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On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Richard Franks (<FLqwHC.3Hy@lugnet.com>) wrote at
08:48:48
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> But still the Playmobil stand-alone rack at my local TRU is fun to look
> through, more fun than the Lego aisle sometimes it has to be said! Diversity
> and imagination probably go a lot further towards attracting and maintaining
> interest!
Just to get those warning bells jangling, several TRUs round me don't
have a full LEGO aisle any more. Part of the space is now taken up by an
expanded Playmobil display. And the LEGO end cap is now a Megablok end
cap.
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> The only reason why I don't buy Playmobil is because the sets and figures,
> although pretty, are not really customisable.
The Playmobil castles look lots of fun. I can see the extra size being a
big selling point - more plastic for your pound, with the same *play*
value. Everyone knows that castles are *big*, and sometimes the LEGO
ones appear somewhat weedy.
Phew! back on topic :-)
--
Tony Priestman
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| (...) TLC seem to have theme-concurrency mania. IE. They'd never release the types of stand-alone figures that Playmobil do, because they wouldn't 'fit' into any particular theme. Forget that the point is to play and that having an out-of-theme (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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