Pulp Adventure Range Gets a Home

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Bryan Younts - December 10, 2024

I would love a box of generic male and female Luchadors and Luchadoras in the style of old El Santo and Blue Demon movies. They can have head options to make them into wrestlers, masked and unmasked, generic superheroes and mystery men, or denizens of alien worlds/moons/undersea or underground kingdoms from old serials. Their arms would include punching, posing, and grappling poses as well as a selection of conventional pistols and ray guns. Various accessories could include capes and belts.

Christian T. - December 10, 2024

A box of robed cultists (male and female bodies). Different head options (masked, unmasked European, unmasked Asians). Different weapon options.

Also a box of space rangers with ray guns and rocket packs.

A set of civilians which could also be used as investigators would be nice too.

RNM - December 9, 2024

There are currently no plastic model kit ranges of Mobsters. Would be something for Call of Cthulhu players, Osprey’s Pulp players (who use your French resistance kits), and various other games which use the 20s-50s minis.

Bam Bodyslam - December 9, 2024

I’d cross my fingers for any and all pulp archtypes.
Gangsters and gun molls. Private investigators, Intrepid female reporters, great white hunters, femme fatales etc.

Ethan Gilbert - December 8, 2024

Frankly the lizardmen should be in this range

Kevin Liennard - December 8, 2024

How about something Lovecraftian? Elder things (as in, At the mountains of madness) or other mythos creatures such as Mi-go and formless spawn, I already use the fantasy spiders as Leng spiders. And what about 1920s-30s civillians?

Justin - December 7, 2024

Mad Scientist army to bring peace to the world through conquest. Some examples movies; Sky Captain and the World Of Tomorrow, Things to Come, Master Of The World, Batman the animated series episode “Showdown”, Mage World Of Darkness Czar Vargo Son’s Of Ether.

Joseph Baptist - December 7, 2024

I think there’s room for a “citizens of pulp” set, with “civilian” bodies – old, young, slender, fat, male, female and combos of these – with a few different head and arm combinations, so they could be unarmed, armed with improvised weapons, armed with guns, carrying tools, plates, babies, etc.

These could crossover into other genres with a bit of kitbashing, and could potentially become a “must have” kit for anyone playing Victorian through modern – and even future – games.

James - December 7, 2024

South Asian villagers, cultists, bearers, guides.

Y. Whateley - December 7, 2024

I’m glad to see this range added to WA’s catalogue, it’s my favorite subject! :)

I really, really hope that WA finds a way to do a horror-themed Pulp or Classic Fantasy set every October for Halloween, in the tradition of the zombies – the zombies really put a smile on my face this October, and the werewolves look great, too. Vampires and mummies come to mind, but there’s surely lots of horror subjects that would lend themselves nicely to hard plastic sets.

I love all the suggestions made in the other comments.

The fedora-and-raincoat guys are probably the most broadly useful in large numbers, though. I’m sure I mentioned a couple times that I’d be all for a generic fedora guys suitable for gangsters, FBI guys, men-in-black, cultists, hardboiled detectives, Cthulhu investigators, henchmen, and general man-on-the-street types. They’d make fine zombie survivors, too. The Partisans/French Resistance set is so versatile and useful, I don’t see any reason not to just do more of the same, pulp-style, if the market for it is there. Sounds like I’m not the only one who would be interested in this!

After that, there’s all sorts of things that can be done with retro sci-fi alone – I love the old space patrol team in fishbowl helmets thing… those great old Art Deco retro robots always get me grinning… and there’s no end to the aliens that might be possible. The Martians, Venusians, etc…. And of course it would all cross over just nicely with Death Fields! (For that matter, a great deal of the John Carter/Barsoom material would cross over easily into Classic Fantasy!)

I can’t help noticing that there has been some brilliant stuff in Digital Atlantic that fits this range – I’m a huge fan of the Victorian police, the Cthulhu Cultists, the WWI Field Hospital, the Priests and Monks, German treasure hunters, donkeys and camels, Thuggee Assassins, Neanderthals, Female French Resistance, alien heads, and I’m sure there’s lots more. Many of these sets are maybe better suited for just Digital, but I’d love to see some variation on the field hospital in hard plastic (an Arkham Asylum set of sinister orderlies and mad doctors, perhaps?), the pack camels and donkeys would make fine plastic sets, the combat priests/exorcists/vampire-hunters would be a brilliant plastic set, and so would the Neanderthals and female resistance. (In fact, the pulp line would make a fine home for a lot of the female sets, which would look a bit more dubious in historical settings…..)

Someone below mentioned that hard plastic sets might not be very appropriate for hero and villain characters like The Shadow, Doc Savage, and so on, but a pulp category in Atlantic Digital would be great for that sort of thing… there might be copyright issues even for the public-domain characters of this sort, but Wargames Atlantic’s artists and sculptors might have fun creating some original characters of this sort, and I think they’d surely be great.

The gunslinger sets being made by a competing company are fine stuff, and I have a couple boxes of them stashed away for rainy days of pulp western fun, but the competitor’s hard plastic gunslingers aren’t perfect, and the more the merrier when it comes to variety here. So, WA Pulp gunslingers!

YMMV but I don’t mind pushing the edges of the “Pulp Era” up to low-budget ’70s and ’80s sci-fi including post-apocalyptic and cyberpunk subjects like Bladerunner and Mad Max – savage wastelander gangs, killer cyborgs, toxic/radioactive mutants, Red Dawn resistance fighters (“Wolverines!!!!”), and so on fit the “Pulp” category broadly, I think, and would make some fun sets to work with. (So, ’50s saucer men, pod people, and other Cold War “B-Movie” sci-fi subjects would, I say, be fair game for a “Pulp” label….)

Anyway, these sets seem to me like they’re evergreen, and I for one would be willing to buy multiple boxes of each:
- fedora-and-raincoat gangsters/g-men/men-in-black
- gunslingers
- Mad Max style wastelanders (I think I’d use them in fantasy games, too….)
- priests/exorcists/vampire-hunters
- Martians, Venusians, and other aliens (tentacles and bug-eyes recommended)
- Space Patrol/Star Fleet space cadets
- apocalypse survivors/scavengers/militias
- horror mook monsters (vampires, mummies, gargoyles, fish-men, tentacle monsters….)