Earlier this year, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and a familiar Great Dane named Scooby-Doo rolled into toy departments as part of a new collection from Playmobil. Launched with a reimagined version of the iconic Mystery Machine and a collection of blind bagged villains, the one thing missing was an epic location for the Mystery Inc. gang to investigate. Now, kids everywhere can search for clues to catch ghosts and ghouls (or shifty humans pretending to be creeps) in the new Playmobil Scooby-Doo! Adventure in the Mystery Mansion playset!

The Mystery Mansion is exactly what it sounds like — a haunted house packed with tricks and treats around every corner. The two-sided playset comes with four figures — Fred, Daphne, Scooby-Doo, and a Vampire — and features a fantastically decrepit mansion with boarded-up windows and foliage overgrowth that turns around to reveal an interior that’s more than meets the eye.

A trick staircase provides the perfect spot for silliness as kids slide the wall-mounted candelabra to change the stair into a slide. A suspicious square among the floorboards on the ground floor opens up to reveal treasures or creepy critters (whatever kids want to hide in there); while the old bookcase spins around to provide a slick route for figures to get in or out of the house. On the upper floor, a trap door can make finding footing a precarious task while the top of the chimney can be removed and packed with accessories that kids can send dropping into the fireplace on the first floor.

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One really cool feature of the Playmobil Scooby-Doo! collection is the Ghost Cards that each figure and set comes with. These translucent pieces contain information on the specters and spooks that the Mystery Inc. gang is chasing. The Mystery Mansion comes with a coffin that includes sound effects (perfect for amplifying the cartoon vibe) and a built-in projector that kids can use to display the information from each Ghost Card on any surface! For an additional new school element to complement the traditional play, the free Playmobil app works with this set to project ghosts onto a special clear surface using the light from a smartphone.

To fully build-out a Scooby-Doo! world, kids will want to collect additional new sets including Dinner with Shaggy (which makes a perfect “dining room” for the Mystery Mansion), Adventure in the Witch’s Cauldron (which is perfect for Halloween!), and Adventure in the Cemetery which my kids pretend is on the same property as the Mystery Mansion with a freshly dug grave and a mausoleum that isn’t quite what it appears at face value.

Kids, along with collectors, parents, and grandparents who grew up enjoying Scooby-Doo! will find a lot to love with all of the Playmobil Scooby-Doo! sets, and since they’re the same scale as other figures and sets in the Playmobil range, kids can mix-and-match with other themes that may already be in their toy box or playrooms.

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James Zahn

James Zahn

James Zahn, AKA The Rock Father, is Editor-in-Chief of The Toy Book, a Senior Editor at The Toy Insider and The Pop Insider, and Editor of The Toy Report, The Toy Book‘s weekly industry newsletter. As a pop culture and toy industry expert, Zahn has appeared as a panelist and guest at events including Comic-Con International: San Diego (SDCC) Wizard World Chicago, and the ASTRA Marketplace & Academy. Zahn has more than 30 years of experience in the entertainment, retail, and publishing industries, and is frequently called upon to offer expert commentary for publications such as Forbes, Marketwatch, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, the Washington Post, and more. James has appeared on History Channel’s Modern Marvels, was interviewed by Larry King and Anderson Cooper, and has been seen on Yahoo! Finance, CNN, CNBC, FOX Business, NBC, ABC, CBS, WGN, The CW, and more. Zahn joined the Adventure Media & Events family in 2016, initially serving as a member of the Parent Advisory Board after penning articles for the Netflix Stream Team, Fandango Family, PBS KIDS, Sprout Parents (now Universal Kids), PopSugar, and Chicago Parent. He eventually joined the company full time as a Senior Editor and moved up the ranks to Deputy Editor and Editor-in-Chief.

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