October 22, 2022

The most recent updates are for Shields and Robots.

On the shield pages, thanks to Bob, the two newest Novelmore shields from the desert sets recently released in Germany. They are not available here in the US yet, but may be in European markets.

The round one is a slight recolor of an existing shield, with a brighter red tone.

The smaller one is the child's shield in use by the skeleton army. The same decoration family but without the face the others use. It went into the Organic heraldry group for now. Should the green slime be considered a heraldry grouping? Up to now all had the face and are grouped on that page, but this little one is outside that classification.

The other updates this time are to the Robomobil pages.

The photo of the Tricerabot

It has weapon launcher points inside doors that open from the back, that yellow part. it isn't int he Animobil proper pages yet, but I am considering adding it since I have the robot fish there already.

Other additions are pages for the following.

The small propeller drone from Wiltopia set 71008

A beetle bot in green and silver from the 2022 Advent Calendar 71088

The propeller bot from Dragons:Nine Realms 71081

A small propeller drone version from Dragons:Nine Realms 71085

And some time ago the propeller bot from the Rescue set 70140

The small propeller drones are listed in the same heading group as the Propeller Bots but seem to be using a new main piece.

The line between robots and drones is blurry. I have deliberately not included exo-suits since they require a human in them, but obviously potentially could since they can be played with without the klicky. This is muddied by Playmobil calling their most recent Police exo-suit a robot. It has a klicky controller in it though so I have left it off like the others.

I also have not included the really big drones as they are clearly intended to not be autonomous. But then smaller drones like these propeller bot offshoots are a question under the same criteria and maybe should be left out. The propeller bots themselves have faces, though their autonomy is questionable in many of the sets.

Thanks for reading - Tiermann

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