These were bought the other day especially
for ITLAPD "Aa'haarr!" and
they arrived in a pack big enough for six sets! Safari have made loads of 'Toobs', mostly animals, but there are
some figure sets for the AWI, ACW and Wild West and some civilian stuff I
think, however, they also make a set of pirates and like the Zizzle set we looked at earlier, they
are around the 54mm 1:32 mark.
Along with a few accessories you get eight
actual pirates and they cover all the tropes; beenie hats, head-scarves, wooden
legs, hook-hands, tom-boy girl with weapons, man with spade, Errol Flynn'alike,
map, big hats, big swords, someone who looks like (and would make a great) Dick
Turpin, parrot, swash and buckle - plenty of Swash & Buckle! But no
eye-patch? [Shock emoji]
Different background and from the other
side, each figure has a title under the base, and they are - top left to bottom
right;
- Pirate
w/Bandana
- Dueling
Pirate
- Pirate w/Long
Coat and Sword
- Holding
Treasure Map
- Pirate w/Hook
- Peg-leg
Pirate
- Pirate
w/Parrot
- Lady Pirate
You even get a gay biker - Tom of Finland
seems to have had a hand sculpting the guy top left!
When you're a pirate (with apologies to the
Village
People)
♪♪♫♪ Where can you find pleasure, search
the world for treasure
Learn keel-haul technology?
Where can you begin to make your
depravities come true
On islands or on the sea?
Where can you learn to kill, play in bars,
skin men alive
Ignore Deuteronomy?
Sign on as a Brigand and sit on the hot
sand
Watch where your peg and leg do meet!
♫
When you're a pirate!
Yes, you can sail the seven seas!
When you're a pirate . . .
Yes, you can catch a French disease!
When you're a pirate . . .
You can pillage ships at ease!
When you're a pirate . . .
When you're a pirate . . .
Rum, buggery and fleas.
♪♪
Follow the treasure-map inland
When you're a pirate . . .
Come on and join the brigand-band
When you're a pirate
Come on scurvies and make a stand
As a pirate, as a pirate, as a pirate,
♫
...Oh . . .
♫
They want you, they want you
They want you in their pirate crew!
♪
If you…
♫
If you like adventure, don't you wait to
enter
The roughest dock-side bar fast
Don't you hesitate; there is no need to
wait
They're signing up new pirates fast
You'll never be too young to join up today
So don't you worry 'bout a thing
For I'm sure there will be always badass
pirates
Plundering the land and sea
♪ ♫
When you're a pirate!
Yes, you can sail the seven seas!
When you're a pirate . . .
Yes, you can catch a French disease!
When you're a pirate . . .
Come on scurvies, fall upon the bloody sand
When you're a pirate . . .
Learn to smoke when you've hook-hands?
When you're a pirate . . .
♪
When you're a pirate
Follow the treasure-map inland
Follow the treasure-map inland
When you're a pirate . . .
Come on and join the brigand-band
When you're a pirate
Come on scurvies and make a stand
As a pirate, as a pirate, as a pirate, as a
pirate,
♫♫ ♪
They want you, they want you
They want you in their pirate crew!
Who me?
They want you, they want you
They want you in their pirate crew!
♪
But, but, but, I'm afraid of slaughter
Hey, hey look man
I get seasick even watchin' through my
patch!
♪
They want you, they want you for Jones,
Davy
Oh my goodness
They want you
What am I gonna do in a Brigantine?
They want you
They want you, they want you for Jones,
Davy
♫♫
When you're a pirate!
Yes, you can sail the seven seas!
When you're a pirate . . .
Yes, you can catch a French disease!
When you're a pirate . . .
Come on scurvies, fall upon the bloody sand
When you're a pirate . . .
Learn to drink when you've hook-hands?
When you're a pirate . . .
Follow the treasure-map inland
When you're a pirate . . .
Come on and join the brigand-band
When you're a pirate
Come on scurvies and make a stand . . . ♫♪♫
As well as a parrot, you get a monkey which
is a bit different (although Charbens
had one climbing their palm tree); is it a macaque, or a little
squirrel-monkey? You can also see from the close-up that while the painting is
clearer than the Zizzle's; it's
sprayed through pretty poorly registered stencils and both sets would benefit
from re-painting.
My favourite piece in the set,
unrealistically posed in an upright position which - in reality - would have
resulted in a pile of bones, if you ignore such a literal viewpoint and allow
the skeleton a bit of residual or supernatural life-force; a nice touch.
Publicity shots for this set often show
them with grass-green bases, but mine are on a sandy beach as can been seen.
The other accessories, the gun is OK, it's
a fixed barrel, at maximum elevation and the ship's a joke - unless you war
game micro-ships in which case it may be quite useful . . .the wagon in the
wild west set is a joke, but it's fine (ish) next to the Airfix HO/OO one in an
ad-hoc wagon-circle or barrier! While the other pile of stores - sans skeleton
- is very useful.
Descriptions - left to right;
- Cannon
- Ship w/flag
- Cannon Balls
& Powder
- Sitting
Skeleton
Halfway
thrrew mee 'arrrtiees, Aa'haarr!
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