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G.I. Joe design influences
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07-04-2009, 02:07 PM
Colder Soldier
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-Sharc design= Snowspeeder
-The way everyone in the cartoon could pilot a SkyStriker= Star Wars
-and without any type of oxygen apparatus= Star Wars
-The opening sequence where Wild Weasel's Rattler was chasing Shipwreck's Sharc through Death Star like canals on the original Cobra Mothership= SW (of course).
-Destro having a black man's voice= Darth Vader
-Pac Rats for some reason "speak" like astromech droids.
-RoboSkull (Action Man)= Tie Fighter
-So many Cobra applications being white (SNAKE Armor, CLAW, Trouble Bubble, etc)= SW Stormtroopers
-Arashikage Red Ninja's= The Hand
The list probably goes on. But here are some counterpoints I'd like to make to previous messages:
-Yes the Rocketeer does predate the WORMs but I do believe the "borowed" idea was completely subconcious by the designer. Hopefully he/she wouldn't have purposely made the WORMs the same color scheme as the Rocketeer. Without the same color scheme, most of us wouldn't have noticed the similarities. For instance, if the Rocketeer wore a silver helmet, we would say it was taking the original Iron Man design.
-The original Joe fig uniforms don't look to be styled from the military Vietnam era at all. The original Joes wore sweaters. From what is described to me about Nam, no one would wear a sweater there. The og Joe uniforms are more borrowing from the SAS.
-Nothing in GI Joe from what I can recall, borrows from Robocop.
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