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Post by zebaroth on Jun 15, 2016 0:58:36 GMT
they are plasticso waht if the nistine used them how could the hurt us and could the ones with wings fly what think about this idea. i know alot of gamers that use these i have some my slef
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Post by misterharry on Jun 15, 2016 11:44:36 GMT
Plastic toys are a particularly creepy guise for Autons. As well as the troll doll in The Terror of the Autons, Alan Moore's classic comic strip Business as Usual features Autons as Action Man style figures, complete with working miniature guns.
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Post by Catsmate on Jun 15, 2016 11:49:34 GMT
Plastic toys are a particularly creepy guise for Autons. As well as the troll doll in The Terror of the Autons, Alan Moore's classic comic strip Business as Usual features Autons as Action Man style figures, complete with working miniature guns. Oh that's just nasty. Brilliant too. One of Hawke's Timewars books, The Lilliput Legion, involved a group of tiny soldiers. In one scene they hid inside a hostage's clothing to infiltrate a secure base...
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Post by starkllr on Jun 15, 2016 13:36:39 GMT
There's also the Stephen King short story Battleground in which the animated tiny soldiers also have a scale-model nuclear weapon...
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Post by Hedgewick on Jun 15, 2016 13:48:13 GMT
And if we reference King, we must reference Matheson. There's also Richard Matheson's short story "Prey" (1969), in which a woman is stalked in her apartment by the Zuni fetish doll she recently purchased as a gift.
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Post by starkllr on Jun 15, 2016 14:06:24 GMT
To bring it back around to toys in Doctor Who, there's the short story Model Train Set in one of the "Short Trips" anthologies. Not precisely the same idea, but you've still got tiny toy figures who are animate and acting of their own accord, and it's at least semi-canon that they're living somewhere in the Doctor's TARDIS. Maybe Eleven gifted the train set to Alfie ("Closing Time") at some point. Or to the Arwell children. Or one of Clara's students. Who knows where it might turn up, or how much the HO-scale people may have evolved over time...?
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Post by misterharry on Jun 15, 2016 16:10:48 GMT
There's also the Stephen King short story Battleground in which the animated tiny soldiers also have a scale-model nuclear weapon... I've not read that one. But I'm reminded of General Jumbo from the Beano, who had an army of remote-controlled toy soldiers, including tanks, ships and even jet aircraft, all with working weapons. It's also a little reminiscent of Superman's enemy, Toyman. The soldiers don't necessarily need to be Autons controlled by the Nestene Consciousness, but could be the weapons of a mad scientist, for example.
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Post by Catsmate on Jun 16, 2016 12:00:22 GMT
The scene from The Lilliput Legion just begs to be included in a scenario.
The scene begins with a commando falling through a rift in time and being hit with a tranquiliser dart. He regains consciousness... The tiny soldiers want to escape the island: and now have the means. Eventually Captain Delaney agrees to the plan. Sort of. Then help arrives. More-or-less.
There's a predicament for a PC to find themself in. Held hostage by miniature soldiers...
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Post by zebaroth on Jun 21, 2016 5:42:35 GMT
The scene from The Lilliput Legion just begs to be included in a scenario.
The scene begins with a commando falling through a rift in time and being hit with a tranquiliser dart. He regains consciousness... The tiny soldiers want to escape the island: and now have the means. Eventually Captain Delaney agrees to the plan. Sort of. Then help arrives. More-or-less. There's a predicament for a PC to find themself in. Held hostage by miniature soldiers...
yup it would be a sceen to go cazey the games stor i go to has loads of them to i could just see them busting out of the packaging and takeing over the stor
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Post by hobbitfan on Jan 28, 2017 16:06:28 GMT
some bits, spun off of what you guys wrote above.
1. Maybe have Jonathan Swift be part of the adventure, encounter the toy shoulders and get the idea for Gulliver's travels during the adventure. 2. the big bad of the adventure is an Alien Collector who has abducted the players to add to his collection. The players team up with the toy soldiers to help escape the Collector only to discover they are Autons and then have to fight them too.
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