Friday, May 6, 2016

041 Bull

Bull is the Native American.
 
His G1 figure has a beautiful feathered headdress like one a chieftain would wear. He also wears moccasins rather than modern shoes.

He returned in G3.  This time he has a single feather and a tomahawk accessory.  He reminds me of the "crying Indian" from the famous Keep America Beautiful 1971 ad campaign.  Turns out, this actor was not even a Native American -- he was Italian. 

But seriously, Bull looks just like Sitting Bull, the Lakota who led an uprising against the US government at the Battle of Little Bighorn (Montana) in 1886.  I am sure this is where Bull got his name.

Bull has a zood in the Re-Leashed series of 2008. His zood is named Lemon Pepper.  He is an oversized bison with red wings.  This is a pretty obvious spoof of the name of the popular energy drink Red Bull.

Lemon Pepper probably has an ordinary zood in z6 or z7.  I have not been able to identify all of the figures from these crews.  It is possible that Spin Master made up an entirely new zood for the Re-Leashed line, but it seems more likely that Lemon Pepper already existed.  All I know about the zoods can be found here

Bull also has a second G3 sculpt known as Aztec Bull.  This was a compliment to Aztec Cluckers and was originally released as part of the Last Dude Standing playset.  The designers must have really loved this figure.  They released him again in G4 as part of a series consisting of various historical warriors.  Before that, they also put him in the Zoods Crew 6.  Here Aztec Bull has a zood named Eclipse.  I call him a pet rock, but if you look closely, he is really fat little snake. He looks like a rock because he really is nothing more than a rock carving of a serpent.  He looks like he was taken straight from an Aztec temple.

By the way, the addition of two Aztec characters was likely due to the hype surrounding Mel Gibson's Apocalypto film of 2006. 

To summarize the Bull dudes and zoods:  Bull has a winged-bison named Lemon Pepper, and Aztec Bull has a rock-serpent named Eclipse.

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