Henry W Jones said:
While I agree the sculps are not great, my vintage stuff reminds me of being a kid. Raiders came out 2 months before my sixth birthday so I played with vintage Indy and SW. Which also makes them special to me. Just curious where you a kid in 81? I'll agree that figures have definitely improved over the years though some of the Hasbro stuff also is poorly done. An example of sometime's something is better than nothing. We all are entitled to our opinions just curious if vintage Kenner was part of your childhood?
In 1981 I was a kid buying
Star Wars figures, and out of nostalgia I've kept the full set of figures that I accumulated. At the time I never saw
Raiders figures in UK toy stores, and never saw the LJN
Temple of Doom ones either.
Looking through action figure collector books and magazines later I was intrigued by the Kenner Indy truck and the playsets, but not really by the figures. I bought a carded Kenner Cairo Swordsman at a toy fare out of Indy curiosity in the 1990s, but only because he was cheap. Figurewise that was a line I'd only buy if it was cheap.
When Hasbro (or was it still Kenner then?) announced they were releasing a new series of 3 3/4"
Star Wars figures in the mid '90s I was excited at he prospect. Though their first muscle-bound waves didn't tell the real truth of what was to come.
I got the same excitement all over again when I discovered that Hasbro had released a new Indy range, and in most cases it was a range that had learnt lessons from their success with
Star Wars.
I prefer action figures to statues, even if I never move them again after they're posed. And nowadays I'm more interested in having the best looking action figures possible, rather than catching up on less aesthetically pleasing old lines out of nostalgia. My Indy nostalgia resides mostly with printed material, since I had no contact with the figures as a kid.
