As I mentioned in my "Ye Olde Deluxe Cow Catapult" post, one of my favourite films is Monty Python and The Holy Grail, has been ever since I was little, in fact I love and own all the Monty Python films as well as the series.
Eric Idle as The Dead Collector was the only one they had left, not that I minded, I think he's a great character, unfortunately he doesn't have much screen time but the time he does have is priceless!
The Dead Collector figure comes in an awesome box, the front is designed to look like the poster of the film with added dirt because, if you've seen the film you'll know the Ancient Britain was a very muddy and filth covered place!
This figure was released in 2002, in a Limited Edition of 7,500 pieces World Wide, so are no longer in production.
In the top right corner there is a small white rectangle with age appropriate information on, it reads:
And the Ages shall be 12 and up! No more, no less.
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| Monty Python Online |
There is a short paragraph about the film and more humorous messages, it reads:
Released in April 1975, and filmed on a budget of less than 230,000 Pounds, Monty Python and The Holy Grail explores the legend of King Arthur, his Knights of The Round Table and their search for The Holy Grail. The talents of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin combined to make Monty Python and The Holy Grail one of the funniest movies ever made with many of it's characters becoming legend.
Bring out your dead!
Better yet bring out your Dead Collector played by Eric Idle!
Enjoy this character as he trudges through historic and legendary muck. Delight to his ragged and dirty countenance and take pleasure in his loathsome and reviled career. And cherish the moments when he might swiftly bring up a club and whack an old man upon the head who just won't stay dead!
In the bottom left is a white rectangle which has this written on it:
This space has been left blank intentionally.
Under no circumstances should anything (not even mud) be placed here, lest you be bonked on the head with a wooden spoon, the end result being a nasty, large, lumpy, disfigured and downright odd-looking welt, the likes of which has never been seen in the world or any other.
Action Figure stands at around 12 inches tall, is fully posable and is dressed in a replica of Eric Idle's costume, his hat and boots are plastic but the rest of his outfit is fabric.
He comes with a wooden club and an iron triangle in keeping with his onscreen accessories, both these items are made of plastic.
The triangle has a metal chain so the Dead Collector can hold onto it while he beats it with his club and yells out "Bring out yer dead".
Which is of course a reference to the credits of the film, which strangely mostly involves llamas!
I love the attention to detail on the box's packaging and the figure itself. The back of the box shows The Dead Collector figure in front of the part of the script for the Dead Collector / Introduction of King Arthur scene.
Below the film stills from the scene is a disclaimer, which is also very silly, it reads:
Disclaimer: This is The Dead Collector!!
If you purchased one of the other characters from Monty Python and The Holy Grail, then you received the wrong item! THIS IS THE DEAD COLLECTOR! Please look scrupulously at this package and read all the text vigilantly. If it in no way indicates that there is a remote possibility that it might contain the DEAD COLLECTOR then you have truly requisitioned the right item. If this is not the case, and you have procured the DEAD COLLECTOR in error, to which you have spent your hard earned wages on, then please accept this item along with our apology. If you have not received the DEAD COLLECTOR and this is indeed the character you wanted, then please purchase...
THE DEAD COLLECTOR!!
He comes with a wooden club and an iron triangle in keeping with his onscreen accessories, both these items are made of plastic.
The triangle has a metal chain so the Dead Collector can hold onto it while he beats it with his club and yells out "Bring out yer dead".
The head is sculpted to feature the likeness of Eric Idle, the back of the box states; The Dead Collector portrait sculpted by Olaf W, Hartvigson and the Figure and accessories designed by The Sideshow Toy Team.
It goes on to give further credits...
Musical triangle training provided by Yutte Hermsgervordenbrotborda.
Cart-driving classes provided by Horst Prost III.
'Chatting With Corpses' written by Bjorn Irkestron-Slater Walker.
below this is written...
We apologise for the fault in the box credits. Those responsible have been sacked.
I love the attention to detail on the box's packaging and the figure itself. The back of the box shows The Dead Collector figure in front of the part of the script for the Dead Collector / Introduction of King Arthur scene.
Disclaimer: This is The Dead Collector!!
If you purchased one of the other characters from Monty Python and The Holy Grail, then you received the wrong item! THIS IS THE DEAD COLLECTOR! Please look scrupulously at this package and read all the text vigilantly. If it in no way indicates that there is a remote possibility that it might contain the DEAD COLLECTOR then you have truly requisitioned the right item. If this is not the case, and you have procured the DEAD COLLECTOR in error, to which you have spent your hard earned wages on, then please accept this item along with our apology. If you have not received the DEAD COLLECTOR and this is indeed the character you wanted, then please purchase...
THE DEAD COLLECTOR!!
At the bottom left the Sideshow Toys website address details are shown in a Pythonesque manner...
And thy quest shall lead you to the ever popular www.sideshowtoys.com!
Even the bottom of the box has much silliness on it!
CAUTION: Thou shall exercise extreme caution whilst removing the contents herein. If you doubt your courage or your strength, cease entry to this package, for severe flesh-wounds await you all with nasty, tiny, sharp,pointy edges!
On the right there is a small guidance note which reads...
Figures may need hand support when posed in their own particular idiom or in the silly, knees-bent, running about advancing behaviour.
At the bottom there is an extra cautionary note which is just as silly...
ADULTS NOTE
Cut the plastic, twisty, annoying attachments with scissors and discard in the trash. And yes we really do need all of these ties so stop snivelling.
Everything about this figure and his packaging is awesome, I can't find one thing about it that I don't love!!
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