We have a new winner. Not just one winner but several. Plus, an introduction to the most enticing product you have ever seen: The Playmobil Security Checkpoint<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If you’ve never seen them, Playmobil are sort of like cuter and better-designed bendy Lego figures. They are usually dressed for work, directing traffic, on construction sites or fighting fires. At the more esoteric reaches of the Playmobil world, you can find them doing more interesting jobs as knights and pirates. Now you can find their busy plastic bodies scanning your luggage….<\/p>\n

This new set of toddler role models was first spotted in the Register<\/a>, from which we’ve borrowed this picture:
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The comments are on Amazon<\/a>, The product sadly isn’t available. (Well, yes, pedants, they are reviews rather than comments, but I reserve the right to define “comments” as whatever I choose the word to mean, in an Alice in Wonderland style way. It’s my ceremony.) There are a few and they are all brilliant.<\/p>\n

Snips from Amazon’s featured pro and anti reviews are:<\/p>\n

Educational and Fun!
\nThank you Playmobil for allowing me to teach my 5-year old the importance of recognizing what a failing bureaucracy in a ever growing fascist state looks like. Sometimes it’s a hard lesson for kids to learn because not all pigs carry billy clubs and wear body armor. I applaud the people who created this toy for finally being hip to our changing times….. (By zampano)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Great lesson for the kids!
\nI was a little disappointed when I first bought this item, because the functionality is limited. My 5 year old son pointed out that the passenger’s shoes cannot be removed. Then, we placed a deadly fingernail file underneath the passenger’s scarf, and neither the detector doorway nor the security wand picked it up…. (by loosenut) <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest on Amazon, plus the other comments, most of which will have you giggling helplessly and\/or will restore your faith in human nature.<\/p>\n

No fancy icons for today’s winners, just another picture, taken from the Playmobil site<\/a>.
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Well done, all round.<\/p>\n

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