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Playmobil Knights 6004 Ogre

I spotted this brand new Playmobil Ogre set during my last trip to Toys R Us and had to snap a couple pictures of it. I won't be getting it myself (unless I get my hands on the Ogre for cheap someday) - the set was selling for $26.99 at my local Toys R Us (it can probably be found for around 20-25 elsewhere) and it's a bit outside my collecting focus (hahahaha 'focus', that's a good one!) - but it's incredibly awesome and I couldn't pass up the chance to let my fellow toy geeks know about it.

The Playmobil Knights sub-theme has a few Dragons, and the Fairy sub-theme has Unicorns and perhaps Pegasuses (Pegasi?) but this is the first time to my knowledge Playmobil has made an oversized humanoid mythical creature. It may be completely anecdotal, but I swear I read once that Playmobil would only make toys of 'real' or historical people and animals. Like firemen and farmers and giraffes and knights and elephants and dogs and stuff. I suppose any variation on the human figure could also be considered 'real' as anyone can dress up as anything, so even a fairy or a ghost was ok because it was always easily explained as just a real person dressed up as a fairy or a ghost. I think I read about this when Playmobil first started making dinosaurs and dinosaur themed playsets - there was some trepidation about doing so, because although they are real and historical, they are not something that humans ever interacted with (and that was a big theme for the dinosaur sets). But they were real once, so it was ok...I guess.

I don't know what changed, perhaps the death of the founder of Playmobil in 2009, but Playmobil has slowly been expanding their repertoire with more and more mythical creatures over the past few years, culminating in this awesome Ogre. Man, I really want this thing now! If anyone out there does have him, send me some pics and I'll post them for the world to see!

11 comments:

  1. I wonder if Playmobil is seeing how much luck Fisher Price is having with their Imaginext line, and decided to try and follow their example.

    Has Playmobil ever released figures or playsets based on licensed properties, or have they always done their own thing?

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    1. They've stayed away from licensing outside their own concepts.

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  2. I've heard a lot about this guy. He's not that posable besides the arms, but he looks really cool. I really like this new Knights line they've put out. The LED ghost is fantastic.

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    1. No,lol.I think this was Fisher Price's way of discreetly telling us that Ogres were real (since their toy line Is non-fiction based) It was a joke gone horribly wrong,Lol!

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    2. Hahaha ok I get it now. Pretty funny, actually. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!

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  4. Neat! I think I saw this on my last trip to TRU.

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  5. Whats even funnier is how i refered to Playmobile as Fisher Price ;)

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