. . . are there any other kind? Actually it
should be T is for Two - Zombies, as the post rather grew somewhat!
The Glow-in-the-Dark
Flesh Eating Zombies Playset from Archie
McPhee's mate Accoutrements!
I've been after these for a while and when
this one with a sun-fogged case/blister came-up cheap, it seemed like a good excuse
to buy one I could open and scan etcetera, so that's what I did, would have
been rude not to!
Nine figures at the larger end of the range
(75-80mm'ish) and as well sculpted as any other Accoutrements' sets, with all the tropes we've seen since I started
looking harder for these zombie figures a few years ago - devil-dog, fat bloke, rising grave-contents
(why would they come to life if they haven't been bitten - the rising dead is
another movie!), dressing-gown lady, holding his own limb bloke . . . boxes
ticked!
All nine, they are made out of a phosphorescent
polymer, the amount of painting dictates how much glows and both fat-bloke and
dressing-gown lady score low, their eyes are painted-in bright-green fluorescent paint, so appear
manic in bright light, or black in the dark which gives them a sinister look,
either way!
Compared with the similar sized (some
closer to 70mm), but not glowing Safari
Tube figures, and again' rising bodies, fat bloke and crawling pose are all
mirrored, along with a bunch of undead Karan's! The Safari figures also have the 'emergency green' fluorescent eyes.
This is where I pulled back one of the
boo-boo's as I had not fully photographed the Safari, beyond the Accoutrements
comparisons, but I managed to find them this week and brought them back, to
take a few more shots and make the full T
is for Two...!
I thought the grave/s in the previous
images looked like they were in two pieces, so shot them again to prove the
single moulding. Along with a group shot of the low-hanging fruit!
The eight upright poses are fifty-fifty
male and female, with fat-bloke being so fat he doesn't need a base . . . some
subtle social profiling there Archie'ments? Also while the two grave-risers are pink, the
other ten poses are equally split between bruised purplish-pink and a
dead-for-a-while greeny-grey.
The sales image from Amazon with the square 'Toob' (actually a prism . . . or a block!)* as I seem to
have forgotten to scan the insert cards, although I know I've got them
somewhere and will do another day - probably for the A-Z entry . . . when I get to it!
And did I say the Accoutrements glow in the dark!
* It's a rod isn't it, a rod with square-section! Comes to something when a graphic designer can't remember basic geometrical terminology!
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