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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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07-05-2013, 05:15 PM
zuludelta
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Here's something that I don't think was ever discussed in this thread (which is really saying something).
Hama's prototype dossier/filecard for Armadillo (the driver that came with the 1988 Rolling Thunder vehicle) listed "Rumbler" as one of the suggested code-names for the character (other candidate code-names: Armadillo, Gila, Sand-Turtle). Hama had to use the character in
GI Joe
#80 (part of Marvel's licensing deal with Hasbro was they had to regularly spotlight new characters/vehicles in the comics) and he ended up using the name "Rumbler" for the character in the comic. Hama had either forgotten that Hasbro had already used "Rumbler" for the 1987 R/C Crossfire driver or he had assumed that the 1987 R/C Crossfire driver was named "Scrambler" as that was the name the figure was tagged with late into production. There's also the possibility that Armadillo's name change to Rumbler in the comics might have been at the prompting of Hasbro (to avoid confusion with the 1985 Armadillo mini-tank and the upcoming 1989 Sgt. Slaughter's Marauders Armadillo vehicle). In any event, most readers probably didn't even know at the time that a previous Rumbler had already existed: The R/C Crossfire and its driver were only made and shipped in limited quantities, they were the only ARAH toys that never appeared in any of the ARAH-period Hasbro GI Joe catalogs, and were only sold at retail in a brief timeframe—the toys were already discontinued by the time
GI Joe
#80 hit the stands in late summer of 1988.
Anyway, this is basically a long-winded explanation as to why the character Armadillo is called Rumbler in
GI Joe
#80 (one of my favorite stand-alone issues in the main ARAH comic, BTW).
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