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Does anyone here have any of the GESTERN WAR'S battle stories and -pictures,
those three column texts and small pictures that came with the figures?
(I attach the story and picture for the US Pilot, so that you can see what I mean.)
If you have any of those, could you please contact me?
I need scans or photos of some of them, because I am currently working on
restoring / completing my old GESTERN WAR'S "collectors album".
Back in 1977 / 78 my favourite action figures were the Mego / Lion Rock 7 inch WWII soldiers.
Here in Germany they were distributed by toy manufacturer Schildkroet and were
called GESTERN WAR'S (which I think can be translated "it had been yesterday").
There were 32 figures available and each came with a small booklet that had promotional pictures
of all the figures in it, as well as a "battle story" and a "battle picture" for that particular soldier.
The story and picture could be put into a collectors album (german: "Sammelalbum").
The album provided some additional information about the war, with pictures of planes, tanks, insignia, flags etc.
See the attached picture of page 3 (US Tail Gunner) for an example of an empty album page.
I still have my old collectors album. It has 12 of the stories and pictures in it.
I also have an additional 10 stories in handwritten form, from some of the figures that my friends had,
but don't know what the original text layout was. I am also thinking about recreating some of the
small battle pictures for my album using the artwork that is on the boxes of the french or italian figures
that I got in recent years. But I would need information on where the text was placed and what color it was.
Pictures of the booklets from the french or the "Johnny Action" line would be helpful for this, too.
So, if you have any of the stories or small pictures could you please contact me or post them here?
Thank you!
those three column texts and small pictures that came with the figures?
(I attach the story and picture for the US Pilot, so that you can see what I mean.)
If you have any of those, could you please contact me?
I need scans or photos of some of them, because I am currently working on
restoring / completing my old GESTERN WAR'S "collectors album".
Back in 1977 / 78 my favourite action figures were the Mego / Lion Rock 7 inch WWII soldiers.
Here in Germany they were distributed by toy manufacturer Schildkroet and were
called GESTERN WAR'S (which I think can be translated "it had been yesterday").
There were 32 figures available and each came with a small booklet that had promotional pictures
of all the figures in it, as well as a "battle story" and a "battle picture" for that particular soldier.
The story and picture could be put into a collectors album (german: "Sammelalbum").
The album provided some additional information about the war, with pictures of planes, tanks, insignia, flags etc.
See the attached picture of page 3 (US Tail Gunner) for an example of an empty album page.
I still have my old collectors album. It has 12 of the stories and pictures in it.
I also have an additional 10 stories in handwritten form, from some of the figures that my friends had,
but don't know what the original text layout was. I am also thinking about recreating some of the
small battle pictures for my album using the artwork that is on the boxes of the french or italian figures
that I got in recent years. But I would need information on where the text was placed and what color it was.
Pictures of the booklets from the french or the "Johnny Action" line would be helpful for this, too.
So, if you have any of the stories or small pictures could you please contact me or post them here?
Thank you!
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