I always loved small toy figures as a kid and I still do. Carpet Wars was often my playtime of choice aged about 7 or 8. The number of times I destroyed the entire massed Airfix ranks with a UFO Interceptor and a die-cast canon loaded with spent matches was almost criminal!
In the Nineties and Noughties when I used to be an avid car boot buyer I would always come away with at least a handful of plastic soldiers and co such as Timpo, Denys Fisher, Britain's and best of all, the complete unknowns, which I could spend a happy hour or two in the summer garden looking up. Pictured are a few little fellas I netted in previous trawls. Do such small figures find a place in your collection?
Most definitely! It was Little Green Aermy Men that got me into toy collecting. I wanted to do a portable train layout with a vintage Army men theme which led me to Marx, which led me to.... And now I have enough to equip a well starved third world dictatorship with soldiers.
ReplyDeleteWas Baron Karzi a Micronauts darth Vader clone d'ya reckon? Did the magnetic jointed limb technology catch on?
ReplyDeleteThe baron and force commander reflected star wars very closely, black and white suits and force commander was a dead ringer for a stormtrooper. Both were offshoots of microman line,which used magnemo joints extensively
ReplyDeleteMagnemo? You talkin' to me punk?
ReplyDeleteI feel lucky!
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