Just in case....

[Richard]

I am not too sure what happened between the two companies to cause the split I only know that the toy/model world is sadder for it

Hello, Craig ...

I think that most of would agree with you. Both Playmobil and LGB lost something very special when they chose to no longer work together. It's a real shame ... 

All the best,
Richard

[Tricornejock]

Hi 

I give here a link about Schenk I collect  ( "Schenk" are hungarian copies from Playmobil, from 1978 to 1995 )

 http://www.tricornejock.com/html/les_photos.html

You can´t see a castell and forteresse, I will download a pics another time.


Here you can open a link about PLAY-MAN ( Dates of production are unknow), a copies from Play-big ( But a accessories are copies from Playmobil ):

http://www.tricornejock.com/html/play-man.html


At last a link to access at Igracek, there a fare Tchecoslovaky copies from Playmobil ( With own design caractere ), some accessories are well like Playmobil:

http://www.tricornejock.com/html/igracek.html

Have a good time,
Bests regards,

TJ