Despite actually predating the creation of the famous Lego minifigure by a few years, Playmobil has always been—in America, at least—an also-ran in the “weird European toys” market. That’s going to ...

We could blame the enormous — and justifiable — success of the Lego flicks for the existence of Playmobil: The Movie, but that would be unfair to all the shameless knockoffs and cinematic coattail ...