Playmobil Toys: School $67, Fairy Tale Princess Castle $96, Western Fort $102, Pirate Adventure Island $70, Pirate Ship $51 & More + Free Shipping on $49+

my kids would enjoy this very much, thanks

i'm just seeing this post. great to see playmobil get some love here. someone with privileges, please add this to the wiki:

for some of the western themed sets, prices are slicker via toysrus.com. you can get an additional 15% off today by entering code 957555 at check out.

for instance, the western fort after coupon code but before tax comes out to $95.62 rather than $102.

again, this only applies to the western & horse themes.

our kids are huge playmobil fans and given that the brand , in the u.s. anyway, is primarily sold in mom and pop shops, it is hard to come across good online deals from larger retailers - toys r us is effectively the only big box deep catalog retailer of playmobil in the u.s. and at this point as lego has accrued more shelf space, playmobil has been mercilessly cast off in the toys r uses near us. so that presence is now largely virtual, stopping short at the warehouse and fulfillment level.

a note of caution: if you are buying as a gift and / or you care about your boxes arriving in new condition, avoid buying the small figures through toysrus.com. even if you order other larger items, they tend to ship them separately. the large items go via ups in a standard cardboard box with a minimum of packing materials. the figures are usually put in bubble mailers of the sort usually reserved for dvds and delivered by usps. every figure we have ordered from toys r us has arrived with the box smashed and badly damaged.

Oh I love Playmobil. Thank you.

I ordered a bunch of playmobil stuff from them a few weeks ago. About 75% of the boxes came in damaged. The items themselves were fine, but there was no way that TRU did not notice when packing that the boxes had extensive damage. It's not an issue if you're getting them for your kids, but if you're planning to give them as gifts it might be a problem. My guess is that they dug up some old stock that they want to get rid of. The rest of the stuff arrived perfectly fine, so it might be worth a shot.

Quote from atzdl : I ordered a bunch of playmobil stuff from them a few weeks ago. About 75% of the boxes came in damaged. The items themselves were fine, but there was no way that TRU did not notice when packing that the boxes had extensive damage. It's not an issue if you're getting them for your kids, but if you're planning to give them as gifts it might be a problem. My guess is that they dug up some old stock that they want to get rid of. The rest of the stuff arrived perfectly fine, so it might be worth a shot.

Do they come in plain cardboard boxes or am I going to have troubles hiding these from my kids when the UPS guy comes?...these are for Christmas.

Quote from jen1972 : Do they come in plain cardboard boxes or am I going to have troubles hiding these from my kids when the UPS guy comes?...these are for Christmas.

Whenever I order a larger set from TRU, the Playmobil box is packed inside a larger plain brown box. They usually arrive without any problems. If I order a smaller one, I agree with the other person who said they send them in an envelope and they can arrive a little smooshed. Easy to get a no hassle exchange in the store though. If I order several though, they usually all come together in one large box.

The did come in a cardboard box, so hiding it shouldn't be a problem. The ones I got did not get damaged in shipping. The outer box was perfectly fine. They were sent out damaged to begin with.

Quote from SlickD-AndyE : FWIW, I am putting together the Adventure Island for my turning-5-this-weekend son tonight...and I bought it at TRU and got the free pool. We've already opened the pool, and it's a decent set - it has a working manual water pump that pulls water from the pool and operates a little overhead shower. It also has a full family of mom/dad/boy/girl which is nice. It won't foster a lot of imaginary play by itself, but it could make a nice setting for a pirate invasion. Seems like it's overshadowed by the larger pool set with the water slide, though, which might be why they're giving it away.

Thanks for the info! I decided to order adventure island from B&M so I could get the pool and get the $10 gift card for spending over $75 (offer expire 11/17). I'm getting the pirate ship from ebay since it's not in stock at our store.

Thanks again!

Quote from atzdl : The did come in a cardboard box, so hiding it shouldn't be a problem. The ones I got did not get damaged in shipping. The outer box was perfectly fine. They were sent out damaged to begin with.

i've had items damaged in shipping, as mentioned, as well as shelf worn stuff but this has largely been the case only with clearance items and warehouse finds (i.e. the long gone circus that suddenly materialized)

Quote from solidstate : for some of the western themed sets, prices are slicker via toysrus.com. you can get an additional 15% off today by entering code 957555 at check out.

Code doesn't seem to work, unfortunately. Least not for 4 western items in the same cart.

Quote from Necro : Code doesn't seem to work, unfortunately. Least not for 4 western items in the same cart.

Make sure there are no spaces at the beginning or end of the code if you copy/paste. That happened to me and after erasing the extra spaces the code was applied to 4+ Western sets I bought.

Would a 4 year old like this?

Quote from bigbearballs : Would a 4 year old like this?

Absolutely!!!

Quote from solidstate : i've had items damaged in shipping, as mentioned, as well as shelf worn stuff but this has largely been the case only with clearance items and warehouse finds (i.e. the long gone circus that suddenly materialized)

Is the circus one available somewhere? I didn't see that one.