Toy Vault Explained

Toy Vault
Type:	Corporation
Industry:	Toys, board games
Foundation:	1998
Location City:	Corbin, Kentucky, US
Products:	Firefly, Monty Python, Godzilla, The Princess Bride
Location Country:	USA
Homepage:	http://www.toyvault.com

Toy Vault and is an American company founded in 1998 that designs and manufactured plush toys, plush apparel, board games and other novelty items.^[1]

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,^[2] Kiss, Firefly, Trigun and others.

The Lord of the Rings

Three months after its inception in 1998, Toy Vault acquired a license from Tolkien Enterprises to produce plastic action figures based on The Lord of the Rings. This was the first series of action figures produced based purely on a literary property.^[3]

Current and previous product lines

Licensed

• Firefly
• Monty Python
• Godzilla
• The Princess Bride
• The Dark Crystal
• Jim Henson's Labyrinth
• Farscape
• Rubik's Cube plush
• The Lord of the Rings
• Alice in Wonderland
• Astro City
• Dork Tower
• Knights of the Dinner Table
• Conker
• Cabbage Patch Kids children's furniture
• KISS
• Swear Bears
• Shin-chan
• Trigun
• SpongeBob SquarePants

Unlicensed

• Cthulhu Mythos
• Richard Borg's Abaddon (board game)
• Zombies Afoot! Plush Slippers
• Vault Gaming Supplies

Notes and References

1. News: The Toy Vault: Toy company moves headquarters to downtown London. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927033905/https://www.thetimestribune.com/homepage/local_story_176084742.html. 2007-09-27. Eric. Steinkopff. The Times-Tribune (London, Kentucky). 2007-06-25.
2. http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2006/113006.shtml MuppetCentral.com:"Toy Vault developing Henson Fantasy Plush," 2006-11-30
3. Rob Rooney, "The Road Less Traveled", 1999