Word of warning if you've purchased the Playmobil Mega Farm set

[descendingintomadness]

If you have, make sure you leave PLENTY of time for construction before Christmas Day! I thought i'd have a quick look, and build a couple of the bigger bits in readiness (DS is 4, and has no concept of waiting). It's taken me over an hour and a half to build just half of the wretched farm house! There are loads of individually sealed bags, and not organised together nicely as i would have expected, so you have to open all of them just to get the necessary bits together. It's going to take forever!!

oh, you're pretending you mind, but you're in heaven really!!!

lol, looked at it but decided to wait til sales and get it for ds's birthday instead. glad now!

leftorright - i'm really not! Just waiting for DP to get home from work, far more his forte.

I will concede that it is rather good (well, the small bit that i have put together so far!, just don't understand why The Makers (yes, You, evil Playmobil Overlords!) scatter the bits across the four winds - would it be so hard to put the things in their groups in the bags?! It would make it so much easier for construction purposes, and save having to play 'hunt the miscellaneous black plastic blob' every 5 minutes!!!

We have bought ds2 the playmobil castle and the woman in the shop warned us it could take a whole day to put together. Luckily dh loves building playmobil and ds2 is 7 and old enough to help so hoping it will keep them busy for hours!!

I am having a Horrid Flashback to the christmas when we bought Harry Potter lego for each of the three dses, and I had to spend Boxing Day assembling it all.

Were it not for God's Precious Gift of alchohol, I would have put Dumbledore's office on the floor in its malformed, half complete state, and jumped up and down on it!!!

stayingsantasgirl - i totally know what you mean! So tempted to just present DS with my halfarsed half constructed efforts and say "no honestly Darling, its meant to look like that, no it isn't supposed to have a roof. Or sides. Or contents. Whatever the picture on the side of the box shows"

ds got his first and last collection of lego for his birthday this year , he has as much patience as me for assembling stuff.
Now i know why my two sis got lego off santa and i didn't

I'll send my DH around. He loves putting this stuff together.
He downloads plans of lego models from the web and spends hours building them
He recently realised that the castle set was building was older than me.

Hmmmmm just received delivery (finally, was MEANT to be here yesterday, bluddy toys 'r' us & dhl, but that's a whole other thread...) of a playmobil dinosaur volcano island thingy....is that going to have lots of bits to stamp up and down on put together??

haha the sheer joy of playmobil 'construction'.. what one journo described as playmobil bum.. a dead pair of cheeks due to hours of assembly...

We love playmobil!! and do you know it never occurred to me to assemble things before christmas day (very very thick emoticon)but thanks to this I will ensure DH does.. whilst I drink Bailey's

I may tempt fate in a minute and peek inside the box ...

You can download lego plans ?

We got the Playmobil hospital last year.

Two whole days of my life - gone

ditto DS's Playmobil castle for his birthday back in the summer

Dh has just reminded me of the fun that was assembling the ELC climbing frame for the dses (his mum had saved up two years of Christmas and birthdays for the three of them).

Dh decided to do it after the boys were asleep (so we could see their happy surprise when they woke up and saw it) - so in the dark, which was a bit of a handicap. I assembled the ladder - indoors because I got pee'd off with dh cursing at me, the ELC, the climbing frame, the Fates and the world in general - whilst dh turned the air blue outside.

Apparently, if you connected it up logically, side one to side two, side two to side three, and so on, when you got to the joint between side six and side one, there was a gap of approximately 7 centimetres where the thing didn't meet up. At all.

At this point it was about 11pm and dh was losing the will to live. The instructions said nothing about this problem. Dh jumped up and down on the instructions. I came to ask what the problem was - dh jumped up and down on me!!

In the end, after about an hour of loosening some of the joints and adjusting it all (and using some words that I'd never heard before), he finally got it to join up.

He has never got over the trauma and still has a slight nervous twitch when we go past the ELC!!

how can there be time better spent than creating the utopian worlds of lego and playmobil?? that said, Nov 08 I bought DS1 a castle of doom lego set that we have set out to build about 17 times and been thwarted by the naughtiness of 2 smaller ds's. DS1 and I talk wistfully of a day when we can put it together without having to tie up feral younger brothers....

Call me square, but I would LOVE a day of putting together playmobil without a toddler throwing the bits around the house!

Feeling very smug! Bought the modern house after xmas 2 years ago- only had the one on display left (at a discount) so never had to assemble it

DD wanted the ranch this year, but managed to talk her into the carry-along farm from ebay instead (again no assembly needed)

(I shall run and hide before everyone chucks all their unfinished playmobil bits at me)

Currently thanking my lucky stars!

Quick update Ladies - i have just finished, finally! Alcohol definitely helped

This is bringing back memories of the Playmobil hospital year-1am we finally got to bed Christmas Eve/Day. Dp had the bright idea of assembling it quite late on in the evening(he'd had a few)then it was a case of having started no going back.

DD is having the Pony farm this year which will be staying firmly in it's box until Xmas morning.

I would love to spend a whole evening assembling a playmobil farm.

I've just finished checking I have all the bits of my DS's train set and table thingy. I am exhausted just doing that! I'm not looking forwards to putting it together tomorrow.

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thought of this thread on boxing day when I tried to construct the Corsair, it took me an hour and a half