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Alpha Male Pirate with SkeletonI find the Pirate figure on it’s own not that exciting. You do getall the typical pirate accessories, such as peg legs, hook hands,eye patches and appropriate hats and weapons and even aparrot. But what makes the set neat is it also comes with a skeletonfigure. The nice thing about the skeleton is that you canput all the regular pirate accessories (or any Stikfas accessory)pilot sitting in a clear domed cockpit on two walking legs withtwo smaller arms hanging below. You get the choice of makingthe arms have hands (the same as a regular Stikfas figure’shand, allowing the Walker to hold any Stikfas accessory), avery retro gun or a drill.Again this is a great finished set, but here are a few problems.The instructions are minimal (like all Stikfas instructions) andvague. There are two parts in the leg assembly that are similarlooking, but different lengths. It took me a little bit of “trialand error” to figure out which piece went where. The overallleg assembly is designed to allow for maximum flexibility andposability and becauseof this I foundsome of the ball jointsended up being a littletoo loose, makingmy walker not strongenough to supportit’s own weight. Ihave to pose it withthe bottom of thedome resting on thelegs.PiratesStikfas only reallydid one Pirate figure,but seeing howpopular pirates are inLEGO, I felt I had toinclude it.on it. Stikfas even went on to release a line of pre-assembledskeleton figures under the name “Darkland.” The skeletons,which all have names like “Scrawny Johnny” and “BonesJones,” and come in different colors and with various accessoriesfrom the Pirate or Viking figures.NinjasWhile ninjas were never a huge LEGO theme, historical Asianfigures have played a big part in the Stikfas line-up (not surprisingseeing they are an Asian company!).Alpha Male Samurai Warrior/ Alpha Male Dark SamuraiI think this has to be my favorite figures. I’m not even a bigfan of Samurai in general, but this one won me over. The look77