October 1, 2022

The Shields pages have been updated with the expected remaining shields from 2022

Thanks to Bob for the photos of them

from the Greek sets 70949 and 70950

from the Asterix Advent Calendar

One final new one that may come out this year is from the Dragons Nine Realms series set 71080

On the Animobil main site the Wiltopia Advent Calendar animals have been added. Also recently found are most of the part numbers for the first wave of Wiltopia. All of that info is on appropriate pages on the site, and in the master list. There is a subsection for Wiltopia as well, broken down by wave or series. There look to be two more sets in the Amazon theme coming early next year. Hopefuilly it will be popular enough to bring us additional series from other locations. In many ways having a realistic adventure series based on an actual location is very much old school Playmobil. The toy started out intended as pretend play directly linked to real every day life or history and has drifted into fantasy themes pretty heavily the last few years. This return to real world direct links in the animal adventure theme is a really positive development. 2022 has been the biggest year ever for new animal variants with 179 counted so far. That is 70+ more than the previous record year. It's largely due to Wiltopia rereleasing so many animals in a variant plastic, paint or color. Still there have been many exciting new species this year, so a great year for the animals. It's been pretty good for the shields too, with the excellent additions to the Greek history and mythology theme. Hopefully that will continue into the future as well.

Thanks for reading - Tiermann

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