Not long ago finally got my first Latex Lover doll. Searching it years before, reading a lot, and watching pictures about it. It is not the original Letha Weapons doll, but the Latex Lover sister of it. I found that stamp on its head that it was manufactured in Hungary. I know it is a well known fact, but after seeing it for real i decided to made some googling about the factory. It took some days but the good thing is that i finally found the chef technical director, who invented and manufactured the Letha doll itself.
So the full story (Legend):
The Letha was made in a small Hungary village called Börcs. The factory itself is located near the Church in the middle of the village. The local people many years talked about that company but later they accepted it as it was the most famous company in the Village. The former name of the company was: "Trans-ex International Kft." and the owner was the family Bazsó from Germany. They had family and friends in Hungary and started the business back in summer 1990. The company never manufactured for Hungarian market but only for USA and foreign countries. The business was not profitable all the time (there was no online sales like today). Later the German Bazsó family sold the factory to the Beate Uhse Holding AG, in 2002. They focused to other newer toys later. They renamed the Trans-ex to Bu Production Kft. and manufactured only for export but not the latex dolls. Beate Uhse Holding AG invested 2,6million EUR to company back then. The company was rising until 2009 but after that some bad years came and they sold the company to the German's Amor Gummiwaren GmbH. They manufacturing condoms and bluetooth toys until today. I was trying to contact the company but without success first, because the first owner went back to Germany and the new director not wanted to share any information. The only luck is that i am speaking Hungarian and with Google+facebook+language i got the phone number to the person, who invented the Letha series latex dolls. I called him like 3 times without success, but on 4th try i was able to talk with him. My first question was it there is any stock left, but sadly NO. He told every piece was intended to export, so they not kept any piece locally. My second question was about restarting manufacture of the latex dolls. They called it "gumizsuzsi" (it is the local hungarian name for the latex dolls). I wanted to buy the manufacturing machines of the Letha but the worst news just came: the manufacture line was there until 2020 JULY and he told they scraped all the machines and sold for its IRON value half year ago. So the Letha type doll from Hungary is now officially at THE END.
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And of course he not even have any capital for it. The only thing he can do, that he can describe me all the things and secrets i need to manufacture a Letha-like doll. He will tell the full process of making the doll and the Latex mix needed for it. He told that they experimented a lot until they were able to make the doll finally. I will try to reproduce the tickness of the latex first at home and maybe later will try to restart a small quantity manufacture. Noways there are 3D printers, where i can get the mold more easily than they get is back then. I hope you enjoy the story and i will let you know about the progress. Merry Christmas for you all!
