How Playmobil Toys Help Kids Learn About The World

Playmobil is one of the most famous toy brands in the world, known for the durability of their toys and the sheer range of themes and sets available. Like fellow toy brand Lego, Playmobil has been making toys for decades, and significantly has not branched out into toys other than their main signature design.

For Playmobil that signature design is a fairly generic action figure and detailed play sets and vehicles. The Playmobil toy sets can come in all shapes and sizes; some small and some very large, some with vehicles like Phoenician ships or modern jets and others with a farm house and tractor or a schoolhouse building.

The Playmobil figure, or Klickie, as it is known in the industry is a small two to three inch figure that has no discernible features- apart from the fact it has no nose, and articulation is minimal.

Yet for children this little figure allows them to go on incredible adventures all over the world, back in to history and even out into space. All without leaving their home.

Playmobil figures are not aligned to any franchise or pre-existing story so the toy allows kids to use their own imaginations to create stories, scenarios and interactions without someone else's idea of what the story should look like or how the characters should behave. Compare this to children playing with characters from famous television or film franchises.

With figures from Star Wars, Ben 10 or other toys out there that come with characters preloaded with set personalities, Playmobil simply offers the figures and a setting, that is all. So when a child sits down to play with Playmobil they are transported to an environment that they have to fill with their own imagination.

It is this freedom that has defined Playmobil as a company. Children are free to play unencumbered with the latest trends or what the media dictates as popular. Being able to role play as themselves, or as they would like to be allows them to learn about the world and their place within it.

Children can enact what they see around them, whether first hand or via the media and also explore ways in which they can interact with others if playing with another child. In real-life settings or fantasy environments this kind of role play allows them to process the thoughts and feeling s they experience with both their minds and their hands (which helps to make the brain work effectively).

Playmobil is a wonderful toy for "association-free" role play and is one that has stood the test of time.

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