Hi,
I guess, when it comes to collecting, I am a bit of a Magpie.. I only collect what I like, trouble being I like a lot of things

The Bond's, all of which are 1/6th scale, were produced by Sideshow collectables.

Yeah, Joe 90's another of the Gerry Anderson produced puppet shows from the 1960's, a lot of these television series had a revival in the 90's (from when this toy was produced), with associated major merchandising push, when they were broadcast on the B.B.C.

Joe was a 9 year old boy who was also secret agent.. in each episode, after sitting in a special experimental device, he'd be given the skills & specialist knowledge required to complete the mission by transferring the recorded brainwave patterns of whoever was top of their field. One week he'd be a test pilot the other a brain surgeon.

More Doozers doin' what Doozers do..

More Aliens action..

S.I.G !

Nice aliens and Scarlett stuff. So the majority of the Scarlett figures seem to be named for colors, that's pretty cool. Easy to remember their names if you can see them. Lol

Cheers

Being colour coded sure helps with remembering their names

More toys based upon a Gerry Anderson classic, & probably his most famous creation...

T'shot - so many cool toys Love the 007 figures, especially Jaws! The Alien stuff is cool too. I think my favourites are the vehicles for Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet - such great designs and colours. Kudos for adding the 'earth particles' on the pic of the Mole as it drills!!

I remember well Penguin biscuits when I lived in UK but don't recall the Captain Scarlet offers - so cool that you have all the bits and pieces for that promo, the toy is cool but the wrappers are just brilliant with that artwork

Thundering across the stars!

Wheeled Warriors


Saw Boss


Armed Force

This one will probably mean absolutely nothing to anyone who isn't both English & under the age of 40 ... The Trumpton Fire Brigade:



Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub.

The last couple of posts have been toy lines I haven't heard of. This is a neat fire truck set though. I am sure the wheeled warriors is cool too, but the odd vehicle design just doesn't appeal to me to be honest. This fire truck though is neat. Are the little people diecast or plastic? The truck looks like a mix, mainly plastic with some metal or diecast parts maybe

Hi Bryan,

The fire truck's one of my treasures, I couldn't of been much older than 4 or 5 years old when I received it as a present from my Grandmother.. it's one of those things that's probably worthless yet sentimentally priceless.

The team are all plastic, the truck itself is of largely plastic construction & has a battery operated talking mechanism similar to the Star Wars Imperial Troop Transport... it's long dead but from memory it played the roll call.

Trumpton was a delightful little stop motion animation series aimed at, and beloved by generations of, preschool children. Set in the fictional town of Trumpton in the (fictional) English county of Trumptonshire.. every episode featured the fire brigade helping the various town residents out of various troubles & (somewhat gentle) personal scrapes. I don't think they ever had to fight a fire during the entire series
A story would usually end up in the town park where the Firemen, who all also formed an orchestra , would entertain the townsfolk by performing on the local bandstand.. anyways.. it's all very "English".  


Must mention that Life On Mars featured a brilliant parody of Camberwick Green (a Trumpton spin off
show)..

Here's the other one... Wheeled Warriors.


Toy Galaxy can explain it all much better than I ever could

Thundershot wrote:

This one will probably mean absolutely nothing to anyone who isn't both English & under the age of 40   ... The Trumpton Fire Brigade:

T,shot, that is so cool I have fond memories of Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley.

I loved the series Life on Mars and thought it was a cool touch to make a Camberwick Green Sam character

Among my toy collection is this Camberwick Green 3-D Jigsaw puzzle from 1977 made by Kiddicraft. Simple, but good fun to build  









And if you don't know the Half Man Half Biscuit 'tribute' to all three shows called Time Flies By, then you have to check it out, especially for the lyrics    

That's brilliant!

I'd not seen that before, when I posted on the picture on Facebook one of my friends quoted the lyrics from Half Man Half Biscuits song Trumpton Riots

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Wow you got two stunning Japanese boxes there of Starfleet I like the detail of showing a still on the box flaps. Very cool toys. I enjoyed that show as a kid and Brian May's theme too. I only just realised that Eddie Van Halen was part of the group Brian May and Friends.

Many Thanks Paul

As a kid, I'd of given my right arm to have owned either of them.. as an adult it I just payed an arm & a leg to have them

Here's another that only men over a certain age may vaguely remember




Sadly I don't have the Roy Scheider figure that was originally included.. so it's been seconded by Action Force

I never watched Blue Thunder but do have vague memories of it, so I looked at the clip you posted and it seems a good show, bit like Airwolf which I watched on and off.

Did you spot Roy Scheider's cool Casio watch at the 0:41 mark

Anyway, that's a very cool toy you have along with nice box artwork too. Thanks for sharing!

The Dreaded Gargon,









Sold as an Action-man toy, here in the U.K., he usually paired up with The Intruder (strong man from another planet!)...


.. Gargon was my play time go-to giant monster of choice... he stood in for Godzilla battling against my green army men (crushing all matchbox cars in his path), he was also my AT-AT before I had one & also tried to eat Luke Skywalker before Jabba the Hutt got his pet Rancor




Gargon now enjoys his well earned retirement living the quiet life munching on Muton's

That is a really cool looking monster. Action man is the 12" line of gi Joe right?

Hi Bryan,
pretty much.. Action-man & Joe were practically the same in the early years, Palitoy started to originate more of their own designs (producing some highly detailed British army uniforms) in the 1970's. Also the range remained in production far longer than G.I.Joe did in the States.

Military uniforms were always the mainstay of the range but, to keep up with Star Wars, Palitoy introduced a range of Space themed outfits. Here's the Space Ranger Patroller & Talking Space Ranger Captain..

Forgot to mention Gargon was originally a Super Joe (a.k.a. 8" G.I.Joe) toy marketed as Terron over in the States..

Thundershot wrote:

Hi Bryan,
pretty much.. Action-man & Joe were practically the same in the early years, Palitoy started to originate more of their own designs (producing some highly detailed British army uniforms) in the 1970's. Also the range remained in production far longer than G.I.Joe did in the States.

Military uniforms were always the mainstay of the range but, to keep up with Star Wars, Palitoy introduced a range of Space themed outfits. Here's the Space Ranger Patroller & Talking Space Ranger Captain..

So the lines differentiate by name over there. See we had g.i. Joe (12 inch line) that was created in the 60s I think (64 seems to ring a bell but I may be wrong) and then we had g.i. Joe (3 3/4 line) which came in the 80s. Some may differentiate these as gi Joe and gi Joe the American hero (although this line also got 12 inch figures in the 90s) but as I don't really collect Joe's, I don't know if they do or not. I do know though that I have been confused in a conversation before by someone wanting to sell some toys and said they had some Joe's only to discover they weren't the toy line i was expecting. I never understood why the lines weren't named something different, such as action force (3 3/4) vs action man (12inch) which makes a lot of sense to help keep the lines seperate and distinct.