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!

Yes, I'm boggling too, Slubber......

The DDs (5, 3 & 2) play with my playmobil from when I was little (a caravan) and some new things my mum got them.

They play a kind of mash up of playmobil, MLP, MLP Ponyville, Littlest Pet Shop, Sylvanian Families and ELC dolls house. Very weird to look at but then my brother and I played MLP and M.A.S.K. together so who am I to talk

Slubber in the world of Playmobil I personally think that anyone can be anyone's helper. Elves can shoot dinos who carry santa's present and santa himself can be a pirate princess with a shotgun.

YABVU

I bloody love Playmobil, we are swamped with the stuff.
DS2 loves it also, Ds1 has always been a bit meh to be fair.

In all honesty, it;s all about me, I am crap at lego (though it is great, I can see that) but love Playmobil. I'm all about the imaginative play, me.

yy Takver.

I give you the Campervan mobile phone. Grain of rice size it is.

Well, I suppose you wouldn't expect me to hang around with a policeman called Cuthbert either.........

My dgs is 5 and really loves both Playmobil and Lego but I think the Playmobil is played with more once the lego is built iyswim.
He has bin lorry
snow plough/gritter
helicopter
horse box and landrover
camper van
lots and lots of small sets and he makes up so many imaginative games with them all.

Aldiwhore don't be gettin your YAB emboldened V U up in my face mrs.

The set is the set. The playmobil makers aren't at liberty to be doing crazy inappropriate shit with their creations. That is what the children are for. Sheesh.

You wouldn't buy the pyramid and expect a firefighter in it would you? That would be like.. OK so here begineth the end of the world. Same as turning in R4 Today Programme and it just being static.

No. The sets are proper and correct. Then you hand them over and then it all goes to hell in a hand basket.

My 2 intermix their playmobil and duplo they use duplo for imaginative 'small world' play after building.
Both are great though and played with every day.

We have just started out on the Playmobil road, with the zoo set. I LOVE it!

We had playmobil when I was a child, cowboys and indians with individual feathers to stick in headbands. I wonder if they still do that now?

I am sensing some weird MN thing here. Like Boden. Not half as amazing asyou all make out.

DS loves Lego (particularly Star Wars lego) but gets frustrated by the fragility of the impressive larger sets because he is only 4 and plays a little too enthusiastically sometimes. Playmobil you don't have that problem - once it is assembled that is it. We have bought some fantastic old playmobil on ebay - american civil war playmobil! English and French Napoleonic wars playmobil! Zulus! It is frankly awesome and the only problem with it is there are saddos collectors on ebay bumping the prices up.

Not half as amazing as you all make out?

The soldiers' rifles have bayonets which you can remove and replace. DS does a great drill "FIX bayonets - bayonets FIX" he shouts.

Well, for starters it's "Playmobil" not Playmolbile.....that apart it's great. As others have said it's a very different type of toy from Lego, we've had years of use from it.

Slubber and Norman

Sinterklaas (St Nick) lives in Spain. Each year, at the end of November, he comes to The Netherlands on a steamboat accompanied by a collection of Black Peters, who are his helpers, and his white horse.

He will visit a few ports, supermarkets etc, amuse himself by putting children on his knee whilst his Black Peters either give the children sweets (if they have been good) or beat them with a bundle of wooden twigs (if they have been bad)

On December the 5th the Dutch children put their shoes by the front door or fire place and sing Sinterklaas songs.

Then that night, Sinterklaas rides his white horse across the rooftops dropping presents down the chimney for the children, once again helped by his black Peters.

And then he goes back to Spain, on his steamboat, with his white horse and black Peters.

I am Dutch. I don't understand any of it. But as a child I loved the sweets and presents

if you don't like play mobil you must be dead inside!

my DS (4) LOVES playmobil. It comes in the box and you put it together. He spends ages just playing with the figures, changing their hair, costumes, hats, weapons etc. He creates all these scenarios, and he also loves lego

Oh, and Playmobil rocks. My dd (nearly 9) still plays with a large amount of it, most of which came from my dsis and I. It just lasts and lasts and lasts. Dsis and I used to create elaborate stories which we acted out and now dd does the same

Fantastic toy which stimulates the imagination no end. Love it love it love it!

[hblush],.....not Playmolbile!

Sorry to divert thread but

He will visit a few ports, supermarkets etc, amuse himself by putting children on his knee whilst his Black Peters either give the children sweets (if they have been good) or beat them with a bundle of wooden twigs (if they have been bad)

So do Durch parents pay a fiver in the Dutch equivalent of Debenhams Christmas Grotto for their children to beaten with sticks?

Fair enough.

We still have all our Playmobil. DDs are 14 and 18. I will never get rid of it, I they loved it too much.

We have the Palace, a castle, the farm, the pony ranch and lots of assorted animals/dragons/fairies/knights etc. I still have a nostalgic browse on ebay.