Green vs. Green

New colors

Jeff Imel from TimMee Plastic Army Men has announced several releases for the month of November. They include 2 new Vietnam Era soldier colors (bright green and medium green) along with new productions runs of the Pink and Red.vs. Medium Gray soldiers.
In addition, a new production run of the Patton Tank 3 packs and the C-130 Hercules Gunship set that will include a NOS (new old stock) Armored Car instead of the Patton tank. 

BMC Marines

Here's the link to the new BMC Toys blog. There's only one page thus far but much more to come. 

BMC Toys Blog

Close Encounters of the TimMee Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

In Steven Spielberg's sci-fi classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, little Barry Guiler is awakened from his sleep and watches in amazement as his room full of mechanical toys suddenly come alive. Among them is a TimMee jeep that can seen in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. Thanks to reader J. Mitchell for spotting this one. Be sure to check out the ever-growing compilation of TimMee appearances in movies and television on the TimMee at the Movies post. 

TimMee Germany

Kent Sprecher over at Toy Soldier HQ recently added several photos of very rare and unique TimMee products that were manufactured at their factory (Tim-Mee-Plast Fritz Baumgärtner) in Baden-Baden, Germany during the late '50s. A special thanks to Kent for allowing TMA to post these photos (courtesy of Daniel Lepers). 

First up is the large vacuform diorama with rocket launcher, radar installation and bunkers. Also included were German factory variants of the 60mm U.S. soldiers cast in bright green, light blue, yellow and brown.

Vacuform missile and radar base

Next is the smaller diorama with a single rocket launcher. This set also included soldiers.

Vacuform missile base

Here are the factory's variants of the TimMee rocket launcher platform. In the top left corner is the twin anti-aircraft gun. Below that is the radar trailer. On the right is the more familiar rocket launcher in two different color configurations. Note the extended trailer hitch on all four versions.

Anti-aircraft guns, radar and rocket launcher trailers

The classic TimMee Jeep in transparent yellow with beige wheels and green steering wheel. It is unknown if an identical U.S. factory mold was used to produce the jeep/cannon combo or one that was specifically made for the German factory.

Willys Jeep

The field cannon in the same color combination as the jeep. 

The big mystery here is what's towing the cannon!

Field cannon

Click here for more info on the German variant of the U.S. 60mm soldiers.