Our very good friend Peter Evans from the UK ordered the Timmee Pioneers that were recently reissued. The company he bought them from does not do foreign shipping so Peter had them sent them to me. We have done that arrangement before and as I had some items for him it would be easy to include these figures with them. Peter gave me a set of the figures for helping him .
The figures come in a dark brown plastic and are free of any flash. The plastic is stiffer than the older figures. The bags contain the three mounted poses, which are the hardest of the figures to find. The bag contain two sets of the different poses. There were extra of the mounted poses in the bag I opened.
If you do not have a complete set of the figures this is an inexpensive way to get them
Does this Company have the moulds for the Timmee Russians??
Brian
Sadly no, the Russians and other molds were shipped to Mexico years ago. The molds were with two different companies which have disappeared.
Not sure about the Timmee Russains, I doubt it.
These are the figures I reported on earlier, in my bag I got 25 figures, only one each of the three firing foot poses, but I got a ton of the riding poses. The riding figures are huge looking. They are actually the same size as the foor figures , but the riding pose of the guy with the knife and pistol looks like a giant. I got 5 of him in my bag.
ED
That is how the bag that Peter Evans got was the same way heavy in riding poses. what did you think of the color they used. I like the old colors of orange and red.
I don’t especially like the color brown in the first place, so a brighter color would have been desired. I just wanted the riding poses, because as kid I only had the one riding pose. My favorite of these poses is the kneeling firing a rifle pose, he’s actually better than the Marx revised pioneer pose, he’s alos the only one you can get away with in a 54mm diorama.
Ed
I like the old red and orange possible because I grew up with them
I don’t mind brown, except it’s a little dark. I prefer that to the bright colors. A nice buckskin tan would have been the best in my opinion. Now…will they recast any injuns? There must be 50 Timmee Indian poses. Does anyone have an accurate count?
Greg
I agree the figures should have been a lighter plastic. I like the bright colors two for some reason.
If you count all era’s and throw in Processed Plastics I come up with 23 Indians.
I came up with 28 Tim-Mee/Processed Plastic Indians.
5 mounted 70mm series 1
3 mounted 54/60mm smaller series 1
4 mounted 54/60mm 2nd series
5 series 1 foot poses
5 special poses and add ons, paddler, sitting woman etc.
6 60mm Processed Plastic foot poses
28 total
+ 1 different version of the canoe paddles, maybe 29 different ones
many of the tim mee Indians blend and match well with jean hoefler 24 poses and also cowboys too.
I agree, Erwin. I have always thought that stylistically, they were a good match. That would add A LOT of poses. Of course the cowboys and pioneers are about 80 years apart in time, though. The Indians work, though.
Classic Recasts tells me that one man in Mexico has amassed all of the figure molds that at one time were owned by three different companies. He does not know what he has which is a problem. I have the CR guy asking him to find the Tim-Mee Russians, knights & pirate molds all of which were shipped south in the mid 1960s. I got six bags of the pioneers for resale. Two bags had two of each of the nine poses + extra mounted, two bags had only one of some of the foot poses and two bags only had 7 of the 9 poses. I made sets of 9 and ended up with 15 extra mounted with knife and pistol and 24 extra mounted with rifle and powderhorn. There were no horses. I know Bob Terry bought the final large horse mold in 2004 along with the two civil war molds. Final large horse mold had integral saddles. He made a reissue ACW camp/battle set, but I am not sure if he is around anymore.
The final large Processed Plastic cowboy and Indian mold (6 poses each side) is in reissue as well in a mix of red and tan.
I am almost positive that at one time in years past I purchased Timmee 70mm knight reissues. I believe that I purchased them from Stad’s Newsletter. Are either of these “facts” possible, or have I just gotton confused in my old age?
As to Processed Plastic cowboy and Indian reissues, I question the point, since the originals are still so widely available and still so inexpensive. At some shows, it’s hard to give them away.
I could see some logic in reissuing Timmee pirates, Robin Hood, and knights, especially if the knight lances were reissued by themselves, to complete all the lanceless Timmee knights that seem to be everywhere.
Don
Yes you bought the knights from me as I brought them up along with other figures. These molds were in Monterrey at the time with one company which also has the molds for the covered wagon and pioneers. Another company had the pirates, Russian and circus.
The knights were made in Mexico and some drifted north to the US. I had a nice flat boxed set De Hato Artur Rey or similar title (King Arthur). The lances were made in the same cavity as the figure they went with attached by one or two small sprues. JLloyd international who bought Processed Plastic in 2005 is releasing a number of the old sets for the toy market, not the collector market and cowboys and Indians have always been a popular toy. 40Figures for $12-13 which have a lot more play value that one or two action figures which cost the same.
QUESTION :The tim mee knights foot and mounted similar POSES were intentional done/cast with out base and with base on first mold or other separated mold were done for either!?