We've seen the box/book already, here it is
again! With the various super hero figures and the Frozen stuff already 'in the bag', I can see myself getting most of
these in the next year or two just to 'complete'!
Again; £5.99 in TXMaxx, £9.99 in WHSmith's!
That's the same WHSmith who just
posted a profit-warning because their Famous
Five and Ladybird parodies didn't
sell well enough over Christmas!
The more useful figures - I'm assuming (again?
What am I like!) the middle girl is Belle (by a process of elimination),
despite the figure not being illustrated (in the modelled outfit) anywhere in
the book. My lack of firm knowledge in the matter being worn as a badge of pride;
in going some way as to prove I've not actually seen any of these pastel-hued,
mawkishly sentimental, saccharine productions!
Marida is 61mm in
total, Cinderella 67, as they are [all] youngish women, this gives a
scale-size requiring males of at least 70mm, but that's not such a problem with
all the Bully-Heimo-Papo-Schleich et
al and Early Learning/Wilco/Blue Box knock-off
stuff out there?
Looking for more round the charity shops
the other day I saw something else with the Marida character, she has
other names in other language-markets (at least three), and two equally
flame-haired daughters and would therefore seem to be a referential-nod to
Boadicea / Boudicca. Somehow I can't see Disney having all-three publically
raped by Roman soldiers, but - like I say - I haven't seen the movies!
The slightly less useful figures - however
the mermaid will go quite well with various others including Soma's and the Archie McFee/Accoutrements hag. Likewise the Mulan character would enhance
a Samurai setting and Jasmine can be used with Arabian
types. Even Snow White would be useful with a paint-job, as a medieval or
Renaissance 'wench'?
Assuming (from the brown hair) that the
middle figure in the second-from-top shot is Belle, that leaves two
other princesses illustrated in the accompanying book; Tiana and Pocahontas
(both black haired) but not represented among the models, even though they
could have been instead of the two horses, or one of the horses and the idiot
fish!
Speaking of idiot fish, this is the idiot
fish! He's very small. Along with two markedly different horses, one (Snow White's) being
quite a reasonable sculpt (stupid expression and piggy-eyes though), and a
useful mount for a 54-60mm knight, the other heavier and more cartoon-like,
although a bit of surgery on the 'Disney' muzzle would improve him, and make
for a half-decent heavy-horse.
The idiot fish seems to be called Flounder,
rather than being a flounder, but maybe he's Flounder the floundering flounder!
If these three had been dropped, you could have had Belle in her illustrated
costume and the two absent 'princesses'; Tiana and Pocahontas while
still hanging-on to a twelve-count!
And I'm sure it's pure co-incidence that
it's two of the four 'ethnics' that have been dropped!
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