) went into receivership.

 
as many other companies as well gaston  in greece we had lyra in the us they had shaper and mattel ,the quality of these toys were very poor thought they can't be compared with geobras here is a playmobil lyra set :
 
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