So, to the main purchases this year on the
piratical front; Zizzle and Safari mixed, and mixing well, it has to
be admitted! Peg-leg is a bit on the short size, but he is an elderly chap and
would be, equally they both have taller figures (top right), while the Zizzle sculpts are generally heavier
that the Safari figures, with Davy
Jones ('lobster claw') a particularly heavy chunk of vinyl!
You've probably noticed by now that the
sculpting (?) of the pistols in the Safari set is very weak, old Peg-leg looks
like he's carrying around a rasp-file to carry-out running carpentry repairs on
his ersatz appendage! While Little Miss Lady Pirate looks to be watering the
lawn, with an invisible hose?
Here we have one each in the upper shots
with Marx (hard plastic 54mm) and Hing Fat prisoners at the top and Marx Swansea (from WOTW moulding) and Charbens
in the middle, all eminently compatible with the newbie figures, we looked at all
these, many years ago; American and Other Makes.
The lower line-up show's a Safari figure with some of the smaller
stars of this year's TLAP Day "Aa'haarr!"
Romance on the high-seas! Both the new sets
had one example of the bane of PVC, a bent figure, nothing hot water/cold water
dips won't sort but a pain nevertheless.
That's it, that's your lot for another
International Talk Like a Pirate Day "Aa'haarr!"
And remember if you haven't spoken like a pirate before midnight tonight you
might get a visit from Davy Jones . . . maybe . . . probably not!
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