Toys and Stuff

Saturday, September 5, 2026

Battle Scale Figures (International) - Ringwraith / Nazgûl

It seems that I unintentionally walked into a new series without realizing it. After watching Peter Jackson's 'Lord of The Rings' trilogy on TV as well as seeing short clips from Ralph Bakshi's '70s animated feature on facebook reels, I started messing with Chat GPT and plussing-up my Play Along Toys photos taken many years ago. Along the way I've come across several toys that were never blogged back in 2011 or 2015 when I was hot and heavy into this stuff. Like today's toy.

This is from Play Along Toys Battle Scale Figures (International) series with French script on the packaging that I believe was marketed in Canada. This is the last of nine figures that I have in the collection, the other eight having already been blogged. I believe there were ten total but I never got around to hunting for the last one. They all came packaged on a blister pack but Frodo also came in a window box. Here's what I do have:

-AOME Battle Scale Figures (International) - Frodo (window box)

-AOME Battle Scale Figures (International) - Frodo Baggins (blister pack)

-AOME Battle Scale Figures (International) - Gandalf the Grey

-AOME Battle Scale Figures (International) - Legolas in Helm's Deep Armor

-AOME Battle Scale Figures (International) - Moria Orc Bowman

-AOME Battle Scale Figures (International) - Moria Orc Runner

-AOME Battle Scale Figures (International) - Orc with Mace

-AOME Battle Scale Figures (International) - Ringwraith-Nazgul

-AOME Battle Scale Figures (International) - Sam Gamgee

FOV #82005 German Kübelwagen Type 82 Normandy 1944 (2004) - Pt 2 Figures

Something I hadn't done when photographing the U.S. M16 U.S. Multiple Gun Motor Carriage, nor the German Zundapp KS 750 & Side Car, was to photograph the figures separately. However, I did manage to do that for this Kübelwagen. There is a driver and seated officer figure, which is meant to be sitting on the edge of the door. That's kind of a common theme when viewing WWII photos - people (regardless of country) riding on the top or side of vehicles. Of course, you can use him in other applications as well, but for this series of posts he'll be sitting on the edge of the door.

FOV German Officer - Seated

FOV German Enlisted Driver - Seated

Friday, September 4, 2026

Let's Chat: Play Along Toys Sam Gamgee at Weathertop

Play Along Toys had a bunch of series for their AOME LOTR figures. This Sam Gamgee figure was from the Battle Scale Figures (International) series which consisted of ten (to the best of my knowledge) individual poses in packaging featuring French script - which leads me to believe these were marketed in Canada. I had only bought nine of the ten figures back in the day and unfortunately gave up the hunt for the remaining figure.

This turned interesting. The prompt said to place Sam within the tower of Amon Sûl trying to defend Frodo from the Ringwraiths...

...not the Dark Riders...

...the Ring Wraiths

But I got Dark Riders anyway. Rather than go through a bunch of edits to delete the horses, I decided to keep the image as is.

FOV #82005 German Kübelwagen Type 82 Normandy 1944 (2004) - Pt 1 Box and Contents

I'm not sure when I'll get around to photographing the next FOV vehicle, but The Cave is a bit cooler in the mornings now so hopefully that can happen soon.

This was a terrific piece to unbox. Not only do you get the Kübelwagen and figures, but a host of 'smalls' as well and the Kübelwagen can be configured in a 'top up' or 'top down' arrangement.