Wee Men Plastic Toy Soldiers

Gashapon 54mm Ashigaru Archers and Arquebusiers

1:32 figures from the film Pirates of the Caribbean

1:32 figures from the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Deadman's Chest

54mm Knights by Hing Fat

Sadly, but not with upbraiding, The generous deed was done, In the storm of the years that are fading No braver battle was won: Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment-day; Under the blossoms, the Blue, Under the garlands, the Gray -excerpt from The Blue And The Gray by Francis Miles Finch (1827-1907) 54mm plastic toy soldiers by BMC, Americana, Hat Industries and Marx

I got lucky and got a few packs of these dollar store figures for around P50 each, which is pretty close to a US dollar. The figures are cast in a tan, hard plastic much like Tamiya 1:35 model kits, have a black wash and come with separate stands. These are the poses I've come across so far. They appear to be recasts of Bravo Team/Forces of Valor figures. The figures come in desert kit but nary a kneepad in sight. I can't identify the chest rigs but these could be from the First Gulf War. Anyway, they're the foundation for some 1:32 modern skirmish gaming. Most likely using our favorite FUBAR rules.

More 1:35 samurai gashapon. The terms gashapon ( ガシャポン ) or gachapon ( ガチャポン ) refer to variety of vending machine-dispensed capsule toys popular in Japan and elsewhere. "Gashapon" is a Japanese onomatopoeia composed of two sounds: "gasha" (or "gacha") for the sound of a crank on a toy vending machine, and "pon" for the sound of the toy capsule dropping into the receptacle. Gashapon may describe both the machines themselves and the toys obtained from them. In recent years, the term gashapon has also come to refer to blind-box trading figures, which are essentially the same product sold randomly out of sealed packages instead of a machine.