CALLSIGN: LONGBOW Update – October 2025

Grindstone Toys has released their October 2025 Callsign: Longbow update. Check it out below –

Hello CALLSIGN: LONGBOW® Backers!

The end of October has arrived, and it’s time for Halloween. We hope you all have fun and a safe evening!

Production Update

Last week, we met with the factory team to review the updates on the figures. We impressed upon the team the importance of promptly correcting any issues with these figures. We want to get them into production as soon as we can, but only once all lingering issues have been addressed.

In last month’s update, we shared that the model shop had made some changes to the Lancer and Krasny-Ninja waist parts. The images below show these changes on Lancer (and are much clearer images than last month’s screen caps).

Updated function sample courtesy of Dave Proctor.

You can see that the figure has a much better range of motion in the legs, and the legs are not forced apart anymore. The factory team has advised that we will need to retool the waist parts to achieve this. We’ve approved this plan once the model shop has verified the correct modifications. This revision also corrected the issue of the torso not closing completely above the arm.

In addition to the articulation and fit, we reviewed our revision notes on all the deco colors (note the green colors on the Lancer above are still too dark and will be lighter in production).

We also discussed the four remaining figures and what needed to be done to those to make sure these same issues did not affect them.

OUTLAW proof card sample courtesy of Dave Proctor.

While the team works through these corrections, progress continues on figure packaging so that part of the project will be ready to go as soon as production commences. The team has proof cards for this round of figures and is currently working on the blister trays. We’ll have more proof cards to show next month.

Upcoming Shows

We will see you in Iowa in two weeks!

Once again, the LONGBOW® team will be in attendance at the 14th Annual ASSEMBLY REQUIRED presented by Code Name: Iowa. Please join us on November 14th and 15th in Des Moines at the HyVee Hall!

For more information, check out https://www.codenameiowa.com/

Thank you again for making this project a reality!

-GRINDSTONE TOYS

Hopefully the kinks have been worked out and these highly anticipated figures can hit the production phase, as I know when I speak for many when I say that we can’t wait to get these in hand.

I’ll be sure to bring you more updates as they’re made available. Stay tuned!