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Oh yeah! Who can forget that exciting Russ Heath artwork advertising "132 Roman soldiers" for, like $1.98? The battle looked fantastic, and kids, of course, didn't notice the fine print:
*shown below is an imaginary battle scene
I loved Romans, so I scraped together my $1.98. When the packaged arrived, it was a tiny cardboard box, smaller than the boxes of checks you get from the bank. Something was wrong, I thought. I opened up the box and there were 132 Roman soldiers alright, as flat as a stamped animal cracker. The "chariots" had the horses, chariot and driver all molded as a single piece, and the horsemen as well as the chariots weren't even in-scale with the foot soldiers.
The catapults were a joke. They technically worked, and you could use them to launch the (included) hollow soft plastic balls.
There's a blog that shows all of the wonderful (lol) stuff that came in the box.
*shown below is an imaginary battle scene
I loved Romans, so I scraped together my $1.98. When the packaged arrived, it was a tiny cardboard box, smaller than the boxes of checks you get from the bank. Something was wrong, I thought. I opened up the box and there were 132 Roman soldiers alright, as flat as a stamped animal cracker. The "chariots" had the horses, chariot and driver all molded as a single piece, and the horsemen as well as the chariots weren't even in-scale with the foot soldiers.
The catapults were a joke. They technically worked, and you could use them to launch the (included) hollow soft plastic balls.
There's a blog that shows all of the wonderful (lol) stuff that came in the box.
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