Prototypes and Pre-Production: a Look at 21st Century Toys

[@leandromercado9862]

thanks for the video 👍🏻 to me 21st century allways be the greatest company, awesome 1/6 stuff!!!

[@Krozzman]

Nice collection, I was looking forward to the Zombie invasion series and then 21st imploded.

[@rickoftherick4610]

I still have plenty of 21st century toys items that I bought from Toys R Us, they made sooooo many things that no other toy company has made yet, stuff like the stoner 63, or the navy seal m60, or the XM148 Grenade launcher, or the Grizzly Big Boar 50 cal sniper rifle, or my favorite the china lake grenade launcher. Literally so many weapons that no one else has made since they made them.

[@RadarRedsox]

thank you for sharing this, i was a young british kid visiting Florida back in the heyday and was blown away by 21st century which sadle wasn't offered in the UK. this is an amazing insight to what might have been, id love to have seen a civil war like like was teased!

[@jaseys]

Those men are Toy Legends, brought 1/6 back new and improved from the original GiJoe. I didn’t know they were thinking of a zombie line, the last piece I wanted to get into was the motorcycle gang. Was it Chopper? One of if not THE toy line for me, everything they did I really appreciated. Wish they could have kept going.

[@fossildude181]

I’ve seen photos of Chopper (with the bike and denim jacket) and had one of the resin heads. My personal favorites for the unreleased line were the SOG weapons set and the ARVN. Ujindou and Easy&Simple are probably the closest spiritual successors to 21C’s innovation.

[@fossildude181]

As a follow-up, the design binder does have photos of the biker, “Easy Rider.” drive.google.com/file/d/1oNdwI0T57cgDFSH7Lk0rS2YroaL4I4BX/view?usp=drivesdk

[@MrPolicekarim]

@@fossildude181 What about Green Wolf Gear, please?

[@MrPolicekarim]

@@fossildude181 Have you ever heard of something called Weird War 2? It's basically WW2 but with sci-fi added. Like mad scientists, secret weapons, mega tanks, stealth planes, and so on. Apparently, they were going to do 1/6 walking tanks. Check out a game called Konflict 47. They had walking tanks.

[@MrPolicekarim]

@@fossildude181 Are you into the genre known as Weird War 2? 21st Century Toys were going to do 1/6 'Walker Tanks'. Basically, there was a game called Konflict 47. They had those tanks, but in 1/48 scale. Check them out, please?

[@manofaction1807]

I wish they would have continued. I wouldn't mind picking up the standard and running with it.

[@markholmphotography]

Intresting - tho I never got into the 1/6 scale items. My interests in 21st Century was (is) in their 1/32 and 1/18 scale items. Though as I’m running out of space in my house, I may sell off a big chunk of my 1/18 items - love the big 1/18 planes but they take up so much room and I only have about a dozen of them. I sure wish 21st Century would have been able to keep going - before them and Forces of Valor the only way to get tanks that looked close to the real thing ( and in 1/32 scale) was to build 1/35 model kits of tanks. Though there was a really wide swing in the AFVs ( Armored Fighting Vehicles) quality with some being very nicely detailed with the bits on the tanks - like the tools being actual parts while others had those being molded into the body - which made them cheaper to produce but made it more toy than detailed model - tho I think one of 21st Century issues was trying to be all things - they were producing items in 1/144, 1/72, 1/48, 1/32, 1/18 and 1/6 scale - I really fail to see why they decided to produce items in 1/144, 1/72 and 1/48 scale - not exactly big market for those scales except 1/72 planes but so many companies already do 1/72 - they should have just done 1/32, 1/18 and 1/6 where they had very little competition - except. 1/32 from Forces of Valor - and should have looked into getting deals to market off a series tied to big brand of tv series or film series to diversify from just military items

[@kmaximus99]

whammy

[@strooper7717]

Hey Casual Collector…. Since You Tube doesn’t have DM’s anymore I dropped you a note on the old OSW forum….

[@Broadshore]

Wow.....