Re: Harlequin figs

On Sun, 3 Oct 1999 16:27:29 +0100 Ground Zero Games 
<jon@gzero.dungeon.com> wrote:

> Someone also asked about Harlequin's B5 figs - the first two boxes 
are out over here, at 15 UKP for a box of five figures (!); the minis 
themselves are generally nice and fairly good likenesses (though the 
photo of the forthcoming Ivanova fig (from box 3) in their latest 
newsletter looks AWFUL - she looks like a Vulcan...) <

I dunno about that. The painted versions that Harequin use as 
advertising look very crude to me, and I have my doubts about being 
able to recognise any of the main characters. Is it me or do they look 
like early Gerry Anderson puppets, with big heads and hands?

> [...] but the biggest problem is that each box has maybe 2 figures 
(if you are lucky) that you will actually WANT, plus 3 incidental minor 
characters that really won't be a lot of use except as general figures. 
<

Marketing.... I mean, Carolyn Sykes? Catherine Sakai, maybe, but 
Carolyn?

> For example, box 1 is Sinclair, Ko'dath, Carolyn Sykes, a Soul Hunter 
and a generic Security guard; box two is Londo, Adira (Londo's dancer 
girlfriend), Trakis (who??), a generic Med tech and another Soul 
hunter.... <

Trakis was the slaver who owned Adira. He sicced her onto Londo to get 
his family "dirt files" in "Born To The Purple". Don't remember what 
happened to him (BttP is not one of my favourite episodes).

Harlequin appear to be getting their "filler" characters from the first 
few episodes in something like the running order. We can expect minor 
charaters from early 1st season for a while yet, I suspect.

Phil
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