Thaall'be foive postin's to come this foin
day, this'un be'in the firrrst ov'em! AaHaarrrrrr!
I think that's enough talking like a
pirate, so long as you're seen to be making the effort! So, the first post will
look at the odds'n'sods that I have picked-up or found since last year's ITLAPD
"Aa'haarr!"
These were 'unknown' last year (or the year
before? Mass nicht!)
in different colours/poses, but I recently found them on my old phone, taken in
2009 in clearance store Poundstreatcher
(I think? Mass nicht!),
they were attached to the backing card of a large window-boxed 'Pirate Ship
Play Set' and branded to Halsall (now
HTI), they would have been branded to
others/nothers elsewhere and are really generics, but it's nice to put them in
a named-place if you're a UK collector!
I think this has missed a couple of TLAPD's
"Aa'haarr!" having been put
in the unknown/TBS civilian box as a kid in dressing-up clothes, which
he is, but they are Pirate clothes, so he should have been included in a previous TLAPD "Aa'haarr!"
He is - as some of you will have recognised
straight away I'm sure - a Hong Kong copy of the old rubber Thomas Toys dolls house child, others
included a girl dressed as the Statue of Liberty. I have somewhere in storage a
similar copy of the Dutch Boy with his ill-fitting trousers, and when I say
similar; I think it's the same 'army-man' green plastic. So from a set of kids not from a set of pirates - but definitely piracy!!
As we're on copies, let's stick with them
for these two pirated pirates pirating (centre, yellow) who are 'based-on' copies of the Ideal pirates (outside, grey, here
re-issues by Glencoe), they are not
exactly the same - the left-hand one having simpler buckled slip-on shoes (against
bows on the original), no bows on his stockings, no pistol in his waistband and
no hat, in addition his collared-shirt is a sleeved affair, open to the waist at
the front with the sleeves rolled up as opposed to the string-vest of the
original sculpt.
The right-hand diminutive imposter has lost
the turned-down 'cavalier' boots in favour of the shoe/stocking uniform, has
added a neckerchief to his otherwise equally bare chest, replaced the
waist-belt with a cummerbund and had a haircut!
I've had a Google for them and found zilch,
they have some of the look (and size) of 1970's European bubble-gun and
ice-cream premiums by Gelados Olá, Mundi bubble-gum, Tito, and the rest, but they lack the typical release-pin holes in the undersides of the feet typical of
those makers/issuers figures, still, someone must know of them?
22-09-2017 - Paul Morehead, revered editor of Plastic Warrior magazine, thinks they are Poplar Plastics which makes sense, but then why didn't they scale-down the spacemen or Romans; 'cos they had the moulds?
22-09-2017 - Paul Morehead, revered editor of Plastic Warrior magazine, thinks they are Poplar Plastics which makes sense, but then why didn't they scale-down the spacemen or Romans; 'cos they had the moulds?
Finally in this introduction to TLAPD
"Aa'haarr!", are the chaps
I picked out of Peter Bergner's rummage bins, thinking I didn't have enough for
ITLAPD "Aa'haarr!"; how
wrong I was, but, here they are again; generic Chinapirates!
I've seen them in various colours and two
versions; some are less well-fed than these - and look a bit better for it,
these are not terribly realistic having the squat look of badly designed
war-gaming lead. Someone suggested they were Toy Major, I can find no evidence for it, although Toy Major are a jobber and have carried all-sorts, but this lot aren't
in their current inventory.
Now known to be Tai Sang's 'Redbox' and carried by various wholesalers/generic or phantom brands
Now known to be Tai Sang's 'Redbox' and carried by various wholesalers/generic or phantom brands
That's it for now, next part of ITLAP Day
"Aa'haarr!" in a couple of
hours . . .
2 comments:
Just a thought- wonder if the child figure is meant to be Peter Pan?
As far as the Thomas Toys original goes Andy; Yes, in the 1950's if you were 'dressing up' as a pirate you were either having fictional Peter or Hollywood Errol in mind!!
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