It was mostly 1:6 stuff, but there were a couple vendors selling GI Joe and 1:18 planes. Badcat aviation was there, as was BBI, 21st, and Build-o-rama.
I spoke to the Chinese guy at the 21st booth, which had a lot of the 1:18 vehicles on display. There was even a panzer IV w/ Sideskirt that had a desert camo with orange stripes. I asked him about it and he said it was an exclusive to Germany, but the other color schemes would be released around September.
I also asked him about the Sahara line, he said that the vehicles were ready, but they were having difficulty w/ the 1:18 figures. He said Steve Zahn and Matthew McConaughey wanted them to redo their heads which delayed everything. (he said all they needed to do was approve it over the phone and they wouldnt). He also said they will be released eventually because the company put so much money into it and if they cant release them under the Sahara lin they will release them as Desert themed vehicles.
I also saw the BBI booth which had everything we expected, I saw the Sherman up close and gotta say that the 21st sherman is better. The BBI sherman's mg is weekly mounted while the 21st is flawless. I cant see how you could position the gunner behind the bbi sherman's mg.
Build-o-rama had very nice playsets. They had a stone and brick 1-story module that you can buy mulitples of and stack. Their display had four stories stacked ontop of oneanother and a couple on the sides. I asked this hot woman that was working there how much it would cost and she said each story would be about $50. Its expensive, but if you buy 6 stories you can set up a great display.
There wasnt much else that interested me, but there were about 8 vehicles. One was an abrams tank in forest camo. These things are huge. I also saw a Russian tank made to look like a tiger, it didnt seem armor-plated and was probably a movie prop.
I didnt stick around too long. I was there for 30 minutes max and blew all of my money on 12 arctic stormtroopers, which cost me $28.
http://www.yojoe.com/sgtsavage/arctics.shtml
21st century news from weekend of heroes 2005, sorry no pix
my hunch is that the Sahara line will be dropped at this point and be, as stated, just a line of desert vehicles. The jeep could easily be made into a wwii SAS jeep. Not sure what you could do with the Patton and M113....Israeli would be the obvious choice but i'm not sure 21c would go that way.
Doesn't sound like much new was there....we'll have to wait for comic con i guess..
And don't worry anyone, there will be Panzer IV's with sideskirts released over here as well. We heard about the European exclusive P IV a while back.
Doesn't sound like much new was there....we'll have to wait for comic con i guess..
And don't worry anyone, there will be Panzer IV's with sideskirts released over here as well. We heard about the European exclusive P IV a while back.
