Feb 3 2009Playmobil Toy Founder Dies At 79

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Hans Beck, the founder of the German toy manufacturer Playmobil, has passed away. He was 79.

"No horror, no superficial violence, not short-lived trends," was Beck's motto, and some 2.2 billion dolls later, the range is the foundation of the company's prosperity and is exported to 70 nations.


The company grew to a payroll of nearly 3,000 and had sales last year of 452 million euros ($588 million).

I definitely played with Playmobil when I was a kid, and may or may not still stage Playmobil vs LEGO battles. So what if I do? Awesome, that's what.

R.I.P. Hans

Hit the jump for a pretty sweet airport-security Playmobil set I've got my eye on.

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Hans Beck, Father of Playmobil Toys, Dies at 79 [dw-world]

Thanks to Sarahj and Romeo, who are more than welcome to join me for this week's epic LEGO castle vs Playmobil pirate battle.

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SECOND!!!

I too enjoyed playing with playmobil. Infact, it was while playing with them with a friend who was a few years older that I first heard about sex. He was doing strange things with the boy and girl playmobils, and I asked him what was going on. When he told me what they were doing i said "No way, why would anyone want to do that?

Good. More cheese for me.

Odd, they made a Playmobil set for Weddings, but not for Funerals. Oops, bad planning on your part Hans!

Check this out:

http://store.playmobilusa.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-US-Site/en_US/Search-Show?cgid=S_ARTIKEL

Where's the "primadonna Christian Bale has hissy fit over DP walking on set" playmobile huh?

Bat-bitch

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max's mother gets upset at the TV Shows Max watches. Since these shows originate in Canada Max's mother's protest escalates into full scale war with Canada.

Bale freaks out one day at work and you scum are entropy atrophy path-of-least-resistance jumping off bridges cuz everyone else does every single day of the year.

Then again Daisy's copy and paste is comforting cuz we dont actually read it.

I wonder what kind of a world you'd all have us in ideally?

My favorite playmobil set consisted of a policeman with a billy club, a hobo with a bindlestiff and bottle, and a park bench.

I am now loving the filth-filter. It has given me new hope. Thanks GW.

I'm going to be right pissed when you assholes make the GW shut down the comments section because you want to whine like little bitches that you can't say swear words. Get over it.

Or maybe the "When I Get Home She Better Have My Damn Dinner Ready Or She'll Have TWO Black Eyes" Playmobil set.

Now with actual slapping sounds!

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Half Past Dead where Sasha who goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving Lester a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.

@15
Why? Because YOU won't have a place to píss and moan anymore? Want some cheese with that whine? Fũck you buddy!

@15 - You see that Ollie? It smarts, doesn't it? Gettin' slammed in the nose fũcks you all up. You got that pain shootin' through your brain. Your eyes fill up with water. It ain't any kind of fun. But what I have to offer you. That's as good as it's gonna get, and it won't ever get that good again.

@18, 19

I'd rather be the guy who enjoys coming here to post than act like a child and posting swear words with tilde's on top of letters just to spite the fact that the OWNER OF THIS WEBSITE asked you not to.

Grow the hell up.

21 - You are absolutely right. He as the owner of the site does have to absolute right to control/moderate content. I really did kind of forget that fact. On that note, since I deplore the idiotic hypcrisy in his posting NSFW content and not letting us say curse words... I'm out bitches. Have fun, take care.

Where is the KKK rally Playmobil??

ballcockery is all that comes to mind after reading these comments.

i wonder if his coffin will be made of unbreakable plastic with a lid that never quite latches properly. R.I.P. dude. Playmobil is the coolest toy that I steal from my kid, next to his RC dinosaur, which I use to terrorize my wifes cats..

Suck it Ollie! GW uses f.U.c.K in his tags. and with the stupid filter on, I can't even post links to some parts of the site. Please see http://www.geekologie.com/2009/01/04-week/
Look at the tags for that loud annoying kid that may or may not be Ollie.

@25

You're right, I'm not the owner, however the owner DID tell you to not post profanity, and yet you're still doing it. Why? Because you're a tool, and you think it's either funny, or you're doing it out of spite because the normal words are banned. Either case, you're an idiot.

@27

And you're still too retarded to notice that he implemented the word filter after those posts. So your argument is irrelevant.

Curiously enough, I found all my Playmobil toys in the attic last weekend!

@28

I do this as a matter of principle. If the GW can post naughty words and pictures, I should be allowed also. And so should you. Also, you can still have your URL set to a porn site. Just an FYI to the masses. POOP!

@29

No, you are the mentally defective. You didn't quite grasp what I said. I can't directly reference previous Geekologie URLs in my comment post because of the filter.

@29

Let's put it this way Ollie, so you can understand, until the GW blocks access to his own postings full of nudity and "bad" words, I will continue to be as you put it, a retard. A retard that can spot hypocrisy when he sees it.

Awww!! The airport set is sooo cute!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@34

It's not hypocrisy, it's someone who owns a website stating the rules. You don't own the website, he does. If he chooses to use profanity and not allow comments to contain it, that's his right to do so. Furthermore, if he chooses to block profanity so you cannot repost his links on the comments section, that's again his choice.

Your mentality on this topic is like saying "You can come to my house, and I'm going to use profanity, but you're not allowed to." As the person who owns the house, that's his choice to not have you use profanity. You know what your options are at that house or on this comments section? You can get the hell out. Don't let the door hit you on the ass.

You're still a moron.

This news makes me sad.

Wtf is going on, all the numbers are off....are posts/comments actually getting deleted now?

Sounds like thumperchickas having her period.

I would like for GW to get rid of the comments section alltogether so that we dont have this mess and the stupid never back down jokes anymore.

yep

Ollie Williams kann auf meinem Riesen, Samen saugen gefüllte Penis. Bumsen Sie, Ollie.

This site is dying a fast death. I don't even think it's the same writer anymore, the jokes have been pretty lame the past few days. It's really disappointing, because my boss is counting on me not to get any work done.

Oh, and to Ollie Williams: vai fan culo. So, the GW is like someone who invites you to his house, swears profusely, but asks you to mind your language. And when people criticise him for this, your belittle their mentality?! Why has the owner of the site not done something to block these damned drippy-dicks who go by the names of Daisy and Spam Artist? Then again, maybe the GW is getting the short end of the stick here, since he's not the owner of the site. Still sucks. I'm gone. And you can stil vai fan culo.

@36

Good riddance.

@37

Go back to your shitty show you Al Roker rip off. Nobody likes you. Why do you bother getting up every morning? Just kill yourself now and quit breathing our air.

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