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Plan B Toys Ltd. is a Groveport, Ohio–based toy company, founded in 1999 by Jay Borman, Chris Borman, and Tony Simione, former employees of ReSaurus Company, who founded it with the intention of freely creating new ideas and properties without corporate boundaries. Plan B Toys has operated for the past few years as a development house.
It was the success of the more expensive but profitable 752E City of Portland Union Pacific Streamliner that gave the company much needed revenue. As Lionel's first scale-model, the Streamliner gave the company considerable presence in the model market. It was the start of the company's scale-detailed, die-cast look.
Lionel, LLC is an American designer and importer of toy trains and model railroads that is headquartered in Concord, North Carolina.Its roots lie in the 1969 purchase of the Lionel product line from the Lionel Corporation by cereal conglomerate General Mills and subsequent purchase in 1986 by businessman Richard P. Kughn forming Lionel Trains, Inc. in 1986.
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1:18 scale diecast replicas are 1/18th the size of the real vehicle. Most popular in this category are 1:18 scale automobile replicas – usually made out of Zamak zinc diecasting alloy [ 1 ] with plastic parts. " 1:18 scale" is the colloquial reference to this class of toy or replica.
As well as the traditional scales, die-cast models are available in 1:200, 1:250, 1:350, 1:400, 1:500 and 1:600 scale. The majority of aircraft modelers concern themselves with depiction of real-life aircraft, but there are some modelers who 'bend' history by modeling aircraft that either never actually flew or existed, or by painting them in a ...
Creative Master Northcord Ltd – highly detailed die-cast bus models in 1:76 scale. Crescent Toys – British manufacturer of die-cast models, sometimes marketing DCMT toys. Often 1950s & 1960s race cars. Boxes are reminiscent of Italian Mercury with illustrations [21] Crown Premiums – Manufacturers of mint die-cast collectibles. Mostly 1:24 ...
A die-cast toy (also spelled diecast, or die cast) is a toy or a collectible model produced by using the die-casting method of putting molten lead, zinc alloy or plastic in a mold to produce a particular shape. Such toys are made of metal, with plastic, rubber, glass, or other machined metal parts.