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Just wanted to comment on Timmee's classic army men set in their current bags of 48 soldiers. Have had these guys a while but only just took the time to do a pose count and it's interesting that Timmee understands that both standard methods of army men pose selection are imperfect.
Typically the soldiers in an army men set will be either equal numbers of each pose, or a random count of each pose. The first option guarantees that every pose will be present, however this may leave you with more of certain less useful poses at the expense of more of other, better poses. The second option makes it a lottery situation where you may get many of the good poses and few of the less good; realistically it never works out that way of course and the reverse is usually what you get, or even worse you may not get any of a pose or poses at all.
I can only speak for this bag of Blue soldiers (have one of Black that hasn't been opened yet) but I would imagine Timmee to be consistent: every pose has a count of four, with three notable exceptions. The officer with pistol and binoculars pose and the minesweeper both have a count of two, while the kneeling aiming rifleman has a doubled count of 8. I'm sure any army men aficionado can appreciate having more of the very useful rifleman and less of the officer and minesweeper in trade-off. Doubtlessly it adds to the cost of these soldiers but they're generally still pretty reasonable for what you get.
