Toy Vault
Toy Vault, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is a designer and manufacturer of plush toys, plush apparel, board games and other novelty items.
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| Type | Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Toys, Board Games |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Corbin, KY , USA |
Key people | Jonathan Huston, Owner Derek Osborne, Director |
| Products | Firefly, Monty Python, Godzilla, The Princess Bride |
| Website | http://www.toyvault.com |
Perhaps best known for their Monty Python toys, Toy Vault also holds licenses for such properties as Godzilla, The Princess Bride, Jim Henson's Labyrinth, KISS, Trigun and others.
In January 2013, Toy Vault announced that they had acquired the table-top game, plush, and novelty item license to the cult favorite television show Firefly, and later announced the title of the first game under this license, Firefly: Out to the Black.
Lord of the Rings
Three months after its inception in 1998, Toy Vault acquired a license from Tolkien Enterprises to produce plastic figures based on the Lord of the Rings. This was the first series of action figures ever produced based purely on a literary property.1
Current product lines
Licensed
- Firefly
- Monty Python
- Godzilla
- The Princess Bride (film)
- Dark Crystal
- Jim Henson's Labyrinth
- Farscape
- Rubik's Cube plush
Unlicensed
- Cthulhu Mythos
- Richard Borg's Abaddon (board game)
- Zombies Afoot! Plush Slippers
- Vault Gaming Supplies
Past product lines
- Lord of the Rings
- Alice In Wonderland
- Astro City
- Dork Tower
- Knights of the Dinner Table
- Conker
- Cabbage Patch Kids children's furniture
- KISS
- Swearbears
- Shin chan
- Trigun
- SpongeBob SquarePants
Notes
1 Rob Rooney "The Road Less Traveled" 1999 available at http://actionfigures.about.com/library/weekly/aa011899.htm.
- MuppetCentral.com:"Toy Vault developing Henson Fantasy Plush," 2006-11-30
- Steinkopff, Eric (2007-06-25). "The Toy Vault: Toy company moves headquarters to downtown London". The Times-Tribune (London, Kentucky).