It is 50 years since Action Man, the must-have toy of the 1970s, arrived in the UK.
The plastic moulded figures, rebranded from the US GI Joe version, made their debut in the UK at the British Toy Fair in Brighton, in January 1966, after a toy executive realised their market potential. The early toys were imports but Palitoy, based in Coalville, Leicestershire, would go on to make its own version with "lifelike hair", "beards" and "gripping hands" in the early 1970s.
I remember most of these!
More @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-35411078
The plastic moulded figures, rebranded from the US GI Joe version, made their debut in the UK at the British Toy Fair in Brighton, in January 1966, after a toy executive realised their market potential. The early toys were imports but Palitoy, based in Coalville, Leicestershire, would go on to make its own version with "lifelike hair", "beards" and "gripping hands" in the early 1970s.
I remember most of these!
More @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-35411078
