Again, we saw these last year as shelfies
(or sent images) I think, but Brian B then kindly sent some to the Blog so here
they are in close-up, issued by Greenbrier
in the 'States and DTSC in Canada.
It's a fact that all the best of these
Halloween/Horror figures come from (or via/due to the efforts of-) North
America. Apart from the odd thing like 99p
Store's re-issue of Dolgen or the
odd Amazon offer (see below), I've
looked hard this year and the mountains of plastic tat available for Halloween
are of such shite quality and ephemeral robustness they constitute an excuse
for banning Halloween here altogether!
It's also a fact I'll get this whinge into
one of the posts every year!
Both sides of the card for those who
archive this kind of stuff - I do!
A comparison with the other set (SCS Direct in the 'States) which Peter
Evans had sent to the blog in time for last year's posts.
Now, I mentioned Amazon, and I did find
these on Amazon UK from Fun Express (aping
that other firm's packaging again, Amscan
. . . or Unique?) and they were quite
cheap so, despite the imagery being less than helpful or hopeful, I ordered a
set, and this is it, but it wasn't much fun!
What you get is 12 figures, which seem to
be split 6 each of the two colours, one a drying-blood red, the other looking
to be glow-in-the-dark, but not; just a greenish-white - interior decorators
would call it apple-snow or some pretentious crap like that, think - raw tripe!
But when it comes to poses the pack
disappoints. Totally random contents with four of some and one of others, I
ended up with three poses, one in both colours. now they were cheap, and
I did intend to get a couple more sets to see if there were other poses, or
just to get all (?) three in both colours, but I kept putting it off as there's
no guarantee (from my first sample) that even two more sets would achieve that?
If you try, good luck, they are sized to
fit others and as army-builders are a useful addition to the canon, but with
most rack-toy issuers getting quite good at packing balanced lots these days it
is disappointing to see these, especially as they seem to go to the effort of
counting colours? Just pick from 'pose-bins' . . . some firms have automated it
so you get a whole or part-runner in each bag!
You can see how he goes well with the WWII
set (far right - EMCE Toys 'Previews Exclusive, Zombies At
War') we looked at a year or two ago, and he's not
much smaller than the two grey zombie sets (far left), so they are useful, but
you may need four or five bags to get a good sample?
The big mummy is marked similarly to Phidal stuff but is a softer material
than they are currently using and seems to be from 2009, so he may be an early
issue from this increasingly prolific (55 sets in the 2019 catalogue?) figure
source, he's also another candidate for a Scooby-Doo
related-set?
While I don't know anything about the other
chap, I'd guess a 1980's rack-toy . . . possibly a He-Man/MotU rip-off? He's a very dense polyethylene or some type of
nylon?
Finally Mr. Berke has sent a shelfie of the
same black carded version of Dolgen's
Mummy Army, and how come they keep getting ten poses while the skeletons have
always been limited to eight? Some Pharaoh's-curse rubbish I'll bet . . .
fussa-russa!
Thanks again Brian, thanks again Peter, see
what turns-up in twelve-month's time!
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