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McFarlane Toys will add an artistic layer to each Game of Thrones brick piece, turning ordinary construction sets into realistic models of notable locations seen on the show. The new Game of Thrones construction sets extend McFarlane’s high standards of artistic vision, realistic accuracy, and incredible detail the company is known for throughout the industry. MacFarlane was pleased with the deal. “We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to create high-quality collectible construction sets based on this fan-favorite property,” he said. “Both collectors and fans of this epic series can build their favorite scenes with this new product line.” Fans will get a detailed look at the construction sets, each of which will feature “iconic environments with realistic sculpted pieces,” at next week’s San Diego Comic Con. The Iron Throne Room will be featured in one of the sets, naturally. There’s also a “Mother of Dragons” set, which could refer to any number of things.
The sets, plus expansion packs and “figure blind bags,” will hit store shelves in November of this year and range in price from $3.99 to $49.99. If you’ve ever collected any McFarlane construction sets, then you know how important these blind bags are. I find it very interesting that the prices vary so greatly. Starting at $3.99, you can reasonably expect the lower price points to include extras like a Noble House’s guardsmen, or horses and the like. At the higher price point, at $49.99, you can expect the blind bags to include named characters from Game of Thrones, and possibly iconic props like the Iron Throne. Here’s more from the press release: Construction Sets: MSRP $14.99-49.99 – Depicting the most outstanding moments from your Game of Thrones, including the Iron Throne Room, Mother of Dragons and Attack on the Wall, each set includes scene specific characters, stunning details and realistic accessories. These are the packs that are most exciting.
I can only imagine that the “Attack on the Wall” set will include giants and Thenns…this set would be worth the higher end price if it included Mag the Mighty, the giant king from Season 4, Episode 9, “The Watchers on the Wall.” Construction Figure Packs: MSRP $9.99 – Starter packs featuring Houses Stark and Lannister with your favorite house armies, complete with house banner and sigil. These are the generic sets. They will include generic soldiers bearing House sigils and banners. I will be purchasing House Stark’s sets first…I need more direwolves in my life. Construction Set Figures: MSRP $3.99 – Twelve buildable blind bag figures inspired by characters from Game of Thrones. Each 2-inch scale figure includes an environment base, and humans include articulated body parts. Series 1: #1 Tyrion Lannister; #2 Jon Snow ; #10 Wildling (w/ Axe); #11 Wildling (w/ Spear) and #12 Wight. A few things stand out here: apparently there’s a Ghost figure (Jon’s direwolf) and a Rheagal figure (Dany’s green dragon, still locked away in the pit on the show).
Also notable is the wight, which will probably be a generic ice-zombie figure. These are the exciting pieces that will add that perfect detail to your specific construction sets. I imagine Jon Snow and Ghost will be a hot ticket item right off the bat. These McFarlane Toys Construction Sets will become available in time for Christmas and will make the perfect gift for that Game of Thrones fan in your life…in other words, you know exactly what to buy me for Christmas.Growing up, Playmobil was, for whatever reason, always linked to LEGO. Don’t ask me why. Maybe the Playmobil characters reminded me of LEGO minifigures. Maybe I somehow connected the striking blue Playmobil boxes with the omnipresent yellow banner across the top corner of 1980s LEGO packaging. They’re primary colors, and I was a weird kid.) As an adult, I recognize quite a few similarities between the companies and their toys. Both are European companies that have enjoyed enormous success in the United States.
Both offer relatively high-end (i.e., expensive) products. Both offer toys in various themes so kids — whatever their interests might be — can create vast, playable worlds on their bedroom floor. And both have made a resurgence in recent years based, in part, on those aforementioned minifigures. (Indeed, both Playmobil and LEGO offer blind bags of individual figures.) Realistically, though, the toys themselves (and how kids play with them) have almost nothing in common. I had a few Playmobil toys as a kid (still have them, actually), but I didn’t have very many. We simply couldn’t afford them. My kids, though, have fallen for them. They have my old toys and a few of their own sets (I must admit that most were thrift-store finds), and they’re constantly on the floor, constructing a Playmobil universe with a detailed storyline. They’re always asking for more. It was with much excitement and anticipation, then, that I toured the Playmobil booth at this year’s Toy Fair.
Unfortunately, I was forbidden from taking any pictures at Toy Fair, so I was unable to share photographic evidence of the amazingly cool new toys and themes planned for 2015. But now they’re finally starting to see the light of day, and one of the two best themes (in my opinion) is out now! It’s an amusement park sub-theme (part of the larger Summer Fun theme), and the sets are just about as awesome as you’d want them to be. The first wave of sets (of many, hopefully) include the following: Put together, it’s possible to create a crazy awesome carnival. But you certainly don’t need them all. Of course, these sets are completely compatible with all other Playmobil, so all that’s required is a little imagination! With just a couple of these sets opened and assembled, my kids were already building a halfway decent county fair. The Ferris wheel, spinning spaceship ride, and flying swings are also compatible with an electric motor that operates the toys independently.
Each toy has a little hand crank to make the ride “go,” but if you’re so inclined, you can hook it up to some juice and let them go by themselves. The Ferris wheel and spinning spaceship ride also light up (AAA batteries not included), which — I have to admit — looks way cooler than I thought it would. If you haven’t assembled a Playmobil toy in a while, you should be prepared. Lots and lots of stickers. To Playmobil’s credit, though, the stickers are very high-quality, printed on heavy paper, and fairly easy to put on. There are just a lot of them. By the way, if you’re curious about the other best theme I saw at Toy Fair? It’s coming in August. Just wait until you see the castles. The Summer Fun / Amusement Park sets are out now, available from Playmobil, Amazon, and brick-and-mortar toy stores everywhere. My kids’ favorite from this theme? The Ferris wheel, obviously. It stands almost 2 feet tall when completed and holds a lot of figures at once.