Weird Playmobil Sets | Ashens
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- MASSIVE thanks to t'Patrons, as I wouldn't have been able to get all this plastic oddness together without them. / ashens
Kids learn through play. And it's about time they learned how to crack safes, clean up hazardous materials and go to the toilet on a building site! And there's also an authority figure and a homeless man, because... er... yes?
Anyway, I think Playmobil's a great toy and it was super fun to get some of the weirder pieces together. But most importantly, this video goes to show that my building site office set is MOSTLY FULL OF THE WRONG PIECES. Gah.
Something I really wish I could have got my hands on: There was a promotional figure of Captain Birdseye! Or "Captain Iglo" as he's known in France, as it was a French exclusive.
Here are the names and references of all the sets shown, in case that's of interest to someone:
5203 (12) - Hangman (2011)
3161 - Safe Crackers (2002)
3180 - Hazmat Crew (2002)
5504 - Hobo And German Policeman (1990)
9844 - Mobile Toilet (2019)
3260 - Construction Crew's Office (2003)
4546 - Nile Queen (1997)
9325 - Martin Luther (2017)
70680 - Sebastian Kneipp (2021)
9326 - Theodor Fontane (2018)
4225 - Doctor with Incubator (2006)
70139 (11) - Double Tooth (2019)
The German Chancellor figure I mention is 9452 - Ludwig Erhard (2018).
Luther and Kneipp theme by the ever-excellent Daniel Williams.
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They also made a police water cannon. So you can stop any riot against the totalitarian Playmobil police state!
Of course it had an action feature were you can actually make it shoot water...
Only in the Playmobilreich XD
and if that dont work theres a SWAT set with Rifles and all that stuff xD
Next they need to have Playmobile Tianamen square
@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 Yessir
That’s what you do what are you meant to do open fire it helps with social distance
playmobils weirdly specific but insanely detailed scenes have always been pleasing to my nerdy brain, i bloody love them
Yeah its not something you would get with Lego. Like I wouldnt exactly call Legos City Depictions unrealistic but they simply dont have that aesthetic of a prefab Office wich has a small bathroom right next to the IT Office Desk inside with that harsh reality-like Calander on the Wall, You know?
@Dean Allison Someone is a bit obsessed and single minded. I think someone is a nonce and going around calling others to distract.
@Dean Allison tf is your problem
@@meowritz Account created just a few days ago and has over 30 comments just on this Ahens video. Sounds like a schizophrenic who missed their meds today
The sets are desighned to appeal to adults as kids don't really care about who or what sets the figures and accessories come from. As a child all My playmobile was in a big box with all sorts inside.
I like how Ashens is astounded at how many "weird" playsets there are, but throughout the video he illustrates the exact purpose of all the weird sets and generic faces: fostering imaginations that encourage play and story-telling. The situations and skits in this video were great and they would have not been nearly as entertaining if it was more normal/typical stuff.
And kids love crude humor
@@smeezekitty yes yes we di
Not saying they shouldn't exist, but they are very odd. Interesting, fun for some kids, but very odd.
I also think that Playmobil also go out of their way to show kids the insane amount of occupations that are out there in the world.
"Your kid would have to be pretty into, uh... Building site accuracy, I suppose? To want a bloody port-a-loo..."
They're german kids. Are you really surprised?
I don't know, I think Playmobil is one of the few toys for kids where they can reenact their dad's job. It's nice.
That’s me as a 5 year old
@@VinceR3000 That is exactly what it is... that are exactly the questions kids ask... bulding site everthing is there t-bars concrete mixer , hammers men , & coffee . First shift plays out and then break happens and no toilett is there .... luckly there is the sewage system contruction crew. I think that is the set I have plyed with the most personally, I think its from the 1970ties, one of the few toys my uncles havent thrown away when they moved out from Grandmas.
@@VinceR3000 Even if their dad is homeless and living under a bridge!
@@vHindenburg GOD, you have THAT? The set with the big pile of pipes?
“Mom, My playmobil construction site isn’t osha compliant!”
"fine! we'll get you the OSHA inspector set then!"
Das ist verboten!
The Playmobil fire marshal inspection set, coming soon.
@anomie nous Ah, now it makes sense.
Mom: "We didn't give you the job because you're our kid, we gave it to you because you aren't union. Deal with it!"
I got the original version of the safecracker set for christmas while on holiday in Malaysia in 2004. I loved the set. Didn't love the tsunami.
Oooooops
Maybe Martin luther and sebastian kneipp punished you with the tsunami buy buying the set and promoting crime
At least the figurines float...
Younger me teaching scuba in Thailand, have a lovely dive group, our depth gauges do a fast ascent alarm for couple seconds, weird, but no biggie. Having a break and suddenly there's debris everywhere, go back to base - ISLAND GONE!?! Spot a body in the debris, then another, then someone you know... Nope, did not like the Tsunami one little bit.
Oof
No lie, the way you played was EXACTLY how my friends and I played the game as kids. My best friend had a HUGE container of playsets, and we would play all sorts of wild scenarios with police hunting serial killers, or old mad scientists, or just beating people up, or we'd have all the animals riot and take over a city... God this takes me back.
I love how they all have that creepy smile on their faces, no matter what the task at hand is.
There is an official Playmobil Napoleon Bonaparte, he also has that creepy nearly smile, which as he's riding Marengo and wearing a green uniform, it's during the Russian campaign so he's obviously snapped.
"Cover up the war crimes in this new Playmobil set!"
"Send 1,000,000 troops into the enemy trench"
👁️👄👁️
'Command your own death camp, have your own human experimentation unit'. 😬
I remember having a fever dream in which there was this big controversy about how they made a set based on John Carpenter’s The Thing. The box also advertised it had a “realistic death action feature”.
I wish it were real, would buy.
'You gotta be fucking kidding!'
There's a gap in the market for adult children's toys based on horror
IIRC, they made a Blair Witch Project Playmobil set, so why not?
That sounds like the best set ever. XD
"Police hassling a tramp" is quite the child playset.
Only the Germans...
Even funnier since "Tramp" has a different connotation in the USA
Well vagrancy was no doubt a thing in the 1910's too XD.
It’s more realistic than most police play sets lol
I believe that Von Bismarck, on a visit to London, visited a brewery, and was given some of their strongest beer to try. He enjoyed it so much, that he drank quite a bit, and left the brewery hammered. He got his coachman to stop on the way home, and had a lie down on a bench on the embankment, until, presumably the 'whirly pits' died down. THAT'S the Playmobil set I want to see. The big cheese of Germany knocking out the zeds on a park bench, whilst a heavily refreshed paraffin shouts obscenities at him.
It's like this weird thematic limbo in between LEGO's abstract summaries of reality and the edginess of Saturday morning cartoon action figures.
How?
The vault was part of the Police line up
The Hazard Crew was part of the fire fighter line up.
And Luther was an on off anniversary set
So accurate
@@therac197 LEGO softens the reality of things by representing them in the way it does. They've steered away from violence recently and actually reduced the production of CITY sets with cops in them. LEGO would never add a homeless character to a CITY set. Playmobil seems to be edgier in comparison because of these realistic details that might feel sightly funny trying to explain to a kid.
@@Ivebeenbleak Alot of the things in playmobil sets arent deemed culturally offensive in germany (ie the hobo having a bottle because he is a drunkard or there being an exceutioner for the knight theme), unlike lego they barely bother toning it down since theres no real international market.
Alot of it is based on actual real life history too with "Past times" themes, the pirate theme has ex slaves as pirates, which was a common thing with pirates to victorian times, though obviously some people would consider that offensive
The hazardous waste guys make me think of a pair of villains I created as a kid called the Toxo Warriors. I started with a couple Playmobil guys with yellow suits and hats, and added gas masks and equipment from a fire fighter set, voila, WMD terrorists.
I love how playmobil *refuses* to make military toys, but SWAT teams?
No problem.
Pretty sure i have seen some sets set on the American civil war.
@@andremoller782 well, they don't have modern military, the closest thing being civil war Era soldiers, some militarized police forces, spy agencies and future soldiers.
@@warclan9545 And Romans, Egyptigans, Pirates, Red Coats...
@@warclan9545 Those sets were not meant to represent the civil war but the indian wars. That's why there were only Union troops and no Confederats. Those sets where advertised together with the Indian sets. So you could recreate Little Big Horn, Wounded Knee and stuff.
@@berwinenzemann3468 I believe the Indian and Union sets predate the Union and Confederate sets. I recall having played with them both. I still have an Indian with tipi and 7th cavalry soldiers somewhere. But also the later (and much more detailed) confederate and union troops, including a confederate artillery set, ammo wagon, and a sergeant and flag bearer holding a big confederate flag.
The park bench is missing the armrest in the middle that is meant to prevent people from sleeping on it.
But it comes with the outhouse that keeps the homeless guy from s******* on the downtown sidewalk. Talk about intolerant!
They did not had that in the Kaiserzeit.
if playmobil was american then it would have that
@Dean Allison Projecting
@Dean Allison Grown man on CZcams talking with kids, Dean Allison is a nonce!
I would unironically and wholeheartedly watch a full series of Luther and Kneipp filmed entirely in Playmobile.
Just imagine the shenanigans they could get up to while preventing those classic theological blunders!
so it is not just me with spambots
Being originally raised Lutheran, the angry "This nun is selling indulgences for the Catholic Church!" legitimately made me cackle XD.
Being a Catholic, I cackled too.
@SonOfOdin like Thor?
@@fuckinantipope5511 Yes
Holy scrap you guys are right. The guy who said "worship real gods" is literally named SonOfOdin.
These actually seem really cool and educational. It seems like they're encouraging kids to use their imagination and engage with the world around them. Plus imagine your mom or dad were a construction worker or hazardous-materials janitor, you'd be thrilled to have a playset of that.
That's just adorable :3 plus it teaches kids about various jobs and the "safe cracking" is amazing for dexterity.
And if your crazy uncle was a vagrant!
And if your auntie was Cleopatra
When I was a kid I always wanted Playmobil stuff because it was like stuff you saw in real life. Pretty sure it was even more expensive than Lego at the time though
@@IdiotRace ya but it's cute.....and you can keep it forever and pass it down to various children.
Finally, someone else who remembers "Luther and Kneipp: Theological Detectives". That show doesn't get enough recognition.
HOLY HOLY!!! I can proudly say that I have the two HOTTEST women on this planet as MY GIRLFRIENDS! I am the unprettiest CZcamsr ever, but they love me for what's inside! Thanks for listening elu
@@AxxLAfriku Get bent.
@@AxxLAfriku yea mate
I heard the reboot wasn't as good and got cancelled after one season
@@AxxLAfriku Yeah, and I bet you're very humble as well, right?
I love that Billy is very accurate to a criminal, though oddly specific to that of a burglar from Yorkshire. The flat cap and the Bradford City football shirt really immerse me.
5:11 I recall my history teacher used playmobile to have a visual aid when describing historical events, and she used that exact Prussian policeman to represent the Nazis
☝️🙄
These annoying Chat-Bots are EVERYWHERE recently
I hate this crap.
@@mushycookies6470 yeah I really hate it. tried to report it multiple times but it hasn't gone away
"There's no flushing action, unfortunately" Ahh, just like the majority of real portaloos...
No flush, but an odd handbrake sort of pump thing. Might be a laugh to mount the bogs on wheels, and the 'flusher' into an actual handbrake, so that pulling on it causes the chemical khazi to roll away, uncontrollably, to hopefully, comic effect.
I'd be unwilling to pull the flush if it had one.
@@brianartillery your comment is Gayyy,
@@del-boysnostalgiatvads7416 how
@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 your comment is inappropriate
That executioner makes me miss the days of The Shelf of Interesting Items
Hahah I had a shelf like that too!
I had the hazmat suit one growing up, and I absolutely loved it. I seem to remember our family getting two sets--one for me, and one for my grandfather who was a radiation safety specialist. I think they both had green hats, though.
I also had one or two of the porta-potty ones.
Considering the odd theme of German historical figures, particularly academics and theologians, I think we should have an Adam Weishaupt and the founding of the Bavarian Illuminati Set
And he should came with a fire pit of burning bibles and a stand for his speech. And his friend the baron Adolf von knigge.
As a kid I was obsessed about Playmobil and a big reason for that specifically was that they had interesting stuff other brands did not and their sets are so damn detailed.
The bloody small submersible which actually functioned as it had a pump to fill the ballasts and a electric engine to roam underwater.
The small firetruck with all the accessories like the floodlights that plugged into the truck and functioned as well.
Damn, to be a kid a play with playmobils again...
As Child a had the Castle with the Executioner. The Castle even had Slipknots to hang the Prisoners. 😳
It was awesome... 😂
I also had the Hobo. Cool !
I had a lego castle set with an executioner in it. My grandfather would use him to cut the heads off my guys and catapult them over my walls...
I had mostly the horse sets but me and my friend used to have “jobs” and used the “money” to fund our “lives” man those were the days where all you had to worry about was knocking over one single playmobile guy and the world stops for a second 🤣
The penalty for vagrancy was dead I presume. A cruel but loitering free society.
So your set came complete with Playmobil figurines of the Slipknot members? I hope they also included the instruments and beer canisters!
That worksite hut is actually a medical hut, hence the toilet inside, for on-site urine sampling etc fr drug tests after any accidents.
Yeah because kids are gonna know about that lmao
@@Bread-nx9fo Now I'll ask you what's better: have them learn about the real world in a playful yet realistic way or have them learn about fictional worlds that won't help them when they grow up? I'm not saying that fiction is bad, but look at my generation and how disconnected it is from the real world while indulging in everything fantasy to not have to grow up.
@@R0XYF0X hey if your parents a doctor or a cop it's a cool reenactment
@@R0XYF0X I would hope my kids would be more ambitious than to become construction workers.
@@R0XYF0XBro you can have both. They're not mutually exclusively things that cant be enjoyed
I’m a grown man watching another grown man playing with toys, and enjoying it... Ashens is great.
"All the articulation you would expect in a queen of Egypt"
She is clearly unable to walk like an Egyptian, so no
Women only need to bend at the waist and move their arms.
I think I read somewhere years ago that stated that Tutankhamen had a fused spine or shoulders, something like that. Funny that ancient Egyptians could not, in fact, walk like Egyptians.
Probably because she was Greek
Apparently (despite being Greek) she was the only ruler of her dynasty who could actually _speak_ Egyptian, so she was articulate in a different way.
Cleopatra was of Greek descent but born in Egypt.
Does that not make her Egyptian?
My father is American, my mother British but I was born and raised in Australia. Am I Aussie, Pom or Yank?
We *absolutely* need a new ashens' channel called Luther & Kneipp: Theological Detectives. Best channel on CZcams.
Please
LEGO: LEGO City, with sets about rescuing people which has fallen into a river and catching bank robbers :3
MEGA Construx: Pokemon and Mister Chief😃
Playmobil: Hazmat cleaners, Homeless person, Prussian Officer and Incubator 😎
Mister chief.
"A hooded executioner. What child doesn't like that?!"
Maybe I was even more weird as a child than I thought!
I am pretty sure I had that one at some point.
Marketed as: "My first Jack Ketch."
Possibly.
The 'Luther and Kneipp: Theological Detectives' segment was truly glorious.
My favorite fun fact about Martin luther is that his extreme antisemitism was cited by Hilter as a driving inspiration.
Definitely 100x better than the movie with a fraction of the budget and time
I believe that Amazon and Netflix have started a bidding war for the rights. Ryan Gosling is attached to the project as Martin Luther
It pleased me immensely that the bad guy was Theodor Fontane. Hated that guy in school.
Sounds like a one-off joke you'd find on Clone High.
Speaking of which, I hope Luther and Kneipp show up in the Clone High revival.
German here
Man, Playmobil was such a massive part of my childhood... The playmobil pirate ships are still brilliant-and can be used for D&D maps perfectly
Are you actually a German? 🌈
@@robertschnobert9090 indeed.
i'm dutch and i had a shit ton of playmobil, one set even had a i think a k98k. I loved it
never thought of that, interesting idea to use play models for dnd stuff
@Kabuki Kitsune 300 Dollar? Are they the size of fuckin toddlers or what the fuck
as a nerdy kid i ADORED playmobil because of how diverse the props and characters were. i always wanted to play out different stories than just littlest pet shop, gi joe, whatever, so the big bin of random playmobil figures, scenes, and props at my daycare was much more appealing than any other figures. i had forgotten about them for years, though, and watching this video made me feel like a kid again. i would have adored an executioner or waste cleanup guy figure as a kid.
I feel like Ashens' re-enactment of Cleopatra is going to wind up in one too many classrooms taught by Ashens viewers
Ashens' attention to details is just impressive, and I love that he corrected his mistake regarding the cobra's sting.
However, he got the cobra deity's name wrong though. Its name is "Wadjet", definitely not Seth, who is the god of chaos.
Source: I'm Egyptian.
@@SlimBarista I heard that too and was like "WAIT ASHENS NO" 😂
Ashens has inspired me recently. I opened a pack of baseball cards from 1986 and there was a stick of gum. Knowing that only hilarity can come from eating the gum, I did just that. It tasted like cardboard and rot as it simply disintegrated away in my mouth. I would have been spared that horrible experience if I never watched Ashens.
So it hasn’t changed at all since it was new, nice to know.
That hobo/ bench set would go great with the Back To The Future set.
The hobo even has the bottle to quit drinking from.
Speaking of Back to the Future; not only is there the DeLorean time machine but there's also a VW Camper Van in Playmobil form; meaning it's very much possible to recreate the Libyan chase scene.
Ashens: "So, we've got Dodgy Crim. We'll call him..."
Me: "Billy."
Ashens: "Billy."
Me: 0.0
As odd as it is, if my family grew up around an area where an industrial accident happened and the hazardous material cleanup crew had to go in and clear the grounds, I'd probably love that set.
Those people are IRL heroes who go willingly into sites of extreme hazard to make sure it is fit for the life of others. Remarkable people, they are.
Big props to ashens for being so consistent through the years
Lol it might be something to do with the 1.5 mil subscribers, which stops him needing to work for a living - I’d keep making videos too!
@@Dessan01 I mean yeah, but it's still remarkable that the ashens videos of 10 years ago are almost exactly the same feeling as the ashens videos of today.
@@Dessan01 it doesn’t stop him needing to work, this is his work.
german victorian age is just called "imperial age", because of the second empire, founded in 1871.
also i remember having american civil war soldiers by playmobil. great fun
I've long referred to the 1871 - 1918 era as "the Kaiserreich period", though only in reference to Germany.
True, I remember seeing the civil war ones in the catalogues, though I never ordered them.
Now, imagine if that somehow got drawn into that whole confederate memorial controversy....
In a nod to the Victorian era, it's sometimes called Wilhelminisch.
@@jimtaylor294 Or Willhelmenic era.
@@vHindenburg Interesting. How would one tell the two Wilhelms respective eras apart then?
(over here we tend to call call Elizabeth II's reign era [1952 to present] "the new elizabethan era")
As a kid, I totally would have wanted to pretend being a cleaning crew.
I was busy pretending i was a good architect then.
Thanks Tonka Trucks
My son wanted to be a janitor when he was young, he idolized the one at his school. Not exactly an ambition anyone expects on Career Day.
I LOVED playmobil when I was little. This is a huge nostalgia trip.
4:30 ah, the famous “Tramp gets hassled and potentially killed by a sword brandishing Prussian officer of the Second Reich” set
It's an adaptation of the hit movie of the same name
There's probably some late 19th century philosophical novel with this exact scene
If you Google it, there's a French version with a policeman who looks like Napoleon.
Unless it's supposed to _be_ Napoleon.
"Not tonight, Josephine, I'm hassling a tramp"
Nope why kill a hobo the bench is owned by the tax payer so if your a hobo you don’t pay tax
@@zacmumblethunder7466 No, Napoleon has its own set sitting on a horse. 5,99.
“Cleopatra! Comin’ at ya!”
MEMORY UNLOCKED
No pictures, no pictures.
Ra Ra, Cleo, Patra.
Ra Ra, Patra, Cleo.
Your videos/antique food adventures have entertained me on many occasions.. But your "TURDIS" materializing with sound effect has taken your content to the next level of hilarity!! An authentic and detailed "Victorian era" Playmobil police hat off to you, sir! You have earned a subscriber for the remainder of my natural life.
Holy hell I actually had that safe-cracker set as a kid, I LOVED it! I actually kept my pocket-money in the safe since it had a working combination.
That “Luther and Kneipp: Theological Detectives” is a masterpiece. You’re truly a genius.
To be fair, when you're looking for famous historical Germans to commemorate, you may have to go with some of the more obscure ones.
I don't see why. There's always Dieter Bohlen 🧑🏼
Eh, only if you want to do politicians.
Those aren't obscure, at least not nationally.
Hitler
@@FIXTREME your comment is inappropriate,
13:55 what da dog doin?
_"...& there's the dog..."_
~AFV Recurring Sketch~
Stuff like the executioner, the safe and similar sets like that were the absolute best stuff I had from the company as a kid. Their ancient forest temple was also incredible.
That Kaiserreich Officer and vagrant was perfect 😂 and the ‘Turdus’ lmao. What weird sets.
Luther and Kniepp was of course the prequal to the classic tv show "Kniepp Rider" when Luther was killed and programmed into a bulletproof robotic horse.
This deserves some sort of award.
Your comment is inappropriate,
@@del-boysnostalgiatvads7416 how?
@@bitequation314 huh, ???
@@del-boysnostalgiatvads7416 how is the comment inappropriate?
I absolutely love the Playmobil design mindset of simply replicating the world but simplified.... its like the toy equivalent of The Sims.
The hazardous waste clean-up crew is actually pretty rare as playmobile goes. I was a Chemical Officer in the US Army and used them to build commemorative dioramas for the cleanup operation we did in Twaitha, Iraq in coordination with the IAEA. I was stationed in Germany during that time so Playmobile was readily available. I built one for my boss and one for myself but the supply of figures dried up for no apparent reason.
"I don't know why I repeated that joke"
Simple, the portable office is just The Master's Tardis
Coming soon, Playmobil Chernobyl Cleanup Crew
* Elephant's foot sold separately
Playmobil S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Omg this please and maybe other disasters too? Can’t think of any great ones right now but I stumbled on Lake Nyos incident couple of days ago maybe that?
Coming soon, Elliot Roger's final day play-set.
(Manifesto sold separate)
@@asmolbean9300 And Stalker, the original film
holy shit. watched this guy in like 2014/15 then stopped and now he just pops back up and must i love when people you once watched comes back and they haven't changed a bit
Ashens: "Safe cracker, toxic waste cleanup. What kids would want these!?"
Me: "Ummmm, EVERY 90s kid!?"
You've clearly never seen the "Summer Fun Night Walk" set 6891. Two children with battery torches , skipping through a wood of deformed trees with human faces...
I looked it up. I wish I hadn't...
wtf lmao
oh jeez that's spooky.
@🏳️🌈 Lillian Charles 🏳️⚧️ not as spooky as what you do to you’ve been doing to your body, considering those flags in your name lol
@@psmstr can’t be anything spookier than the the logic behind compulsively announcing your own bigotry! I can’t even imagine being so afraid of simply letting people live their own lives that I absolutely MUST harass them about it online, no matter how irrelevant it is! Yikes!
When I was a kid, my mom bought me a big pack of playmobil and it had a handwritten note inside the sealed plastic portion that was riddled with racial and homophobic slurs that apparently someone at the factory slipped in, for some reason
That's pretty bizarre.
What's eaven stranger is i got a wish parcel delivered undertime
Was it all in German? This probably isn’t surprising in Germany. They have a history of this type of thing.
@@johnnyboy3949
You sure about that? Seems more like a US Evangelical thing to me, Germans generally don't go around lecturing others on their private life.
@@johnnyboy3949 As someone who grew up in germany utterly obsessed with Playmobil I can assure you that sort of stuff IS in fact surprising. Yes, there's a history for that shit, but it's not a continued history.
Thanks for the Luther and Kneipp: Theological Detectives segment. 12/10
17:55 ... When you hit 'Randomise' on a character creation screen.
Pretty much all modern incubators are "portable", in the sense that they're on wheels, same as hospital beds. Doesn't mean they're designed to be used outdoors, it's just so hospital wards can be rearranged easily, and patients (newborns included) can be moved around.
Moved around you say... I say... Midnight Newborn Racing! Incubators with powered wheels, a speed controller with a microphone for throttle input... Only thing needed to start the race is a loud pop/ bang (*starting gun?), the loudest crying baby wins!
@@Mediamarked - That's highly unfair for the ones with respiratory problems. Other than that, I see no problem with your suggestion.
They also did sets of famous paintings in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum, seriously look it up
looked it up, he aint shitting us mate
They even have one of Van Gogh painting a self portrait and I want it.
I'm dangerously close to buying a Night Watch set. I'm just not sure what I'll do with a tiny Franz Banning Cocq.
I believe "Luther and Kneipp" is proof of Stuart's decent into madness.
14:40 ngl, I was expecting cleopatra to be in there.
Can't wait for the Kaiser Wilhelm WW1 set. Or the one depicting the Berlin Air Lift 😊
I can just imagine the set with little chocolate bar parachutes.
@@momon969 Berlin Airlift I absolutley can see happening.
I actually got me the safecracker set like 15 years ago. It was bloody amazing cuz it had those shiny ingots. I used them for my medieval scenery. Those were the days...
My 5 year old absolutely loves the playmobil movie and I’d say it ticks lots of boxes for a good kids film; lots of action, bright colourful characters and great songs. The only thing that is a bit much is the fact both the kids parents die within the first five minutes (yes, really!) they could’ve probably used a less harrowing device to bring the sibling characters together.
I do chuckle when I watch grown men give earnest reviews of how awful it is 😂 perhaps a film about a fantastical journey into a world of plastic toys wasn’t actually made for them?
Had a safecracker. Awesome to play. Still have the safe.
Oh I was hoping the Martin Luther one would make it in. If I know nothing else, I know that kids love Protestantism!
How else will the German children recreate the long and bloody German religious wars?
A significant number of young people assume you're talking about Martin Luther King when you mention Martin Luther... At least this clears that up.
Wow, that safecracking Playmobil set is the first actual toy Stuart's reviewed that I actually had as a kid
This is a strange feeling
I remember it too. But strangely I think I had two of those sets.
I love your line Cleopatra coming at yah. Finding something to rhyme with Cleopatra is magic.
13:48 what is da dog doing👀
I LOVE THE PORTALOO. Perfect for a music festival diorama/diarrhoea.
Get some toy guns and those hazard materials clean up crew figures and you're well on your way to having your own S.T.A.L.K.E.R. set.
Yeah, I was legitimately thinking they'd be a fun option if you fancied playing a game of Kontraband (single player expansion for Zona Alfa, a tabletop miniatures game based on the same premise as S.T.A.L.K.E.R.)
2:45 "mommy I want to got to the happiest place on earth" ok we'll go to Disney world "no I want to go to Chernobyl"
I love how weird Playmobil is, it's all a part of the charm.
In Germany we call Victorian times the "Kaiserzeit"
@Dean Allison You can stop copy pasting the same comment now, we notice you. Goddamn schizophrenics...
"german imperial age" is the correct english term
That wouldn't encompass the entirety of Victoria's reign though, would it? She was queen for more than 30 years before 1871...
Kaiser Bill time
@@bewilderbeastie8899 I mean, Victoria didn't reign over Germany to begin with, so the times don't fully line up anyway.
I have never heard an English speaking person saying "schnell" in such a perfect way xD
And I really want all these sets, like, right now pls ^^"
Ahh, but the English are cousins to the Germans. English of course is mixed with French, but it's rooted in the old Saxon language,as is Hochdeutsch.
You haven’t heard many English speakers say it then clearly lol
That safecracker kit just brought back so many memories, the playmobil game on their website had those two characters that you had to catch as the police
When I was 4, my family bought me a Play Mobile nativity set for Christmas. It was my favorite Christmas decoration to set out under the tree every year. To this day I still always set it up for Christmas. It's such a odd choice for a play set lol and it was very detailed with lots of figures and interchangeable backdrops included. I still set it up every year to this day. It's definitely different than the fancy wooden or porcelain ones but damn it has so much charm and memories.
Now I'm waiting on a crossover with the LockPickingLawyer.
Just need to put the set in a slash-proof bag first
Just label the cardboard box the sets come in slashproof, and they'd be exactly as effective.
He would have to use the tool that Bosnian ashens and I made
Playmobil doesn’t get enough love for being a good quality toy also the hazard clean up crew is amazing
I remember having a Playmobil farmer set that came with a barn, a cow or two, and a tractor back in the late 1970s or early 1980s when I was four or five years old. I never knew Playmobil made any weird sets like you showed off here.
I had that safe cracking set when I was younger I was fascinated by that safe and I used to store random Playmobil sized things in it.
What a memory
Prussian Soldier: "Hey, you on the bench! How many fingers do you have?"
Now i'm reminded of the "Piechur Pruski" figure in a Polish not-Lego set which Ashens reviewed. It was in the "Not-Actually-Lego Special!" video.
That evil gunslinger dude is one of the best Playmobil figures I've ever seen, I would have loved that figure back when I was into it. The gun accessory is quite unique looking as well.
One thing I like about Playmobil is how bigger the characters are.
Lego always look bigger on the TV and then you get your hands on them.
I even have forged memories about the ones I have being taller than they actually are.
13:28 I would pay Netflix $10,000 to make this a full-on television series
Keep your money, do it yourself, and make a fortune.
That gunslinger dude would make the perfect sassy receptionist for Detectives Luther and Kneipp.
I grew up with more Playmobil toys than LEGO, since it was a lot cheaper, and my parents loved the fact that the sets didn’t break as easily. The attention to detail and plastic quality is amazing. I still have my awesome pirate ship I got when I was 9 years old, and it’s still going strong!
I remember my mum buying a second hand job lot of Playmobil and I have vivid memories of pieces from all of these sets lol. The safe and the hazmat dudes especially!
I remember having (and loving) the bin men set, wheelie bins that’d tip up onto the lorry and everything! What else could any 6 year old want in the world?!
"The Turdis" had me rollin'
I loved the voice you did at the end
"If you wer wondering, it was under the....."
Made me think we were playing cluedo and you had to call out what the final clue was
Out of literally all of the ashens videos I've watched (and that very well may be all of them by this point) this is still one of the best, from the shear variety of the actual playsets to the more than fantastic detective skit
Me: long-time ashens viewer, PhD in reformation theology
Ashens: ** does Luther based theological detectives satire **
Me: dreaming, apparently
Clearly it was a fever dream.
@@quixotic4233 Lol, no, I wish I had! (although I did once celebrate a ‘reformation day’ reenactment that accidentally resulted in a copy of Luther’s 95 theses being nailed onto the door of the local cathedral. Just avoided a major sectarian incident.)
Ashens' bizarre sketches often have a "fever dream" quality to them. Remember "Poor Monkey" and "Breakfast Mess"?
@@lectorintellegat Accidentally?
@@lauratimmel3402 Well, ‘accidentally’ in the sense that it wasn’t our intention! We had tea stained a print out of the 95 theses and pinned it to our front door. (As all the impossibly cool kids we’re doing at the time.) Unbeknown to us, a missionary spied it during the night, took it, and pinned it to the cathedral doors. I only found out about this months later after we worked with him for a church event; he’d asked where I lived, which prompted him to begin with, “funny story but…”
We initially feared that our Anglo Catholic neighbour (with whom we had very friendly relations) had taken offence and ripped it down. Thankfully, the truth was even stranger.