Comments on: A world of Fisher Price Adventure https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/a-world-of-fisher-price-adventure/ Reboot Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Kevin P https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/a-world-of-fisher-price-adventure/#comment-10555 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 18:46:13 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2018/01/04/a-world-of-fisher-price-adventure/#comment-10555 I had set 13, and I, too, incorporated it with my 3 3/4" Joes and it served them well. The bike was Snake-Eyes and Flint was the man with the Kayak. The Parachute was used to paratroop my Cobra Soldier into battle. The Van was like a mobile headquarters.

]]> By: John Addison https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/a-world-of-fisher-price-adventure/#comment-10040 Fri, 05 Jan 2018 14:28:55 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2018/01/04/a-world-of-fisher-price-adventure/#comment-10040 I had #12 and #14. When G.I. Joe action figures came out in 1982, I incorporated these into my play universe!

]]> By: Anonymous https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/a-world-of-fisher-price-adventure/#comment-10038 Thu, 04 Jan 2018 22:48:31 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2018/01/04/a-world-of-fisher-price-adventure/#comment-10038 There's a lot of great 70s childhood memories all on this one page. I had the parachutist in [13] as a stand-alone set. Same figure sculpt as the adventurer in the yellow shirt but the one I had went for all-white coveralls. Same red helmet, though. The Alpha Probe was an incredible set. Didn't have it, but I was still impressed by the two guys I knew who did.

After Star Wars came out the the ship looked a little too civilian and didn't exactly fit with in with the rest of the neighborhood's fleet of snappy X-Wings, much less the gun-metal grey TIE-fighters or Millenium Falcons. One kid's dad had an elegant solution. He left the all-white and came up with a stylish set of red and yellow stripes based on the X-Wing.
http://imperialholocron.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/X-Wing.jpg

He was an auto-detailer and when he was done, his son's Alpha Probe looked like a studio model. It was "battle worn" in the right places, there was heat-discoloration around metallic-looking engine exhausts, and them crowning touch. The wing stickers were removed and Rebel logos were air-brushed in. The sled got the same treatment. Nobody, I mean nobody, laughed at his Alpha Probe set after that.

Even stock, it was a very nice looking ship up close.
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Then Empire Strikes Back came out and the other kid whose Alpha Probe was still all-white said it had "Hoth camo", which made sense in a weird way.

]]> By: Hauntedheadful https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/a-world-of-fisher-price-adventure/#comment-10037 Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:57:48 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2018/01/04/a-world-of-fisher-price-adventure/#comment-10037 I don't see the 2 sets I had;the Safari set and the Forest Ranger set.My cousin had the boat, but his came with a dolphin instead of the shark.

]]> By: Caffeinated Joe https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/a-world-of-fisher-price-adventure/#comment-10036 Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:29:32 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2018/01/04/a-world-of-fisher-price-adventure/#comment-10036 I had #12, the Aero-Marine Search Team. Lots of fun with that set. I still remember the button on the side of the copter to make the blades turn.

]]> By: Shlomo Ben Hungstien https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/a-world-of-fisher-price-adventure/#comment-10035 Thu, 04 Jan 2018 07:07:36 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2018/01/04/a-world-of-fisher-price-adventure/#comment-10035 how about that i used to have those two space ships at the top of the catalog. loved em back in the day the Alpha Probe had some cool sound effects.

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