Possibly the least original comment since the Internet was invented.

Ratio of "You ruined my keyboard!" comments to actual ruined keyboards: 9,000,000 to 1.

Be honest, did you really, really spit coffee over your keyboard? If that's the case, it's probably best if you stop drinking bevarages around electronic media. You're not proficient with either. :=

http://www.failfunnies.com/27/images...board-fail.jpg

This picture taken at RAF Benson MT Control shows that it takes more than a spit of coffee to kill a keyboard...:ok:

They could take a leaf out of the cabbage patch dolls idea and their adoption certificates by printing a PVR application form on the back of the box :)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph...t_1397704i.jpg

Wonder which aircraft will have the better serviceability rate?

oK, they have a Harrier, a pilot, etc etc but where can you actually buy them? How much?

I bet the Harrier is the wrong side of £20.

The Typhoon cost £9.99. I have seen an A10, F18 and F14 at our local C&C for about £14.99.

So, bets on prices?

Saw the figures in Asda today, £19 and change each. Don't know whether to buy one for the nephew, or buy a box of matches and a gallon of petrol, and show him some neat tricks :E

Some one should tell the maufacturers that the Harrier has a vane to show wind direction, so the pilot doesn't have to open the canopy and hold up a licked finger to see which way the wind blows.

Well I can guarantee that neither of those in the photo will ever fly!

Looks like some scally's nicking the radio out of your ride while you're playing with your dolls, mister.

I thought I saw a post saying that Amazon sold them. Anyone got a link?

Action Man ( with leader solidly behind him )
 

Since when did a Harrier canopy hinge at the aft end ?

+ if that's a flap it's too small, and the starboard wing seems to be missing the sidewinder pylon ahead of the outrigger; seems a bodged up AV-8B model.

Doublle Zero, the starboard sidewinder is there but a head-on view rather than the side view of the port one.

The mount is th esame as the Typhoon model and the sidewinders on the Typhoon do fire and the drop tanks drop. I expect the Harrier will be the same.

Disturbing level of knowledge there, PN!

Been hanging around toyshops in your grubby raincoat with pockets full of sweeties again :p ?

BEagle, 3 yr old grandson going on 4 next month.

The Typhoon is actually a pretty good toy. Apart from the winders firing and takns dropping the wheels retract and the burners work. The R/T is also 100% authentic. At £9.99 we should have bought 2, one as an in-service reserve :).

The US models are probably from the same company in China and IIRC one even had a remote control.

Full details of the range can be found here
HM Armed Forces Toys & Action Figures

and can be bought at Argos or Amazon

Saw this comment on the BBC News article

TheWizard,

They don't make it easy. The link to sales is:

HM Armed Forces

Local Tesco had them yesterday - Winchman & Combat Infantryman (complete with .5 HMG) and Desert soldier

:} What's those big black things between their legs?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph...k_1397712i.jpg

It's a GOSH device.

Good to see the Winchweight is also a fully qualified Pilot with a full set of wings :)

http://www.character-online.com/thum...B2&units=Pixel

Hmmm....

Ah, PN, I remember being 4 - my first rocket firing sortie with a Hunter across the Shrubbery Hotel ballroom floor in Ilminster. The springs fired the rockets a surprising distance and they were a bug.ger to find and reload!

As a lad, I vaguely remember a set of lead soldiers from Harrods when I was very small (probably be worth a mint now...), then some Airfix soldiers to dive bomb with aircraft various some years later. Although quite a few got eaten by Labradors.... But the generation of which I was a part took a very dim view of 'dolls for boys', such as Action Man and thought them a bit too girly. As most certainly did our Dads! We constructed and demolished things; my brother had a 'German officer' model, but that rightly met its maker at the end of BSA Meteor .22 air rifle slug which I loosed off across the garden some years later! Eat lead, Fritz!

Favourite toy of the time was an Airfix Lancaster - I modified it with a spring clip liberated from some Christmas tree decoration (another Labrador casualty..) and inserted it into the 'stand' slot - it was just the right size to hold a bomb which could be stuffed with caps (normally used in toy guns - probably banned these days). When released from the Lanc, the bomb would hit the flagstone floor with a very satisfying crack!

I guess the bombs from these InAction Man toy aeroplanes just go 'poof' when they hit the ground?