Toy OTD: Memory Lane Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Figure: Boss Elf
Memory Lane has been making our holidays happier for the last few years by making lots of Christmas characters! The Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer line is one of their best, featuring plenty of the Rankin-Bass players.The boss elf is one of my favorite figures, mainly because he's a secondary character that might not make the cut in other toy lines. I've never figured out why he sports a sixties-jazz goatee, but I think it's amusing.
The sculpt and paint job aren't dazzling, but they're on-model, and quite good for the price point. The hat is removable (I think it's magnetic), and he comes with a misfit toy (the train with the square-wheeled caboose), a baton to conduct the Christmas chorus, and toy-making blueprints. The biggest minuses are that his eyes look a bit glazed over, and the loose hip joints can make standing the figure tricky.
Being the holidays, you can get this figure pretty easily - it's $9.50 + shipping at cosmicclutter.com. If they're out of stock, a Google search should provide you with a ton of other options!
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posted by Jeff Pidgeon at
12:59 PM
2 Comments:
I have a pretty good collection of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer pieces ... including plush, toys, ornaments, figurines -- even tie tacks.
And, while I love Chuck Jones' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," it's really "Rudolph" that I remember the most as a child -- right down to the sponsor's Norelco commercials done in the same style.
I was very happy to see Memory Lane include so many of the secondary characters in this line -- often packaged with forest friends or Misfit Toys -- as well as set pieces like Santa's Castle and the toy shop.
And, while I really like the Boss Elf, I think my favorite elf figure is the thin, tall elf with glasses.
I'd argue that the pair -- the boss elf and the tall elf --are the most recognizable and distinctive elves among the gang.
I always liked the bespectacled elf too - you didn't often get to see cartoon characters wearing glasses in those days (at least, few that didn't have some sort of negative connotation attached to it).
The figurines are even better than the action figures! Really nicely done.
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