Army of the Dead Pt 3 Warrior

Today we cover the last figure in the Armies of the Dead Soldiers and Scenes pack from Play Along Toys Armies of Middle Earth, Lord of The Rings figures. The last one to be covered is the Army of the Dead Warrior. It's real shame that Play Along Toys didn't release at least one or perhaps two more packages to go along with these. After all, the Army played a pivotal point in routing the Southrons during the last battle for Gondor and there was plenty of opportunity to make these in a variety of action poses. Oh well, we'll just have to make do! Enjoy!

Army Of The Dead: King Of The Dead, Dead Swordsman, Dead Shieldsman

Wave 5

Issued by: Art Asylum / Play Along Toys

Assortment: 48100

Item Number: 48031

Issue Date: Aug 2004

Issue Price: $8.99

AOME LOTR Army of The Dead Pt 2 King of The Dead

Today on Sci-Fi and Fantasy Saturday we continue our look at Play Along Toys Armies of Middle Earth Soldiers and Scenes series with The Army of The Dead, King of The Dead. You know the old saying, "I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley."? Well Aragon, Legolas, Gimli and company picked one heck of dark alley to wander down during this particular adventure and this is the leader of the gang they met up with! Enjoy!

Army Of The Dead: King Of The Dead, Dead Swordsman, Dead Shieldsman

Wave 5

Issued by: Art Asylum / Play Along Toys

Assortment: 48100

Item Number: 48031

Issue Date: Aug 2004

Issue Price: $8.99

AOME LOTR Army of The Dead Pt 1 Army of The Dead Swordsman & Flintstones on The MaP Update

Before we start with our featured toy I have a small update to make. If you remember a couple of weeks ago I was working on a Flintstones Bedrock display for my layout, The Marxville & Plateau. I had made a video of it which included original Flintstones music but the Y'allTube Music Gestapo blocked it. Next, I took out the Flintstones music, replaced it with some Golden Oldies and the music Nazi's muted that! The third attempt simply failed. The Internet was so slow and it took so long to upload the attempt aborted. Well, FINALLY on the fourth attempt the doggone thing got uploaded and can be seen here:

The Flintstones on The MaP

It's a watered down version with no music but just watching the town of Bedrock come to life in toy form is kinda neat. Hope ya like.

Now, on to Sci-Fi and Fantasy Saturday's featured toy. You'll remember that last week we finished up Play Along Toys Armies of Middle Earth 'Warriors and Battle Beasts' series. Today we start on the 'Soldiers and Scenes' series. Each package in this series features three figures and I will be presenting one figure per week - hey, makes the blog last a little longer (I may have been born at night but not LAST night!). Our first set will be the Armies of The Dead. The manufacturer portrayed these three ghostly figures using a translucent green plastic. Really awesome. The only problem is with my own photography. Ya know, I realize I'm not the Universe's gift to the world of photography but I try and photographing these was tricky for me. First, they were photographed against a white background but the pics turned out way to light. The only other background I had available at the time was black and they turned out somewhat better. The black does help the details to show through much better. Also, for this series I'm going to present the box first so as to show people what three figures were included in each package.

Our first figure is called 'Army of The Dead Swordsman' and after looking at the photos he kinda reminds me of one of those sword-bedecked Ninja's one sees on TV all the time! A cool figure nonetheless. Enjoy!

Army Of The Dead: Swordsman, King Of The Dead, Shieldsman

Wave 5

Issued by: Art Asylum / Play Along Toys

Assortment: 48100

Item Number: 48031

Issue Date: Aug 2004

Issue Price: $8.99