500 pounds and a .. what?
Just out of curiosity, what constituted a "year's supply of the company's products"? I'm not sure those words even make sense O_o
The El Reg Bootnotes department's toy manufacturer of choice, Playmobil, has agreeably invited fans to pitch their best miniature animation efforts for the chance to secure £500 and a year's supply of the company's products. Playmobil launched the challenge at the Toy Fair in London, having apparently been rather impressed by …
I can see why Playmobil want to use these videos as a cheap PR tool and I think Playmobil does better screen shots than Lego, but not better videos. I would say both are fun, however one down side to Lego is that it looks like low res graphics. But I've never seen any Playmobil animation that could match or even come close to the "8-bit trip" jaw droppingly good Lego's animation. (Its incredible the amount of work put into it. Even the low res video sections are digitized with every pixel drawn is done with its own lego brick, updating them all at a good frame rate). The amount of work is amazing. (Its like 8 bit demos done with Lego!). Here's the link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsWFFuYZYI
Just make sure Playmobil approves of your film first, or you could find yourself in some hot legal water.
http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/04/06/playmobil-sues-priest-for-playing-with-toys.aspx
[Steve Jobs, because he's perfected this kind of fascist control to an art form.]