Wich free figure did you received for 5 medals ?

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I got Tracker, Breaker, Eagle and Skip. Possibly Chopper and Z trooper too, but they may have been a school yard trade. Jes, I remember ripping that plastic open and near wetting myself. We'd had none of the BAF giveaways before then, and to have figures was like, well, awesomeness on a scale beyond scales. And that smell..... fwoor, it was better than any Sheila's perfume.
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Wasn't Baron Ironblood given away with the comic too? Or was that with the mini comics in Eagle / Battle?

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Now you mention it, that may have been one I got then too. Same as Chop and the Trooper, I can't be 100% certain. I do remember the mini comic as well.
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I'm sure I got some space force dudes in that give away.
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I've got a MISB Eagle Comic with the Black Major.

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Back in the day, my brother and I got :shark: and :barracuda: from Eagle and Tiger as BAF was sold out.

In recent years I found an Eagle comic with the :major: figure still sealed in the bag which now has a new home with the previous poster.

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I bought an eagle on ebay with free red shadow figure in the bag and it seems to be a german version. No wear but no skull insignia. 15 euro for it. Not bad. Oh and i bought the three comics to get the freebies.

As for mail away i got skeleton and the commander and the kraken for the insignia i seem to remember. Have a box and paperwork for a mail away skeletron somewhere. gotta find it

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There was definitely SAS Squad leader, SAS Frogman, and almost 100% certain SAS Commando which in my case was a European variant.
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SATT, Hopper? I have an SATT Commando, can't remember where from. There were a couple of kids at school that got some from UK visits etc, I traded Joe's for them.
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SATT indeed.
I know I got a Commando as a comic freebie, and as he was the only one that I didn't open out of the packet - and I would have noticed had the packet been foreign or there had been anything different about it - it stands to reason that the freebie was SATT.
Interesting that Redrage got a Euro Red Shadow - perhaps they were pulling the figures from all over to supply the comics.
He was the only SATT I had - sold him on ebay a few years ago.

I did get a Kraken mailaway, a Skeletron, and a Z Force Commander. Still have the accompanying letters squirrelled away upstairs.
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