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BMC Toys: Plastic Army Women Project: Update #10

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BMC Toys: Plastic Army Women Project: Update #10

There's a lot of exciting Plastic Army Women news to report. The plastic injection molds have been built and will be tested next week. This is a major milestone for the project and gets us a big step closer to final production. Testing is followed by further adjustments and refinements to the molds. This process of testing and refinements may have to be repeated a couple of times.  After all the refinements have been completed the molds get  shipped to the local factory. The factory will install the molds in a plastic injection molding machine for testing and dialing in...

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BMC Toys AMERICAN HERO COLLECTOR SERIES: Summer Production Roundup

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BMC Toys AMERICAN HERO COLLECTOR SERIES: Summer Production Roundup

The latest production order of the BMC Toys American Hero product line has just arrived and will be ready for orders this week (March 28th). The order includes restocks of all the popular boxed playsets and just a couple of new color variants: WW2 Iwo Jima Marines Figures 36pc Tan Blockhouse Walls Accessory Tan I'm about to book the next American Hero production order that will include restocks for the holiday season and some new items. One of the new items I'm most excited about is the WW2 German Bunker Shoebox Playset I've been working on for a couple of...

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BMC Toys: COVID-19 Status

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BMC Toys: COVID-19 Status

BMC Toys has been able to operate throughout the crisis. The main issue we've run into is that International shipments have been extremely slow to arrive due to backlogs in postal systems in the US and abroad. I made the difficult decision to suspend accepting new international orders until further notice. Orders within the USA have been arriving with occasional minor delays and we've had just a couple of packages with long delays.  I work from a home office, and so do many of the folks I work with, so we didn't need to make any big changes to get...

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BMC Toys Classic Army Men: Spring Production Roundup

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BMC Toys Classic Army Men: Spring Production Roundup

It's only March, but 2020 has been a busy year already. There are eleven new items released in the BMC Toys Classic Army Men Collector Series: Recast Ideal OD Bulldozer w/Driver & Louis Marx Ruined Building Recast Louis Marx & Co. Army Camp Accessories 10pc Tan Recast MPC WWII German Infantry 36pc Charcoal Gray Recast Louis Marx & Co. Military Base Accessories 44pc OD Recast Louis Marx & Co. WW2 US Soldiers 31pc Green Recast Louis Marx & Co. WW2 US Soldiers 31pc Black Recast Louis Marx & Co. Landing Craft 4pc Blue & Gray Recast Louis Marx & Co....

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BMC Toys: Tanks'giving Turkey Drop!

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BMC Toys: Tanks'giving Turkey Drop!

It's been non-stop action around here the past few days. Three different production orders have arrived that include 12 new products. There are six new items in the BMC Toys American Hero Collector Series: US Presidents Series #1 Figure Set Civil War Battlefield 18pc Accessory Set San Juan Hill Buffalo Soldiers 33pc Figure Set Border Wars 34pc Figure Set D-Day Tank Battle 36pc Playset Blockhouse Wall Set Stucco Many of these new items are made with the missing BMC Toys molds that were rescued and restored in 2018. I'm hoping to reissue the full San Juan Hill boxed set in...

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