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Mail Call - October & November 2022 Q&A

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Mail Call - October & November 2022 Q&A

We get lots of questions, here's some Q&A from October & November 2022: Q: My son is a big fan of your products, and we are located in Norway. Are there any dealers here? If not, I am going to London before Christmas. Are there any dealers in London? A: Tiger Hobbies is the only dealer in the UK that stock some of our products: https://www.tigerhobbies.co.uk/ Q: Is it possible to get just the top foliage,or one complete largest palm tree to complete my Iwo Jima set?A: We're not able to offer those parts separately. Q: Do you have a physical...

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Mail Call - August & September 2022 Q&A

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Mail Call - August & September 2022 Q&A

We get lots of questions, here's some Q&A from August & September 2022: Q: Congratulations to VictoryBuy purchasing Tim Mee Toy. What does this mean regarding other Tim Mee Toy molds, like the Attack Battle Station? A: All the space/sci-fi themed molds were included. Q: When you guys are restocking the Tim Mee Toy plastic army men, can you put blue vs gray in the 100pc bags instead of red? Since the gray vehicles come with blue vehicles. It makes more sense when buying.A: We're introducing a bunch of single color 48pc Tim Mee Toy soldier packs and the Blue...

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BMC Toys Production Roundup: Thanksgiving 2022

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BMC Toys Production Roundup: Thanksgiving 2022

The BMC Toys American Hero imported product line should be well stocked through most of the holiday shopping season. There is a possibility some D-Day boxed sets could run out in December or January before the next shipment arrives around February 2023. There's several projects in progress for the imported line in 2023 that I'll announce when details are further along. The Pennsylvania factory that manufactures the BMC Toys Classic product line (and now Tim Mee Toy) has been very busy over the past couple of months after moving to a larger building. Lots of popular items are back in...

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BMC Toys Production Roundup: September 2022

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BMC Toys Production Roundup: September 2022

The imported BMC Toys 'American Hero' shipment has arrived and includes the new WW2 Flag set, Alamo color variant, and Juno Beach restock with new English/French header card art for our Canadian friends: The 'American Hero' product line should be well-stocked into early next year, and I'm working on next production order to arrive around February 2023. New molds have been ordered for the BMC Yorktown Hessians and I'm considering a Yorktown Boxed Playset revival. The new Hessian mold will include 8 figures with duplicate kneeling and standing firing poses: Production at the new factory in Old Forge, Pennsylvania is...

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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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