My collection when I was younger.

I miss all my Action Men I had when I was younger. This is a list of all my Action Men, vehicles and accessories I had thru out the years. Starting with 1995 laser force, turbo copter, survival base camp, 1996 swimmer, swimmer kit, undercover agent,1997 Sky diver, Professor Gangrene,1998 crossbow, desert patrol,1999 mission 2000, scuba extreme, dr.x, action man vs x, super ninja, silver speeder driver, mountain bike extreme, silver speeder, ninja kit, speedster kit, 2000 operation camouflage, polar ski, grand prix driver & grand prix car, dr.x, mission grizzly, jungle dart, Professor Gangrene, mission HQ, camouflage kit, jungle bridge kit, grand prix kit, 2001 dr.x, street roller, urban mission. Now I don’t have collection anymore because When I was younger I loved playing with my Action Men, trying to stop Dr.X and his villains but as I got older, I lost interest a bit as I felt I ought to put aside my toys and do what boys of my age did. I decided to give my action men away to a Children’s Home where I knew they would be appreciated and played with.

That was very generous of you ackie, top job mate

Very generous!

Blondeactionman wrote:

That was very generous of you ackie, top job mate  

Thanks for your comments Dal.

inntruderr61 wrote:

Very generous!

Thank you very much Jim.

Only eight years late on the replies!

Interesting that you remember all of the specific figures and sets you had. You must have been a big Action Man fan.

I held on to my GI Joes for a bit longer, but finally ended up selling them as an adult, along with most of my childhood toys. I have come to regret that foolish decision very much. It is quite possible that I now have more toys than I did when I was a kid, but few of them are the originals I had since childhood.

SCU_HQ wrote:

Only eight years late on the replies!

Interesting that you remember all of the specific figures and sets you had. You must have been a big Action Man fan.

I held on to my GI Joes for a bit longer, but finally ended up selling them as an adult, along with most of my childhood toys. I have come to regret that foolish decision very much. It is quite possible that I now have more toys than I did when I was a kid, but few of them are the originals I had since childhood.

Thanks for your comments Dave.

It's a common story really.  We give away or sell or throw out our kids toys as we outgrow them, fearing perhaps we'll be thought of as little children if we don't. Then many years later, we come to regret having done this, and even more so when we learn that we can often buy these toys on the collector's market for absurdly high prices. As I was a child in the 1960's and early 70's, it's extra painful as the variety and quality toys we had back then were broader and better than those of today. The space race was front and center during much of time and astronauts were the heroes of time, consequently many of the toys had space themes, and I had quite a lot of those, including a GI Joe space capsule and of course the Mercury astronaut space suit for my Joe, along with a great many other space race related toys.

My story is a little different.
As soon as I finished High School I had to leave home to further my education in the Big City.
I did take one favourite figure with me, but carefully packed all the others away in a box.

 Now of course being a teenager who'd suddenly been transported from a rural situation into all the joys and delights offered by a Big Wicked City, distractions abounded, but my one figure always maintained a prominent place on my shelves.

After completing my tertiary education, my job was in the City so I never again went home to live on a permanent basis. 
Time came for parents to move and my Mom decided to give away my box of figures and vehicles because she "thought I wouldn't want them anymore".
( I have since forgiven her but they still haven't found the body yet....)

My fault of course. 
I could have retrieved them and stored them with me, but somehow I just forgot.
Doesn't everyone imagine that the family home where they grew up as kids in will somehow remain frozen in time just as it always was?

Of course I've since come to terms with the loss, (I've had to part with many FAR more valuable things of late), although I can't help a little tear of nostalgia whenever I see something that I used to have, and I think back to the places and times I played with it and recall the situations and scenarios I used to imagine back then.

Despite now owning far more figures than I ever had as a child, it does make my one remaining original one all the more precious.
I did toy with the idea of replacing his now faded clothing, but then decided to keep him just as he is. 
He's been through a lot with me.

PS....I'm sure I read here quite a while back that one member has even made special arrangements for his favourite figure to accompany him on the final journey?
       Interesting idea!
I'm going to need something to amuse me for such a long time........

You are a much better man than I Alex...
I strapped firecrackers to some of mine and shot at them with a slingshot...
Luckily I still savaged some and I still have them...lol
How stupid I was...

The honest truth is that I don't remember who I gave or sold my Joe stuff to.  When I was twelve years old, I got my first .22 caliber rifle and probably that, to a twelve year-old, must have seemed like a bridge into adolescence, which of course it was, and so my Joe stuff disappeared in rapid order after that.  There was an original 1960's Joe, brown painted hair, space suit, space capsule, a USMC uniform and M1rifle, then a 70's flocked hair Joe with adventure Jeep, camouflage uniform, sun helmet, and other stuff that came with the desert explorer set, plus some after market accessories and stuff.  I'd say that if I still had the figures today, I'd have the head to the first one flocked and replace both sets of hands with gripping hands.  I'd probably accessorize the hell out of the jeep...give it a post-apocalyptic look, completely ruining any collector's value it might have but the jewel in the crown might be the space capsule, which i would find some way to use in my stories.  I'd probably drill holes in it so it could be mounted on a stand and photographed as if it were in space, again ruining the collectors value, but if i had ever given a damn about collector's value I'd never have gotten rid of them in the first place.

If I I could have either the jeep or the capsule back but not both, I'd probably chose the capsule if only for the fact there are much better 1/6 scale jeeps on the market today, but I know of no other 1/6th space capsule than the GI Joe Mercury capsule.

Kimono Troop Command wrote:

 I know of no other 1/6th space capsule than the GI Joe Mercury capsule.  

And that IS one of the things that has massively accrued in value! (Well according to eBay anyway...)
I've been trying to snag one of those babies for quite some time now.

I have re-bought the Adventure Jeep at a charity shop, but you are right when you say there are FAR better jeep models around nowadays.
I'd be ashamed to show mine in any photo stories because a few blokes here own the prestigious models, .....and I do have a very serious case of "jeep-envy"!

LeStryge wrote:

.....and I do have a very serious case of "jeep-envy"!

"Jeep envy" after joining this forum resulted in the single most expensive "toy" purchase of my young life.

I have re-bought the Adventure Jeep at a charity shop, but you are right when you say there are FAR better jeep models around nowadays.
I'd be ashamed to show mine in any photo stories because a few blokes here own the prestigious models, .....and I do have a very serious case of "jeep-envy"!

I have one of the Dragon Jeeps w/.50 Cal MG on pre-order with Monkey Depot. Whether I ever get it is another question. As for the Space Capsule, I would imagine it's one of the most desired items, especially for people of my generation, thus driving up the price. This being said, people can ask whatever they want on e-bay, but that doesn't mean they will get it.