The catalogue has landed!

ariaisland · Post by **ariaisland** » 03 May 2004 22:03

Fantastic! thanks for sharing some superb scans.

steve · Post by **steve** » 10 May 2004 09:25

Please can we see the Strawberry Shortcake pages too?

Baron, I was up the west end yesterday and Hamleys has a window devoted to Strawberry Shortcake.......Is this part of an evil scheme to brainwash the young.....

The Baron · Post by **The Baron** » 10 May 2004 22:30

The World will cower before the might of my new agent of terror: RED STRAWBERRY!!!

Bwa-ha-haa-etc.

plastik · Post by **plastik** » 11 May 2004 08:24

God save us from the evil smell of strawberries.

Bit of useless information, did you know when the Action Man SAS was released the entire delivery smelt of strawberries because they were made in the same Hong Kong Factory that made the Strawberry Shortcake dolls, so they to put the stuff in a special oven to try and neutralise the smell.

I remember that smell because my little sister had the dolls (strawberry sghortcake not SAS) and they stank, if any of you can remember back to when girls in your class at school used to collect scented erasers if had the same sickly smell

automuton · Post by **automuton** » 17 May 2004 02:23

The cosmic cruiser prototype looks like the cruiser in the first comic (see top right):

http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/blood/A ... %2006.html

More intriguingly, the satellite in that comic (top right, and bottom center) looks just like the display piece in the top right of the second page of the catalogue.

Does anyone think maybe they were thinking of selling this as another cardboard base? Maybe this was a prototype too? It's not mentioned, but it is built to much more detail then the generic background below it, and it appears in the comic in exactly this form.

The Baron · Post by **The Baron** » 17 May 2004 04:19

All the toys in that story are these prototypes, the Swordfish is there too, but I think the water cannon must be creative licence.

plastik · Post by **plastik** » 17 May 2004 08:29

automuton wrote:The cosmic cruiser prototype looks like the cruiser in the first comic (see top right):

http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/blood/A ... %2006.html

Does anyone think maybe they were thinking of selling this as another cardboard base? .

I think so, these comics only exisited to reinforce the Action Force brand in order to shift more toys, maybe it was dropped as it was too hard to build from cardboard if supplied as a flatpack

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