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Well, look at what we have here – if it ain’t another bootleg toy. This guy looks like the bastard offspring of the Terminator’s T-800 and Spaceballs’ Dot Matrix (I could’ve said C-3PO, but that’s a bit too creepy). I didn’t even know robots could have sex.
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The figure looks pretty goofy (Well, he’s not an “action figure” as much as he is a “statue.” He isn’t poseable at all.)… maybe something you’d find in the grocery store’s toy section . He was probably hanging alongside those mini police badge sets and other crummy Japanese imports (I’ve never understood why grocery stores have such shitty toy selection. Maybe I can do a future blog post about that).
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I’m just assuming he’s a ripoff of the iconic Terminator toys. I know, I know, just because he’s a robotic endoskeleton doesn’t mean he’s trying to cash in on the success of the films. But Terminator 2: Judgement Day was released in 1991, and this toy was made in 1992 (well according to its markings anyway –”Chap Mei ©1992.”). Looks like they were a bit late with the bootlegging.
But beyond the fact that he’s a robotic endoskeleton (with a goofy grin), look at his arm. No. the other one. The missing one.
He’s lost an arm! Just like the terminators did in the first couple of movies.
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Actually, when I first saw the toy, I just thought I’d found a broken, old bootleg. Turns out, the toy was actually produced with the missing arm. Isn’t that great? I guess they wanted it to be semi-accurate to the Terminator movies, and they just used the bronzy-copperish color scheme to throw-off the lawyers.
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And lastly, we have the big, honkin’ chest plate sticker. I don’t understand and have yet to find out what the lightning bolt, triangles and initials “S.P.” stand for. Is this guy the member of some bootleg superhero team? Is this their team logo?
S.P.
Super-powered?
Silent Partner?
Socialist Party?
South Park?
Any information would be greatly appreciated… or any other likely solutions for the S.P. problem.
Spank Patrol!
Silk Pants!
Sweaty Penis.
Scabby Police…
Stabbing Penguins?
nevermind…
You know I couldn’t resist this.
Spam Porterl
Slammin’ Panic
Sundry Powders
Spent Plenty
Stolen Parts
and… in honor of election season… he’s not bi-partisan, he’s
Super Partisan!
Steam Punk.
that’s all I have. more later perhaps.
Having stolen the “eye guy” response thread, I won’t even touch the S.P.
But I must say that making the Terminator/Dot Matrix reference was brilliant!
Also, a thread on the unholy crappiness of grocery store toy aisles is sure to be a winner!
secret police
scrotum polisher
stinking pile
@ Mittens – Sweaty Penis? Ugh.
@ Jen – good ones. Nice political relevancy you got there 😉
@ Jason – Steam Punk. Hm. A steam punk terminator could look kinda cool.
@ Bubba Shelby – Thanks for the props. I’ll have to keep a special lookout for crappy/weirdo grocery store toys.
@ mistuh-thye – Scrotum polisher? Ha! I’ve got some perverse readers around here.
I seem to remember seeing this guy packaged with a dart gun with the idea that you shoot the rubber darts at him which makes the no articulation thing a bit more understandable.
IT’S ”SPECIAL PATROLE”
In the 80’s series ”the young ones”, Vyvyan has a hamster named after it
Chap Mei is an anagram of “I’m Cheap.”
Wow!! Great observation. “I’m Cheap” is perfect!
I can not believe no one has thought of Sphincter Pounder yet.
I had this when I was younger. It was one of those cheap safeway bought toys that came with a dart gun. I think the sp was space police. hope I’m helping.
if i remember correctly bro, this figure is from a shooting game, there is a silver one, a gold one, and a black one, and u fire darts at them from a gun, mite be wrong? but i have a pretty good memory!
lemme know if thats any help, wikid sight btw!
ahh i just saw the guy David remembers the same thing! must be right, hope tht helps u mate 🙂
Nice one
Theo
Sp Stupid Plastic
Shitty Pnock off
Swine Plu
I automatically assumed that the S.P. stood for Space Police. I think I recall seeing these for a while at the two local state fairs in Alaska – the Palmer State Fair and the Kenai Peninsula State Fair. Heck, they may STILL sell them there; I sort of stopped shopping at those places due to a lack of funds and them all getting to be severely expensive (what used to cost $5 for those large cardboard sheets with stuff like this for target practice and such now costs $20).
AAHHAHAHAHA
I found your blog searching for old toys…and I had this thing!
i’m brazilian, and i had this in the middle of the 90’s, was a cheap toy here too…but here, the color of the robot was silver, just like the terminator!
and he came with a red glass, for the child wear, and a gun with plastic arrows…how bizarre is this?
ahhuahuahua very nice! 😀
I found this guy. He has another face then the one you have .
http://www.imperialgunneryforum.com/t3169-c-3po-knock-off-bootleg#51589
Space police or sex pimp
Veeery early Chap Mei piece, ostensibly a target piece for a dart gun set.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/u6UAAOSw6KxcTzo1/s-l1600.jpg