A couple of items which seemed too-small
for separate posts but which I then found myself collaging-down to four images
from an initial folder-full, and there's still a couple on the 'unused' sub-folder!
These shots came from Brian Berke, not
something I'm collecting, as they are a tad big - and cartoony. They are
interactive PC/Video-game pieces, or 'it is...'! Brain sent a few a couple of
years ago, and I got-up some articles with Toy Fair and retail catalogue stuff,
but they are languishing in the long-queue with me not confident enough about
them to produce worthy blurb! But a pirate? Well, that's a different thing
altogether . . .. . . and if the figure in question is Captain Jack Sparrow himself ('Captain' of
what remaining less than clear, through a four-film franchise!), he must
appear! He thinks he's Captain of the Black Pearl, but several people think he
isn't or shouldn't be!
A lovely figure, if both over-cartoony and
a bit effeminate, but that was definitely the persona Johnny Depp wanted to get
across, so it works. The figure will have electronics in the base and is part
of a much larger range of Disney
characters going back through the years of their cinematic output. I love the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and
think I can say with some confidence, that the raised finger is a sign that an
unbelievable excuse or complicated plea for mercy is about to come-forth! "Now . . . a'bout thaaaat . . .
yer'see, it was like this . . . "
From the we-buy-this-so-you-know-what-you're-getting-if-you-buy-them-too
department comes this bag of polyethylene 'solid' pirates, currently findable
on feebleBay. I could tell the images were deliberately 'cloaked' so knew it
might be disappointing, but they were 2.99 or 3.99 or something, fo five and I
could make out at least two, so bought them anyway just to see what they were.
They were three separate sculpts (less than
1.50 each?) and two duplicates of the 'captain' figure. They are also quite
large and have a self-tapping screw-hole in their backs, so may have started-life
as decorative items or knobs for children's furniture or something? More likely
a manufacturing 'thing' left visible on [cheap] cake decorations!
Totally unmarked/unbranded (including the
cellophane bag - no labels), they were a pleasant surprise for not being as
disappointing as I had prepared myself for! What you get if you do look for and
buy them are three slightly chunky pirates with a poorish paint-job of the
stab-and-hope style, who would - nevertheless - paint-up better and go with theSchleich/Pappo/ELC stuff admirably!
These are on the Kipp Brothers website (wholesale store in Indiana, founded 1880!
Store currently closed for Covid-19) at $2.95 for four poses in slightly alternate paint
schemes but the same silver polyethylene, it puts the pose-count to six.
Thanks again to Brian for the Cap'n Jack
pictures.
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