Helpful Information for Using Our Website

Registering/Creating an Account
You may browse and purchase from our site without registering or creating an account, you can simply enter your contact and payment information at the time of check out. Please note that we offer special (preferred customer) discounts available only to registered customers. These discount prices are not displayed in our listings unless you are logged into your account. Registering and creating an account is a simple, one time process. Please go to the My Account page enter your information, choose your own unique user name and password and your done. Once registered you can login anytime and your MichToy preferred customer discounts will display in the listings and will be computed in your shopping cart.

Products Status
This feature is found on all product listings. It tells you whether a product is Available, Out of Stock, Upcoming, or a New Release. We also have marked a large number of products with Status: 2-3 Weeks,4-6 Weeks, or 6+ Weeks. These products are not part of our regular inventory but are available for you to order. By ordering these products you receive an extra 10% discount on it (making it a 20% saving). If you are willing to wait the specified time indicated by the Status you can save big time! In many case the wait will be shorter then the time listed, while, in other cases, it will take longer, but for those with patience the savings are fantastic.

Browsing tips

Searching Our Site
Our new web site includes a powerful search engine. Taking a couple of minutes to familiarize yourself with it will allow you to find virtually anything in a couple of seconds.

If you go to our search page you will see six menus. You can use any combination of these six menus to narrow your search. I will use a the example of a collector looking for WWII, 1/72 scale plastic figures. To find only WWII figures in 1/72 scale I choose the menus Type= Toy Soldiers, Scale= 1/72 and Period= WWII. I get 448 listings for WWII, 1/72nd scale figures. I realize I'm getting both metal and plastic figures in this search but I want only plastic figures so I go back and I add the menu choice Material= Plastic. I now get all 200 products that are 1/72 scale, WWII, plastic figures.

Likewise, if you know the vendor of the product you are looking for, simply choose just that vendor from the Vendor menu. You get only the products for that vendor. If you know the product number you are looking for, or a portion of it, simply type the number, or portion of the number, in the product numbers box to retrieve the product. We also offer a keyword search. If you are looking for products related to Custer, simply type Custer in the keyword box and you will get the listing for all 32 products we have related to General Custer.

Searching Our New & Upcoming Releases
When you load these pages you will see a listing of products. These are all the new or upcoming products listed in the order of arrival or release. The newest additions are listed first. You can simply use the next button to view all the pages of releases or additions since your last visit. If you want to find more specific products use the four menus provided. You may choose any combination of these four menus to narrow your search. For example if you are only interested in 1/72 scale products. Simply choose ByScale=1/72 from the scale menu. You will get all the new 1/72 scale products. If you only are interested in 1/72nd scale figures then add the menu choice Type= Toy Soldiers from the type menu. If your interest is only in plastic figures then add the menu choiceMaterial= Plastic. So with three menu choices you can find all the new 1/72 scale, plastic figure releases in no time. If you know the specifi c vendor you are looking for simply choose only the Select a Vendor menu and choose that vendor.

New Print Vendor Feature
A new feature we just added on the search page is the Vendor Print-out. You can print out a complete listing by any of our vendors by choosing that vendor from the Print Vendor menu and clicking on the Print View button

Note on using our menus
When you choose a menu, simply start typing the name you are looking for and you will be taken directly down to it. I'm looking for Vendor= Old Northwest. I start typing old and I'm taken down directly to the Old Northwest name. This works on all menus within our site. 

Specials of the Month page
MichToy Specials of the Month are designed to spotlight some of the excellent vendors we feature in our product selection at savings of 20-30% off the regular price. Please Note: You must have an account with us and be logged into your account to view and receive discounted prices.

Featured Products page
On our Featured Products page we highlight products that we feel are of interest to collectors, may have been over looked in the massive amounts of new products we receive each week or are of relevant interest.