Rather like with this year's ITLAPD,
Halloween hasn't gone smoothly, and might seem a bit bitty to some, but I
managed to pull back a few boo-boo's at the end of the week and am starting the
blurbification on Friday night to get the posts done in time . . . I hope!
And . . . although I've never intended
Halloween to grow to the size of 'Pirate Day, A) I never intended West Country
Accent Day to grow quite as big as it has the last few years either, and B)
these things will wax and wane under their own steam! But we might as well
start with the same 'round-up' post/format I've adopted for ITLAPD!
I've had this for years (I think?), anyway
it was in the mixed, unbranded monster box, and while sorting earlier in the
year, fired off a few shots for today before it went off to storage. It's a
sort of dragon/bat/vampire finger-puppet, and in polyethylene so not as
comfortable as the more usual PVC ones on a finger, especially a fat, grown-up's
one!
But it also makes a passable stand-alone,
'toy soldier' figure, and is here posed on 1898's Transylvania, then the
eastern part of Austria-Hungary, now in central Rumania. Worth a read . . . Wikipedia
This came in recently (charity shop mixed
lot) and is - I suspect - quite modern, being a sort of flexible polyethylene
which means the sucker doesn't really work, but it's a bat, on All Hallows Eve,
so that's a box ticked!
I seem to have ended-up getting eMail
updates from Poundland, due to some
past, self-inflicted, button-clicking misdemeanor I'm sure! But I've recieved several
on Halloween stuff recently (very little of which seems to have made its way to the
store in Farnborough as I checked once or twice), but of use - if you could
have found them, or to ID when they turn up in job-lots a few-years hence - are
these skeletons in larger pairs (44cm/17"!) and smaller quads (160mm/6").
These came in with a mixed lot I'd bought
for something else we'll see today, but turned out to be the hard-plastic
versions of one of the STS or Greenbrier sets we've seen in the last
few years, but missing from those posts. I think it's the latter Greenbrier, but I'm too busy to sort it
out now, however we'll have a full round-up/comparison of all these grey sets
in a year or two.
Because Halloween is firstly a North
American thing, and secondly a kids thing, there is a tendency for me to look
upon the day as a more general fantasy/medieval day, as far as subject matter
goes, and these are obviously from a board game I haven't tracked down the
title of yet, but appears to be about four empires/nations, and aimed at
younger players?
The dragon giving it an Arthurian bent,
it's otherwise a medieval setting with a (THE?) sword in a stone, wishing well, sub-scale tent and
pack-animal, and two figures per 'side' or 'team', there's definitely a dragon
missing, and possibly other stuff?
On one of the Faceplant groups I'm on, there
has been a lot of edible Halloween stuff in the last few weeks, not least a recurring line of
seasonal breakfast cereals, and the coffin-candy we looked at a couple of years
ago, so I was happy to find these in Sainsbury's
and post them over there the other day, as it's mostly an action-figure site, so
I don't post as much as some of the others! Purple Jaffa Cakes! They're Purple and they're JAFFA CAKES!!!! Well . .
. lilac . . . with an orangey-bit! I've still got a pack . . . I'm going to go and have one in a minute!
I've also been filling gaps in the Technolog collection and here's four
suitable for Halloween, from the top; chocolate-brown Heroic Barbarians, lilac
Amazons, large green Orks and a set of what I suspect are bad Knights, very bad
knights, and god knows what that colour is; metallic mauve? It's not quite
purple, it's not quite maroon . . . Kriminal Krimson?
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