to not really understand the purpose of Playmobile?

[2anddone]

I have 2 dc aged 6 and 3 and we have never gone down the whole Playmobile route. My dc both love lego and spend hours building and taking apart their creations only to rebulid something else. I have looked at the Playmobile boxes and they look really lovely though bloody expensive sometimes! I don't get it, is everything ready built in the box and therefore once you have opened the box it is up to dc to play with the items using their imagination (my dc would get fed up after couple weeks) or is it all in pieces and you have to build all the buildings and playmobile people before you can play (therefore am thinking would be really good value for money and could try some as Christmas gifts!). Would just love someone to tell me exactly what it is before I go out and waste money!

Ooops, sorry Slubber! I fainted at the shock and wasn't quite myself......

How are the pony girls???

yy but in Holland he was in a fishing boat.

What is going on there then?

There was no angel. There was a fisherman with a fish. Poss biblical, who knows, was all in Dutch.

Pony girls are, well, ponyish. Ponies and deers still big here. With interloping littlest pet shops that forrin scum

I've no idea - sounds intriguing.....

Ah mind if I just call you Norm then?? Tis easier :)

As an aside, can anyone change their name for Halloween (or any other reason) as mine really isn't valid anymore...

We had the dinosaur Playmobil set in most of its guises, and the pirate sets... the pirate/dino combo was rather interesting, i even indulged in a bit of imaginative play myself... much to the disgust of the kids who were actually mid-story at the time.

2and your kids play with lego and you find playmobil expensive?

Feel free to call me Norm.... most people do! Or Normski if they are feeling particularly chummy.....

Slubber was it this set you saw? If so, then that's apparently "Black Pete", not a fisherman........

Ah well Norm it is, it would be presumptious of me to assume we're anywhere near the 'chummy' stage yet.

Anyhoo...

We've never had it either. By the time we have Happyland and Peppa Pig world (houses, shops, school, museum etc) and now a wooden dolls house, I'm not sure how much capacity DD has for character based imaginative play!

My wife has spent many hours on trying to convert me from Lego to Playmobile.

NEVER. GOING. TO. HAPPEN.

I hate the fact playmobile is so BIG, which makes it really hard to store away and when it's being played with the room looks like a bombsite.

Ah yes - the playroom is in fact a town called Lowbeach-on-Sea, Playmoland these days..........

Not much room to move for all the Playmobil buildings....... but that's the way it is, at least they get played with constantly.

playmobil rocks, I would play with it now but DS's are 15 and 18

actually sod it its probably still in the loft

Playmobil 1-2-3 is cool too. Ideal nursery toy.

My DS loves Lego Duplo, never gave a thought to Playmobile? What's the main difference??

He is only coming up for 3 mind?

Lego is more for building stuff with, and Playmobil is more for imaginative play, although when you get the sets there are things to put together first before you play with it. Once the Playmobil is put together it's less likely to fall apart (apart from some of the buildings, but it depends how boisterous you are with them). Lego is great for building stuff, but tends to fall apart quite easily when you play with it.

Norman, it's the very same. What does it mean?

Listen folks, even though this thread is in the HELL that is Aibu there are a formalities about discussing playmobil (NO E guys) on mn.

1. no dissing of playmobil

Ok so there is one formality but seriously it's a serious one.

DON'T SLAG THE PLAYMO.

I like your rules, Slubber!

I think Black Pete is some sort of Dutch helper to Santa Claus...... not sure.....

Soundofhiswings, you are thinking of the big sets. The plane, the house, the dolphin arena and all that jazz.

Calm yourself.

Playmobil can be small. It can be discreet.

Just a little fawn, or even a puppy with a carrot nicked offf the farmer set. HOURS OF FUN.

Heresy!

I agree

Playmobil is fab. DS has a castle, fort, pirate ship and all the dinosaur stuff. He spends hours with it and we got half of it second hand off ebay for not very much.

His lego on the other hand has cost a small bloody fortune and doesn't get played with half as much.

Or a couple of builders with a mug of tea wheelbarrow.......

"I hate the fact playmobile is so BIG"

??? !

DD loves her playmobil, has done for years, (and uses it with her lego), but surely the only downside is that it is all so teeny teeny tiny and you spend an awful lot of time looking for the missing 6mm long baby rabbit that is meant to be building a lego hutch with the 3mm long hammer in order to share with the 1cm long kitten . . . .
(not now, to be fair, she's 9 and can lose and find her rabbits all on her own )

Norman, how can a pirate be a FC helper?

He is a pretty snazzy pirate truth be told, but hardly an elf is he? And in a boat?

Still boggling.

DS3 is 8.5mo...and I have already bought him 2 sets of Playmo 123 for his birthday (He's not really a put-in-the-mouth baby). They never had 123 when my older dc were tiny - and we also still have all the dinosaur stuff. Am adamant that DS3 is going to love Playmobil, unlike my older boys, who are lego fiends.