R is for Round-up of Rebellious Rascals

Well, that was bad, wait all year and then forget ITLAPD! Some years Brian reminds me, but this year, despite sometimes thinking it's the 16th and alerting myself, nothing happened, hay-ho! It does mean that everything in the other folder is going to have to be in this post, and having only just got back from work, yawing like a hippo, I'll have to work through to get it done, I'll post before midnight, and then finish the blurb!

Right, these are vaguely in chronological order, with this shot picked off feebleBay soon after last year's ITLAPD, and shows what I think is the Pressman rack-toy as bought in from Rado/Ri-Toys, or more likely; Hing Fat?

 

Interesting because apart from the ship which has been known to be Pressman since it appeared in Plastic Warrior magazine (I think) a couple of decades ago (mid 1990's ?), also contains copies of the Marx 54mm pirates, two little 'jolly boats' and the totem pole which I think is Hing Fat?

 

The Toy Major figures which we've seen on past Pirate Day's, here a complete set of originals, which actually came in more recently, but got collaged with the painted one, who came in last year, and seems to be factory-painted?

 

Their enemy were the standard Toy Major skeleton army, who are slightly Egyptian in fashion, and because it was a large sample, I managed to bend a couple of arms (lower image) to produce easy pose variations!

 

A couple of ELC figures which came in via a charity shop purchase I think, they might have been in a donation from Brian or Jin Attwood? Thanks to both for all their help, but anyway, however they arrived, this pair joins a growing sample of the larger vinyl figures.

These are also a bit bigger, at 70mm and as Tim Mee, might be the European production as I suspect they, also, are factory painted, but I might be wrong, decent home painting could produce the same results, what I like is that it's three of the poses who, instead of a base get a tripod arrangement by dint of the accessory they are resting on the ground!

Hong Kong copies of the 'cutsie' child-pirates from Fontanini, can't remember where these came from, but I suspect a charity shop's White Elephant shelf? Also big, they are around 120mm.

I think these were in some show-plunder, or a donation, and hidden in whatever posts I did at the time, in order to have them fill this post's folder, when I didn't know how this would pan out. From the left we have one of the Premium pirates, a Kinder (and probably CGGC-Grisoni) swoppet type, marked CAPTAIN PEG LEG in English on the base underside and another Blackgang Chine memento from the Isle of Weight.

Another one I pulled from feeBay, although now I know it exists I will look out for one, however if I remember rightly, this came with a stupid doll, and a prohibitive BIN/Postage total! Wilton's pirate ship cake decoration, I think it's meant to go with those crude copies of Marx we've looked at before and which are also below?

This image is courtesy of Ray the Pirate! And shows his Weet-Bix Crazy Pirates, seen before thanks to Glenn Sibbald but always nice to have more images and/or different colours

Like the Toy Major, some of these have been moved around to be brought together, but the six fatties came in with a Charity-shop lot I think, and while we have seen one or two, on ITLAPD, in this type of round-up/odds-n-sods post, it's the first time I've had all six together. A bit cartoony, but they are non-articulated solids, so have a place! I'm pretty sure it's the two middle ones who are 'new to Blog'?

And then I found these on Amazon! They go with the ship which in previous years has had two different pairs of pirates (also seen here at Small Scale World), but which is now also offering a six-count? I doubt they rushed-off and got two new ones sculpted, so they must have always been available in other sales-territories? Usually found as generics or phantom brands.

Papo 50mm mini which appeared at some point, I honestly can't remember where/when or even if 'who', so thanks again to everyone who send us stuff, he just got shot and put away! It's a set I've not actually bought, but seem to have picked-up about half of the figures from now!

Another internet image, it's the Hong Kong copies of Marx (as mentioned above), and is branded to Pioneer Products of Florida AND Canada! They are also the figures Jamie Delson was on about here;

 

https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2024/04/t-is-for-toys-in-media-part-somethingth.html

 

and which we looked at here;

 

https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2022/09/c-is-for-colourful-cake-corsairs.html

 

I've just deleted two images which three of you saw! Needs more research (I've lost the notes) and more, better blurb! These are a small sample of Zizzle's roughly 54/60mm solids which I bought because they were going cheap and couldn't remember which one/s I needed, I think in the end it was either the second one, or none! But it's another image!

Turning our backs on International Talk Like a Pirate Day, because I got there too late for entry, this is a life-size fibreglass model, from the rear! To be found at the Funland Amusement Park on Hayling Island, an otherwise disappointing visit; most of the tourist/gift shops which used to be there have gone, and I mean bulldozed in favour of yuppie-flats built to look like cruise ships! You know the things, all angled-fronts, curved baloneys and coloured metalwork, lots of glass, and palm-planters everywhere; clichéd Barbie architecture! It was pretty-much the same when I visited Bognor Regis a week or so later.

 

The figure is reminding me of the Corsican pirate of my friend Louise;

 

https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2019/09/c-is-for-corsican-corsair-from-corsica.html

 

I wonder how many of these there are around the world, like the life-size zoo animals and birds, the any-size dinosaurs and the oversized nutcrackers, there must be, or have been several manufacturers over the years, if you know of any or encounter one, sent a piccy to the Blog, and we'll do a round-up of them one day.

So, an even worse ITLAPD than two years ago, it should have been several posts, but that's the way it hangs at the moment, hopefully it will be better from next year, but I've been saying that for several years, and it's all still rather in the air! And there's no point closing with pirate-talk it's well after midnight here, in fact it's gone 1am, but hay ho, onwards and upwards!