Quick Draw Action?

[Falstaff13]

When I was a very young kid, I remember seeing an ad for a set of western figures (small scale size) which had a quick-draw action feature. My memory is that a button pushed in the back caused them to draw (somewhat like the Bravestaff line from Mattel a few years later), but having learned most recently of the Butch & Sundance line from Kenner, where squeezing the legs prompted a quick-draw move, I am wondering now if this might not be the line. At some point in the late 1970s (probably 1979, but possibly as late as 1980), I remember seeing the ad and telling my mother I wanted those figures. She took the ad and used it to tell my grandmother to be on the lookout for them. For reasons that may just be a quirk of memory, I have this vague recollection the ad was in McCall's magazine (as it was something both my mother and grandmother read, and I remember my mother on the phone telling her to go look at the advertisement), but for all I know it was from a flier in the paper for a toy store.

Can anyone help? It may be that this is the short-lived Butch & Sundance line.

Thanks, Hugh

[samsallspark]

maybe the Lone Ranger line ( Maybe)????

[palitoy]

They had "Fast Draw Action" and were likely the only figures that got much advertisement in the late 70s.

[Falstaff13]

The Lone Ranger line didn't have that feature. Having only in recent years discovered Butch & Sundance (which remains a bizarre choice in my mind for Kenner to grab after Star Wars), I think they fit the bill, and I just had in my head that the feature worked differently for some reason.

I really want to collate a list of Western lines. I suppose I would need to start with Hartland and their statuettes.

[Captain]

Are you sure it was a small scale line? Marx had the Quick Draw Johnny West and Sam Cobra figures, although they came out way before 1979/80.

As for the choice of licensing the butch and Sundance series, I think a lot of toymakers thought the Lone Ranger film was going to revive the genre, and they all wanted a piece of the action. Of course, the Ranger film didnt do what it was supposed to...sadly!

[kennermike]

I think its the Butch and Sundance Line from Kenner circa 1979-80
it could be also Legends of The West Line from Empire toys but I dont remember them having quick draw action?

[Falstaff13]

It wasn't the Legends of the West line--that's actually my main interest in collecting/nostalgia for 1970s toys, and they had no "action feature." As to whether it could have been Johnny West/Sam Cobra, I cannot rule it out, but I know this had to be late 1970s (based on my age at the time), so I think it must be Butch & Sundance. I admit I was kind of hoping it would turn out there was just another line out there I'd forgotten/never known.

I understand there was hope for Legend of the Lone Ranger to be a big hit, but it was two years after the B&S prequel.