Blood for the Baron!

Welcome to the boards,

I lived in Sheffield for quite a few years while at Uni and spent many lovely nights at the Leadmill, one of them accompanied by a Kraken...

Ahhhh, the Leadmill - I've met one or two Krakens there myself over the years too!
I was here at Uni (95 to 98), then left for a few years, then came back in 2001. Ahh, how time flies.....

hey welcome to the boards Steved

good to see some more people who grew up with this

please check out the toys section and vote for the RED LASER CUSTOMS from the HASBRO sponsored/ promoted custom contest

WE NEED HASBRO To really take note of this and we can do it if it wins,

if it wins you can probally bet we'll get some modern versions of some of our favorite RED SHADOWS and ACTION FORCE GUYS

one of our members here did the custom too so show him support as well by voting for it

http://www.hasbro.com/gijoe/default.cfm ... nment/Poll

Don't know if I ever posted in this thread. I'm from Pennsylvania (near Montrose like anyone knows where that is) in the good old US of A.
Did a search on the Baroness one day and came across the old Battle Action Force comics, and been hooked ever since being a joe enthusiast from back in 1982.

Ah that Baroness comic is superb - I remember being absolutely gutted when the comic changed from the Shadows to Cobra.

What you newbies need to understand is that when World Enemy episode 1 was published we kids had NO IDEA that the toyline was being axed, we all thought that the comic was taking huge risks and it was a very exciting time. It wasn't until World Enemy finished that the horrible truth dawned - that's why it was always such a thrill when The Black Major or SAS returned.

However, the next strips were Operation Snakebite and The Baroness, both of which are superb - Snakebite because it skilfully introduces new characters, and shows Zartan at his most menacing, he went off the boil in later stories like Jungle of Doom or Deep Cover IMO. The Baroness was psychotic from the start, building up to a fever pitch and ruthlessly betraying absoultely everyone.

It was this story that kept me reading the comic, because I boycotted the toyline from that point on. I may have only been ten years old but I could spot a rip-off even then! No way was I buying a 2nd Command Centre for a set of variant stickers!

Um... hello SteveD!

I keep meaning to write on this thread but it already says BURNLEY under my name so its pretty retorical...ish anyways....



Biography
Name Trevor Dunston
Code Name 'Tintin'

Serial Number AF 24823726
Born 23/09/1971 Burnley: England

Primary Military speciality Transportation
Secondary Military Speciality Infantry


Tintin was a soldier in the Q.L.R. from the age of 16 and transfered to the R.C.T. when he was 18, which amalgamated on the 05/04/1993 to the R.L.C. Joined Action force to remember the good old days before life got comlicated. Completed basic infantry training with distinction in Advanced Convoy Driving. Qualified expert: SA80, LSW, GPMG, S.L.R., 66MM ROCKET LAUNCHER, mini me/buzzsaw, m-16/c-7 (depending what nation you are from).

"Tintin is always getting others into trouble because it wouldn't be him because HE'S THE QUIET 'ONE'."


Q.L.R. - Queen's Lancashire Regiment
R.C.T. - Royal Corps of Transport
R.L.C. - Royal Logistics Corps

LMAO - I think that all roll call posts should be in filecard format from this point onwards!

The Baron wrote:LMAO - I think that all roll call posts should be in filecard format from this point onwards!

HA!!! I agree, that was pretty cool

Was at a conference in Sheffield a few years back and went to a pub called "The Place". There wasn't an ugly woman in the place it was amazing!! Mind you me and my mate were the two oldest blokes in the pub with a fairly big exclusion zone around us! They must have thought we were feds!

I've never posted on this bit either!

Like everyone else started collecting when I was a kid, and then when bored one night (two months agoish) went on to ebay and started buying and bidding badly to start with but soon got the hang of it. First purchase was from the other Paul (SAS Attack trooper) also got some stuff from tintin.

I work with the Blood Transfusion Service, got a long job title so won't go into that!

Cheers

Paul463

hay every one, im tony Aka Redkat, i found this board when i saw jamarmiller at hisstank.com.
about me, well I'm in to Gi joe, i have some action force toys M.I.B. i also like star wars, i love to draw, i have some new drawing coming up soon, i do a lot of customs, and ill post them up here soon,