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Polar Lights succeeded this and obtained a Star Trek license in 2003. Since then it established a position as a model kit manufacturer of vehicles appearing in Star Trek franchise. It was absorbed into RC2 after Playing Mantis was sold to the company in 2004. Thomas Lowe signed an agreement to use Polar Lights brand under Round 2 in 2008, along ...
Aluminum Model Toys (AMT) is an American brand of scale model vehicles. The former manufacturing company was founded in Troy, Michigan, in 1948 by West Gallogly Sr. AMT became known for producing 1:25 scale plastic automobile dealer promotional model cars and friction motor models, and pioneered the annual 3-in-1 model kit buildable in stock, custom, or hot-rod versions.
Logo of "Polar Lights", a brand by Playing Mantis that reissued some of Aurora's popular kit models. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, toy and hobby company Playing Mantis created a division called "Polar Lights" (as a reference to Aurora) which reissued some of Aurora's most popular kits.
The 33-inch original model of the U.S.S. Enterprise from the 1960s TV series "Star Trek" resurfaced decades after it disappeared. But then an auction house gave it to the son of Gene Roddenberry ...
Trumpeter – Nicely detailed kits and models. Cars and military besides aircraft. Trux – Truck line of Australian Trax. Owned by Top Gear. Tudor Rose – British maker of plastic cars and trucks [90] Tyco Toys – American manufacturer of HO Scale cars and sets. Owned Matchbox during the 1990s.
On March 28, 2011, it was announced that eBay Inc. would acquire GSI for $2.4 billion. The deal was closed on June 20, 2011. [18] On June 20, 2013, the company announced that it would be retiring the GSI Commerce name in favor of eBay Enterprise. [19] Magento, Inc. became a part of eBay Enterprise on November 21, 2013.
The Enterprise design has been licensed for use in variety of games, models, and toys. AMT's 1966 Enterprise model is one of the company's highest-selling kits: [176] one million kits sold during the show's first year of production; the previous bestseller, a car from The Munsters, took two years to reach one million sales. [177]
Now Polistil sells different products: slot car systems, radio controlled cars, die cast models of construction machinery, tractors, caricature cars, Formula One cars and so on. So, this is an interesting case where the Asian toy giant is responsible for resurrecting two well-known Italian brand names – Bburago and Polistil, but the products ...