Having returned home from sunny Filey I double-checked my Fighting Furies Cap'n Peg Leg for the hidden map.
Nada. Taken by Cap'n Hook years ago!
Arto first reminded me about the map and I had a look for repros as it's just a bit of paper.
Yep, Twentieth Century Box do the leg stopper, map and leaflet for £6. I'll have a think.
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Being an Action Man nut in the Sixties and early Seventies, Fighting Furies will have been a no brainer. It was 1975 though and I was 14. I reckon they were the last gasp for action dolls before I picked up my first electric guitar.
I think I had a few. Peg Leg came window boxed.
Still, Matchbox played a blinder I thought. Combining all the good things of action dolls before it and at the time, I understand that it's a huge range and very collectable. FF will have it's devoted fans like any other item.
I adored the Fighting Furies marketing artwork.
The garish colours and flaming backdrop brought to mind those brash Topps Civil War News gum cards, especially the one called Trapped. Ugh!
It was, though, I thought, unusual for Matchbox to enter the crowded action doll arena and now I think of FF almost Mego-like or Gabriel'ish with their own Lone Ranger line.
Matchbox would go all oddly action doll again in the next decade with their monsterin' Maxx FX, a largely unrealised range. I remember Freddy Kruger!
Did you have any Fighting Furies, Maxx FX or pirates?
The only place I ever saw those Fighting Furies was in the Matchbox pocket die-cast catalogue. Never saw any in the shops that I can recall. But as I never had any of those large action figures, they were not something I was likely to be looking for. Must have been a fun range though.
ReplyDeleteThere it is. Matchbox were a die-cast company really weren't they Paul. I wonder if ventures like FF proved difficult for them?
DeleteDidn't Matchbox also do Mobile Action Command? Smaller than star wars figures, great rack toys also known as Action Jackson i think????
DeleteNot to forget the Matchbox ABBA dolls!
DeleteWish I'd had them as a kid, Woodsy. They're a brilliant vintage line. Alas, I had the Ghost of Cap'n Kidd, a few years ago, but he sailed off into the sunset on the good ship eBay. Yep, sellers remorse.
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