I'll let you all know when it comes out.Īlso, at the same time I got interviewed for an upcoming article for Home Office Computing magazine about how I use my digital camera for my business and paintball in general. I was also down there to be interviewed for an upcoming article in a vintage military aircraft magazine, about the restoration of "Stonewall" my Bell UH-1B (huey) and how this particular vintage firebird was used in Nam. Hi all, i'm still here, I just got back from Florida where I was over seeing the final work to my dream house. Mike"So, who was this Mike Leon? In his own words: "From: Mike Leon After calling Merk and a few others friends from this NG to discuss this project, and with a high urging from Merk I called them today to accept their offer, so I faxed in my contract. I came back on Saturday to think about it. They flew me up to Seattle last week for several days of discussions. I was asked to head up the marketing of this project.
They want to start making accessory packs similar to 21st toys but dealing with non military services and accessories. This company already has a very successful line of non military action figures. But I think he may have some troubles here, there's another big company on the horizon that wants to enter the 12 action figure market. As you saw the pictures I posted from the show, he seems to be going in that direction. Which goes back to what I was talking about, Tripwire having to go in other directions in order to survive (police and firefighters). Auggie had is own so did Major midnite, Mike Stannard but this time Tripwire was sharing a room, did you notice, all he had was just one small table. All the big customizers always rented a room to themselves, this year was no exception. Besides a good clue about how he's really doing could clearly be seeing by the size of his display. It's not hard to figure out that people are going to spend $16.95 for 21st Tiger strip uniform complete with gear vs a $75.00 Tiger strip uniform from Tripwire.
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I'll stick by my observations about Tripwire, he wasn't selling very much, how could he with 21st toys rep (Rex Adams) across the hallway selling box after box of gear at full retail ($16.95). It began with the following Sandbox post from February of 1998 with what was incredible news!: "From: Mike LeonĪs you know I was at the NorCal show. Here is one of the more infamous of the Sandbox scandals.
Unfortunately, what started out as a dream come true turned out to be nothing more than a pipe dream, and even a nightmare for some. Then there was the announcement that yet another outfit was getting ready to produce and sell an entire line of highly detailed police and military uniform sets for similarly low prices. 21st Century Toys was a new kid on the block with Viet Nam era military uniform sets selling for around $15 each and with rumors of their own figure as well.
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The grotesque poorly articulated bodies of the 12" Hall of Fame figures made way for an all new GI Joe body design with much better articulation in the Classic Collection series figures. For example, if the car is 4 m long, then the miniature will measure 9 inches / 22.22 cm in length (400/18 = 22.2).For collectors who were accustomed to paying 50 to 100 dollars for custom uniform sets from the likes of Cotswold, Circle Home Studios, and Tripwire Toys, 1998 was a year of great promise. Typically, a miniature car in the 1:18 scale is 18 times smaller than the actual car. Scale : 1:18 The 1:18 scale is mainly used for automotive miniatures (cars, trucks, fire engines, motorcycles, etc.). The UH-1 family was modernized and improved and its models continued to be produced until 1976, with a total of over 16,000 aircraft produced, of which about 7,000 participated in the Vietnam War that made the Huey famous. Army Air Corps in 1955 as a military version of Bell's Bell-204 helicopter.It was given the military designation HU-1 in the early days and was first used for military missions in 1959. 436085 UH-1 Huey B 93.59 93.59 USD InStock Model kits/ Model kits/Top products/ Model kits/Express order : ordered before 12PM, shipped the same day !/ Model kits/Model kits/ Model kits/Maquettes/ Model kits/Export Shopping Flux/ UH-1 Huey B The Bell UH-1 Iroquois, commonly referred to as the Huey, is a military utility helicopter that was developed by the U.S.