ROM joins Action Man

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A year after Parker Brothers launched ROM in the US, Palitoy their UK distributor, inserted him into their Action Man Space Rangers line which is, a really good idea.

I have to assume one of the challenges of selling ROM was that he was a pricey stand alone action figure made by a company that primarily sold board games. I'm sure Palitoy got him on more store shelves by making him part of the team.

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1979 Parker Brothers ROM Press Kit

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[monitor_ep]

This just needs to be shared.

Rom the Space Knight in the media

[Hedji]

Well of course the hirsute savages were the bad guys instead of the astronauts. I didn't need analyser gongs to tell me that. Nevertheless, yay ROM!

[acrovader]

A childhood friend of mine had a brother that had one of these. Normally I would've been all over something like this back in the late 70's during the Star Wars craze, but looking back, I'm a tad bit more indifferent towards it. The scale and lack of articulation of the toy probably would of eventually bored me had I had one as a kid back in the day. Plus being a stand alone is disappointing.

[JRT!]

I love my ROM,and happy that I still have him on display. Not bothered about lack of articulation and such,he's still cool.

J-R!