From Toys to Collectables: A Century of Toy Soldiers

[@maryanneweldon8040]

All King And Country for me.i love their WW2 figures.I have over 300 pieces. The detail and dedication of their sculptures is amazing.

[@jappletonhowe9649]

Please forgive me....I don't like "talking heads" videos....but truly this was an excellent presentation! Well done!

[@joebill4105]

Nice presentation! Lucky for me I'm still a kid so I greatly enjoy toy soldiers. My collection consists of BMC/ Americana figures, Imex, Accurate, Airfix, and Timpo toy soldiers. I just think you should have mentioned Marx . Otherwise it was great!

[@mh53j]

If he included the explosion of the toy soldier industry during about past 25yrs he could have gone on for hours. Found this very interesting even though had heard much of this before. Remember, he said he wasn't a collector so his approach different from us that do collect. Aside from a series of VMI cadets at the battle of New Market in 1864, all my metal figures are by Britains. Especially like series on Falklands War. Wish all manufacturers did more "modern" era figures

[@oscarmartinsafonsodepaiva3320]

Excelente aula, Muito obrigado. Eu tenho uma coleção de toy soldiers com aproximadamente 1000 peças. Um abraço.

[@joebill4105]

Amazing presentation! I play with toy soldiers and trust me there are a lot more toy soldier genres than ww2. Toy soldier manufacturers here in the u.s. make mostly u.s. civil war toy soldiers. There are also plenty of accessories from brands like form tech. But Armies in plastic (a us manufacturer) makes so many subjects. They have made Gordon relief expedition figures to boxer rebellion figures. Any ways I'm really into the hobby. Thanks for this!

[@WasItSky]

i'm going to go to the nationalarmymuseum in the UK/this one

[@westernfreedom5031]

Fascinating about the peace movement in 1914 and them wanting to ban toy soldiers. There’s always a group that thinks they have the moral authority to tell you what and how your children should play and experience the world. Cancel culture has always been with us it would seem.

[@ianwoodall4523]

With relation to plastic toy soldiers this guy doesnt know what he is talking about. The 70s were awash with these figures largely due to Airfix. And Airfix, Matchbox, Timpo and others found two things from working in plastic that tin just does not have. Firstly the chance to sculpt more truly to life and secondly to extend the range! You had Russians, Italians, four different types of Germans, Japanese, Aussies, Napoleonic, knights, French Foreign Legion figures and many more. After the Iranian Embassy siege in 1981 they even brought out an SAS range with face masks and MP5s. The plastic figures were cheap and plentiful and the poses were more realistic than the tin ones. Its also totally untrue that they were unsupportrd. You could get tanks, half tracks, self propelled guns and buildings that were cheaper and looked better than anything in tin. For about two decades from 66 to 86 British plastic toy soldiers had a wonderful indian summer amid the chopper bikes, tank tops and Morcamb and Wise Christmas specials of the 70s and 80s. In a decade where both glam rock and films like Where Eagles Dare existed together those figures were cheap, populist and fun. They also had the history on the back of each box which was a way into real historical events for the children that bought them. I suspect that this chap is a toy snob. And that he looked down on the oikish plastic market because of his obvious social class origins. Well stuff him! Let him collect the brittle pompous tin figures. Give me a box of 1.32 Aussie Infantry, Some Japanese, a rainy English Sunday and my Humbrol paints anytime!

[@peterdavy6110]

"I suspect that this chap is a toy snob. And that he looked down on the oikish plastic market because of his obvious social class origins. Well stuff him!" I know the guy personally. You could not be more wrong.

[@HO-bndk]

Yes, the Airfix ranges still stand as some of the best sculptured toy soldiers ever made, plastic or otherwise. Far better than any of those lumpy, misshapen Britain's things ever were.

[@geronimo3752]

There are so many manufacturers of toy soldiers now. The kids that grew up with, Marx, Airfix, and Matchbox now make their own, and they are incredibly detailed. Conte, tssd, classic toy soldiers, plastic platoon, barzo, king and country, Britain, expeditionary force. The list goes on and on. It's a new golden era of toy soldiers!

[@ianmajor8757]

Mentions H.G.Wells but fails to mentions H.G.Wells started wargames. Mentions hollow casting (very significant) but fails to describe what it was, just talks about drop casting, says William Britains produced 200, 000 per week and produced a thousand million in total, well thats a 100 years production and the hollow cast wasn't produced for even 60 years so someone has their maths wrong, I give up watching this

[@historex54tamiya]

This guy was just out to slag WB off. He never mentioned the far higher prices of other firms. I wonder who he works for ??

[@markjohnson6901]

Very interesting. In the States we could get some Britains, but not all. I loved the French Foreign Legion.

[@davidwilson7625]

Irreconcilable is it not; he has a doctorate..!!....I feel the ‘hollow cast’ of everything anterior to his intentionality and he, palpably wrought through with nerves....nevertheless, I remain hospitable to the other

[@tomaddie1969]

Could you try using the English language in a comprehensible fashion rather than trying to 'show off' as some sort of quasi-intellectual? That is, please try to speak plain and clear and not 'strut your stuff' to make your point. Sorry, but I get so irritated by your kind of verbiage and crucifying of our common language. Be straightforward and direct and articulate your points properly. Best of luck!

[@davidwilson7625]

Oh...I think you own the thrust of my point, felt and understood, this is evident and indeed all that mattered. ‘Properly’...now that is a silly billy thing to think and say, however, your intentions are good as were mine. Accept responsibility for your presence and what you own, avoid nonsense appeals to consensus within your rebuttal and mind your spelling ;)

[@Comicsandstuff]

@@davidwilson7625 I like your words dawg! Screw the haters.

[@historex54tamiya]

Sorry. the presentation was weak. I sculpt for WB and have for the last 5years. Hands have changed and most what is stated is incorrect now. Still a very poor presentation though due to poor qualities on the speaker