Vintage Playmobil #4404 Hospital 99.9% COMPLETE with Box/Near Mint! (B) (retired)
 Here for your perusal is the highly coveted Playmobil #4404 Hospital play set. Manufactured between 2007-2012, this set won an unprecedented number of prestigious awards including: Parent's Magazine 2007 Toy Award, The Oppenheimer Gold Award, Dr. Toy Award, Teacher's Choice Award, Scholastic Greatest Toy Award etc. While Playmobil is still offering some "add-on" hospital-related play sets, they retired the #4404 Hospital in 2012. This offering is approximately 99.9% complete.
This is an incredibly detailed and massive play set (e.g. 29.5" L x 19.6" W x 15.7" H). Designed for children ages 4 years old and up, the figures and accessories are all proportioned to their real-life counterparts. The Hospital includes an operating room, equipped with an operating light, a heart monitoring machine, an oxygen canister with an oxygen mask, an IV pole, bag, and cuff, and a mobile ultrasound machine with an attached paddle. The operating bed is adjustable and the operating light may be moved or tilted to best "illuminate" the patient. The Hospital also features a reception area complete with an office phone, computer, notebooks, and office furniture. There is also a Child Life play area equipped with "board games," a engaging child-friendly rug, several chairs and a table, and a friendly clown and wagon. The children's examination area contains a scale and giraffe measuring stick. Patient care is provided in a nursery area and a self-contained private room area. Many of the features included in the Hospital are child-powered. For example, the elevator may be moved up and down. The operating table, crib, and patient's bed are all adjustable. Staff members include a male and female physician and a couple of nurses. Moreover, a clown volunteers his time to cheer up the hospitalized children. Just to give you some idea how detailed this set is, the set itself contains over 400 parts!
sound machine, oxygen machine, a heart monitor and resuscitating equipment, operating table and overhead "lights," a bassinet, a crib, a table top phone and a cell phone, assorted lotions, baby bottles and a bottle warmer, a baby scale, office furniture, plants, wagon, and even a teddy bear. I would consider this offering to be approximately 99.9% complete.
Missing parts include: a dark blue picture frame, 1 gray cell phone charger, and a couple of cardboard "board games." Since taking these pictures, I have located the following parts which will be included in this offering: 2 orange heart paddles to "shock" the heart back into rhythm, a blue swivel office chair, a gray IV pole with red IV bag, IV plastic line, and IV cuff, the beige cups (so now all 4 are present), 1 green and 1 blue bottle, 1 recycling unit with 2 removable gray bins, medical chart for crib, a flower for the clown's hat, a magenta hair brush, and 1 additional baby bottle. FYI, I've checked with Playmobil and they have discontinued making the cardboard games, the dark blue picture frame, and the gray cell phone charger base. Thus, this offering is as complete as it can get.
FYI, Playmobil toys are reknowned for their high quality, durability, attention to detail, and the extendibility of their underlying toy system. All figures are scaled to fit in a child's hand with add-on accessories (e.g. hats, skirts, aprons, collars, scarves, armor, headresses, shoes, sandals, stethoscope, jewelry etc.) lending authenticity to the different characters involved. The jointed figures are able to clasp items in their hands and move about through "child power." A wide assortment of vehicles, animals, furniture, and buildings are realistically scaled according to their "real-life" equivalents and to reflect actual life scenarios. Several of the animals have mouths that open and close and the elephants' trunks can pick up buckets by their handles etc..
All of Playmobil's play sets revolve around established "themes" familiar to young children (e.g. Medieval Castles and Knights, Pirates, Western Forts, Native Americans, Trains, Stage Coaches, Gold Mines, Circuses, Zoos, Victorian Mansions, Fairy Tale Castles, Sherwood Forest, Construction, Doctors and Dentists' Offices, Hospitals, Airports, Modern Homes etc.). Due to the level of detail, children's imaginations are afforded endless open-ended play opportunities. Not only do these toys broaden a child's imagination, creativity, attention, and use of elaborate oral narratives, they also facilitate a child's cooperative and dramatic play skills and fine motor capabilities. These toys conform to the highest production standards of quality and safety in accordance with European and American safety guidelines. The toys, while primarily manufactured in Germany, also are produced in Malta and Spain. They are distributed in more than 70 countries throughout the world.
I can vouch for the high quality and play value these toys afford. My own children played with a variety of these sets up until age 13! Talk about getting "your bang for the buck." Several of them were employed in school diorama projects. What a lifesaver! I also used them with my preschool and school aged clients for speech-language therapy. They'd be great for families that are home-schooling their children.
Due to the small, intricate parts, Playmobil recommends that these toys be reserved for children 4 years of age and up. However, my daughter, who never mouthed her toys and was advanced for her age, received her first Playmobil toys at 2 1/2 years of age. Adult supervision is highly recommended for children under 3-4 years of age.
As I mentioned, this set does come with its original box. The box does display some wear (e.g. a large tear on the front of the box caused by the USPS and the seller's poor packing, some edge wear, tears on the box edges, a few punctures, extraneous tape etc). On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being perfect, I would rate this box as being a 7.0-8.0/10.0. In addition, I will be including a Xeroxed copy of the assembly instructions for this set.
Don't miss out on this INCREDIBLE play set! It weighs 11 lbs. 13 oz. UNWRAPPED and my location is Lafayette, IN (47905). Due to its size (e.g. 24 " L x 20" W x 8" H), this set will be shipped in an oversized box to protect its original box and contents. Please check back often as I'm going to be listing other FANTASTIC Vintage Playmobil sets in the near future.
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