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The Get Along Gang is a group of characters created in 1983 [1] by Tony Byrd, Tom Jacobs, Ralph Shaffer, Linda Edwards, Muriel Fahrion, and Mark Spangler for American Greetings' toy design and licensing division, "Those Characters from Cleveland" [2] (now Cloudco Entertainment), for a series of greeting cards.
Homies are a series of two-inch plastic collectible figurines representing various Chicano Mexican American characters. The line of toys was created by David Gonzales [1] and based on a comic strip that Gonzales created [2] featuring a cast of characters from his youth. [3]
In 1985, Moose Toys was founded by Brian Hamersfeld. [1] In 2001, Moose was acquired by Chief Executives Manny Stul, Jacqui Tobias, and Paul Solomon. [citation needed] In 2011, Paul Solomon began an effort to distribute Moose Toys products directly into US retail, ending its distributor license with Canadian toy company Spin Master. [2]
And suddenly you spot it: a box of Hummels, the collectible figurines that debuted in 1935 based on the illustrations of one Maria Innocentia Hummel, a German nun.
Books and price guides have been published about Hummel figurines. [15] Some of these works supported the secondary market interest of collector speculators; The Official M.I. Hummel Price Guide: Figurines and Plates, 2nd Edition, by Heidi Ann Von Recklinghausen is a current price guide, published in 2013.
In the 1960s, after abandoning a project to create an arrowhead price guide, Overstreet turned his attention to comics, which had no definitive guide. [ 1 ] Comic back-issue prices had stabilized by the end of the 1960s, [ 2 ] and, Jerry Bails , who had recently published the Collector's Guide to the First Heroic Age , was considering creating ...
In March 2009, to mark the release of the Explorer series in the UK, the Daily Mirror newspaper ran a week-long promotion where they gave away free figurines, stickers and sticker books. Two of the figurines were exclusive to this giveaway [17] In April 2009, the Entertainer toy shop in Kingston upon Thames held a 'swap day'. Every swapper ...
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