Cap, Kit and Kaboodle

 Following on from last months cap talk, here's two great shots ( via Caligeff's auction) of the Action Team UN Officer released in Europe.

Doesn't old Action Man look grand in this complete UN uniform! 

To Cap it All

 That Palitoy Action Man Lancers cap I found yesterday ( thanks for ID 'ing it Paul) .....

 reminded me of an officer I once found at a German flea market and blogged about 13 years ago.

The new cap would have sat well on this fellow, albeit a cheapo I think. The uniform was by Schildkrot.

The officer has flown along with his She-Ras.

Looking up Schildkrot Action Team I thought my old man was this from their Soldiers of the World range. It looks like the Lancers cap I got yesterday but the uniform is different to the above. 

Is this Schildkrot figure a Lancer?

As it turns out my old officer should have had a cap more like the Foreign Legion.

Oddly enough, all the Schildkrot figures I've seen online  today have the same cheapo looking doll so maybe my original assessment was wrong.

He's Schildkrot too!

What do you think? Have you any Action Team? Is their figure a Lancer? What did I get 13 years ago?

Schildkrot: Tortoise Man!

Another toy brand I'm noticing in Germany is Schildkrot.

I saw it on the back of a huge vintage doll's neck in a Charidee shop. You know the kind, hard brittle antique plastic heads.

I first came across Schildkrot in an old book I have called Male Action Dolls, which covers Action Man around the world. Like Palitoy did for Hasbro in the UK, different local companies released thier Men in their home countries. In Spain it was Geyper, in Japan Takara I think and in Germany, Schildkrot, although I don't know if it says that on the figures themselves. I've never bought a German Action Man.

Have you Action Man or GI Joe from different countries? 

Schildkrot is German for tortoise!