Hey there!

[meertoh]

Welcome Luthor!

Maybe invited some pals over for a party and they never left.

[humby248]

Welcome! I have a few excusively US toys here but I know they were sent to me for birthdays and Christmas when I was a child by my Uncle who lives in New York. Maybe an ex pat like my Uncle moved to the US with his family and they were sold in a garage sale?
A year or 2 back I was looking through ebay.com and found a vintage boxed Palitoy cardboard Death Star. I messaged the seller and he told me he was British living in the US. Luckily for me there was'nt alot of interest in it from US bidders and I won the bidding with $40!!

[Red Baron]

You need more figures to stop the others being lonely . . . and welcome

[Luthor]

Maybe an ex pat like my Uncle moved to the US with his family and they were sold in a garage sale?

In discussing it with family, this seems to be the go to answer as I used to spend a lot of time going to garage sales buying Star Wars and Joe toys for nickels and dimes....but I swear I have something of a memory of seeing an end cap at a department store, and the image of Muton in package seemed really familiar once I saw it online.

There are two other theories within my family.

My Grandmother was really thrifty and would go to great distances for deals. There was a store in a town on the outskirts of the county I grew up in called Amherstburg that had a discount store called SAAN. My aunts bought all my cousins knock off Cabbage Patch Kids at this store. Years later(like 20 years later), one of my cousins discovered that this particular brand of Knock Off was exclusive to the UK. So the thought is that maybe these SAAN stores imported discounted or clearance items from stores in the UK. Being that I was a kid, I don't remember exactly when I got these figures. So I guess it's possible SAAN could've bought them when Palitoy went under?

The other theory is that Marks & Spencer, which had a store in Windsor when I was very young, carried them. Does anyone in the UK know if M&S carried Action Force? I think this is the least likely(although the most logical), as I don't remember ever going into the store with anyone and I doubt my cheap family would've spent the money to buy imported toys at retail price.

Really enjoying the discussion so far.

[The Baron]

...invents time machine... visits SAAN... BWAHAHAHA.

[paul463]

Not sure that M&S have ever carried toys, the one in sunny Dundee certainly didn't, but it is a small store.

[DAMartin]

Has the LexCorp budget been enough to finance some collections?