The Mauler turret

IronMan76 · 09-30-2008, 10:12 PM

I would like to know why Hasbro hasn't made a new or better turret for the Mauler now that they have made many of the old vehicles form scratch? like the Claw and Water Moccasin. I would love a new Mauler with a turret that can acutualy hold a figure in the turret instead of on it.

DPrime · 09-30-2008, 11:14 PM

Me too!

Hey, you never know. The GI Joe Collector's Club was going to use the Mauler as an exclusive, but some of the molds broke or something. At least we know some of it is available for use. If the line keeps going as it's going (past the movie stuff, I mean) I'm almost positive we'll see it, and hopefully, like you said, with a retooled turret! I'd love to be able to use figures in there!

IronMan76 · 10-02-2008, 01:10 PM

I used to think that the Mauler was based loosly on the M1 Abrams... That is why I was so surprised to find real Pics of the Prototype in a book. But the real on had a turret hatch and machine gun that I wish the toy had!

joshdahl · 10-02-2008, 02:06 PM

The molds are broken?

I'll email Hasbro my phone number...they can borrow my Mauler and re-cast new molds from it.

I won't even charge 'em for it.

Seriously, though, a new Mauler makes crazy with toy-lust.

Imagine if the engine were gone, or tiny-ized, so that there was room in the body for a cylinder to sink down into teh body from the turret so that a gunner could ride in there.

Yeah, that's cool.

Josh