I use to love Action man as a kid. I had all the uniforms and weapons. Good memory's I loved the uniforms of WW2. There was a black Action man called Tom Stone which didn't last very long. I do miss those days when I was a kid. I am 52 now but I do think back to the good times I had with my Action men. 👍👍👍
Back in '69 I remember most enjoying chucking my Action Man off the roof in his Red Devil Parachutist guise; I don't think the parachute ever functioned properly though. The Ski Patrol with the green goggles was another favourite.
I had the red devil parachutist the early version of this came with a red white and blue parachute later ones came with an orange one which was bigger and worked slightly better. One of my action men got a broken arm out if it and spent many a month with his arm in a sling while different types of glue was used trying to fix it lol
Oh yes man, I really like this video. I'm 54 now, and got my first action man when I was 10. I've still got them, my son played with them and went with me to action man fairs here in the Netherlands. Sometimes I make extra stuff for them, now working on converting a Jynn Erso ( star wars) doll to a real action-woman, using my 3D printer to print body joints for her in true action man style. It's a bit of a shame they never made a good female version, with flocked hair, gripping hands and scar... Well, I will.
I can remember going to Blackpool for the illuminations one year in the mid 70s and there was a toy shop there on the front it was near the Dr who museum at the time and it had a display window set up it was it was action man heaven stood there for hours just dreaming it was better than the illuminations definitely my favourite toy from my childhood
I can remember shopping with my mum when I was about 4 or 5 and seeing the Action Man display in the toy department of the store we were in. As far as I can remember I knew of them so there must have been a TV advertising campaign(?). Anyway, it was near Christmas and she said I could choose an Action Man and an outfit for him to wear. I chose the deep sea diver set. Seeing it again here almost brings a tear to my eye. It was the start of an obsession, and I think about 25 Action Men and enough firepower to start a small war went through my hands in the ensuing 7 or 8 years. Thanks for the memories
My pleasure. Action Man is near and dear to my heart and I love hearing other peoples stories of how their childhoods were touched by this great British icon!
Really nice stuff. Kids in leamington used to leave tons of figures, tanks, copters all out in the front garden overnight back in the day in 1977 Used to be a fantastic toyshop called Toytown there too
Loved my Action Man as a kid. He's buried somewhere in the garage but I recently was given a big bag of broken figures by a friend. Having restored Dinkys and Corgis, I have come back in to AM through rebuilding and customizing what I was given. Thanks to Dave at Toy Polloi, I have had the best fun in ages rebuilding and bringing 7 little guys back to life. Now have grey and ginger customs. At 54, I'm keener on AM now than when I was a 70s kid. It is true..Action Man is a friend and hero we just forgot. But he's still with us. 👏
I had a few of the SAS ones, used to spend hours setting up the Iranian embassy siege with ropes from the training tower, on my sisters multi storey Cindy house. Fun times!
I remember going into a basement toy store in Ringsted Denmark with my mother when I was about 5 years old around 1978/79 and saw all the Action Man figures the very first time up on the top shelf. I remember the excitement and feeling a bit scared lol but knew that it was something I wanted. Thank you for the video which brought back memories
Dont't know my favourite. But the Artic Explorer was fantastic in Winter. He could slide so well. In summertime the frogman and of course the deepseadiver. Absolutly great. Also loved the dschungelexplorer with the boat....playing in the nearby river.....
I remember being about 8, sitting in the car with my best mate Ian and seeing the first adverts for the gripping hands (unless it was the eagle eyes). But what I remember was that childhood excitement. Only had 1of the items in the list - the deep sea diver - my Dad didn't want us playing with guns so I had to take my stuff over the road as he had all the military uniforms. Wish I'd kept the mountie uniform that I sent off for though.
When I was a kid back in the 1970s I had the Deep Sea Diver and that British Grenadier Guard in red. I have not learned until now, more than 40 years later, it was Action Man and it was Palitoy products. Cool to know since I have not known earlier.
I remember having all these, great times playing with my best mate we used to spend hours setting up different scenarios,pretty sure I had an SS officer as well as the stormtrooper,imagine a toy company today making that,the world would explode,it was one of my favourites.
shit a brick! i had the intruder when i was about 6 or 7 weird looking bugger he was, but he could batter the Hulk. i forgot about its very existence till i saw this vid, now its like fresh memories filled with sunshine. thanks old chum.
we did it with him in our garden pond ( ok that sounds wrong but you get what i mean lol) , friend thru his parachuting AM up and it landed on his roof....no joke it was there for over 2 months before his dad got it down...... oh dear oh dear....action man zombie figure lol.
Brilliant! Thank you for the video. I have to agree to the number 1 spot, The Lifeguard. However it is a pity about the helmet, as so many have the plume broken off, which mine did, when another AM figure fell off a high shelf on to it 😭😭 I do have the Blues and Royals outfit, complete with unbroken plume, which is safely boxed.
I had the life guard (broke the breast plate), i had the storm trooper ( stood on the helmet ),in fact i think i broke most of the plastic items including the helicopter rotors, the free action man you got from collecting stars had painted hair and no clothes, buti still loved my action men.!
Mit favourite was always, and still is to some extent, the parachutist. I distinctly remember breaking the head of one of my first action men (must have been ‘67ish hard painted head). Y trying to get him up in the air! No coming back from no head lol 😂
@3:25 Nice. I have my original action Man Deep Sea Diver. Or something very similar. When I look at your closely there's details mine doesn't have. (I'm i nthe US)I also have a solid Marx (I think made it) astronaut from NASA Gift Shop. I should upload that one of these days.
My top 10...10-frogman, ...9- US medic (early)...8- russian sotc...7- German Afrika korps....6- boxed sailor ...5 british infantry man ...4- Combat marine...3- German stormtrooper ...2-parachute regiment ...1- mountaineer (early).
Had a mini storage had nealy 265,000$ worth of Action Man, GiJoe Star Wars and through paper shuffle the whokle was sold to some storage buyer. It would take more than a million just to get half of what I had there. Good bye to collecting.
I was just wondering about the origin or reason for the Intruder figure. Then I watched this episode and you named it the worst, most fitting. What were they thinking, plus he is not at the correct scale. Why hasn't anyone ever made a Hitler action figure, the obvious number 1 villain of all time. Uses could range for Action Man, GI Joe, Big Jim, and Indiana Jones. Do you know the reason for this?
Sexton Creations It’s too specific. Every GI Joe or Action Man was generic, save for hair colour. What made them unique was their kit. The Intruder was specific and as a result, was hated. Also, if Hitler was produced, why not Mussolini or Stalin or Churchill or Roosevelt...? Action Man or GI Joe became what YOU wanted him to be. He parachuted into combat, fought in the jungles and the French resistance. But in his off periods, he explored jungles, polar areas or space. He even played football and cricket. Besides, sales of specific characters like Hitler would likely suffer as there would only ever be a few uniform choices for them. Action Man had a huge wardrobe of outfits.
I'm in the US but I have the Deep Sea Diver. Doesn't have all the components. So it may be a bit different. I also have a large Marx astronaut from NASA that's pretty solid and the box.
Is there some good websites to try to obtain Action Man figures? If so could you list them? Being from the USA , GI Joe was dominant (obviously)..I would very seriously like to find some for my collection. I have a couple, but nothing complete. Thank you for your excellent and informative videos!
Totally agree. It's interesting to see the ones you like. A couple I love. My list would have been quite different. But I agree with the intruder. That toy just doesn't fit with AM.
Hey Dave, this is the 10 best, my 10 favourite would have been very different too but the list would be boring if it had all the ceremonials in it! I tried to pick a broad selection and include both explorers and sports etc and not just have military ones. My 10 favourites would all be military! Maybe I'll do that list next! LRDG and Afrika Korps would be near the top of the list...
The German one must be so popular as every kid had to have a German soldier for the Paras, Royal Marines etc to fight against. The good guys have dozens of allied soldiers to share the sales figures, the bad guys only have one to take all the axis sales figures. Divide and conquer, the German soldier didn't sell many compared to all the British soldiers, but there were so many British soldiers to choose from so didn't sell many of any of them hence why the nazi is just as popular.
I like how the para is a late 60s-early 70s para. 59 pattern smock (a decent attempt at, anyway), olive green overall trousers and puttees. That gunfire audio clip between each section is bum-clenchingly annoying, BTW.
@@AnalogToys I'm glad you responded to this, because I didn't know if there was some obscure Lizard costume in the Palitoy Action Man line that I had never heard of. Maybe basil is thinking of some weird character from the Hasbro line (or maybe he or she is just smoking something).
The French Foreign Legion is my all time favorite, it really gets the imagination going. :))
I will never forget the furry cropped hair and moving eagle-eyes of these fabulous actions figures during the 70s.
I use to love Action man as a kid. I had all the uniforms and weapons. Good memory's I loved the uniforms of WW2. There was a black Action man called Tom Stone which didn't last very long. I do miss those days when I was a kid. I am 52 now but I do think back to the good times I had with my Action men. 👍👍👍
Back in '69 I remember most enjoying chucking my Action Man off the roof in his Red Devil Parachutist guise; I don't think the parachute ever functioned properly though. The Ski Patrol with the green goggles was another favourite.
The Ski Patrol was a great outfit. I also used to chuck my Red Devil out of the bedroom window but the parachute didn't work very well did it!
Analog Toys James May in a chopper showed that it did work from 200' up , alas I didn't have that opportunity.
My mum threw mine out the window and my new Action Man got a broken leg for his service to childhood.
I had the red devil parachutist the early version of this came with a red white and blue parachute later ones came with an orange one which was bigger and worked slightly better. One of my action men got a broken arm out if it and spent many a month with his arm in a sling while different types of glue was used trying to fix it lol
Oh yes man, I really like this video.
I'm 54 now, and got my first action man when I was 10.
I've still got them, my son played with them and went with me to action man fairs here in the Netherlands.
Sometimes I make extra stuff for them, now working on converting a Jynn Erso ( star wars) doll to a real action-woman, using my 3D printer to print body joints for her in true action man style.
It's a bit of a shame they never made a good female version, with flocked hair, gripping hands and scar... Well, I will.
they made really nice female figures for the team. Super Sandy and Super Peggy
I can remember going to Blackpool for the illuminations one year in the mid 70s and there was a toy shop there on the front it was near the Dr who museum at the time and it had a display window set up it was it was action man heaven stood there for hours just dreaming it was better than the illuminations definitely my favourite toy from my childhood
I can remember shopping with my mum when I was about 4 or 5 and seeing the Action Man display in the toy department of the store we were in. As far as I can remember I knew of them so there must have been a TV advertising campaign(?). Anyway, it was near Christmas and she said I could choose an Action Man and an outfit for him to wear. I chose the deep sea diver set. Seeing it again here almost brings a tear to my eye. It was the start of an obsession, and I think about 25 Action Men and enough firepower to start a small war went through my hands in the ensuing 7 or 8 years. Thanks for the memories
My pleasure. Action Man is near and dear to my heart and I love hearing other peoples stories of how their childhoods were touched by this great British icon!
Really nice stuff. Kids in leamington used to leave tons of figures, tanks, copters all out in the front garden overnight back in the day in 1977 Used to be a fantastic toyshop called Toytown there too
Loved my Action Man as a kid. He's buried somewhere in the garage but I recently was given a big bag of broken figures by a friend. Having restored Dinkys and Corgis, I have come back in to AM through rebuilding and customizing what I was given. Thanks to Dave at Toy Polloi, I have had the best fun in ages rebuilding and bringing 7 little guys back to life. Now have grey and ginger customs. At 54, I'm keener on AM now than when I was a 70s kid. It is true..Action Man is a friend and hero we just forgot. But he's still with us. 👏
I had a few of the SAS ones, used to spend hours setting up the Iranian embassy siege with ropes from the training tower, on my sisters multi storey Cindy house. Fun times!
Gotta love Action Man. One of my favourite toys as a wee boy.
Really nice to see this stuff again. Action man was my best toy ever
Oh my, I had the explorer with sled and huskies and the deep sea diver. I must get up in my dad's loft lol. Happy memories.
I remember going into a basement toy store in Ringsted Denmark with my mother when I was about 5 years old around 1978/79 and saw all the Action Man figures the very first time up on the top shelf. I remember the excitement and feeling a bit scared lol but knew that it was something I wanted. Thank you for the video which brought back memories
From #6 to #1, still have them all 😁 Your videos just made me wish to put them all on display, again. Thank you for the memories
Paulo Freire you’re welcome!
Dont't know my favourite. But the Artic Explorer was fantastic in Winter. He could slide so well. In summertime the frogman and of course the deepseadiver. Absolutly great. Also loved the dschungelexplorer with the boat....playing in the nearby river.....
I remember being about 8, sitting in the car with my best mate Ian and seeing the first adverts for the gripping hands (unless it was the eagle eyes). But what I remember was that childhood excitement. Only had 1of the items in the list - the deep sea diver - my Dad didn't want us playing with guns so I had to take my stuff over the road as he had all the military uniforms. Wish I'd kept the mountie uniform that I sent off for though.
LoL I have the 30th edition of number 2 lol. ! Holy shit the intruder is as funny as hell
When I was a kid back in the 1970s I had the Deep Sea Diver and that British Grenadier Guard in red. I have not learned until now, more than 40 years later, it was Action Man and it was Palitoy products. Cool to know since I have not known earlier.
Sweet, thank you for bringing back these good memories!
The combat soldier will always be my favorite
The fact that his entire kit cpuld be slung up in his pack is just the smartest thing
The commando was my favourite outfit, with an adventurer action man.
I remember having all these, great times playing with my best mate we used to spend hours setting up different scenarios,pretty sure I had an SS officer as well as the stormtrooper,imagine a toy company today making that,the world would explode,it was one of my favourites.
They never made an SS Officer
The deep sea diver was my favourite. I also had the police motorcycle that had a telephone in one of the panniers.
Excellent list ! Thank you. I would add the Frogman with the single oxygen bottle. The details were amazing.
Great upload! These toys are amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks John Wild!
I would have put the deep sea diver among the top two, if not at the top. It certainly captured my imagination!
Oooh! The deep sea diver! I loved that one! He used to have lots of adventures in the bath.
The quality of these videos is always breathtaking.
Totally agree with #1 - The Life Guard figure is magnificent!
shit a brick! i had the intruder when i was about 6 or 7 weird looking bugger he was, but he could batter the Hulk. i forgot about its very existence till i saw this vid, now its like fresh memories filled with sunshine. thanks old chum.
My friend had the Action Man Life Guard. Only time I was even slightly tempted to steal.
Wow that SAS figure is so cool
your collection is brilliant. takes me back seeing all these great figures
The French Foreign Legionnaire was fabulous but my favourite was the all-white ski patrol soldier. Both these outfits deserve more recognition, IMO.
A brilliant video the memories
Great video Tony!!! Thanks again
Lovely tribute!
Good review!
I remember as a kid blowing into the action man's helmet in the bath and watching him come to the surface
we did it with him in our garden pond ( ok that sounds wrong but you get what i mean lol) , friend thru his parachuting AM up and it landed on his roof....no joke it was there for over 2 months before his dad got it down...... oh dear oh dear....action man zombie figure lol.
Cool Collection……
Terrific! Good selection. One I would have included was the police motorcyclist. I never had one but they looked cool!
Brilliant! Thank you for the video. I have to agree to the number 1 spot, The Lifeguard. However it is a pity about the helmet, as so many have the plume broken off, which mine did, when another AM figure fell off a high shelf on to it 😭😭 I do have the Blues and Royals outfit, complete with unbroken plume, which is safely boxed.
I liked the Red Devil the most
So much so, that I became one in real life.
I still have it. With the original red white and blue parachute.
I had the life guard (broke the breast plate), i had the storm trooper ( stood on the helmet ),in fact i think i broke most of the plastic items including the helicopter rotors, the free action man you got from collecting stars had painted hair and no clothes, buti still loved my action men.!
Action Man was my favourite toy and it was the SAS.
I remember collecting the stars from the accessory packs. If you collected 21 stars you got a free (naked) Action Man. Happy days.
Mit favourite was always, and still is to some extent, the parachutist. I distinctly remember breaking the head of one of my first action men (must have been ‘67ish hard painted head). Y trying to get him up in the air! No coming back from no head lol 😂
Keep up the good work.. you know your stuff..
@3:25 Nice. I have my original action Man Deep Sea Diver. Or something very similar. When I look at your closely there's details mine doesn't have. (I'm i nthe US)I also have a solid Marx (I think made it) astronaut from NASA Gift Shop. I should upload that one of these days.
My top 10...10-frogman, ...9- US medic (early)...8- russian sotc...7- German Afrika korps....6- boxed sailor ...5 british infantry man ...4- Combat marine...3- German stormtrooper ...2-parachute regiment ...1- mountaineer (early).
What a bad this action man's version never came to mexico, i met the 90's action man
DEEP SEA DIVER..GI JOE!❤AT 60..IM COLLECTING THE CLASSICS!
Congratulations!
I loved this toy....
When he said Life Guard I was expecting an Action Man in speedos.
good video mate
Had a mini storage had nealy 265,000$ worth of Action Man, GiJoe Star Wars and through paper shuffle the whokle was sold to some storage buyer. It would take more than a million just to get half of what I had there. Good bye to collecting.
4:09 actually you can sell toy Nazis you just got to call them something else like Hydra, Cobra, Red Shadows, or Zeon.
For me, 1st issue adventurer, late EE soldier, and Afrika Korp Corporal would have made the list
I was just wondering about the origin or reason for the Intruder figure. Then I watched this episode and you named it the worst, most fitting. What were they thinking, plus he is not at the correct scale. Why hasn't anyone ever made a Hitler action figure, the obvious number 1 villain of all time. Uses could range for Action Man, GI Joe, Big Jim, and Indiana Jones. Do you know the reason for this?
Sexton Creations It’s too specific. Every GI Joe or Action Man was generic, save for hair colour. What made them unique was their kit. The Intruder was specific and as a result, was hated. Also, if Hitler was produced, why not Mussolini or Stalin or Churchill or Roosevelt...?
Action Man or GI Joe became what YOU wanted him to be. He parachuted into combat, fought in the jungles and the French resistance. But in his off periods, he explored jungles, polar areas or space. He even played football and cricket.
Besides, sales of specific characters like Hitler would likely suffer as there would only ever be a few uniform choices for them. Action Man had a huge wardrobe of outfits.
I loved red devil though i broke many
I agree about all them
5:23 damn, look at his eyes... these eyes...
"Action Man, with patented 'worried look.'" =^[.]^=
My favourite is the original 1978 german para
Oh my God that was a serious commercial.
Rob does his own music
Hopefully action man will be re released to the public. If so, sign me up to buy several.
I'm in the US but I have the Deep Sea Diver. Doesn't have all the components. So it may be a bit different. I also have a large Marx astronaut from NASA that's pretty solid and the box.
Do you have an RCMP outfit? I saved my stars forever to send off for one of those, when it arrived I was over the moon
Yes I do
Australian Jungle Fighter.
Is there some good websites to try to obtain Action Man figures? If so could you list them? Being from the USA , GI Joe was dominant (obviously)..I would very seriously like to find some for my collection. I have a couple, but nothing complete. Thank you for your excellent and informative videos!
Was there ever an outfit for Action Man based on the Falklands War ?
Yeah, worst figure was an easy guess. Also, were a couple of those maroon berets actually *cloth*? =0[.]o=
THE INTRUDERS IS MY THO
What no Astronaut? That's a classic of the space race. Shame.
Yes it is mate, it's very difficult choosing only 10!
Totally agree. It's interesting to see the ones you like. A couple I love. My list would have been quite different. But I agree with the intruder. That toy just doesn't fit with AM.
Hey Dave, this is the 10 best, my 10 favourite would have been very different too but the list would be boring if it had all the ceremonials in it! I tried to pick a broad selection and include both explorers and sports etc and not just have military ones. My 10 favourites would all be military!
Maybe I'll do that list next! LRDG and Afrika Korps would be near the top of the list...
You should do. I'd be interested to see your short list. Mine would be a lot of space and SAS stuff.
I really think the Australian Jungle Fighter should have been included. Also agree that the astronaut should have been on the list.
If you type into RUclips 'action man ptsd' you'll see a challenging 'funny' video by veterans for peace in the UK. Makes you think.
I always liked the Zulu war figure
Palitoy never made a Zulu War figure or Action Man
I saw it on the internet it must have been a custom
The German one must be so popular as every kid had to have a German soldier for the Paras, Royal Marines etc to fight against.
The good guys have dozens of allied soldiers to share the sales figures, the bad guys only have one to take all the axis sales figures.
Divide and conquer, the German soldier didn't sell many compared to all the British soldiers, but there were so many British soldiers to choose from so didn't sell many of any of them hence why the nazi is just as popular.
I had the Intruder!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sorry, what about the action man red devil with parachute?
What about it?
I like how the para is a late 60s-early 70s para. 59 pattern smock (a decent attempt at, anyway), olive green overall trousers and puttees.
That gunfire audio clip between each section is bum-clenchingly annoying, BTW.
Can I share this to my Action man/Gijoe group on Facebook mate ?
Stuart Naisbitt yes mate
Cheers buddy your welcome to join too .
facebook.com/groups/699961100100840/
Did i dream it, or was there a17th/21st Lancers Action Man????
yes it was released in 1970
How about the French foreign legionare?
what about Lizard ?
What the hell are you talking about?
@@AnalogToys I'm glad you responded to this, because I didn't know if there was some obscure Lizard costume in the Palitoy Action Man line that I had never heard of. Maybe basil is thinking of some weird character from the Hasbro line (or maybe he or she is just smoking something).
How could I buy some stuff?
What do you mean by "some stuff?" What are you trying to buy?
@@AnalogToys some close weapons some action man per se and so on
The Germans were not the only bad guys the French and the Russians were as well soo get it right
no German afrika corp?