Countdown to Halloween - 3 - Sainsbury's Creatures Bumper Pack

Next to Sainsbury's where we find a bag of mixed critters, some more familiar, so less, to those we have looked at in the last few days.

A better mix than previous sets, with some duplicates and some newer specimens! Orange spiders, it's one of the rules - Halloween = Orange, it's connected to pumpkins, not a particularly scary or ghoulish vegetable as they go, and not really grown here until about ten years ago, however now that the marketing machine has succeeded in importing the 'festival', they are grown in numbers, and the orange parallel now applies here, as in the States!

The scorpion is a copy of the rubber one which came in a mixed lot the other day while the flies are similar to those we've already looked-at along with the centipede, the ants and mice are more unique - although I'm sure you'll find similar copies elsewhere!

Comparison with the rats and scorpions; the orphan scorpion is PVC, the Sainsbury's one polyethylene, but the design is almost identical, while the rodent is - I think - slightly more rat-like with its shorter, fatter tail, big feet and wiry whiskers? This is - of course - ignoring the fact that they are both (all four!) crude infant novelties!

A second comparison between the Sainsbury's and Poundworld Plus centipedes, neither gets the biscuit as their legs are all over the place, and while they do add-up the same both sides they are not always opposite each other, some segments have two legs within their bounds (which would indicate millipede traits!), other segments have no leg on one side, other legs are at the junction between segments . . . another ten minutes effort with the master would have made all the difference, but the makers know 99% of this shite will be in recycling or landfill, or on the way there by next Wednesday!

If this stuff lasts an extra week for Guy Fawkes Night parties (the proper autumn festival here), it's all it can hope for and pretty-much as good as it gets!