There´s Some Pretty Rare Ones This Time!
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- I haven´t had time to do a unboxing/unpacking video in ages so there´s a lot of cool 1970s toys to check out.
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In the UK in the 70s you could get small books which came with a set of rubdown transfers. The ones I remember having were Ancient Egypt and Medieval England (knights, castles and that sort of thing). I'm sure there were many more. I'd be very impressed if you find any of those.
I remember the same. There was also Romans fighting wolfs. U.s soldiers fighting aliens. Space ones and action man
Patterson Blick Instant Picture Books..... I had D Day, Battle of Britain, Charge Of The Light Brigade, Waterloo to name just a few!
There was also a sheet of 4 figures that came in a pack with a piece of gum. They were paired with "enemy's" so you had Cops & Robbers, Roundheads & Cavaliers etc
They had them in cereal boxes too, with the scene on the back to put them on 😊
Loved these as a kid. Remember my favourite was American civil war one.
The Robin Hood And Sherif sets had an accompanying castle set. As did the Napoleonic sets have the farmhouse set. All so cool! 👍🏼🤗
I had forgotten about Action Transfers but seeing them in this video reminded me of something else I used to purchase in the 70s!
I actually found some more still in the package. Gonna be part of my next unpacking video. Probably will do a video on just the Action Transfers and actually use a couple of them.
What an amazing collection of items!😊
Love it all😊😊
Remember the action transfers.
Had a few in my youth.
Looking forward to seeing more.
Keep filming 🎥 ✨️
Do you remember which themes you had on your action transfers?
D day, Ancient Egypt , Battle of Britain are some I can remember.
Also a UK shipping line, Sealink did one.
So cool to see those "Action Transfers" again,must have been almost 50 years ago,since I last seen them. I did a lot of these!
Oh yes. Same for me !
I will try to get a few more and open them.
😮Oh the Action Transfers, i was them forgotten, nice to see them again, great haul Sir.
That farmhouse and playing with it as a child gave me a lifelong obsession with that portion of the battle of waterloo and the action transfers sets I still have the completed articles
I wish I still had my Action Transfers. But they are long gone.
The pocket money I spent on Action Transfers! Those old Airfix you have to remember for a kid in the UK at that time it was one or maybe two soldiers you could buy but with Airfix you got 48 soldiers so they were a big winner as Britain's were seen as the very expensive toys -but the shop displays of the Britain's ranges in detoff style glass cabinets....the amount od times we almost fainted! LOL At least you enjoy these things as an adult child ;-)
We also had the Britains in glass cabinets in the toy shop in my home town. When I got to buy a few it felt very special.
Considering how much Action Transfers the must have been sold there´s very few left. I guess they were easier to just bin unlike other "real" toys.
Nice blue boxes Jerry and a handy tip about ‘ironing boxes’😊
I´m not sure how it´s going to work on that box as it was very stiff and "dry" if you know what I mean. But I will have to try.
I loved transfers when I was young 😊. good memories 😁
Looking forward to seeing the brown shirts set. Never seen them Atlantic sets before 😮
I think I will need to do a video on those two Atlantic sets real soon as they are so weird and cool.
Agree Jerry the original price stickers still look good. If you do need to remove then ‘Ronsonol lighter fluid’ works 😊
I think that just chemcaly clean bensin right? I bought some of that and gonna try it out.
Thanks Jerry! I love your videos so much! You make me feel like it's Christmas morning in my youth all over again, Cheers buddy!
Glad you like them.
Cheers bud!
Awesome, awesome vid here ! You know what ? I would say that an original, authentic, price tag sticker, well, actually ADDS VALUE to the box, because you know that it is AUTHENTIC ! Cheers Mate 👍 👍 👍
And it´s great confirmation of what they actually cost at the time.
I hd so many action transfers as a kid in the 70s. Robin Hood, Space, WW2, Cowboys and many more. They often came in boys comics too or even breakfast cereal with a scene on the box back.
I think I got a bunch of old cars as transfers from cereal boxes when I was a kid.
I also have started to collect 172 scale three weeks ago. I’ve got lucky very lucky with some vintage Atlantic which are going for silly money on eBay again I agree the ART on the box is brilliant. I’ve got a couple of first addition Airfix 1/72 Russian infantry boxes so much to collect keep the videos coming regards DSM ☺️🇬🇧
Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. Bloody Lovely.
I was going through toy soldier withdraw so thanks for the new post!
At least two nostalgic smiles on this end on this unboxing. Both on the not so collectable end of your latest aqquisitions. As I may have said I was kind of spoiled for choice on Airfix kits as a kid as my late father used to buy a lot of bankrupt stock in the 70s and 80s and prior to this one of the closing businesses he bought for the business premises was a newsagents/model shop but with a, then common restraint of trade clause, that it could not be re-opened as a newsagents (that wasn't in our line anyway) or- unusually specifically a toy shop, there was an" approaching Christmas " get out clause on this one so from about age 7 to about age 10 my Saturday wages were kits or toy soldiers taken from a vast early Airfix stash in his storage premises - they weren't actually worth transporting to markets and his other retail premises at the time. Similarly when Hornby Triang went under I ended up with the Minic Ships layout from Triang H.Q. (huge3d bit shaped thing not the usual shop display one). Every Christmas was a Matchbox playset or two - I think I was a playtester as one of his partners was a Matchbox distributor and I remember earlier years than those listed online for the release dates.
When I finish my time machine I will go and steal all that stuff out of your dads storage lol.
Oh man, I loved the transfers as a kid, when I worked at an advertising agency we used the Letraset transfer lettering for layouts (before computers). Pretty cool haul you got. I remember building an partially demolished farmhouse that came with oil drums and accessories, I think I had it in two different scales, I think it was Matchbox.
Airfix command post in both 1/72 and 1/32nd. The 1/72 had the oil drums and a wireless operator
I hit the like button even before the adverts were over because I know this is going to be good.
That´s the spirit :)
Cool stuff thanks for showing 👍
The first Germans you showed are Marx from the Battleground Playset
That´s right. Totaly forgot. I need to read up on my american toy soldiers :)
Every boy in the USA had this set in the 60s & 70s. Unfortunately for me I got stuck with the "White Set", which was had the German figures in white posing as Vichy French with a French flag on the flagpole. LOL Sooo Stupid.But this was just after the Vietnam War so you were happy to get a set with 2 opposing sides. The classic Green Army men purposely came in only 1 color so you COULD NOT fight against anyone. Middle class American housewives started this movement, proudly boasting that No son of theirs would grow up to be a warmonger. Absolutely ridiculous but very true, I remember it well and the newspaper article boasting about it. This of course after the US dropped a zillion tons of bombs on Vietnam, Cambodia, & Laos. Woolworth's sold the green army men for $1 a bag and the store managers would brag to the housewives "Look! only 1 color so they cant fight!" Typical left wing liberal feel good nonsense. Sears and Kiddie City were more practical, they actually sold the "evil" Marx playsets with opposing forces! Oh the humanity! Be glad you grew up in Sweden in the 70s! There you go a bit of socio-political history regarding toy soldiers. BTW, Marx even got in on the "Look, no one to fight with!" bandwagon with their Carry All Gi Base. It had great poses but again no opponent...I got stuck with that stupid set too. LOL SAD & STRANGE BUT 100% TRUE
I Forgot to mention that it wasn't until after the Gulf War, nearly 20 years later that you could buy "Green Army Men" in the color tan as well as the original green. By then the housewives were onto something else...the hole in the ozone layer from their hairspray, saving baby harp seals, the evils of brown paper bags, the satanic panic, and on and on every week something new and even more ridiculous....LMAO I despised my mother and her friends
@tankwright5489 bmc toys has the Marx soldiers as well as others toy soldiers of the 60s before all this p c bull.i was lucky to be a 50s.kid.my brothers and I had all brands of toy soldiers.back then you could find them everywhere even at gas stations.take care
@@tankwright5489 belive me socialist Sweden was all about pacifing men and boys in the 70s. I guess the vietnam war that was televised all over the planet was great fuel for their weird ideas. Luckily we had companys like Airfix and Matchbox that was available up until the early 80s.
And of course scale models seem to have flown under the radar and was readily available.
We did not have a lot of these in the US.
I like seeing them, but you need to do a set up outside!!
Lets see how you play!
very enjoyable … thanks for the video
Thanks man :)
A fellow Hurricane fan. Cool!
So there's two of us now.
Best little plane ever :)
Brilliant video 😅 👏🏻
Would have liked to of seen the early airfix soldiers in the last parcel 📦… I had the soldiers in the early seventies.. just wondered if they changed them the late seventies matchbox soldiers were amazing, I know there was none here … those transfers wow! Haha 😜 I’d forgotten about them, bravo 👏🏻
Thanks man.
I will do videos on all the ho-oo scale toy soldiers in the future.
You can always check this great website.
plasticsoldierreview.com/Manufacturers.aspx
What make is the Scirocco? If it came with a tin of paint it's extremely unlikely it would be Humbrol, more likely to be Gunze Sangyo.
If you're going to start collecting Matchbox kits you'll have to buy a bigger house 😆
They started off making simpler kits, presumably for kids younger than the typical Airfix buyers, but later got more sophisticated and detailed. They also made a few obscure subjects which other manufacturers would never think of making.
I think they are called Imai.
GOOD HAUL SIR,THE ATLANTIS SOLDIERS ARE ABOUT 1/30 SCALE I BELIEVE.THEIR 1;72 SCALE WENT WELL WITH AIRFIX COUNTERPARTS.HAVE ABOUT 5000 OF THE WILD WEST MIX.HAVE FUN AND TAKE CARE
Lot's of great cool stuff this time. I like that Matchbox family set. I may have to look for some of those myself. And while I didn't have Action Transfers around here, I did have Presto Magix which were pretty much the same thing. And something I really enjoyed as a kid and wish they still made. Fun stuff, thanks for another entertaining video.
Thanks man. Were are you from?
I´ll have to look up those Presto Magix.
I'm in America. Yeah, after watching this video I've been thinking of looking for some myself. I'd kinda like to do some again.
A surfeit of COOLNESS!!
Great vid , thanks for reminding me of the sticker packs , think we had a Battle of Britain book too fill in with Stickers 🤔, thanks for sharing 👍
AH HA! The 1st box you opened were WWII German Infantry by Marx. Your gonna catch the Marx bug with those I know I did back in the 70s. I have to admit I also really liked the Atlantic toys as well I think it was their box art that got me back then. But Marx Army playsets were the best......here in the states anyway. Thanks for uploading a video today I thoroghly enjoyed the break to blast back to a simplier time. Thanks Jerry as always great work with the video. Now go order some more stuff we like this kind of content. Cheers.
I realy need to save up a big chunk of cash and try to get the Navarone playset from Marx. It´s so expensive and will cost even more to get it over to Sweden.
Glad you enjoy the videos.
Cheers.
That display shelf of yours must be enormous.
That´s a big problem. I don´t have enough spave to display everything.
@@toysoldiernostalgia
I ended up buying a bigger house.
That's when the hobby get REALLY expensive.
@@davidmooney1253 I´m looking to get some kind of studio/shop or something.
But right now it´s not within my budget but I´m working on it :)
It's a pleasure watching your videos. Interested to see what's in the boxes. Almost feels like I'm opening them. I've been collecting model Aircraft that I unbox. I'd love to show but I don't know how on RUclips. I have many I'll never see built. I've bid and made offers although I haven't done that with toy soldiers yet. I'm nearly 60 and still love toys as I use to back in the 70s. The Matchbox 1/72 Aircraft I've built that same Hurricane it's also my favorate Aircraft. I have many different variant in 1/48 scale and a couple of larger scale 1/32. I love those western Atlantic figures the large ones. As always great show.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
Thanks George I´m glad you like them.
I think you should try to share your models on RUclips.
You don´t realy need anything else then a mobile phone with a decent camera.
Then maybe just any two lamps with led lights.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Hi there Jerry. Thanks for your reply. Much appreciated. I'd love to show some photos but it's mostly boxes many of model Aircraft. But I do have other items like figurines of characters from movies. The latest are from Planet Of The Apes soldier action figures, Character Actor Kurt Russell from the movie The Thing, Terminator T-1000, and Arnold Schwarzenegger Commando. I hope you know those otherwise I'll feel silly if you don't know about descriptions of figures. I'm not sure where I enter any photos on RUclips. I watched a video of a gentleman who was showing and explaining about large size Marx brand soldiers. Have you got any of those? He showed comparisons with recast figures and copies of one type to another. Very large figures of Japanese officer and infantry soldier and a German about to throw the stick grenade. Very interesting large toy soldiers. I think I heard Mexican made the largest and the next size down was bigger than 1/32 scale. I forgot the inches sizes. I'll have to check that out again. I looked up large Marx toy soldiers on eBay and there's plenty but pricey too.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
@@toysoldiernostalgia PS. My only internet is on my mobile phone at this time. No home internet. But it does take good photos. Only I have to figure out where you go on RUclips to show pictures or videos.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
Atlantic westerns bring back memories
The Matchbox track with the spring running in the groove was called The Matchbox Motorised Motorway. I had one in the late 60's, I remember my dad continually having to buy replacement springs because they'd keep kinking and then that'd jam the whole thing up.
The beauty of it was that you could adapt any Matchbox/Dinky/Corgi car or truck to run on it, you just needed to stick one of the supplied plastic spikes onto the bottom of it with sticky tape. If you put it near the front of the car you could create awesome oversteer as the back of your car slid out on the corners.
I have to get one of those sets. They look awesome. The Steer-n-Go I have the same kinda thing were you can use your own toy cars.
OH, I just saw this and posted something simlilar. Yep, those tracks were a real pain. Lots of 3 in 1 oil.
This is what I imagine it would be like if I were to win the lottery - order everything that moves and have stacks of unopened packages. How lucky were you to have been in ABBA.....😉 😊
Lol I wish I had a lot of cash to buy everything. I´m realy careful with spending my money on other stuff like clothes, eating out and all those things that most people spend money on. I ride my bicycle to work to save money on gas and stuff like that.
@@toysoldiernostalgia You've got your priorities right then and that's the main thing!
The letraset action transfers - the full colour background is inside the pack but as you say ‘do you open it or not? that is the eternal question😊
I´m gonna have to open it. I just need to see the background.
Wonderful 1/32 Atlantic Far West series, extremely searched in Italy
Thanks for bringing back the memories, I had almost forgotten about the actin transfers.
They were so much fun.
I'm from New Zealand. Love your videos. I remember the action transfers but not exactly the same as the ones you opened. The were a booklet in landscape orientation with background info of the conflict covered. The middle 2 pages were for the rub-on transfers. I had The Battle of Britain and D-Day. I remember filling the skies in the BoB book that it looked ridiculously busy!! Planes would've been colliding with each other!! 🤣🤣🤣 Love the Matchbox 2 Colour kits. My fav planes were BF109, Hurricane & Beaufighter.
Maybe they were Kalkitos? That brand was popular over here but maybe you had other makers over there. Those are some of my favorite planes as well.
Glad to see you’re back
Watching your video was like going back in time it was brilliant happy memories
Thank you
Glad you like it :)
Great stuff.Happy Days.🇬🇧👍🫶
Hello ToySoldierNostalgia! I'm an older collector of Airfix, Atlantic, and more. As much as I love them I am looking to sell off my collection and stumbled on your channel. If you are interested in purchasing let me know! I am in the US
I could be interested for sure. Gets expensive buying from the US though with shipping and taxes. But if you want you can email me on toysoldiernostalgia@gmail.com
Well done!
Top video as always. Monster!!!
Hi there! Nice haul once again!👍😊 do you have a collection of the ESCI 1/72 figures in the red boxes? They were also quite popular in the 70s and 80s.
Are those the ones with the red sides? In that case I have a few but I´m looking to get more. I actually bought some in the early 80s for modelling in 1/72 and I still have those.
@toysoldiernostalgia yes the one with red sides.and at the back its the ESCI mascot penguin taking it easy with his machine gun
I recognised the blue power supply straight away! had the MAtchbox track with the springs. What a pain to set up.. It was called Matchbox Motorway, I think.
Great video, I loved the Action transfers as a kid. P. S Rommels' eyes really were like that! Do some research. lol
So your trying to tell me a Hong Kong company actually painted something correct for ones lol.
Jerry oh my God action transfers they are fantastic. They gave me hours of fun as a kid. I’ve also got the guards in yellow 172 scale but I found another company I think from Russia perhaps you have them. ZVEZDA THEY MAKE VERY DETAILED ONE OFF SEEN FOR EXAMPLE GERMANS WITH AN M42 MACHINE GUN BEHIND THE WALL. THEY’RE VERY FIDDLY. I’M SURE YOU’VE SEEN THEM. I’VE STARTED ON THEM. THANKS TO YOU. I’VE STARTED TO COLLECT 70S TOYS BUT ONLY THE SOLDIERS NOT THE GAMES. DID YOU SEE SOMEBODY POSTED A 70S TOY GAME ABOUT THE V1 ROCKET? YOU CAN FIND INFORMATION ABOUT IT ONLINE MUST BE WORTH A FORTUNE
I´ve seen Zvezda and they look cool. I have to much 1970s to collect first though :)
If it´s a playset you mean that´s the Matchbox V1 playset. There was an incomplete one on Ebay a few months ago. It wasn´t complete and I can´t remember what it sold for. I was kinda disapointed in the playmat which is not even close to as good as the Matchbox Beach Head Assault. So for now I will pass on any of that set for sale and spend all that cash on more cheaper stuff.
I had a bunch of those German officers and painted them differently:brown SA black SS light blue Luftwaffe dark blue Kriegsmarine white political office grey combat Waffen SS regular Wehrmacht green
airfix kits in Nz at a time were expensive, so kids brought chinese plastic knockoffs (basically same mould different colourscheme green\grey) they still survive today.
And I also see quit a bit of Blue Box from Australia on Ebay. I guess since Hong Kong was so close they were common over in your neck of the woods.
@@toysoldiernostalgia funny thing is we had most of the moulds you guys did ,just never heavy weapons or support .
The German solider who is the loader for the M34 ,since we never got the MG solider, and couldn't explain the box on his arm Kiwi kids used him as dead German.
The Matchbox kits look mint….
Build them.😁
I think I will in the fall.
@@toysoldiernostalgia I look forward to seeing them.
Have you looked at Bayko? A really good building set that went from the 1930s to the 1970s?? The earlier 1950s/60s set are great...stillmlooking like 1930s houses and stuff. The sets can go together to make some huge buildings on O gague for railways etc
Cool I’ll have check that out. From what country was it?
@@toysoldiernostalgia its British, from Plimpton Engineering
@@toysoldiernostalgia it was eventually owned by Meccano, I was certainly playing with 1950s sets in the 70s. The 1960s sets aren't so brilliant as the 50s sets, and unlike the wiki entry, only the occasional piece broke. Oddly for the period, it was also marketed at girls as a building set! I still have a large amount myself which I occasionally get out. The instructions take a bit of getting used to, but much more realistic than Betta Builder or Lego.
@@grahambandy6067 I found some on Ebay. I´ll get some and check them out. Thanks for letting me know about these.
Hi there my friend.
Firstly I'm sad that this (at the time I viewed it Thursday afternoon) has has over 2,000 views yet ONLY just over 200 likes!
That first set of German figures have some outstanding poses! However their helmets look a bit dodgy LOL
Have you seen the film "Escape to Victory"?
It's a classic WW2 fictional film where a combined Allied PoW team play football against a German team, well you could use your pink football squad in a training session?
Lastly, those oversize brown "Stampede" set technically could be used with other figures...obviously things appear larger the closer they are & therefore smaller the further away they are too LOL
I think a 10% like rate is pretty good actually :) but I do appriciate you thinking that it should be higher, thanks.
Never seen that movie. I´ll see if I can find it "on line".
I think I´m gonna have to stick with keeping Airfix and Atlantic separate. It would just bug me to much and the Atlantic is more cartoonish in their sculpts.
Hi Jerry, I have this book from a norwegian autor, about the Airfix figures range, I will ship it to you, saw your adress in the clip 😉
I´ve been looking for that book. Oops maybe I should start using a black marker again to paint over the shipping tags. Don´t want them toy soldier stalkers at my front door lol.
@@toysoldiernostalgia Well, I thought it was a hint for me to get your adress 😄 (I have written before on one of your posts)
@@nielschristianwithmller138 yes and I tried to fins that book but it was sold out everywhere.
I had al the revolutionary series they were cool...and we had transferelli in italy!
Transferelli? Is that like the Action Transfers?
Correct @@toysoldiernostalgia
WOW so many memories 🙂👍
Unbelievable ! watched till the very end and the figures I had been hoping for were opened last but did you open them ? Of course you didn’t argggggggg !
I´m sorry man didn´t mean to disappoint. I will do videos on all the early ho-oo sets a bit later and then I will go through and show every figure in the same way I do in my videos on the 1/32 scale. If I go through everything in every set when I unpack these I think the videos would be to long.
If you want to check out some of the Airfix ho-oo scale and other makers this is a great website.
www.plasticsoldierreview.com/ManufacturerList.aspx?id=3
@@toysoldiernostalgia appreciate you taking time to reply, those were the figures as a little boy I remember, Africa corp, u.s. marines, French foreign legion (my favourite for some reason)Arabs (came with camels) and u.s cavalry although can’t remember if they came with a figure of George Armstrong Custer ! As a 64 year old man watching you open those parcels was like being transported back to 1970, people say you should never look back but what’s the point of having memories and ignoring them ? Love your channel and keep up the great work that you do.
So you finally found the Men in Black (shirts) :D
I didn't have them as a kid, but, man, that box WAS controversial back in the days!
Some said those toy soldiers were educational, others said they were outrageus...
The Big Kahuna himself, is fairly inaccurate as a depiction. Mussolini went on the March on Rome (by train) dressed as a civilian, with a top hat or something like that, and was received by the king.
Only some time later, when he wiped out the parliament and became the F.....g Duce, he started to wear that silly uniform.
Plus, I see on the box the depiction of some High-ranking fascists (I recognize Balbo and De Bono, if I'm not mistaken), but they're not in the box.
Anyway, Atlantic was a wacky company. More or less in the same years, they released a box of "Police enforcers", and those I had. There was a guy in riot gear with his shield and nightstick raised... and those were the early seventies, the Lead Years... and kids were supposed to play "cops and rioters"? (there was no rioter's box, anyway).
By the way, the fascists themselves dubbed their seizure of power a"revolution".
Yes finaly got one. Now I only have two more to go :)
Cool so much great info.
I will have to look up those four guys.
So this wasn´t reveived all that well in Italy at the time.
How about the other three sets?
I guess maybe because they weren´t of an Italian they didn´t cause all that much trouble?
Was there ever any talk about why they decided to do those four sets?
Were those police the Carabinieri set?
@@toysoldiernostalgia Why, yes, now that I see a picture online, it is indeed the carabinieri set, oddly called Carabinieri-italian Police. The Carabinieri is indeed a branch of the army, but performs police and public order functions. Traditionally, there is a sort of "rivalry" between Carabinieri and Police, but a nightstick is a nightstick, you know how it is...
The most popular (or the most despised) "revolutionary" sets were the nazis-fascists, for sure.
I didn't even know about the Mao set 'til recently
As for the Black Shirts, I can only relate opinions from my family and friends. My teacher at primary school, for example, thought they were awful (maybe just because they were quite ugly).But there were newspaper articles about it. In the link below there's an interesting series of posts about Atlantic's history, and in this case an article (not favorable) about Atlantic's black shirts is quoted.
imagorecensio.blogspot.com/2013/07/viaggio-nellatlantic-atlantic-appunti.html
Your first set are Marx recasts. Very common in the U.S.
I know I screwed up. I bought them because I wanted to check out some Marx figures but I guess I forgot lol.
обожаю твои видео, очень много у меня уже есть, но еще больше есть у тебя, того что я еще хочу))
Thanks 😀
Where do you find these at what website do you go to would like to get information on them please
Ebay 😀
Timme toy soliders-uuukk blasphemy.
Sorry I have a biases toward Airfix&Matchbox 😊
Lol it´s ok to like or dislike any brand of toy soldiers. It´s all a matter of personal taste. But these were actualy Marx, but maýbe that´s just as bad :)
The first German figures are Marx, decent sculpts but poor on the details.
as always very entertaining. Jag såg ett spel på auctionet som kanske kan intressera dig, BATTLE GAME, sällskapsspel, Tri-ang, 1960-tal. säljs av växjö auktionskammare.
härlig video !
Tackar för det :)
Kollar upp spelet, tack.