Found this toy and book on a Container blue bin last night where someone had left them for a binner to find. They were neatly in their own Ziploc freezer bag, helpfully labelled: "FREE TOY + BOOK."The toy is part of the cheerfully creepy plastic sim that is the Playmobil System, product 4407, Child with Wheelchair -- a US$21 value on Amazon. Pairs well with Playmobil Pediatrician.
"Lucas, I am your cash cow!"
The book is Darth Vader and Son by graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown from 2012, published by Lucas Books. This is creepy too; Darth the single parent, raising his boy Luke. A funny one-off cartoon stretched out into a book of cartoons. Actually a series of books.
The perfectly F'd-up world of Playmobil
Playmobil is a German line of children's toys that appears intent on creating cheerful little plastic versions of everything on earth -- people, their work environments, their animals, their hazardous waste spills -- all to please children aged four-years and older.
Playmobil has been at it since 1975 and they've racked up impressive sales and a reputation for obsessive devotion to a sort of unrealistic realism, plastique vérité if you will, which endears them to kids and collectors alike.
Notable Playmobil sets have included a Haz Mat crew, an axe murderer, a shoeless hobo with accompanying cop, a safe-cracking team, jewel thieves, a vulture and carcass, the list goes on. Here's a collection of 17 "least appropriate" sets. Click the images to enlarge them.
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Policeman & Tramp Playmobil Set 5504. Apparently discontinued back in 1992. Darn.[/caption]
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