One final piece of information from 2015 New York Toy Fair is EMCE Toys. They have announced that they will be doing three character licensed toy army like figures Ghostbusters, Aliens and Universal Monsters. Ghostbusters will contain four Ghostbusters and five different ghosts. Aliens will have 5 different colonial marines, four different Alien warriors and Alien queen. The Universal Monsters will have 5 different angry villagers and five Universal monsters, The five Universal monsters are Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, Creature from the Black Lagoon and the Mummy Kharis. The figures will be available various ways including bagged sets. As we get more information, we will let you know. You can see what the figures look like at the link below.
Update: we have been told the figures are in the 35mm to 45mm range.
First, I don’t collect WW 2, so I have no idea about distinctive tanks either US or German. But I have had dozens and dozens of Marx, Aurburn and others pass through
my hands, so I have some opinion of the toy value.
Erwin, all I can say is that it in not visually appealing. There is lots of dead space with no detail on the plastic all over the body. I’m probably wrong about this, but in all the war movies I ever saw, the tanks always were loaded down with stuff. Not enough detail for me.
I picked up a couple of New Ray or Men at Arms ( wrong name I know) tanks that ran on batteries and were painted, at the flea market and they are way better looking that yours.
I think you either need to paint them or put decals on them to break up all that empty plastic space. Just my opinion, but as I said, I do not collect WW 2 so I would not be buying them anyway. Good luck in any case.
Thank you Bill for your words and feedbacks.
The sculpts look a little big-headed with over-sized things in their hands. I was hoping for something more like the MPC Monsters, but looking much more like the 1930’s Universal monsters. The scale makes them a tough fit, too.
Here’s what I’d like to see: A King Kong that’ll go with my Marx Dinos! Something that has the right look and size.
Greg
I agree the figures are disappointment, I will add them to my monster collection.