Blood for the Baron!

Hmm. Hi-res scans and repro boxes?

You could put it besides SteveD's carded black SAS Commando.

Nicely done

The Baron wrote:Hmm. Hi-res scans and repro boxes?

I would take a good quality repro all day long until I could hunt down the real thing.

Here we go, the three picture variants together.

That looks stunning, As you probably know I'm not clued up on my Action Force stuff, I never knew there was a black bodied one released! What's the story behind it? As a kid I remember buying off a kid from school the Red Hyena with a "Hiss Driver", what did that come from as I take it the red ones came with Red Jackal?

I don't know the story behind the two red Hyena boxes and which came first as I've see both with the Cobra sticker over the Shadow logo. I reckon that both the red Hyenas with Cobra box stickers came with Red Jackal and then the black Hyena came with a HISS Driver as the Cobra Escape Armour also came with a HISS Driver. Also, knowing Palitoy there's bound to have been a crossover where some red Hyenas with Cobra box stickers came with a HISS Driver rather than Red Jackal.

Graham_UK wrote:That looks stunning, As you probably know I'm not clued up on my Action Force stuff, I never knew there was a black bodied one released! What's the story behind it? As a kid I remember buying off a kid from school the Red Hyena with a "Hiss Driver", what did that come from as I take it the red ones came with Red Jackal?

I got one of these Palitoy black HISS´s once in a lot and it had grey tracks and gun turret and if I dont recall wrong I sold it on here for a very low price.....same with the red Escape Armour (was is SteveD who got it for £10 or something )

That's right Rene, the tracks and guns are dark grey and not black like the US version. Sounds like someone got a bargain!

Managed to find the old photos from that sale

I remember that I was thinking about taking off all the stickers and resticker it with Hasbro but now I am glad someone else got a nice minty Palitoy Hiss.