Small Scale Military Headquarters

Does anyone know, if FOV is going to produce anymore of the painted diecast figures. After picking up all of the WWII and Modern soldiers at Walmart over Christmas, I find that I want to get more. These are very nice for the money...and compared to some of the other metal fugres I collect these are just as good...

Hi,
If you are referring to the 1:32 scale Soldiers of Steel range, then Unimax told us at Toy Fair that they were going to discontinue this line.

Lightning2000
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Is there anything else they plan on discontinuing?

Hello,
I think thats it as far as discontinuations go. They are looking into repackaging the entire 1:32 line, which will probably be phased in with the next set of vehicles to be released. Its a painstaking process that typically takes a few years to accomplish since some retailers will still have the old packaging years hence. Look for the new 1:72 F-14 to show off the redesigned packaging, which now resembles Dragon's Warbird line.

As far as new products go, I'm especially excited to see them build out the brand into other epochs, although they may be called something else from a marketing standpoint. Right now they're being marketed under the Historical Legends series.

They were looking into one or two other projects, but I'm not at liberty to discuss them.

Lightning2000
www.themotorpool.net

Were the figures that unpopular or does it have to do with cost???

lightning2000 wrote:Hello,
They are looking into repackaging the entire 1:32 line, which will probably be phased in with the next set of vehicles to be released. Its a painstaking process that typically takes a few years to accomplish since some retailers will still have the old packaging years hence.

Could this be the reason some Target stores aren't receiving new stock? The 6 in my area haven't restocked in quite a while. The store closet to me has been completely out of stock since the beginning of January. Speaking of repackaging, I came across yet another enthusiast vehicle packaged in an Action Series box and selling for $ 24.99. This time it was the M1 Abrams Iraqi Freedom version. I've also seen several Desert Storm Bradleys and a few Desert Strom MI Abrams packaged this way.

Hi,
I have no idea as to how popular the figures were for them. All I can tell you is that they are discontinuing the line. You have to draw your own conclusions from that.

As for Target, again I have no idea as to why a store might be out of merchandise. March isnt considered a toy-selling month so it may just be a good bet that they're open to buy dollars are being spent elsewhere in the store. It could be any one of a dozen reasons. I'm sure their merchandise managers would rather see inventory levels rise in consumables or outerwear rather than toys as we head into spring.

Lightning2000
www.themotorpool.net

I didn't buy any of those figures because they were all based on GI's. No offence guys but it's not good business sense to make a set of figures all on the same side. Who are they going to fight?

I think this was an attempt to offer an affordable product to compete with the Britains/Conte/Frontline/K&C, and the countless new companies that are getting pricy for the figures....

There certainly is a market for 1/32 metal figures as evidenced by Conte, King and Country (1/30) etc. I just think FOV tried to crack into that market the wrong way as most metal figure collectors these days use them in dioramas.

Therefore you would be best to sell them in sets of say four as part of a range of various nationalities. So pretty much the same as their plastic figure sets but cast in metal. For a variety of reasons most collectors prefer soldiers in metal than plastic. I'd be preparred to pay a bit more for metal figures, afterall the vehicles are metal.