Month: September 2024

The Latest News!! 09/30/2024 ~ Chicago Toy Soldier Show, New Jersey Toy Show & some Hobby News.

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Last week was the Chicago Toy Soldier Show or now called Chicagoland Toy Soldier Show. Hundreds of rooms were booked in the Chicago Marriott Schaumburg hotel. The room trading officially started on Thursday September 19th and continued on Friday & Saturday. The show was on Sunday, September 22nd. I heard that over 400 people attended the show itself.

We were not at the show itself. But I had some friends take some pictures and gathered others from the internet. Jason Evans took some pictures of the room trading.

Austin Miniatures had new Marines and some older sets like the WWII Japanese Infantry. Plus, their wargaming scaled miniatures.

David & Kim Cook of MicShaun’s closet had a bunch of the TSSD plastic toy soldiers, LOD/Barzso products and foam terrain pieces. Plus, a bunch of other things.

Mike Kutnick had a mixture of vintage Marx plastic toy soldiers, Barzso resin figures and this year some of our Warhorse Miniatures.

Here are some pictures of Nate’s Garage custom toys.

Rich Egan has a nice mixture of vintage playsets, Barzso products, Conte Toy Soldiers and vintage Marx toys.

Jason said “This Marx set was from 1964, titled Beach-Head landing. It’s so cool watching them unbox these sets. The sets are donated every year by Craig Remington. Rick Eber always does the actual unboxing itself.”

Collector Jacob Kendall sent me these pictures that he took of the show.

Here are the pictures that Jason Evans took of the show. Mike Kutnick had some of our Warhorse Miniature products with him. I heard that W. Britain had a nice setup.

Rob Hornung had some unique hand-crafted toys for the show. There was nice selection of vintage plastic figures, antique & modern painted metal soldiers and vintage toys. Plus, a great battle display.

Here are some more pictures that I got that Matt Murphy had posted on Facebook. I heard that there was a lot of foot traffic for the room trading and the show was a success. That’s it for the Chicago Show. You can see more pictures of the show at the Treefrog Treasures forum, chicago-show-2024-pictures, We will start attending the show on a regular basis in 2026.

I have been busy working. The testing continues on new products. The British models have been updated. There were some things that were fixed and changed. There will be a bunch of different sets coming out in a couple of months. I will be adding more products to the webstore soon too. Most of the Plains Indian sets have been added.

In about 20 days we will be setup at the New Jersey Toy Soldier show. It is in Wayne, NJ. Hobby Bunker will be at this show too. This will be our last show of the year. We hope to see you there.

We hope everyone is safe, a lot of people have been affected by Hurricane Helene. Our thoughts & prayers are with you.

The Latest News!! 09/02/2024 ~ Gettysburg Toy Soldier Show Review August 2024. Plus, some hobby news.

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Last Sunday was the second Gettysburg Toy Soldier Show this year. They started doing this two years ago. The crowd was bigger than last year. We had our best one-day event so far. The first three hours was really busy.

We will start the review with Dr. Christian Keller. He sells antique toy soldiers. You can also see him at the North Gate Antique Mall in Carlisle, Pa.

Steve Connell had his usual mixture of vintage plastic and painted metal toy soldiers for sale at good prices.

Fast Eddie had his usual mix of antique & vintage toy soldiers at great prices.

Rob Hornung had a big selection of his hand crafted & painted metal toy soldiers. He had some really unique sets with him. The big sets were around $900.

Paul Knapp had a bunch of vintage Playsets with him and was displaying a custom “Picketts’ Charge” Playset they he had put together. Some of the 3d printed soldiers were from Warhorse Miniatures. He also had some custom-made terrain pieces that were around $5 to $15 a piece. Here is a video of Paul doing a review of some of my Civil War miniatures.

Eric Kohl was selling military art, books and different types of toy soldiers.

Some random pictures of painted metal toy soldiers.

Todd Nace had some bins of vintage plastic figures to search through and some vintage playsets.

Talking about plastic figures to search through, they were everywhere at this show. Here are some pictures from different vendors.

Here are more random pictures of painted metal toy soldiers.

So far, the trend of the second Gettysburg show is that it is mainly collectors setting up to sell parts of their collections. You can find some rare or hard to find sets at good prices. I picked up the Conte Paratrooper for $70.

More pictures of random plastic items to sort through.

Here are some random pictures of different vendors.

There are a few different dealers that bring a lot of good vintage toys to the show every year.

Another new vendor named Scot was selling his late Father’s collection. He had a lot of Warhammer miniatures with him. They looked like Bretonnia, Empire and High Elves warriors. He will be back next year at the spring show.

Last but not least, were our tables. We had more Warhorse Miniatures products this time. Some vintage plastic toys soldiers too and a couple of foam houses. The latest sets were the Cheyenne, Crow, and Ojibwe Indians. Plus, the Confederate skirmish sets. The mat with the teepees on it is made by, Battle Mat Bazaar.

I took these pictures around noon, as the crowd was starting to thin out. I did not have too much time to run around and take a closer look at the other tables. It was very busy the first few hours. There were some deals to be found and rare items too. The crowd was good, it should continue to grow as more collectors become aware that there will be two shows every year now.

Here are some videos about the show and Warhorse Miniatures. The first video is by Paul Knapp, here is his review of the show.

The second is by Bill Molyneaux. Here is his review of the show. Bill asked me a few questions about my company.

Now that the review is over, we will see what I found for myself. I picked up this Conte WWII US Paratrooper for $70. I was not looking for this item, but I had to buy it when I saw it. A truly amazing piece.

I also picked up these Barzso items at the show from Steve Connell. The Auburn army vehicles I found of a dollar a piece at an antique sidewalk yard sale.

We usually check out antique stores on the way to a show and afterwards too. Here are some paper products we found. The E.T. Paull piece was $18, the Boys of 76 magazines were $5 each and the comics were less than $3 each.

The Chicagoland Toy Soldier show will start officially on Thursday, September 19th, but some collectors will get there earlier. The Show itself is on Sunday, September 22nd 2024. You can learn more about the show by clicking on this link, https://chicagotoysoldiershow.com/. Or visiting the Facebook page over here, https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoToySoldierShow.

We will not be able to attend the Chicago Show until 2026, but we will be attending the New Jersey Toy Soldier show on Sunday, October 20th, 2024. This show is located in Wayne, NJ.

We continue designing new products and changing some of the older sets. Between now and the end of the year I plan on releasing new French Marines, British Infantry, WWII US Paratroopers and some Normans. Plus, more Native American Indians. That’s it for now. Thank you for reading.