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The original minotaur was one individual, the offspring of a union between a bull and a human lady, Pasiphaë. The resulting horrible creature had the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man, and was kept at the centre of a labyrinth built at Knossos on the island of Crete. However that is not what we have here, for here we have a large number of individuals from a species, and they look quite different from the Greek legend. While the bull's head and tail are present, the human body here has been given two legs of rather odd construction, double-jointed, like neither man nor bull, but ending in hooves. These creatures have various configurations of horns but are otherwise alike, mostly looking very muscular and strong, although one is simply fat and has a pot belly. All are of roughly the same height, which is to say about 30 mm, so comfortably tower over any ordinary human. All wear a simple kilt or loincloth, though this is of various different materials, and all have a belt, of rope, string or wide leather, from which hangs a human skull in the case of the obese one.

They carry an array of weapons from a Neolithic axe to a meat cleaver, and one also has a large rock, but a couple are empty-handed, presumably because they are perfectly capable of ripping an opponent apart without the aid of tools. The sculpting is very nice, with good body proportions both on the muscular and the overweight creatures. Flash is fairly low-level too, and the poses look quite natural (if that can be said of a fantasy creature, which it probably cannot). We do not know what areas of the world of fantasy these creatures might inhabit, although they are clearly inspired by the Greek myth, but they make for very nice models that would certainly make the blood of any young Athenian run cold.