Armies in Plastic New Color Variation Napoleonic Cavalry it has been reported on another site. AIP is taking their 17th Lancers and issuing them as Napoleonic Cavalry.
There are eight different sets. Each set contains officer, bugler and three lancers. The difference between the eight sets is color. For example the 1st Polish Lancers will be in purple while the Austrian Line Lancers will be in green. The 17th Lancers are from their Charge of the Light Brigade.
Also AIP is doing bagged sets. These sets will combine figures from various sets. For example British “Lower Nile” Field Force – Sudan War – 1884. This set will contain 10 Infantry in dark blue, 10 Infantry in grey, 1 Mounted Trooper in white . Several set have cannons such as Egypt & Sudan Mountain Artillery – 1885. This set contains 1 Screw Gun with 3 man British crew in shirt sleeve order in dark blue. 8 Naval Brigade Sailors in action in Dark Blue.
Both the bagged sets and Napoleonic cavalry are $12.95 each.
I think adding new colors and new formatting to existing sets is a good marketing & business strategy for Armies In Plastic (AIP) — just as it was for Louis Marx many years ago.
I myself am a collector who unfortunately never developed an interest in painting my figures. In consequence, when I purchase a set of toy soldiers in a single color when it’s first released, I often will purchase the same set when it comes out in a new and different color. I like the colorful battlefields of the Napoleonic era, with such an array of different uniforms, and I therefore especially like the new release of AIP’s Lancers in a medium purple color, representing Polish Lancers, with another set in green, representing an Austrian Lancer squadron.
I actually have thought for years that AIP has been underappreciated, and not given enough credit for it’s very broad range of historical periods, with well-sculpted, very affordable toy soldiers, in excellent, well-illustrated, sturdy boxes — not cheap or flimsy in the least — and covering wars and periods which had been somewhat neglected by other producers, such as WWI and British colonial wars like the Sudan, Afghanistan, and the South African Zulu and Boer wars — even the Russo-Japanese War was covered with excellent sets.
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It wasn’t me. I am of course eternally innocent .
Don, the posting may have been an accident; the last few times I’ve posted I’ve noticed that someone else’s name and e-mail address has appeared in the slots and if I had just pressed “send” I would have been mis-identified. I almost did it the first time, but thankfully caught it in time.
I think it’s good news AIP is revving things up again; it appears the apparent lull in production and ideas was merely so they could get their molds “home.” I like the idea we have more companies producing in the USA. JMO. Kudos and best wishes as AIP definitely meets a need in the hobby.
Good target way to clear massive overstock production .Wish sale more in this way..
The use of not same era figures blend by colors to be used as else is fair enough x those not looking at historical detail.not my personal like ..but work x many of course…
AIP had not much detail neither weapons in figures are any close to realistic with exception of best sculpted few sets done .
While AIP guns,machines gus are the best plastic made till now as new maker in my opinion -like
My thoughts..
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