Eurofigurines Toy Soldier Show October 2018 is twice a year. Two of our friends Peter Bergner and Markus Lecksheid went to the October show. They took at high speed train from Dortmund Germany to North Paris Station. The trip took four and half hours. They arrived on Saturday to get ready for the show on Sunday.
One of the things they did on Saturday is visit Lulubelu. This toy shop has toy soldiers and character items. Peter was able to find an astronuat for his collection.
Here is Peter with the Effiel tower in the background.
Eurofigurines Toy Soldier Show October 2018 Markus Photo
We start of with the photos from Markus Lecksheid. Here is a closeup one of the tables.
A stand of comic figures, I see Asterix and Smurfs.
A look at the show itself. Peter told me there were 50 plus dealers who were loaded with stuff. You had to look under and behind the tables.
Another angle of the show. The show opened at 7:30PM and 8:30 PM for the public. This is early for Germany and the U.S. but normal for France.
End of a row, I wonder how the Western building looked like on the front.
Eurofigurines Toy Soldier Show October 2018 Markus Part Two
Closeup of one of the tables so many different figures to look at.
Peter said the show was quite busy.
Various boxed Starlux sets, the large one is a farm set.
More boxed sets from Starlux also on the lower shelf I see Britains Deetail, Plasty. On the right looks like Timpo.
My favorite part of a show scanning through boxes for treasures. Lot of Starlux in these boxes.
More figures this time from other French companies that Starlux.
Eurofigurines Toy Soldier Show October 2018 Peter Photos
Peter share with me photos of items that he got for his collection and resale. ?Here we have copies of the Marx and Britains Herald romans. Peterwas palnning on keeping the mounted figures.
A mass of figure he got. In the pile I see Comansi and Cofalu so many interesting figures.
A closeup of the Comansi and the mounted cowboy could be Jescan or Reamsa
The Auburn GI is very likely a copy. I know they were done in Spain.
In this photo I see a lot of Airfix figures. Many of these figures will end up in Peter’s figure boxes.
There are some Elastolin copies in the upper part of the photo.
Bonux spacemen are in this mix. The light green Indian chief is interesting figure. Bonux is from France and did giveaway figures.
Crescent western figures are in the center.
Many of these figures will end up in Peter’s space collection.
I love that space figure with the two space guns firing into the air.
Some other figures that Peter may keep including a Kinder Egg Robinson Crusoe missing rifle.
That Lulubelu Toy Shop looks like an interesting place to visit.
And all those boxes of colorful loose figures to search through are amazing. It appears there is an absolute difference in selection between the European shows and the American shows we have here.
But looking at all that selection reminds me once again that the internet, as great as it is for finding toy soldier figures, just can’t compare in excitement to these toy soldier shows where dealers display their wares. And all the dealers who set up at these shows are collectors themselves, so everything is has that big, fun social element to it, where you are meeting & talking to people who all have the same interests. It’s very easy to get caught up in the excitement and overspend.
And Paris sounds like a truly great venue for a toy soldier show. Thank you — Peter & Markus — for the nice report and photos.
I like the photo of Peter Bergner with Eiffel tower in the background.
interesting lots ,many looks like copies of other brands.
Is a wonder out there in Europe ,so many to see around .
awesome finds and bargain i bet.
The romans HK are exact same i post here long ago as marx/herald mix poses hybrid variation.There other marx Crescent mix body variation as well.
one of the post link here…
http://www.stadsstuff.com/?p=5008
Space figures-The silver and black spacemen are copies of Jecsan set sold under Bonux powder company from France .Jecsan set has 16 poses original total ,i see less here but interesting find .as typical premium figure it advertise the premium mark logo or name in base figures.
Again Bonoux did not made any astronauts figures it sold under license the PH,COMANSI and Jecsan copies as well others .There reference in Jecsan and Comansi books to it and when were specific contract made x Bonux with date and time frame.
I had explain it before ..
The odd crude varied poses of Jean Hoefler spaceman were made in France sold under Hugonet .There some copies of other italian made ,one CO-MA pose and other copies
The painted silver in bottom are LP original made HK 6 poses out original 8 poses sets made .
The german silver officer is by RES made surprise figure non the Atlantic ,it was a varied pose.RES did two poses officers different to ATLANTIC pose made .These figures are sometimes mix with lots and not too common ,here in US of course not .
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I bet this Paris show was a treasure trove of Starlux and Atlantic.
If I had ever had the good fortune to visit Paris, I would have liked nothing better than to have a photo of myself, like Peter, standing there with the Eiffel Tower there in the distant background.
Yes there was lots of Starlux. Atlantic it is hard to say. I know got some Atlantic ancient nicely painted