View allAll Photos Tagged ActionMan
Here's what I have at the moment for you to choose from. Have some more at my mum's house, will take a pic of those asap. And this Friday it's Queensday. What means; lots of flea markets and action figures. I bet there will be several Action man guys laying there : ] Will show the haul this weekend!
I miss my action men sometimes. I think they were like my best friends as a kid - I felt like I got on with them a lot better than with other kids.
The guy in the picture is Trevor. He was my first action man, though not a proper branded "Action Man". I think he was born in Taiwan but he was a Brit through and through. He arrived in camo fatigues and distinguished himself as a damned good pilot, who could turn his hand to anything. I named him after a soldier who I had my photo taken with down The Mall, near Buckingham palace.
My second action man was Wayne. He was cleanshaven, with a strawberry blond crew cut. Wayne and Trevor were really good buddies. They would belay for each other when they were rock climbing up the patio walls and other stuff like that.
Wayne lost a hand in a boating accident, as he was bravely paddling his inflatable through a sargasso sea of frogspawn in our pond. I don't remember whether or not it was his dominant hand, but it never stopped him being a keen skier, scuba diver and one-handed rock climber. It didn't put him off boating either, which is the measure of the kind of action man he was, in my opinion.
As a 6 year old, nothing beat the thrill of opening a packet of action man accessories and thinking about all the adventures and stories that they symbolised.
I could never steal myself to play with Cindy. For one thing, her feet were so high-heel shaped that she couldn't stand unaided. And she didn't have gripping hands. Even if she had, I'm not sure she'd have known what to do with a grenade, a harpoon gun or a pair of military issue binoculars. But maybe I never gave her a chance.
Here are my figures that reproduce the SEARS Green Beret Machine Gun outpost set. Most parts are genuine Hasbro...albeit reproduction parts. All of the pieces are from the Timeless Green Beret MG Outpost set that was release about a decade ago. I just bought several sets so that I could build a number of Green Beret figures.
I did replace the black belt with an OD Cotswold belt...but kept the black cartridges for now.
Man, if only they had issued an OD green cartridge belt with this figure!! Although, my research is still unclear on what variations there were from the SEARS set. I KNOW that some sets had 2 belts and some had only 1...I keep thinking some had web belts, rather than cartridge belts. But I'm not certain of that. Either way...cartridge belts sure look good on the figures.
Now...if only Cotswold still sold the green cartridges again. Black just doesn't look 'right'. And, I don't have enough 40th anniversary sets to steal cartridge belts. Heck...I just don't have enough 40th anniversary sets!
Uniform...
Bought this guy a week ago on a flea-market, and it's one of my favourite modern Action Man figures. If they made more figs like this one, I'd be much more interrested in this line. maybe that's beacause of his GI.Joe vibe, instead of being an orange coloured, enviromental tree hugging skating loonatic like usual.
"The M79 grenade launcher is a single-shot, shoulder-fired, break-action grenade launcher that fires a 40x46mm grenade which uses what the US Army calls the High-Low Propulsion System to keep recoil forces low, and first appeared during the Vietnam War. Because of its distinctive report, it has earned the nicknames of "Thumper", "Thump-Gun", "Bloop Tube", and "Blooper" among American soldiers; Australian units referred to it as the "Wombat Gun". The M79 can fire a wide variety of 40 mm rounds, including explosive, anti-personnel, smoke, buckshot, flechette, and illumination. While largely replaced by the M203, the M79 has remained in service in many units worldwide in niche roles."
Plastic men for sale at the Feira da Ladra, Lisbon, Portugal.
Lisbon's flea market is called the Feira da Ladra (Thieve's Market). A market of this type is thought to have been in place in Lisbon since the 12th Century and the name Feira da Ladra was first mentioned in the 17th Century. Today, the traders here are perfectly legal, and they show their wares in the Campo de Santa Clara street, in the São Vicente de Fora district of the city, close to Alfama. The market starts at the Arco de São Vicente, and is held every Tuesday and Saturday, from dawn to dusk.
Source: GoLisbon.
This time the whole outfit is diy. I sewed together a tunic, made a helmet with some leftover lolly, carton and green stuff. The armor is all made out of toilet rolls modded with green stuff laces, made the sandals and strap of an old leather belt. The shield is carton as well, the modded sword is from some fantasy Barbie type figure and the spear is made from a brush. The figure is a vintage Action Man.
Actionman and child abuse. This is part of a photo exhibition I will have on the 20th of August. More info on website.
I think this is one of the Rarest Action Man figures.
It was based on the tv-series Action Man aired on the same time.
The Laser gun is an actual water-pistol.
The original harness is unfortunately destroyed...
This is a Timeless Collection GI Joe set-up as a Green Beret figure. (Basically, dressed as the Green Beret figure from the SEARS Green Beret Machine Gun Outpost.) Parts are sourced from various Hasbro Timeless Collection sets.
I'd been photographing this eBay find for some time when a cable queen told me he was a dead ringer for Wentworth Miller who had appeared in some American prison series on tv. An internet search confirmed his identity. Apparently he was made for a largely Asian (adult male) market into restaging scenes from popular action programs and games using “action figures”
(aka “dolls for straight boys”).
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of GI Joe, here are a few photos depicting the debriefing of pilots by their commanding officer.
All figures are 40th anniversary GI Joes. The helmet for the yellow pilot is from elitebrigade, all other items depicted are from the GI Joe 40th Anniversary collection.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of GI Joe, here are a few photos depicting the debriefing of pilots by their commanding officer.
All figures are 40th anniversary GI Joes. The helmet for the yellow pilot is from elitebrigade, all other items depicted are from the GI Joe 40th Anniversary collection.
I made this guy earlier on with a Max Steel fig, but the longer I looked at that one, the more I despised it, and made the conclusion that the first Dreadnok I bought as a kid, deserved a WAY better go. So here he is!!! Personally I think this is my best custom so far and make my others look like pooh :P
The United Kingdom's top secret agent, the man known only as "code name: Action Man" runs through a field on a small island off the coast of France. The island is owned by a dummy corporation secretly run by his arch enemy Dr. X.
Action Man's mission is to recover a stolen datapad which intelligence reports suggest was recently brought to this island.
The datapad was found inside a satchel worn by an alien that was briefly captured many years ago. It contains technical schematics for many exotic devices. Government scientists have been pouring over it for decades without much success, but in the hands of a mad genius like Dr. X this information could possibly do great harm!
But Action Man has a much more personal stake in this mission than just making sure that Dr. X doesn't get his hands on some extraterrestrial tech....
I've noticed that I don't have a lot of Sailor photos here, so I put this together:
Three GI Joes depict a US Navy Boarding Team from WWII-Korea era. The team was made up of parts that Hasbro created for GI Joe in the 1960's.
All figures are 40th Anniversary GI Joe sailors. The items that are not 40th anniversary are: M1 Rifle from Action Man 40th Anniversary collection, Three blue Cotswold Helmets (Reproductions of the GI Joe Navy Attack helmets), and a tan Cots pistol belt.
For some reason the elbow joints on two of these figures broke during the photo session. In this photo, the figure on the right has a broken arm...and I've propped it up with the strap of the M1.
Today I received a package from Germany from my good Flickr friend Nav (Virgin-Archer). He gave me this great Palitoy Action Girl in awesome Bruce Lee - like jumpsuit. She was the girls doll from Palitoy, and Action Man the boys actionfigure. So in a way they're like brother and sister. She will get a nice spot in my collection :) Thanks again Nav, you rock!!! :D