At the same time, the latest PLAYMOBIL series experience starts on October 8 on YouTube and YouTube Kids. In early 2019, a prototype for a product named Playmobil Pro was posted on LinkedIn. ", "McDonald's Voluntarily Stops Playmobil Promotion And Recalls", Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, National Entertainment Collectibles Association, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Playmobil&oldid=1095990554, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2019, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from March 2014, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 1.2.3 (a series with fewer pieces and fewer movable parts, intended for younger children), A live-action/animated feature film based on the characters, entitled, In 2014, a CGI animated TV series inspired by Playmobil figures titled, On 4 November 2020, a CGI animated TV series titled, On 2 May 2021, an animated series launched titled. 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The pilot episode is scheduled for March and will introduce Ducklas and the young rescue team, with additional episodes coming in June. McDonald's customers with children under three who received these toys were advised to discontinue their use and return the toys to a McDonald's in exchange for a dessert, a cone, or a refund. (The company had originally been a producer of casket ornaments and handles. FunPark and FunStore locations include:[51], However, it proved to be a major box-office bomb. Shortly thereafter, versions in a pale yellow or eggshell blue were available in European toy stores. [2] Horst Brandsttter, the owner of the company, asked Beck to develop toy figures for children instead. Bootleg sets also have been manufactured in China. 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 (/plemobil/)[1][2] is a German line of toys produced by the Brandsttter Group (Geobra Brandsttter GmbH & Co KG), headquartered in Zirndorf, Germany. The company believes that older children tend not to play with these types of toys and so they have resisted creating toys from less well-known historical time periods. [58][59] It went on to gross $660,000 in its opening weekend (an average of $287 per-venue), the fourth-worst of all-time. When her younger brother Charlie unexpectedly disappears into the magical, animated universe of PLAYMOBIL, unprepared Marla must go on a quest of a lifetime to bring him home, setting off on a fantastic journey across stunning new worlds. [clarification needed]. Many adults own or collect Playmobil and make movies with the toys. Playmobil toys are produced in themed series of sets as well as individual special figures and playsets. [56] Originally projected to gross $600,000$800,000 on its opening day, Playmobil grossed just $167,000, making it the third-worst opening day of all time for a 2,000-plus theatre production, behind Delgo (2008) and The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (2012);[57] fourth if counting the 2014 re-release of Saw (2004) and 24th if also including films with between 1,000 and 1,999 theaters. [12], Playmobil has received criticisms for the lack of presence of the Catalan Language in the labeling of its products in Catalonia despite being bound by current legislation. Playmobil Pro was made available in the United States in January 2020.[10]. [13] Catalan consumers mobilized in various actions to request not to be discriminated against and to demand the company to comply with the regulations passed by the Parliament of Catalonia in the same way as it did with the rest of the European legislation on labeling.[14]. [citation needed], Playmobil was invented by German inventor Hans Beck (19292009), considered the "Father of Playmobil". [11] In 1982, Schaper arranged a promotion to distribute Playmobil toys nationwide as in McDonald's Happy Meals. The first figures used a chiseled out hairpiece with a button shape for adding headgear, until a later redesign gave the hairpiece a more natural rounded shape, also prompting a redesign of the headgear. These sets are not marketed as Playmobil, though they are identical in terms of appearance (but not in regards to quality). According to Deadline Hollywood, Playmobil was released only weeks after Frozen II and used a variable pricing strategy where STX and many theater chains offered $5 tickets. They invented little scenarios for them. Approximately 10 million of the Sheriff and Indian Playmobil toys were distributed from October 22 through November 1, 1982. There are also FunStores within FunParks and, formerly, in other locations. 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. New & Upcoming Superhero Movies and Series. 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. What is the Hindi language plot outline for Playmobil: The Movie (2019)? Especially notable for their fine attention to detail[citation needed] are the modern construction and city life toys (automobiles, cranes, fire engines, trains, boats, etc.). In Argentina Playmobil is licensed by Antex, for distribution in all South American markets. [citation needed] Collector activities extend beyond collecting and free-form play and include customization, miniature wargaming, and the creation of photo stories and stop motion films, or simply as decoration. In a mid-credits, a security guard finds Maximus in his cage and places his on Mount Olympus. A number of different companies were licensed throughout Europe and Latin America to produce and distribute Playmobil figures: In Spain, figures were produced by the leading dollmaker Famosa, and marketed as "los clicks de Famobil". In order to produce enough sets to release them to the entire world at the same time, Playmobil would need to buy two of each mold. [4] Beck conducted research that allowed him to develop a toy that would not be too complex but would nevertheless be flexible. )[2], Beck spent three years from 1971 to 1974 developing what became Playmobil. [15], Themes produced by Playmobil as of July 2022:[16]. From 1976 to 1980, Playmobil was licensed by Louis Marx and Company in the United Kingdom and sold under the brand name Playpeople. The first female figures were distinguished by hairstyle and a wider chestpiece suggesting a skirt, until a redesign replaced the chestpiece with more displayed breasts and slightly thinner arms. Since 1982 all figures have hands that also rotate at the wrist. Following the collapse of communism, a 1995 court ruling forbade the manufacture and distribution of the Schenk figures. New products and product lines developed by a 50-strong development team[citation needed] are introduced frequently, and older sets are discontinued. This is known as "System-X" and is now the standard Playmobil construction system, Steck-System having been retired except for special reissues. (The Playmobil toys were not involved in any reported choking incidents.) By the end of the year, Geobra Brandsttter had achieved sales of 3 million Deutschmarks with Playmobil one-sixth of the company's total sales. Playmobil was introduced to the United States by Mattel and Schaper. The rising oil prices imposed on Geobra Brandsttter, for whom Beck worked as head of development, demanded that the company turn to products that required less solid plastic material than the hula hoops and other large plastic items the company had been producing as toys. [4] Playmobil began to be sold worldwide in 1975, and by 2009, approximately 2.2 billion Playmobil figures had been sold. 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. He felt that too much flexibility would get in the way of children's imaginations, and too much rigidity would cause frustration. This page was last edited on 1 July 2022, at 16:20. The scene ends with the sound of Maximus' laughter. Earlier figures had arms of one piece. Promotional and one-off products are sometimes produced in very limited quantities. Playmobil has been a major competitor to Lego toys. Will the young fairies manage to protect their world. [7] Examples of directly competing toys in both their product lines are not hard to find. The five Playmobil toys that were to be included in the promotion were a Sheriff, an Indian, a Sheriff's Horse, an Umbrella Girl and a Farmer. There are currently three main factories in Europe: Germany, Malta, and Spain. The owner of Schenk, Kroly Schenk, was allowed to sell off his remaining toy figures only in Hungary until March 1996. In 1978, Schenk[hu], a German-Hungarian firm, began reproducing bootleg Playmobil figures. 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. Playmobil hands were designed to be capable of gripping and holding objects. The Playmobil Pro figures differ from classic Playmobil figures by their white colouration and simple designs. Was surprised when I saw the crazy low critics score, its really not too bad. [2] Playmobils revenue in 2008 was $589 million.[2]. The first Playmobil sets were themed around Native Americans, construction workers and knights.[8]. 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. A wide range of accessories, buildings and vehicles, as well as many sorts of animals, are also part of the Playmobil line. The concept aimed to rival Lego Serious Play, by incorporating the Playmobil figure into a modelling kit used for corporate creative workshops. Females were distinguished by hairstyle, a wider chestpiece suggesting a skirt, and some had arms that look bent but are not. Schenk produced exact copies of the original toy, though some sets were modified to create new types of sets, usually military, from Hungarian history. Over the years, some proposed sets have included Chinese Railroad Workers and a Grave Digger for the Western theme, as well as a Medieval Torture Room. [6], In 1974, the company put the first sets of knights,[2] Native Americans, and construction workers on show in its display rooms. Playmobil building parts were originally designed to fit together using a system of tabs and slots known as "Steck-System". 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. [60] Rebecca Rubin, a Variety writer, attributed the low box office to the Playmobil brand being far less popular than Lego. The North American printing adds the 2019 MPA logo to the end credits. Other sets included the Austrian soldier (Osztrk), Turkish soldier (Trk), William Tell (Tell Vilmos), and the Hunyadi series (Hunyadi sorozat). DUCK ON CALL: a separate series in high-quality CGI animation on YouTube and YouTube Kids takes the little fans to Playmoville and tells about the experiences of the lovable rescuers with a lot of humor. They had not received any authorization or license from geobra Brandsttter. Eventually, as production for the piece slowed down, the second mold would be useless. However, Schenk bootlegs may still be available in toy shops in Hungary. 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.
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