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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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
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I just found a whole pile of vintage shots from Hong Kong assembly lines, honestly, it's kind of depressing.Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
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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.Micronauts Collector, Historian, Consultant
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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.Comment
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