I often wonder whether people forget how horrible the Romans were, for example. We get a lot of "What the Romans Did For Us" type programmes, but once again I switched off Gladiator before it had finished the other night. And yes, we need more ordinary people for all time periods and for the modern Klickies, I would like to see them for all weathers as well. Hardly any of mine have coats!!!
Anyway, back to what I would like to see. I wrote a hugely long post yesterday, all inspired, and somehow lost it. Today I cannot think what it was I was going to say.
Here goes, though ...
Outdoor activities - yes, we've got camper vans and some tents and a climber and a some holiday/vacation homes, but there isn't a lot for folk to do while they are away. I envisage a plastic bag full of sports gear - cricket bat and ball, volleyball net, tennis rackets, tennis net, table tennis table & bats, flying disc (not allowed to say Frisbee), boules/petanque. Would a Playmobil kite work?
Crazy Golf (Mini Golf) - I reckon that would translate really well into Playmobil with all the various features for each hole. A nine hole course would do!!
Bikes (and bring back the little trailer for the child)
More coastal stuff - I know there's new harbour stuff coming out later in the year, and there are the beach sets but there is nowhere near enough beach!! I'd like to see a pier (most of the ones in Britain date from Victorian times so that could fit in with Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen having a stroll and taking the air as well as for modern folk on a trip to the seaside).
A funfair could fit in well with a beach theme
Beach huts
A restaurant. How about a generic restaurant, being an empty restaurant building, and then the contents/fixtures/fittings/food etc be purchased as an add-on, ie the base plus one "kit" costs x amount, and if you want to ring the changes you can buy another add-on kit. The add-on kit would comprise staff, food, tables and chairs (or tables and benches), crockery, cutlery, the restaurant counter, the restaurant name/type and a national flag if necessary. You could perhaps choose from Indian, Chinese, Italian, Fast Food, Steakhouse, posh French restaurant, a British Pub. The possibilities could be endless (and I haven't left any type of restaurant out on purpose!!)
A marquee. Not for any special reason, but school fetes, wedding receptions, pet shows, county fairs. We just need a marquee as an add-on
Modern market stalls - I'm sure a lot of us have enough bits in the bottom of our plastic boxes to put out on the stalls, but again the market stalls could be sold with one add on bag of bits, ie bakery, mobile phones, cds/computer games, fruit & veg, antiques.
I appreciate most of this is on a modern theme, but that's more what interests me.
Lastly, I got very excited thinking about Australia!!! The Royal Flying Doctor Service, the opal mines at Coober Pedy, the First Fleet bringing the original convict settlers to Australia in 1788, the Australian Gold Rush 70 or so years later. the Great Barrier Reef (bit hard for Playmobil to do, but worth a mention), the Aborigines with their boomerangs, woomeras and didgeridoos. And the wildlife which has already been mentioned kangaroos, wallabies, potaroos, wombats, possums, koalas, echidnas, platypusses, Fairy penguins, galahs, parakeets, cockatoos, budgerigars, kookaburras, lyre birds.
Now, what was it I was thinking of last night ..........
