Blood For The Baron!

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A mock up page from the all new Palitoy Action Force Collectors’ Guide featuring Baron Ironblood, the megalomaniac leader of the Red Shadows. 

Each page of the Guide will feature definitive information about cardbacks, variants, and each character’s appearances in Battle Action Force.

Sign up for the Kickstarter HERE.

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Blood For the Baron.com proudly presents the Action Force - Palitoy Collector’s Guide, a comprehensive guide to the iconic British toy range spanning 1982 to 1985.

The Guide features all the Action Force and Red Shadows toys manufactured by Palitoy, well known to many courtesy of the Blood For The Baron Toy Archive.

Featuring 300 full-colour pages with photos of the toys, original packaging, character biographies, detailed variant information and close-ups of all accessories, the Guide - a revived project - breaks new ground as a definitive reference work.

The guide also boasts a comprehensive look at the Battle Action Force comic and many other promotional items.

Thirteen years’ worth of dedication, research and online collaborations have gone into the book and, with the recent rise of the Red Shadows, this Guide is an absolute must for GI Joe and Action Force fans alike.

Back the Kickstarter HERE.

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EDIT: The Kickstarter is open until Sunday 24th April and is already over 70% funded with 43 days remaining … BLOOD FOR THE BARON!

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The ever popular star of Z Force Fraulein Hedda Pulver AKA Quarrel recently got an amazing makeover update by Neal McCullough.

For those with short memories, or the temporarily distracted, Battle Action Force also featured one of Quarrel’s adventures in ‘Tank Hunt’.

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It’s been a long two years. Red Shadows on the rampage in Eastern Europe, Red Shadows and the Gibli on the rampage in the greater Middle East.

SITREP: SITUATION NORMAL.

The unprecedented disruption of Action Force operations and BFTB head shed activity was, however, significant.

But now BFTB is back.

Standby for more updates…

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Red Jackal caught in moment of bionic contemplation of his transition from Z Force to the Red Shadows.

Perhaps... 

'Da, My Lord! I believe we are all about to come under attack! We must take precautions!'

Custom artwork by Thundershot.

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'HURRY, SHADOWS! DEATH AWAITS THOSE WHO ARE TOO SLOW!'

Battle Action Force was only eleven weeks old, but, if any doubts remained as to the origins of the Red Shadows, or as to the utterly unhinged personality types of the Black Major and Baron Ironblood, they were quickly dispelled in 'Attack!' in December 1983.

'NO, PLEASE, MASTER! I NEARLY FINISHED! ... URRRGH.'

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'This is a copy of my final concept sketch including the outline for the datafile of SKELETRON.'

Bob Brechin - Lead Designer of Action Force at Palitoy.

Roll Out Roll Call 4 saw a unique limited edition print for sale, with proceeds going to charity. Featuring Bob Brechin's final concept sketch for the Skeletron, a mystery that had taken an unexpected twist recently was finally resolved. 

Never issued with a datafile, in Fall 1984 the Skeletron was Action Force Wave 3's mail-away figure. With just a printed note accompanying a nondescript box, Skeletron became the subject of much speculation about whether it was a character or an army builder. 

As Baron Ironblood himself so eloquently put it:

'The Skeletron is my latest creation from the Ironblood Laboratories programmed to destroy Action Force wherever and whenever it confronts them - with a will of its own it even refuse to obey my orders sometimes.' 

With many thanks to BFTBer Graham_UK for the picture of his signed print. Also, for more info, listen to the pre-RORC Full Force Episode 3 podcast.

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Zut alors!

Fresh from the French National Archives comes a find encroyable: Autumn 1984 Wave 3 Action Force in all their glory. 

A suitable voiceover makes plain the high stakes involved:

Men, the Baron wants to put the world to sleep! (vais dormir le monde), The troops of Action Force are ready at their posts, Captain Poque who commands the group SAS, Captian Mac for the underwater group, Captain Ceau for the extraterrestial force (espatialle), But beware, the Baron is a cunning opponent. The battle begins with the toys from Action Force!

Malheureusement zee Z Force did not get namechecked, nevertheless you can glimpse them at the start, albeit hidden away in the briefing hall énorme. 

With thanks to BFTBers Thundershot for the excellent find, and Lady Jaye for the redaction splendide.

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>>>> URGENT >>>> AF EYES ONLY >>>> NEW HUMINT RECEIVED >>>> ASSET: BUDDUSKY >>>> SOURCE: BOB BRECHIN >>>> LOCATION: RORC4 SOUTHAMPTON, UK >>>> DATE: 13 OCTOBER 2013 >>>> 

Hot foot from his 2012 exclusive BFTB Q&A, former Palitoy Lead Designer Bob Brechin dropped another bombshell at Roll Out Roll Call 4: the existence of a previously unknown Space Force Transporter prototype in Action Force Wave 3.

At great risk to his own safety, agent Buddusky secured photographic evidence during the presentation, revealing the draft 1984 marketing material with the Transporter featured (right side, below the Shadowtrak and Roboskull) in an advanced stage of development. 

This wasn't the first time that Space Force prototypes got so very, very close to production (Wave 2 1983), but Bob dropped an additional bombshell in the form of two more previously unknown Space Force figures planned for the 1984 range (placed here to the right of the Triad Fighter.) One male, one female.

Following his 2013 Roboskull Q&A, Bob also elaborated on the origins of the mighty Skeletron. Not only that, he dropped some Skeletron posters on the huddled BFTB masses too.

Updates on those - and yet more revelations - to follow ASAP.

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Z Force's Tracker, Breaker and Skip go for a 'Walk in the Country' ...

'Remember when we finally reached the scrub and trees on the edge of the desert, Tracker?,'

'How could I forget? How would Skip put it ... "Ach, where'd hee com' from?",'

'Ach, don't get too comfortable laddies ... '

Desert Strike will be with Z Force, always.

Dio by Thundershot.

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The first issue of Battle Action Force hit the shops on 8th October 1983. Even better, it was free.

Coinciding with the roll out of the second wave of Action Force figures, the finest quality toy retailers did a roaring trade in free comics and bright plastic.

The issue introduced two of the greatest stories of the Palitoy era to boot: Operation Bloodhound and Operation Desert Strike. A new generation were also introduced to the great stories of the Battle era, such as Charley's War and Johnny Red.

The thirtieth anniversary of Battle Action Force falls on the tenth anniversary of BFTB. Want to celebrate these milestones? Order the Collector's Guide or the Skeletron. NOW!

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Roll Out Roll Call is back!

After last year's epic RORC3 featuring the Hama fest, the Dreadnought, V.I.P.E.R., Robert Atkins, Dave Tree's History of Action Force presentation, Jim Marshall's Anniversary Baron and the custom competition, anticipation is building as one exclusive has already dropped.

Check out the special silent auction too, but, be quick, it ends on 18th August. Lots of rare or unique items are up for grabs ... including a couple of Dreadnoughts.

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The Full Force, 'a fancast about the world of Action Force & GI Joe,' is now available to download!

The brain child of Rapper-Producer-Teacher Christopher McLeod, über-Palitoy collector Eddie Inman, and serial small plastic figure entrepreneur Mr. Dave Tree, our North American cousins at What's On Joe Mind? have facilitated a podcast that boldly Palitoy-goes where no Joe has really gone before. Naturally, the safeword is: Action Force.

Check out the pilot, but the juice is Episode 1: BFTB webmeister Jim Marshall gets interviewed about all things Action Force, and the history of BFTB itself.

Follow them on Facebook or on Twitter to stay ahead of the curve.

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BREAKING NEWS:

BFTB is infiltrating the mainstream via Facebook.

LET THE SUBVERSION BEGIN ... VICTORY IS CLOSE!

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Surveying his brainwashed troops, the maniacal man of the moment, the Black Major, prepares for his next venture ... 

'I'm giving the orders now!'

Photo and dio by the ever-industrious Thundershot. 

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Jean-Luc Bouvier, codenamed Barracuda, is SAS Force’s top underwater assault and demolitions expert.

Unfortunately, he is about to meet the Kraken.

Luckily it was all recorded by Kraken Kapers, via the otherwise unassuming underwater assault expert Meertoh*.

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* NB. Rather than a certain scouse who would, in other circumstances, normally take credit for recording such close encounters ...