Friday, October 21, 2011

TimMee Cold War G.I.s

So this is kinda cool.  I was just searching around on Amazon, and found these for sale.  $13 a bag for 100 TimMee troops.  Now, as far I knew, these were out of production and not for sale any longer.  I knew you could get the cheap re-sculpted knock offs, but these look like they are coming from the original molds.
 I've always been a fan of these figures.  These are what I grew up with.  I missed the Marx days, and instead fought my battles in the dirt with these guys.  They usually fought some cheap Chinese clones of the Airfix British 8th Army figures which I thought were Vietnamese.  I mean, the hats were similar enough!!  Anyway, I still have all my figures from those days, and they still have the paint on their helmets used to designate their unit.  I divided them all up into squads of 20 figures, each squad sporting a different color helmet.  I could never get enough of these guys, and even today, I rarely pass up a bag if I see them at antique stores or flea markets.

Whether these are really being made by TimMee, or Processed Plastic, or J. Lloyd (the current owner of all those names), I have no idea.  I'm considering contacting J. Lloyd just to find out, and see if they might possibly sell me some to put on my site here.  That'd be pretty cool, plus they would probably go well at shows for the kids and such, or the children of the 80's like myself that could never get enough. If anybody knows anymore about these new bagged figures, I'm all ears.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Be neat if they have the moulds for the truck so they would be available at a decent price and not ebay prices.

Beau said...

Agreed! I can't believe that they go for 30-50 dollars!! I saw one starting out a over $70 awhile back. I wonder if the mold for those is still around, or if it was lost during all the company transitions.

Anonymous said...

Sounds like a good project for you to track moulds down and the square nose truck too.I saw the Armored car on ebay for some Gawd awful price too and I know you can get them for $3 at Little Green men.

Beau said...

Now I'm curious. What's this Little Green Men store? I did a google search, but didn't come up with anything.

Anonymous said...

Check it on ebay. It's an ebay seller.

I agree with the truck. To think of how many times I passed on buying a couple at 69 cents apiece...

Wayne

Anonymous said...

Check out Ebay #350456639643.If you hurry you can "Buy it Now" and it's gor FREE shipping!!What a deal!!ROTFLMAO,B.

Anonymous said...

I talked to someone at Lloyd when they got the assets, seems the truck mold may be gone, they didnt seem to know what I was talking about :(
Gerardo

Anonymous said...

Lloyd doesn't have a clue. They buy up troubled or defunct companies and try to make some money off the names.

As for the TimMees on Amazon - they are the real deal.

Toy Soldier Guy said...

Thanks for the heads up. Just checked out the Amazon guys. They seem to be missing the marching guy...Other than that, they look like a decent deal. Wish I had seen them a year back before going on an ebay shopping spree to get a hold of a bunch of these guys...

Anonymous said...

If these are real Timmee soldiers, then why don't the commo guys have the antennas that are supposed to come up behind the helmet?