Other Vintage Collections

[spoons]

Shame we'll never know but good to see vintage toys out in the wild

 

[SAVORY100]

Seeing the Action man photos begs me to ask question:

I had an Eagle Eyes, dark haired, full beard, Action Man (sounds like a dodgy lonely hearts ad) and I looked to see if I could replace him through eBay, but all the ones I was seeing have really full on flocking on the beards, that look too long. Is this because they're repro/restoration, or when new were they always a longer flock, that over time wore down to the short length I am remembering?
Not sure if the outfit mine was always in was an original set or if it was just what I ended up keeping him wearing most of the time: Navy sailor style knitted jumper with overall style denim(?) trousers, standard AM black plastic boots.

 

[spoons]

Not sure about that savoury - all the bearded ones I've seen look like they did back in the day.

This one has a very worn non-reflocked beard how does it compare?

 

[SAVORY100]

Looks about right, I guess I'll have to keep looking, it does seem a fine balance between re-flocked, full but old flocking or worn off in patches.

 

[spoons]

There's a ot of 40th about too and they may be longer?

 

[SAVORY100]

That'll probably explain the difference; thanks for the info

 

[slim]

my af collection , i have got more into this recently as squidhead bits for my focus are hard to come by . i just need 2 more mocs to have the complete run....minesweeper and an sas boat patrol , my aim is to have every second series toy then see if i get stuck into series one or not :?

 

[theforceuk]

Cool AF collection, never been into it myself, but can see the appeal.

 

[Palifan]

Great AF collection Slim!

Just love all the red white and blue boxes together, I'm just glad I had none of these growing up or it would be another collection starting ( even though I do have the HQ play set as it's so similar to the Death Star one).

Ian

 

[Cazza]

Love the AF, although I don't think you're doing your MOCs justice!

 

[spoons]

Very nice Slim - a great run and very iconic packaging 8)

 

[plantman]

my parents still find the odd AF figure buried in the garden lol i actually dont remember having a lot of them though.

 

[slim]

Cool AF collection, never been into it myself, but can see the appeal.

cheers mate :mrgreen:

Love the AF, although I don't think you're doing your MOCs justice!

its onlys a tempory fix atm mate , i want to put all the mocs in christians adc-11s which are the dogs bollocks :mrgreen:

Very nice Slim - a great run and very iconic packaging 8)

cheers spoons , the sas boat patrol will be easy to pickup but that minesweeper might take time

my parents still find the odd AF figure buried in the garden lol i actually dont remember having a lot of them though.

funny you should say that andy as all my non starwars toys i had as a kid are buried in the garden of our old house , the amount of times i was tempted to go digging lol , best not to i think :lol: :lol:

 

[x-pack]

This is my little Action Force collection. Almost as iconic to me as Star Wars. Basically I had Star Wars and my cousin had AF which he thought were far superior. Of course we all know that's not true

 

[x-pack]

Picked up this beast of a playset not long back. Possibly my favourite piece of all. Mint in box with inserts and baggies.

 

[pizzathehutt]

nice!
love the indiana stuff, not much of it about, especially to bid on, i still check ebay now and again.

plenty of my school mates and i had star wars, he man, transformers stuff but i didnt know anyone that had indiana stuff, nor remember seeing any of it for sale in the shops at the time.

 

[x-pack]

I reckon its US only. Made by Kenner. Don't remember seeing the IJ toys either.

 

[Palifan]

Love that Indy vintage

Ian

 

[indianawars]

I sold this and regretted it ever since

 

[hansole 2]

that's a realy cool AF Collection you have there Slim. Love the boxed items.