V&A picture

[The Kraken Wakes]

wowsers!

[Red Laser]

This looks very familiar

[Quickfire]

Danke Schön Herr Tshot! Up until recently there were no images on any of these templates, other data remains consistent.

Strange thing, doing a search for the V & A list the company as being Air-fix & the manufacturer as Hasbro.

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?of ... ionsearch=

Yeah, since the templates appeared there's been the Airfix + Hasbro tags in place for some items.

But the V&A Palitoy Archive items usually seem to appear without the tags, seemed to be part of the mass Museum of Childhood donation, other items may have slightly different provenance.

[Quickfire]

Just goes to show that even professionals can get it wrong:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O4777 ... e-palitoy/

some of the descriptions added to the templates subsequent to the addition of images are not written by professionals.

[paul463]

V&A coming to Dundee! Wonder if they will bring these with them!!

[Chopper]

Fark, awesome is an understatement. Imagine that with a SPACE RANGER.

[Thundershot]

Enemy Pirate Figure

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O4743 ... re-airfix/

"moulded plastic
khaki trouser, red jerkin, bare chest and arms, black peaked cap, blue tattoo on chest khaki back pack
black rifle
represents an oriental/Chinese man
in yellow sample box"

Once again no picture but from the description I'm guessing ?

This one I find interesting
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O4740 ... re-airfix/

Palitoy issued most of the early Joe's, in one form or another, but the Slugger Canon never made it to these shores..

[Coosbay_pirate]

The Musuem is a 15 minute bike ride from me.. I've been before to see the AF and I'm sure the HQ wasn't on display, states it's in case 7 so I'll go take a look this weekend!

[Hopper]

Wow.
This is pretty amazing stuff.

But yes, cringeworthy reading - as a lot of the descriptions are way off. I sometimes forget that our is a *ahem* niche interest.
Also, having worked in museums for many years, often the people entering information have absolutely no idea what they are describing - leading to bizarre and amusing descriptions. My own personal favourite - a box of Bronze Age pottery that had the phrase "God Only Knows" written in the 'description of contents' section.

Interestingly, the description of the Base, etc http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O4765 ... t-palitoy/ gives a whole pile of information about other props and mock-ups. The museum entry states TV adverts - but surely this was not the case (was there one with an Iranian Embassy?). They sound like the sort of thing used in the toy features in BAF - this sort of thing http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/toys/00 ... index.html or similar.

There is a lot more to see here!

[action-figure-supplies]

Interesting. Reading the first part of that description of the base immediately brought this image from the 1984 Action Man annual to mind. Looks like maybe they've transposed 2 descriptions together?