Yesterday was one of those days when I got some toys out in the garden!
I try to do it at least once or twice each summer.
This time it was Action Man!
I made a coffee, got out some reference books and spread out the toys around the sun lounger!
Bliss!
Whilst I was snoozing Accy Man snuck off to take a sneaky peek at his pecs in the mirror!
I wonder why Hasbro/ Palitoy et al decided to give AM blue Y-fronts rather than leave him in his birthday suit?
ReplyDeleteI think the blue pants were introduced when the figure design and articulation system changed over to the 'New Dynamic Body', somewhere around 1978-onwards. The new physique range included boxed uniformed figures, and a boxed 'Basic Figure', which was sold without a uniform. The new physique was illustrated on the Basic Figure's colourful box, so perhaps the inclusion of pants may have been a necessary aesthetic for marketing, Woodsy? I'd be interested to know :)
ReplyDeleteWell, I'd imagine that it was because it suggested he had 'man-bits' under his shorts, whereas it was all-too obvious in the original design that he'd had a terrible industrial accident 'downstairs'.
ReplyDeleteI can see the marketing now Kid: Eagle Eyes, Gripping Hands, Real Hair and Man Bits! ha ha
DeleteI sometimes see those Gripping digits described as Kung Fu hands. I love that. If you can grip you can do Kung Fu!