Blood for the Baron!

Hi, just wondered if anyone can explain how palitoy managed to get the rights from hasbro to use repaints of some of their early g.i.joe figures in the af toy line.

Palitoy was licensed to do the Action Man run from Hasbro & it`s GI JOE lineup,of course you can see the 2 seperate paths they took.

What Action Force did intitially with there 3 3/4 range was to make smaller 12" figures,hence the original AF figures look like some of the old Action men.

Well then it progressed into SAS,Z,Q,Space forces battling Baron Ironblood & the Red Shadows. Some of course coming from the Hasbro camp & not of Palitoy design (Quarrel,Steeler,Stalker from HASBRO) for starters.

This of course led onto more posable figures which as we know were direct HASBRO characters with UK,Europe backgrounds.

I think that about sums it up,though l know l`m no expert on this.

ja
Steel Bonnet

No offence to Steel Bonnet, but this is a really good question.

I've never heard of any explanation for the use of GI Joe moulds in the Action Force Shadow-era range, nor why those particular figures and vehicles were used and not others.

Was there any other connection between Hasbro and Palitoy? Does anyone know?

No connection I'm aware of except the pre-existing 12" Joe and Action Man relationship.

I guess the licensing was a logical development. The question as ever is what was thought of first Action Force or GI Joe 3.75"??

Baron,
No offense taken mate,as said l`m no expert & was just saying what l think is logical. In that Palitoy/Hasbro UK did get to have there own way to some degree from HASBRO.

Steve,
Personally mate,l think the original AF came first,then Hasbro saw & liked it & produced the more posable Joes we have come to know.

Though l think this is something we`ll never truely know.

ja
Steel Bonnet

Thanks for the replys.
I would agree that it's looking like a case of hasbro just liking the original run of figures then deciding to do their own thing.
Its a shame there arn't more european versions of those original run of joes tho.
It'd be great to have a Red Shadow version of Firefly or the baroness would'nt it? (i just love these emoticons)

Hell yeah. I just had to get me one of those Crimson Baroness figures.