The Ertl Company is an American toy company known for producing plastic model kits. Ertl produced several model kits based on Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.
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| - The Ertl Company is an American toy company known for producing plastic model kits. Ertl produced several model kits based on Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.
- The Ertl Company (or Ertl for short) was a maker of die cast and injection molded plastic models.
- The packaging used a blue background with the character's name in a cloud.
* Thomas The Tank Engine
* Edward The Blue Engine
* Henry The Green Engine
* Gordon The Big Express Engine
* James The Red Engine
* Percy The Small Engine
* Toby The Tram Engine
* Duck The GWR Pannier Tank Engine
* Diesel
* Annie and Clarabel (available with either Thomas or Percy)
* Troublesome Trucks
* Bertie The Bus
* Sir Topham Hatt & The Engineer
- The Ertl Company is an American toy company best known for its die-cast metal alloy collectible replicas of farm equipment and vehicles, or (scale models). The company is based in Dyersville, Iowa, home of the National Farm Toy Museum. In the 1990s, Ertl also began production in Mexico, inevitably laying off the employees of the original Ertl factory which would become a warehouse/distribution facility and an outlet store. The popularity of Ertl toys is undoubtedly due to their detailed, small-scale representations of tractors and other vehicles.
- A commercial for ERTL Looney Tunes Die Cast Toys aired in 1989.
- The first Thomas products released by ERTL in 1985 were a die-cast Thomas with a sticker sheet of different facial expressions and a larger, motorised pull-back version of Thomas. Later in the same year, die-cast models of James and Henry were released, both with a happy face. Because the sticker faces peeled off easily, they were soon replaced with fixed plastic faces. The ranges were released in the US in 1989 following the premiere of the series on Shining Time Station.
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| - The Ertl Company is an American toy company known for producing plastic model kits. Ertl produced several model kits based on Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.
- The Ertl Company (or Ertl for short) was a maker of die cast and injection molded plastic models.
- The packaging used a blue background with the character's name in a cloud.
* Thomas The Tank Engine
* Edward The Blue Engine
* Henry The Green Engine
* Gordon The Big Express Engine
* James The Red Engine
* Percy The Small Engine
* Toby The Tram Engine
* Duck The GWR Pannier Tank Engine
* Diesel
* Annie and Clarabel (available with either Thomas or Percy)
* Troublesome Trucks
* Bertie The Bus
* Sir Topham Hatt & The Engineer
- The Ertl Company is an American toy company best known for its die-cast metal alloy collectible replicas of farm equipment and vehicles, or (scale models). The company is based in Dyersville, Iowa, home of the National Farm Toy Museum. In the 1990s, Ertl also began production in Mexico, inevitably laying off the employees of the original Ertl factory which would become a warehouse/distribution facility and an outlet store. The popularity of Ertl toys is undoubtedly due to their detailed, small-scale representations of tractors and other vehicles.
- A commercial for ERTL Looney Tunes Die Cast Toys aired in 1989.
- The first Thomas products released by ERTL in 1985 were a die-cast Thomas with a sticker sheet of different facial expressions and a larger, motorised pull-back version of Thomas. Later in the same year, die-cast models of James and Henry were released, both with a happy face. Because the sticker faces peeled off easily, they were soon replaced with fixed plastic faces. The ranges were released in the US in 1989 following the premiere of the series on Shining Time Station. New vehicles, destinations, and playsets were produced for the die-cast range on a near yearly basis, tallying up to over 100 vehicles. Due to the franchise's popularity, other ranges were made such as miniatures, keyrings, larger Gold Rail vehicles, pull backs and wind-up toys. Production for the Thomas ranges ceased for the US market in 2001. Due to RC2 acquiring the ERTL Company in 2004, the Thomas ranges were discontinued to avoid conflict with the then existing licence held by Learning Curve, which produced the Take-Along Thomas system.
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