As this round of our MoonBase International custom toys slowly comes to a close, our latest reincarnation is this 1960's Action Man knockoff.
This was Bill's childhood buddy and along with some of the original kit he totally deserves a new lease of life. The buddy that is, not Bill!
With a good scrub-up and freshly cleaned clothes, Bill's buddy, via the Quartermasters Store, has been sent on one last mission before hanging up his dog tags:
To secure the back garden for the summer!
Mission Status: SNAFU!
After debriefing, The next step in buddy's reinstatement and immediate de-mobbing will be new retirement package, which is currently in pre-production.
In the meantime our plastic chum is off down the NAAFI for some well-earned tiffin.
he came over on the landing craft from Birkenhead, where I got him in the market there, about 1969. I recall seeing the novelisation of 2001 at a bookstall at the Pier Head at Liverpool when we got off the boat and marvelling at the space station on the cover. All the adults who had seennthe film said it was rubbish as it was all just music and no dialogue! After that, my fighting figure journeyed home for duty in the garden, before being decomissioned in the 80’s. Hes been laid up innthe garage for the last few years!
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