HLJ President Scott T. Hards has posted a video message about the near future plans for the company. They will be moving from their current 7,100 square-foot warehouse to a brand new 32,000 square-foot facility complete with new office space. It also sounds like they're doing a pretty major overhaul of some behind-the-scenes work to help them out as time goes on.
As a result of all this, their site will be down briefly Nov. 9-10, and there will be no shipping at all Nov. 10-18 (though they will still be accepting orders as usual). Everything is scheduled to be back online November 19, but odds are that a move this size could cause longer than expected delays.
The video and transcript are available
on their site.
I just got finished going through this weblog, cleaning out the Spam that had slipped past the filters. I didn't realize how much made it through until I started going back through the older entries...but it has now been tken care of, and hopefully some new Spam-prevention will stop it from happening again. So if you're looking for Ambien, Cialis, Ephedra, Fioricet, Phentermine, Tramadol, Ultram, Valium, Viagra, Soma, Xanax, Zoloft, or any type of adult entertainment, you'll have to look elsewhere.
As I was looking through the old entries, though, I realized that this weblog has been online for just over two years now, and that the
Diecast Reviews section has been online for just over a year. Doesn't seem like it's been that long already...
And last but not least, the cleanup work prevented me from posting a bit of news that was posted on the HobbyTalk boards a couple of days ago. To celebrate the the Blu-Ray release of
Cars, there will be a limited edition "Blu Ray" Dinoco McQueen available through a special offer to people who buy the movie: