When I sold my Star Wars figures, I also traded in a small amount of other items for store credit. With the credit, I took these:
It’s a set of five die cast metal figures. Each is about two inches tall, fairly thin of sculpt and with lots of obvious flash. They also have bases, and even though I haven’t opened them, seem to be able to stand well on their own.
Here we have Ghan and Astare, two wild barbarians from some forgotten world, obviously fighting for the same cause as evidenced by their identical shields. Their compatriots have similarly evocative names: Vlad, Dakk and Femaré. How do I know this? It’s on the back:
Holy moly, there’s two other series as well? Reptilians and Demons?!? Fear not good reader, because I got them as well:
These are just lovely, either cast in or painted green and gold metal respectively. The Reptilians seem to be humans wearing lizard-themed armor, but the Demons are legitimate monsters.
That’s Slithus and Gark ready to fight. If only someone would burst them from their packaging.
Released in 1983 by a die cast toy company called Midgetoy (which seems to have folded the year prior), I can’t find anything about these online. But as soon as I saw them on the shelf at the shop they just called to me. As an 11-year old, I would have gone absolutely bonkers for these, and would have waged many fights between the reptiles and barbarians and demons, using a rules system of my own creation. I would have loved these unequivocally, and they would have been my treasures.
And now – 40 years later – they are 🙂