This was - in part - originally included in
the intro, post, but I then remembered I'd had some others come in which I
hadn't shot, so I got them all out the other night and took some supplementary
photographs and knocked-up this three-hander!
This guy is definitely new as he was
waiting here after the rest went-up to the shipping container! I still haven't
worked out what - if any - significance the little animal cartouches have, but
I am pretty sure now that these were Disney
Stores exclusives.
However, as you can see from the comparison-image;
bottom left, of Jack Sparrow, that they
are quite 'lumpy' compared to the general Zizzle
line (and other Zizzle products), so
it looks like Zizzle may have
subcontracted them out to an as yet unknown factory, other than their own/their
usual contractor? But by 'lumpy', don't think I'm being derogatory, I prefer
these to the over-engineered 'collectables' of the standard range, these have a
more traditional Toy Solder charm.
The line-up as it stands, there are
starting to be duplicate characters in other poses, so this must have been a
series of sets over a few years running alongside Zizzle's own-branded sets, now they're not rare (they're
mass-produced, 21st century polymer, sold through one of the once-busiest
(another closed the other day) chains in the developed world!), but they are
hard to track-down and I am enjoying the slow-building of the 'gang'!
Two versions of Bill Turner, was he in two movies (- two lines in the rage) or one
(= two sets in the same year)? Unfortunately, while there are PotC wiki's, they seem only to list Zizzle's branded sets, not the Disney Stores ones! We will return to
these!
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