Polotoy made all of these figures but they were distributed under several names including Schylling and Markson Industries. Most of these figures are based on old lead D&D figures and figures from D&D's Hero Quest game.
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| Polotoy has the most color variations of any fantasy toy soldier line. |
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| These skeletons only came in bagged sets from Schylling. |
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| The figures on the left if from TSR's Dragon Strike board game. The Polotoy copy is on the right. |
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| Polotoy up sized the Dragon Strike dragon. |
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| This figure only came in the Knights & Weapons boxed playset. |
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| Original TSR Dragon Strike figures. |
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| Polotoy made skeleton horses but no riders. |
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| Dragon in blue. |
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| This skull version of the tower only came in the schilling bagged sets. |
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| Photo from an ebay auction. |
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Some of the best plastic fantasy figures, in my opinion. I love seeing the packaged examples you have here. I remember finding (and buying) the boxed set with the scorpion man at an Amazing Savings discount store many years ago.
ReplyDeleteI have a whole unit of Scorpion men in the army, And the cat men are to be added soon but the rest are sub par.The Russian Tehnlog figures have changed my army for the better and the Cheap yellow Skeleton army have really changed things. See my web page" Kent and Kenmore Gamers" for details.
ReplyDeleteSorry to comment on an old post, but I followed a link here from Frank K's Little Weirdos blog and just wanted to point out (if you weren't already aware) that the non-skull towers, catapults, ballistae and castle blocks in those packs were copied from the Crossbows and Catapults game (which I got as a kid back in the 80's).
ReplyDeletehttps://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2129/crossbows-and-catapults
Very True. The figures are also copies of lead miniatures. Everthing in these sets is a copy of something.
Deleteman they truly ripped off everything fantasy in this set didn't they? Crossbows and Catapults, Dragonstrike, many of the figures are Warhammer Quest, the skeletons are wights, wraiths and skeleton warriors from early versions of warhammer, skeleton horses are games workshop, the artwork on the Hercules sets is all stolen from TSR Dungeons & Dragons ha ha what does the Astral Dreadnought have to do with Crossbows and Catapults flags and towers? I gotta find some of those triple long brick C & C pieces, that could change everything in designing your tower defense against flying discs.
DeleteOh man, talk about these sets copying everything, that's Rodan from some old Trendmasters-era clay molding playset too!
ReplyDeleteA quick note - the original HeroQuest was not a D&D product. It was British and I think related to Warhammer.
ReplyDeleteLate comment is better than no comment - that second dragon, with the big beak; I don't know who else did it, but it's a straight lift from one of the storylines in the Trigan Empire stories from UK kids periodical Look & Learn of the 1960's/70's, I'll be posting my small sample soon, and I'll link back to this post as when it comes to this stuff you're da' man!
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