SAS Commando

Palitoy Action Force SAS Commando Figure

This figure was released as part of Series 2.

This figure can hypothetically be found on all 12 series 2 cardbacks.

Factory sealed MOC, Carded examples as shown below, all from my personal collection.

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 

Type 12 - German 

SAS Frogman

Palitoy Action Force SAS Frogman Figure

This figure was released as part of Series 2.

This figure can hypothetically be found on all 12 series 2 cardbacks.

Factory sealed MOC, Carded examples as shown below, all from my personal collection.

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 

Type 12 - German 

SAS Leader

Palitoy Action Force SAS Leader Figure

This figure was released as part of Series 2.

This figure can hypothetically be found on all 12 series 2 cardbacks.

Factory sealed MOC, Carded examples as shown below, all from my personal collection.

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 

Type 12 - German 

Space Force Space Enginner

Palitoy Action Force Space Force Space Engineer Figure

This figure was released as part of Series 2b.

This figure can hypothetically be found on the latter 3 yellow circle series 2 cardbacks.

Factory sealed MOC, Carded examples as shown below, all from my personal collection.

Type 9 - Yellow Circle Dutch 

Type 10 - Yellow Circle English/Italian 

Type 11 - Yellow Circle English/Spanish 

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.