An Exciting Offer From Crispi.. Half Price Action Force!

[Coosbay_pirate]

A friend who bought a box of loose Star Wars found this inside..

[action-figure-supplies]

Very nice, AF figures for only £1!

[paul463]

I have that very leaflet. Its my one in the archives

[Coosbay_pirate]

Yes so it is Paul! I hadn't noticed it before.. The actual crisp packets are in the archive too! Pretty amazing as they're from 84! I've never heard of Crispi's either..

[Chopper]

Some interesting prototype figures in there too.

[Coosbay_pirate]

I spot 3 tasseled and a Wheels..

[Thundershot]

Awesome find, there can't be many of these left.

Is there, apart from resorting to a pot of paint, any way of getting hold of a red coloured Uzi?

[Hopper]

Yeah, it's interesting that there are so many first phase figures - the earlier tassled and oddly painted variants.
There are also examples of these type of figures cropping up in photographs that can only have come from later phases - those on the back of Lance, Dart, and Shaft, for example (I'll start a new thread for this and more information).
And given the range of figures on offer, this is clearly an early grouping, though after the arrival of Q Force and Space Force.

I wonder if Palitoy marketing (or whoever) only had a single lot of figures that they wheeled out whenever a new marketing shot was needed - it would make sense.

Having said that, the Q Force Aqua Trooper is so far from the actual figure, it wouldn't surprise me if they totally replaced him. Red hands, black trimming...

[Thundershot]

Phones red Uzi looks cool, I wonder if one was ever available in a G.I.Joe weapons pack?

[Hopper]

Alas, not according to WHOBIT - no sign of a red uzi.

Anywhere else it could have been made? Or is it a one-off?
I wonder if the Palitoy marketing department bod still has the toys, or if they were sold off.
Imagine if that lot, one-offs and all, appeared suddenly on ebay!