D is for Dang! It's the Dastardly Day of the Dead Again!

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?