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fac said:
Just coming to post this. I hope that means they are revisiting Mrs. Claus. Curious about the diorama and new characters though!

Every time they call them Santataus when Santaurs is right there...
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Maybe they’re reworking the name too
 
fac said:
Just coming to post this. I hope that means they are revisiting Mrs. Claus. Curious about the diorama and new characters though!

Every time they call them Santataus when Santaurs is right there...
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Yeah. Fingers crossed on Mrs. Claus. I'm guessing whoever the new characters are they'll have to come on whatever buck ends up being Mrs. Claus. So probably one or two of the more popular Santa variants. Maybe they're still wanting to do the kids/elves figures. I have to assume one of the dios is a mall Santa chair to sit on.

In fact, I somewhat wonder, has anyone tried separating Santa at the waist? IIRC it's a ball peg (mine's boxed up until after Thanksgiving). Wouldn't it be nice if a chair dio piece came with a sitting version of the skirt piece so he could actually sit down properly? A lot of import figures do that and this would be a good opportunity for it on this line.

I managed to talk myself out of the sleigh and reindeer as I just don't have room, but a chair I could do.

I realized a month or two ago my love of dio pieces and such comes from my grandfather, who used to do these big dio pieces for Christmas with little trains and village house miniatures. You know the ones. I think him doing that every year really contributed to wanting my toys in a scene when I display them. And probably it's why I keep seeing this line and picking stuff up. I haven't gone all in or anything, but I do seem to pick something small up every year.
 
I’m OK taking a year off, although i absolutely love this line and want them to do more weird stuff.

Re: holiday dioramas:
My very secular family for some reason had an old nativity scene that we would put up, probably handed down from some religious relatives. The figures in it were 1:18 scale. So every year I would populate that thing with Star Wars figures, eventually upgrading to the 90s Power of the Force line, so Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader always presided over the cradle, pushing Mary and Joseph to the side, and Sand Troopers and Tusken Raiders tormented the wise men. My grandmother tells me that when I was REALLY little, I would steal the little baby Jesus out of her nativity scene to use it as an action figure. Grammie thought it was cute, but I’m sure I was feeding little Jesus to the Rancor.
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AceofKnaves said:
I’m OK taking a year off, although i absolutely love this line and want them to do more weird stuff.

Re: holiday dioramas:
My very secular family for some reason had an old nativity scene that we would put up, probably handed down from some religious relatives. The figures in it were 1:18 scale. So every year I would populate that thing with Star Wars figures, eventually upgrading to the 90s Power of the Force line, so Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader always presided over the cradle, pushing Mary and Joseph to the side, and Sand Troopers and Tusken Raiders tormented the wise men. My grandmother tells me that when I was REALLY little, I would steal the little baby Jesus out of her nativity scene to use it as an action figure. Grammie thought it was cute, but I’m sure I was feeding little Jesus to the Rancor.
🤷‍♂️
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I used to steal the nativity scene barn to use as a playset/dio for my Joes at my grandmother's house. So they'd all come downstairs and poor little baby Jesus would be laying on a shelf in a pile of wise men while Desert Scorpion hunted Spearhead through a series of burned out houses in the desert (actually one nativity barn that kept switching places around the room).
 
See like but I couldn’t use Joes because they were, like, too articulated to reasonably “pass” with the actual nativity figures!
I thought about this. A LOT. I tried to talk myself into it. I just couldn’t do it.

Fuck.
 
AceofKnaves said:
See like but I couldn’t use Joes because they were, like, too articulated to reasonably “pass” with the actual nativity figures!
I thought about this. A LOT. I tried to talk myself into it. I just couldn’t do it.

Fuck.
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See - that's why I left the nativity figures themselves in a pile on the shelf. Useless figures. Unsuited to be in this cool little wooden playset.
 
AceofKnaves said:
I’m OK taking a year off, although i absolutely love this line and want them to do more weird stuff.

Re: holiday dioramas:
My very secular family for some reason had an old nativity scene that we would put up, probably handed down from some religious relatives. The figures in it were 1:18 scale. So every year I would populate that thing with Star Wars figures, eventually upgrading to the 90s Power of the Force line, so Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader always presided over the cradle, pushing Mary and Joseph to the side, and Sand Troopers and Tusken Raiders tormented the wise men. My grandmother tells me that when I was REALLY little, I would steal the little baby Jesus out of her nativity scene to use it as an action figure. Grammie thought it was cute, but I’m sure I was feeding little Jesus to the Rancor.
🤷‍♂️
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:ROFLMAO:
Damien said:
I used to steal the nativity scene barn to use as a playset/dio for my Joes at my grandmother's house. So they'd all come downstairs and poor little baby Jesus would be laying on a shelf in a pile of wise men while Desert Scorpion hunted Spearhead through a series of burned out houses in the desert (actually one nativity barn that kept switching places around the room).
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When my son was little, he used to take Baby Jesus out of the nativity...and I'd find him being flown around by Superman. I told my niece (his cousin, but she is closer to my age than his) about it and she said "that sounds like it would have been some story in the Silver Age". She's not wrong.

These days, the only nativity I put out is made up of Peanuts characters putting on a Christmas play. It has figures of the whole gang dressed as Mary (Lucy), Joseph (Charlie Brown), Jesus (Woodstock), a Shepherd (Linus), a Sheep (Snoopy), an Angel (Sally), and the Magi (Franklin, Pigpen, and Shroeder). Got it on clearance years ago at Toys R Us.
 
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