For me it’s a no-brainer to pick up any piece featuring Goofy! He is by far my favorite Disney character. And if I can find something featuring him in a vintage setting, even better!

Let’s check out this Vintage Goofy with Surf Board Ceramic Figurine:

This figurine seems to be patterned after the 1937 theatrical Short entitled Hawaiian Holiday:

You can see that the bathing suit is the same but the hat in the figurine has been switched to Goofy’s more familiar green version. The board in the figurine also has more detail. In the Short, Goofy decides to go surfing. When he rushes toward a wave it runs backwards, causing Goofy to hit his head on a rock. Ouch! The wave then comes back in and washes Goofy around, eventually leaving his head stuck in the sand. That’s one vindictive wave! Goofy tries his luck again and is actually able to get a swell, but it breaks beneath him and washes his board away. As Goofy searches underwater for his board, another wave comes and drives his board into his pants! This could only happen to the Goof! Trying one last time, our hapless surfer catches a wave successfully, but the wave throws him off his board, hits him with it, and catapults him into the sand on the shore. He is stopped abruptly when he hits his board, and the final scene looks like Goofy is laid in his grave! This was for children?

All was well though, he wasn’t really dead. But maybe it would just be safer to skip the sea and see the figurine instead:

Goofy is approximately 6″ high

The trademark of Walt Disney Productions makes this figurine a pre-1986 product. It was made in Taiwan. My research places it’s release sometime in the 1970s.

If you want to pose with Surf Goofy, you can visit the All-Star Movies Resort in Walt Disney World and Hang 10 with this cool dude:

It just goes to show, that no matter what faults Goofy may have, he’s no quitter! New duds. New board. Likely the same bad outcome to follow!

If you’d like to experience your very own Hawaiian Holiday, check out my collection of vintage LP records featuring the sounds and music of that tropical Isle.