Yellow Helicopter

[tonguello]

Thanx Alex, I do know some of them (Argentina, brazil, spain, greece, usa and others) but never heard of this one in UK. 

[playmo1989]

Thanx Alex, I do know some of them (Argentina, brazil, spain, greece, usa and others) but never heard of this one in UK. 

oh i see ! 

[sweetking]

Thanx Alex, I do know some of them (Argentina, brazil, spain, greece, usa and others) but never heard of this one in UK. 

Everything is listed in the collector book ^^

[tonguello]

I can't buy that book in argentina....and it's really expensive to bring it from abroad! 
I`d love to have it! 

[sweetking]

I can't buy that book in argentina....and it's really expensive to bring it from abroad! 
I`d love to have it! 

I'd love to have a really full list of specific Antex sets, which are only partially listed in the collector book.

I listed down (with the help of the collector book) all variants that existed / format is Company name (Country) : Local playmobil name

Kenbrite (Australia) : Playmobil
Geobra (Spain) : Famobil
Antex (Argentina) : Playmobil
Trol (Brasil) : Playmobil
Estrela (Brasil) : Playmobil
Lyre (Greece) : Playmobil
Marx Toys (United Kingdom) : Playpeople
Schaper (USA) : Playmobil
Mattel (USA) : Playmobil
Epoch (Japan) : Playmobil
Epoch (Korea) : Playmobil

[skypurr]

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

Many thanks for the research.  Sorry forgot to say I got it from ebay UK 
BTW I'm a she!!  (Skypurr's the name of my cat who is a he!)

Elaine

[sweetking]

Many thanks for the research.  Sorry forgot to say I got it from ebay UK 
BTW I'm a she!!  (Skypurr's the name of my cat who is a he!)

Elaine

sorry for this mistake.

[surfergirl]

Hi guys,

i had the 1765 as a child in the early 80's and it was white with those PP stickers. as kids we never kept the boxes so recently i have been buying many old sets for the boxes. 1765 is one i received MIB recently and the helicopter inside the box was yellow just like skypurrs. so i can confirm that playpeople did put white and yellow helicopters in the 1765 boxes. hope this helps identify the helicopter to the set.

claire 

[Sir Gareth]

Hi guys,

i had the 1765 as a child in the early 80's and it was white with those PP stickers. as kids we never kept the boxes so recently i have been buying many old sets for the boxes. 1765 is one i received MIB recently and the helicopter inside the box was yellow just like skypurrs. so i can confirm that playpeople did put white and yellow helicopters in the 1765 boxes. hope this helps identify the helicopter to the set.

claire 

Thanks for this info Claire, it helps my research out a lot.


I'm wondering now if it might of been down to a matter of cost or it was just easier to make them all one colour at the factory rather than an error.

[sweetking]

Thanks for this info Claire, it helps my research out a lot.


I'm wondering now if it might of been down to a matter of cost or it was just easier to make them all one colour at the factory rather than an error.

regarding material cost, yellow would have cost more than white as ABS is naturally whitish to white. Yellow ABS needs a yellow pigment.
On the other hand, produce only yellow parts meant having only one run for standard and UK market (no mould changing, larger production batches, an so on...)

I would therefore believe too they changed from white to yellow in UK to reduce costs