To be honest, most of my childhood was fantasizing about playing wit the Western sets of Playmobil as we had little money and I only had a few set/figurines: 7:53, 11:11, 13:22, 13:45, and a few solo figurines. But the yearly catalogues showed all the bigger sets and gave some diorama's and that was enough for trips down fantasy lane to create my own stories and adventures.
I was lucky enough that I got a western showroom model from a toystore, it was glued on plastified colored multiplex, getting the glue of was quite easy. It had the Sheriff building 19:48 and Saloon 20:36 and some characters, plants, animals, etc. Also had 12:44 13:01 13:26 15:49 17:50 18:12 19:07 20:12 20:25 20:58 21:41
My god, this made me realize how many Western sets I owned as a kid: 11:48 Sheriff's Office (was the center piece of my "town" - and actually the only building LOL) 12:42 Sheriff 13:01 Bandit 13:26 Two Cowboys (one with cool spurs) 13:45 Two Yankee Soldiers (one being a general with a silver sabre) 14:05 Yankee Cavalry Patrol 15:27 Yankee Artillery 14:47 Buffalo Hunt 16:11 Mexican with Guitar (not sure I owned that one, but feels familiar) 16:20 Carriage 16:39 Train with Wagons (one of my favourite Playmobil sets of all time besides the castle of that time) 16:41 Bandits with Vultures (such a cool set) 16:53 Trapper 17:03 Cowboy with Life Stock 17:15 Native Americans with Mohawk caps (I hated that you couldn't put them on horseback because of their belts, but other than that these guys looked so cool!) 17:25 Native American Family With Dog (I'm not sure I owned this, but the yellow tunic of the man feels familiar) 17:37 Native American Village (what a beautiful set! Can't get any better than this! I played the shit out of that set!) 17:48 Native American Chief 18:00 Trapper and Native American With Canoe 18:22 Winnetou!!!!!! (I didn't own this set, but I never realized Playmobil made a Winnetou set! You immiediately recognize him if you know the novels and movies about the Apache Winnetou. PLAYMOBIL really knows what they're doing!) 18:35 Sadly, all the following sets I only saw in catalogues. It was at that time that I started to lose interest in PLAYMOBIL and gravitated more towards Lego or Ninja Turtles. But the sets that are following are - to me - the best series of Western sets PLAYMOBIL ever released: The details on the figures and play sets, by that time, had reached a perfect level (without overdoing it). You can see how PLAYMOBIL started out very plain in the 70s, then, in the 80s, they added rotating hands and accessories, then, by the 90s, they added shoe molds and reached perfection. THANK YOU PLAYMOBIL (and THANK YOU to this channel!!!!) for all the good memories! 28:38 How time flies!!! I bought this set (Wagon Ambush) last Christmas (2023) for my nephew. The circle repeats. Eventually, he will sit in front of a video and become all nostalgic about his own Western sets.
I got a lot of the early sets. After 12:17 I was no longer into kids toys. So everything from then on was nothing I possessed and played with. But I bought some of the later sets as an adult and still have them somewhere stored in boxes. After 26:47 it just hasn't the look and feel of the basic Playmobil sets I played with in my childhood.
