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Wildfire Toys
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:31 pm
by buzzard
http://www.figures.com/databases/action ... _article=2
Anyone heard about this? A new entrant albeit in 1/12 scale. Looks interesting. Very keen to see how the final products look like when they hit the shelves.
BTW, any notice anything familar mentioned towards the end of the article?
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:35 pm
by 75th Ranger
The figures resemble other previously released 1/12 figures, but the prior figures were modern military.
Now the vehicles seem to have potential.....especially the 1/12 SUB!!!
i would be interested.
articulation, detail and quality will be the key.
also where will they be sold at?
keep me posted.
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:36 pm
by VMF115
holy crap a 1/12 P-51 Mustang fighter and F-16 and the mother of holy craps a 1/12 U-boat
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"To kick off their 1/12 scale Weapons line, Wildfire will offer a German Tiger I tank. Wildfire is very excited about the potential of this line and believe it will offer subjects that collectors and young "generals" alike have hungered for many years. Future releases will be:
German 75mm anti-tank gun with crew
German rocket launcher (Nebelwerfer) with crew
U.S. Sherman tank
German 88mm anti-tank gun and crew
P-51 Mustang fighter
F-16 Fighting Falcon
"Down the road we have even grander plans" states Wildfire president Andrew Ferguson. "We intend to produce a German U-boat to the same scale as our other offerings. It will be a waterline model and will come in several sections which snap together? in all it should be around 18 feet long, very exciting! It can be easily disassembled for convenient storage."
Certainly some great figure news and a company to keep your attention focused on this year. Wildfire Toys will be releasing further prototype pictures in the months ahead, but have offered you an exciting sneak peek at a few of their projects in work. Stay tuned here for further breaking developments!
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:38 pm
by MIGMADMAVIS
Holy crap, 1/12 U BOAT, damn thatll be enourmous, and also, an F-16 in 1/12 that will be massive, im actually pretty excited about these, but what about the cost
and where in the living hell would you put an 18 foot long U boat!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:39 pm
by VMF115
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:40 pm
by VMF115
MIGMADMAVIS wrote:Holy crap, 1/12 U BOAT, damn thatll be enourmous, and also, an F-16 in 1/12 that will be massive, im actually pretty excited about these, but what about the cost
and where in the living hell would you put an 18 foot long U boat!!!!!!!!!
I bet the cost will be
HUGE
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:46 pm
by MIGMADMAVIS
deffinitely, probobly somewhere in the, well I have no idea, probobly too big to even imagine, but I am looking forward to the 88, and the Tiger
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:48 pm
by STUKA
1:12 - interesting - but i like the cost of 1:18
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:48 pm
by VMF115
I want the F-16 and p-51
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:51 pm
by MIGMADMAVIS
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:51 pm
by Moth
"Down the road we have even grander plans" states Wildfire president Andrew Ferguson"
Aferg, is that you?!
Im in for a 1/12 P-51!
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:55 pm
by MIGMADMAVIS
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:21 am
by aferguson
don't get excited gang. Wildfire Toys died on the vine long, long ago. That article is almost 7 years old.
Please note the mention of the idea about different sets of arms and legs for each figure. It was a few months later that 21c came out with that feature (well for the arms anyway) on their XD line and a couple of years later Dragon did it on their 1/18 Action line.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:46 am
by FieroDude
Damn, and I thought Aferg was getting us set up for April 1st
I still like the modular sub idea--even if someone would do one in 1/32 or maybe not modular and in 1/72.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:23 am
by aferguson
the modular idea is quite feasible in 1/18....the box wouldn't even be all that big. At this point i doubt it will ever happen though (unless i win the lottery).
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:28 am
by VMF115
Well it looks like wildfire burned itself out.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:20 am
by immeww2
Well it was good news while it lasted.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:24 am
by VMF115
immeww2 wrote:Well it was good news while it lasted.
We are used to it around here. We get our hopes up,,,,then they get dashed, stomped on....
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:27 am
by Rowsdower
No room in my house for stuff that big and probably not enough money in my bank account.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:21 pm
by luftpanzer
Oh my god! I googled it and waht a big suprise. I should have followed your advice VMF115
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:29 pm
by normandy
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:53 pm
by Rowsdower
does anybody know ?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:47 am
by supersonicfifi
DOES Anybody knows more about this 1/12 range ? i can t wait to have some more infos about the 1/12 MUSTANG and F 16 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
effectively if you search by google wildfire toys are amusing too ! but here i would like to know more about the figures (distribution and corporate website !)
thanx
Re: does anybody know ?
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:51 am
by VMF115
supersonicfifi wrote:DOES Anybody knows more about this 1/12 range ? i can t wait to have some more infos about the 1/12 MUSTANG and F 16 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
effectively if you search by google wildfire toys are amusing too ! but here i would like to know more about the figures (distribution and corporate website !)
thanx
I have contacted a few folks who might know, and well...they dont know anything about Wildfire toys other then they make adult toys....I think we will never know what happend.
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:26 am
by FieroDude
Like Aferg already posted in this thread: Wildfire Toys (the military kind, not the adult kind) was a company that died on the vine years ago, before it ever got rolling. Pity, that...
