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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sunnydale High Library Action Figure Playset

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Built directly over the Hellmouth and serving as the central headquarters of Buffy, Giles and the rest of the "Scooby Gang," fans of the show will now be able to recreate their favorite scenes as well as display their Buffy action figures with this Sunnydale High School Library Playset. In scale with the past 6" Buffy and Angel action figures, the Library Playset stands an impressive 12" tall and a massive 20" wide, providing plenty of room to display over 15 action figures!

What I have been doing is display my "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" action figures and my "Angel" action figures on the top of different bookcases. Since I have dozens and dozens of these figures (including key variations), I only have one of each character on display at a time, and my master plan is to get organized and starting with "Welcome to the Hellmouth" do a tableau for each "BtVS" episode from start to finish. The first 56 weeks of this grand plan I will be able to take advantage of the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Library Playset" as the setting for my tableaus. As everybody knows, the Sunnydale High School Library just happened to be built over the Hellmouth, so in addition to housing Rupert Giles' extensive collections of books on the occult, there was also an entrance to a deadly demon dimension that was a beacon for vampires, demons, and other things that go bump in the night.

The library playset includes a two-level design that comes with four bookcases and a central table. Put it altogether and it measures 12" x 20" and according to the instructions on the back of the box can display over 15 figures (well, yes, especially if you start piling them up on top of each other). The playset comes unassembled; you assemble the lower bookcase walls and stairs on the top floor, but the top and bottom together, and then assemble the upper bookcase walls and rails together. Add the supporting beams on the back of the library and it is done. There is a nice touch in that the books on the bookcases are photographs of books and not drawings, and you can almost make out their titles. For accessories there is a globe, two potted plants, a pair of candlesticks, a black mirror, and a water bottle.

Now, technically you would only want to display your "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" figures from the show's first three seasons on this playset, because at the end of Season 3 was when Buffy and the Scoobies blew up Sunnydale High School and the library that was over the Hellmouth. That would include all of the "BtVS" figures from the first three series of action figures, specifically Buffy, Angel, Willow, and the Master from Series 1; Buffy, Oz and Giles from Series 2; and Spike, Xander, and Cordelia from Series 3. Then you can add Drusilla from Series 4, "Doppelgangland" Willow from Series 5, and Anyanka from Series 6. We are picking up more options this year with Series 7 providing Cheerleader and Nightmare Buffys from the first season, a set of Buffy and Angel figures from "The Prom," and you can also use the figure of Joyce from the Summers family album. Series 8 will offer Cordelia from "The Wish" and a vampire Xander figure and when Series 9 comes out there will be "Band Candy" Giles and a "Faith, Hope and Trick" Faith.

For deluxe figures your options are a lot more limited, with the "Graduation Day" figures of Buffy and Faith, and the "School Hard" Spike (Kendra is on tap as well for later this year). A couple of the "Angel" figures would apply, specifically School Girl Darla and "Bad Girls" Wesley, but a couple of the actual Angel figures can work as well. You can also look forward to additional accessories from the upcoming accessories pack, which will include Buffy's weapons chest, the statue of Acathla, Willow's laptop, Mr. Pointy, Mr. Gordo and the proverbial much, much more. Consequently, there are plenty of options for which figures you can use with this library playset and be true to the specific time period it represents.

Ohryou can just go ahead and do whatever you want. Have Fred doing research along side Willow, pretend Lorne is a bad demon instead of a good demon, or even stick Malcolm Reynolds on the stairs. The important thing is to give your action figures a happy home. I just wonder what (as well as if and when) they will come up with for our next playset. I would hate to have just one.