I really like that after 16 years, these old photos of dead warriors still have some life left in them 😜. Today's chat was inspired by Play Along's 'Soldiers and Scenes' Army of The Dead set, specifically that third guy on the right - the Warrior.
Ed
Like I said yesterday, I'm trying to draw this set out over a few days in order to buy time to photograph other toys - which I have been doing BTW. These are the accessories which came with the New Ray King Tiger tank. They are a bit unremarkable to say the least, although I did find the road sign interesting and haven't seen one quite like it before. They are all made of sof tplastic.
Ed
I got quite the surprise this week when, after my grand daughter came home from school, told me they were reading 'The Hobbit' in her 7th grade English class! Whoa - how cool. She knows how much I'm into the LOTR and was excited for that, but also because she's really liking the book. My foray into the world of Middle Earth didn't come until college when the assignment was set in my freshman year in 1971. After reading it I wanted more!!!
I don't normally rely on photos from anywhere on the Internet as my sole source for a blog post, but the photo shown here was culled from fleaBay as my original paperback copy of 'The Hobbit' is long since gone. This 1967 edition is the one I would've read as there were multiple printings and the cover art didn't change until some years later.
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Here's a toy that's been sitting unopened out in The Cave for many years. You can tell by the K*B Toys price tag of $7.99 that it's vintage, both by the price and the fact that K*B Toys went out of business years ago!
This is the sixth different WWII era New Ray vehicle I've covered to date and might be the last because I'm not sure there are any more WWII variants out there. I'll keep a lookout for any though. This set was made back in 1998 and is among New Ray's earliest offerings. I am really glad to have gotten this set out of its packaging and photographed as these toys aren't any fun sitting in their boxes and I'm not getting any younger. I'm gonna split this set into a series of posts as that'll buy me some time to prepare other posts. Today we'll just look at the box and contents.
Ed
This Chat is based on Play Along Toys AOME LOTR King Theoden on Horseback, part of Play Along's 'Warriors and Battle Beasts' series. One of the frustrating aspects of working with Chat GPT is its tendency to want to make every image look realistic - even when that is not the goal. Mostly, for what I want to accomplish with these LOTR figures, is to place them in realistic settings, yet allow the toy to remain toy-like. It's like being a kid again and playing with your little Army Men. The toys are there in all their plastic wonderfullness, but in the child's imagination, they're battling it out in realistic settings. In that regard, this Chat image is a failure. Overall, it's a terrific picture, but the Chat image of Theoden looks nothing like the toy image - he's too real looking!
Ed
