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Freeland, Washington – After more than 28 wonderful years in Washington State, Cotswold Collectibles will be relocating its operations to the great state of Texas! Its larger facility and central US location will benefit its customers with greater product selection and better ship times.
At the Cotswold helm since its inception, Tina Windeler has decided to step back and hand the controls over to Greg Brown, who has been Cotswold Collectibles’ Director of Marketing and New Products for the past 13+ years.
Tina Windeler stated “Greg has made a huge contribution to Cotswold with his enthusiasm for the hobby, product knowledge and creative ideas. He’s the perfect person to take charge of this next episode in the company’s history. I am so lucky that he has agreed to lead Cotswold through this big and exciting move to the new headquarters!”
On February 28th, at day’s end, the phone and customer order system at Freeland, WA will move to their new home in Ennis, Texas (just south of Dallas). Cotswold inventory will be packed up and shipped out on Monday, March 2nd, 2020, and is expected to be in transit for 5 to 7 days. Once it arrives, it will be unloaded and unpacked it in the new warehouse. During this transition time (February 29th – March 13th), Cotswold Collectibles will be unable to ship any orders, but the website will be available as usual and Cotswold will maintain a connection with their customers via Phone, E-Mail, Newsletter, and Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
ABOUT COTSWOLD COLLECTIBLES
Cotswold Collectibles specializes in products for collectors of old and new G.I. Joe collectible toys, and assorted military and non-military 1:6 scale action figures.
Daniel Pickett
AFi founder and Editor-In-Chief Daniel “Julius Marx” Pickett has been around toys his whole life. The first line he ever collected was Mego’s World’s Greatest Super Heroes line back in the 70s. He has been surrounded by collectables ever since.
In 1999 he was confounded by a lack of information and news about some of his favorite toy lines he was collecting. Since he couldn’t find the information he decided to pursue it himself thinking other people might also be interested in the same news. He started writing a weekly column on the toy industry and action figure for a toy news site and in a years time he tripled the sites daily traffic with his updates, reviews and product features.
He built relationships with every major toy manufacturer and many sculptors, painters and mold makers. He grew his hobby into a world wide expertise that the industry has embraced.
In 2004 he teamed up with his toy buddy Jason “ToyOtter” Geyer and they created their own website www.ActionFigureInsider.com.
Daniel has been quoted in both industry and mass media press outlets. Over the years Daniel and AFi have been sought out as experts in the field. Daniel was regularly featured on “Attack of the Show” on the G4 network as the primary contributor to their “Mint On Card” segment, and our front page has been linked to from USA Today’s
“Pop Candy” Blog twice. Daniel’s content has also been featured on Bloomberg News, MSNBC.com, Time.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, CNN.com, AssociatedPress.com
Wired.com, Fark.com, Boing-Boing, Gizmodo.com, Ain’t It Cool News, the Official
Star Wars blog, Geekologie, G4, CNet and Toy Fare magazine, among many
others. He has consulted on toy lines, books, documentaries and TV shows.
But all of that really just sounds snooty and “tootin’ his own horn” – the long and short of it is that Daniel loves toys and he LOVES talking about them.
