Countdown to Halloween - 5 - Poundworld Plus's Rubber WTF's

While I was getting the previous 'countdown' post's back of bugs from Poundworld Plus I also purchased these - so you don't have to!

These are not part of the Halloween range, and I have been studiously ignoring them in the toy section of the store since it opened back in the spring, they are basically shite; large blobs of poorly executed silicon rubber, vaguely representing generic species, three spiders, two beetles and an ant, except that the ant is probably not an ant and therefore the only really interesting item on the card.

The card claims both Toy Bank and Green Geko [sic] Industries as brands/brand-marks but are actually another ITP Imports item - here in the UK at least.

The 'ant' looks like a Velvet Ant, which is actually a wingless wasp and a worthy species to have as a model, but the beetles are poor and while the three spiders are all different and all resemble the outlines of real creatures, they are chunky infant toys of no real merit, fun for five-year olds!

I would add, that while I've been ignoring them for a month [and wouldn't have bought them if it wasn't for the fact that over the last few weeks what was going to be multiple posts on the 31st became an insect related set of rack-toy posts suitable for a countdown trope], I have as yet to find the other six of the advertised "12 realistic insects for you to collect", despite checking the toy section at least once a week. Now that I've weakened and bought these I'll have to get the other six - if I see them!

They look better . . . dead; now that's a proper bit of the spirit of Halloween, right there!