S is for Soma's Silly Sailors

Although the first set-post today, they were the last lot to fully come-in, with four out of storage a month ago the rest purchased couple of weeks ago, and a missing one (seven) arriving the other day!

In the 1980's Soma who had been contract-manufacturing for some time before that, began issuing their own branded lines, and by the late 1990's several of these slightly childlike figure sets had been issued, the pirates arrived in 1991 and unlike other sets where you find two colourways (Robin Hood for instance), they only got the one scheme, Issued in three blister-sets of four, two sets of six or a window box with all twelve.

Number 10 (each figure is numbered on the underside of one foot) looks like the love-child of MacDonald's 'Hamburgler' and the popster; Boy George, while I think you could use the facial expressions to make the 7-darves out of some of them, well, seven of them! Number 12, with the all important swag-bag, seems to have been equipped with a fully-automatic Walther or Berretta?

He also looks mighty pleased with himself, possibly because he has possesion of the loot!

I bought these two Penn-Plax fish-tank ornaments a while ago and they seemed ideal for these chaps to discover! I don't know if Pirates ever put-in at Easter Island, but it seems like a nice place to hole-up, chill-out, get drunk, sing bawdy songs, bury some loot and draw a map with a big X on it!