Anti toy soldier hippies (1 Viewer)

[damian]

:I found this cool album. I don't know much about the band
I am not sure but the band photo tends to date the band a bit. I am sure those sort of fashions were long before Brad was at college.
Regards
Damian

 

[jazzeum]

Always a comedian I was around before these guys were. According to the All Music Guide, this album came out in 1971 on the Edsel label. It was reissued as a CD under the Wild Turkey label (must be their own) in 2006. That's all the info they have. I'll have to see if it's on iTunes or Lime Wire.

AMG is a great resource on groups and albums of any genre. The address is www.allmusic.com

 

[damian]

Thanks Brad
I will do some research. I found it at a Church fete. Vinyl collecting is not big over here. I really liked the album cover. The Jam had a great album called Setting Sons which I think came out in 1978. They had some Britains Deetail soldiers on the inner sleeve.
I will photograph it tomorrow.
Regards
Damian

 

[jazzeum]

Vinyl is alive and well, unbelievably, as you can see from ebay. For some vinyl you can get big prices. The Japanese still make a lot of reissue vinyl. The original vinyl sometimes has a warmer, truer sound than Cds as sometime the original source music (the masters) are no longer available. However, I prefer Cds myself just for the convenience.

 

[theBaron]

That makes me think of a specialty sub-category of toy soldier collecting: Collecting things that reference toy soldiers (ephemera, I think the collectibles experts call things like that). For example, over the years, at various shows, I have seen a couple different examples of jigsaw puzzles depicting collections of toy soldiers (one, I think, showed stacks of opened Britians boxes).

There's a trivia question: How many movie references to toy soldiers can you name? I can think of four, right off the bat:

"Toys" (1992) with Robin Williams, there are scenes in the toy factory of a production line churning out dimestore figures

"Three Days of the Condor" (1975), with a quick shot of Max von Sydow as Jobert the assassin, painting a Stadden hussar figure

"Murder at 1600" (1997), Wesley Snipes as Detective Regis, with the Civil War diorama in his living room (pretty sure that was in "Murder at 1600", I know it was Snipes as the detective)

"The Living Daylights" (1987) Joe Don Baker as the maniacal arms dealer whose lair included his arms and armor collection, as well as case after case of toy soldiers. I think that might have been part of the old Forbes collection.

Anyone think of any others?

 

[OzDigger]

Here are some more from an earlier thread on the subject:

Pirates of the Carribean 3 (Imo not as good as 1 & 2) - K & C figures on desk of bad English guy.

Ronin (a terrific movie) - Japanese castle with Ronin and current Samurai etc.

Callan (hard core early MI-5 type series) - The lead character collected, assembled and painted figures between hits. He also took the expression "kill the light" way to literally.

Monarch of the Glen - Jacobite rebel figs.

Bond movie "The Living Daylights" - Baddie Brad Whittaker (Joe Don Baker) has several cool dios (including Picketts Charge) with working features, but he meets his Waterloo at the hands of Roger Bond via the head of Wellington. Btw Joe Don Baker returned to play a CIA agent in Golden Eye and Tomorrow Never Dies. Yes, I'm a bit of a 007 fan

Young Winston - playing with his toy soldiers.

Patriot - toy solders melted to make bullets.

 

[Shiloh]

3 Days of the Condor Assassin painting figures while being confronted by Robert Redford.

 

[maloyalo]

Time Bandits (early 80's) has a shot of Britains Deetail knights on the floor of the boys bedroom.

Indian in the Cupboard (93ish) has big indian village dio in the school lobby and some of the main characters are toy figures come to life (cowboy, indians, WW1 British Medic). I never knew which maker did the figures pictured though. last note: they actually made new plastic figures of the main characters you could buy if you got the film. Which is kinda strange when you OT it!

Both excellent movies btw

Do TV shows count ?

 

[HistoryfortheAges]

"The Great Catherine" with Peter O'Toole. I think this was a 60's film and has a British military officer in Catherine's Russia on a mission. He confronts Catherine in large room that houses a large diorama of Bunker Hill. Catherine suggests that they re-fight Bunker Hill with Catherine (Jeanne Moreau) taking the American side and O'Toole taking the British side. Initially, O'Toole will have none of it because he thinks it's silly to be playing with toy soldiers but, is forced into the situation when Catherine starts blasting away at the British troops with working miniature cannons. The diorama is completely made up of Britains American Revolution swoppets (thousands!) and as I recall very detailed landscaping including a British warship in the Boston harbor. A must see!!! Very funny!!!

 

[maloyalo]

The diorama is completely made up of Britains American Revolution swoppets (thousands!) and as I recall very detailed landscaping including a British warship in the Boston harbor. A must see!!! Very funny!!!

Thousands...AWI swoppets...Ich habe figuren-lust !

Thats certainly one for the top of the list!

A few more:

Stripes (around 80) The captain of the company in basic training plays with green armymen in his office. I think they were Timmee GI's and Tanks.

A 'Doctor Kildare' TV Episode (60's) A boy (close to dying) in the hospital has civil war figures that he plays with on the bed. He even asks for a certain regiment by name, like the 78th New York, etc. He makes it though.

A 'Longstreet' TV Episode (70's) I think that was what the show was called. The lead, a blind detective picks up a soldier and indentifys it as a Greek Hoplite.

This would make a very good photo article if some stills could be found from the films