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The Canadian and US Patent Offices have granted patents for artificial snow manufacturing to Thomas FX.

This story broke on Global TV's National News while Thomas FX was closed for its annual Christmas Holidays.

The story also was run as a feature news story by the Vancouver Sun. 

Since coming back from our Holidays we have been busier than "two beavers fighting over a toothpick" . . (sic "Canadian humor") . . . manufacturing and shipping orders of our, PATENTED, artificial snow product . .  SNO-FX! . . . around the country and around the world. 

Our apologies for not keeping everyone up to date with the breaking news. There is a lot going on so stay tuned for more Breaking News.

The Canadian and US Patent Offices have granted patents for artificial snow manufacturing to Thomas FX.

This story broke on Global TV's National News while Thomas FX was closed for its annual Christmas Holidays.

The story also was run as a feature news story by the Vancouver Sun. 

Since coming back from our Holidays we have been busier than "two beavers fighting over a toothpick" . . (sic "Canadian humor") . . . manufacturing and shipping orders of our, PATENTED, artificial snow product . .  SNO-FX! . . . around the country and around the world. 

Our apologies for not keeping everyone up to date with the breaking news. There is a lot going on so stay tuned for more Breaking News.

Thomas FX is officially SOLD OUT of our inventory of Christmas Decorations.

Having had a strong Christmas selling season, we decided to bundle up all of the remaining Christmas inventory in our store and donate it to North Vancouver's Lions Gate Hospital.

Hopefully our gift will be used to brighten up some of the Hospital wards this Christmas.

We are grateful for the great work done in our Community by Lions Gate and the dedicated staff who work there. Every day they save lives and they make a positive difference in our community. 

Thank You Everyone and Merry Christmas!

Wednesday is our last full day before our annual Holiday break. 

Wednesday is also the second last day of our annual Year End Clearance Sale.

So literally, The End Is Near.

Thursday will be our last day of work in 2013, and it will be a short day for us.

We will be in the office on Thursday from 8:00 am until 11:30 am, then heading out for Christmas Lunch. 

We will be back in the office from 1:30 until 4:00 for the annual Thomas FX Christmas Open House. Christmas Cheer will be served to all those who drop by.

Thomas FX will be closed from December 20 and will reopen in the New Year on January 6.

Emergency Service will be available during this period for film professionals only.

Thomas FX is officially SOLD OUT of our inventory of Christmas Decorations.

Having had a strong Christmas selling season, we decided to bundle up all of the remaining Christmas inventory in our store and donate it to North Vancouver's Lions Gate Hospital.

Hopefully our gift will be used to brighten up some of the Hospital wards this Christmas.

We are grateful for the great work done in our Community by Lions Gate and the dedicated staff who work there. Every day they save lives and they make a positive difference in our community. 

Thank You Everyone and Merry Christmas!

The pace at Thomas FX, and Thomas Studios, continues to be more than hectic as we approach our annual Holiday shutdown. 

Last week, a Hallmark production crew was busy at Thomas Studios filming a portion of a movie called "In My Dreams". 

The Hallmark crew was great to work with . . . Thanks Everyone!

This week Thomas Studios is hosting a film crew from Sweden. They are shooting segments for a film about an old Finnish folk hero.

Here is where it gets very interesting. One of the stars of the film is a live polar bear!

In 1994 Thomas FX was involved in the filming of a feature film called Alaska. Charlton Heston starred in the film and his son Fraser Heston was the Director. Betty Thomas was the Stunt Coordinator on the film.

Alaska also featured a polar bear cub named "Aggie" . . . the same polar bear, now fully grown, that will be working in Thomas Studios this week.

Welcome to Thomas Studios Aggie!

God Bless One And All

More and more people are Gifting Halloween items for Christmas, so we thought we would create a Christmas event at Halloween!

Today, all in-store Halloween customers will receive a 20% DISCOUNT off their entire order !!! ... Fireworks, Halloween Props, Makeup Effects, Costumes, etc. 

This is an early Christmas Gift from Thomas FX to our many loyal customers and our way of saying THANK YOU for a great Halloween Season.

The only exceptions to the 20% in-store Halloween discount are the West Vancouver and North Vancouver Fireworks Permit Fees.

The 20% Discount applies to items that have already been discounted ... in some cases by more than 50% !!!

This is NOT an advertised sale, it is our way of saying thank you to our local community, so please help us spread the word by telling your friends and neighbors as soon as possible, and ask them to pass along the news.

We will continue to honor all 10% online discount coupons.

For A Delicious Deal ... Shop At Thomas FX Today!

Halloween is in season at Thomas FX, with thousands of families visiting our Halloween Store in North Vancouver getting ready for Halloween on October 31'st.

We still have high-end Halloween Costumes, scary masks, unusual Halloween Props, and professional Makeup FX in stock.

Many people have asked about the popular "10% Discount" Facebook Coupon Promotion that ran last Halloween, so we are going to bring it back today. 

Please check our Facebook Page for further details, and YES, we will honour the 10% discount coupons in our store. Simply print it off and present it to one of our Cashiers.

NOTE: Discount Coupons DO NOT apply to our large assortment of Halloween Fireworks . . . which are already priced competitively. 

We choose our Halloween Fireworks assortments carefully, so our customers can be assured of getting the most impressive shows available. 

We have knowledgeable people on hand to help you buy the best fireworks for your family's enjoyment, and we sell Fireworks Permits onsite, for both West Vancouver and North Vancouver, for your convenience.

Halloween is in season at Thomas FX, with thousands of families visiting our Halloween Store in North Vancouver getting ready for Halloween on October 31'st.

We still have high-end Halloween Costumes, scary masks, unusual Halloween Props, and professional Makeup FX in stock.

Many people have asked about the popular "10% Discount" Facebook Coupon Promotion that ran last Halloween, so we are going to bring it back today. 

Please check our Facebook Page for further details, and YES, we will honour the 10% discount coupons in our store. Simply print it off and present it to one of our Cashiers.

NOTE: Discount Coupons DO NOT apply to our large assortment of Halloween Fireworks . . . which are already priced competitively. 

We choose our Halloween Fireworks assortments carefully, so our customers can be assured of getting the most impressive shows available. 

We have knowledgeable people on hand to help you buy the best fireworks for your family's enjoyment, and we sell Fireworks Permits onsite, for both West Vancouver and North Vancouver, for your convenience.

Recently Thomas FX obtained Patents for its artificial Sno-FX! product from the American and Canadian Patent Offices. 

The story broke this week when Vancouver's North Shore Outlook did a story about us and ran our photo on the covers of both their North Vancouver and West Vancouver publications.

We were also considered by the Motion Picture Academy for an Academy Award Nomination for our artificial snow a few years ago.

Not all Halloween contacts are safe to wear.

Some contacts can cause eye irritation, and in extreme cases partial blindness. 

Having said that, ALL of the Halloween contact lenses sold by Thomas FX are FDA Approved and safe to wear for most people. 

If you order Halloween contacts from us online we will enclose an information sheet on the wear and care of Halloween contact lenses. 

Customers who come into our store to purchase Halloween contacts will receive the same information and will be required to sign a form acknowledging that they have received the care instructions. 

We sell Halloween Contact Lenses for $59.99 a pair. These include a complimentary storage case. These contacts are painted by hand. 

The Halloween contacts that sell bot $29,.95 a pair are painted by machine, and do not include the complimentary storage case. 

Both types of Halloween contacts are FDA approved and safe to wear for most people. We have been selling these lenses for many years and have never received a customer complaint. 

As always, we recommend that you consult your eye doctor before purchasing anything that will come in contact with your eyes. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

We are looking for a few good people to work with customers in our Halloween 365 store. 

All shifts are open, days, evenings, weekends . . . for the right people . . . "People who like people"

See our ad on Craig's List and work with us until Halloween . . or possibly beyond.

As the 2013 Halloween Season is upon us, Thomas FX is extending its hours. 

In September we will open every Saturday from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm. 

As we get closer to Halloween, our store hours will be extended even further.

Please check our website to confirm daily opening times.

EXPERIENCE Thomas FX this Halloween!

If you have been following our Blog you will have noticed a gap in recent postings. 

Our sincerest apologies. Unfortunately, we have been dealing with a family health emergency for the past month and are only now getting back to normal. 

During our absence, Radiant Pictures of Los Angeles filmed a television commercial in Thomas Studios on behalf of Suzuki Motors. The commercial will be telecast in Japan.

Last Samurai Co-Star Ken Watanabe was the principle actor in the Japanese commercial.

Thank you for choosing Thomas Studios. It was a privilege to host your production, and an honor to have Mr. Watanabe working in our studio.

You may have noticed our Blog postings have been extremely light lately. 

Software upgrades to our Blog platform have been creating chaos for the past few months and every time we posted, a programmer from our development team had to go in and fix the code.

Today, my Project Manager informed me that the development team "Thinks" they have solved the problem. 

Accordingly, THIS IS A TEST. If you see any broken links, missing images, or truncated text, you, and the world, will know they have failed.

Meanwhile, we thank you for your patience and understanding.

Vancouver rockers Hollywood Hoodlums recently filmed their latest Rock Video DVD at Thomas Studios. 

Check out their music . . . . tight and smooth!

Thanks guys. It was a pleasure hosting your shoot at Thomas Studios.

Come back and see us again soon.

We have just returned from an exhausting Halloween buying trip and thought we should bring a new 2013 Halloween developing trend to your attention . . . . CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP Halloween theatrical contact lenses.

Seriously, we could not believe how many vendors we ran across selling really cheap Halloween Contacts. 

Curious about this phenomenon, we struck up a conversation with one such vendor who bragged that his company owner used to work for the company from which we purchase our Halloween Contacts. He went on to point out that all of the designs were basically the same. When asked, he admitted that his boss "ripped off" the designs from our supplier and was producing their Halloween contacts in the Philippines. 

He also told us that their lenses were basically disposable, whereas the Halloween contacts sold by Thomas FX are of a much higher quality, can be worn for 30 consecutive days, or can last for many years if used more sparingly and cared for properly. 

So buyer beware, the market this Halloween will be flooded with really cheap contact lenses made in the Philippines. They may not be of the highest quality. The fit may not be very comfortable. The paint used to create the designs might hurt your eyes . . . . . But they will be CHEAP . . . Likely in the range of $29 - $39 a pair.

In contrast the Halloween contact lenses sold by Thomas FX are supplied by a company in the USA from the highest quality materials. They are manufactured by a highly reputable company, have been tested and approved by the FDA, and are both comfortable and safe to wear. We sell these high quality Halloween contact lenses for $59.99 a pair, and each pair comes with a free contact lens storage case. Betty has several pairs, some of which she bought 3 years ago, and they are all still in good shape and still comfortable to wear.

This year we will be offering quite a few new and innovative designs so stay tuned . . . more choices are on the way and will be in our store, and in our online store, very soon. We also offer a large selection of stunning Custom Halloween Contacts and Sclera Contacts by special order (allow 3 - 4 weeks for delivery). 

If you only plan to wear your Halloween contact lenses once, don't care if they might not be very comfortable, and aren't concerned about the fact that they might hurt your eyes, then you might as well save the extra $20 and take a chance. Please just don't complain that the lenses we sell cost $20 more than the really cheap lenses. They are simply NOT the same product.

Somewhere in the world the sun is shining on a Thomas FX customer right now . . . . 24 hours a day! 

In fact, after 45 years in business, we now have customers in so many countries around the planet that the sun quite literally never sets on Thomas FX customers. 

Thank you everyone . . . . Thank you world!

Through our ongoing commitment to providing outstanding service, no matter where our customers live or work, we have become experts in Global Logistics and are able to land critical production supplies anywhere on the planet in unlimited quantities, on time, and on budget every time.

We have gone to great expense to make doing business with us easy. As a result, customers can and do shop online in our dynamic web store 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

If you are not relying on Thomas FX to supply entertaining special effects production supplies for your current project . . . .WHY NOT? 

Contact Us . . . . Our prices are competitive and our service is second to none.

How can we help you today?