Small Scale Military Headquarters

Seems McF goes out of his way to avoid making 3 3/4 inch figures. I just don't get it. Even when his toy company is going down the toilet, he still won't make figures that are the most popular scale. He does and it is intentional. He has some kind of irrational dislike of 3 3/4" figures and GI JOE ...

interesting comment. Something that i guess has to be factored in is that this is a bit of a re-tool. The windows, the addition of the mini guns and nose radar and i believe a couple of other small changes. And i suspect this is a pretty limited run (2000 maybe?) so the cost of re-tooling has to be...

The comments regarding the upcoming BBI Black Hawk re-tool's price have me wondering how willing people are to accept new and much higher prices for their 1/18 in future. While I would pay these kind of prices for something brand new (like an A-10), I don't believe this is going to fly for the Blac...

Thanks for the details. I didn't realize there were that many Red Skull figures out there. I believe I favor both the SDCC version (never got one) and the first (Grey coat) version from the Cap line.

i think he was refering to direct from the factory. we all know these arent repaints but new production from china It's already been clearly established by at least one person who purchased one that, yes, they are in fact grey repaints of the original tan version, and this confirms information I al...

Yes, I think sadly the odds are quite good that Grilledcheese has nailed it. Worse, I suspect it is likely that All Go would rather see *no* product on the market rather than have Chinese factories use those molds. What we have here is a snowball rolling downhill. All Go has a very limited window of...

Were it me, and had I lost a substantial amount of money, I might be considering sending a group letter to management at that Chrysler plant advising them of the caliber of individual that they recently hired with the caveat "take this for what it is worth..."

I couldn't get rid of these German-livery F-104's a few years ago, so the idea that someone will be buying these up at $140 seems ludicrous! It appears to me that Historic Aviation is behind this one, I have a feeling they will regret it.

I bought exactly half of what I bought of the F-18 when it was last released a few years ago. Back then, I was not taking pre-orders, so I won't have a good gauge on sell-through comparison for a few months. Back then, I had that F-18 inventory for a good 5-6 months so I will be interested to see ho...

lancelot wrote: I strongly agree. The only reason I wouldn't buy one is because they're 80 freaking dollars. If they were about half that price though I'd get two of the suckers.

That makes a lot of sense!

I know to Algo it’s just another bump in the road but to their customers it’s getting a bit frustrating. We saw a huge reissue of items shortly after they died and now everything that’s coming to market they are fighting. I just want to know what’s going on. From a buyers perspective it’s hard to k...

toyktdlgh wrote:Seems like Algo is spending a good bit of money in lawyer and court fees.

I'll bet $$$ it isn't actually happening.

normandy wrote: I find it interesting the seller only had 8 for sale...... maybe trying to keep a low profile?

Most eBay sellers keep the quantity available under 10 to imply limited availability and as you can see that marketing strategy works.

My understanding is that these 88's are old factory/warehouse inventory (tan versions) that are actually being repainted grey, and maybe some that had never been painted and are now being painted grey. We'll have to see which or if both is the case if some of you guys buy some off of eBay. This woul...

If you could have ONE new aircraft in 1:32 scale, one that had not already been done by 21st Century, BBI, or Forces of Valor - what would you pick?

I don’t think that’s right. There have been many good deals in the past especially when companies clearance things. Years back when 21C dissolved one etailer was heavily discounting items. I have gotten many great deals and never thought twice about them. The difference in that case is that more wa...

It should have been clear to all right from the beginning that such a low price represented a mistake that likely would not have been honored. The vendor should have just canceled the orders rather than sending everyone random sh*t thinking that would somehow fly - clearly an inexperienced e-tailer ...

Maybe I am pessimistic but I think that manufacturing is afraid of the economy and they don’t want to be caught with their pants down and invest big $ in any tooling. Therefore I think all we are going to see is remakes of the same old stuff that is cheap to make. This is correct. It is a) the econ...

I still have a variety of BBI 1:18 scale WW2 guys, Airborne and others.

http://smalljoes.com

The Assassin's Creed figures are due out until at least June so there probably won't be final production pictures for several months.

BTW, due to a site crash over the weekend I've lost the Crysis 2 and Assassin's Creed listings. They will be up by the end of the week.

Corey, What's the real story if you can elaborate? Let's just say hypothetically that you owned a factory and I contracted you to manufacture some goods for me. Then, I didn't pay you for those goods and they were sitting around on your factory floor for months and you, a manufacturer, had no use f...

PanzerArm wrote:You want to talk about shady business practices, you guys hear what the owner of Michtoy did? Watch this video:

http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/26615971/index.html



-Kevin

Holy cow. Hey, wait a minute, you know Guillermo del Toro bought something from us once.

* light bulb *

j/k!!!

Re: this "burglary" at JSI.

The whole story reported on Bad Cat's blog, which is coming out of Merit, is a bunch of B.S.

I passed on them when they went on sale at Wal-mart for $15 . They were stacked to the ceiling. Haha, yeah I remember I bought 80 (initially) of the camo version from 21st back in the day. They just sat... and sat... and sat. I was totally mystified because it was such a great piece. I wish I still...

The Snake version of the Super Cobra is the one that shipped to Wal-mart stores.

The camo version shipped to specialty retailers. To my knowledge, there was not any crossover there, but I could be wrong. Assuming I'm accurate, then the Snake version probably saw a larger production run?