From one collector to another
FINALLY - after 11 months - we’ve located a source for the Mojö figures. They’re being shipped to us now and should be here before the end of the year.
As you would expect, DeJankins prices will make it worth the wait! Contact us today to reserve your figures!
In recent years, we’ve all become accustomed to waiting for up to six or seven months into a new year before we see the new prehistoric products from certain manufacturers.
Well, Safari Ltd. is stepping things up a bit for 2014. All of their new 2014 prehistoric items are supposed to be available by the end of JANUARY. That’s right. January.
And they’ve gotten off to a great start. The new Wild Safari Megalodon and Suchomimus figures arrived here at DeJankins this week!
Let that someone special know to contact us and we’ll get these great new pieces sent out in time to be in your stocking for Christmas morning!
We’re afraid we’ve got some bad news for anyone out there who likes the Mojö figures as much as we do. As it turns out, the U.S. supplier won’t be getting Mojö’s 2013 figures, and the trickle-down effect will leave our own shelves empty until we can find a new supplier ourselves.
We’ll keep you posted- and keep trying to find a way to get these pieces to the States!
According to the Director of Sales and Marketing for GeoWorld USA, we have this sad news:
“Unfortunately, given some production issues in China, we have postponed the release of 3rd Expedition until sometime early 2014.”
Sad news indeed about these 18 very anticipated prehistoric mammal figures. Of course, as soon as they are available, you will be able to get them from us here at DeJankins.
The most recent word on the availability of the Papo Dimetrodon:
“I have some bad news, item 55033 (Dimetrodon) was scheduled to be released in June, but Papo has advised that we will not be receiving this item in our warehouse (US Distributor) until early to mid August.”
Well, early August is only a few days away and mid August is only a couple of weeks from now, so that news is easier to bear.
And regarding the final 2013 figures to be seen, the CollectA dinosaurs from Procon:
“CollectA June releases were being produced for the month of June 2013. Our shipping container is scheduled to ship July 15th. It takes 30 days overseas to receive the container, anticipated mid August 2013. We are to begin shipping orders end of August or beginning of September.”
It seems that delays are the name of the game right now. But we have waited this long .... we’ll just have to wait a bit longer.
Papo’s Dimetrodon has been a center of collector conversation already, and is likely to be one of 2013’s most popular pieces.
And, as popularity goes, it looks like the Dimetrodon will be arriving fashionably late. Initially scheduled to arrive in June, it has just been announced that the figure will not be sent to the US importer until mid-August.
We’ll keep you up to date with news as we hear it, and we’ll be anxious to send the Dimetrodon your way as soon as it arrives in the States!
As most of you know, the original Kinto Favorite Collection figures came out a long time ago. Then, a few years ago, they added a Spinosaurus to the line. Now Kinto has revised all of the figures with new poses and paint, and you, of course, need them in your collection.
Just to keep you in the loop, these revised figures just climbed off a UPS truck and into our driveway, so we’re ready to send them out as soon as we get your order! Visit the store and let us know which ones you’d like us to mail your way.
Please forgive us.
The photo we attached to our blog post yesterday was subsequently found to be a forged photo. Some unscrupulous character imposed our business name over a Hamley’s Toy Store photograph. How dare them.
We apologize for this mistake and will attempt to engage another photographer to capture a more accurate likeness of our new location. Our apologies also go to Hamley’s Toy Store in London, England (a really great place to pick up toys.)
Thank you.
The time has come for DeJankins to leave the “temporary” location we moved to last November. Effective April 6th, we will be at our new (and we hope last) permanent location - in the metropolis of Yadkinville, North Carolina.
We contracted to have a photo of our store taken and we are pleased to share it with you below. You can continue to expect the best prices for the finest in current prehistoric animal collectibles from DeJankins.
Please note that our new phone number will be
(336) 961-2599. Our new street address will be:
3332 Greenbriar Drive
Yadkinville, NC 27055-5654
Remember, this will all be effective on April 6, 2013. Thank you for your support over these past 17 years. We look forward to many more years of collecting and sharing prehistoric figures with you!
Can you believe 2013 is here? The new prehistoric collectibles will be arriving from our favorite manufacturers any day now. Just as we do each year, DeJankins will have all the new 2013 figures at really great prices for you.
The Carnegie Concavenator and Bullyland prehistoric felines should be the first new pieces available, with other Safari, Papo and CollectA figures following over the next few months. The new Schleich dinosaurs will be some of the last to arrive, along with the second wave of CollectA items. Currently, we’re estimating an early summer arrival for those guys. We’re also planning on having new products from Mojö and Kinto Favorite, but we don’t yet have an estimate on their U.S. availability. Rest assured that we’re keeping our ear to the ground for any new information!
Something else you will see in the DeJankins store will be more of the recent collectibles from Europe and the East over the past few years. Figures from the various Simba Predators and DinoFroz lines will be listed as well as most of the One2Play DinoWaurs pieces. Additional Sega Dinosaur King toys and a few Koro Koro figures will also be available. Many (though not all) of these collectibles will have the complete packet and literature which came with the items originally. Keep checking our store for updates!
Also, in appreciation for our customers (...drumroll please...) one of the 2013 figures will have an ULTRA-LOW price. When ordered with any other figure(s) from DeJankins, the CollectA Pachycephalosaurus (due in June) will be free! You can understand why we must limit this to one per customer until we exhaust our supply...but hey we do what we can!
So start saving your loose coins. There’s sure to be something for everyone from DeJankins very soon!
Just a few days ago, we gave the DeJankins store wheels and hauled our exquisite collection of dinosaurs to a new home.
We are now located at:
5742 Stanleyville Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27105
You can contact us at this email address, or call us at our new number: 336-377-9318. Please note- if you emailed us recently and haven’t receive a reply, it’s because we didn’t receive your email. We encountered a bit of a glitch with our mail provider and would appreciate it if you could resend any such note. Thanks!