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February 3, 2019

Nuremberg Toyfair has happened and lots of new sets are now online in the catalogs and many on Playmobil.de

The biggest theme for new animals this year is the Mermaids Undersea world, there are a number of sets and most have at least one new color variation.

Totally new are these things which are probably tunicates.

Lot's of flowers have been added to the usual corals to fluff up the underwater world. There may be some corals in new colors but not much definite yet. I am leaving them off for now and when part numbers come available with the instruction sheets I will add any that turn up.

One definite new one is the sea anemone in blue

There is this clamshell box with a new insert. May or may not be a new color and number

The giant clam in new colors and reconformed to be a night light

New colors for fish

New dolphin colors

New sea turtle color combo

and a totally new giant nautilus

No shields at all in that theme.

The 123 series has some new fish colors as well

and a new unicorn

We've already seen the new licnsed Spirit Riding Free animnals in my last post. Here are the other Dreamworks licensed theme animals - How to Train Your Dragon 3

Playmobil has announced additional future licenses of Heidi, Back to the Future, and Scooby Doo. Nothing seen for them yet though.

Mid-year there will be a Playmobil Movie released in theaters. There are sets for it including a figure series and some others. Here are the new animals seen so far for the Movie

And there are shields with this theme

That double lion in gold and red is really outstanding.

Not yet in the catalog or on the website is a new knights fantasy battle theme of fire versus water. It has been shown in publicity stills so far on social media. There is an advent calendar for the theme that has been announced though. Two new animals so far, and some shields

Also in an advent calendar are two new cattle color variations. I am wondering if it may be the flocked spots on these white cattle as previously seen in advent calendars for horses and ponies.

That's it so far. There will be more sets coming later in the year. If you have noticed anything else definite please let me know. I haven't updated Animobil sites to reflect this yet, but will be doing so by the end of the month.

Thanks for reading - Tiermann

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You can find links to past posts on the page below. Eventually they will get archived into directories by calendar year. Hope you continue to find the blog useful - Tiermann