| Smokey Roan | 11 Dec 2013 1:44 p.m. PST |
Neat new buckets at Wal Mart from Imperial: Pirates vs Ninjas
Soldiers vs Zombies
Soldiers vs Cave Men 90 figures, 45 of each. $5 USD!!!!!! Pirates vs Ninjas:
Yellow Hing Fat classic pirates (a bit smaller than the typical 54mm ones, maybe 50mm). They will fit nicely with some of the smaller dollar store type pirate figures, however. They do stand out as a bit small next to full size Hing Fat pirates. (they are the same size as the great black pirates found in the Toysmith Battling Pirates set with skeleton warriors) Battling Pirates bagged figures: (amazon and Hobbytown) link
and a new line of red Ninjas (not the Hing Fat ones), NOT comical poses, so they are really nice.
Very good sculpting and molding, lots of poses. Army vs Zombies: The good old Timmee Toy classic army men (with M-16s) in a nice blue finsh! A great fond, as a bag of these in blue is hard to find and expensive now) Zombies are a day-glo green. Lots of poses (8), but more on the comical side, with big heads. Very compatable with the green zombies in the Amazon.com bag Army vs Cave Men: Great Timmee Toy armt men in a nice dark grey! Superb! The cave men in light reddish tan are NOT, however, the classic Timmee design, but more comical figures (one throwing a primitive rock frisbee)
These are great deals! The Timmee army men in unique colors and superb production standards aere great, and the zombies and such very useful
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| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 11 Dec 2013 1:52 p.m. PST |
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79thPA  | 11 Dec 2013 1:58 p.m. PST |
I'll have to check that out. I bought some at CVS pharmacy in 30 packs (15 of each) for $3.00 USD a pack. They run about 45mm and look like they will go well with the pirates and skeletons bucket from Toys R Us. |
| Smokey Roan | 11 Dec 2013 2:01 p.m. PST |
Ninjas, pirates or both, 79th PA? If it's that 30 pack of blue and yellow pirates, and black and red ninjas, they will look pretty small next to these guys, but might work out
BTW, this is the same bucket set tha5t sells for ridiculous prices on Ebay and Amazon. $5 USD at Wal Mart!
(I broke a four year boycott of Wal Mart today just to load up on them) I have prinicpals, but this was a case of plastic zombie figures! |
 Sgt Slag | 11 Dec 2013 2:08 p.m. PST |
What size/how tall are the Cave Men? If they are 54mm tall, then they will work as AD&D Hill Giants, for 25mm (sole of foot to eye) figures, matching up with Gygax's original spec's in the 1977 Monster Manual. They could also be useful as Ogres for D&D games. Cheers! |
| Smokey Roan | 11 Dec 2013 2:15 p.m. PST |
Sgt, they are…….about 48mm tall. Still should work. Not as "Monstery" as the classic Tmmee Hollywood style cave men, which are 54mm scale, but stooped and appropriately disproportionate, see here:
These guys are better, methinks
THSES are what I think of as Hill Giants!
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| Sgt Slag | 11 Dec 2013 2:41 p.m. PST |
Those are the figures I used for my AD&D Hill Giants, available from Amazon.com, currently. Mine were tan plastic, so I only had to paint the bits that differed from the plastic color, then I used The Dip. They turned out good enough to game with, at arm's length -- and they were dirt cheap! These models also match up with three lead Grenadier AD&D Hill Giants I have from back in 1982 -- hardly notice the differences, so close in style, and size. Thanks for sharing. Cheers! |
| ancientsgamer | 11 Dec 2013 3:40 p.m. PST |
I got the True Heroes Legends set at Toys R Us as you recommended Smokey. Nice stuff! Will give them to my son (well, one set anyway :-) I want to try and paint these at some point. They were out of the pirate sets. These sets are $7.99 USD this week, quite a bargain! |
| Smokey Roan | 11 Dec 2013 4:36 p.m. PST |
Ancients, if you go online, you get buy one, get one half off on their buckets. They should have the pirate set (t6he skeleton warriors are GREAT with the mythical figure set, and those black pirates are great all purpose figures, for militia, pirates, WAR of 1812 and other frontiersmen, etc) |
| 79thPA | 11 Dec 2013 8:41 p.m. PST |
Smokey: I got a couple of zombie sets and five caveman sets. They will probably somehow end up in the pirate and skeleton mix. I will try to hit Walmart tomorrow to see if my local store has the buckets. |
| ancientsgamer | 11 Dec 2013 10:18 p.m. PST |
Yes, they have them online. This week's sale makes them even cheaper (about 50 cents cheaper :-). I got the buy 1 get 50% off deal last week. |
| 79thPA | 12 Dec 2013 7:09 p.m. PST |
I picked up two cavemen sets and two zombie sets at Walmart. Toys R Us was too picked over to be worth the trip; I'll just make an on-line order. |
| Smokey Roan | 12 Dec 2013 7:37 p.m. PST |
LOL! Kreesten just called me, (I knew she was at Wal Mart but she didn't know I knew) and asked me if I like "Zombie Responders vs Zombies"? (she was trying to be coy, wouldn't give me details, but I know what she was doing!) More little men! Yes! |
| Smokey Roan | 26 Dec 2013 4:54 p.m. PST |
Loaded up! Got two zombie tubes, the pirates AND the cave men! Yeah boy! |
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