Junior and me tried to launch an Action Man parachutist today.
It sort of worked. The chute did unfurl but the height was an issue, not enough of it from the bedroom window.
To check if this was a common problem - which I seem to recall from my childhood too - we watched a couple of You Tube clips. Even the guy from Palitoy said kids would struggle to get it to work.
Another clip confirmed that more height could create a decent billow and a full chute, as a drone dropped the figure from a great altitude.
Interestingly it was a solid figure called Desert Rat that was used. Not an Action Man I know at all. You?
Have you succeeded in launching the Action Man parachute?
Throw it way up in the air.
ReplyDeleteAs a kid, I had the parachute accessory. AM was just too heavy and the chute just too small, to allow for any possible survival!
ReplyDeleteMy happy parachute memories center around my Quacetti Mach-X catapult rocket, which had two chutes.
My most remembered mission was seeing the main body tumbling from the sky with a Roman Candled main chute and the capsule still attached.
At the last moment, the capsule separated and it's own chute deployed successfully to save my plastic astronaut's life!
Oh, rockets? My favorite! I built a whole fleet of Estes model rockets and gleefully launched them from vacant lots and ball fields. All came down with parachutes with the exception of one that was "tumble recovery." (That meant it simply crashed!) I think one did catch fire at some point...
ReplyDeleteNope. My Action man Red Devil always crashed to the ground. Bit of a waste of money really.
ReplyDeletethe action man chute would work with a Little Big Man ir Matt Mason size figure, the weight to drag ratio is wayoff. Bill
ReplyDeleteI recollect back in the early '70s, my dad taking me to to top of a steep nearby hill, where we spend quality time trying to get the Red Devil's chute to open. It was mostly crash landings resulting in broken green goggles. A great childhood memory nonetheless, Woodsy
ReplyDeleteIt was fun trying again Tone. Action Man meant so much to us didn't he!
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