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Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm)
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Thu, 3 Feb 2000 19:21:37 GMT
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lpieniazek@!Spamcake!novera.com
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Duane Hess wrote:
> I was in the store a couple of nights ago looking at the toy isles. I actually
> had a hard time determining at first where LEGO sets stopped and Playmobil
> started. Look at set 6600, Highway Construction. Tell me that it doesn't start
> to look like a Playmobil product after a minute or two. Ya it's great for
> playability just like Playmobil, but I don't see Playmobil striving for
> buildability just like LEGO.
Well, they have a prefab building system. I picked up a Playmobil
catalog at Target and it was frightening how much the lines were
similar, right down to the color schemes for things. (Playmobil has a
blue and white railway express train and a set that looks exactly like
the 3225 (but was out first) in their train range... just to pick one
example)
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Larry Pieniazek - larryp@novera.com - http://my.voyager.net/lar
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| (...) I was in the store a couple of nights ago looking at the toy isles. I actually had a hard time determining at first where LEGO sets stopped and Playmobil started. Look at set 6600, Highway Construction. Tell me that it doesn't start to look (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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