Christmas morning in the 70s ...Action Man ....six uniforms ....and a Johnny Severn ....thanks Dad and mum ...R.I.P .😅😅😮😅😅

Then we all got air guns 😢

I went on to use the real one. Pros and cons: The real one sounded better. The Action Man one was much lighter! Seriously though, their research was thorough enough to use the Sustained Fire role pistol grip which replaced the original buttstock. Normally you would be sitting behind it to operate it. This version of the L7a1 GPMG was used in the indirect fire role, much like a mortar. Just info for any one interested 😊

I saw this on my feed and had to watch and subcribe. Just to say I fast forward to the actual gun working then watched it all. I had this plus many other action man kit. Great video and so many memories.

My Action Man as a child in England was the Deep Sea Diver version. I then had high hopes of expanding his Kit but unfortunately My Parents then transported Me to South Australia, where Action Man Kit was either prohibitively expensive or simply unavailable.

Brilliant, I’ve been lucky enough to have been a Skill at Arms Instructor and fired the GPMG in SF down range for real

Great stuff!

My grandfather bought me this when I was a child, I was really into action man

A simple spring-loaded ratchet like I have in my many old fishing reels would have provided a nice clicking noise. Great though, thanks for showing.

I re read that advert catalogue so many times!

I remember this! Absolutely the best thing ever.

They did an M1919 Browning machine gun nest with gun sound, ot was great. I remember this one, I found it disappointing at the time because there was no sound, but it is nice to see it here again.

I had this in the70's along with the rest of my action man toys

I recall seeing a toy commercial that showed a toy MG very similar to this one except it was a bit bigger of course. I had one that was battery operated with a tripod mount except I do not recall it having a looped ammo belt. We had such great firearm toys back in the day.

I want one now!

Didn't have this but I did have a (non-Action Man) knight with plastic armour and weapons and a horse (also with armour) then had little wheels in its feet. Would like to know who made that - I know they also did a red indian figure, was same size as Action Man with same moveable features

Must have been a pretty limited release. I had tanks, jeeps, helicopter and the submarine. Don't remember this at all.

I was playing with action man in 1973, didn't have that though

Probably worth a small fortune now ?

I have that! Action mans elbows didn't bend, but he mopped the floor with GI Joe!

I was a '70s Brit kid...how did I miss this one?!?

I had one and it was brilliant! My dad converted a large tipper truck to an armoured car for me and mounted the MG on it after I broke the tripod. I still have the truck (and my action men) but the MG has long gone.

I got this for Christmas 1972

I remember getting this as a child, mid-1970’s. Father had been in the Household Cavalry (Life Guards), so he knew how to put the uniform together

I had one of these!

This is sacrilegious.

Ah to be young again

Looks more like a PIRA ASU.

I had one of those.

we need a re-run of the original action man, would sort the place out in a week, the mess we are in

Wow that brings back some fond memories ❤I had one👍

I had the Scorpion fantastic addition. I drove all the CVRTs in the RAC during my own time in green lol

I've been enjoying these mate. Took me right back. I had a huge collection as a boy back in the 70s and 80s and remember them fondly. Cheers

I had one if these, lasted about 2 minutes!

It was a copy of the Pedigree "Tommy Gunn" version released several years before. I had both. Both were battery powered and the TG one had slightly better detailing.

it broke so easily though

I would love to re-engineer that. It’s needs the motor to run slower plus a small dedicated chip and speaker to make weapon sounds.

Would be interesting to know how many rounds went through that thing in a second so we can work out if it is faster than an MG42 or a minigun lol. Fairly easy with an rpm counter I reckon. Thanks in advance

L7A1 is known by its original manufacturer in Belgium as a FN MAG 😉 I would have loved to have this toy nevertheless 😊

I had that..the pistol grip was way too big

Like all my childhood toys; awesome fun until it stopped working.😂

The box art was ALWAYS nicer than the crap inside 🤮🤮🤮🤮👎👎👎👎 And what a noise , it was like you skinned a cat ( i suppose 😁😁)

I recall having a knock off version.

Made in the days when lads played war and didn't grow up and stab anyone !

Action man the first to use the infinite ammo hack.

I remember them😊😊

I never had one of those, but seeing those stars on that box reminded me of collecting them and sending them in for stuff. I think the only original Action Man item I still have is a SLR rifle with broken off barrel that is sitting under the fiberglass insulation in my Mum's attic back in the UK, one day I'll have to get it sent to me.

I remember getting this set for Christmas one year along with the deep sea diver outfit! Again, great video, thanks Gary