title: Toy Vault
text: # Toy Vault
  
  Toy Vault and is an American company founded in 1998 that designs and manufactured plush toys, plush apparel, board games and other novelty items.
  
  Perhaps best known for their Monty Python toys, Toy Vault also holds licenses for such properties as Godzilla, The Princess Bride, Jim Henson's Labyrinth, Kiss, Firefly, Trigun and others.
  
  ## The Lord of the Rings
  
  Three months after its inception in 1998, Toy Vault acquired a license from Tolkien Enterprises to produce plastic action figures based on The Lord of the Rings. This was the first series of action figures produced based purely on a literary property.
  
  ## Current and previous product lines
  
  ### Licensed
  
  * Firefly
  * Monty Python
  * Godzilla
  * The Princess Bride (film)
  * Dark Crystal
  * Jim Henson's Labyrinth
  * Farscape
  * Rubik's Cube plush
  * The Lord of the Rings
  * Alice In Wonderland
  * Astro City
  * Dork Tower
  * Knights of the Dinner Table
  * Conker
  * Cabbage Patch Kids children's furniture
  * KISS
  * Swearbears
  * Shin chan
  * Trigun
  * SpongeBob SquarePants
  
  ### Unlicensed
  
  * Cthulhu Mythos
  * Richard Borg's Abaddon (board game)
  * Zombies Afoot! Plush Slippers
  * Vault Gaming Supplies
  