Blood for the Baron!

The Baron wrote:Ah, this was my bath toy!

What a little horror.

You need a lolcat-style caption on it saying something like "Whatchoo lookin at foo?"

The Baron wrote:Ah, this was my bath toy!

What a little horror.

Whatever game you were playing there baron you looked like you meant it.

You really didn't want a bath, eh Baron?

I guess like many of you I got into AF during the dying days of the original Star Wars toys, as lets be honest, Transformers were expensive things best suited for B'days and Xmas (You weren't going to get Optimus Prime just for not screeching at the dentist) and you need something around the pocket money price range to keep you going, and I'd always wanted more than 2 Action Men and these shrunk down versions seemed a way to do it. My first AF figure was the Muton (don't laugh at the back), who I orginally had as acting as some kind of Doombot for Dr Doom (I was getting into Marvel comics at this point and was also obsessed with the Secret Wars figures), followed by a Red Shadow. These actually came not from a Toy Shop, but a newsagent, back in the days when you couldn't just buy 99p tat toys from Newsagents, but better known decent stuff (remember finding that elusive Corgi Juniors James Bond DB5 at a newsagent as well). I got Mutt and Junkyard from the same newsagent a few weeks later. I picked up Skip, the Z force Sapper, Breaker, Phones and the Space Force Pilot not too soon after (never had any SAS back in the day). I then began regularly buying the Hasbro era figures, and almost wet my pants when Zodiac Toys had all the miscarded AF figures from the dying days of Palitoy at 99p!

Best memory of this period was my first ever vist to a Toys R Us in Wood Green (this being back in the days when Toys R Us was a new thing in old Blighty) and just seeing rows and rows of these things and finally getting an original Cobra Commander (I also remember this same visit being the only time I ever saw the Masters of the Universe Eternia playset in the flesh - the box was almost the same size as me!). My last ever toys bought in childhood were AF (Lifeline and Wet Suit)

I waved goodbye to my orginal AF collection im 2004 when I gave them to one of the kids that my Mum babysat (Jamie, if you're reading this now, I hope that you took good care of them all). The only things I kept was the Escape Armour, which I still have to this day missing only one of it's attachments and the bits of my CLAW (which I found after the big clear out and have now restored to it's former glory thanks to the wonders of eBay).

I started picking up old Star Wars toys at bootsales not long after I started working, and then one day amongst some Star Wars I found an old blue Cobra Commander figure alongside a red version of the same figure (which I now know to be Red Laser) . I bought the old blue CC but not the Red one (a mistake that cost me a pretty penny on eBay a few years down the line), and the rest is history.....

My memories include not liking the original line of Action Force apart from the SAS who were always the best. That all changed when an American family moved into the same road as me and he brought with him his American GI Joes and more importantly his Cobra's. They just seemed so much better than our Action Force, then of course the switch happened and I began to pick some figures up of mine own.

I can also remember looking at a Killer Whale in the Medway Toys R Us one Christmas wanting it so bad, a dream that has never materialised.

Interestingly talking to some other collectors outside of this forum one of them remembers a display at Hamleys one Christmas of the USS Flagg complete with at least 3 Skystrikers and 2 Killer Whales. Anyone else see or heard this story?

I think I remember pictures of it being posted somewhere. For anyone with a massive room needing some decor I can't endorse enough the purchase of a Flagg, just looks bloomin marvelous

i'd love one but i'm sure it would push annie over the edge if i did that unless i get and extension built,

The Flagg's so big you could use it as an house extension

just remember the old 'but think of it as an investment honey' line.

You are all doing it wrong. The Flagg is a solution not a problem. Simply put it in the room and it will double as the display case as well as a display item. Therefore theres no need for expensive and time consuming to build furniture to furnish the display room. So you are killing two birds with one stone.

Failing that just say its the new sideboard for the living room. It might work.