I know fellow blogger Mark at Man of Tin blog Two often posts updates on his blog when he finds army men or toy soldiers appearing in tv-series or movies. By coincidence I recently found some Army Men in a very unlikely tv-series. I'm actually not very interested in football, but when Norway was going to meet England in The World Championship in football I just had to watch the match. When approaching our tv, I noticed that the present channel was 'nickelodeon junior' showing Barbapa. -with Army Men (!). This was a very unlikely setting so I made some quick screenshots before zapping to The World Championship.
...until another of the Barbapapa children brought robots and dinosaurs to finally take them out. - and invented a wargame (?). I've considered Barbapapa for being 'politically correct' tv for children, so I found this setting was somewhat a little surprising. Perhaps that's why they looked so less offensive only being armed with binoculars, radios or flags. Some of the poses looked familiar:
(1)(1).jpg "Army Men appearing in an episode of Barbapapa") |
| Inspired by a Matchbox American WW2 Infantry? |
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| Inspired by Airfix Russian WW2 Infantry? |
And the match? That was an exiting and very close one. Congratulations 🏴 !!
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Good toy spotting - and noting the demilitarised soldiers. I remember the original TV series and books from the 1970s translated or dubbed into English, although they are mixed in my memories with The Moomin family.
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