J is for Jack Sparrow . . . et al!

I managed to add to the Zizzle collection again this year, but I have to admit I didn't try too hard or do too well, finding only two suitable lots, letting the better one go and buying the other a few weeks later, a couple of three months or so ago! Of the eight figures in the lot, four were duplicates/damaged, but the other four were new for ITLAPD!

I then photographed them when they arrived and a month or so later, having forgotten I'd photographed them, did so again!

Two more from 'last year's' Chinese crew, another of Davy Jones's slimy pals and - at last - captain Jack Sparrow himself. Now, here's the weird thing, I remember seeing all these in the shops at the time and thinking I bet the 54mm guys are loving these, but not buying them as I was still only a small scale collector.

Now, of course, I don't know how many there were! But I think it's about two or three sets of three or four figures per movie, for the last two, with an unknown number of the simpler-based ones which kicked-off the sample three or four years ago, from the first movie - and harder to find.

So if I manage to get a few more additions over the next year or two and only show them, we can look at them all together in a future post?

The whole purchase lot before the rejects were hived-off, Cap'n J is definitely between a rock and a hard place, running from the frying-pan and heading for the fire or . . . between the devil-fish and a deep blue grave!

Close ups of Mr Depp and the four rejects having a scrap, just because they were there, and won't be! And because this might have been a funnier post if things had been different, but it's just a case of finding my feet again and getting it posted without my little editor on the end of the bed.

Z is for Zizzle's Zombies from Zanzibar!

No They're not, they're from the Caribbean, or Disney's excuse for the Caribbean and they were cursed rather than specifically undead - we all know that, but it was a title crying-out for a post which was never going to happen, so in an act of piracy on English as we understand it, I went with my heart!

Such is the way of things that I bought these just after last year's ITLAPD, I can't remember what I shelled-out for them, but they would have been going for a song, or I wouldn't have jumped at them so soon after clearing the decks of the previous 12-month's stuff!

Although they look like the action figures, they are roughly 54mm, and are a continuation of the earlier, more simple or 'bog-standard' based series we've looked at in ITLAPD's passim (2018 I think, under Zizzle in the tag-list they will be below this post if you jump the tag), but now with landscaped bases, which actually limits their use in some imaginations!

Two of Davy Jones' crew; the man himself and one of the seaweed men, this Davy is much of an improvement over the one in the previous series, but if he didn't exist, there'd be nothing wrong with the old one, if that makes sense! They both have seabed/coral pod-bases which can pass for ground or beach.

Two of the Chinese vessels crew (third or fourth movie?); The boss-man's base is also quite generic, it's the fat bloke's which is so specific, but I remember looking at these in the shops at the time they were released and thinking several of them had bases which limit their scope, so it's pure chance three of mine are quite generic and match the others better than this last chap; he also has a separate loop-over cross-belt.

The seller had sent the wrong captain, and was quick to get the correct one in the next post with an apologetic eMail. While I had them both in front of me I shot them together with a sizer (the trusty berserker), before returning the 100mm action figure to the seller.

I is for Itlerpud - Part Two; Pirates of the Caribbean

Zizzle - having one of the main licenses - are responsible for various Pirate's of the Caribbean figure sets from the small ones we looked at here ages ago through a set of 60/70mm figurines on bases which are scenic (bits of ship's deck, piles of rope; that sort of thing) to full-on 'action figures' in different sizes and points of articulation, but they also produced the figures we're looking at here.

These are they, and they are not easy to find, I only have the six; bought expressly for ITLAPD "Aa'haarr!", despite looking-out for them for several months and it's clear there should be more, Googling them briefly only lead to vague mentions in passing on forums dedicated to the larger action-figures. The important thing is they are a reasonable 54/60mm in size, making them compatible with older figures.

Moulded in a medium-dense PVC vinyl rubber, they are only painted to what I would call an OK level and all seeming to be from the third movie (?), the one with Davy Jones Locker (Davy Jones himself being the 'lobster claw') and all the monster crew-men, anyway!

Quite apart from the fact that obvious figures are missing including Jack Sparrow; the anti-hero of the movies, another thing that points to a larger set are the strange animal silhouettes on the bases. I have no idea as to their meaning, a couple are realistic, a couple simplified and one (the mouse) cartoonish? Could there be an accompanying card-game, or some other parallel collectable of some kind?

Aa'haarr! Morrre in a while, me arrrtieees!