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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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12-28-2009, 03:16 PM
lardman
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Yeah, the filecards for the "internationalised" versions of the ARAH Joes that came out during the latter years of the Action Force line were basically the same as the North American filecards that came with the ARAH GI Joes, except that birthplaces and the occasional job specialties were sometimes substituted for European/non-American ones when it fit the context (for instance, the Action Force version of Airtight is from Germany). So the templates for those filecards are basically the ones that Larry Hama originally wrote but with minor international twists instituted by Palitoy's/Hasbro's branding/localisation team.
The Action Force Battle Files on the other hand, were written by the people working on whatever the extant Action Force comic was at the time of production. I suppose you could make the distinction that the Action Force Battle Files and the file cards that came with the later Action Force figures belong to two different "continuities" (sort of like how the comic book and cartoon treatments of the ARAH characters occasionally diverged from each other).
Oliver pointed me over to this thread, and I'm afraid this is not an immediately useful post, but I do still have all of the filecards for my reasonably large collection of ARAH (or rather Action Force) figures, which are mainly from the UK, but with a few from Australia, France and Spain.
Not overly useful as they are all stored at my parents' house, but next time I'm over there I will see if I can dig out their box and will do some scanning.
I did contact YoJoe a while back to see if they would be interested in some international filecards but received no reply, so completely forgot about it.
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