Letraset / Waddingtons Panorama Action Transfers

[Ian Townsend]

This will mean zilch to most people here but I genuinely got a lump in my throat seeing all these old Letraset Panorama Action Transfer (http://www.action-transfers.com/html/a_ranges/panoramas_linking.shtml)images.

Memories of childhood - related. I remember the Haunted House (http://www.action-transfers.com/html/panorama/haunted.shtml) and Lunar Base (http://www.action-transfers.com/html/panorama/lunarbase.shtml) so well.

The guy who put the site together has done it with so much care. Check out the main page then dig around to find detailed scans of the Panoramas themselves and the transfer sheets.

I used to love doing these and they always gave you so many transfers you could use leftovers on school exercise books.

[LDJB]

Good god Ian - id totally forgotten about those!!! Talk about a Proustian rush! Many thanks.

[Col Wolfe]

I don't remember those big packs but used to have smaller versions (must have been early 80s) featuring Batman and Spiderman.

Sent the link to my brother and he is adamant there was a Dempsey & Makepeace one!

A little off-tangent but that site you link to reminds me of the Pocketeer site: http://www.masters.me.uk/pocketeers/pocketeers1.htm

I used to love them

Especially Bombard!

http://www.masters.me.uk/pocketeers/Im-UK/Im-Big-pocketeers/jmBombard.jpg

[ironheadrat]

I don't remember those big packs but used to have smaller versions (must have been early 80s) featuring Batman and Spiderman.
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I got the smal packs, too. And grew up on Shredded Wheat, so had plenty of rear-of-box panorama action going on.

Wonderful site. I've been looking for the BEST SHOES EVER (http://www.action-transfers.com/html/a_articles/bata2animalbefore.shtml)in the past, but thought they were Clarks. They may have Xboxes, iPods and all that crap today, but they don't have a variety of native animal prints and a compass in their footwear.

[ironheadrat]

Blimey. These amazing Jesus Boots are even better.
How the hell did I miss these?

http://www.action-transfers.com/img/Wayfinders/Wayfinders_Other/Smash_12_31May69_p18_Wayfinders_Sundal_Crop_h972.j pg

[galtee mountain casual]

Fantastic stuff the memories are flooding back used to get one if I'd been to the dentist or the like I seem to remember.

Ace and mint is how I would probably have decribed these back then and i see no reason to change my mind......

[eruditio]

Good god Ian - id totally forgotten about those!!! Talk about a Proustian rush! Many thanks.
^^^
This! It's such a strange feeling seeing some of those images again. I too had that Haunted House not once, but several times as I loved doing these as a child.

Delighted to read this on the site too.

•A set of reproductions of Letraset Panoramas (for which we hold the copyright) — COMING SOON
•An online 'Rub-Down Your Own Transfers' game (which you can print out) — COMING SOON
•An original series of SPLAT Action Transfers (we have top designers & artists in our ranks)
•A series of brand new Art Action Transfers (aimed at Museums & Galleries, etc.)
• The Book. That's right, all this stuff will be coming out in a book. However, the publishing details haven't been completely sorted yet, so if you're an agent or publisher, please use the Contact page to get in touch.

Let's hope they can sort all of these out for Christmas.

[Ian Townsend]

Wonderful site. I've been looking for the BEST SHOES EVER (http://www.action-transfers.com/html/a_articles/bata2animalbefore.shtml)in the past, but thought they were Clarks. They may have Xboxes, iPods and all that crap today, but they don't have a variety of native animal prints and a compass in their footwear.

Jeesus Shaun!
Add this to your distant memories of Tinger & Tucker and a thousand other things you've mentioned that have struck a chord with me and we could be related!

I was indeed a proud owner of teh shoes with the animal track soles and compass in the heel. Essential survival kit growing up in Wealdstone / Kenton and Harrow but even as a child I questioned the validity of all those animals appearing in one spot at the same time. I mean, the f*ckers would scrap and destroy any clear prints surely?

Blakey's (Segs?) came soon after (think I did that thread on VG+) and I remember, maybe earlier, a particularly horrendous time when mum experimented with buying nylon school shirts. Ugh.

In similarly sweaty and unpleasant mode, somewhere in my primary school memories there were George Best shoes. Strikers? Matchmakers? Something like that. No leather in sight, horrible smooth plastic shoes that didn't let your feet breathe at all.

The late 60s early 70s were a bad time when scientists thought it was OK to experiment on small childrens feet and bodies with horrible new types of polymers. :mad:

At least Letraset Panoramas emerged from the technological maelstrom.:cool:

[effi_deep]

:eek: i was heavy into these letra thingies...but i was born in '83!

[ironheadrat]

I was indeed a proud owner of teh shoes with the animal track soles and compass in the heel. Essential survival kit growing up in Wealdstone / Kenton and Harrow but even as a child I questioned the validity of all those animals appearing in one spot at the same time. I mean, the f*ckers would scrap and destroy any clear prints surely?
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They could have escaped from a zoo or a travelling circus.
that was my justification, anyway. I also spent whole days scouring hedgerows for a Queen Termite that might have escaped, despite the fact that they are native to Namibia.
Still gutted about the sundial sandals, though.
"Oh no, I've forgotten my watch and my mum will kill me if I'm late for tea, but the sticklebacks are really biting and I don't want to lose a minute of this sport."
"Never fear. Let me just remove my Sundal..... ah , yes, it's 4:49 pm - plenty of time to fill another jamjar and be back in time for tea."

Got me wrong on Tingha and Tucker, though. It was on ATV, apparently, and my mildly hippy mum not only believed that girlie sandals were essential summer footwear for a boy, but that the commercial channels "rotted the brain."

[eruditio]

Blakey's (Segs?) came soon after (think I did that thread on VG+) and I remember, maybe earlier, a particularly horrendous time when mum experimented with buying nylon school shirts. Ugh.
The metal studs for making shoes last longer? I remember that craze very well. :) They were banned very quickly from my school and the playing surface in my local park was torn apart by them.

At which point does someone on here say 'jumpers for goalposts'?

[sourcerer]

Haunted House Panorama Holy Grail SEALED on EBay now!!!

[Ian Townsend]

Haunted House Panorama Holy Grail SEALED on EBay now!!!
....and there was me excitedly heading to find it and bid.
Maybe not (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/370835427007?_trksid=p5197.c0.m619).
Very cool though, and amazing that it's still sealed. What sort of twisted kid bought had that and didn't want to rip it open and do it?

That'll definitely be someone's Rosebud though.

[treeboy]

What a dilemma if you did win it though:confused: It's like those unopened albums you see still in the shrinkwrap, what do you do with them?

[Ian Townsend]

I'd bloody love to have it for memories sake as I used to love them. I don't have a grandchild yet but if I ever did I'd give it to him/ her on their sixth birthday to open. Whether the transfers would still work or not is another matter!

I'm resisting and holding out hope the SPLAT team that runs the Letraset website come good with their promise of reprinting Panoramas in their original form. They have the license to do so according to their website. If I won the Lottery I'd fund it happening sooner rather than later in a heartbeat!

[Ian Townsend]

.....perfect for Kickstarter I'd have thought?

[treeboy]

Now there's a thing:rolleyes:

[eruditio]

But is it really an og or one of the the first run of the reissue the website was talking about? :confused::p
Either way.
Less that 24 hours to go.
55 watchers.
No bids.





TENSE MOMENTS

[Ian Townsend]

Another one I remember doing.

World War 1 Action Transfers (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Letraset-Vintage-1968-Factory-Sealed-World-War-1-Action-Transfers-/261272387199?ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:3160)

I can get my head around records from 1968 still being sealed and listed as new, but it fascinates me that something as cool ( and disposable!) as this remains unopened and untouched.

[galtee mountain casual]

Fantastic stuff I'd love to find some old stock of them for my kids I had Slade rub down transfers as well they were all over my school books. Marvellous stuff

[ironheadrat]

Another one I remember doing.

World War 1 Action Transfers (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Letraset-Vintage-1968-Factory-Sealed-World-War-1-Action-Transfers-/261272387199?ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:3160)

I can get my head around records from 1968 still being sealed and listed as new, but it fascinates me that something as cool ( and disposable!) as this remains unopened and untouched.

It´s a French issue, though. "sacre bleu, un zeppelin!"
In my experience kiddy war stuff is less popular in countries that a. lost b. were occupied.

Foreign countries are great, though. I recently discovered that loads of my favourite childhood comic strips (Zip Nolan, Galaxus, Jason Stark) had been released in book form in Spain, France and Germany.

[Ian Townsend]

£51 and rising for this SEALED BANG TO RIGHTS SHUT IT! (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=331010032547&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1120) bit of Action Transfer history.

[Runswick]

I'm almost speechless. I had completely forgotten these existed even though I must have done a hundred of them as a child. Wonderful memories.