About ten years ago there was a Russian horror movie, Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor), which was premised on a 1000-year-old truce between the forces of Light and Dark.  After assembling a few gifts my kids received for Christmas I am convinced that Legos are toys of Light and that PlayMobil is of the Dark.  Either that or the people at PlayMobil enjoy long, drawn out practical jokes.  “Hey, lets mix all 382 parts they need to build that toy together and then randomly pull out handfuls and seal them in bags so it looks like the parts belong together!  Great idea!  Hilarious!  They’ll never suspect a thing!”  Legos on the other hand:  parts well organized and lucid assembly instructions.  Three cheers for Legos.  (Seriously though, the PlayMobil toys are fun once they’re assembled but they must have taken me 3x longer to put together than comparable Lego creations.)