Re: Hasbro or Palitoy? Hasbro any day for me
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 19:38
lol, queer force is go!The Baron wrote:Yeah, because a skintight yellow bodysuit with a giant letter Q on your forehad isn't remotely gay...
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Re: Hasbro or Palitoy? Hasbro any day for me
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 19:40
i've not thought about that i have a gay toy collection that has me troubled.
Re: Hasbro or Palitoy? Hasbro any day for me
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 19:45
Ross I'm 33 aren't you or are you older?
Re: Hasbro or Palitoy? Hasbro any day for me
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 19:52
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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...
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...
Re: Hasbro or Palitoy? Hasbro any day for me
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 20:32
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.
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.Re: Hasbro or Palitoy? Hasbro any day for me
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 20:37
You're not wrong! Creepy paedo shopkeeper and an annoying schoolboy as I recall.Thundershot wrote: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 seem to remember someone threatening to release a collected DVD...
Re: Hasbro or Palitoy? Hasbro any day for me
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 20:44
I vaguely remember BAF being advertised on tv.
Re: Hasbro or Palitoy? Hasbro any day for me
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 20:45
The comic? Ooh, I've not seen that. I've seen the TV ad for 2000AD #1
Re: Hasbro or Palitoy? Hasbro any day for me
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 20:46
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!.
Re: Hasbro or Palitoy? Hasbro any day for me
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 20:50
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.