At 50, the Action Man figures haven’t aged a bit

While customers fought in a store recently over a doll from the movie, Frozen, a Waterford man was lining up his collection of Action Man figures to celebrate the toy’s 50th birthday. 

EACH generation of children has its own iconic toys. These days, you’re looking at fleeting trends of robotic dogs or ninja fish.

But for most boys during the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s, one toy stood head and shoulders above the rest — Action Man. Bearded, with a crew cut and six-pack, blond and blue-eyed, or dark-eyed and dark-skinned, Action Man was every boy’s hero. He was so flexible, he could drive tanks, fire a machine gun, climb a tree, paddle a canoe.