"Help identify some plastic fantasy figures?" Topic

Found a bag of semi-painted plastic fantasy figures. Square plastic bases are either unmarked or say they are copyright GW 1984. Asked on BGG and learned that GW did not make plastic figures that far back, but started making plastic bases that year, so I guess the copyright only applies to the bases themselves. But from where are the figures? I imagine GW didn't make them that crude, but they seem designed to fit GW bases?

There were a number of duplicates of each figure, not seen in photo. My first thought was that with the strong plastic colors and multiple identical ones many or all of them are from some boardgame, but now I think they might be for some miniatures game or just generic miniatures?

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The small figure at the back looks like it is from the original Heroscape game.

The old Milton Bradley game Battle Masters had strong plastic colors---and was licensed through GW

The style is similar, but I can verify that they aren't Battlemasters minis.
GW has made some minis that crude, but I can't place them.
Quite a mystery….

About the same time period Milton Bradley was also making Heroquest---but the plastic was grey/tan tones from what I remember

Not heroquest either…

Anyone could have used a GW plastic base, marked GW 1984, on any figure, regardless of when it was made and who made it. No idea what those figures are, but GW did come out with plastic orcs and dwarves around '84 or '85 – they were labeled Drastik plastic Orcs and Psychostyrene Dwarfs. The figures on the left remind me of Heartbreaker, probably Phil Lewis sculpts.

Mystery solved! Someone on bgg recognized them. They are from a Swedish game from 1992 called Drakriddarna, also available in an English version as Dragonfire (and a few other languages):

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