I inherited an unopened Action Man my mum bought from John Menzies in the 90’s

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1. She was hoping it might become a rare collectors item, one day

   John Menzies carrier bag in picture 2

2. It’s probably worth quite a bit as my brother would buy these up from the UK and the US and sell them and they could sell for a few hundred each .

3. Cool find, but not a desirable edition. GI Joe Stalker in mint condition goes for about £15. There are loads of them about.

4. Fun fact: I recently discovered that John Menzies still exists – as an aviation services company (cargo handling, aircraft refuelling, etc).

   https://menziesaviation.com/about-overview/our-history/

5. Never seen African Dictator action man before. Does he come with conflict diamonds?

6. That’s Professor Griff from Public Enemy

7. Blacktion Man.

8. Female toys loins: 🔥

9. I had that one! the gun had little button and sound effects. this and the fighting fantasy post yesterday…. 😢

10. Christ,that’s brought back memories. I had him as a kid!

11. Honestly, sell it overseas in the US. I know there are serious action figure collector folks over here and Tiger Force and Action Man are quite coveted because they obviously never made it over here.

12. Looks like it was modelled on Thomas Sankara.

13. I had late seventies version I think his name was Tommy gunn

14. These are really just repackaged GI Joes

    I have Duke from the same series

    https://www.yojoe.com/12inch/92/duke2.shtml

15. Maybe it wasn’t the classic 12″ tall poseable action man toy she was hoping it was.

16. I’m getting Village People vibes…