Monthly Archives: June 2015

Greg Liska  sent this note about some Supreme knights. In gathering up archers from the Simba and Supreme sets, I ended up with some Knights. I didn’t like them much until I made them all pewter silver and made shields … Continue reading →

The East Coast Toy show Soldier Show is on for  November 1, 2015 at the Farleigh Dickinson University. Bill Lango, the promoter of the show has been waiting word from the university if he can hold the show there again.  Bill … Continue reading →

There is a book coming out on the Aurora Monster Scenes. these monster kits ended up in a lot of controversy and were pull from the market. If you are interesting in knowing about them check the link below: http://boingboing.net/2015/06/22/aurora-monster-scenes-the-mos.html … Continue reading →

We are putting up more of  Bill Nevins finds. The clown that Bill thought was Noddy is generic clown that was sold as a cake decoration. Donald Duck on right is from Ideal and was used with their pirate ship. … Continue reading →

For fans of Hot Wheels. http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/street-smarts/behind-scenes-mattel-hot-wheels-garage-article-1.2263772

We are showing one more of Andreas’ unknown figures. In his comments he listed it as 70mm figure hard plastic possible Italian. I immediately recognized it as I had one many years ago.  It is a Historical Miniatures Chiang Kai-shek.  … Continue reading →

A hard plastic diver with fins who is around 50mm.  The cowboy was formerly tied to a now missing pole the third hole in the base might have had the pole. The 54mm soft plastic Indian is a Lone Star copy but … Continue reading →

Yesterday 5,000 reencactors before a crowd of 200,000 people recreate the Battle of Waterloo.  The link below will give you some photos from it. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3132154/Waterloopy-Half-cavalry-women-moustaches-Wellington-holds-court-beer-tent-s-heavy-metal-soundtrack-way-enact-greatest-victory.html

Our very good friend Andreas Dittmann has sent us a series of photos of Unknown figures he has found. In the first photo is a astronaut which Andreas feels is a game piece.  The middle figure is Grenadier playing trumpet … Continue reading →