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05-20-2009, 01:00 PM | #5601 |
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EDIT: I just noticed Hardtop's real name is "Nicholas Klas"... a Santa Claus reference (St. Nicholas + Sinterklaas)? Strange, I don't see anything remotely Christmas-y about the character or his specialty. Last edited by zuludelta; 05-20-2009 at 01:05 PM.. |
05-20-2009, 01:13 PM | #5602 |
I Ride with Claymore!!!
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The Defiant doesn't exist in my Joeverse. I never saw the use/need for the Joe team to have their own space shuttle. It makes a great toy but as a practical thing....
I don't have Payload or Hardtop so they really don't exist in my Joeverse, but if I did... YOJOE.COM | Filecard Gallery - Hardtop His filecard makes him out to be a perfect heavy equipment operator. I'd like to get a version of him to use on my Military Engineer team. Payload, I'm thinking I'll take a movie Ripcord and put the head on a SRO Ace body and make a Payload. He'll head up the Joe Air Force. Years later, as I was setting up my modernized Joeverse, Payload has become my Joe Air Force Commander. So I'm glad I have the figure... I suppose at some point, I should get his head and customize a new body for him to make him more of a regular Pilot. But the Astronaut suit is kind of cool. Hardtop - basically sucked as a character until he joined Tiger Force. The convention special Hardtop makes him useful to me as 1. A member of Tiger Force to complete my Tiger Force collection. 2. Tiger Force needed a driver for some of its vehicles. He's not much of a fighter, but I figure that in order to get picked to drive the Defiant Complex around, the man must be some kind of driver. So I use him as a Tiger Force driver and support staff. He's the "Tiger Gopher" if you will. G.I. Joe in Space never made much sense to me, but those characters are pretty pivotal in my Joeverse.
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05-20-2009, 01:14 PM | #5603 |
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Come to think of it, 87 was a pretty sci-fi heavy year for Joe with the Defiant, Cobra-La, and Battleforce 2000. |
05-20-2009, 01:18 PM | #5604 |
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EDIT: I just noticed Hardtop's real name is "Nicholas Klas"... a Santa Claus reference (St. Nicholas + Sinterklaas)? Strange, I don't see anything remotely Christmas-y about the character or his specialty. That is funny.
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05-20-2009, 01:36 PM | #5605 |
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The Defiant was THE boys' Christmas present of 1987... That's the Hardtop/Santa Connection. At least it makes sense to me.
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05-20-2009, 01:40 PM | #5606 |
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His filecard makes him out to be a perfect heavy equipment operator. I'd like to get a version of him to use on my Military Engineer team. Payload, I'm thinking I'll take a movie Ripcord and put the head on a SRO Ace body and make a Payload. He'll head up the Joe Air Force. I like the Payload Idea. I might use the Movie Duke in in the armor and paint a little mustache for Payload. Right now I use this version of Hawk YOJOE.COM | General Tomahawk and just swapped the head with SpaceShot. This is my Hardtop which sucks since he's not 25th style YOJOE.COM | Filecard Gallery - Hardtop I don't know what team he's on. I like him as a Driver, a R&D guy and an Engineer. I really don't have my teams set up with a separate engineering corp. |
05-20-2009, 01:44 PM | #5607 |
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EDIT: I just noticed Hardtop's real name is "Nicholas Klas"... a Santa Claus reference (St. Nicholas + Sinterklaas)? Strange, I don't see anything remotely Christmas-y about the character or his specialty. |
05-20-2009, 01:48 PM | #5608 |
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Payload, the name may sound like an astronaut, but can be used as regular Air Force.
He was never a fighter pilot, but could be a jumpmaster or transportation chief (Zulu, help me out with the proper MOS) in charge of the cargo planes. hhhmm.. Why was I thinking that Payload was black (didn't he appear that way in the comics?). Scratch the Ripcord idea, have to come up with something else.
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05-20-2009, 01:51 PM | #5609 |
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Finished these two last night but I was having problems uploading the images and the filecards:
Flash & Grand Slam What no Jetpack qualifiers courses? I love you made him a Ranger and gave him a bump in grade. |
05-20-2009, 01:53 PM | #5610 |
W.O.R.M.S. Commander
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Payload, the name may sound like an astronaut, but can be used as regular Air Force.
He was never a fighter pilot, but could be a jumpmaster or transportation chief (Zulu, help me out with the proper MOS) in charge of the cargo planes. hhhmm.. Why was I thinking that Payload was black (didn't he appear that way in the comics?). Scratch the Ripcord idea, have to come up with something else. He was an F-4 Phatom pilot in Vietnam. He isn't black but appeared so in a few comics. |
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