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ACTION MAN

Record discs

Period: Flocked Head on

Dates: from 1975

Various Sets


Action Man Records:

Equipment sets Field Commander, Field Radio Pack, Mobile Operations HQ, Team Control Centre and 2nd Issue Astronaut's Talking Backpack contained mini record discs of varying colours. Units inside these sets operated by the press of a button, and played one record disc of choice at a time, supposedly at a random track each time. The records were two sided, semi transparent, and measured 51mm in diameter. A lug on the inner hole would locate and drive the disc inside the playing unit. Units were powered by a single HP7 (AA LR6 1.5v) battery.

Action Man sets that included records:

34154:

1974 ACTION MAN FIELD COMMANDER AND FIELD RADIO:
Title of Records: 'Intruders' and 'Emergency Control'
Green Record, Clear Record

 

34155:

1974 ACTION MAN FIELD RADIO PACK:
Title of Records: 'Adventure' and 'Combined Operation' and 'Sabotage' :
Red Record, Yellow Record, Blue Record

 

34716:

1975 ACTION MAN MOBILE OPERATIONS HQ:
Title of Records: 'Intruders' and 'Emergency Control' :
Red Record?, Yellow Record?

 

34733:

1977 ACTION MAN TEAM CONTROL CENTRE:
Title of Records: 'Intruders', ''Emergency Control', 'Adventure' and 'Combined Operation' and 'Sabotage' :
Red Record, Yellow Record, Blue Record, Purple Record, Black Record

 

34156:

1975 ACTION MAN ASTRONAUT 2nd Issue talking backpack:
Title of Records: 'Moon Flight' and 'Moonwalk'

Dayglo Lime Record and Pink Record

 

 

Notes:

The names of the records listed on the boxes when studied along with the colours of those records, suggest that names and colours were at least partly interchangable. If you consider the titles of the records above, and note the included disc colours, it leads one to this conclusion. 'Intruders' and 'Emergency Control' feature both in the Field Commander sets and Team Control Centre sets, but the former has Green and Clear, the later Black and Purple (if we assume that Red, Yellow and Blue are in fact 'Adventure', 'Combined Operation' and 'Sabotage' and match across the Field Radio and Team Control Centre Sets. Geyperman and Action Team sets issued in Europe included their own language discs in the same colours as Action Man ones, making for a vast array.

Similar looking discs to Action Man exist without the little lug on the inside hole, at a slightly larger diameter. These are likely from Palitoy, but from a 24" high walking, talking doll from the mid 1970's called 'Poppet'. Her mini records contain sung nursery rhymes and like Action Man, fit into a player unit but in her back.

Team Control Centre Boxed - replacement stickers available here

Action Man Field Radio

Action Man Field Radios also included the international ones of Action Team and Geyperman with their own records.

Action Man US Patent on mechanism -
Thanks to Samantha Wood for research.

Action Man Field Commander Instructions Radio Set

Action Man Field Commander and leaflet

Action Man Field Radio record player - note speed slider is under battery recess

Action Man Team Control Centre back door

2nd issue Astronaut with talking backpack (white version of the field radio) included pink and dayglo lime records

Action Man Astronaut Box

Action Man Field Radio Records - Voice Sounds

 

GREEN record disc:

SIDE ONE
Aim for the tracks
Direct hit
Head for cover
Close hatches
Enemy tanks sited
Commence firing
We’ve been hit
Check all controls

SIDE TWO
Enemy destroyed
Armoured car ahead
Bazooka attack
Maintain speed
Pursue and destroy
Report position
Camouflage all vehicles
Watch for tank traps

YELLOW record disc:

SIDE ONE:
OK move in
Request air support
Right on target!
Enemy pulling out
All units report
Mission complete
Regroup, regroup!
There go the Paras

SIDE TWO
Take the beach
Stand by taskforce
Assault craft ready
Come in helicopters
Alert all frogmen
Signal for supply drop
Scale the cliff
Equipment on, winch up!

RED record disc:

SIDE ONE
The bridge is the target
Board dingy now
Signal for assistance
Synchronise your watches
We’ve been observed
Fix demolition charges
Watch out for guards
Maintain radio silence

SIDE TWO
Use the call sign
Open fire now
Return to base
Cease firing
Stay close together
Helicopter coming
Keep your head down
Detonate, detonate!

PURPLE record disc:

SIDE ONE
Man radar screen
Activate scanner ''beep''
Red alert ''whooping sound''
Reading you load & clear
Delta one to control
Roger, we have contact
''Whooping sound''

SIDE TWO
Roger, affirmative ''beep''
''Whooping sound''
I'm intercepting now
Correct to 5,9,5
Confirm position, over
Courses 5,9,0
Intruder destroyed
Delta one, over & out

DAYGLO LIME record disc 'MOONWALK':

Return to L.E.M.
Set search station
Loss of signal, loss of signal!
How do you read me?
Jettison equipment
You are go at three minutes
Beep beep beep beep
Earth now visible

SIDE TWO
Moonbase to control
Commencing E.D.A.
Mission abort, mission abort!
L.R.V. out of control
Lunar rover ready
Beep beep beep beep
Exploring crater now

CLEAR record disc:

SIDE ONE
Enemy in sight
Good shooting
Range 5,2,5
Tanks approaching
Prepare to attack
Hold your fire
Watch out for snipers
Stand by all units

SIDE TWO
Air attack, air attack!
Take Hill 90
Silence those mortars
Use your grenades
Advance in single file
Wait for my signal
Look out for mines
Move in from the right

BLUE record disc:

SIDE ONE
Rescue team ready
Use the life-lines
Avalanche, Avalanche
Make for the ledge
Watch your step
Everyone safe
There he is
Load the Landrover

SIDE TWO

Supplies are low
What is your position
Head due north
Check the maps
We're nearly there
Visibility nil
Keep a lookout
Pitch the tent here

BLACK record disc:

SIDE ONE
S.O.S in Morse Code Beeps
Charlie One to Control
Rescue calling Control
Negative no power
Situation Critical
Can't last much longer
Position not known - Over
Mayday, Mayday, Mayday

SIDE TWO
Whooping Tone
Come in Charlie One
Rescue to Charlie One - Over
Prepare to Move
We have you on Radar
Affirmative - Proceeding
All Safe - Message Ends
Roger we see your light

PINK record disc 'MOONFLIGHT':

SIDE ONE
We have lift off
Ignition sequence starts
Everything go for launch
Laser shooting sound
All elements go
One minute and counting
Docking complete
Escape tower gone

SIDE TWO
Safety line attached
We have landed
Re-entry - proceed
Whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop!
Stand by control
We have a problem
Splash down, splash down!
Programme alarm