{"id":2565,"date":"2015-04-28T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barcelonacolours.wordpress.com\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2020-03-22T19:13:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T17:13:42","slug":"crafts-with-madelman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/crafts-with-madelman\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafts with Madelman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you remember the Madelman<\/strong> action figures\u00a0of our childhood? If you have no idea for what I’m talking about, or you’re younger than me, or you do not have brothers (or cousins), or your brothers and cousins \u200b\u200bprefered Geyperman<\/strong>\u00a0or the clicks of\u00a0Famobil-now called Playmobil.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Because the\u00a0Madelmans<\/strong> have been one of the must to have\u00a0toy for boys of my generation. I am putting a video to refresh your memory, with its classic slogan “the Madelman can do everything.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It turns out that the original Madelmans are now really sought after! You’d be surprised to know that a Madelman of the 70s it can be traded in a really good price online. And if you have a well preserved\u00a0Madelman in its original box, you’re in luck<\/p>\n

Anyway, you can ask me about Madelman whatever you want. I have thousand of them! It is one of the favorite hobbies\u00a0of Ram\u00f3n: buy online a Madelman, restore it, “customize it”, make dioramas, photograph it, discuss about them with his virtual friends in various forums for Madelman.<\/p>\n

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Of course, the Madelmans<\/strong> have become a family activity<\/strong>. It’s like playing dress and undress dolls but with militar uniforms of the Second World War.<\/p>\n

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It is perfect pastime for a rainy or cold afternoon, <\/strong>now that it’s winter and we are not that eager to go out: you have to paint helmets, put boots, pile bags imitating trenches, place the Madelmans and their accessories to make a diorama …<\/p>\n

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And not just the action figures, the military vehicles are also homemade.
\nTo make a military vehicle<\/strong> from scratch (besides having a saintly patience) you have to get the template, print it to the proper size, place the blueprint\u00a0on the foam board, cut it, shape it, putty it, paint it green, place all the accessories (wheels and gears, stearing wheel, hub caps, flags, etc).<\/p>\n

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A thorough task that sometimes the girls are watching and sometimes they are participating. They love it! And look how cool it is the result \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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They both have their own Madelman with which they play and customize them at their own style: look what a funny picture with Esther and her bearded mountaineer Madelman, customized by her with a dress of the Barriguitas:)<\/p>\n

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If you want\u00a0to learn more about the world of Madelman, I leave you some links from\u00a0some of the best forums in spanish:<\/p>\n

MADELMANHOUSE<\/p>\n

MADELMAN Y FIGURAS DE ACCI\u00d3N<\/p>\n

METRALLETA<\/p>\n

Occasionally forum members organize and carry out expositions of Madelman dioramas. It is something worth seeing, both children and adults.
\nDo you keep any\u00a0old Madelman? What was your favorite Madelman or of your brothers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you remember the Madelman action figures\u00a0of our childhood? If you have no idea for what I’m talking about, or you’re younger than me, or you do not have brothers (or cousins), or your brothers and cousins \u200b\u200bprefered Geyperman\u00a0or the clicks of\u00a0Famobil-now called Playmobil. Because the\u00a0Madelmans have been one of the must to have\u00a0toy for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1385,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5536,5544,5549,5571],"tags":[1607,1609,6590,5582,5697,2057,2129,5698,6592,2540,2542,2543],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-entertainment","category-shop-2","category-toy-stores","tag-madelman","tag-playmobil","tag-barcelona-en","tag-children","tag-custom","tag-custom-madelman","tag-dioramas-madelman","tag-dols","tag-kids-en","tag-manualidades-con-ninos","tag-manualidades-padres-e-hijos","tag-maquetas-vehiculos-segunda-guerra-mundial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42741,"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/42741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}