Alias; not a game familiar to me, but it has little men who are half-way
between Rowntree's jelly-babies and
Tony Hart's Morph! And that fact
alone gets them onto the Blog!
Sadly the poses on the box are not repeated
in the counters, who look even more like jelly-babies and less like Morph! Likewise the smaller 'children'
on the box don't seem to have made it to the games contents, clearly a graphic
trope to get across the family-friendly nature of the game?
They are very much a case of
find-one-of-each-colour-file-and-forget as far as collecting goes, but they are
figural, you get a 'free' sand-timer and they are probably fun! I'll be looking
out for them in the charity shops in a year or two's time.
The same figures are included in the Junior Draw Out game seen in one of the background shots below. Also note
how one of the red figures doesn't have the small disc-base of the others;
earlier version left in the sales-team's display sample, or common variant?
They also had Cool Catch out on a table, this has . . . er . . . wooden flats I'd
clearly forgotten about when I mention cows (or a cow) in the previous post
(the problem of queuing these posts up on the laptop in random order!)
The reason I haven't collaged these is
because I didn't crop them tight as they have some of the other games from Tactic
in the background which I thought I'd leave visible!
A nice touch - especially for wooden flats
- is the addition of a faux-fur fringe on the hoods of the Esquimaux's suits.
And it looks from the box art as if the game was initially going to be for four
players, but there are six figures; brown and yellow being included.
And a polar bear! I think (I hope - given
the target age-range!) he only steals fish, and isn't in the business of eating
Inuit! I only got a bum shot I'm afraid,
but he was more realistic (for a wooded flat!) than the cartoony inhabitants of
the Arctic circle!
Again, it's not something I'm going to buy
as a grown man who is supposed to collect Toy Soldiers, but if/when I see one
going cheap I'll be getting it for completion, and to make sure samples are in
the archive!
And if I attend the fair next year I'll try
to remember to pay more attention to Tactic's
stand and see what else they've come up with; of a figural nature.
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