Which gift for kids who love Playmobil toys is best? Real-life themes, smiling figures, and countless opportunities for imaginative play have made Playmobil toys a childhood favorite for decades.

WWE continues it's global expansion, as the long-running wrestling promotion has partnered with Playmobil to produce a line ...

Which Playmobil set is best? There’s nothing better than watching a child engage with a world of their own creation. Playmobil sets let them build simple to elaborate scenes, using scenarios based on ...

Playmobil had an excellent showing at New York Toy Fair this year, bringing new themes to their popular figure line, along with a new focus on collectors using everyone's favorite Playmobil licensed ...

Hans Beck, the creator of Playmobil toys, embraces two of the figures on April 21, 1998, in Zirndorf, Germany, his last day before retiring. Beck, 79, died Friday, after a long illness. Hans Beck, the ...

Hans Beck, the German inventor of Playmobil toys, sturdy action figures designed to encourage imaginative play that quickly became a success after their 1974 debut, has died. He was 79. FOR THE RECORD ...

On a dreary, cool spring day in Zirndorf, Germany, I finally realized a childhood dream of visiting the Playmobil headquarters. The feeling was relatively bittersweet, as I ate a Wiener schnitzel for ...

Tucked in the closing credits of “Playmobil: The Movie” is a dedication to Horst Brandstätter, the German entrepreneur whose company began production of the now-iconic Playmobil toys in the 1970s — ...

BERLIN -- Horst Brandstaetter, who launched the popular Playmobil range of plastic toys in the 1970s, has died. He was 81. Playmobil manufacturer geobra Brandstaetter Stiftung, which Brandstaetter ...