THE IMPULSE LIST: Captain Longbill!

He’s helping them look for Black Dick.Captain Longbill is my first Plunderling of any kind. No Plunderlings, no Plunderstrongs, no Plunderlongs. Just one Plunderbeak.

Because generally speaking, all these guys are a little too cartoony to work with anything in the collection except maybe the Filmation MOTU stuff, and while htey’re nice, they don’t have the juice to compete with the other indie lines I like, like a Legions or a Monster Force.

But lordy am I a sucker for a great pair of wings. And these are a fantastic pair of wings. They’re better than the Brave New World Captain America wings, which were, until now, the best pair of wings in my collection. They’re three segments per wing, each segment on a ball joint with a huge range of motion along with a similar ball joint on the back of the figure, and they’re all the same size so you can make them one segment or two segment wings if you want or need to. They’re incredible wings.

Generally the articulation is across the board great - jaw and tongue and neck and maybe double elbows and definitely double knees and good ankles and just generally very posable… except that there’s a bit of a weight to joint tightness ratio issue that makes him unstable in, say, one foot up on a Lego brick. The feet are big and stable and the knees are ratcheted but the wings are heavy on the back and the hips aren’t 100% up to the task. You can work with it, though, especially with a peg stand helping.

The hat works with a magnet, which is great, but a magnet that could easily be better if it were twice as strong - you can get it there and it will stick but the tiniest amount of force will dislodge it. Then he comes with hands and the sword and everything is very crisp and nice and bright and cartoony. 

For the pic, it’s a reference that’s probably one of those Only Me things that I think I saw on one of the iterations of Talk Soup / The Soup, featuring “Liberty’s Kids”, a cheap right-wing educational cartoon that featured a search for a pirate named… Black Dick. But I don’t have a lot of cartoon pirate references in my brain..