S is for Starship Troopers, Not!

I said the other day I should have tried some figures with the Halo UNSC 'Warthog' from Mattel's Hot Wheels, and that I could only think of the Starship Troopers as being vaguely suitable, the Galoob ones are still in the attic, but it turned out I was thinking of something else anyway and . . .

. . . yesterday (Sunday) I found (courtesy of Peter Evans) these copies of Galoob's Xpanders looking for something else, so a quick photo-shoot ensued. The running figure is 28-mil. I think they came together with the dino's and there was a larger sample overall.

Compared with the larger (32mm for same figure sculpt) and - I think - commoner set of equally poor rack-toy copies which came with hollow M2/M3 Bradley/ACAV type things in tubbed sets about 12/15 years ago, although probably still findable in seaside type discount stores.

From the archive - I don't have the Xpanders which are the basis for the china-troops, but I do have a small sample of the similar Galoob Starship Troopers, with the Micro-Machine size above and the Action Fleet size below, I don't think either is a particularly complete sample, and as is often the case with these things; Shaun has covered them in far more depth, and his repaints must be where I got the Halo idea from!

The larger set's figures are - like the Star Wars Action Fleet (and similar Playmates Star Trek) - semi-action figures, with two points of articulation - through/across the shoulders and at the waist; they also have a magnet in the base, the use for which I haven't looked-up!