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So, along with my iced tea and book, I am eating a Zero candy bar...I think only the second time I have tried one. It's ok, malted milk nugat caramel a hint of almond and peanut... there is something very old fashioned about the flavors. Which is fitting, it rolled out in the 20s, as the double zero bar, marketing it as, literally, a cool treat. Complete wirh polar bears and icicles on the package art.  Lighter and not as cloying as snickers, which hit the market almost a decade later, I am glad these artifacts of the jazz age are still around.

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The Replicants company produced some neat plastic figures aiming to fill in holes in common collections. They were active in plastic production about the time BMC was in it's heyday.  The sculpting is ...not exactly crude, but not elegant either. There are some great pieces though, the era of the English civil war being a specialty of the house...from which comes this brilliant executioner. Anyhow, here is a nice sampling...  the blue guy could be Helin, if you added a mace.

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It was where the Roserun wends

Past the point of Pinepudding bend

     Sing bree yark, howl bree yark

beneath a dome of earthy mould

there'd be treasure, we were told

     Sing bree yark, cry bree yark

So with torch, and with sword 

we took our band a'neith the sward

    Sing bree yark, chant bree yark

there in torchy gloom we saw

loverly pictures on the wall

    Sing bree yark, call bree yark

in that dark benieth the mold,

i fear we found but little gold

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ATS has long been a source of great Marx recasts. Now they have a fabulous page of Reamsa and Jescan medievals...prices are rich, but not obscenely so...excellent value actually. The William Tell character figures are great. But the variety of other sets is well worth a look. These gauls are a treat for instance.

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Reamsa of spain is another old maker of medievals close to my heart. In the late 90s and early 2000s they were recast, and I aquired a few. I really loved them, especially since lords, ladies, lute players falconers, and the like are hard to come by.  They are comparable to Marx in sculpt quality, with a massy solid feel. I like them better than Starlux or charbens, and the medieval line is superior to marx in historicity. Anyway...I just gobbled up a lot of court figures for our games at a decent price.  I shouldn't have, but I couldn't let the opportunity slip.

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