July 29, 2024

Today's update features items just received in a shipment from Germany thanks to the help of my friend Daniela.

The most interesting part of the package consisted of items collected for me from the Zirndorf Funpark by Queen Tahra of Playkingdoms.

In the Funpark shop Tahra found large bins of 1-2-3 series animals on sale. I suspect these are a clear out of leftover items from the switch to the new plastics being used for the Juniors line. Among the animals in the bins were 4 new 1-2-3 fish that have never been seen in sets.

For some years now in the Funpark there have been large clamshells with water flowing through them that bubbles up small parts. Past assortments from the shells have been on the Animobil Funpark Animals page since 2005. In the Funpark shop they sell bagged sets of these parts. Tahra bought two different bags from the shop but both include older assortments of parts I have already seen. The parts in the clamshells out in the park, however, were a new assortment. I don't know if this assortment is entirely new for 2024 or may have been there in 2023. I am placing the many unique animal colors under 2024 for now.

Here is the assortment collected with the help of Tahra's friend Arthur, thanks very much to both of them.

The three clamshells are repeats of existing items. The three toy fish are new color variants. The two butterfly clips are new colors. The four seahorses are new colors. Three of the starfish are new colors. The blue starfish is the same as the light blue one in the current mermaids series 30 02 5714. All four seal toys are new color variants as well.

Here are the individual photos of all the new colors. Note the light green of the seahorse and starfish is so light it looks almost white in some photos.

Some group photos to show them with the previous colors

Tahra kindly got me some other Funpark items like the 50th Anniversary Knight Keychain. Thanks again to her for all the help.

Some final items that I received from her coming from other sources:

Unpainted 1-2-3 giraffe

Unpainted flying brown lizard

Unpainted Wiltopia kingfisher

 Unpainted gold meerkat

Unpainted red meerkat

Unpainted grey type 1 sea lion, the painted version is from set 71448

The painted monkey from the pirate set 71530 that isn't out in the US yet.

Also in this shipment were a number of things I had gotten from the German parts department or from magazines or other items only available from Germany.

From the parts department:

The camel from the Asterix pyramid set, a new darker color 30 66 1096

The wyvern small type 3 in blue and yellow from set 71483, body 30 66 2346 and wings 30 60 1473

Yellow songbird from Novelmore set 71484

The puma or cougar from 71463, 30 66 1766

Note they have changed the mold since the original version that had a larger head

From the Bio-Farm series

From the Korean exclusive set 71312 the green teddy bear 30 02 0005

From the Tiny House series

An even lighter orange set of squirrels than from the Wiltopia main series, 30 51 3733

From the school set 71327 the light pink butterfly 30 63 8798

The proper version of the light brown spotted calf from Bio-Farm set 71304, 30 65 8915. The version that I got in my actual set had the reverse molded head. The correctly molded head is now available from parts.

Correct:

The reverse molded head sent out in many sets:

A purple owl; a different purple than the previous version. This number I got off PlaymoDB and I think it must be from the only recent set to use the purple owl, set 70865 - a European excusive set from 2021. The part number is 30 66 7824

Here it is with the other owls and you can see it's a lighter purple color than the earlier one from the Fairies series

Off of German eBay I finally got the pink giant seahorse from set 5028, 30 63 0444

Here it is compared to the other pink giant seahorses. The best way to tell it apart is the thin amount of white painted in the eye. I think the plastic color is actually the same on this one.

Also from this shipment were three issues of Playmobil Magazines with unique animals.

Baby Tyrannosaurus rex 7 from Playmobil magazine issue Nr. 9 , Playmobil shop number 80865

it is the darkest green of the baby rexes so far

Here are their backs

From Wiltopia Magazine issue #6, Playmobil shop number 80754, the black panther

It is of course in the recycled content plastic and not quite black

In this group image it is on the right

And from Playmobil Pink magazine issue Nr. 10, shop number 80939, this white sporthorse

Note that while the original promo art for the magazine just shows the horse, the actual packaging includes the Horses of Waterfall logo. The white is in fact the not as white recycled content type plastic and the mane and tail are actually a slightly darker grey than the previous regular version.

There were three other additions this update as well.

Missed previously, the star in the Junior Advent Calendar is actually the new Starfish mold in yellow

There is a Playmobil Girls Magazine shop number 80954 with a gold mermaid in it that includes the white baby seal with no eye painting.

And many part numbers of the new Australian Wiltopia series are now available. Thanks to Gaetan for sending these to me. Included among them is that the frilled lizards are in fact two different ones with different body part numbers, so the second one has been added. The frill is a separate piece and is the same for both.

That is it for this update. The next update will include the new Anniversary Knight finally, updating the Caparison pictures on the Shields pages. It will also include a number of minor additions thanks to Gaetan tracking down the differences between part numbers as well as a couple of pick ups of old variations previously missed. Look for those updates in early August. Have a happy and safe summer everyone.

Thanks for reading - Tiermann

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