Red Shadow and Escape Armor.
By – J.King.
In the last piece of the United Kingdom enemy's I will cover the one UK Enemy vehicle I have and the Red Shadows version of the Cobra Soldier known as simply 'The Red Shadows' for some reason the United Kingdom company known to children in the European countries as Palitoy, had used for years the old basic 'Star Wars' mold for figures, basically the arms and legs with head move in very limited ways. Action Forces line consisted of mostly troopers made in this style. The following is a shot of my Carded Red Shadow trooper. He was the infantry of the Red Shadows run by the Baron against Action force. Later the Red Shadows are defeated and Cobra takes their place. Along with the Pictures of the red shadow I added the comic page from Europe on the soldier.
Also below is what has become known as the Escape Armor. This is a direct copy of the Cobra Snake armor that came in White, and later a rarer Blue in the US. I thought this was one of the coolest and unique armors ever made. A Red SNAKE armor. This Vehicle was later re-stickered with Cobra Symbols and sold with a HISS Pilot. My Version is the Red Shadow stickered one though. Crimson Guardsmen always got shafted when it came to vehicles. So in my 'Joe verse' this red armor is specifically for the CG's. Below is in comparison both the white and blue Cobra versions and the Red Shadows Red version. This vehicle originally came with a bagged Red Shadow trooper (same trooper shown carded) Unique to Europe the red Shadow line consisted of a few more troopers and vehicles, Ranging from a Kraken Sea Soldier to a Red, 8 Legged Attack Skull that The Red Shadow Command would ride in. The line was soon replaced by Action Forces Cobra. Which basically resembled our US Version. You can check out more of their unique vehicles and what not at http://www.actionforce.org/home.html
The Joes on the other hand would see a total revamp and reclassification in the UK. Tomorrow I will start with a few of the unique Joes/Action force troopers I have, until then. Yo Joe. (Also as a side geek foot note, The figure I have in the package the Red Shadow, is suposedly a mess up and do to his Black Gloves is a Red Vulture. the Red Shadow troops have red Gloves. So this would be a not so rare mispackage. These guys are basicly the officers of the shadows.)
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