Why medieval castles seemed so familiar in the history class for me and most of my classmates? Why some of us have a dj vu when we watch films like the “Pirates of the Caribbean”? We have spent so much time assembling the Playmobil version of the castle, or making stories about pirates, knights, sheriffs and Native Americans as children and playing with the Playmobil spaceship, that sometimes we think that we actually have lived in all those places. For everyone who was a child in the 1980s and later Playmobil is not just the name of a toy, it is a legend.
This legendary story of “Playmobil” started in the 1971, when Horst Brandsttter the owner of toy manufacturer “geobra Brandsttter”, asked the -so called- “father of Playmobil”, Hans Beck, then a cabinetmaker to develop figures for children. Beck spent three years developing what became Playmobil. His aim was to create a simple and flexible toy and as it turns out he could not be more successful. Playmobil, a 7.5 cm toy, with hands, which are capable of gripping and holding objects and a facial design based on children’s drawings (big smile, no nose), was first...
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