Realistic dolls.

[Theseus]

I thought that was a man!

(I'll get me coat ...)

I suppose that shirt would have been fashionable for either sex back then.

I think she was suffering with some dread lurgy at the time, possibly flu, so she wasn't in a particularly joyful mood to start with.

 

[BrianEvesham]

With mine, generally the gripping hands perished and fell off. My last one only had one foot too by the time I stopped playing with him. And floppy hips, because the original elastic that held them in place rotted when it got wet, and Mum replaced it with some knicker elastic.

Do you still have him?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-A...onFigures_JN&hash=item4aba2985a6#ht_773wt_922

 

[cyberknight]

Now would you buy your child one of These?

Whatever happened to Action-man

WTF!!!

 

[Night Train]

What were you searching for to have dragged this thread back up!

Do you still have him?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-A...onFigures_JN&hash=item4aba2985a6#ht_773wt_922

I will ask Arch this weekend. I didn't see him in all the boxes of toys in her Mum's loft when I was last over there getting toys out for her Nephews.

My Action Man was pre used and had both grippy hands missing, just the hinged stumps were left. I still played with him making allowances for his disability.

 

[BrianEvesham]

What were you searching for to have dragged this thread back up!
.

Sorry.

Palitoy !
Quite innocent really. (-:

 

[Night Train]

Sorry.

Palitoy !
Quite innocent really. (-:

I was just wondering, like you do!


'tis funny sometimes when old threads reappear. I forgot about this one and was surprised when Arch's avatar appeared. I though she'd found some internet access from somewhere*. I was reading through it as if it was new until I saw my post come up!


*Arch left her internet dongle at my house last weekend and so can't get online again until this weekend.

 

[02GF74]

My Action Man was pre used and had both grippy hands missing, just the hinged stumps were left. I still played with him making allowances for his disability.

a couple of curtain hooks, some grey wool glued to the face and your halfway to having you own abu hamza doll. action figure

 

[perplexed]

I think my Action Man was eventually killed in action.

Probably due to my repeated episodes of lobbing him out of an attic window with only a rubbish home made parachute for company. Mind you, it was good exercise. Up and down all those bloody stairs dozens of times...

 

[Sandra6]

The two most loved dolls my girls have ever owned were both just dolls, they didn't do anything. Well, with a bit of imagination they did everything!!
Baby suzy cost about a fiver and was an instant hit because, being all plastic (which is rare in a doll these days) she could swim in the bath. She still gets dunked now and again and we've had her for about 4 years.
Baby Lucy, £10 from ELC one xmas, became a part of the family, she had her own chair at the table and even got xmas presents one year! She was very good company when they all went off to school too.
I did give in to pester power a couple of times and buy dolls that required batteries, the batteries ran out and nobody ever asked for them to be replaced and they were re-homed within a year.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

I'm glad I'm not the only one...

you weren't

 

[biggs682]

for a minute i thought this was about blow up dolls ......doh