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  • ScottA
    Original Member
    • Jun 25, 2001
    • 12264

    Retro Factory Assembly Pics

    One of the most interesting pics I've seen is one of the Mego assembley line. I was wondering if there are any of the Retro assembly line showing the figures being assembled. Imagine seeing bins of boots and heads. Is that even allowed nowadays Doc?
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  • MIB41
    Eloquent Member
    • Sep 25, 2005
    • 15633

    #2
    Ancient Chinese secret...

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    • SlipperyLilSuckers
      MeGoing
      • May 14, 2003
      • 9031

      #3
      Ja, that would be interesting indeed.

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      • toystalker
        none
        • Mar 27, 2008
        • 795

        #4
        video... now that would interest me

        not sure if any of this is allowed...

        not sure if i wanna see 6 year olds assembling figures

        yeah that was a joke before you all pile on

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        • Meule
          Verbose Member
          • Nov 14, 2004
          • 28720

          #5
          Probably not allowed, secrecy and all, but I'd love to see some pics as well
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          • palitoy
            live. laugh. lisa needs braces
            • Jun 16, 2001
            • 59794

            #6
            I just found a whole pile of vintage shots from Hong Kong assembly lines, honestly, it's kind of depressing.
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            • MegoNutt
              Veteran Member
              • Feb 8, 2009
              • 273

              #7
              mego assembly pics!!!! Where?
              If you need a hole, I can dig it.

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              • AcroRay
                Persistent Member
                • Apr 17, 2005
                • 1010

                #8
                HK assembly lines are depressing, and most are crap, according to most of what I've heard from product folks' experience working with them.

                I do hope you share those, though, Brian.
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                • palitoy
                  live. laugh. lisa needs braces
                  • Jun 16, 2001
                  • 59794

                  #9
                  Originally posted by AcroRay
                  I do hope you share those, though, Brian.
                  I will, one of them is supposed to be an ad for HK manufacturing. It's a room full of unhappy looking people putting together "Steve Scout" dolls in what looks like dungeon.

                  I'll never look at Steve Scout the same way....
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                  • drmego
                    EMCE Toys
                    • Jun 15, 2001
                    • 2411

                    #10
                    I visited the factory last summer while I was in China to adopt Eddie.

                    It's like most factories - noisy equipment and strong chemical smells.
                    There is no air conditioning and southern China is tropical. Our guide
                    told us a local saying "enjoy the free suana". None of the work being
                    done at the factory was my projects, so I didn't think it was right to
                    take pictures.

                    Most of the workers I saw were college age men and women. There
                    were no children. I watched a guy in his mid-20s making rotocast heads
                    in a big metal wire cage. He squirted the vinyl in the molds, shut the cage,
                    and loaded the cage into a rotating machine.

                    As the machine rotated, he dropped the previous cage of heads into soapy
                    water for a minute, then while the heads were still warm, pulled them out
                    of the molds with a pair of tongs and into a big plastic bin. They have to
                    get the head out fast because once the vinyl cools and hardens, it contours
                    to the mold.

                    He was definitely working hard and sweating but he was standing on a wood
                    platform not the concrete floor. If you've ever worked standing on a concrete
                    floor - it kills your knees after a while.

                    I watched a girl loading an ABS machine. It was push button operation and she
                    would remove the output with tongs into another bin. She was seated and was
                    not sweating (anymore than the rest of us).

                    Another room was 50 sewing machines with young people assembling jackets.
                    I didn't recognize any of the items being made as belonging to characters I knew.

                    Factory work is not easy, but neither is construction or washing dishes.
                    I also saw artists working at computers and sculptors molding clay horses.
                    Some of these artists were older (30s) and in the air conditioned section of
                    the factory.

                    The area around the factory looked like a very poor neighborhood - similiar
                    to sections of the Bronx or South Central L.A. or Florida.

                    I wish I could have spoken to the workers - heck, I wanted to try operating
                    the rotational caster - but I probably would have just screwed it up.
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                    • ScottA
                      Original Member
                      • Jun 25, 2001
                      • 12264

                      #11
                      Very interesting Paul. Thnks for the insight.
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