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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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02-18-2009, 12:56 AM
oliverbox
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You know, I like the Tracker concept and his file card but never liked the uniform they gave him. Doesn't exactly say SEAL, especially the orange weapons and raft. He needs to be in a wetsuit or camo.
Sir, congratulations. You've just hit on one of my favorite gripes on the entire forum. I've literally written pages on this very subject: Characters with awesome qualifications whose costumes really sucked. Tracker's costume forced me to take matters into my own hands. I found a Midnight run edition of Night Force Tracker on ebay and I won it. He's the pride of my collection.
Also, I use a Street Fighter Movie figure (Navy SEAL Guile - Variant edition) and swapped the heads with a Tracker head to give him a dive suit. I used that suit specifically because it's the same mold as v2 Wet-Suit, but it's painted completely differently, and I wanted some degree of difference.
This same problem with awesome characters having lousy costumes (and I say "costumes" as opposed to "uniforms") is what prompted me to create my custom versions of Claymore, Super Trooper, Rapid Fire, and Grid-Iron. They are all great characters, but their "costumes" were jokes. I'm currently working on a customized/militarized Joe Colton... I think it's going to turn out well.
The TRU Yellow Torpedo is a really cool figure. I'll probably use him as the unproduced Tiger Force Torpedo since I already have a custom Tracker.
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