Berlin – At some point, the plastic revealed itself as such. It had long since moved into children’s rooms and fallen into the hands of children. The time of wooden toys, which were also not entirely unsuspicious because they were simple-minded and clumsy, was over. But the plastic of toys such as the Lego System or Fischertechnik still hid behind a sense of function, their form seemed to follow a technical or structural function. It wasn’t until Playmobil that everything changed, now the time had come for the completely preformed permanent grin with jagged hairdo – an unprecedented, plastically full artificiality conquered children’s fantasy worlds. And not only the…
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