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Post by Terrible Tony on Jan 1, 2012 16:40:46 GMT -6
I received these figures for my birthday yesterday and I have never seen them before. Other than wrestling stuff, I also collect anything involving WW2 and the American Civil War, so they knew I would dig these.   I just want to clarify, I am not a Neo Nazi or anything like that, I just like stuff from that era. What do you guys know about these guys? They are a little bigger than G. I. Joes, but not by much. They also come with weapons. |
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Post by rihia2k on Jan 1, 2012 18:20:13 GMT -6
All I know is that they're very nice... and Happy Birthday for yesterday.
What company made these?
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Post by Terrible Tony on Jan 1, 2012 18:29:24 GMT -6
I pulled one out and on the leg it says "21st Century Toys Inc." and on the other it says "2002 Made In China". The helmets are tough to pull out, though. The box just says Schutzstaffel on all sides. No other info.
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Post by figurecollector on Jan 1, 2012 18:40:25 GMT -6
Are they made very well?
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Post by Terrible Tony on Jan 1, 2012 19:14:57 GMT -6
They are very detailed. I will say the joints don't seem very sturdy. When I tried to position his arm, it came off at the elbow. Typical of today's toys. I was able to snap it back on, so no big problem. The guns are very detailed as well and they come with stands.
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Post by 80s Action Figures on Jan 2, 2012 13:59:21 GMT -6
Those were for sale for a long time on Small Joes and several other web sites...they are a take off or special set of the other world war two figure line (i forget the name) Toys R Us was carrying around 2000. You could get everything from men to tanks and planes from WWII. The set you have was an Internet special or something because of its touchy subject.
The same line also did modern and Vietnam figures I believe. I will update this once I have time to look for the lines name...
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Post by rihia2k on Jan 2, 2012 18:18:37 GMT -6
The expression on that guy second left middle row! He's not well!
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Post by Terrible Tony on Jan 2, 2012 18:35:05 GMT -6
The expression on that guy second left middle row! He's not well! He must've ate a bad bratwurst or sauerkraut! |
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Post by justrygt on Jan 3, 2012 19:56:32 GMT -6
What a great gift to receive! I really like the Ultimate Soldiers but I had to limit myself a little. I made sure to get all of the Platoon action figures and General Patton. I had hoped that maybe there were more figures made for actual people or movie characters but those were the only ones I have found so far.
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Post by Terrible Tony on Jan 3, 2012 21:46:13 GMT -6
What a great gift to receive! I really like the Ultimate Soldiers but I had to limit myself a little. I made sure to get all of the Platoon action figures and General Patton. I had hoped that maybe there were more figures made for actual people or movie characters but those were the only ones I have found so far. They made Platoon figures?! Awe man need to find me some! |
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Post by 3 3/4"collector on Jan 14, 2012 11:33:53 GMT -6
yeah those were a 21st century toys exclusive only sold on smalljoes i think it was. they were not marked anywhere on the packaging as being ultimate soldier xd though i assume because they didnt want to hear any backlash. i got a set years ago when they first came out. sadly the company had already made updated and improved molds by the time they made those but used the older simpler molds for some reason. heres some of mine.   |
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Post by 3 3/4"collector on Jan 14, 2012 11:35:26 GMT -6
oh and Terrible Tony dont worry those platoon figures looked nothing like the characters. terrible likenesses.
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Post by Terrible Tony on Jan 14, 2012 14:09:25 GMT -6
Those figures look cool! Is the furniture part of the figure line?
Do you have any of the Platoon figures or who they made?
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Post by 3 3/4"collector on Jan 15, 2012 3:39:30 GMT -6
thats some dollhouse furniture i bought at hobby lobby back in the 90s. there were some cool sets for the toys but those can get expensive now and they are just like building ruins, like after a blitz or something.
i never got any of the platoon figures because they just looked like really boring generic soldier figures to me. i had been waiting for a very very long time for the platoon figures because i really wanted a dafoe, but when they came out it just didnt look like them at all. they had dafoe, sheen, depp, berenger, but to me it looked nothing like them. it was one of those things where there were promo shots that were pretty cool but the actual release figures werent nearly as good.
the company went out of business a few years back. it was weird because to me every time they made a new series of figures they got less interesting, but at the same time they got better articulation and construction. they started with a series of ww2 germans and americans, and a series of vietnam americans with 1 each of a south vietnam figure and a vietcong, and a series of ww2 german and american paratroopers. to me these figures were all cool, each and every character had a individual look and design.
later they made serveral more series of ww2 army, paratroopers, marines, german soldiers, and vietnam. but these series always basically had a bunch of the same body with a different head and weapons. they were just sort of bland and not individual. but as i said at the same time every series they made the articulation a little better.
if you just go to ebay and search ultimate soldier 1:18 you should get alot you can just look at to see what you think.
there were different lines. these were ultimate soldier xd, the xd meant extreme detail. they were 1:18 scale which is 4 inches tall. they also had 12" figures and 1:32 scale which are little tiny solid figures.
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Post by justrygt on Jan 15, 2012 17:45:06 GMT -6
I had a hard time finding platoon guys with a decent likeness but eventually I found some good ones. The first few sets I saw looked bad because of dark colors and bad paint for the eyes. I like them.
I also really like the nazi monopoly game night with guns drawn. I don't think there will be any cheating going on.
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Post by 3 3/4"collector on Jan 17, 2012 10:31:50 GMT -6
those guys cheat like crazy. its a very sketchy game night.
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