I love a good space toy mystery, especially one involving box art. This unusual Sears Space Command Centre and Sound Studio appeared on flea...

  Well what do you make of that?

  The Kinks' played by Van Halen! Its really got me! What do you think!

  I like these creatures!  So very Tomland! Do you like them readers?

  Sam Petrucci , the GI Joe box artist,  drew these neat fantasy The Land of Ta sticker sheets for the Dennison in 1981. There are two diffe...

 The great John Noakes tells you how to make a neat Action Man store on Blue Peter in 1977. Perfect for Christmas! [ courtesy of TimeTunnelT...

  https://www.nfb.ca/film/toys/ This is an unusual and old film with a macabre spin on Action Man/ GI Joe toys from the National Film Board ...

  With Action man uniforms on my mind I got to looking at another of my favourites, one of many favourites, the Palitoy Russian Infantry. I ...

 I always liked my Brutus as a kid. You know, the hard plastic boxer dog that kept the Palitoy Action Man Canadian Mountie company. (was the...

I had to chuckle when I saw this old carded frogman. I mean, the firm have just brazenly ripped off one of my favourite Action Man box illus...

 I've enjoyed cleaning up my new 1983 Action Force Skystriker found at the boot sale this morning. Its come up nicely and the removal of...

  I love the sleek lines of the 1988 Hasbro Cobra Stilleto for small GI Joe figs. It could almost be a modern Thunderbirds vehicle like the ...

One of my favourite Action Man uniforms as a kid was the German Stormtrooper and the Stick Grenade in particular.  A seemingly simple combin...

I've picked up a few quaint little stocking fillers recently. The white van is a Hot Wheels Spoiler Sport from 1976. I had hoped it was ...

Right, I've ID'd quite a lot of my new bundle of plastic soldier equipment [thanks folks!] and this is what's left, that stubbor...

 Here are some plastic tools and equipment from the  Lanard/ Hasbro/ Chap Mei swap Wotan and I haven't managed to ID yet. Any idea what ...

 It was a great week for fantastic plastic last week. My Lanard Corps! collection trebled in size and a fab new GI Joe enlisted. Two things ...

 My GI Joes have relocated to a new cabinet as my glass one has been purloined by the Missus for her knick-knacks! The Joes have grown. Four...

Hello Woodsy In your search for 3.75" GI Joe's should you come across 'Major ?' - I don't remember his name - but years...

As expected my lost Joe's weren't there this week. Like a drunken wasp returning to fruit I stood at the same spot I stood at last w...