kenner kids

[poncho]

i wonder if the kenner kids in the photoart on the boxes got loads of free toys for being photographed?

and i wonder if they are collectors now?

 

[spoons]

The kid on the Palitoy Death Star box is Dave Barnacle's son - Dave being the Palitoy artist

And apparently he's not into action man nor Star Wars :lol:

 

[steve obi wan]

Interesting ! A weatlh of knowledge

That's why it's a great site

 

[SAVORY100]

There is an awful lot of 'wow, look how different they look now' type stuff on Facebook, it would be nice if these guys did turn up in a set of pictures at some point, be even better if they could re-create the cover-art with the older them in the pictures!

 

[theforceuk]

I've always wandered this, would have been a cool thing to do as a kid. I bet the reality was that it was quite boreing for the kids. I bet you weren't aloud to touch anything all day unless you were told to. I would still do it now though!

 

[spoons]

Interesting ! A weatlh of knowledge

That's why it's a great site

And the fact that you find it interesting also makes this a great site - mentioned that fact on RS a while back and all I got was tumbleweed and indifference :roll:

 

[x-pack]

This brought back memories I did used to envy these kids and basically anyone who was in a toy advert, be it in a TV ad, catalogue or on the front of a box. In my head I always imagined that they got to keep the toys. A girl at our school was in a Heinz Beans ad playing the role of a young Cilla Black. I asked if she got a lifetime supply of beans :lol:

 

[SAVORY100]

This brought back memories I did used to envy these kids and basically anyone who was in a toy advert, be it in a TV ad, catalogue or on the front of a box. In my head I always imagined that they got to keep the toys. A girl at our school was in a Heinz Beans ad playing the role of a young Cilla Black. I asked if she got a lifetime supply of beans :lol:

Funnily enough in my life I've come across two 'advert kids' and (as you'd expect) there were perks:

The first got to the last audition to be the Milky Bar kid in the 1980's but fell at the last hurdle... he had a lot of Milky Bars up to that point of course and I put in a lot of work that summer to be 'better' friends with him... :lol:

The second one was a lad I met as a 17/18 year old and he was in a few adverts as a kid from what I remember, the one I do remember was a game where you had to guess or work out a farm animal... the advert was a bunch of kids sat in a fake farm/barn on hay-bales, playing the game he was the kid that exclaimed "it is a cow, it is a cow!". He got a few quid (I expect his parents got a few more) and a box full of the game in the advert. Love to remember the game if anyone can grasp it from that sketchy description.