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Subject: 
Re: Lego/playmobile ramble
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.castle, lugnet.general
Date: 
Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:48:55 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Silas Pierrot writes:
> 
> Rachel Kingston wrote in message ...
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > At the risk of being jumped on simultaneously, by thousands of AFOL's (or
> > having thousands of Timmy's thrown at me) I just finished having a look at • the
> > playmobil site, and came away with much food for thought.
> 
> 
> After reading this post and the long string of responses, I would have to
> say that it is interesting that no one did jump on Rachel or throw thousands
> of Timmys.  If someone made a comment comparing Lego to Mega Blocks (or
> almost any other company for that matter) the response would be heated.  It
> appears that everyone has a healthy respect for Playmobil.  Would it be a
> safe assumption for me to make that almost everyone who was raised on Lego
> had at least one Playmobil set as well?

I was going to say flat-out no, but then I remembered I *did* have one
playmobil set. My dad actually just told me I had more than one... Weird, I
don't remember that... Guess I was blocking it out of my mind... (probably
with lego blocks  ;-)

-Shiri



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Shiri wrote in message ... (...) at (...) thousands (...) It (...) I'm 99.99% certain we didn't have any Playmobil. When did it start being sold in the US? Frank (27 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)

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Rachel Kingston wrote in message ... (...) the (...) After reading this post and the long string of responses, I would have to say that it is interesting that no one did jump on Rachel or throw thousands of Timmys. If someone made a comment (...) (27 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)

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