I saw very similar stuff in Waitrose on Friday (20th), but being Waitrose, they weren't cheap, I may go
back for them in the week, in which case they will appear tomorrow (this is all
being done ten days or so before you read it) for comparison with the other
sets, but they are literally twice as much** as all their competitors - or more.
Waitrose - where wealthy idiots with more money than sense and
status-complexes go to shop with logoed bags-for-life that will help identify
them as 'for the gallows' come the revolution!
Fly and 'roach bags, quid-each, nice mix of
colours, the green isn't fluorescent, but after the orange rule, comes the 'use
puke-green if you haven't got glow in the dark' and the 'purple is like a Vampire's
cloak-lining' rules of Halloween colouring!
The clear ones aren't so clear - Halloween
colouring rule-wise - maybe you hide them in your mate's Guinness and laugh like drains as he chokes on a rubber cockroach!
Like the red food-colouring trick but with more immediate and very real medical
consequences!
We have already looked at the fly in
comparison with the other two similar sculpts, so it's the turn of the
cockroach today. The Asda one is
clearly better with full definition of the wing-overlap but nothing else
notable as to clues to origins, what's amusing is that as the Poundworld/Sainsbury's centipedes mirror errors, so too has the bent antenna
been diligently reproduced.
Accepting that the Asda 'roach is the superior and the Sainsbury's centipede is the poorer the order of copying would seem
to be Asda → Poundworld-Poundworld Plus → Sainsbury's, but I still suspect better donors; yet to be turned-up and
probably common/available a few years ago?
** They weren't, I did!
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