Need A Confirmation on Who Made this Figure

Posted on February 18, 2015 by admin

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I am planning on putting this figure on EBay. I have this figure in my mind as Ideal. I went to check Kent Sprecher’s site to double check, but you did not find it listed. Does anyone recognize it?

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33 Responses to Need A Confirmation on Who Made this Figure

  1. greg liska says:
    February 18, 2015 at 9:06 PM

    I don’t know, but it sure looks well done. Is it 60mm? Soft plastic?

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  2. kent sprecher says:
    February 18, 2015 at 9:49 PM

    yes he is an Ideal construction worker also put in some later farm sets. Four 54mm poses; putting light bulb in ceiling light, using jackhammer, swinging pick & swinging sledge hammer. The last two are the same basic pose and I have been waiting to get a man with sledge hammer to post a picture at my website. Made in green and white.

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  3. kent sprecher says:
    February 18, 2015 at 9:52 PM

    I have been thinking the sledgehammer figure is just a pick with the ends ground down. I have a bag of these and will try to get a picture added this weekend. I think the PFPC issue with Ideal ifo has a picture of a boxed construction set with the figures in it.

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  4. greg liska says:
    February 18, 2015 at 9:54 PM

    Way to go, Kent! The Go-To Guy!

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  5. ed borris says:
    February 19, 2015 at 7:12 AM

    He sure looks a lot like the Auburn guy swinging an axe. I guess there’s only so many ways you can depict someone swinging an axe or sledgehammer.

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  6. ed borris says:
    February 19, 2015 at 7:15 AM

    Okay as you may know, Mike Kutnick was ill recently. He underwent quadruple bypass surgery last Thursday as is now on the road to recovery. The doctors all agree he is progressing well on his road to recovery. I spoke to him last night and he hopes to be moving out of ICU today, if all goes well I will pay him a visit tomorrow.

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    • Don Perkins says:
      February 19, 2015 at 8:18 AM

      Please tell him the entire toy soldier collecting fraternity on Stad’s website says “Hi”, and wishes him a speedy recovery! My neighbor across the street had the very same operation (only a quintuple) and 15 years later is up and about and still going strong with no residual effects at all. We’re expecting the same for Mike.

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    • lynn graves says:
      February 19, 2015 at 8:22 AM

      Not to be argumentative, but I have one attached in the box of an Auburn construction/street maintenance set.

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      • admin says:
        February 19, 2015 at 10:21 AM

        Lynn
        Thank you if you have one attached in a box of Auburn it would be Auburn. Looking at the figure it is similar to other Auburn.

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  7. ed borris says:
    February 19, 2015 at 8:24 AM

    Speaking of Ideal figures, has anyone else noted there is someone out there selling sealed bags of Ideal REV WAR/Alamo figures? They look to be re-casts heat sealed in a bag. He has them in red, blue and gray. He is also selling Marx Terrain pieces with and without the figures.

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    • erwin says:
      February 19, 2015 at 11:46 AM

      I saw then at toy show-NJ, they are very old overstock recast that come years ago in stiff hard plastic,TS-NYC, CTS just to sale then too.
      The same on Marx 6 pieces terrain(white or light brown)-hard plastic ,old reissues from the 90’s,some how he my got it from an old dealer or else…

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  8. Lynn Graves says:
    February 19, 2015 at 10:55 AM

    I tried to make Rusty understand that a number of items had been missed in his Auburn coverage.

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    • admin says:
      February 19, 2015 at 11:09 AM

      Lynn
      I am sorry to here that. I realize that we do not have the complete picture on some figure toy companies due to lack of documentation or actual packages of the toy. So we must be open to update and corrections in regards to toys.

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  9. kent sprecher says:
    February 19, 2015 at 12:34 PM

    ACK you are right the figures are Auburn not Ideal. I spaced that totally out. They were later year production and I have only had them in polyethylene. Never seen them in rubber like vinyl. Of course it was the PFPC Auburn issue where you will find a construction set with them in it.

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  10. kent sprecher says:
    February 19, 2015 at 12:41 PM

    I too have seen the Ideal reissues popping up again. The original colonial figures were made in red and darker royal blue. The reissues were made in the same colors plus gray and light blue. The reissue plastic was bad and very brittle. I ordered a bunch of stuff to resell and got two big boxes of; the Ideal colonials, WWII sailors and soldiers, minisub with frogmen, pirates and Andy Gard ACW. The colonials, sailors and Andy Gard were all susceptible to breakage. The guy shorted me and TSSD on our orders and the disappeared. A few years later he was advertising in PM and I contacted and told him he owed us stuff. He agreed and the disapeared again……….

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  11. ed borris says:
    February 19, 2015 at 1:09 PM

    He’s selling them three bags for $9.99 with a buy it now. I was tempted, but I saw some re-casts in the past and they were indeed a brittle plastic. I find that Ideal was a strange company for the most part they had very good scuplts, but most were of a strange size, either too big or too small. I think the only things they did in a somewhat normal size, cavalry, mounties, cowboys and Indians were far inferior to their other sculpts. Of course had they done their vinyl pirates in 54mm or 60mm they would have cooked noodles.

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    • admin says:
      February 19, 2015 at 2:03 PM

      ED
      The party is selling old Glencoe stock. Glencoe got into the Ideal molds and purchase the figure molds. Glencoe did a stiff plastic as they claimed they had problems with the molds.

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      • Don Perkins says:
        February 19, 2015 at 4:57 PM

        Unfortunately the “stiff plastic” Glencoe claims it had to use resulted in changing some of the most beautiful figures ever into nothing but cheap junk, in which even brand new packages had nothing but broken bayonets, swords, rifle and musket tips. CTS is currently offering some of this old reissue product, and truthfully advertises them as full of broken bayonets, swords, and rifles — with no refunds or exchanges.

        As for the originals in nice, soft, pliable, high-quality plastic, the least expensive I have ever seen them is at last year’s OTSN, where Rick Eber’s roommate (all of a sudden his name escapes me again) had a big box of about 30 of them, which he was selling for $2.00 each. I should have bought all of them, but contented myself with just buying all of the Revolutionary War running pose, of which he had 5 or 6. Once again, I regret not acting more decisively at the show when opportunity presented itself.

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        • Don Perkins says:
          February 19, 2015 at 7:40 PM

          The Glencoe recasts were enough to give re-issues a bad name.

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          • greg liska says:
            February 19, 2015 at 8:20 PM

            If they are anything like the Andygard ACW recasts, then I have to agree. I bought them and every time I took them out of the box, I was fixing something on one or two of them and I am far from rough with my stuff. I tried to use them for conversion fodder, but the plastic was too stiff to cut reliably. I ended up replacing all the rifle barrels and bayonets with metal pieces and painting the figures over. The micro drill was the only tool that I could safely use without slicing myself open or melting too much plastic. So, I got use out of them, but I would rather have not had to go through all of that. ATS (I think) did recast them in soft plastic.

  12. ed borris says:
    February 19, 2015 at 2:52 PM

    I thought at one time I had some Auburn construction workers, they came in a weird orange color, I didn’t real close attention to them for all I know they could have been farmers. I know I had firemen and cops. I’m sure everyone had the pioneers and Indians.

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  13. Pjr says:
    February 19, 2015 at 4:53 PM

    What were the Marx terrain items

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    • admin says:
      February 19, 2015 at 6:29 PM

      Terrain pieces are hard plastic squares that represent various pieces of terrain. One group was done for military and the other western. You can arrange the squares to suited your needs. The originals were in latter sets. The terrain molds were found and reissued.

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  14. greg liska says:
    February 19, 2015 at 7:19 PM

    There are TWO sets of Marx terrain pieces? I am aware of, and own, the one that was in Battleground Terrain. I got 5 full sets at a show for cheap, sold off all but 2. They are decent but a bit ‘busy’ all together, so I use them in groups or singly.
    I was very tempted to get the Ideal bags in red and darker blue. I figured they were the hard plastic recasts of the ’90s, but was willing to put in the work to fix all the broken pieces. I stopped myself from hitting enter just in time. I really do have enough of them. I have loads of broken originals I took the time to repair with fabricated parts. It was the beginning of me getting into conversions. My first conversions were really ‘resurrections’ of old discarded, but hard to find toy soldiers. I must have between 3 and 5 of every pose in both red and blue and one of each is not a repaired figure, if that.

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  15. ed borris says:
    February 20, 2015 at 5:38 AM

    Don,

    Eber’s roommate is Bob Jones.

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    • Don Perkins says:
      February 20, 2015 at 7:43 AM

      Thank you. And I’ve been impatiently checking the Indy website everyday, looking for the next update of confirmed vendors, looking especially for the Stengels and Koopmeiners. But they still haven’t appeared yet.

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  16. ed borris says:
    February 20, 2015 at 11:22 AM

    I’d be shocked if the Stengels don’t attend. I haven’t heard from Eric lately.

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  17. kent sprecher says:
    February 22, 2015 at 9:14 PM

    I have put a picture of the three Auburn workers at my news and reviews page along with a picture of the seldom seen Lido construction workers.

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  18. ed borris says:
    February 23, 2015 at 8:35 AM

    Wow, have never seen the Lido constrution workers before.

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    • admin says:
      February 23, 2015 at 10:23 AM

      ED
      I have seen one or two figures, but until Kent documented them, I did not know who made them. The problem in our hobby is the lack of documentation in certain areas. Most of the time it is seen the item in a magazine or at a show. I purchased several years ago at PW show a Comansi Roy Thinnes figure from their playset of the Invaders. I only knew what it was due to the article in Playset Magazine. the dealer thought it was a zombie.

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      • jay gowey says:
        March 27, 2016 at 12:20 AM

        I have 3 of the various Comansi Invaders sets only 2 contained figures actually relating to The Invaders. Only 1 had the saucer toy and is very hard to find. It was made for one year only.

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  19. ed borris says:
    February 23, 2015 at 12:11 PM

    It’s like as a kid I bet I had thousands of Lido GI’s, I never saw a wounded Lido GI in all those figures. I finally got one in a junk box and as soon as I saw him I knew what it was. I wonder how they sold him?

    I remember one time at Kane County a guy had a plastic bag of figures, he had no idea what they were so he sold it to me for $15.00. The bag had 51 mint Gibbs Custer figures plus 10 or 15 Revel Monogram GI’s and some assorted junk. Another time near the end of a Kane County show, this guy had a huge box of figures sitting under his table, we started looking through it and he said $150.00 and it’s yours. We just kept looking in it and he kept coming down on the price until he reached $50.00 and we bought it. It had a ton of Marx in with about 40 differenr Super Circus figures, Michel figures and horses, Lido, Timpo, a little bit of everything turned out to be a heck of a find.

    Sometimes you just never know what will turn up at any given show.

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