News — Production

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...

There are a bunch of new BMC Toys products on the way. The latest BMC Toys American Hero Collector Series production is on the way and scheduled to arrive by early December. The shipment includes 6 new items: WW2 D-Day Tank Battle Playset 36pc San Juan Hill Buffalo Soldiers vs Spain 32pc Border Wars US Army vs. Mexican Villistas 34pc Civil War Battlefield Accessories 18pc United States Presidents Series #1 Figure Set Blockhouse Walls Accessory (off-white) The new Border Wars set features figures in fairly flexible LDPE plastic instead of  the harder Polypropylene figures that the rest of the imported...

Here's a summary of what's going on with current BMC Toys production: The container with restocks of D-Day Playsets and other popular items from the American Heroes Collection is in California and scheduled to arrive at our warehouse within the next couple of weeks. It also includes a limited production of the German King Tiger Tank in tan color: The shipment that's about to arrive from China should keep everything available through December, but I'll need to place a new order soon to keep popular items in stock into next year. The US government has plans to add 25% tariffs...

It's been a while since I've posted a blog update, but the schedule has been so jam packed with production and stuff in progress I've barely had time to come up for air. Hold on to your  helmets... Let's start with the main BMC Toys product line, the 'American Hero Collector Series' that includes the D-Day and Iwo Jima Playsets. The fall shipment arrived over a month late due to port congestion, but the products were as popular as ever, and several popular items have, or will soon run out of stock. New restock production is in progress and scheduled...

Way back in 2015 when I began the process of purchasing BMC Toys, I was given a list of 'Active' molds. The list included everything that was in the BMC Toys product line in 2014, but was missing some items that had been discontinued for a few years. I already knew that the molds for the original Alamo, Yorktown, Gettysburg and Little Big Horn playsets would not be part of the sale (but that's another story). What I wondered is what happened to the molds for the "Battle of San Juan Hill" and the "US Presidents Series #1"? After some...