Playmobil Pirate Of The Week

Naked Snake aka Big Boss (Battle Armor Version)

Inflame recently release a series of Metal Gear Solid 1/6 figures. Clearly the best MGS in the market currently. The gear is high quality with one & a half head sculpt in matching quality (will get to the bit in awhile).












Excellent quality zombie camou head sculpt. I heard the head sculpts were made by Headplay.






I am never a big fan of the Vietnam era webbing on this futuristic body armor. There were times in fixing up tis figure that I wanted to swap it for a more modern gear. However I was surprise by the quality of the webbing & pouches. The buckets & hooks are all metal making zero breakage during fix up! The strap clips are all workable too. I never had such ease fixing an US nam era gear. With tat I decided to stick to the given gear & be true to Hideo Kojima & Yoji Shinkawa creation.










Handle With Care?
I tot it was bullet proof!




The one item tat made me felt uncomfortable with this great figure was the body suit. It was not that it was not well made, but the fear of I may tear it apart. The suit feels fragile, especially at the movable joint areas. The humid weather here has never been a friend to rubber suits, lets see how well this one hold up… Like all figures with body armored, posing is heavily limited.




An optional non camou half head sculpt came with the set. Sadly without the extra (magnetic) hair piece there is not much use for it. Now lets hope some 3rd party manufacture will produce the hair piece. Any one planing to recast tis?




Overall a very high quality product for a very affordable price. A must have for any MGS fans. Once again a new unknown brand has raise the bar of tis hobby & it did not come at a cost of an arm or a leg! More power to the underdogs!







Naked Snake (aka Big Boss) is a fictional character from Konami's Metal Gear video game franchise. He is first introduced in the original Metal Gear as the commanding officer of protagonist Solid Snake, only to be revealed as the leader of the enemy forces as well, a role he would resume in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Big Boss would play a key role in the backstory of the series beginning with the first Metal Gear Solid, where he is revealed to be the genetic father of Solid Snake, Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake.
In addition to his role in the sequels, Big Boss also appears as the protagonist in a series of prequels set before the events of the original Metal Gear beginning with Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater where he is depicted as an American covert operative codenamed Naked Snake, the partial namesake of Solid Snake.
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Playmobil Pirate Of The Week

Jonah Hex

The recent release of BBK003 Cowboy is clearly inspired by the 2010 Jonah Hex film. Cowboy figure are rare in 1/6, so I order it without hasitation. However I did not have high hopes for it as it comes from an unknown company. To my surprise the final product of this figure is high quality & real value for $. I will let the pictures do the talking...


















Jonah Woodson Hex is a western comic book antihero created by writer John Albano & artist Tony DeZuniga. Published by DC Comics in 1977. Hex is a surly and cynical bounty hunter whose face is horribly scarred on the right side. Despite his poor reputation and personality, Hex is bound by a personal code of honor to protect and avenge the innocent. The character is portrayed by Josh Brolin in the 2010 film adaptation of the same name.

































In the DC universe, Hex is known as having almost superhuman ability and marksmanship with 19th century weapons, mostly revolvers. After Jonah Hex is transported to the future in Hex, he acquires a pair of Ruger Blackhawk .357 Magnums. He chooses these because they are single action revolvers like he was used to in the Wild West, but he still manages to outshoot everybody armed with more modern weaponry.

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Playmobil Pirate Of The Week

Tot I start this new series of posts on my ever growing Playmobil pirate theme collection. I will feature every single Playmobil figure that I have under the pirate theme, plus those tat I have kitbash & those that I think fits nicely inside the pirate era.
Now lets see if the pirates figures run out or I grow tired of doing it :)