He only sent them the other day and the
first thing I did was troll-off to Boots
(a subsidiary of Walgreen) to see it
they had them this side of the pond, they didn't, I asked the girl of they
might have a Halloween section in the
bigger stores and she ummed-and-erred, so I tried the website and for the
'Skeleton' search-term found a stick of nail polish, and a Minecraft horse in the Christmas gifts department . . .i.e.; no
dice, no banana, no skeleton army!
Walgreen's promise 100% satisfaction; well - I'm 100% satisfied by what I can
see (4x4 poses for a total of 16 figures), but I'm 0% satisfied by their subsidiary's
stocking-of-skeleton-army's policy! I'll try the bigger stores next year,
sometimes these things seem to be tested on the US market and then come over
here a season later!
Close-ups of the figures; Shaun covered these about a week ago and everything said by him and the commenter's seems to
stick, they are definitely derivative of the Amscan figures which we have yet to look at here.
Which reminds me, the PMS ones (earlier today) were issued here at Christmas,
not Halloween? I'll have a bit of a shooftie round the discount store in
December, they may yet turn-up sooner rather than later!
I love the chap with a meat-cleaver, I'm
guessing a French chef who ate the wrong snail, stuck in limbo until he's paid
the Ferrymen in souls! Again - as said on Shauns Fantasy Figure Blog - painted-up
they'll make excellent additions to the other sets.
Pretty prefect for 54mm gaming or
role-play, and with the Crescent
'Khaki Berserker' having Halloween off, we have a painted legionnaire (AIP) as
a scaler - looks good with the sand-base as well; you have to get close to kill
the undead! Don't worry; I've since taken delivery of more images from Brian
and the British Berserker is already back on-station for the winter!
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