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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Monday, September 28, 2020

V is for Variation on a Theme

I've pointed out before that two board games in particular (Monopoly and Cludo) have become marketing vehicles for the parting of money from fools, but others (Risk, Axis & Allies) get the multiple-version treatment, today it's back to Cludo / Clue.

With pop-culture dominating the non-work sphere of western or developed-world existence we will return to both as often as I find them in charity-shops - not being a fool, I wouldn't be seen dead paying-full for any of them, even if they did a Terminator Risk in 20mm with artwork by Moebius and figures sculpted by H. Geiger!

Board Game; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Cludo; Clue; Cluedo; Cluedo SuperSleuth; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Games; Parker Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Supersleuth; Waddington's; Waddingtons Games;
Un-boxing is easier as a .gif; there's a lot in here and it's been expanded to eight players, with three supports and 12 rooms, an expensive way of making a slower and more complicated version of an old favourite.

Board Game; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Cludo; Clue; Cluedo; Cluedo SuperSleuth; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Games; Parker Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Supersleuth; Waddington's; Waddingtons Games;
Endless (or 32?) alternate set-ups, but I think the positioning of the entrance hall/lobby may limit that choise-total, each is a separate card and there are some plastic crosses (x marks lots of spots) and magnifying glasses (which like the cracker-toy novelties do actually work!) that can be liberally sprinkled about the place like a fantasy games-master setting rat-traps!

Board Game; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Cludo; Clue; Cluedo; Cluedo SuperSleuth; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Games; Parker Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Supersleuth; Waddington's; Waddingtons Games;

The figures; only reason I care about the existence of any of these re-hashes, the three supernumeraries are the ones with square bases, the eight player-pieces get round bases, all nicely sculpted with parquet flooring - which matches . . . err . . . none of the rooms!

They are reasonable for 25/28mm gaming, and with the Victorian air, would suit Steampunk or the HG Wells/Jules Verne/H. R-Haggard anchored stuff, or even Edwardian 'Hardboiled' stuff.

Board Game; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Cludo; Clue; Cluedo; Cluedo SuperSleuth; Parker Board Game; Parker Brothers; Parker Games; Parker Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Supersleuth; Waddington's; Waddingtons Games;
Ably assisted - as always - by my late assistant, little did she know that 31 days later she would be joining the 99.9r% of everything that ever lived, a message hidden there for the meat-faced loons who don't think we've entered the most serious existential-threat phase of our evolution? She is sorely missed.

2 comments:

Gisby said...

Hi, the pieces are 30mm 1930's miniatures sculpted by Mark Copplestone. Until recently they were available separately, from Moonraker Miniatures.

Hugh Walter said...

Well that's fascinating Gisby! The 'big-boys' turning to the independents . . . originals or copies - do you think?

Cheers
H