#862 HOOK - LOST BOY ACE (1991)

It surprises me how cheap are some figures of this series today... surely they produced way too many figures that remained unsold, despite the success of the movie.

I bought this figure recently for very very little money. I like the figures, and I wanted to have and look at one card. It was not in very good shape, but the price and my chance to open the package and have a figure with all its accessories made me buy it. Needless to say, that accesories from this toyline are very difficult to find, so it is better to buy the figures 100% complete.

Ace is one of the Lost Boys, and it looks very similar to the character in the movie, with its distinctive hat. The figure character seems slightly older, since the actor who played the role was a teenager, maybe 15 years old or so.

The figure came with a stab simulating being made of wood and a backpack of thin plastic that can spit water. The backpack will probably deteriorate after some years, but at the moment is perfect. I will not put water inside, because it will get dirty inside and then it will deteriorate faster.

The card is multilingual and has a back catalogue showing all figures, as well as the instructions for the action feature at the left side of the backcard.

I have taken a few pictures at the forest. Hope you like them.

You can also see two more figures in entry #440.

FACTS and FIGURES:

• Name: ACE (LOST BOY)
• Toy Line: Hook (Wave 1)
• Year: 1991
• Company: Mattel (U.S.A.)
• Size of the figures: Around 12 cm

#846 TOYS FROM THE PAST - MUSEUM (IX)

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Important notice: The items on display are NOT for sale.

 

 

 

 

#440 HOOK – PETER PAN (AIR ATTACK) and CAPT. HOOK (MULTI BLADE) (1991)

These are my only two Hook figures. They were made by Mattel in 1991, and I saw them around 1993 or 1994 in toy stores in Spain. I never had any, but I recently spotted two cheap figures and bought them. I enjoy discovering a new line, even when I know I won’t buy any other figures, just to get a feel of how good the toyline was, the quality of the figures, their paintwork, the accessories, the action features and so on.

I of course remember the film Hook by Steven Spielberg, which at the time was a great success. I saw it once or twice, didn’t like movies very much those days… but many other people I know were very keen on it. The figures seem to have arrived a bit late to Spain, since in the 1993 Christmas catalogue from Toys ’r Us the figures are displayed for the first time. They seem to be more expensive than other action figures at that time, since they costed 995 pesetas (6 Euro). A Hasbro WWF figure costed exactly the half of it.

Ok, now to the figures: they’re made in good quality plastic, but have poor articulations (5 points of articulation). Compared to the G.I.Joes from Hasbro they might seem rather poor, although Peter Pan also has joint articulations on his shoulders. Accessories are ok, action features are also ok, general appearence is very good, but it is not an excellent toy.

The figure of Captain Hook has a sword hidden under his arm. The sword can be pulled out very easily. If hidden, you can make him fight with his hook, or attach one of the two accesories to it. The other hand can take a small pistol.

The toy line had several waves of figures although all of them seem to have been released in 1991… some figures are really expensive and hard to find, while others (these two for example) cost almost nothing. The figures seem to have been especially popular in Germany and center Europe.

Durability is also a nice to have factor in toys. Figures are quite sturdy, robust, but the trick-backpack from Peter Pan is not working very well anymore. The backpack is really a zip line. Attach the hook somewhere, and let the figure slip down.

 

Last (and least) the guy who sold me the figures put the accessories inside of this nice tin box with Tom and Jerry. It is a Spanish box which originally had candies inside. The brand of this candies was “hit”, and I haven’t seen them since many years, I am not sure if they still sell them. The tin seems to be from 1989.

Caramelos Hit (Pamplona, España)

FACTS and FIGURES:

• Name: PETER PAN AIR ATTACK and CAPT. HOOK MULTI-BLADE
• Toy Line: Hook (Wave 1)
• Year: 1991
• Company: Mattel (U.S.A.)
• Size of the figures: Around 12 cm