I is for Itlerpud - Part Five; The Plank

All good things come to an end shipmates, even ITLAPD "Aa'haarr!" and this post is a few things that got left out, as - with my usual chaotic planning - a couple of posts became four and the comparison shots ceased to make so much sense as they contained figures from a 'still to come' post, whichever one went first!

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!