#636 Heimo/ Unknown Toymaker - Heidi Pvc Figures (1974)

Heimo is a German linguistic communication producer of plastik figures, really famous for their Disney plasic figures from the 60s an the 70s. There is really few data availble nearly the companionship itself, only apparently, Heimo is a build of Marx Toys from the U.S.A., 1 of the „classic“ american toy manufacturers.

The figures made past times Heimo were really popular, together with despite beingness actually former (40 or l years old), they are really unexpensive today. According to my German linguistic communication catalogue, these Heidi figures are 2 Eur worth each. As catalogues e'er heart upwardly prices, I would tell 1 Euro each is already enough.

The Heidi serial comprises five figures: Heidi, Peter, The Grandfather, Josef (the dog) together with a pocket-size lamb which is to a greater extent than hard to notice (catalogue price: 10 Eur) together with seems to live also really frail because of its sparse legs.

The official Heimo figures accept a logo at the dorsum which is a cross within a circle, every bit good every bit a copyright symbol.

In add-on to the Heimo figures, I desire to introduce a bootleg of the Heidi figure (the other 2 are Heimo original). At kickoff sight, they look identical, only a closer expect reveals that they are different. The size is slightly higher, the colours applied differ together with the score at the dorsum says „Zuiyo“, which are the Japanese studios that created the cartoons.

FACTS together with FIGURES:

• Name: HEIDI OF THE ALPS PVC FIGURES
• Year: 1974
• Company: Heimo/ Unknown Toymker (Germany / Unknown Country of Origin)
• Size of the figures: five cm

#898 Heimo - Max In Addition To Moritz Pvc Figures (1977)

Max und Moritz is a High German illustrated storey written past times Wilhelm Busch inwards 1865. The volume has seven chapters, all of them rhymed inwards couplets.

I knew the book, precisely it wasn´t until lately that I had it inwards my hands as well as I could read it a niggling combat (it is hard if yous are non fluent inwards German). The stories as well as the illustrations direct maintain a lot of things inwards mutual alongside after comics as well as cartoons. Max as well as Morizt are 2 naughty boys doing nasty things. The chapters are also called "tricks", as well as pull 1 mischief of the 2 main characters: stealing a roasted chicken from a kitchen, sawing a wooden bridge, putting gunpowder inwards a smoking pipe... until they run into their fate existence shredded inwards a backery.

As many cartoons, the stories are variety of violent, at to the lowest degree alongside today's mentality, as well as thus I think, the volume is non as well as thus pop anymore inwards High German speaking countries every bit it was before.

But what brought Max as well as Moritz to this spider web log today is the serial of figures made past times Heimo inwards the like shooting fish in a barrel 70s. The serial comprises 8 figures addition 1 variant. Just for clarification, Max is the brunette boy, Moritz is the blonde boy. Note inwards this painting below that the 2 Max figures direct maintain dissimilar pilus colour: 1 brown, the other black.

The master copy 8 figures were

• Max (hands on back)
• Max (with smoking pipe)
• Moritz (hands on back, cherry shirt)
• Moritz (with gunpowder flask)
• Widow Bolte
• Tailor Böck (sitting)
• Teacher Lämpel
• Meister Backer

And the variant is

• Moritz (hands on back, light-green shirt instead of red)

The variant is non to a greater extent than hard to notice than the ordinary one. Heimo figures were produced massively, as well as fifty-fifty today, they tin live works life on ebay at relatively depression prices (considering its age).

Also authorities annotation that Max as well as Moritz were available inwards 2 dissimilar casts, the commencement represents them doing nothing, alongside their hands inwards the dorsum as well as smiling, every bit they were lovely niggling boys. The other 2 versions are taken from chapter/trick iv (Streich 4), were they fill upward the piping of instructor Lämpel alongside gunpowder. Max has the piping as well as Moritz the flask alongside the gunpowder. In to a greater extent than or less catalogues this figure is referred every bit "with inkwell" ("mit Tintenfass"), precisely this must live an error, since in that place is no inkwell inwards the whole book.

Illustration taken from de.wikisource.org

Figures are marked POLYMEDIA, most likely because they came out every bit a trade for a TV series made betwixt 1977 as well as 1978. The producer was Polyphon Film- und Fernseh GmbH inwards Hamburg, ans was directed past times Hermann Leitner as well as John Halas. The years would agree as well as also the manner of the figures as well as the colours.

As menstioned before, a prissy consummate laid upward of figures, non hard to find, nor expensive. The figures are somewhat bigger than the park Heimo from these years, as well as are nearly vi cm high, which makes them to a greater extent than attractive than other figures similar those made of Wickie, Heidi or Disney.

FACTS as well as FIGURES:

• Name: MAX AND MORITZ
• Year: 1977
• Company: Heimo (Germany)
• Size of the figures: vi cm