Action Figures & Their Beers Boozes -- Yo, Ho, Ho . . .

by Beedo Sookcool
on 2026-01-22, 11:20:53

DEAD MAN’S FINGERS GOLDEN SPICED RUM

Since I can’t seem to get Guatemalan rum in England any more, I’ve been experimenting with new brands to see if I can find anything else approaching their quality. The first high-quality rum I tried was Red Leg Rum back in 2022, and that was certainly good enough that I kept drinking that for a while. (By the way – the Zoid I paired up with Red Leg Rum was transcribed as “Sea Panther” on its packaging, so that’s what I called it in my review, but when I looked at the original katakana recently, it’s actually supposed to be transcribed as “Sea Panzer,” which makes much more sense for the heavily-armoured hermit crab tank.)

Then, when I was shopping one day, I saw Dead Man’s Fingers Golden Spiced Rum, and figured this would not only be a potentially delicious new rum to try, but would also be a perfect opportunity to highlight a cool action figure series I’ve never touched on before. And considering how few of the figures I have, I might not get a chance to discuss them again, so I’m going to splurge on this one.

Super7 is a comparatively small independent toy company out of San Francisco. They like monsters, music, and “sofubis,” but they really rose to prominence with their ReAction line – retro-style, 1:18 scale, 5-POA figures that can fit right in with your other old-school figures, taken from IPs ranging from Sesame Street and The Golden Girls to heavy metal and gangsta rap artists to Alien and Predator movies. So, if you want to have Dorothy Zbornak standing in for Ackmena behind the bar in your cantina display, while the Yip-Yip Martians, Notorious BIG, Lemmy Kilmister, Ellen Ripley, and Sloth from The Goonies are throwing back some Hennessy, you can absolutely do that with Super7’s ReAction line. They’ve also expanded into a ReAction+ line, which does figures with old-school “A Real American Hero” O-Ring G.I. Joe articulation.

Where I think Super7 really shines, though, is their Ultimates! lines. They’ve done super-articulated, high-quality, 7”-scale figures with buttloads of accessories, starting when they temporarily acquired the Masters of the Universe Classics license in 2017. From there, they’ve expanded to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Toxic Avenger, Thundercats, Silverhawks, G. I. Joe Animated, Godzilla, Transformers, wrestling, and quite a few other properties over the years. And you can tell the people who work at Super7 are just huge fans of these properties they work with, because they include as many appropriate accessories and alternate body parts as feasible, and will also try to make at least the original toy-accurate and cartoon-based colour scheme versions of the toys, and possibly episode-specific colour schemes and glow-in-the-dark variants, if all goes well. They’re a bit on the pricey side because of economies of scale, but they’re usually excellent figures, and the love and care put into these lines and their characters really shows.

But it’s not all licensed products, though; Super7 have also created their own line of characters, released in both ReAction and Ultimates! formats, called The Worst. All villains, no heroes. “There are good guys, there are bad guys, and then there are . . . The Worst!” as the tagline goes. It’s cheesy and fun and an absolute hoot. As you can imagine, they’ve churned out way more ReAction figures than Ultimates! for this line, with loads of variant colour schemes, several of them in very familiar-looking tribute appearances:

Anywho, Captain Deadstar, pictured near the top of the article with Dead Man’s Fingers Golden Spiced Rum, is one of the eight The Worst Ultimates! figures so far released. (And how I wish they could produce the whole roster as Ultimates!) The copy on the back of his premium slipcovered packaging reads: “Avast Ye! Captain Deadstar, the Cosmic Ghoul Renegade, sails the seven galaxseas, pillaging planets and blasting starships to Davy Jones’ Space-Locker. Through charted and uncharted space, the salty space dog steals and hornswoggles any and all mystic relics and space-booty he can find, and satisfies his carouser’s thirst for adventure along the way. Beware all those that stand in his way, whether ye be marooned on an asteroid or forced to walk the plank over a black hole. Captain Deadstar takes no prisoners.”

He comes with a veritable boatload of accessories, including: three swappable heads (closed mouth, open mouth, missing eye patch showing a cyborg eye), three pairs of swappable hands (fists, standard C-Grip hands, loose-grip hands), two versions of his zombie parrot (wings closed and wings open), capable of perching on his left shoulder when his capelet is removed, said dashing red high-collared fabric capelet with Velcro closure and bendy wire in the hem for dramatic posing, a flaming cutlass, a pistol that fits in his holster, a paper treasure map, an opening treasure chest that can hold most of his stuff, a skull-faced key for the chest’s lock (doesn’t actually fit in the lock), a bottle of golden rum (presumably spiced), a giant turkey leg, a quill pen stolen from the tail of his zombie parrot, a “S#!+ List” (“Your Mom” is on the bottom of the list. Seriously!), and yes, that’s an actual freakin’ thermal detonator, stolen from A Galaxy Far, Far Away, which fits perfectly in the loose-grip hands.

Ultimates! Captain Deadstar is an excellent figure . . . apart from the loose joints. This is sometimes an issue with Super7 Ultimates! figures, something to do with one of their particular factories not getting the tolerances set right for the joints. He’s a bit on the floppy side, which is made even more difficult when he’s only got one good foot to stand on, and his peg leg barely gives his left side any contact with the floor at all. So he’s somewhat of a pig to stand, but when you do get him standing, by Neptune’s beard, he looks darned impressive! The loose joints, I intend on addressing when I have the time, with some plastic-based floor polish, which appears to be a tried-and-tested method of stiffening up action figure joints without resorting to tiny bottles of expensive, purpose-made, hobbyist polymer compounds.

Oh, yeah . . . the rum! Created by a company called Cornish Soul, it was originally made at The Rum & Crab Shack in St. Ives, Cornwall. But now, they’ve hit success and moved production to the Bristol & Bath Distillery in Bath, Somerset. The back of the bottle sez: “We do things differently here . . . The Golden Spiced is a blend of the finest rum with flavours including sweet creamy vanilla, cinnamon, and fresh lime. Enjoy it mixed with cola, lemonade, or ginger beer. Either way, this is not your usual, this is Cornish Soul.”

And apart from wanting to have a quiet word with whoever was in charge of putting punctuation into that blurb in a dark, secluded alley, I can’t really fault their description. Because you can detect vanilla and spices and fresh citrus. And by Poseidon’s briny beard, this is so SMOOOOOOOOOOTH ! I’ve not had rum this satiny since the Guatemalan rum bonanza of 2017! Okay, so it’s a “mere” 32% ABV, but it’s so blasted silk-a-licious, I’m willing to trade off some of the octane rating for such a fantastically good tipple.

So taking everything into consideration, Dead Man’s Fingers Golden Spiced Rum is going to get my highest recommendation for any non-Guatemalan rum, I think. Ooh, ar – proper job an’ all!

Drink this if you also like: Smooth rums, spiced rums, flavoured rums, liquid alcoholic silk, keel-hauling.