Featured are wonderful Geobra Dolls.
- Playmobil was invented by German inventor Hans Beck (1929–2009), considered the “Father of Playmobil”.
- Beck received training as a cabinetmaker and was also an avid hobbyist of model airplanes, a product he pitched to the company Geobra Brandstätter.
- Horst Brandstätter, the owner of the company, asked Beck to develop toy figures for children instead.
- Playmobil toys are specifically aimed at children from the ages of four to twelve.
- The company believes that older children tend not to play with these types of toys and so they have resisted creating toys from less well-known historical time periods.
- Many adults own or collect Playmobil and make movies with the toys.
- Playmobil hands were designed to be capable of gripping and holding objects.
- Earlier figures had arms of one piece.
- Since 1982 all figures have hands that also rotate at the wrist.
- Almost all Playmobil figures are unnamed, thus allowing children to invent their own characters.
- Playmobil is a German line of toys produced by the Brandstätter Group headquartered in Zirndorf, Germany.
