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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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05-16-2011, 03:31 PM
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Interesting thing about Repeater, too, is the camo pattern on his uniform. I thought it looked weird when I was a kid, but when I found out that Ron Rudat and his fellow GI Joe toy designers would occasionally be given guided tours of the Natick Soldier Center (where prototype uniforms, helmets, vests, etc. are designed/tested) for research, it occurred to me that Repeater's camo pattern might have been based on the prototype
T-pattern camo
that was being considered for Marine Corps use back in the late 1980s. It could also explain why he had Naval Parachutist wings instead of Army wings... maybe Rudat intended for him to be a Ranger-qualified Marine all along (he's big on the Corps coming from a Navy/USMC family—Leatherneck's appearance is based on him, IIRC), but Hama went in a different route for the filecard (similar to the Low-Light toy design/filecard dichotomy).
A couple of the Battleforce 2000 guys (Blaster, Avalanche, and Dodger, IIRC) also have some design elements that seem to have commonalities with some of the prototype technologies that found their way to the earliest US Army Future Force Warrior designs. Obviously, Battleforce 2000 came out way before the Future Force Warrior program was ever formalized, but some of the gear used for the earliest FFW mock-ups were based on prototypes that were already extant in the late 1980s.
The artwork appears to show an 8-point cover. I didn't think Rangers wore those after WWII. Maybe, He was supposed to be a Marine and got changed like Lowlight.
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