One day I was playing with my Joes in my room. My Mom walked in and gave me a box of toys that her friend had left over from a garage sale. A small box; some random Star Wars, Six Million Dollar Man, and other miscellaneous stuff....just random pieces......
and this guy.
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The Action Force, SAS Commando, apparently named Beaver (just found that out). I didn't know his name or anything, I just thought....HOLY CRAP IS THIS GUY COOL!! Ya see, I quickly noticed that, clad in black, he looked like a frikin silent killing machine.....and that's how I used him. I got a bit jaded with Snake Eyes being a bit overexposed so this guy became my silent, one man hit squad. He'd go in to hot spots first and clear out the guard or set up a sniper location. Expert in all forms of hand to hand combat as well as the use of any weapon ever made. His extremely high IQ made him able to adapt to any situation and be able to quickly achieve his objective. I didn't even name him. It was all classified. Hawk would just review a mission and if it was particularly difficult, he'd turn to Breaker and say "Call Him In."
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He also came with the One Man Boat pictured below. I don't have that anymore, but most of the time that was how he'd make his entry into a hot spot. I missed this guy and just recently tracked him down and will have to snag the boat eventually. Its funny how this figure was just a random leftover given to me. I had no idea that Action Force was a big toy line with a story and all that (I do now and am really contemplating getting into these guys), but I took a shine to him and made up an entire persona and role for him into my play. Its great that a child's imagination can create memories that follow him into adulthood.
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When I was a kid we moved into a house that had toys left in the jungle like backyard , one of them was Action Force Kraken It was years before I was able to find out what he was.
ReplyDeleteJust looked that up...what a weird lookin figure! I had this guy a long time ago but until recently, I never researched Action Force....they are pretty cool and I might start picking some of them up.
DeleteWow! Never heard of Action Force. Ya learn something new every day!
ReplyDeleteGlad I could introduce something new! Thats one of the real fun things about reading yours and all the fellow blogs out there.....finding something new after all these years :)
DeleteI have seen these online before but was never lucky to have ran across them in my younger days.
ReplyDeleteI just got him through random chance but I'm glad I did. It gave me something to research after all this time and I might start collecting them now. If you keep posting all that beautiful Remco stuff I may have to start collecting them too;)
DeleteI love the Remco stuff Michael it was a big part of my childhood.
DeleteI didnt have alot of the Remco stuff but I always saw them and wanted em!! Im getting them now!!!!
DeleteHi. I found your site via a link on Pixel Dan.com and was stoked to see some stuff my brother and I had as kids ( and still have ) that I haven't seen anyone else reviewing, like these and Adventure People. Action Force was a British toy line that stemmed from Action Man, a 12 inch figure who was basically GI Joe renamed for the British market, who had been around since the 60's.
ReplyDeleteThe 3 3/4 inch line appeared in the early 80's and much of it was repainted Joe stuff. The earlier incarnations were more based on "real" military stuff, the SAS, such as your man Beaver here, as well as regular Army guys, Space guys and Navy divers etc.
Later on they evolved and were just repackaged Joes, named Action Force International Heroes, with the same code names but rewritten bios. Alpine was French, Barbecue Italian, Footloose Irish etc. ( One of my vehicles, the motorbike and side car, I forget the name, even came with Joe stickers in an AF box! ).We had a bunch of the later Joe style stuff as well as some of these earlier ones, but they all got sold off a long time ago along with all our MOTU toys unfortunately, but all our Adventure people stuff ( and Star Wars, Transformers, Lego etc ) is still in our mum's loft and or dotted around mine and my brothers houses. I think the Yo Joe website has an archive of the early AF stuff, it's definitely out there if you search. Hope this epic comment wasn't too long and was useful to you. Thanks. MB.
I want comments and I dont care if its a novel! I enjoy all the information I get. Thanks for the input. I knew there was a bigger story about this line and am glad it got filled in by someone who played with em! Now get in those attics and save those figures, they are probably bored up there!!!! :)
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