So, the biggest question mark hanging over ITLAPD, was actually answered in the spring of 2024, when, quite by chance, looking for something else, I encountered not the Zizzle Pirates I've been asking about for years, but the superheroes tacked-on to the end of this post. The answer to the question being . . . They are Disney theme-park Collector Pack figures. But I ran-out of time last year, so they didn't get posted!
Five additions to the collection, I think one or two may be duplicates, but as they turn-up infrequently, and seem to have some value, when listed correctly (I've been lucky with mine, and the three or so prior purchases has always been unknown, undescribed, or just
PotC type listings), the duplicates should sell-on eventually, and it's going to be the only way to get all of them!
Not that I have any idea how many there are, yet, and decent websites on the
collector packs are hard to find, like, I haven't found one! I did find
that in around 2012 (or earlier,
Zizzle ceased trading in 2009?), the size changed, and the chap in the middle here,
is from a set of 16, which includes three micro-ships, sized for board
games!
An Internet shot with some of the figures I still have to find. It seems the
Collector Packs, are like blind bags, or
Gashapon, and only available in the theme-parks, possibly as you arrive, or leave? And the reason nobody managed to ID them all these years? I think the average toy soldier collector is two cultured to spend his or her days praying to the corporate money-pit of self-referential Mamon, which theme-parks represent?!
Another of the new, smaller figures, 40mm against the 54mm'ish of the older sets, depicts
Captain Hook from
Disney's Peter Pan, again, I don't know which set he’s from, or whether it's a set of
Pan characters or mixed
Disney staples, Micky, Sleeping Beauty etc . . .?
However, I did find out that newer franchises/Disney properties are represented in both sets, and ended-up with these Superhero figures in 54mm, also by Zizzle to go with the Kinder and Res Plastics types! I still don't know the significance of the base marks and wildlife silhouettes, and if this now rings any bells with anyone, we still need all the other questions answered!
- How many sets
- How many figures
- When were they issued
- How were/are they obtained
- What's the story with the base marks
and, I guess;
- If Zizzle made the old ones, who's making the new ones?
But, at least we now know they are Disney collector packs, and I'll try to find time, in the next few days, to re-Tag the previous outings of them, here at Small Scale World.
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