9441 – Knight with Cannon

Knight with Cannon Released: 2018 RRP: £3.99 Rating: ★★★★ The Middle Ages are a construct that can largely be laid at the feet of the Italian poet Francesco Petrarch. In the mid-fourteenth century, Petrarch declared that culture had died out with the collapse of the Roman Empire a millennium earlier but was now reborn –

70566 – Pirate

Pirate Released: 2021 RRP: £1.99 (FI?URES Series 19) Rating: ★★★★ Over the past six months A. has become increasingly interested in pirates, the ‘fault’ of which lies almost entirely at the feet of Playmobil! It’s only since she’s had pirate klickies that she’s got into such shows as Swashbuckle (on CBeebies) and Jake and the

70159 – Musketeer

Musketeer Released: 2019 RRP: £1.99 (FI?URES Series 16) Rating: ★★★★ The FI?URES series offer some really excellent klickies but they are, of course, designed to be mystery packs. Apart from groping around packages in one’s local toy shop, the best way to get hold of a specific figure is to buy one from someone who’s

70032 – Playmo-Friends Pirate

Pirate Released: 2019 RRP: £2.99 Rating: ★★★★★ Our first pirate was this dashing figure, who made repeated attempts to steal breakfast and was frequently found hiding in our cereal boxes, much to A.’s great delight and amusement. His clothes are sumptuous. His sleeveless jacket is cyan with orange and gold trim and gold buttons. In

6099/9325 – Martin Luther

Martin Luther Released: 2015/2017 RRP: €2.39 (tourismus.nuernberg.de) Rating: ★★★★★ Playmobil’s fastest-selling set was, remarkably, this Martin Luther klicky, released early in 2015: the initial batch of 34,000 units cleared off the shelves in about three days and two years later geobra Brandstätter announced it had sold one million of them. The initiative for this figure