M is for Monster Jam

Very much 'Bread & Circus' is the phenomena of monster trucks, or theatrical wrestling, both of which fill stadia with people who need simple, choreographed, but apparently (in the case of monster trucks - actually;) violent and relatively pointless entertainment of little consequence.

As with the various wrestling circuits, there are travelling 'circuses' of monster trucks and one is Monster Jam, whose efforts (through TV and sites like Youtube) have (like WWF) raised them to toy-worthy status, a baton Spinmaster have picked-up to run with, the interest to you - loyal readers - is that each model in the range comes with a driver figurine.

They were cheap . . . 'ish and I was feeling flush so I grabbed a couple of contrasting ones as a sample and shelfied the previous pair (we buy/shelfie this shite, so you don't have to!) and here we have Grave Digger with a vintage (Dodge?) body-style and The Ice Cream Man with an H2/Hummer type body - as both are probably large GRP 'fibreglass' mouldings, I guess that's the least salient point!

I've found three sculpts so far, a standing male, the girl on the left here holding her steering-wheel and the waving male. This one has been painted as a Neapolitan ice cream . . . geddit! . . . like I hinted-at above, it 'aint high-brow sophistication!

These will turn-up in mixed lots going forward, and probably won't feature here again!