tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post3202727223436180256..comments2024-03-29T00:20:03.012+13:00Comments on The Tearoom of Despair: Action Force, Action FiguresBob Temukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09181473725170489213noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-75709607127416968492019-03-23T06:35:29.255+13:002019-03-23T06:35:29.255+13:00Found this blog totally by chance while trolling t...Found this blog totally by chance while trolling teh interwebs (LOL) for Battle Action Force info...wow! What a LOT of memories! AND....I still have the SAS Squad Leader figure you mention (down to the grappling hook, rope and Heckler & Koch MP5 ;-)) <br /><br />Unfortunately I was - and still am - in South Africa and we didn't get the free figures. They WERE briefly sold here in 1984 and I managed to get a Red Shadow, Baron Ironblood, The Black Major, the Q-Force Diver, Z-Force Captain, Z Force Infantryman and SAS Squad Leader....unfortunately none of the bigger stuff (like the Z Force Tank) made it out here nor did any of the "new" Action Force and Cobra stuff when that was released in 1985<br /><br />I started reading Battle in May 1983 when "Invasion 1984" (about an apocalyptic alien invasion of Earth and 13 years before Independence Day!) started. Battle had the four-part Action Force intro story the next month and AF became an integral part of Battle in November and that lasted for another three years, until Storm Force took over in early 1987...I kept reading it purely for Charley's War and Johnny Red but by the time I'd finished school in 1989 and started university in 1990, it was on life support and I stopped buying it....I have no idea when it ceased publication but I wouldn't be surprised if it lasted another 1-2 years at most :-( <br /><br />I still have most of my Battle AF comics and am missing about three (which I cannot find ANYWHERE) (plus - like an idiot - I cut the back covers off the issues that had posters and games - idiot! LOL)Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08712649674192672159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-56983661969645773292013-08-16T09:42:54.167+12:002013-08-16T09:42:54.167+12:00 You are not alone!! I collected a lot of the figu... You are not alone!! I collected a lot of the figures but in my childlike view of this offer I created the idea that I could get to complete my collection by simply tasking friends relatives from around the uk to buy a comic with a different figure!! Imagine my disappointment when they all turned out to have the z force Sapper on them. Happy memoriesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-63607863989809163602013-05-25T06:30:32.562+12:002013-05-25T06:30:32.562+12:00Wow that brings back memories. Im a bit older than...Wow that brings back memories. Im a bit older than you but i went on to collect most of the action force figures. I always wanted the roboskull but couldnt afford it. Great post mate. By the way i got a free Z force radio operatorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-51172270641629006692013-04-11T20:29:27.334+12:002013-04-11T20:29:27.334+12:00Curious; I read Battle Action Force for at least a...Curious; I read Battle Action Force for at least a year, I bought Action Force, I even think I remember the cover with the free figure on, but I don't remember getting a free figure. Could it be they were all sent to Kiwis? There as nothing notable about the comics apart from the reprints, though IIRC there was some early scripting by Grant Morrison in there. Probably jerked Battle out of its xenophobic rut though. Tom Wuhttp://suggestedformaturereaders.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com