Animated tilemap plugin not working - phasers / plugins or my fault?

Phaser 3
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I am trying to use the animated tilemap plugin: https://github.com/nkholski/phaser-animated-tiles
(even referenced by a photonstorm blog entry: https://phaser.io/news/2018/03/phaser-3-animated-tiles-plugin)

I try to import it this way:

in my preload():

    this.load.plugin('AnimatedTiles', 'lib/AnimatedTiles.min.js');

and in the create():

  (<any>this.sys).install('AnimatedTiles');

This runs into:

Uncaught TypeError: this.plugins.installLocal is not a function
install             	phaser.js:41009
Gameplay.create     	Game.ts:131
create              	phaser.js:81071
loadComplete        	phaser.js:80984
emit                	phaser.js:2337
loadComplete        	phaser.js:120224
fileProcessComplete 	phaser.js:120190
onProcessComplete   	phaser.js:4505
data.onload         	phaser.js:11129
Async call from load

Is this a phaser3 bug?
Does anyone have this plugin up and running?

My phaser Info:

 Test / Phaser v3.16.2 (WebGL | Web Audio)  https://phaser.io
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i have currently the same issue using webpack - i used this plugin a couple years ago already and it worked fine - dunno what i’m doing wrong.