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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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03-17-2011, 11:32 PM
oliverbox
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Funny thing about Falcon, too is that he practically mirrors Stalker in a lot of things as it relates to their filecards. Both have "Infantry" as their Primary MOS and "Medic" as their secondary MOS, and they are proficient in the same four foreign languages: Arabic, French, Spanish, and Swahili. So yeah, the underlying design behind the character/figure almost seems like a Stalker-Flint hybrid to me.
I was really disappointed in the comic pack/25th Anniversary Falcon figure, BTW. It could have easily made my top 10 25th Anniversary figures (removable man-pack radio FTW!) save for one unforgivable aspect: those damned "Duke arms" with their arthritic range of motion. The only way the figure could point his shotgun forward was if he were to hold it with his arm outstretched, like it was some sort of giant pistol.
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lardman
I think the camo leaves quite a bit to be desired too, I agree with you about the figure, just doesn't work (and not even thinking of the Duke forearms). My feeling is that the problem is the rubbish camo application (with, in second place, the rather sleek lines of his fatigures not really looking much like they belong in a jungle either, unlike the earlier figure, but that's just my opinion.)
The figure was, in my opinion, simply too important of a character to be kitbashed the way they did. Oddly, they did a really nice job with his lower legs. They included the pocket and his boots are exact replicas of the vibram retreads that soldiers get on Post. The rest of the torso was fine, but the Dusty/PIT Commando torso would have been much better... and they should have used the Flint arms (which they did on the unreleased Night Force version), or use the RoC Sgt. Stone arms.
A lot of people have critized the figures head... it wasn't terrible, but I just don't think it looked like the original figure's head. Ironically, the Sgt. Stone head looked a lot more like the original Falcon head to me.
The paint was terrible. They simply cast most of the parts in OD green and painted a few black stripes on them. It just needed more attention - more effort. I don't know why they only released him as part of a comicpack. They should have spent the time/effort into making him a single card release.
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