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Playmobil has since 1974 been stimulating the imagination and creativity of children everywhere. 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. More About Playmobil a b "Everything revolves around the Figure". playmobilusa.com. Archived from the original on 2013-06-19 . Retrieved 2012-08-27. 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. Visit beautiful Norwich Department store in the Heart of Norwich, or one of our branches in Norfolk Playmobil hands were designed to be capable of gripping and holding objects. Earlier figures had arms of one piece. Since 1982 all figures have hands that also rotate at the wrist. [3] Almost all Playmobil figures are unnamed, thus allowing children to invent their own characters. 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. 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. 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, smaller waists and slightly thinner arms.

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In 2004, BMW licensed the familiar Playmobil look and feel to release an exclusive BMW Z4 done in Playmobil scale. It also came with two Playmobil passengers. Originally, the only way to get one of these Z4s (available in deep red or blue) was to take a test drive at a BMW dealership in Germany. Shortly thereafter, versions in a pale yellow or eggshell blue were available in European toy stores. Though not manufactured by Playmobil, they were officially licensed. McNary, Dave (May 6, 2016). "Open Road Joins 'Playmobil' Animated Movie". Variety . Retrieved August 12, 2016. Shortly after the weekend, Grayson responded that STX would use variable pricing in their future projects: "we have already learned from this experiment. 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." [23] While the film's several worldwide distributors recouped TV sale money, they also financed it via pre-sales and thus face losses. [23] Rebecca Rubin, a Variety writer, attributed the low box office to the Playmobil brand being far less popular than Lego. [23] TV series [ edit ] One Man's Tiny Plastic Universe". Christian Science Monitor. 1997-10-07. ISSN 0882-7729 . Retrieved 2018-11-07. Playmobil toys are specifically aimed at children from the ages of four to twelve. 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. Many adults own or collect Playmobil and make movies with the toys.Build, learn and play with Playmobil and bring creativity to playtime. The range of themes covered by Playmobil blends fantasy lands with real life scenarios for a fun and interchangeable experience that lets imagination lead the construction. On 4 November 2020, a CGI animated TV series titled Novelmore launched on the Playmobil YouTube channel and on YouTube Kids. Comprising 26 episodes, the series centres around the Knights of Novelmore and their battle for a magical armour. [25] Playmobil Dino Rise series launches ahead of new range". Toy World Magazine | The business magazine with a passion for toys. 2021-05-04 . Retrieved 2021-07-29. A number of different companies were licensed throughout Europe and Latin America to produce and distribute Playmobil figures: McDonald's Voluntarily Stops Playmobil Promotion And Recalls". keepkidshealthy.com. 1982-11-03. Archived from the original on 2006-05-21.

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Wilson, Jason (9 October 2015). "The Playmobil Conundrum". The New Yorker . Retrieved 2 April 2021. This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot. Please consider converting them to full citations to ensure the article remains verifiable and maintains a consistent citation style. Several templates and tools are available to assist in formatting, such as reFill ( documentation) and Citation bot ( documentation). ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)In early 2019, a prototype for a product named Playmobil Pro was posted on LinkedIn. The product line introduced the Playmobil figure into corporate settings, targeting adult professionals in place of children. The concept aimed to rival Lego Serious Play, by incorporating the Playmobil figure into a modelling kit used for corporate creative workshops. The Playmobil Pro figures differ from classic Playmobil figures by their white colouration and simple designs. Playmobil Pro was made available in the United States in January 2020. [10] Licensing [ edit ] The first Playmobil sets were themed around Native Americans, construction workers and knights. [8] 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. Schenk figures also bear different colors from their Playmobil counterparts. They were also made with inferior plastic. Following the collapse of communism, a 1995 court ruling forbade the manufacture and distribution of the Schenk figures. The owner of Schenk, Károly Schenk, was allowed to sell off his remaining toy figures only in Hungary until March 1996. However, Schenk bootlegs may still be available in toy shops in Hungary.