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Post by NFC on Nov 22, 2011 13:54:15 GMT
Palitoy, does it still exist as a company? If not, when did it go belly up? Does Hasbro own the rights to the Red Shadows/Z Force/Etc or are the GIJCC figures special case releases to use the names?
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Post by Dark Horse on Nov 22, 2011 14:05:19 GMT
Hasbro bought them out in 1984, mate. That includes all their brands and copyrights.  |
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Post by NFC on Nov 22, 2011 14:34:29 GMT
No wonder Joe and Cobra stole the spotlight from Action Force...
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Post by Dark Horse on Nov 22, 2011 15:33:06 GMT
Well over here the story was all changed from the U.S. canon. Baron Ironblood became Cobra Commander, loads of filecards for the Joes were retconned. It was a big clusterfuck. As soon as the internet enabled me to discover that the Joes I thought were European were stolen from their U.S. counterparts, I sold all my ARAH Joes. I hated that they changed canon for the U.K. market. So I have the Shads as they were before the buyout. Fuck U.K. ARAH. |
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Post by NFC on Nov 22, 2011 15:47:37 GMT
Well over here the story was all changed from the U.S. canon. Baron Ironblood became Cobra Commander, loads of filecards for the Joes were retconned. It was a big clusterfuck. So I have the Shads as they were before the buyout. Fuck U.K. ARAH. I agree 1012% Action Force and the Shadows are still active in my verse, no takeover by the Americans. Yankee bastards. |
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Post by Dark Horse on Nov 22, 2011 15:52:47 GMT
It was even more retarded than that, mate. Most of the U.S. ARAH Joes became European! Flint was English, Alpine was French etc.
If they just kept them the same as the U.S. canon, I wouldn't hate them so much now. It's like George Lucas got his hands on the U.K. Action Force toys back in the early 80's and fucked it all up lol.
They raped my childhood!!! ;D
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Post by Dark Horse on Nov 22, 2011 15:54:59 GMT
Also, if you look at the filecards for the straight armed AF and RS guys, hardly any of them are from the U.K.
They were truly international. Something that didn't really occur to me back when I was a kid. None of Space Force are from the U.K. at all.
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Post by NFC on Nov 22, 2011 16:38:53 GMT
Also, if you look at the filecards for the straight armed AF and RS guys, hardly any of them are from the U.K. I've studied the filecards for a lot of Space Force, SAS, Z-Force, and Q Force. the teams are SO international, it's amazing. That's one of my favroite things about the Action Force mythos because the layers of multiculturalism. Fascinating |
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Post by redlaser76 on Nov 22, 2011 22:20:02 GMT
One of the worst ARAH retcons was Wild Bill coming from Hull how that made sense I don't know. But then again AF Flash coming from Birmingham was hard to take to.
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