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Originally Posted by FriedPhoton
I think that you and my sister must be related somehow. She flat-out refused to play with Barbi and insisted upon GI Joe.
Someone mentioned making parachutes for GI Joe earlier in the thread didn't they? My friend and I used to make 'chutes from garbage bags and climb trees to toss them out.
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Oh I played with Barbi but only if she was to be a casulty with missing limbs, I didnt like the skinny faces. My other two sisters are also a bit like me they wanted the little bigmen( the special forces small men dolls) and the Bionic man, we also liked Streach Armstrong. He came in handy if the big lads came and tried to nick our toys, we would streach him out and swing him around and aim for their heads.Whoomph, they rarely came back for more; he hurt more when he was wet!!
my brother found out how much when he pulled the hand of my action man! Your sister would have had a brill time if she had lived near us, did she build camps in the trees and swings? Why play with a pink fluffy skinny blond doll that you know you wont ever look like, when you can have mad adventure with a good looking guy that you might find for real one day? Also all the extras were more interesting like the guns, outfits, jeeps,helicopter,etc even the parachute which my brother had, but wouldnt let us use so we nicked my mutti's silk nighty out of the ironing pile and made some for our action men! They worked if you climbed a giant tree and got the height but not too good out of the bedroom windows in a two storey house. The trees were handy for when my mam found the remains of her nighty!!
