Playmobil 70354 Family Fun Hippo with Calf

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In recent years a new construction system has been introduced that dispenses with the tabs and instead uses small connector pieces and a special tool. Within the limitations of the Playmobil toy world, the Playmobil toys are usually realistic, and present accurate representations of arms, armor, costumes, and tools from a recognizable time period.

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And we will continue to learn more and will tweak it for the future so it can be the benefit to the industry that we know it can be. I would put the little figures in their hands without saying anything about what they were," Beck remarked. Malta specializes in making the characters and a few accessories, Spain specializes in accessories, and Germany makes the bigger items such as ships and castles. Playmobil pop-up books, in which buildings and settings corresponded to the height of actual Playmobil figures, were sold for a time, as well as a series of comic books, coloring books, and puzzles.With its unique movable features, Playmobil helps to aid a child’s development by improving their manual dexterity and eye to hand coordination as well as their spatial relation skills. Before the other toys could be distributed McDonald's ceased distribution and promotion of Playmobil at its restaurants after tests showed that the toy failed to comply with Consumer Product Safety Commission standards designed to prevent children under three from choking on dangerous items. Exceptions to this include the many characters from the three Playmobil-inspired computer video games produced by Ubi Soft Montreal between 1998 and 1999, such as Alex, Hype and Laura, the protagonists from their respective games.

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From 1976 to 1980, Playmobil was licensed by Louis Marx and Company in the United Kingdom and sold under the brand name Playpeople. Each location specializes in a particular area of manufacturing and parts that are needed to assemble a set are delivered to the destination where the items will be placed together and put in their final packaging before sale.

Playmobil building parts were originally designed to fit together using a system of tabs and slots known as "Steck-System". Above all, Playmobil is fun with sets that allow children to explore new concepts about the world that inspire their imagination. Horst Brandstätter, the owner of the company, asked Beck to develop toy figures for children instead.

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Approximately 10 million of the Sheriff and Indian Playmobil toys were distributed from October 22 through November 1, 1982.

Schenk figures, like the early Playmobil figures, do not have moveable hands, and unlike the Playmobil horses, the Schenk horses do not have moveable heads.

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Following the collapse of communism, a 1995 court ruling forbade the manufacture and distribution of the Schenk figures. In 2004, BMW licensed the familiar Playmobil look and feel to release an exclusive BMW Z4 done in Playmobil scale.These sets are not marketed as Playmobil, though they are identical in terms of appearance (but not in regards to quality). In 1974, the company put the first sets of knights, [2] Native Americans, and construction workers on show in its display rooms. The intrigue:When the enigmatic Bat Fairies suddenly appear and, led by Bat Fairy Noxana, begin to steal crystals from Ayuma's magical energy source, the idyll in the fairy forest is in great danger. Thus, Schenk produced the Hussar (Huszár), from the period of the Hungarian War of Independence as well as the Hungarian hussar series (Magyar huszár sorozat). New products and product lines developed by a 50-strong development team [ citation needed] are introduced frequently, and older sets are discontinued.