Pebe
Pebe - official spelling PEBE , derived from the initials PB of the company's founder Paul Bernhardt (born December 2, 1928 in Lößnitz (Erzgebirge) ) - was a toy brand for plastic construction sets from the German Democratic Republic .
The principle corresponded to the Lego system, they were advertised as “single-tap stone construction kit made of plastic for the little builder”. The terminal blocks looked very similar to this in large parts. The size was taken over from LEGO and was called the 8 mm system. In large parts, PEBE could be combined with LEGO, but there are sometimes problems with sticking together and holding each other, even when combining PEBE blocks. In addition, the bricks were prone to aging due to the polystyrene used, became increasingly brittle over time and could not haptically compete with those of Lego.
In addition, the bricks were a bit flatter than LEGO. Although the wealth of shapes only corresponded to the basic Lego system, there were also bricks with other shapes than Lego. The underside of the stones, which guaranteed a firm plug connection, was designed completely differently (bars and tenons instead of tubes) and also varied greatly between individual PEBE series.
The strong similarity to the Lego system was specifically promoted. However, many of their own stones were also developed. In the GDR, there was a second, similar, in principle, compatible neither with nor pebe with Lego System - the Formo -stones. Both companies used polystyrene to manufacture the stones , which made the stones very brittle. The idea of plug-in modules goes back to the anchor modules developed in the 19th century . With the development of plastics , several providers (more or less independently of each other) developed the system of fixed plug connections from it.
Due to a legal dispute with LEGO in the mid-1980s, the knobs and undersides were changed so that they were no longer compatible with LEGO. This new 8mm module was named PEBE 2000.
The construction plans of the construction kits were initially based on the anchor blocks. In particular, construction plans for inanimate houses, businesses, petrol stations, airports, roads were given to the basic construction kits. In addition, the car series and the military vehicles, which could be reproduced on a scale of 1:75 or 1:50, were very successful, whereby the construction sets of the 1:75 series - the mini-boxes - were much smaller and not with the standard PEBE compatible. This 5 mm module was derived from the MODULEX manufactured by LEGO and its basic shape was a cube with an edge length of 5 mm.
Production took place from the late 1950s to 1984 by VEB Plastica Bad Kösen and from 1985 to 1990 by VEB Chemische Fabrik Bad Kösen . After reunification , production was continued as Pebe GmbH & Co. KG until the mid-1990s and then discontinued.
Coloring
The number of colors in a box was seldom more than four; Only by combining several boxes could a greater variety of colors emerge, which - due to the strong variance in the color mix - was ultimately significantly higher. On the one hand, deviations arose from the use of different raw materials in the production process, and on the other hand, these building blocks aged at different rates due to the material used, so that many different color nuances were created.
The colors used by Pebe in parlance were: red, yellow, green, armor green, light blue, blue, white, gray, dark gray, anthracite, clear and transparent brown .
Series
8 mm module
- Basic kits:
- Toy construction set size 3
- Toy construction set size 3A
- Toy construction set size 4
- Toy construction set size 4A
- Toy construction set size 5
- Single tap kit size 5
- Army vehicles
- Cannon and field kitchen
- Off-road vehicle with rocket launcher
- Personnel carriers
- Armored personnel carrier
- tank
- Car series 75 (1:75 scale):
- 001 cars
- 002 truck
- 003 postal vehicles
- 004 police vehicles
- 005 transport vehicles
- 006 truck
- 007 tractor with 2 trailers
- 008 heavy-duty transporter
- Assembly series:
- 101 gas station
- 102 airport
- 103 Electromechanical kit
- 104 Mechanics kit
- 105 bungalow with garage
- 106 Hipped roof with dormer
- 107 terraced house
- 108 pawns
- 109 universal missile
- (no. no.) Mechanics kit
- (no. no.) Electro mechanics
- Car series 25 (1:25 scale):
- 111 truck
- Table games (8 mm grid)
- 404 minirolly and minigolf
- 405 mini cones and mini bowling
- 406 mini shuffle and mini curling
- Car series 50 - military vehicles (scale 1:50):
- 501 cannon and field kitchen
- 502 personnel carriers made by the manufacturer Uralsky Avtomobilny Zavod
- 503 SPW 152 armored personnel carrier
- 504 SPW 60 armored personnel carrier
- 505 tractor Tatra 813
- 506 missile vehicle SFL
- Car series 50 (scale 1:50):
- (no. no.) Flatbed truck
- 511 flatbed vehicle (with swing drive)
- 512 box vehicle (with swing gear)
- 513 long-haul truck
- 514 tank truck
- 515 dump trucks
- 516 rotating car crane
- 517 omnibus (with swing gear)
- 518 tractor with low loader and uni excavator
- Additional bag
- Building blocks for vehicles
- Black building blocks
- Green building blocks
- for export only
- House 1: bungalow
- House 2: bungalow
- House 3: bungalow
- House 4: bungalow
- 81/1 car
- 81/2 car station wagon
- 81/3 flatbed truck
- 81/4 box truck
5 mm module
- Architecture model kits
- Mini car (1:75 scale; in three series)
- Mini-car series (1st series with instruction text, 2nd series with exploded view)
- 69 cars (1st and 2nd series)
- 70 MdI (emergency vehicles and postbus, 1st and 2nd series)
- 71 trucks (1st and 2nd series)
- 72
- 73 minicar (1st and 2nd series)
- 74 omnibus (1st and 2nd series)
- 75 container vehicles (only 2nd series)
- 76 cattle transport (only 2nd series)
- 77 fire engines A (only 2nd series)
- 78 fire engines B (only 2nd series)
- 79 crane vehicles (only 2nd series)
- 80 tank trucks (only 2nd series)
- 91 tractor (only 2nd series)
- 92 cement vehicles (only 2nd series)
- 97 transport vehicles (only 2nd series)
- 98 service vehicles (only 2nd series)
- (no. no.) Minicar
- for export only
- 69/1 car (red)
- 69/2 cars (green or blue)
- 69/3 cars (green or blue)
- 70/1 ambulance
- 70/2 car Post combi
- 70/3 car police
- Mini-Auto-Serie 1984 (3rd series in reprint)
- 211 cars (3rd series; station wagon + 2 passenger cars)
- 212 MdI (3rd series; post bus + police car + ambulance)
- 213 trucks (3rd series; dump truck + box car + flatbed truck)
- 214 fire engines (3rd series; fire engine with trailer + command vehicle)
- 215 crane vehicles (3rd series; car slewing crane + service car)
- Mini-car series (1st series with instruction text, 2nd series with exploded view)
- Mini Stone
- 520 superbox
- 521 fire engines
- 522 truck
- 523 cattle trucks
- 524 camping and caravan
- 525 trucks with low loaders
- 526 bus
2000 program
- Baby and toddler toys
- 610 and 611
- Basic construction sets: Building block box 701–706
- Mobile box
- 710 backhoe excavator
- 711 forklifts
- 712 fire brigade / tipper
- 713 industrial railway
- 714 Western Railway
- Building block box
- 733: 600 blocks
PEBE 2000
- aero
- 04103 Airport - Superbox
- 04110/04113 Airport - small
- 04200 helicopter
- 04210 airplane
- agros
- 08600 farm
- 08610 agricultural engineering
- 08620/08625 buildings with animals
- 08630 Agriculture
- Base
- 08900 basic kit 1
- 08910 basic kit 2
- 08975 basic box
- City
- 08500/08503 Construction site with vehicles
- 08510 building with crane
- 08520 service station with vehicles
- 08703 parking garage
- maxi
- 06100 maxi building blocks with vehicle
- 06110 maxi building blocks
- 06120/06124 Maxi building blocks with vehicle
- 06140/06144 maxi modules
- 06155 Maxi building blocks with vehicles and play figures
- minimobil
- 01010 sedan and caravan
- 01020 Police and emergency vehicles
- 01030 coach and station wagon
- 01040 tractor with jeep
- 01103 excavator
- 01113 road roller
- 01123 concrete mixer
- 01133 dump truck
- 01143 front loader
- 01153 garbage truck
- 01163 tank truck
- 01173 Cabriolet
- 01183
- 01193 jeep
- mobile
- 01502 3 construction vehicles
- 01512 large dump truck
- 01522 bulldozer
- 01532 road roller
- 01560 tractor and low loader
- 01570 tractor with trailer
- 01580 ambulances and vans
- 01590 container train
- 01800/01803 super truck
- 01810/01813 Truck with construction vehicle
- 01990/01993 Truck with airplane
- rolli
- 01743 fire department
- 01883 cars and station wagons
- 01893 tank truck
- 01903 tank truck, garbage truck, fire department and passenger car
- 01953 fire brigade and cars
- static
- trend
- 01913 helicopter "Air Fighter"
- 01923 Limousine "Black Rider"
- 01940 Pumuckl mosaic
- 01943/01949 Pumuckl figure
- 01960 Super Mario relief
- 01963 Super Mario
- 08100 Backpack "House with Animals"
- 08110 "Roads and Vehicles" backpack
literature
- Tobias Strehle, Siegfried Wagner (ed.): PEBE - building blocks from Bad Kösen. Stadtmuseum Naumburg, Naumburg (Saale) 2016. Exhibition booklet, numerous color images, 36 pages.
- Ulf Leinweber: Construction sets: technical toys from the Biedermeier period to the turn of the millennium. Staatliche Museen Kassel, VMA-Verlag, Drei-Lilien-Ed., Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-928127-64-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tobias Strehle, Siegfried Wagner (ed.): PEBE - building blocks from Bad Kösen. Naumburg (Saale) 2016, p. 5
- ↑ Tobias Strehle, Siegfried Wagner (ed.): PEBE - building blocks from Bad Kösen. Naumburg (Saale) 2016, p. 9
- ↑ Jochen Schmidt : Instructions for use for East Germany. Piper, Munich / Berlin / Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-27669-6 , pp 58th
- ^ Publications , Museumsverein Naumburg