Hasbro or Palitoy? Hasbro any day for me

[Ross SC]

Yeah, because a skintight yellow bodysuit with a giant letter Q on your forehad isn't remotely gay...

lol, queer force is go!

[gung-hoeddie]

i've not thought about that i have a gay toy collection that has me troubled.

[Red Laser]

Ross I'm 33 aren't you or are you older?

[paulitoy]

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Its kind of interesting, I think.

2 years ago when I joined our mighty space, I would have expected a question like this to have been met with disdain.

I would have thought that all the members were 100% Palitoy.

Since then, people have come and gone. People's collections have grown and some [even my-palitoy-obsessed-self!] have dipped a toe in the Hasbro water.

The Baron has moved the site on from the Palitoy years as well.

I think the heart of our site still beats Palitoy, but times have changed and there is an appreciation of the later years...

[Thundershot]

Palitoy, as a toy company, holds a special place in most of our hearts I guess...growing up, I started playing with Actionman, moved onto Star Wars followed by G1 Transformers & then Hasbro's A.F (which I consider to be G.I.Joe & not A.F.), sure I had the odd Action Force figure wilst growing up, but didn't really get "into" the Palitoy series 1 & 2 untill a few years back.

I do remember seeing the 1st wave of & dimissing them as being little Actionmen & not as good or "cool" as Star Wars figures...I seem to remember a t.v. advert for the 1st wave aswell, but as old age is setting in ( I'mmmm 35 you know!) it could be just a figment of my imagination

I think it was reading the Marvel Joe & A.F comics that 1st sparked my interest for the jointed figures & characters, especially the "Special Missions" comics, I made the link between them & the characters from the Palitoy toys that the "cheapo" seaside toy shops were off loading @ the time, so I got a lot of the older jointed figures ( & ) then.

[The Baron]

I seem to remember a t.v. advert for the 1st wave aswell, but as old age is setting in ( I'mmmm 35 you know!) it could be just a figment of my imagination

You're not wrong! Creepy paedo shopkeeper and an annoying schoolboy as I recall.

I seem to remember someone threatening to release a collected DVD...

[Red Laser]

I vaguely remember BAF being advertised on tv.

[The Baron]

The comic? Ooh, I've not seen that. I've seen the TV ad for 2000AD #1

[Thundershot]

Thats the one!!!
I thought I may of been confusing it with that "We want to buy a computer!" advert Commodore did with Terry Scott!.

[Red Laser]

I remember the ad featuring Quarrel on the cover of the issue advertised it got me to buy the long since lost issue I had.