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CALLSIGN: LONGBOW Update – February 2024

The Callsign: Longbow team shared their February 2024 campaign update yesterday. Read on below for a leap year update! –

Hello CALLSIGN: LONGBOW® Backers!

Happy LEAP DAY!

It’s time for our end-of-the-month update for February of 2024. This month marked the Chinese New Year celebration overseas. As a result, our production facility has been shut down during the holiday season.

But that celebration has drawn to a close and now the factory is geared back up. We are working with our production manager to keep pushing forward on your CALLSIGN: LONGBOW® figures!

Art Update

Last month we shared the sculpt renders for the MTF: Retro-Ops. This month we are back with the character art for that figure. Like all LONGBOW® figures the Retro-Ops figure will have character art on his file card by painter extraordinaire Douglas Hart (G.I. Joe, Visionaries, Conan).

Marauder Task Force: Retro-Ops character art by Douglas Hart 

ROBOSKULL MKII Retro O-ring Wolf Trooper – SOLD OUT

Our friends at SKELETRON® offered our Retro O-ring Wolf Trooper for sale last month. And low and behold it sold out! 

SKELETRON’s Retro Wolf Trooper/Skeletron figure, is temporarily sold out.

They shared an update a few days ago about future availability:

“Fueled solely by your support and shares, we very unexpectedly ran out of stock on the Retro Trooper in mere days, and our Wolf Trooper & Gyre Wolf stock is barely holding.   But have no fear!   We have a second (albeit much smaller) inventory of Retro Troopers on the way, that will arrive in early March”

If you are interested in picking up this figure, keep an eye on SKELETRON’s website at: https://skeletron.com/ 

Come see us this Summer!

The weekend of Jun 21st-23rd, 2024 GRINDSTONE TOYS will be at both JoeFest Toy and Comic Convention in Augusta, GA, and the DFW GI Joe and Action Figure Show in Grapevine, TX.  If you are in the area for either of these shows, please swing by the booth and say hello!

JoeFest Toy and Comic Convention

Troy will be at JoeFest Toy and Comic Convention, June 21-23, 2024 in Augusta, GA.

DFW GI Joe and Action Figure Show

John will be at the DFW GI Joe and Action Figure Show, June 21-23 2024 in Grapevine, TX. We are also proud to announce that we are co-sponsoring a special show guest Kirk Bozigian (Product Manager on G.I. Joe).

You can learn more about Kirk on his creator profile at 3Djoes.com.

Thank you again to all of our backers for making this project a reality!

-GRINDSTONE TOYS!


I sure do love me some artwork, so that piece by Doug Hart for the MTF Retro-Ops figure is scratching the itch for me! I can’t wait to have’em in hand!

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