I picked-up a couple of bits last time I visited The Works, and we're looking at them here. 'Big Head' astronauts, as I've mentioned already, are definitely a thing at the moment, with another design here, and the other item we have looked at before, but I opened this one, as it turned-out it was a duplicate.
Pen[cil]-top astronauts. These come with an added novelty gimmick, and can be removed to enhance the feature's usefulness, there were three colourways of figurine, but only two pens, metallic pink or silver.
The three 'star-men', love 'em or leave 'em, they are figures, and of a vaguely alien or otherworldly stature, so in the stash they've gone! Orange, blue or grey highlights, but all three backpacks have the same red/blue elements, and the reflections on the visors are white on all three, more over-moulding, too!
The novelty gimmick is an LED torch, they get everywhere these days! While it shines through them, it can be made more useful/powerful, by losing the astronaut all together! Might prove an aid to finding dropped items in my dotage, but with
Lego figures, Guardsmen, monkeys, tank key-rings (and a bendy alien), I have more LED novelty torches than is reasonably excusable, now!
I couldn't remember if we'd seen this when I got the others and Blogged them around Christmastime, so bought it, as it was the last, reduced, and when I got it home, checked the Tag, to find I had one in storage, so opened this one.
A count of thirteen seems as unlikely as duplicate Polar Bears, so I suspect a packing failure has left me with an extra bear? Although, "bear" is a very specific term for the skinny, dog-like creature here! Other sculpts in the set are a little better, and it's another box ticked!
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