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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Sunday, October 31, 2021

BOZ is for Box O' Zombies

"Box O Zombies is owned by Immersive Realms, Inc. founded and operated by Shawn Recinto. The figures and artwork are created by a few Chicago artists who have a passion for zombies, figures, and just making things awesome."

65mm Toy Soldiers; 70mm Toy Soldiers; Bonux Astronauts; Bonux Spacemen; Box O' Zombies; Boxozombies; BOZ; French Premiums; Halloween; Halloween Novelties; Halloween Toy Figures; Premiums; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Undead; Undead Figures; Zombie Apocalypse; Zombie Figurines; Zombie Men; Zombie Toys; Zombies;
A sadly short-lived project, which seems to have been half-garage or 'art toy' (in concept) and half-commercial (in execution), but for which/whom the website is dead and the Faceplant/Twittsphear pages have seen no meaningful traffic since 2014/15.

65mm Toy Soldiers; 70mm Toy Soldiers; Bonux Astronauts; Bonux Spacemen; Box O' Zombies; Boxozombies; BOZ; French Premiums; Halloween; Halloween Novelties; Halloween Toy Figures; Premiums; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Undead; Undead Figures; Zombie Apocalypse; Zombie Figurines; Zombie Men; Zombie Toys; Zombies;
But it highlights the fragmentation of the hobby; with 3D printing at home or via commercial printers, up-scaling and down-scaling of existing figures by pirates (as we saw with the Chinese Army plundering Caesar the other day), the Russian/Ukrainian Co-Op's and home-design-&-print, or home scan-&-print it's getting so no one can follow all of it, let alone collect it!

65mm Toy Soldiers; 70mm Toy Soldiers; Bonux Astronauts; Bonux Spacemen; Box O' Zombies; Boxozombies; BOZ; French Premiums; Halloween; Halloween Novelties; Halloween Toy Figures; Premiums; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Undead; Undead Figures; Zombie Apocalypse; Zombie Figurines; Zombie Men; Zombie Toys; Zombies;
And, while I said this morning that I'd corrected a few boo-boo's in the Halloween posts system, I failed with these! Although in the last few minutes I've pulled it back by finding the original images on the WayBackMachine! But this is here, so, it’s a reuse of a picture already seen here and elsewhere, but you get the idea, BOZ figures being herded by slightly larger Bonux spacemen!

65mm Toy Soldiers; 70mm Toy Soldiers; Bonux Astronauts; Bonux Spacemen; Box O' Zombies; Boxozombies; BOZ; French Premiums; Halloween; Halloween Novelties; Halloween Toy Figures; Premiums; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Undead; Undead Figures; Zombie Apocalypse; Zombie Figurines; Zombie Men; Zombie Toys; Zombies;
Basically, although I scanned the box and managed to take this size-confirmer and pose the shot with the Bonux figures, I never took full set shots of the figures, except there may have been a couple more in the Bonux sequence, I must have deleted them . . . Doh!

65mm Toy Soldiers; 70mm Toy Soldiers; Bonux Astronauts; Bonux Spacemen; Box O' Zombies; Boxozombies; BOZ; French Premiums; Halloween; Halloween Novelties; Halloween Toy Figures; Premiums; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Undead; Undead Figures; Zombie Apocalypse; Zombie Figurines; Zombie Men; Zombie Toys; Zombies;
The trade images from the dead website; they were available in puke green and a pale-purple which - going from my sample - are a very pale lilac-gray shade. There were plans for other figures (some nice humans in tan-brown seem to have got to master-sculpt stage) and if you go down the Google rabbit-hole, you will find all sorts of stuff (concept drawings, CAD renders etc) on the various sites once associated with them.

65mm Toy Soldiers; 70mm Toy Soldiers; Bonux Astronauts; Bonux Spacemen; Box O' Zombies; Boxozombies; BOZ; French Premiums; Halloween; Halloween Novelties; Halloween Toy Figures; Premiums; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Undead; Undead Figures; Zombie Apocalypse; Zombie Figurines; Zombie Men; Zombie Toys; Zombies;
In the searching for info on the Box O's, I also found these from Spherewerx, they aren't findable at the moment (this is the old Amazon listing image, but there are a couple of dozen other Zombie-related items from Spherewerx or Previews Exclusive (the same people who did the WWII Zombies) in feebleBay, so they'll come around second-hand at some point, maybe for next year?

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