ACTION FORCE 1983-1984 (second SERIES)
Q FORCE SONAR OFFICER
Codename: Phones
Personal Name: Patrick Liam O’Flaherty
Action Force number: 934037
Primary Military Speciality: Communications
Secondary Military Speciality: Survivor
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Ex-leader of specialist survival school. Recruited by Action Force and given extra training in communication technology. Friendly rivalry exists between Phones and Breaker, radio operator of Z Force, as to who is the best in Action Force with communications systems. Phones controls the radio on the Q Force craft, Swordfish.
“Phones is an expert, and hates anything to go wrong with his equipment!”
The Q Force Sonar Officer came with a red radio back pack and red AK style rifle. Although the Swordfish vehicle did not come with a figure the Datafile show that the Sonar Officer would usually be on it.
IMAGES
Ready for battle!
Body Mould
The Sonar Officer came in yellow overalls with a wet suit style head covering. He has the Q Force symbol on his left breast. He has a dagger and water bottle on the small of his back. He has two red pouches on both arms.
ACCESSORIES
The Sonar Officer came with a red radio back pack with headset and aerial. He also came with red AK style rifle. The headset on the pack can be placed on his head and also stored on the back pack (as shown below). The back pack has two straps that go over the figures head and connect to two plastic pins.
The Sonar Officer originally came with an AK-47 with a full barrel and muzzle but it was too long to fit in the card bubble. Staff were requested to cut off the barrel so it would fit. Some weapons had just the muzzle removed and some had the whole barrel removed. The below pictures of the AK-47 with full muzzle and barrel are of a coloured image of a grey version (the full barrel versions are hard to find!).
The backpack came in a dark red colour with the version one figure and it came as dark red or orange with the version two figure.
GALLERY
PACKAGING
The Sonar Officer came as a carded figure.
File Card
Information about the figure could be found on the back of the figures file card (the Datafile information). Each figure also had an individual medal number for the mail order offer. The Sonar Officer number was 36.
VARIANTS
The Sonar Officer first came with yellow legs but a second version had blue decoration on his legs. The red Radio back pack also came in a soft plastic and hard plastic. The red machine gun came witha barrel (version one) and without a barrel on the end (version two).
The figure mould was also used for the German Phoner figure.
VERSION 1
VERSION 2
LOOKS FAMILIAR
The red AK weapon also came in grey and black with the Black Major figure (black) and the series three Cobra Officer figure (grey).
DATAFILE
Datafiles could be found in the Battle Action Force comics. They contained lots of information about the characters and had some great artwork.
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