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Wednesday 4 January 2012

MAC PACK

Here's a few more goodies from my old Ebaying days. Like all my bits and bobs these were all purchased from Car Boot Sales and Charity Shops between 2000 and 2010. Sometimes friends just gave me bags of stuff as well, which were always great fun to root through! Long gone now, we have amongst the above a nice boxed Matchbox MAC Snow Rescue Unit and some unidentified GI Joe vehicles.

Oddly enough, MAC is the sign-off in the SWORD SOLO comic strip, like FAB in Thunderbirds. Matchbox's acronym meant Mobile Action Command. Like FAB, I don't know what MAC stood for at Century 21, although the superb GACCH comics history site postulates that it might mean Moving As Commanded and tongue in cheek, Mainly A Commercial! I personally like the other use of MAC on GACCH, namely a shortened version of machines or machinery, which reminds me of the Japanese Mecha. What do you think MAC meant?
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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous1/04/2012 12:39 am

    Mattel Astrospace Center of course!

    see lower down at
    http://www.wildtoys.com/MMMPage/MMMmisc/ClubKits/index.asp

    :°)
    --
    Paul

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  2. Anonymous1/04/2012 11:08 am

    (laughs) Yes, it has to be the Mattel Astrospace Center! Good one, Paul.

    Personally I am sceptical MAC stands for anything in those SOLO SWORD stories. Bet it was just like FAB.

    But what about, "Mission Accepted, Commander"?

    ... signing out. SMAK. (Smoke Me A Kipper)

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  3. Anonymous1/04/2012 11:09 am

    And is THAT more spam I see? Grrrrr.

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  4. Anonymous1/04/2012 11:12 am

    By the way, nice farm set, Woodsy .... but why is there a walrus in it? Oh. My. Goddess. Don't tell me you've been putting walrus milk in the tea?

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  5. WOODSY1/04/2012 4:16 pm

    I've deleted the spam. As for the Walrus, the milk is all we drink over here at Tusk Force and our personal unit motto is In For the Krill! hee hee.

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  6. WOODSY1/04/2012 4:18 pm

    'By the way, that's a nice farm set' reminds me of 'By the way, that's a nice bike' - who said that in which film?

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  7. Anonymous1/05/2012 11:20 pm

    (facepalms and groans) "In for the Krill"? That has to be the worst joke of the year, so far! (laughs)

    I am ashamed to admit I didn't know the source of the bike quote. I feel I should have! Sigh. had to look it up. (Google makes me looks way smarter than I really am).

    Now if you'd said, "Give me your clothes ..."

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