Tail End Charlie

Nuremberg Toy Fair 2025 Knowing that it would fall to me to prepare the Tail End Charlie for this issue, I suggested to my colleagues that I write it at the very last minute, on Sunday morning, immediately after returning from Nuremberg at midnight on Saturday, as it would surely be of interest to readers. So I am writing my feelings in the heat of the moment. While we were in a very positive mood on the way home, I've decided to split this Tail End Charlie into two parts, positive and negative, with the positive part being the one I'd like to start with, as it's definitely the one that's prevailing in me.

Knowing that it would fall to me to prepare

the Tail End Charlie for this issue, I suggested

to my colleagues that I write it at the very

last minute, on Sunday morning, immediately

after returning from Nuremberg at midnight on

Saturday, as it would surely be of interest to

readers. So I am writing my feelings in the heat

of the moment. While we were in a very positive

mood on the way home, I've decided to split

this Tail End Charlie into two parts, positive

and negative, with the positive part being the

one I'd like to start with, as it's definitely the

one that's prevailing in me.

Our participation in Nuremberg certainly

served its purpose. Although there were not

as many meetings at our stand as in the years

before COVID, since representatives from

companies in the plastic modelling industry

did not come in the same numbers as in these

years. However, the meetings were intense,

we could afford to have them long and

substantive, to deepen relationships, to stay

focused during them, not having to rush because

of other meetings or because a participant was

already waiting for another meeting in front of

the stand. So the whole thing took place in

a very relaxed atmosphere, visitors came to

us with smiles on their faces. For example,

we brewed over 50 cups of coffee for guests

during the show. Our coffee was said to be

the best in the whole world, made by our CEO

Mr Šulc himself, and he was probably very

proud of it. The number of company stands from

our branch remained practically unchanged,

apart from us there were Special Hobby,

Tamiya, Airfix at the Hornby stand, Academy,

Miniart, Trumpeter/HobbyBoss, Clearprop

together with the accessories producer Reskit,

Italeri, Heller together with the distributor

Glow2B, the trading company Modellbau König,

the company Hobby-Pro, which distributes

Zvezda and Dragon in Europe, the distributor

and profile producer Albion Alloys and Revell

in Hall 12. 2. It has to be said that it is quite

a walk from Hall 7 to Hall 12.2, but the Revell

stand is well worth a visit. Revell and Tamiya

have the largest stands in our industry, both

offering the opportunity to drive RC cars,

for example. Revell has expanded its range

NUREMBERG TOY FAIR 2025

Jakub Nademlejnský

INFO Eduard

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February 2025