Palitoy Action Force - The Figure Packaging

Just for reference here's all the different combinations of packaging that exist (and possibly exist) for the figures.

Series 1

Type 1 - English













Type 2 - Dutch

Type 3 - Spanish

Type 4 - French  - None have surfaced to date

Type 5 - Italian  - None have surfaced to date

Series 2

19 figures covering 4 different forces (The Enemy, SAS Force, Z Force, Q Force) were released on up to 12 different cardbacks:

Type 1 - Black Circle BTE 















Type 2 - White Star BTE













Type 3 - Black Circle Battle













Type 4 - White Star Comic













Type 5 - White Star Dutch 













Type 6 - White Star French

Type 7 - White Star Italian












Type 8 - White Star Spanish - None have surfaced to date







Type 9 - Yellow Circle Dutch 













Type 10 - Yellow Circle English/Italian 













Type 11 - Yellow Circle English/Spanish 

The 12th type of packaging is unique to the Germany.. Here the range of Action Force toys was available on a totally different style of packaging with unique weapons often taken from the star wars range and the 4 different forces were renamed.
The Enemy = Die Terror-Bande
SAS Force = SATT
Z Force = ATT
Space Force = WATT
Q Force = TSATT







Later on there was a second round of figures (6)  released (SAS Attack Trooper, Space Force Space Engineer, Q Force Sea Skimmer, The Enemy Kraken, Z Force Medic and the Z Force Minesweeper), they feature on just 3 different cardbacks:

Type 9 - Yellow Circle Dutch 
Type 10 - Yellow Circle English/Italian 
Type 11 - Yellow Circle English/Spanish 

Series 3

Straight armed Action Force figures were dropped in favor of 24 GI-Joe figures with articulation, they were released on 2 different cardbacks:


Type 1 - English/Italian

Type 2 - French/Spanish

However Scandinavian countries added a white label over the product name on the front and back of the card.