Getting Ready for the Guests’ Arrival

            “Quickly!  Quickly!  We must make sure the welcome doormat is nice and clean before our guests arrive!”

The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 25th of November is “mad about mats”.  I immediately thought of the wonderful collection of 1:12 miniature carpets which have been painstakingly reproduced from original Persian and Turkish designs by Mackay and Gerrish in Sydney, but of course, they are carpets and not mats.  Then, on the sunny Sunday morning after the theme was released, I looked out of my front door and noticed the sun illuminating my front doormat.  It gave me the inspiration to use some of my Playmobil characters sweeping up my doormat instead.  I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.

Playmobil is a line of toys produced by the Brandstätter Group, headquartered in Zirndorf, Germany.  Production began in 1974.  Playmobil began to be sold worldwide in 1975, and by 2009, approximately 2.2 billion Playmobil figures had been sold.  The signature Playmobil toy is a 7.5 cm tall human figure with a particular smiling face.  A wide range of accessories, buildings and vehicles, as well as many sorts of animals, are also part of the Playmobil line.  Playmobil toys are produced in themed series of sets as well as individual special figures and playsets.  New products and product lines developed by a 50-strong development team are introduced frequently, and older sets are discontinued.  Promotional and one-off products are sometimes produced in very limited quantities. These practices have helped give rise to a sizeable community of collectors.  This tableau features some very special edition pieces which include the handmaid from the 2016 series 6843, “Princess and Handmaid” duo: the 1996 “Dove Girl” Playmobil Special 4526 which is their version of Cinderella: and there is also a figure of the Gingerbread Baker from series 9392 which is a commemorative figure to celebrate 90 years of the famous lebkuchen baker Schmidt in 2017.

Taken on: November 12, 2023

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