Recommended music: James Horner – The Island
Today, we’re celebrating the Magic of Willow from the archives with the Tonka Nockmaar army!
In the Willow RPG Sourcebook, the film novelization, and the sequel novels, the land of Nockmaar is detailed extensively. These sources provide much more detail than the movie does. Noted as a range of mountains, volcanoes, a great fortress, etc. – not quite as descriptive as J.R.R. Tolkien, but still, plenty of rich detail. In the Willow film, Nockmaar was the site of the final battle, Bavmorda’s army, and not much else.
These ‘General Kael & Nockmaar Warrior – Horse and Riders’ figures, along with some ‘Nockmaar Warrior (Evil Soldier)’ and some ‘Nockmaar Lieutenant (Evil Trooper)’ figures, make up my 3-inch Nockmaar army.
Three very rare exclusives were released through Sears stores. They feature these same solider figures but repainted in different color schemes, along with a catapult, a chariot, and a mangonel. The mangonel is really not an accurate name for the toy, which is basically a spring-loaded projectile launcher—nothing like the medieval trebuchet-style weapon it is named after.
The Willow film turned 37 years old this week! I figure there’ll be a new Willow item from my collection to share here for the rest of the month. Happy 37 years to the Magic of Willow!
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