Wednesday, April 30, 2008

These are the Homies in your Neighborhood

Most mini games are about the characters: soldiers, superheroes, vampire hunters, and others packing all kinds of implements of destruction. Then there are the villains: werewolves, robots, zombies, ninjas, ninja zombie robots, and the like. But heroes vs. villains can get boring. What you need is civilians! Heroes can rescue them, villains can threaten them, and zombies can turn them into more zombies. As such, I present to you: Homies!


The idea for these particular figures came from Matakishi. I had no idea that there was a release in this scale until I saw these figures in a game report.


It should be noted that these are the "micro" Homies, half-scale versions of the series 3 figures. Any of the regular Homies (or any derivative lines) will be way too big.


If you do an ebay search for "micro homies", you should be able to find vendors selling the complete set of 24 for anywhere from $8 to $15.


These figures aren't going to be for everyone. They are pre-painted plastics, and they are sculpted in a very exaggerated style that some may find unacceptable. They also have a sculpted "(C) Homies China" marking on the back.


However, they manage to have a fair amount of detail, and have great character. Furthermore, urban-style figures in this scale are generally hard to come by, so these figures can fill a unique niche.


All the better to become zombie chow!


(Urban style minis who are better equipped for the impending invasion are slightly easier to find)

If only they had a decent place to live...

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