More additions to the collection

steve · Post by **steve** » 21 Apr 2005 18:28

Fantastic!

Great find Jonesy!

Quickfire · Post by **Quickfire** » 24 May 2005 16:35

Ganz einfach wunderbar!

But the whole transfer from Ironblood to Cobra Commander / Action Force to AF still annoys the f@*% out of me as much as in '85.

One day I'll put online Palitoy's responses to my incensed letters on the subject!!

Lady Jaye · Post by **Lady Jaye** » 25 May 2005 08:42

Quickfire wrote:But the whole transfer from Ironblood to Cobra Commander / Action Force to AF still annoys the f@*% out of me as much as in '85.

I know exactly what you mean... Welcome to the club!

Quickfire · Post by **Quickfire** » 25 May 2005 10:30

Lady Jaye wrote:
Quickfire wrote:But the whole transfer from Ironblood to Cobra Commander / Action Force to AF still annoys the f@*% out of me as much as in '85.
I know exactly what you mean... Welcome to the club!

Everytime I see a Red Shad vehicle on Ebay bedecked half-heartedly with Cobra stickers I want to weep.... almost as much as when I was in toyshops for most of '85 and even '86 desperately trawling for real Action Force remainders that didn't consist entirely of a) mutons b) Z force whirlwinds.

Let's go back to 1983-4-5 not only to go toy shopping but to terminate GI Joe's invasion of Action Force's perfect world. Step One - takeover Palitoy.

Bloodhound had years to run in BAF anyway... not to mention Desert Strike: The Sequel.

The Baron · Post by **The Baron** » 05 Aug 2005 22:57

Quickfire wrote:One day I'll put online Palitoy's responses to my incensed letters on the subject!!

I'd like to see this!

Brakkart · Post by **Brakkart** » 07 Aug 2005 23:41

That makes at least two of us Baron. I'd love to see what Palitoy had to say for themselves over this.

Quickfire · Post by **Quickfire** » 08 Aug 2005 11:56

Due to such high demand

I'll try and get them online by mid-September. Got to find them in a loft first!?! I know I can find them though.

Since I posted the original comment I remembered that they were full of typos, dunno why Palitoy felt they had to respond to a child's fulminating scribbles, maybe the public relations dept was under-worked at the time and thought they should imitate the spelling of said infant!

Also, I think their response was very matter of fact and utterly banal. But as I was already climbing the walls once the original Action Force disappeared from quality toy stores everywhere practically overnight and became nothing but the remaindered provenance of bargain bins in all fine Reggie Perrin Grot shops the letters were no consolation but I thought I'd keep 'em nevertheless.

Hav'nae looked at them for nearly 20 years I reckon.