Personalities and Things that go Bump in the Night

This page documents the core of the Personalities range, and covers both the figures released under the early ES product codes as well as the later 01 codes (see Notes on Product Codes).

Notes on Product Codes

Initially, the product codes for this range were prefixed with ES, then around 1980 the prefix was changed to 01. This adjustment from alphabetic to numeric product code prefixes happened across all of the ranges that Ral Partha was producing at the time.

The 1979 catalog was the last one from Ral Partha itself to use the ES codes, and the range only extended up through ES64 at that point. However, even after Ral Partha switched over to using the 01 codes, both RAFM and Citadel Miniatures continued to use the ES codes for the figures from this range that they were importing into Canada and the UK respectively. Citadel was still selling these figures under ES codes at least as late as 1982, and RAFM was doing so at least as late as 1986. In both cases they were using ES codes on figures that were released after Ral Partha had made the switch over to the 01 codes.

This makes it difficult to try and draw a neat distinction between the set of ES series figures vs. the 01 series figures. To further complicate matters is the fact that the two Ral Partha catalogs before and after the switch over (i.e. 1979 and 1980) only included photos of a small number of the figures in the range. This makes it unclear as to which particular variant of a given product code was even in production at the point in time that the product codes were changed.

The earliest variants of some of these figures would only ever have been released under ES codes since those variants had already been phased out before the switch over. A large block of the figures were released both under ES and 01 codes. The latest half of the range, everything past 01-100 or so, were only ever released under 01 codes.

This page intends to document all of the figures released under both the ES and 01 codes. To keep things simple we have uniformly labeled all of the figures using the 01 prefix, even though some of the earliest variants would have only been released under ES codes.

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