The shipwrecked pirate set includes the bow of a ship, an anchor, a working cannon, a palm tree, a parrot, a turtle, two figures and more. Treasures can be hidden in a secret compartment and the shark can float. All pieces come stored inside an easy-to-carry box with a handle. Launch date: January 2008.
— “[We] carry a big line of Playmobil,” Margy Pein, owner of Tree House Toy Shop in Cumberland, Md., told TDmonthly in May 2008. “So far this month, we have sold 1,700 action figures, including Papo and Schleich. In June last year, Playmobil sold 464 units average.”
— Playmobil actions figures “always [do] well … last month I sold $800 [worth],” Children's Store Inc. Owner Jeanne McCullough in Boise, Idaho, told TDmonthly in May 2008.
— Over 12 percent of 55 retailers who spoke with TDmonthly in May 2008 named Playmobil action figures as best-sellers.