
To celebrate his 40th birthday, various artists gave Action Man a makeover at the AM4040 show (see http://www.am4040.com/).
If like me, you missed the show, you can still catch up with the various indignities they put our middle-aged hero through here. I'm assuming that he'll be buying a sports car, piercing his ear, taking up a dangerous sport and hanging out at young people's discos any time soon now, just like the rest of us mid-life crisis males. Or was that what Action Man did in his youth anyway when we weren't looking?
I dug out my old Action Man recently (1970 model and therefore four years younger than me), and realised that he may be a useful member of the moongolf team. He could be used to model the mission proper, with him as me - or me as him.
All I need to do is grow a beard, get a scar on my right cheek and acquire some very large pink pants...