AF-editon Command Centre

[Lady Jaye]

And finally, I look absolutely gobsmacking in stockings!

[The Baron]

Oh it's not like that, I'm just taking the piss. I'd love him to join up (although I might have some explaining to do now!!!) - as I was saying to sf1378 he's become notorious without realising it, much in the same way as Paul Gales who was constantly logged in and never posted. It's just an in-joke.

[Lady Jaye]

Well, so far I am having a very good laugh!

[SteveD]

Me too!

But tell me Jaye - do they serve pints over your way? I seem to remember whenever I happened to be in Amsterdam they served little glasses and wiped them with a lolly stick first? Although that may have been me hallucinating.

[The Baron]

Well, so far I am having a very good laugh!

[Stanley Fernando]

The Baron plainly fancies this guy hence the lady doth protest too much! hahahahah!

[The Baron]

"Kinda hard to stay inside the lines..."

[Lady Jaye]

But tell me Jaye - do they serve pints over your way?

As long as I pay, they serve them over my way! The moment I stop paying, they are being served the other way!

Seriously, a regular beer is around 330ml and needs to have a head of froth 2 fingers thick on top. The froth that sticks out of the glass is being wiped off with a spatula. Rather silly routine when you think about it. But it is possible to find pints in Amsterdam. At the Irish pub!

Although that may have been me hallucinating.

The only moment Amsterdam is actually pretty!

[Quickfire]

About 10 maybe 15 years ago I actually say an boxed Command Centre with Gung Ho and Stalker on the box. It was definitely released with these figures.

Basically, it had been restickered with the logo on the box and the contents had the US figures but the box pic was of Gaucho and Jammer. I've also seen another box with proper Gung Ho and Jammer on it too meaning the former was a transitional box from the specialised teams and The Enemy to the latter AF style boxes...

Also, there defo was a BLACK Hyena on the market too.....I've even seen them!

Argos, Spring 1985. Every single Command Centre leftover from Weihnachten-Schlachthof was re-stickered to get with the Cobber-AFfreux programme. There were a few, but there weren't too many. But there were enough for the then-doctrinaire BAF to serve up an schematic on its good pages.

As for the black Hyena*, they had crates of rebadged as at the same time, as if that would pass muster with afficionados. The black ones surfaced later that year with pure stuff, some early ones of which got kind-of 'double-rebadged' with as if it was as appropriate by some over-wrought flunky chiselling up the last overtime Palitoy had to offer. Confused? Talk to a 10 year old.



*http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/toys/00 ... 5/004.html

[Quickfire]

Now, I can remember seeing one on the top shelf of Toymaster in Ripon on me holidays, next to a Hovercraft and Skystriker.

But I realise that's not much use, as I've no idea whether it was re-stickered Z Force box, or anything else.

If it's of any use for the archive Baron that day I ended up buying the CLAW, and my brother got Zartan. he made the best choice, as my CLAW broke a wheel off before the week was out, whereas hours of fun were had putting Zartan into the sunlight and then dipping him into a cool glass of Umbongo, whilst to this day I still think of the CLAW as a flimsy piece of crap!

Ripon - Collinsons? Past Boots? Or mincing downstairs in Morrisons?

Eisenblut alerted me to this thread and getting with the programme slowly but surely.

And, 1984 was indeed Umbongo central.