I found these interesting pound store plastic warriors during the bank holiday weekend at one of those seaside shops that sells lots of lovely plastic tat.
Better than the 50p rummage box, 30 new figures for 50p!
Modern period gaming does not appeal to my usual Imagi-Nations gaming in 54mm. Instead out in the back Yarden planets or galaxies, I can easily see possible paint conversions to Star Wars type Rebel troops from the start of the first film (Episode IV) or from the recent Star Wars: Rogue One.
There are two different versions of many poses as well as two different colours available in different boxes. Quite often many pound store plastic Army men are sold in packs with two different colours (“green and tan”) to have a ready opponent.
Suitably for a seaside plastic shop bought box of figures, I finally found the source of a beachcombing find https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/lost-legions-1-fighting-on-the-beaches/
Not sure of the origin of these figures, they look like copies of original figures.
If these figures are somewhat crude and on the cheap side, they are perfect pure plastic tat. Whilst many are obviously copies of modern US Desert troops, they are also affordable and possible for conversion into space marines or even back to WW2 US paratroopers in their jump boots and baggage.
Proper Seaside Tat
But not as much joyous plastic seaside tat as this weird pirate version (in both senses of the word) of Lego minifigures seen next to a genuine Ninjago Lego ninja type figure. I love the manufacturer’s name proudly on the back of this pirate – Tatco!
Blogposted by Mark, Man of TIN for the Pound Store Plastic Warriors blog, 29/30 May 2017.
Pound Store Plastic Warriors 
Nicely animated and original poses, shame they’re not ww2 but may be useful for conversions.
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Hello Brian, I hadn’t seen these before either. They will no doubt be selling for more than 50p a box at Crumbling Plastic Warrior Shows one day! I think that loosely some of the camo helmet / non goggle helmet figures could mix in with Airfix 54mm WW2 US Paras for some pose variety. I have seen recently plentiful slightly variable in size “54mm scale” China made WW2 versions of Matchbox and Airfix (all seeming to get more bizarre the more they are cheaply copied) if you visit enough toy shops, tat shops and Pound stores, or online or Argos Chad Valley type buckets … but then with such sets you also acquire weird buildings, tank and toy aircraft out of scale that suggest more games … and where have all the cowboys gone?
Mark, Man of TIN blog.
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Interestingly the two phone guy poses are so similar or is one a deformed version?
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I think the standing field telephone phone guy pose is a fairly standard pose from many American figure ranges – I have a Beton BT Bergen 60mm version in Plastic from the 50s, an OO HO tiny silver diver / space guy figure doing pretty much the same pose. It crept into the 54mm Lone Star Harvey Timpo jungle fighters with the bush hats etc. Probably a fascination with the New modern 40s 50s tech …
It probably works well as a standing semi flat radio pose including the before all the kneeling Herald / Airfix / Deetail then US Tim Mee / Victory wireless operators were around.
A display of wireless operator figures would be good. I had one before of officers with binoculars.
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