Temple Court
35 Bull Street
Birmingham
West Midlands
B4 6JT
B5 7LT (accounts office?)
B5 6SD (warehouse/dispatch?)
UK
Florished – 1989
2nd September 1988 - 30 April 1996? (Pikit Toys Limited)
[19th November 1987 – 2nd September 1988 (Moneyitem Limited)]
Company number: 02196290
Private limited company with share capital
5147 - Wholesale of other household goods (SIC 2003)
46499 - Wholesale of household goods (other than musical instruments, SIC 2007 Nec)
Accounts available to 31st March 1989, next accounts due by 31st December 1990 (which were subsequently not filed)
Incorporated: 19th November 1987
Insolvent: 12th November 1991.
Dissolved: 30th April 1996
Mr. Raymond Bourne (Director), Mr. Stuart Crawford (Director), Mr. Michael Reilly (Director), Ms. Renata Rosanna Festa (nee Donnelly, company secretary)
History
I know very little about this company’s history,
other than that it doesn’t seem to have produced much before 1988, to have
changed its name and failed to filed accounts for 1990, suggesting that it didn’t
do much in 1991, if anything at all.
Starting life as a general importer of household goods,
after a year it seems to have switched to specialising in toys, of the
rack/tree variety at the pocket-money end of the scale, and to have been quite
prolific for about three years, holding licences (?) for Batman, Ghostbusters, Ninja Turtles, and others, and getting
through three distinct logotypes, which is about one a year!
Some of their product was supplied by the Rado Industrial Co., of Hong Kong (who
themselves traded as Ri-Toys), and
they carried quite a bit of stuff also retailed in the USA by Gordy International (another importer/jobber),
although that may have been more by accident than design – both using the same
middle-man/shipper? Header/backing cards being over-printed with each issuer’s
corporate bumf, along the bottom edge of otherwise identical cards.
Their standout piece (for figure collectors) was an Anime
Mecha Robot set - Battle of the Bi-Trons -
while a rather nice polystyrene tank-transporter, close to 1:76th scale, was
included in an otherwise unremarkable ‘Army Men’ set cobbled-together from the
products of several companies, including Rado. There was also a range of soft-toys, of the
rag-doll type and flying novelties.
The line shared with Gordy; upper row
Re-branded Ri-Toys set; bottom-left
Product
Listings
Rack Toy Range Shared With Gordy International PT 401/2 - Attack Force
PT 423/4 - Stamp n’Color Set ([sic] US spelling)
PT 425/4 - Zoo Animals Play Set
PT 426/4 - Cowboys & Indians
PT 428/4 - Battle of the Bi-Trons
PT 453/4 - Fashion Doll (11” Barbie knock-off)
? - Super Soldier Set (PT 473/5?)
? - Farm Animals Play Set
Batman Rack Toys
BM1202 - Batman Racing Game (1989)
BM1203 - Batman Pistol Target Set (1989)
BM1204 - Batman Plane Launcher (1989)
BM1207 - Batman Water Gun (1989)
BM1209 - Batman Sparkle Gun (1989)
BM1210 - Batman Bubble Blaster (1989)
BM1210 - Batman Handcuffs (1989)
YY 1106 - Batman YOS (assorted character Yo-Yos, 1989)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Rack Toys
TM1302 - TMNT Flying Props
TM1303 - TMNT Action Set (1989)
TM1304 - TMNT Karate Punch Target Game (1989)
TM1305 - TMNT Flash Gun (1989)
YY 1107 - TMNT YOS (assorted character Yo-Yos, 1989)
The Real Ghostbusters Rack Toys (1988/89, also issued by Gordy International in the US)
? - YOS The Real Ghostbusters (Yo-Yo)
? - The Real Ghostbusters Binocular Set
? - The Real Ghostbusters Blackboard Chalk Colour Set
? - The Real Ghostbusters Colouring Set
? - The Real Ghostbusters Pocket Colouring Set
Other Rack Toys
BE0603 - Brighteyes Purse
NO 5161 - Lovely Jewellery Set (also carried by Aldon)
PT65/1 - Animal Stencil
PT76/1 - Farm Animals
PT234 - Baby’s Formula Bottle & Feeding Set
PT-329-1 - Combat Set (various contents, ex-Rado, re-badged)
PT 337/2 - Stunt Flyer
Other Products
- Raggy Dolls (eight different)
Links
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