[Closed] Toy fair 2018

Fewer every year

Every year more manufacturers decide not to attend. Many resin makers like matrix X, Neo and Auto Cult never show models more than a few weeks ahead now. All the big industrials other than some German ones will already have released lists for the year by then.
This show has been overtaken by the decline in wholesalers and increase in direct web based customer contacts.
The same is true about attendees who post pictures. The old race to post pictures seemed to vanish last year with many taking days to turn up.

You're right but GLM showed all...

...of the Cadillac models we had this year, except a couple, like the 1947 limo and 1973 Eldorado that we are still waiting for.

Matrix, Kess and GLM were on the same stand last year, of course, because they're all under the same brand distribution.

I don't know yet if they'll join the fair this year. I hope so, as I hope to find pictures from them, which isn't easy.

Now, for the protection against copies, or stolen ideas from a manufacturer to another, crooked companies and thieves don't need the fair to steal ideas...

And as far as I know, Matrix-GLM-Kess never steal anything from a company that I won't say the name...that does not hesitate to steal from the first ones....

Have Matrix-Kess-GLM released lists of their 2018 subjects?

Kess always has "Coming Soon" on its site, but is this all that is planned for production?

I hope GLM has more planned subjects than they are currently showing. Same for Matrix' "TBA".

Did not know the 3 of them had the same owners! Or just same distributor in Germany?

They do not have the same ownership.

Matrix is the European distributor for GLM.