{"id":24,"date":"2022-02-23T08:04:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T08:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodforthebaron.com\/blog\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:41:43","slug":"redux","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodforthebaron.com\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Action Force<\/a> were original 1982 UK toys and comics, which were bolstered with recoloured GI Joe and Cobra toys. Their enemies were Baron Ironblood<\/a> and his Red Shadows<\/a>. Then in 1985<\/a> the Palitoy design team was suddenly laid off, meaning the Action Force range abruptly switched to 100% GI Joe toys (albeit with different stickers) as well as rebranded vehicles from the previous years’ range.<\/p>\n

The weekly comic Battle Action Force<\/a>, which was itself an anthology mix of World War Two stories and Action Force promotional content, managed to somehow rise above all this craziness and retcon a coherent story. ‘World Enemy Number One<\/a>‘ saw Baron Ironblood betray his entire army of Red Shadows, only to reinvent himself as Cobra Commander<\/a>. Red Jackal<\/a> hunted him down, driven by revenge, only to be mockingly remoulded as Destro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But even though the toys were no longer on the shelves, the Red Shadows<\/a> refused to die. Time and again fan-favourites like the Black Major<\/a>, Red Laser<\/a> and the SAS returned to battle both Cobra and the new Joe-based Action Force.<\/p>\n

Palitoy’s Action Force Redux is set in and around the events of ‘World Enemy Number One,’ written to both flesh-out the fall of the Red Shadows and to explore the unanswered questions for the original characters who suddenly found themselves conscripted into the new order…<\/p>\n<\/div>