A better mix than previous sets, with some
duplicates and some newer specimens! Orange spiders, it's one of the rules -
Halloween = Orange, it's connected to pumpkins, not a particularly scary or
ghoulish vegetable as they go, and not really grown here until about ten years
ago, however now that the marketing machine has succeeded in importing the
'festival', they are grown in numbers, and the orange parallel now applies
here, as in the States!
The scorpion is a copy of the rubber one
which came in a mixed lot the other day while the flies are similar to those
we've already looked-at along with the centipede, the ants and mice are more
unique - although I'm sure you'll find similar copies elsewhere!
Comparison with the rats and scorpions; the
orphan scorpion is PVC, the Sainsbury's
one polyethylene, but the design is almost identical, while the rodent is - I
think - slightly more rat-like with its shorter, fatter tail, big feet and wiry
whiskers? This is - of course - ignoring the fact that they are both (all
four!) crude infant novelties!
A second comparison between the Sainsbury's and Poundworld Plus
centipedes, neither gets the biscuit as their legs are all over the place, and
while they do add-up the same both sides they are not always opposite each
other, some segments have two legs within their bounds (which would indicate
millipede traits!), other segments have no leg on one side, other legs are at
the junction between segments . . . another ten minutes effort with the master
would have made all the difference, but the makers know 99% of this shite will
be in recycling or landfill, or on the way there by next Wednesday!
If this stuff lasts an extra week for Guy
Fawkes Night parties (the proper autumn festival here), it's all it can hope
for and pretty-much as good as it gets!
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