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G.I. Joe HasLab Skystriker Official HissTank Watch Thread
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12-07-2021, 12:38 PM
Sentinel Red
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Being from the US it's "ARAH" to me. was it called "international Heroes" in the UK or action force? Reason I ask, I'm curious if they are using the same card backs/packaging/stickers that someone in the UK would have gotten for their original skystriker? I wonder if they would have added that if it would have helped sales outside of the US?
Nah, it would have made a barely measurable difference. The first time it was released in the UK it was under the original red box Action Force packaging, when the line first switched to all O-ring figures, introduced Cobra and mixed vehicles from the previous version of the line (so Palitoy designs like the Roboskull, Triad Fighter, Sealion, and reused Hasbro ones like the Wolverine were alongside the ?new? Skystriker and Whale). Soon after, the repackaged following the GI Joe box style, while still called Action Force, with the ?International Heroes? tagline used in the cartoon (though I don?t recall if they used it on the actual packaging too or not). This introduced Flint, technically our first Snake Eyes in v2, Jaye, etc and the Skystriker and Whale were re-released in the ?new? (ie original Joe) style packaging, same stickers as the American originals, and so on. Two or three years later, it rebranded again to ?GI Joe: The Action Force?, and finally was just GI Joe, which it?s been known as for roughly 30 years now.
tl,dr: any fans in the UK still interested would know that AF=GI Joe, it?s been known as GI Joe now for 30 years.
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