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Biggest WTH were they thinking vintage design choices
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03-27-2018, 06:34 PM
J James
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I've got a relevant one which I've been on fire about recently.
Version 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10 Night Creeper. What a weird pseudo-supervillain look. It's another example of how Viper evolution was arbitrary and meaningless after the earlier sculptors began leaving the line.
However, I recently picked up a few complete versions for dirt-cheap and I discovered something unexpected.
I LOVE Version 5. It's a great scuba diver Night Creeper. With all his gear on, he's a plausible and acceptable fusion of a classic Night Creeper and basic frogman. I now believe they had a solid design idea from the start. He looks great, I want 20 more of them.
I think it went wrong when they started reusing the base figure (without the gear) in different versions. The diver body is then being adapted into forest colors or whatever and the accessories become meaningless on those other ones. They suck. What they should have done was make different helmet molds for other specialties and continue to theme-out each version as a "Night Creeper PLUS Specialty" figure. When that figure has some gear on it then it DOES begin to look like a Night Creeper with modified gear.
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