MEGO-compatible skeleton at Big Lots! 24 POA and $5.00 each

[justzeg18]

Found these skeletons at Ruler Foods, a Kroger discount store. They were $2.99 each! I couldn't believe it! The price still says $7.99, but the shelf tag read $2.99 for these, and the animal skeletons. Picked up two.



So check any Kroger stores in your area, they may be there too.

They also had two cool battery operated Halloween blow-molds, which are an obsession of mine. I got one of a cat peeking out of a Jack-O-Lantern. The other is a cat dressed as a ghost with a pumpkin pail.

Chris

Nice! I feel like we have a Kroger every 5 miles in my area but I don't if we have any discount spots, I'll have to check now. $2.99 is a great price for these.

Also, I can't believe some of the prices that those Kroger battery lit blow-molds can grab online.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Yeah, I had no idea until I went looking! $75? That's nuts.

Chris

[TrekStar]

These are very cool, we don't have that store in my area, but these would work well as customs wearing Batman outfit,
for that 66 Batman episode, with Mad Hatter.

[EMCE Hammer]

No cheap skeletons at my Kroger, but I grabbed the cat blow mold.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Oh nice! Apparently there is a dog dressed as a witch, and a dog dressed as a ghost from this same series, according to ebay.

Chrsi

[Megotastrophe]

If anyone does need some 5 dollar skeletons let me know. I picked up several at big lots.

[sprytel]

Didn't help for the stores around me... but maybe can help others find these at their local Kroger...

Pretty sure this is it:

https://www.kroger.com/p/holiday-home-poseable-mini-human-skeleton-white/0004122616669

[CrimsonGhost]

I picked up a couple skeletons today and when I got home, I realized their femurs were reversed! It was an easy fix, but I wonder if all if them are that way?

[ZMOQ]

I haven't found these locally. Can anyone provide dimensions (height/width) of the skull-head for these figures?

Height (top of head to bottom of jaw) 1-1/4"
Width: 3/4"

using calipers.

The same skeleton is at Home Depot! It's a bit higher, like $5.58 but it's still worth it!

[ZMOQ]

I picked up a couple skeletons today and when I got home, I realized their femurs were reversed! It was an easy fix, but I wonder if all if them are that way?

Yup, all of them are that way. You don't even need a hairdryer or boiling water. Just hold the legs, and yank them. Swap left for right, and also swap the feet, put them back together and they're golden! The knees will now bend in the correct direction, almost 90 degrees.

[Madcap70]

How come people are not buying the CTVT skeleton's? I got them both and those look better and at least the CTVT is 8"

[PNGwynne]

Thank you!

Height (top of head to bottom of jaw) 1-1/4"
Width: 3/4"

using calipers.

The same skeleton is at Home Depot! It's a bit higher, like $5.58 but it's still worth it!

[thunderbolt]

How come people are not buying the CTVT skeleton's? I got them both and those look better and at least the CTVT is 8"

they are brittle crap? Maybe that is why.

[ZMOQ]

How come people are not buying the CTVT skeleton's? I got them both and those look better and at least the CTVT is 8"

Ummm... have to disagree. The CTVT skeleton is limited by the 70's style articulation. CTVT has only a hinge joint for the elbows, knees and feet, where the Big Lots skelly has the hybrid swivel/hinge joint of modern quality figures. Those joints allow a full 360 degree rotation in addition to the 90 degree bend. As a result the BL skelly has a range of motion that CTVT is incapable of.

The Big Lots skeleton was copied from an extremely well made (and much smaller) Japanese skeleton, so the design and engineering was... stolen. Hence, that's why they're so cheap (but so good!).

(Not my photo) but here's what they're capable of:



It was by happy accident that BL skelly is MEGO-compatible. They are also, reportedly, compatible with Masters of the Universe Classics (the modern and expensive ones).

[thunderbolt]

^^^^ I don't even want to know what those two are doing. I do agree, the Big Lots one is light years beyond the old junker FTC version.