I guess Playmobil saw that Lego’s been printing money lately, and wanted to get some of that?
However, this reminds me of a story.
Back in the day — as in, a few decades ago — I wanted a catapult for my desk. A working one. And I couldn’t find one. As this was in the 1990s, it wasn’t a trivial exercise to shop online (it wasn’t even a difficult exercise to shop online), so I had to hit up hobby shops and museum places and whatnot*. I eventually found more or less this:
…in the toy section of a toy/model/gaming store. And, with the strategic use of rubber bands, I could even get it to fire. Proud day, proud day. But, of course, now all I’d have to do is go to Amazon and look it up.
:pause:
Good. Finding the dang thing the first time was a real pain in the sit-upon.
Anyway, this has nothing to do with the Playmobil movie, but at least they’re not doing a total, frame by frame ripoff of the Lego Movie, right?
Did you ever play “Crossbows and Catapults”? That was a great game. It also has nothing to do with the Playmobil movie. I’m still trying to figure out how to pronounce “Playmobil”, and so I could never see it in the theater because I wouldn’t utter the word out loud for fear of saying it wrong in public.
I usually say “Play-mobile,” because nobody else knows, right?