Cherilea TOYS '12'

Tanks, Armoured Cars, Motorcycles, Vehicles, Boats and Aircraft for Action Man

Cherilea Vehicles, Boats and Aircraft:

Action Man's rapid popularity did not go unnoticed and a few companies were quick to capitalise on Palitoy's boy's action figure success in the UK, producing not only their versions of Action Man vehicles, but also very worthy additions to the Action Man owner's military collection.

Cherilea Toys produced a large range exciting must-have vehicles and aircraft for all 12' Action figures (their brand sometimes had the figure '12' within in on the packaging to emphasise the point). Palitoy and Cherilea Toys co-existed on catalogue spreads of the 1970s, with Cherilea being initially notably better value for money and arguably more authentic to their subject matter than that of some of Palitoy's. Their presence and successes did not go un-noticed by Palitoy. To try to encourage children back to the Action Man brand vehicles, boxes evolved to revised artworks with speech bubbles saying phrases as "This is the only vehicle I drive".

Cherilea Toys 1/6th scale products included:

Armoured Car (Similar to Palitoy Armoured Car - withdrawn?)

Amphibious Jeep (DUKW)

Amphibious Jeep Electric (DUKW)
Artillery Combat Set

Auxiliary Fire Engine
Canoe (Native Americans)

Cobra Missile Carrier

Combat Jeep with Bazooka
Combat Jeep with Missile Launcher
Cub Patrol Car
Desert Panzer (DAK)

Field Gun

Field Gun on Turntable

Fire Engine

Fire Launch (boat)
German Half-Track (DAK)

German Motorcycle and Sidecar
German Motorcycle and Sidecar (DAK)

Helicopter (green Military)

Helicopter (yellow Rescue)

Hornet Semi-Track

Jet Fighter
Kayak

Kettenkraftrad (DAK)
Life Raft

Missile Patrol Boat

Military Ambulance

Military Jeep with Supply Trailer
Military Truck
MP Motorcycle
Police Motor Cycle

Rescue Helicopter
Rocket Launcher

Scorpion Tank (Similar to Palitoy Scorpion Tank - withdrawn after legal action)
Sheradan Tank
Saladin MkII Armoured Car
Tiger Panzer

Tractor and Trailer
Transporter Bridge
Viper Tank

Whippet Scout Car (6 wheeler)

Accurate replacement reproduction stickers for many Cherilea vehicles can be found at the Action Man HQ Shop.

Cherilea Motorcycle and Sidecar.(replacement stickers available). Blow molded and much more robust than the more detailed, but more delicate Action Man equivalent. An Afrika Korp (DAK) version in sand was also produced.

Cherilea Motorcycle and Sidecar (replacement stickers available)

Cherilea Motorcycle and Sidecar box (replacement stickers available)

Cherilea Motorcycle and Sidecar (Afrika Korps sand colour) (replacement stickers available)

Cherilea Kettenkraftrad. Also with free German Uniform) (replacement stickers available). Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea German Half-Track. Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions. (replacement stickers available).

Cherilea Desert Panzer. Based on Sheradan. Also green Tiger Panzer version with same stickers. (replacement stickers available). Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea MP Motorcycle (replacement stickers available). Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea Cub Patrol Car with firing gun. Also a version with missile crates either side. (replacement stickers available). Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea Whippet Scout Car. Also a version with missile crates either side called the Cobra Missile Carrier. (replacement stickers available). Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea Sheridan Tank. Also with German stickers called Tiger Panzer. (replacement stickers available). Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea Saladin MkII Armoured Car. Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea Saladin MkII Armoured Car. Image courtesy of The Sale Room Auctions.

Cherilea Military Truck (replacement stickers available). Image courtesy of The Sale Room Auctions

Cherilea Military Truck (replacement stickers available). Image courtesy of The Sale Room Auctions

Cherilea Army Helicopter (Electric). Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea Rescue Helicopter (electric). Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea Kayak (replacement stickers available)

Cherilea Transporter Bridge

Cherilea Missile Launcher. Image Courtesy of EagleEyesActionStation.

Cherilea Tractor

The Cherilea 'Jet Fighter' often mistaken for an Action Man aircraft. (replacement stickers available). It included rocket launchers. (image courtesy of The Saleroom). Similar in appearance a 1970s Hawker Sidesaddle Hawk, it was much more up to date than Action Man's 1950's Panther

Cherilea Military Jeep with Supply Trailer (replacement stickers available). Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea Amphibious Jeep with firing gun (replacement stickers available). Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea Amphibious Jeep Electric. (replacement stickers available).

Cherilea Combat Jeep with Bazooka. .(replacement stickers available). Also a version with 4 missiles on back. Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea Hornet Semi-Track with searchlight (replacement stickers available). Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea Scorpion. This had to be discontinued because of copyright issues with either Palitoy or Alvis. Its turret was successfully reused on other vehicles. Image courtesy of Andy Barnett.

Cobra Missile Carrier. Image courtesy of www.lulu-berlu.com. (replacement stickers available).

Cobra Missile Carrier box.

Cherilea Viper (Tank) (replacement stickers available). Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea Auxiliary Fire Engine (replacement stickers available). Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea Fire Launch. Image courtesy of Vectis Auctions.

Cherilea Missile Patrol Boat Box

Cherilea Missile Patrol Boat with working propeller. Grey and blue/grey variations. (replacement stickers available).

Cherilea Field Gun (also with dressed jointed figure).

Cherilea Field Gun on Turntable. (image courtesy of Andy Barnett)

Cherilea Field Gun on Turntable box.

Cherilea Life Raft

Cherilea Toys in the 1976 Argos Catalogue alongside Palitoy Action Man's.

Cherilea in the 1978 Argos Catalogue alongside Action Man

Cherilea Artillery Combat Set with searchlight, tent, stretcher, machine gun, radio, sandbags, missile launcher and Field Gun on Turntable.