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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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06-21-2009, 09:07 AM
Master Thespian
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One thing I've always wondered, are there that many Native Americans in the US Armed Forces? Off the top off my head, there seems to be a disproportionately large number of mainland Native Americans on the team (Spirit, Airborne, Armadillo, Dart, Sky Patrol Altitude... I'm probably missing at least a couple more) relative to, say, the number of Latinos (who are one of the largest visible/linguistic minority groups in the Spec-Ops community)
Yeah, it's one of those things I bring up constantly about the original line (and usually someone takes it the wrong way and goes off into the affirmative action route). I just think it's odd (not racist, just odd), since it's obvious the guys at Hasbro tried to be inclusive about the membership of many of the races, but only made three Latinos (Zap, Shipwreck and Cold Front) and five Native Americans (and looking at Special Operations demographics, they actually got all of the others right when you do the math). Other than Spirit (I always used Dart as Spirit, so he doesn't count), I use all of the Native American Joes as Latinos (add Long Range to that as well).
Moving away from that, it's kind of strange, but I've come to enjoy some of the later year redesigns more than the golden years ones. I think because the line got so weird later on, it's nice to see you bring them back to earth, yet still look individualized and recognizable. With the earlier designs, you probably have to include so many of the original characteristics, so there are fewer surprises. Although I must say, characters who have had more than one iconic figure that get those looks integrated into one design are my favorite (your latest Duke, Rock n Roll and Roadblock particularly come to mind).
Your project has really forced me to care more about the guys who came after I was out of Joe and had no intentions on integrating into my collection (and a strain on my wallet too, thank you not so much). As such, I was still able to immediately know who both of these guys were (which is the primary thing I judge all of the redesigns on), and really enjoyed the updates. GLad to see you're back to kicking ass with artwork and filecards after the (kickass) diversion into charts and insignia.
EDIT: Happy Father's Day to all my fellow dads!
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