ITLAPD is for It's That Linguistically Awkward Pronunciation Day!

Arrrharrrrrr! Jimlad! It be that toime-o yearrr when we's been talkin' loik a poirate-true, at least once yerr'understand, or being so moinded as to be toipin' pidgin West-country loik a bardly-drawn carracterrr in a moidley-racist sit'you'ation comedy loik!

Stilll . . . it's bin'a'yearr since the last ITLAPD bowt sailed away forrr to look up a cheast'o plunderr, and it be baak in porrt nows, let's haav'us a ganderr at thee treasurrres to be'old!

Peter Evans has contributed greatly to this year's ITLAPD, and not least with these four who arrived around the 22nd of last September, missing that year's ITLAPD by days! From the left we have a cartoony boy-pirate with telescope, possibly meant as a key-ring he has no hole, so may have been in a kiddies set of some kind?

The next one is quite weird; clearly resembling a carved softwood or balsa pirate of the Mediterranean style, he's actually cast in polyresin, and the weird bit is . . . if you were to take the casting mould from an actual carved-wood figure, you'd never get the mould off the master, as the detail in the wood-grian would fill with casting compound and glue them together like Siamese twins, so the whole 'wood effect' has been faked by a skilled sculptor?

Leaving one with the question . . . why? It would be easier (and cheaper) to source actual balsa figures from some craft community in Turkey, North Africa or the Caribbean, that fake one and use two-part epoxy resins with all the H&S material handling and solvent problems/expences that entails? Very odd, but nevertheless a nice figure!

I feel the third - 35mm - figure should ring some bells, perhaps with Portuguese readers? Is he a mascot or brand-mark for an actual ice-cream firm? I feel the blue-tipped ice-lolly is quite distinctive, no questioning whether he's a key-ring or not and he looks a bit French, Spanish or Portuguese to me?

Finally a Soma shipmate!

These six were from Peter too, 35/40mm and I've credited him in the past (ITLAPD '16) for some, I have also been picking them up in ones and twos, and while three years ago I wondered at 'at least' one more pose, two have turned up, giving us a new total . . .

. . . of 10 poses. I can't recall Peter ever saying, but I suspect capsule toys for the origin, and they are soft rubber, pod-foot copies of the polypropylene, full-based Red Box (HGL here?) 40mm pirates, which we see here as silver and yellow versions on the far right.

Also a product of at least two donations from Peter over four or five years, also some odds and sods from around and about and also last seen here in 2016, the 45mm Dollar General set has grown to eight poses from six, and to four distinct colours from two.

Note how the first two on the left are variations of each other, while the two 'captain' types are almost reverse-sculpts of each-other? And they are larger than the previous lot at 50mm.

This turned-up in the wrong box back in October as I was stuffing everything in the garage before the winter, he's Manurba also supplied to Koho as premiums and around the 50mm mark, semi-flat (demi-rond).

Seen on Revell's stand at this year's Toy fair in January, I saved the shot for ITLAPD when I did the Revell review posts a few weeks ago! The 'Black Pearl' from Pirates of the Caribbean is actually an old (and simple) kit from way back, re-box-arted to tie-in with the held franchise/license. In front of it is a glow-in-the-dark plastic 'ghost' version, which is more traditional to Revell's output.

Pulled from May's PW show reports, Adrian Little ID'd this as soon as I showed it to him as being the Blackgang Chine's pirate from the Isleof Wight, he's factory painted polystyrene, about 45mm and has a silver skull-face for some reason?

Lacking decent resolution, but interesting nevertheless, these are from the recently defect Marshall's wholesale catalogue, and give a clue as to those sets of figural key-rings I got for a quid-a-pop in the new pop-up pound-shop here in Fleet, as they clearly got Marshall's clearance; the cards are the same as the right-hand one here, and you could only afford to sell complete cards for a quid if the unit-price was peanuts!

The originals would have had an RRP of between 50p and £1.50 per ring? Anyway, the skeletons (I think there are three poses but there might be four?) may appear sans key-chains elsewhere, while the skull & crossbones are within theme, if outside the scope of a figure collection!