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Welcome to Toy Tractorshow.com's news page. Check in weekly
to learn about the newest toys on the market, tractor history, TTS updates and
to see custom models and displays.
| January
2002 |
| January
27-February 03:
The
new look for TTS
is on the way. On February 10th TTS
will under go some remodeling. During this time a new back ground and
format designed by Nicole Heath will be uploaded giving TTS
a fresh and sleek new look. During this time the TTS
New and other updates will not be available for a period of two weeks. TTS's
appreciates your patients during the remodeling. TTS
Toy Talk will remain in full operation during
this time. For a sneak peek at TTS's
future look go to http://www.expressodesigns.com/toytractorshow/main.html.
Remember that ToyTractorShow.com's next Live Chat is with
David Ruppel Owner of C&D
Models on Tuesday February 5, 2002 at 8:00
p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. CT. This chat will be used to discus 1/64 models
only. C&D
Models has an all new product line and this your chance to
ask about current models and give your input on future models. E-mail
your 1/64 questions for Mr.
Ruppel to
Jason Hasert at toytractorshow@hotmail.com.
Please title your e-mail C&D
Model's chat question
and only e-mail it to the above address as it may be missed at the webmaster
account. On the night of the chat only Jason
Hasert will post the e-mailed questions, everyone else may watch but
not post unless asked to. It is important to follow these guide lines in
order to have a successful live chat. Make sure to check Don
Campbell's website www.doncampbellmodels.com
for the last set of grain cart patterns. Next week the
construction part of the class begins. Don
will also be contributing model building tips to the Toy
Farmer Magazine in a monthly column. Make
sure to take the TTS
Poll and choose which Steiger 4wd series you would like see as a
1/16 Precision Classic 4wd. You can choose the Series I, Series II,
Series III, 1000 Series or Case International 9100 series. The
December Tractors,
Plows and Harvesters of the Past article is by Blaine Griggs
entitled "The
Story of an IH 856 Puller".
The AGCO
MT700 Challenger history page has
been updated with new yellow AGCO Challenger prototypes. The TTS
Ford/New
Holland and White
Brand History main pages have been updated
for easier navigation with an equipment buyers guide look. New
to the Ford/New
Holland combine
section is the New
Holland 985 combine and the TR
70 combine.
New
to the White
equipment section is New
Idea Super Pull Type Corn Pickers .
The John
Deere equipment section has a new addition
this week with the mounted
237 picker.
New in TTS
Custom Toys is Adam
Heinbuch super sized slurry store. This is
a must see 1/64 scale project. Jon
Sampson is staying busy this winter, make
sure to see his custom John Deere 4620
all set up for spring plowing. Adam
Suntken customized his Brent grain cart
with fabricated diamond tread tires. Soenke
Morbach of Germany has sent in a new 1/32
beat harvester. Soenke
will contribute more 1/32 projects with a European flare in coming
weeks. Lee Potts
has constructed two highly detailed John Deere
loader tractors complete with silage
grapples. In New
Toys news Siku
will produce a 1/32 scale model of the John Deere 6920 for release in
2002. John
Deere dealers should have the 1/16th
8520 Collector's Edition and 1/16
4620 Collectors Edition in a few weeks. The Toy
Farmer Magazine will have
"1st-shots" of the 1/32
16V-747 4wd to display at upcoming shows,
such as St Louis Toy Show. This is a true actual die cast metal model
that is representative of the tractors that will be built. Collectors
can request the 16V-747
models or place an order directly by calling the
Toy
Farmer office
toll-free at 1-800-533-8293. For those
of you interested in how government influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by going to http://theatlanticfirm.com/id43.htm.
The feature tractor of the week is the Kinze
640 “Big Blue” 4wd. The feature
link of the week is http://www.agritoy_lcn/ |
| January
20-January 26:The
John
Deere, International
Harvester, J.I.
Case and Allis-Chalmers
Brand History main pages have been updated for easier navigation with an equipment buyers guide
look. It is TTS's
hope that when you need a horse power rating, production date or if you just
want to look at the real or toy history of a model you will turn to these
sections first. Hopefully by this time next week collectors will begin
seeing the new background
that Nicole Heath has designed for TTS.
The new
look and format will give TTS
a fresh look as it nears its second anniversary. For those of you
signed up for the 1/32
Grain Cart Class make sure to check Don
Campbell's website www.doncampbellmodels.com
for the grain cart gearbox, inside auger, auger shield , frame side rails
patterns. Next Monday will mark the last installment of patterns and
then we will proceed to build the grain cart model. Don
would like to remind everyone this project is just for fun, do not be
concerned if your project does not turn out well. We all have to start
somewhere. Each project will get better. The person who wins the free grain
cart will not be determined by the quality of the work . All the names
will be put in a (JD hat)
and the winner will be picked that way to make it fun for everyone to have a
chance at winning it. Whether your 5 years old or 75 years old, you will all
have a chance at winning. Don
and TTS thank the
over 100 people involved , you are making this first on-line custom farm
model class a success and fun. If you have questions about the project
feel free to post them on Toy
Talk. SoCalDeere
is the newest featured
collector on TTS.
SoCalDeere has a
nice 1/64 Collection and is TTS’s
first collector from California. New
in TTS
Custom Toys is Jason
Jeffers' scratch built a 1/64
International Loadstar that actually dumps
and that is available in single
and tandem
axel. Gordy
Schultz is expanding his custom hay line in
2002 with a 1/64
New Holland FX 58 self-propelled forage
harvester. Gordy
built this chopper with 3 different size hay heads to fit 1/64 farm display
needs and a 6 row corn head. Watch
for more interesting self-propelled hay and forage equipment from Gordy
Schultz in the coming weeks.
Hoot
has customized a 1/16 open station 4430 John Deere.
Josh Raut has customized several nice 1/64 4wds.
Brad
McPherson's 1/64 hipper, vertical fold planter and scapper pans
are now posted for 1/64 cotton equipment fans to view. Also visit
Josh Raut has customized several nice 1/64 4wds.
Brad
McPherson's 1/64 hipper, vertical fold planter and scapper pans
are now posted for 1/64 cotton equipment fans to view. Also visit
Josh Raut has customized several nice 1/64 4wds.
Brad
McPherson's 1/64 hipper, vertical fold planter and scapper pans
are now posted for 1/64 cotton equipment fans to view. Also visit T
& T Toys Display Pictures and Joe
in CT Photo Collection. TTS
welcomes Robert
Turk as its newest sponsor on the Ford
New Holland section. In New
Toys news C&D
Models has pictures of their Series
I Versatile 4wds on their website at www.cdmodels.com.
These models are the first models C&D
has offered on a blister
card.
C&D
has also has another first with this line. C&D
is the first 1/64 farm model producer to offer an entire series of 4wds from
the low end model to the high horse power model.
With only 1,205 models of each tractor available these should prove
to be highly collectable models in the future.
C&D
also announced this week that is will release a 43’
and 72’5
foot field cultivator set available with a packer
or crumbler.
For those of collectors interested in a close up look at the new 1/64
John Deere 8420 visit the 20
series page. New to the J.I.
Case brand history section is the 1200
Traction King 4wd.
For those of you interested in how government influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by going to http://theatlanticfirm.com/id43.htm.
The feature tractor of the week is the Case
2670 4wd.
The feature link of the week is http://www.toyfarmer.com/.
Josh Raut has customized several nice 1/64 4wds.
Brad
McPherson's 1/64 hipper, vertical fold planter and scapper pans
are now posted for 1/64 cotton equipment fans to view. Also visit T
& T Toys Display Pictures and Joe
in CT Photo Collection. TTS
welcomes Robert
Turk as its newest sponsor on the Ford
New Holland section. In New
Toys news C&D
Models has pictures of their Series
I Versatile 4wds on their website at www.cdmodels.com.
These models are the first models C&D
has offered on a blister
card.
C&D
has also has another first with this line. C&D
is the first 1/64 farm model producer to offer an entire series of 4wds from
the low end model to the high horse power model.
With only 1,205 models of each tractor available these should prove
to be highly collectable models in the future.
C&D
also announced this week that is will release a 43’
and 72’5
foot field cultivator set available with a packer
or crumbler.
For those of collectors interested in a close up look at the new 1/64
John Deere 8420 visit the 20
series page. New to the J.I.
Case brand history section is the 1200
Traction King 4wd.
For those of you interested in how government influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by going to http://theatlanticfirm.com/id43.htm.
The feature tractor of the week is the Case
2670 4wd.
The feature link of the week is http://www.toyfarmer.com/. |
| January
13-January 19: A
Transcript from ToyTractorShow.com's
Toy Talk's Live
Chat on Tuesday January 08,
2002 8:00 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. CT Question and Answer Night with Jeff
Moore Owner of Moore's
Toys can be read by clicking on the Toy
Talk navigation button. Thank you for
your interest in TTS's live chats with the top model makers in the replica
industry. ToyTractorShow.com's next Live
Chat is with David Ruppel Owner of C&D
Models Tuesday February 5, 2002 at
8:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. CT. Don
Campbell's website's
name has changed its name from http://www.expressodesigns.com
to http://www.doncampbellmodels.com.
Remember to check Don's site each Monday for the latest steps in the 1/32
grain cart project. TTS welcomes Toy
Farmin' as a new advertiser on the TTS
Toy Show. Note Gordy Schultz has a new e-mail address
at tfarmin@lyonl.com.
The 4568
4wd and the IH
10 Grain Drill are new to the IH
TTS Brand History pages. New to Custom
Toys is
Brad
McPherson's Crustbuster boll buggy. Caleb Stone
has scratch built a very nice 1/64 30ft folding John Deere 455 drill. Dave
Tallon has sent in customized 1/16 Massey
Harris 44 Special. Davide
sent in his 1/16 scale hay tedder built from brass.
Josh
Raut has submitted two custom toy tips to
the new General
Custom Tips page.
In New
Toys news C&D
Models began shipping its first run of 1/64
Versatile Series I 4wds to dealers this
week. These models are packaged in a blister card and are the first in
a Classic Versatile series. For those of you interested in how
government influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by going to http://theatlanticfirm.com/id43.htm.
The feature tractor of the week is Ford
Toy Tractors. The feature link of the
week is http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/masseyfergusontractors. |
| January
01-January 12:
Happy
New Year.
ToyTractorShow.com's
next Live Chat is with Jeff Moore, owner of Moore's
Toys is
this Tuesday January 8, 2002 at 8:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. CT. This
chat will be used to discus 1/64 models only.
E-mail your 1/64
Farm Toy and Parts
questions for Mr. Moore
to Jason Hasert
at toytractorshow@hotmail.com.
Please title your e-mail Moore's chat question
and only e-mail it to the above address as it may be missed at the webmaster
account. On the night of the chat only Jason
Hasert will post the e-mailed questions,
everyone else may watch but not post unless asked to. It is important to
follow these guide lines in order to have a successful live
chat. The live chat's transcript will be posted on Toy
Talk shortly after the chat with Mr.
Moore. For those of you not familiar with TTS
Chat, when you are on ToyTractorShow's
Toy Talk across the tool bar you will see Post
Message, Find, Reload,
Overview, Previous,
Chat, Archive, Register
, Login, My Forum.
Go to Register
and register your name and click back to forum. Then go to the Chat
icon on the tool bar and you should all set. Later this month Nicole
Heath, Don
Campell's daughter will work with TTS
founder and owner Jason Hasert
to give the site a fresh
look for 2002. Nicole created and
maintains http://www.expressodesigns.com/minimachine/toy_building.shtml.
It is time to see if we can all build a grain cart over the internet. To
start Don
Campbell's
on-line model project everyone will need to make the 1/32nd pattern first
. Every one can do their your own math to scale the cart down to
1/64th or up to 1/16th scale if they choose. Don
Campbell has posted the
grain cart frame pattern at http://www.expressodesigns.com/minimachine/graincartpatterns.shtml
. After we all get the frame and axle step done, we will move on to
the box . Don
Campbell will post new project information on TTS
Toy Talk each Monday. This week Don
will post the box pattern. 71 people have
registered for Don's custom toy class. The class is free but 75 people need
to sign up in order for Don to award a prize of his 1/32
steel Kil-Bros cart to one lucky
builder. If you have not registered yet go to http://www.expressodesigns.com.
Make
sure to take the TTS
Poll and choose which Case 4wd you would like see as a 1/16
Precision Classic 4wd. You can choose either the 1200,
1470,
2670,
4690
or 4994.
Jason
Weaver is a new TTS
sponsor. Jason is the new sponsor of the Case
History page. TTS
welcomes Jason
Jeffers as a new advertiser on the TTS
Toy Show. You can put your farm
toy business in front of hundreds of collectors daily on TTS
for less than $10 per-month.
If
you are interested in becoming a TTS
sponsor or advertising on the TTS
Toy Show contact Jason Hasert at Webmaster@toytractorshow.com.
Starting on January 07, 2002 TTS
is instituting a new policy regarding posting custom toy projects on Custom
Toys. Please e-mail your projects to Jason Hasert at Webmaster@toytractorshow.com
on Mondays and Tuesdays to have them posted in the TTS
weekly news. These are the only days projects will be accepted for
posting. Due to the over whelming interest in the Custom
Toys page it is impossible to continue to post new projects
daily. New to Custom
Toys is
a tip on removing 1/64 tires at Tire
Removal.
Brian
Sharp has
customized a nice looking John Deere 4010
with a mounted picker. TNTom has built one of the nicest 1/64 custom
models TTS collectors have seen in a long time.
Tom built a 1/64 KBH
Big12 module builder and KBH
Mule Boy boll buggy. Cotton equipment in
1/64 scale has been one of the most items on TTS
live chats with toy manufacturers. Trevor
Searle sent in a nice custom culti-mulcher
on a Massey
Ferguson 8280. Custom
Kid has modified a JD
fail chopper and 1560
drill. Kevin
Briesch has scratch built an outstanding Pik-Rite
tomato harvester and a trailer bed to support it. Jeremy Noble
is building a 1/16 scale Ag-Chem 1254 Row Gator. In New
Toys news CaseIH
dealers will carry a Case
970 Golden Demonstrator in June 2002.
Corgi
will release a 1/50 scale IH
4166 in 2002. For those of you
interested in how government influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by going to theatlanticfirm.com.
The feature tractor of the week is the Steiger
Puma 1000. This week TTS would like to
feature John
Deere's, CNH's,
CaseIH's and New
Holland's new websites for 2002 at http://www.deere.com/,
http://cnh.com/,
http://www.caseih.com/
and www.newholland.com
respectively. Remember you can reach each corporate website on TTS's
brand history pages by clicking on their logo's
in the right hand corner. TTS
readers extend their sympathies to the family and friends of AGCO
CEO and President John Shumejda and Ed Swingle Sr. VP of Sales who passed
away after the tragic crash of the company's corporate plane on January 04,
2002. |
| December
2001
|
| December
23-Decomber 31:
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thank
you for all of your interest and support in 2001. TTS
had over 100,000 visitors and 15,000 posts on Toy
Talk. TTS plans to keep up
with your hobby interest in 2002 with a new
look and features. ToyTractorShow.com's
next Live Chat is with Jeff Moore Owner of Moore's
Toys Tuesday January 8, 2002 at
8:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. CT. This chat will be used to
discus 1/64 models only.
E-mail your 1/64
Farm Toy and Parts
questions for Mr. Moore
to Jason Hasert
at toytractorshow@hotmail.com.
Please title your e-mail Moore's chat question
and only e-mail it to the above address as it may be missed at the
webmaster account.
Don
Campbell
will be starting free toy building classes to
help everyone enjoy the hobby more. Also to help you get the basics so you
can build your own toys that no one else makes or are to rare and
expensive to buy. The first project will begin in mid-January
2002. Collectors will learn how to build a 1/32 scale grain cart from
scratch. If 75 people to sign up for this first project, Don
Campbell
will draw a name out of a hat next year of the 75 or more people who sign
up to try the project, and Mr. Cambell will donate one of his
hand-built models to that lucky builder. In order to be considered for the
cart prize register at http://www.expressodesigns.com/minimachine/form.shtml. Make sure to take the TTS
Poll and choose which Case 4wd you would like see as a 1/16
Precision Classic 4wd. You can choose either the 1200,
1470,
2670,
4690
or 4994.
AGCO
shocked the machinery world this week when it announced it had acquired Caterpillars
new MT Challenger tractor line. TTS has added
the AGCO
MT700 Challenger to it history pages.
If you like AGCO
you can now talk with other AGCO
fans at http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/agco.
New to Custom
Toys is
Justin Van Westen's
weathered John Deere 4320, custom CaseIH
MX 270 and John Deere 8410T. Jason
Saffert
has three top notch projects as well. The main feature of the last
edition of 2001's TTS news is Top 2001 Toys
. Top 2001 Toys
reviews the most talked about farm toys on TTS
Toy Talk in 2001. With over 15,000 posts on toy tractors since
February 15, 2001, collectors talked about allot of models this year.
The Top Toys page features the most popular 1/64, 1/32, 1/16 and
custom toys of 2001. It is fun looking back at what everyone was
excited about through out the year. In New
Toys news the 1/64
8420 with front and rear duals is arrived at John
Deere dealers this week. John Deere
fans can still purchase the 2001 Toy
Tractor Times 4040
with fwa/duals at http://www.thetoytractortimes.4t.com.
The year 2002 should prove to be an exciting year for toys. CaseIH
will release a 1/64 STX 450 with tires and
tracks, 1/16 STX 450 with tires and tracks and
the CaseIH
The New Generation Set: Chrome tank SPX 4260, STX Steiger 425 tire and
Quadtrac, MX Maxxum 135 fwa/row crop duals and MX Magnum 270 fwa/spacer
duals.
New
Holland is set to unveil a 1/16
TM 150, 1/16 Ford 961, Pedal
Tractor TJ 450, and Rotary Mower.
AGCO will release updated decal versions of the 1/64
Terra-Gator 8103 and Row-Gator 1254.
For those of you interested in how government influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by going to http://theatlanticfirm.com/id43.htm. The
feature tractor of the week is the Massey
Ferguson 8280. The feature link of
the week is http://www.rungreen.com. |
|
December 16-Decomber 22: Remember to support your local Toys
for Tots this Christmas season. This is the last week to drop
of toys before they need to be delivered. The big news of the week is Don
Campbell's offer to lead an on-line class on how to build a
1/32 scale grain cart. TTS in conjunction
Don's site expressodesigns.com
will promote the class. Here on TTS you can
read Don's introductory letter and follow the project at Don Campbell Projects.
The project supplies and steps will be listed on
expressodesigns.com and TTS beginning in mid-January.
This will be a fun project for all involved. Don's class will be archived on TTS with pictures and drawings just like our live chats.
Later this week you will be able to register for the free building class
at http://www.expressodesigns.com
. You can now view all 13 National
Farm Toy Show displays at NFTS
Displays 01'. New to Custom
Toys displays this week is Gordy Schultz Display
. This is one of the best displays sent to TTS
yet. Gordy's display is a classic,
built and displayed from 1987-1989. This display was made back in
the days when if you wanted a barn or implement in 1/64 you had to make
it.
Donald Gill
has created a nice line up of hay equipment including a high detail
John Deere 6910 chopper, Vermeer
round bale wrapper, self propelled John Deere
baler and more. David McCormack shares a tip on how to add re-moveable duals to an IH
5088. TTS's newest addition to
the Featured
Collectors section is Mike.
Mike
collects all brands and scales of 4wds. The December
Tractors,
Plows and Harvesters of the Past article is by Jason Hasert
entitled Blue Steigers: Then and Now Part II which follows
up Jim Schroer's November article Blue
Steigers: Then and Now. In New
Toys news the 1/64 IH
856 with Hiniker cab and the three piece IH
06' series set began arriving at CaseIH
dealers last week. The 1/64
8420 with front and rear duals is expected to arrive at John
Deere dealers this week.
For those of you interested in how government influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by going to http://theatlanticfirm.com/id43.htm.
The
feature tractor of the week is the Case
2590. The feature link of the week
is http://www.trekkershop.htm. |
| December 09-Decomber 15: Remember to support Toys
for Tots this Christmas season. This weeks Live Chat with Bill
Walters from RC/ERTL
on 1/16 scale models was a great success. The big news of the night
was the announcement that the 18th CaseIH Precision Classic
will be the early style 1466.
You can read the full transcript of Tuesday's chat on the Toy
Talk page. Make sure to visit the revised TTS
Links page. The page has been re-organized for easier
use. This week marks TTS's last
installment of the National Farm Toy Shows Display Contest entree's. Ernest
Oberhelman's display placed first with his working 1930's
homestead in North Central Kansas. Jacki
Klawonn's 4th place display was very
unique in that it is an exact copy of her son Jonathan's
display 30 years later, representing a modern 1,200 acre Illinois farm. Jonathan
Klawonn 8th place display represents a 1960's Illinois
farm and landscape in the 1960's. Chris
Burmeister 7th place display is a 1/16 1960's farm using
Minneapolis-Moline tractors and equipment. Drew
Boals 12th place display is an excellent representation of 1/16
IH toys. Every 2001 display was well done and worthy of a National honor.
You can view all 13 displays at NFTS
Displays 01'. There are several
additions to Custom
Toys this week. Josh
Raut has customized two nice 4wds and sent in a few other
projects. Scott
Mitchell has
customized a high side grain trailer and a jeep for his display. Joe
Casida is working on a wide front Precision John Deere 730 with
spaced duals. Jason
Jeffers has been busy building grapple silage
loaders and detailing John Deere round
balers. Look for more exciting projects from Jason
soon. Don
Cambell shares a great custom tip this week on Weathered
Tires. Mark
Megan has constructed a large farm display complete with
a tractor dealership and large corn field. In New
Toys news look for a 1/16
scale 25th
ANNIVERSARY AXIAL FLOW COMBINE COLLECTOR TOY from Scale
Models in March 2002. In March 2002, Scale
Models is also set to launch the largest pedal tractor ever
massed produced with a pedal replica of the CaseIH
Steiger STX 450. Could we see a New
Holland TJ 450 as a pedal tractor in 2002 too? The new 1/64
MX 270 with spaced duals began arriving at CaseIH
dealers this week. The McCormick
name on a tractor line is coming back to the U.S. Vermeer
announced this week it would carry the new tractor line through
its dealership net work. Will me see McCormick
toys in the next year? For those of you interested in how government
influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by going to http://theatlanticfirm.com/id43.htm. The
feature tractor of the week is the Case
International 4994. The feature link of the week is http://www.budwallfarmtoys.com. |
| December
02-Decomber 08: Bill Walters from RC/ERTL
will take part in his fifth collectors chat here
on TTS this Tuesday December 04th at 8:00
p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. CT. This live chat will focus only on 1/16 Farm Toy and Model
questions only. This chat will differ from previous TTS chats. TTS
owner Jason Hasert will post collectors
questions rather than keeping a list of questioners. E-mail your 1/16 Farm
Toy questions for Mr. Walters to Jason at
toytractorshow@hotmail.com.
Please title your e-mail ERTL chat question
and only e-mail it to the above address as it may be missed at the webmaster
account. Make sure to take the TTS
Poll and choose from the John
Deere 8010,
8020, WA-14,
WA-17 and 7520
before the chat. For those of you not familiar with TTS
Chat, when you are on ToyTractorShow's
Toy Talk across the tool bar you will see Post
Message, Find, Reload,
Overview, Previous,
Chat, Archive, Register
, Login, My Forum.
Go to Register
and register your name and click back to forum. Then go to the Chat
icon on the tool bar and you should all set. There
are several additions to Custom
Toys this week. DJ at Heavy Ground
Farms has followed up his beet
display with a 24 row hand built white bean John Deere planter. Don
Campbell sent in pictures of some very impressive 1-2
Scale 4wds. Philip
Fullerton sent in pictures of a highly detailed bale wagon
built by his grandfather that he played with as a child and still remains a
prize piece in his collection. Zeb
Mueller has created 4 nice H&S forage wagons and a John Deere
8870 with a silage blade. Brandon
Casebier has one new picture of his display. Kade
Nice is ready to do some serious disking with his newly crafted
44 1/2 foot Summers Diamond Disk. This weeks National Farm Toy
Show displays are runner up Richard Morgan's
1/64 diary farm and Sally
Morgan's Country Fair. In
New
Toys
news the long awaited 4
piece John Deere 4000 set has arrived at John
Deere dealers . It is one of the nicest historical sets Ertl has
put out to date. The 4010/4020
frames are smaller than the 4620
in the set. The 1/64
4020 w/ Hiniker Cab is also at dealers now. Ertl has
finally ventured into the 1/16 scale combine market with its new John
Deere Prestige model 45 combine. The new combine is on dealers
shelves just in time for Christmas. In Brand History News visit TTS's
new CNH
page which features the new New
Holland TG series
better known as the "Blue Magnum, the MX Maxxum replacement called the MXM
and the C series replacement called the JX. For those of you interested in how
government influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com AG
update by going to http://theatlanticfirm.com/id43.htm. The
feature tractor of the week is the International
Harvester 7788. The feature link of the week is Precision
Engineering at http://toytractor.com.
Precision Engineering builds highly
detailed 1/16 4wds like the IH
4300. |
| November
2001 |
| November
26-December 01: TTS
encourages its readers to donate to Toys
for Tots this Christmas season. Each of us endeavors through
out the year to build our farm toy collections. During the holiday season
set a small part of your toy budget to help out less fortunate children in
your area by donating to your local Toys
for Tots program. You can learn more about the Marine Corps.
charity at http://www.toysfortots.org
. ToyTractorShow.com's
next Live Chat with
RC/ERTL
Farm Toy Product Manager
Bill Walters is this Tuesday December 04th at 8:00
p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. CT. This live chat will focus only on 1/16 Farm Toy and Model
Questions. Other chat details will be announced in next weeks TTS
News. In conjunction with the next
ERTL
Live Chat TTS is
running a poll asking if
ERTL
was to produce a 1/16 scale classic 4wd which would you prefer. Take
the TTS
Poll and choose from the John
Deere 8010,
8020, WA-14,
WA-17 and 7520.
Our last chat with Bill Walters
on November 20th can be read on the Toy
Talk Page. There are several additions to Custom
Toys this week. Dusty
Kirschmann has created an outstanding STX Steiger by painting
the Ertl
STX 375 in the Stars and Stripes.
Mark Brodner
has sent in his cattle/grain farm display. It has nice detail touches.
Don
Campbell has been busy trying his hand at the
1/32 scale in steel. Don
has built his first 1/32 model which is a Killbros grain cart. It looks pretty
sharp on the precision Classic John
Deere 8400. Murray
is ready to tackle his display acres with his custom green machines. Murray
has built a pull type John Deere 9501 combine,
8410 tractor with
triple rear tires/front duals and an 8010
series John Deere with a loader. This week TTS
continues its National Farm Toy Show display review with Jason
Schultz,
Brad Mortimer
and Keith Mortimer's
displays. In
New
Toys
news now that most of the 2001 toys are out we will look at what is in
the rumor mill for new toys in 2002. Most
likely we will see a new classic 4wd in 1/64 like Case
TK 1470 that came out in 1997.
Leading candidate models are a 1/64 John
Deere 7520 and an IH
4166. Of course it will probably be
something completely different. It looks like
ERTL
may follow the 1/64 John Deere
4000 series set
set in 2002 with a 40 series set.
The John Deere 7020
series will arrive in 2002 and no doubt bring along some new 1/16 and 1/64
models. Another interesting item we may see in 2002 is a 1/16 IH
Prestige 03 Series Combine. The next generation Magnum,
the Maxxum
replacement MXM
based from the New Holland TM
and the CNH
common platform New Holland Genesis
replacement the TG
should be at fall farm shows in 2002. These new CNH
models from 90hp to 2xx hp should bring a wide array of new toy models.
Could we see a 1/32
Precession Classic TJ 450 or a 1/64
New Holland CR combine by Christmas 2002?
The next AGCO Precision
Classic is rumored to be a Massey
Ferguson or Massey
Harris.
For those of you who collect literature John
Deere dealers have the new 9020
and 8020
brochures in stock. Stop by your local AGCO
dealer to pick up the new AGCO
DT/RT series literature. The
feature tractor of the week is the John
Deere 8400. The feature link of the week
is Mark Megan's
display and custom farm toy photo album at
http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/mem988/. |
| November
18-November 24: ToyTractorShow.com's
next Live Chat is with
RC/ERTL
Farm Toy Product Manager
Bill Walters is this Tuesday November 20th at 8:00
p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. CT. For those of you not familiar with TTS
Chat, when you are on ToyTractorShow's
Toy Talk across the tool bar you will see Post
Message, Find, Reload,
Overview, Previous,
Chat, Archive, Register
, Login, My Forum.
Go to Register
and register your name and click back to forum. Then go to the Chat
icon on the tool bar and you should all set. On the night of the chat
Jason Hasert will serve as the moderator keeping a list of posters so that
each person may ask their question one at a time. A full transcript of the
chat will be posted on the Toy
Talk page on November 26th. TTS's
hit counter reached the one year mark this
week with 85,000 visitors. Over
the next three weeks TTS
will review of the 13 entrees in National Farm Toy Show Displays. First up
is Adam Suntken
1/64 Grain Depot , which
placed
third in the contest. Jason Skillen's
1/16 IH toy history placed 5th.
Jon Sampson
1/64 Iowa Family Farm Display placed
6th. There are several additions to Custom
Toys this week. Keith Burch
has constructed a very nice 1/64
Peterbuilt
combine hauling set.
Joe in CT
is ready to mow the acres down with his modified John
Deere 6910 mounted with three disc
mowers. Jason Jeffers
has created a nice swing auger,
100ft boom Flexi-Coil sprayers and
a nice Peterbuilt 10 wheeler with a pup.
Phillip Provencher
scratch built a very detailed 3pt sprayer
and detailed a John Deere 8410.
Kevin Panacek
has tackled several projects including a wide track 8400T,
a modified CaseIH MX 270 and 9260
and two pulling tractors. The Lion
1000 is new to the Steiger
history section. November Tractors,
Plows and Harvesters of the Past article is by Jim Schroer
entitled Blue
Steigers: Then and Now. In
New
Toys
news the Case
1030 Western Style #15 was released this week. Scale
Models
has introduced a pedal tractor version of the STX
450. For those of you interested in how government
influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by going
to http://theatlanticfirm.com/id43.htm. The feature tractor
of the week is the Versatile
1156. The feature link of the week is Don
Campbell's website Expresso
Designs . |
|
November 11-November
17: ToyTractorShow.com's
next Live Chat is with
RC/ERTL
Farm Toy Product Manager
Bill Walters is on November 20th at 8:00
p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. CT. TTS owner Jason Hasert
is back from a great trip to the National Farm Toy Show. Jason will have a Toy
Tractor Show.com table at several farm toy shows this fall. Check the
Farm Toy Show page to see which shows TTS
will attend. It was a pleasure to meet many TTS users
at the National Toy Show last week and at the Lancaster, PA toy show this
weekend. The TTS dinner at the National was a great
success, with 25 people attending the get together at the Country
Junction. Several top names in the hobby attended the TTS
dinner, including Don
Campbell and his wife Debbie, Jeff
Moore of Moore's Toys, Gordy
Schultz of Toy Farmn' and Dan
Elledge former director of AG marketing and riding toys
at Ertl. David
and Brian Sharp stopped by the TTS
dinner to say hello. Jason Hasert was selected by the Toy
Farmer Magazine to
judge the 13 displays at the National Toy Show. All 13 displays and
Ev Webber's 1970's county fair were very well done and will be
featured in an article here on TTS News next
week. The Toy
Farmer had its 25th Anniversary highly detailed model on
display at the National. Matt Scheibe of the
Toy
Farmer has sent in pictures and information on
the two 1/32 Big Bud 16V-737 models that will
help celebrate magazines 25 years of severing the farm toy collecting
hobby. Learn more about the 16V-737
here on TTS's New
Toys page and BigTractorPower.com.
Do you have your Christmas list ready for Santa? You may want to add to
it, there are lots of new toys on the way for the year end and early 2002.
John
Deere dealers should have the long awaited 1/64
4000 set in two weeks. A nice surprise for John Deere fans is
the 1/64
4020 w/ Hiniker Cab and the 1/64
8420 with front and rear duals due
out in December. The 1/16th
Scale John Deere Prestige model 45 combine
is also due out in December. It should prove to be a popular
item. Early next year the 1/16th
8520 Collector's Edition with with front dual tire
pneumatic/hydraulic suspension will be one of the nicest row crop tractors
from RC/ERTL
to date. Red Power fans have lots of new toys to look forward to as
well. 2002 will mark the 100th anniversary of the International
Harvester brand name. Ertl will help CaseIH
celebrate the IH centennial with 4 1/16
toys, the
last Farmall: IH 5488 w/fwa and rice tread tiresRC/ERTL
is trying
something new with its Precision line in 2002, a construction line. The
first Construction
piece will be a 1/16
Case 580 Super M Backhoe #1. One CaseIH
item that has confused collectors this fall is the CIH
tillage plow. Many people expected a large field cultivator when
they saw a price of $8.00+ on the CIH
tillage plow order form.
and Case
Corp. have corrected the pricing problem
and has
a normal price of $3.00-$4.00 at most dealers now. The 1/64 IH
Gold
Demo set is back in the works for 2002. It will not be a
kit. Moore's
Toys has several new items on the way. In
late December or early January Moore's
Toys will
release a highly detailed DEGELMAN
7200 16' BULLDOZER BLADE.Moore's
Toys
also has a 8000/9000
Detail Kit on the way. Moore's
is pleased to announce that they have been given permission to manufacturer
and market 1/64 HILLCO HILLSIDE
LEVELING SYSTEMS .
Larry
Buhler's 1/64 FRIGGSTAD D-7-80 FIELD CULTIVATOR
is now available. Visit the TTS
On-Line Toy Show
for details and pricing. For those of you interested in how government
influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by going
to http://theatlanticfirm.com/id43.htm.
The feature tractor of the week is the CaseIH Quad-Trac
EXP. The feature link of the week is http://www.speccast.com. |
| November 4-November
10: TTS owner Jason Hasert will be a the
National Toy Show in Dyersville, Iowa. Please hold off from posting and
e-mailing pictures you would like to have on Custom
Toys until Monday November 5th. Jason will be unable to answer
your e-mails until this time as well. Cody Kaminski of Rochester, NY
will be the guest TTS Webmaster during the National. Best wishes and
safe travel to everyone headed to Dyersville this weekend. |
| October
28-November 3: This is the biggest week in farm toy collecting
of the year. The 24th Annual National Farm Toy Show
will take November 2, 3, 4 at Beckman High School, the National Farm Toy
Museum and the Commercial Club Park in Dyersville, Iowa. There will be a Toy
Tractor Show.com Meet and Greet at the Country Junction Restaurant
located next to Beckman High School at 6:30 pm. Toy
Tractor Show.com owner Jason Hasert will also be at Gordy Schultz
table located in the high school gym if you would like to stop by and say
hello during the show. There are five additions to Custom
Toys this week. John Esche
has built several out standing 1/64 models. John has customized a childhood
favorite IH 1086 into a high detail IH
1586 to pull an offset disk and packer. Two other impressive IH
tractors John has created include a 7488 and high
crop 966. John has also supped a 1/64 John
Deere 5020 with a naturally aspirated V-8 engine. Steve
King has sent in some equally impressive work this week. Steve has
customized several classic 1980's tractors including an Allis-Chalmers
8070, John Deere 4960 and a Case
International 2294. Steve has also built some excellent pieces
of equipment including a do-all, culti-packer and center-fold disk.
Phillip Provencher
has customized a Caterpillar 85D. Kade
Nice's Peterbilt 385's were featured in Steve Weber's Mini Wire
column in the November Toy Farmer. New to the Allis-Chalmers
history section is AGCO's new DT225.
In Replica
History this week learn about Ertl's supped 1/32 loader
tractors . For those of you interested in how government
influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by going
to http://theatlanticfirm.com/id43.htm.
C&D
Models unveiled its new toy line this week.
In January 2002 C&D
Models Versatile
750,
800,
825
and 850.
Several heavy tillage items will be released by C&D in January as
well. C&D's
new finished tillage line includes, red
and green
8 and12 bottom plows with black resets, red
and blue
5 shank pull type v-rippers with coulters or mulch tiller teeth with
coulters green
mulch tiller. Each model will come in
display packaging and will not be run past 1,250. Ertl's
CaseIH
line up is growing in 2002. Some of the exciting new toys from CaseIH
include a 1/16
Case 970 w/plow and plowing dual,
1/16
IH 1256 w/cab
, IH
1256 w/cab and a Precision IH
barge wagon for the IH
560 w/2MH picker .
The Case
1030 Western Style #15 release date has been moved up to
November and will be followed by the IH
"Farmall" 706 #16 in late December or early
January. The long awaited STX
Precision model is set for release in
January 2002 as a Precision
II 1/32 STX 450 with triple tires. The Toy
Farmer's sixth Steiger
with be a Wildcat
II . Scale
Models
has several new 1/16 AGCO
tractors. Look for the AGCO
DT225,
RT145,
ST45
and Fendt
Vario 716. The feature tractor of the
week is Massey-Ferguson
4880. The feature link of the week is http://www.harperimp.com. |
| October
2001 |
|
October 21-October 27: Only two
weeks until the National Toy Show in Dyersville. If you are heading to
the National and would like to meet other TTS
collectors Jason
Hasert has made a reservation at the Country Junction Restaurant
in Dyersville,
Iowa at
6:30 p.m. on Saturday November 3, 2001 one half hour after the show ends
on that day. To RSVP for the TTS meet and
greet diner e-mail Jason at toytractorshow@hotmail.com.
The restaurant is right next to
the toy show site at the Dyersville
High School. There are five additions to Custom
Toys this week. Joe Casida of D
and M Collectibles has completed another outstanding 1/16
John Deere, that follows up the 5020, he made. Joe has created a
highly detailed 4620 with a cab, duals and other
machine details. Look for some 1/16 Allis-Chalmers and IH high detail models
from Joe in the next few months. Adam
Suntken sent in more pictures of his 1/64 articulating Pixall Big Jack Sweet Corn Picker. Adam
has also completed a Moore's
Lexion detail kit. Adam is also ready to handle the needs of
the largest 1/64 feed lot with a Blazer 8500
Liquid Manure Spreader and Mighty
Giant tubgrinder. Brad Mercer has a nice display including a custom 1/64
John Deere 4555, double box John Deere 1560
bean drill and Brent 1084 grain cart.
Scott Mitchell's 1/64 custom silage crew is beefed up with a customized John
Deere 6910. Kade Nice shared his fleet of beet trucks this week. Kade
is ready to haul beets from the field with five tri-axle Macks and one quad-axle. The Minneapolis-Moline
History Section is new to TTS with the
history of the A4T-1600
4wd. The October Tractors,
Plows and Harvesters of the Past article
is by Tyler Hall on the Hesston
Field Queen. For those of you interested in how government
influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by going
to http://theatlanticfirm.com/id43.htm.
In Replica
History this week learn about Ertl's first White tractors.
In new tractor news Buhler
Versatile has released the first
pictures of the new 2425
Versatile with traditional Versatile
coloring. The 2425
Versatile replaces the 425 hp New
Holland 9884. It is not certain at this time who will
make toy models of the new Buhler
Versatile 4wd line. In
New
Toys
news the long awaited 1/64
John Deere 4000 and International
06 series historical sets will be on
dealer shelves in December. The next Precision II model will be the Case
IH STX 450 and this model will arrive at CaseIH
dealers in January 2002. The Precision II STX was originally slated for
introduction in fall 2001 as a STX 440.
The IH 706 and Case
Western Style 1030 Precision models are
due out in late December 2001 or early January 2002. John
Deere dealers have the new 1/16th
Precision 110 Lawn Tractor L&G #1 and the John
Deere SST16 Spinsteer Mower Collector Edition. The feature
tractor of the week is Allis-Chalmers
8070. The feature link of the week
is ultimate toy tractor links page http://modeltractor.pagina.nl/. |
| October
14-October 20: Lots of new Custom
Toys this week. Adam
Suntken has sent in work he has done in conjunction with Jon
Sampson. Adam and Jon have worked on farm layouts, the past two
years for the National Toy Show. This week Adam has sent in pictures of
their 1999 and 2000 grain systems. Adam also has also built a nice
Pixall Big Jack Sweet Corn Picker and 42ft
John Deere 630 disk. Mark
Ziegler is ready for the fall harvest with his detailed CaseIH
2188 and 2388 combines made from C&D
Models and Moore's
Toys combine kits. Kevin
Breisch has retooled the new 1/64 John
Deere 9220 from the 1/64
9220 Lo-Boy Semi Set by adding row crop duals. It is a
row crop tire week for 4wds on TTS; Country-Spice
has added row crop duals to a 9400 4wd to
pull his Unverferth grain cart. Dusty Kirschmann
has beefed his STX 440 with Trellborg tires
and a
Moore's
Toys
STX detail kit. Scott Mitchell
is cutting soybeans and disking on his layout. The October TTS
On-Line Toy Show Specials are: from
October through the end of December
Moore's
Toys
will donate
10% of every sale to America's Fund for the victims of the 9/11 Tragedies and
C&D
Models is
running a Fall
Harvest Sale.
10% of of all Harvest Parts.
For those of you interested in how government
influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by going
to http://theatlanticfirm.com/id43.htm.
In Replica
History this week learn about Ertl's first Precision
Classic Tractor. The Farming
section has been updated with the addition of a pages on the Soybean
and Sun
Flower harvest. New to the Massey
Ferguson History section the to top of the line
8280. In
New
Toys
news CaseIH
dealers have
the long awaited 1/16
Collectors Edition Farmall Model BN
in stock. The 1/64
CIH minimum
tillage plow
is also on dealers shelves now. The feature tractor of the week is the John
Deere 4850.
The feature link of the week is http://dnolt.com/index.php
. David Nolt
makes highly detailed classic John Deere models. |
| October
07-October 13:The
TTS
poll is back. This month you can vote for your favorite 1/64
fall harvest combine. The October Tractors, Plows and Harvesters of
the past article is by Tyler Hall on the Hesston
Field Queen. TTS welcomes C&D
Models as the sponsor of the Byron
history section. There are four additions to Custom
Toys this week. John Schomburg shares two projects this
week. John has filled a long time wish to have 1/64 John Deere 4960 in his
collection by converting the front of a front half of a JD "Pow-er-pull"
and the rear end of a standard Ertl 55 series. John is also adding to his
custom tillage line with a Krause tandem disk fitted with finishing tines
as well as a 35' Model 876 Landoll Tilloll pulled by a custom John Deere
8760. DJ at Heavy
Ground Farms has sent in pictures of his beet farm
layout. DJ has made a full beet harvest layout with a beet topper,
beet diggers and plenty of trucks. Jason
Hasert has completed a C&D
Models IH 4586 kit on 30.5-32 single tires complete with
a Moore's
3pt hitch and 7 shank ripper. Jason has also made a 1/64
Steiger Panther ST-310 with a Steiger Dig-R-Disk just in time fall
tillage. Joe Casida
has completed detailing a John Deere 5020 complete with a full cab,
steering and other mechanical details.
In Replica
History this week learn about the re-release of the 1/16
IH 66 series in the summer of 1990. In
New
Toys
news many IH fans were disappointed to learn that Ertl scrapped
plans to offer a 1/64 Golden Demonstrator 56 series die-cast assembly
kit. Many collectors are eagerly awaiting the standard 1/64 IH 06 3
piece 1/64 set and 4 piece John Deere 4000 set due out later this
fall. IH fans can look for a 1/64 row crop
856 with a cab in the fourth quarter. The
1/64
MX 270 with row crop duals is also due
out in late 2001. Scale
Models is expected to offer the new AGCO
series of tractors in 1/16 and 1/64 by
year end. ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by
going to http://theatlanticfirm.com/id43.htm.
This weeks report covers the the Agricultural Act of 2001 in great detail.
Robert Turk's pictures from the Western, New York grape
harvest are now on the
TTS
Farming Section.
The feature tractor of the week
is International
Harvester 4300.
The feature link of the week is
http://www.jdcountry.com. |
| September
30-October-06: TTS
News began in January 2001 and has grown to become one of the
most popular features on ToyTractorShow.com.
Starting this month it will have a slightly different look that will
hopefully improve readers use of the news page. The
old news format has been archived on the Toy
Talk page. ToyTractorShow.com
owner Jason
Hasert has made a reservation at the Country Junction Restaurant
in Dyersville,
Iowa for TTS users visiting the National
Toy Show to meet and greet each other. The reservation is at
6:30 p.m. on Saturday November 3, 2001 one half hour after the show ends
on that day. To RSVP for the TTS meet and
greet diner e-mail Jason at toytractorshow@hotmail.com.
The restaurant is right next to
the toy show site at the Dyersville
High School. There are some new exciting models
on Custom
Toys this week.
Jason Jeffers has sent in his custom small grain
harvest as well as some pictures of his full display.
Country-Spice
has sent in pictures of his custom John Deere 8400 with front duals. Andrew
has customized a standard Ertl John Deere 6910 chopper to create a John
Deere 6950 with some extra options. Dave
Greaze is working on a 1/16 John Deere 7000 series
Max-emerge 12 row planter and a 1/16 grain cart. Jeff
Gordon is also working on a 1/16 Grain Cart with Kinze styling.
In Replica
History this week learn about Ertl miniatures going
micro. For
those of you interested in how government influences farming visit The
Atlantic Firm weekly ToyTractorShow.com
AG update by
going to http://www.theatlanticfirm.com/id44.htm
and using the pass word toy1.
In
New
Toys
news Scale
Models is
set to release the 1/16,
1/32
and 1/64
New
Holland TJ 375 4wd.
You can read a more about the TJ
375 on BigTractorPower.com's
Model
Review. Pedal
fans will see one of the most popular tractors of all time from Scale
Models
this fall, the Ford
8n. Ertl
began shipping the 1/32
Allis-Chalmers
440 #5
Toy
Farmer
Steiger
series this week. Ertl
has upgraded its semi-farm fleet this fall with a International
9800 COE semi with grain trailer,
Ford
Aeromax semi with livestock trailer
and Freightliner
C-120 Century semi with milk tanker . The feature tractor of the week
is Case
2670.
The feature link of the week is http://www.homestead.com/churchvillefarms/index.html. |
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