Thread: Walgreens and Patini Skeletons side by side!

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Hi

I own several of the Walgreen's, Patini, Barney, and other skeletons. I have worked with them extensively. I corpse-ed them, completely dismantled and rebuilt them, and painted them all. I cut and drill into them a lot too so I am intimately familiar with the thicknesses etc. Here are some pictures and some comments. I have a lot of HUGE images I will put up somewhere soon. I order 4 skeletons from Patini and at least ten from Walgreens. Four of the Wallys were ordered online and the rest from three different local stores.

First off, the Wally is $30 off the rack or you can ordered it online for several months of the year and pay shipping. The Pat is $35 plus shipping and you have to order months in advance and give over your credit card info. This is almost 90% of why I won't be ordering the Pat.

Overall these are the SAME skeletal parts assembled differently. The lower jaws are the same but the Pat is screwed on and the Wally is snapped in. Some of the big differences are the feet, the spine, the paint job and the hardware. There are numerous small differences that may be significant to you depending on what you are doing with them. The metal hardware on the Pat is not a plus for me for reasons I discuss later.

The Wally is actually a cleaner mold and is slightly thicker plastic. The forearms of the Wally are solid and the Pats are hallow.

The Pat's hands are slightly thicker meaning the fingers are thicker plastic. If you break a hand into separate and individual finger bones a Pat bone will feel a little thicker than a Wally. The only reason this is significant to me is drilling a hole through the Wally fingers to wire them together is a little harder.

PAINT:
I like the quality and the bone color of the Wally. The Pat is white and some may like this more for the contrast and visibility. The Pat does have darker eye sockets from a distance but the Wally's teeth are more detailed both in the molding and the paint.

CONNECTORS or JOINTS
The Pat has a lot of ugly metal on it. The Wally is all plastic including the connectors. The metal on the Pat is ugly and heavier (only slightly I know) and is harder to deal with than the plastic. The screws and bent metal holding the hands on is very hard to deal with as opposed to the elegant ball and socket of the Wally.

The Wally's legs are snapped on and the Pat has large ugly bolts ripped through the upper thigh. The skeleton hangs funny because of this. The neck of the Pat is screwed on and is less solid than the popped on ball and hole of the Wally. The Pat’s spine is a mess, more later. And finally the metal is a hazard. I have minor cuts and scrapes from the various screws and bolts and there are scratches and pulled thread on the seats I put the Pat in.

The Pat does have knee caps and that is cool but doesn't add that much to the thing and doesn't cover the same exposed knee joint both skeletons share.

SPINE
The Pat has a long threaded rod from the cranium to the pelvis that is bolted on both ends. I don't like it because it is ugly and hard to deal with. The Pat spine does have these foam disks that look cool but like the knee cap, not a huge addition to the overall skeleton.

The spine cover that runs through the inside of the ribcage is neatly assembled on the Wally. The Pat, because of the rod, has many screws to hold it down to the ribcage. There is some hot glue in an attempt to cover the sharp points that punched through and despite all this the spine still pulled away from the ribcage on half the Pat’s I own.

The ribcage of the Pat is roughly molded and held together with sharp metal staples. The Wally is cleaner and uses zip ties.

FEET
The Wally has very nice detailed feet that are solid and have separated toes. The Pat has a blow molded foot that is one piece.

I might think of more. Ask questions if you like. I didn’t included the Barney and maybe later I will, but there are a lot of Barney variants and the Wally’s and Pats all seem to be the same skeleton from their respective suppliers.

Spooks

You are so fantastic for doing this for us Spooks-Magee! I'll be sure to check back for foto comparisons. I know that anyone who buys a skelly and plans on some kind of modification will appreciate it.

Here is a link to the large images. It is a zip file that is almost 50 MBs. This is just the initial pics I took and they are huge so you can see some detail. Some are out of focus - sorry new camera.

http://www.lukeahearn.com/textures/pics.zip

And here is a set of smaller images. Less than 4 MBs. These images are actually what you want to see as far as side by side stuff. I am actually going to put these in this thread so you don't need to download this unless you want one file.

http://www.lukeahearn.com/textures/JPEG.zip

Spooks

Here are the pics.

thanx lot man

Thank you so much for these comparison pictures. Don't own either but looks like Wally is an awesome looking skele for just $30.

Really appreciate the time you took to put this together and write up! I've been having a tough time trying to decide which I wanted. After seeing your pics and reading your comparisons, overall I do like the Wally better! Just hope Walgreens will have them again and at that awesome price.

I have to agree that the Wally's are nicer looking. I did see the Patsy's or something very similar at Halloween City this year. The shoulder joints look identical with the metal joints. I should have picked one up on Nov 1st when they had them marked down but I was tapped out.

wow... awesome. Thanks so much for that... really takes the guesswork out!

I own a Wally, I bought my first & only this year, & after seeing all that metal on the Pat I don't think I'd buy him/her. It looks cumbersome & unnatural. I know there's not as much "realistic" or "natural" about these things in general, but the giant metal screws are really obviously not realistic looking.

Those Wallys really are pretty great skellys for the price. I bought one this year just to see what I'd get for my $30 & I admit to being ridiculously impressed with the quality. I can't wait for them to come up for sale again on the Walgreens site.