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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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02-16-2009, 03:23 PM
oliverbox
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Wow I couldn't get on the site for 2 days! Hisstank just kept timing out. I'm loving both of these 7packs and WHY NOT CLAYMORE? It would have been so easy. It's a very impressive lineup. I guess Hasbro is listening. I guess Ripcord has effectively died as we knew him. And SPC Altitude has taken his place. That will be an interesting filecard. Wasn't the original Altitude American Indian? RIP SGT Maj. Altitude!
I'm liking most of the Movie Stuff, except the Rolling PIT. It just looks like a big boat. The fact that it seems to look like some of the levels are underground seems hokey to me. I'm just happy it comes with Hawk and not some random new character I would otherwise be compelled to buy. Dropping close to $100 on.
I have always thought of the Thunderclap as a mobile Artillery HQ.
Rolling Thunder has become my Fast Attack \Cavalry HQ.
ROCC as the mobile Urban HQ
General as the mobile Infantry HQ
MCC as the Armor HQ
I'm with you, Loose Cannon. The movie stuff doesn't look bad to me at all. The Night Raven is different, but there's nothing wrong with an update. The PIT looks kind of cool to me - strange, but it could be interesting - it's hard to tell a whole lot from the pictures. The urban camo on the figures are great, and the black Rip Cord - well, I'll have to read the filecard, but if he's supposed to be Wallace Weems then he'll probably be an updated Stalker in my Joeverse - There's only one Wallace Weems and he's a red headed white boy. I'm excited for the movie toys... Destro without a Mask? YES!!!
Using the name Altitude is weird, but I wonder how many fans really remember Sky Patrol. I know we all do, but there was only one version made of those characters.
The only thing about the 7 packs is ZAP. I know, I know... a lot of people have been waiting for this final member of the original 13. Well, I would have preferred Claymore or Low-Light or Repeater. Any of those 3 would have been awesome.
I'll grant that Claymore is a fairly obscure character, and that Repeater never had the following of Shockwave or Tunnel Rat or Hit & Run and they've already made 2 other machine gunner characters in the 25th line, but Low-Light seems like a no brainer. Everybody likes Low-Light and the 25th line needs a sniper.
I mean, seriously, ask any fan to but together an Assault team of Joes. When you get to the position of sniper, who are they going to pick? Probably not Cross Hairs or Barrel Roll. They're first choice is going to be Low-Light. He IS the Joe team's sniper.
Think about it, the Joe team, up until that point had a list of recurring specialties. Beach-Head was the new Stalker. Flint was the new Duke. Lady Jaye was the new Scarlett. Wet-Suit was the new Torpedo, etc. But Low-Light was something new. Low-Light was a new specialty altogether. Even though Scarlett and Spirit had sniper training, Low-Light was the first Joe to specialize in it.
So the choice of Zap over someone else like Low-Light is the only part of this 7 pack I don't care for. I'm totally excited about the rest and 6 out of 7 is pretty awesome, especially when I understand why so many people want Zap.
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