So, NeonKnight's new avatar (in addition to being a great Folgers pun) has sent me on a bit of nostalgia trip remembering the good summer afternoons spent cooling off inside by making epic (at least in my mind!) mock battles out of my respectable quantity of plastic soldiers. At least, until I got bored and decided both sides had to form an uneasy truce to fight off the Autobot-Dinosaur-Alien Alliance, of course!
I used to have a fair amount of the old
TimMee figures, if my memory serves me correctly. The poses certainly match up... as does the quality. Still, even as a little squirt, I enjoyed the emphasis on radio men, crew-served weapons, and mortars; that, along with the
nicely-scaled and play-worthy vehicles that I adored really started to get those combined-arms gears turning in my stupid, prepubescent brain. That, and their hard-fought victories over that Autodinolien menace served as a potent reminder that a well-coordinated conventional force can always triumph over 'Mech forces with a bad plan and unreliable allies ;D
Also appreciated the olive-and-tan sets. Too many sets either only had green soldiers with no way of indicating sides, or put green soldiers up against some god-awful neon-blue soldiers or something (though it looks like some of the later TimMee sets would end up doing this... meh). It was nice, and allowed them to look about as convincing as cheap toy soldiers could on my jury-rigged terrains. I almost wish cameras were more prevalent back then, I would have snapped some pics worth sharing!
And, of course, like any kid's toy soldier set, it had soldiers doing that
goofy overhead bayonet stab pose. The one that makes no sense and half the time just ends up making the figure really top-heavy. I don't think I've ever seen a single toy soldier manufacturer that doesn't produce at least one variant of this pose.
Anyways, feel free to share nostalgia, help each other find old sets, et cetera.
