playkingdoms: playmobil® rules

The figures were launched in 2011 , featuring twelve "boys" and twelve "girls" in blind bags.

The idea is to collect them all, and with their special frame and head they can be easily popped and body parts swapped.

The frames are (almost all) grey:

The heads are clearly marked with a triangle in the back:

In theory, this would work well. However, there are a couple of problems in practice. The most obvious one is the different body types. With some "speedos" and fat/pregnant klickys in the mix, that exchange is quite hampered. The second problem is the wild diversity of themes on each series. Not a bad thing per se, obviously, but it quite limits the possibilities of trading body parts and achieve a "usable" klicky. All the instructions confirm this - they always show freaks.

Update: This changed in Series 11 - both papers show klickys that actually make some sense!

To me, the Figures were (and are) welcome. I do have a (couple of) pop tub(s) full of parts, so I can change parts as much as I desire. And the possibility of being able to pop the klicky without problems became quite useful when "drafting" them. It is just not the same to set the neck over the frame, or omit it to see the result.

From the beginning, we had 2 series each year. It was always excessive. Not enough time for people to hunt them, too many to buy (I think wallets all over were not happy at all), and then there was the lack of imagination on the series themselves - though this can hardly be blamed on the amount of klickys - I'm sure we could easily come up with enough interesting klickys for SEVERAL series, with no repeats.

From series 10, playmobil said it would change. Series 11 was not launched in 2016. Wallets rejoiced. We all hoped that wasn't the end of the figures. It wasn't.

Update: Unfortunately, that thought lasted only for 2016, and in 2017 we are back to two series per year. Wallets prepare!

I still think themes would be better than boys + girls. Not only allowing resulting klickys to make sense (keeping in mind the different body types), but also in people having less chances of getting a klicky they really are not interested in.

The blind component is fun.. rarely. Most of the time it just gets annoying. Here at least it is very rare to be able to actually buy them on a shop. And even when they are in stock, many times there's like a dozen packs, or we can't really put the grab on them.

So, we resorted to buying full boxes. Got screwed a couple of times, but I wonder if they were really "original closed boxes". In all the others there were 4 of each figure inside.

Update: Unfortunately, that changed later. There were plenty of uneven boxes (sealed) and some figures totally missing. I supose the lack of quality control also applies to what is in the box

So, the series... Links for series include boxes, packs, general comments, and extras (when available). You can access the Boys or Girls review or the kept ones, from those links.

I will try to add all the series review... eventually. The dates on the reviews reflect the date they were made... not published here.

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