My son (4½) loves Playmobil (though he likes his Legos, too). I grew up a die-hard Lego partisan, while my brother was more into his Playmobil, one of many excuses for me to scorn him. But I’ve started to think incoherently about what you wrote up so clearly here: It’s not a bad thing at all for Playmobil to provide a bit of structure to play with (and against). Not everybody needs a blank slate to have good, engaging, creative play.
And it’s much easier to have Roman legions fighting a T. rex using Playmobil than using Legos.
(Aside: You were so close to monkey, ninja, pirate, Roman in that last picture.)
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Date: 2010-05-26 09:39 pm (UTC)My son (4½) loves Playmobil (though he likes his Legos, too). I grew up a die-hard Lego partisan, while my brother was more into his Playmobil, one of many excuses for me to scorn him. But I’ve started to think incoherently about what you wrote up so clearly here: It’s not a bad thing at all for Playmobil to provide a bit of structure to play with (and against). Not everybody needs a blank slate to have good, engaging, creative play.
And it’s much easier to have Roman legions fighting a T. rex using Playmobil than using Legos.
(Aside: You were so close to monkey, ninja, pirate, Roman in that last picture.)