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Re: I Finally Set Up My ZOO!!!
« Reply #100 on: August 20, 2011, 11:44:13 »
Had to have another look this morning, Bonnie.  I am blown away by all the water ways running through the zoo!  I think they are terrific and so well done.   ;D
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Re: I Finally Set Up My ZOO!!!
« Reply #101 on: August 20, 2011, 11:57:49 »
Thanks, Joe! One of the best zoos I've been to, the Fort Worth Zoo, has so much water everywhere, and that was to me very impressive that everywhere I looked there was beautiful clean, clear water flowing through the exhibits, forming waterfalls, wading pools, and huge pools for elephants to swim in. It makes a zoo so much prettier than just having a stagnant concrete pool here and there to barely meet the needs of the animals. :no: So my inspiration came from there.

Sadly, I had to pick the zoo up and put it away yesterday. :( It took me all day to do it. But everything is now even more organized than before. I put everything needed for each individual exhibit in its own bag, so next time I can set up a lot quicker, minus the animals. They are still organized seperately so I can get them out for other uses more easily.

Now I'm going to start focusing on some customizing... I have fencing to paint, DS orders to send off, a restaurant to design and build, a custom animal to make ;D, some more gift shop items, and a couple of small custom surprises for next time. I also want to build a terrarium, and I have some ideas to tremendously improve the marine area of the zoo that I think could be totally awesome if I can muster the creativity to pull it off effectively.
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Re: I Finally Set Up My ZOO!!!
« Reply #102 on: August 21, 2011, 01:43:49 »
Wow Bonie you really like animals. I think anyone can tell by what you have done here!
 I love it has great pics and one thing i really love is that you took your time to do this great zoo!
 I am impressed!!  :)9 :rock: :yippee:
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Re: I Finally Set Up My ZOO!!!
« Reply #103 on: August 21, 2011, 01:51:55 »
Thank you Emily! Yes, I do like animals very much! :love:

I'm glad you liked the pictures. :)
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Re: I Finally Set Up My ZOO!!!
« Reply #104 on: August 21, 2011, 20:13:22 »
great new close up pics Bonnie!

that jeep inside the lions enclosure reminded me of a movie where a family has to stay inside an out-of-gas safari jeep because they were lost and with lions around... :o scary! (don't remember the name btw)

I think you're talking about "Prey" http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0468536/

...one of those movies that seems to be really stupid at the beginning but gets better and better while you're watching them even without a high body count for an animal-horror-b-movie.

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Re: I Finally Set Up My ZOO!!!
« Reply #105 on: August 22, 2011, 12:48:56 »
I hope you're happy, bonniebeth.. Partly thanks to your display, the zoos are now on my favorites list on playmobil. Meaning they're to buy. AGH.

Will get the zoo, the asian, and probably the petting zoo... though from there I only REALLY want the waterfall...

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Re: I Finally Set Up My ZOO!!!
« Reply #106 on: August 22, 2011, 12:55:59 »
 :lol: Glad to know I could be a bad influence on a fellow playmo-addict. ;) You won't regret these sets, they're awesome! Yeah, the only things I used out of that petting zoo were the water fall and people, and surprisingly a use came up for that fencing. but the structure stinks.

Word of advice, though. You might as well go ahead and add at least one of these to your list now: http://store.playmobilusa.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-US-Site/en_US/Product-Show?pid=7476&cgid=Ds_Zaeune The exhibits are pathetically small the way they come. The poor elephants don't have room to move!
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Re: I Finally Set Up My ZOO!!!
« Reply #107 on: August 22, 2011, 13:03:11 »
I thought of that, but it's another expense... We have a couple other zoos, and will have to use all the fencing (including western cow and sheep fencing)..

It is a shame about that waterfall... it's not on add ons, is it? We have the older petting zoo... and plenty of those animals anyways.

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Re: I Finally Set Up My ZOO!!!
« Reply #108 on: August 22, 2011, 13:07:54 »
It's not an add-on yet, but I hope it will be. It's the most beautiful water base playmobil has ever produced, IMO, and most people don't even notice it, buried in a theme that doesn't interest them.
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Re: I Finally Set Up My ZOO!!!
« Reply #109 on: August 22, 2011, 13:37:34 »
It's not an add-on yet, but I hope it will be. It's the most beautiful water base playmobil has ever produced, IMO, and most people don't even notice it, buried in a theme that doesn't interest them.
Exactly! And the set is SO big (read expensive)... And nothing else about it is really interesting.. The "hut" is.. bad. And we have all the rest. I mean, the black girl is cute, and so is the boy in sandals, but..

And I suppose it's not viable to get it from parts...

I think I'll start with the other two sets.... but not now, that I disgraced myself yesterday...  :-[