Odds Ends Toy Trade Shows, we will start off a preview of the various Toy Trade Shows. Detlef has shared a photo od anew acquisition. We will then look at various other items.
Odds Ends Toy Trade Shows Preview
My very good friend Peter Evans reminded me of the upcoming annual event toy trade shows. Starting next week, the season will start in London then go to various other locations including Numenberg and New York City. Peter will be attending the London show and also Birmingham Gift Show. I will be watching the New York Show. Both Peter and I do not have big hopes on anything new showing up in figures.
The toy industry is in trouble. Sales were off last Christmas. Target blamed toys as one of the reasons they did not make the fourth quarter protections. The stores are playing it safe carrying safe and licensing items.
Still, there is a chance of something will turn it up. We will report it and other items in a timely manner not dragging it out six months. So stay tuned.
Odds Ends Toy Trade Shows Astronauts
Figure Time
I had two of the Ideal sets as a kid, one Alamo front and another was a log fort front, forget the name of the fort. I remember the two figures pictured as well as a marching Mexican, but cannot remember the rest. Perhaps someone could, for old times’ sake post some pictures of the other figures? I remember liking them a lot, but being a little sad that they were so much bigger than my other figures. What were they 70mm, maybe?
George
Here is a site you can see the various figures
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/toysoldierhq/Ideal.html
Thanks. I completely forgot about Kent’s site.
No problem it happens to all of us.
As I work x target at OM DC level.Target planning new restructuring with dept such Toys been seasonal only and not permanent.
The digital stores are destroying the bigger retail building sales x quite some time.
Target sales online surpass in stores sales x two years in row.
Few generation in to future and stores will be museums.
Sad but true.
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I like the Blister JH astronauts early painting set.
The JH astronauts in late edition silver or white are still fairly common off Europe seller.This Italian seller that resides in Germany been selling then plus many JH,Manurba ,jecsan ,reisler and other brands in ebay x some years now.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Jean-Hofler-8er-komplette-LUNA-ASTRONAUTEN-WOOLWORTH-Blister-OVP-70er-W-Germany/283741709276?hash=item421052e3dc:g:0-AAAOSwCXVeG9kF
Erwin, do you know if the JH astronauts were ever run in gold or bronze plastic? I have dim early childhood memories (late 60s early 70s) of seeing a table piled full of loose 1/32 gold space figures similar to these for a couple of cents each and also unlabeled plastic bags of about 50-100 of the same spacemen that the store had put together from the loose figures and were selling for one dollar. This store carried a lot of other JH toys at that time.
The original made by JH astronauts were sold also as premium by three more marks-Companies also ,they run then in many colors Both colors you mention could well been made by then….. .
Original JH were made with out base first in order to fit well in lunar terrain made and with accessorizes if place with then . They run then in gold as far i recall as well and there is a 40 mm scale version made in W Germany probably as well by JH
The premiums were generally sold with base and in some were a bit taller than 65 mm
Some of this Premiun marks also run several JH figures set such napoleonic ,western figures and others .
Among the premium who sold JH figures with license are NEGRIN and NESQUIK and KORONA.
To differentiate the original JH from premiums they are generally mark bellow or top base with non JH marking or else .While JH original and direct reissues of late production are with out base.
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I have some of the MPC Russians in a cream color as well. I always assumed they were made around the time of the Light Blue ones (since I got them together) but I was never really sure. Does anybody know who has the molds to the MPC Japanese and MPC Russians? I always hoped they’d be reissued (particularly the Russians who are not in a great color) in better colors. The Japanese are in pretty decent colors but Russians in blue would not be first color choice.
Molds were in Peru in 90s .and sold all over Peru by BASA.
I import tons bags of then and sold here at show and only till 2005 least .They were reissue in silver and gold stiff plastic along Japanese.
Each bag had 50 figures in all poses perfect detail and no excess plastic residue from mold .the silver -gold color was odd but show a lot of their detail.
The molds and sets disappear no long after from there.
I contact person who worked x BASA who told me all molds were sold off to a liquidator. The problems is x any one spending to just get these molds and start production will need push no less 3000 sets per production that will take a lot time to sale at today hobby interest and sales rate.
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