Like many bloggers I have long been a fan of frogmen. I remember as a 60's kid playing for hours with my Pedigree Action man frogman. I can feel it now swimming beneath the troubled waters of my bath seeking out my huge rubber Action Man shark, which was busy terrorising that wonderful lead-botted Deep Sea Diver! I remember having loads of cheapo plastic frogmen (some on Ebay US now) and little scuba subs Thunderball style! 7
Frogmen had that same mysterious allure that Astronauts had back then, explorers of the unknown and like super cool. Every one a 007! One of my favourite pictures was of the skin diver on the cover of the Junior Picture Encyclopaedia, which I'll have to track down. In fact I loved all those different terms - frogman, skin diver, scuba diver and poshest of all, spelunker! Funny, like astronauts, they've faded into obscurity.
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I have often wondered what a PROJECT SWORD or SPACEX frogman would look like if such a toy existed. I imagined them swarming from SEA SWORD or para-diving from the NEEDLE PROBE in search of hidden oceanic spies! Well I was thrilled to find the RAPHEAL LIPKIN FLIPPY FROGMAN on Ebay US! Not only is it such a cool toy 'powered by harmless jet-action pellets' amazingly it's made by the same toy company as the SPACEX II range, Rapheal Lipkin aka Pippin! Wonderful! I've just thought, I bet Alka Selzer would be a great substitute for those pellets! (is it still around? Or the other powdered bubbler, Andrews?)
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Any one else got any Frogmen in their collection? I'll post pics of mine soon. Just got my better half's birthday to celebrate tonight! hic!
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ReplyDeleteif any one has one to sell. looking for my husband .when he was a kid he saved money for it, and finally he had enough and it was sold out , he told me that story today and I was searching for that toy I think that it is flippy the frogman. would love to surprise him. so HELP silvischuler@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteThe only ones I know of for sale at the moment are the very expensive pair on E-Bay for $150 but you might watch out for another one. I talked a seller down from $49 to $34 for one without the pellets but it did have the air tank. Just search Flippy frogman on E-Bay site.
DeleteThank you so much for sharing this information.
ReplyDeleteFound a Flippy today high tide debris at the chahalis river near hoqium washington
ReplyDeleteLucky find!
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