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Scott-A wrote:
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> > LEGO and Playmobile also compete very strongly with each other, so they
> > will be copying back and forth. The differences come in because
> > Playmobile is more strickly a play set system (which happens to have
> > decided that a bit of modularity improves their product tremendously,
> > but still keeps the quick set up and ready to play aspects of a
> > playset).
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> I think Playmobile is much more like Duplo than Lego, both due to the size of the
> figures and the aspects Frank describes above. Indeed, speaking as somebody who has
> a very substantial amount of Duplo, I find that it often comes mixed with Playmobile
> at used sales. This suggests to me that kids play with these toys together.
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> BTW : I bought my nephew a playmobil boat. It came with a working motor, so he could
> use it in the bath. Why do Lego not do this?
Well, LEGO comes close, the floating boats can be motorized (I think
with the same motor which came with that Playmobil boat).
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| On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Frank Filz (<383C1873.5161@mind...ring.com>) wrote at 16:55:15 (...) Ooh. Having just bought a few LEGO boats, can anyone point me at a source of motors in the UK? Or failing that, can one get them from the US? (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I think Playmobile is much more like Duplo than Lego, both due to the size of the figures and the aspects Frank describes above. Indeed, speaking as somebody who has a very substantial amount of Duplo, I find that it often comes mixed with (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo)
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