When asked about the tale behind Action Man’s left hand, Bob said: “Well, it’s a long story.
“Bill Pugh, my boss, seemed to see things. We were at the toy fair, putting an Action Man on the display, and Bill couldn’t get his rifle in his hand, it kept falling out.
“Brian Turney, who was the display manager, just said ‘we’ll just stick a bit of glue in there and it’ll stay’.
“And Bill, you can see him thinking ‘No, he needs a gripping hand’.
“So when we came back to Coalville, I sculpted the gripping hand based on my left hand.”