WD is for Wicked Duals

A double joke as they are both two sides in a fight (duelling), and two colour-ways (duel), and seem to be running alongside the more standard boxed version such as that seen in the previous post . . . we arrive at the fourth set (of six?) from SCS Direct, and while not really that Halloweeny, being technically Sci-fi, you will see there is a nightmare element to some of the Aliens!

When I first looked into these I got the impression the tubes/'toobs' were older, and the boxes newer (and either that, or the opposite, may be the case, as far as original production went), but last year's offerings were one of each (zombies in a tube, fantasy animals in a box) and the same is true for this year (fantasy: box, sci-fi: tube), but you can find some of them the other way and with a gap between last year's and this year's listings on both feeBay and Amazon, the circumstantial evidence is that there's a warehouse or two somewhere with healthy stocks of both, released each late-summer for the Halloween season?

As with last year's, the tube arrived broken, and while I don't think it contributed to the short-count (again! Four-out-of-four short-counts!), it's clearly a problem with the gauge of plastic used, against the weight of the PVC-like material!

I didn't do a table for these, and re-distributed them to the other two guys before I took note, but it was short (98 again I think) and there were anomalies with the contents against a straight split, or 'fair' distribution.

However, because these are slightly different from the three previously-seen sets, in having one side in light-grey (the humans) and one in dark (aliens), there were at least three of each and I think everyone got a full set with a couple of handfuls in the 'spares' box.

Top-left is an Imp or Gremlin-like alien; it certainly doesn't look terribly friendly! To its right is the closest to a movie-alien, in being humanoid and carrying sophisticated technology/weaponry in an 'atmosphere' suit!

Bottom-left gives us a Cthulhu-Turtle thing! While the figure bottom right is a sort of elemental; I can see people painting-it-up as fire, water, lava or even a plant-like finish would work?

Top-left is the Dragon we saw in the previous post, it's actually quite sweet, more of a baby dragon than anything else, sitting in a nest of planks! Bellow the Dragon we find the Arse-faced, Flame-haired, Seal-pig . . . very rare I can tell you - due to their tendency to combust when they fart.

Next to that Arse-pig as they are known locally (and from the same planetary system) is the Arse-faced, Shaggy Octo-Gute, very tasty! And in the top-right-hand corner is the Squid-headed Scooby-swine, a useful tracking animal. You know when you are near the tracked pray as the Scooby-swine either bolts and runs away or jumps into your arms and slobbers all over you with its many slimy tentacles, so PPE required!

With the humans we get a mixed bunch of figures which are quite useful in various settings/scenarios, on the left a gang of vigilante survivors who have armed themselves for a fight, the girl on the right is sculpted as a child, but bigger than all the rest, weather she is supposed to be a giantess or something I don't know, but she's in 'Human' coloured plastic!

The other pair are more tremulous citizens, clearly not dealing with an alien invasion in quite such a focused and determined manner as the first three!

The final trio include a pair of 1950's pulp spacefarers, who look more like kids in Halloween costumes, or scientists on Horsell Common - where my Brother and I played a lot as kids - swampy mass of mosquito-breeding, elephant grass puddles, orange-algae poisoned drainage ditches and struggling juvenile fir stands! And there's a comedy sketch in there - "Try it now, it should work?"!

To whom is added (several years before BMC) a Rosie the Riveter! She's posed here with the Auto-Union DKW 'Munga' from Injectaplastic, showing the 1:48th/40mm range of this set, although the aliens and Dragon can be any scale you choose! Rosie, and the uniforms, are clearly placing this lot in that 1940/50's realm of black & white matinee movies about bug-eyed lumps of glowing jelly from that dying, red, militaristic, swamp-planet beyond the stars!

A comparison between the two Dragons we've seen this year, remember last year's sets contained a man-bat and a Dragon which was more like a chess-piece, while this year we get one seemingly from D&D and a heraldic Dragon, so SCS've ticked all the boxes on leather-winged beasts!