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06-02-2009, 08:41 AM | #11 |
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Since when did we start sitting down, start playing with our Joes, and then start calling them by their real names. Imagine this:
Hauser!! Take out that Hisstank! O'Hara!! Throw down some cover so Delgado, Lee, and LaFitte can get over to that Cobra Bunker and take care of business!! Hey CLASSIFIED!! Pull out that sword and mow down some Cobras so we can get Wilkinson and Fairborne in that building to rescue any hostages they may have. HEY!! That was kinda fun! |
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06-02-2009, 09:11 AM | #12 |
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Hasbro won't release a movie and classic Ripcord at retail because it will "confuse" the kiddies. But they have no problem dressing up Freefall like classic Ripcord and naming him Maj Altitude and confusing us collectors.
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06-02-2009, 09:19 AM | #13 |
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Since when did we start sitting down, start playing with our Joes, and then start calling them by their real names. Imagine this:
Hauser!! Take out that Hisstank! O'Hara!! Throw down some cover so Delgado, Lee, and LaFitte can get over to that Cobra Bunker and take care of business!! Hey CLASSIFIED!! Pull out that sword and mow down some Cobras so we can get Wilkinson and Fairborne in that building to rescue any hostages they may have. HEY!! That was kinda fun!
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06-02-2009, 09:20 AM | #14 |
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Sky Patrol Altitude and Maj. Altitude. Neither of 'em are an E-5 or a SPC. One's a major and the other is an E-9 (and outranks Duke).
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06-02-2009, 09:31 AM | #15 |
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(Nevermind that he's got an absolutely ridiculous background for a supposed Sergeant Major of the Army...) |
06-02-2009, 09:35 AM | #16 |
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Not that anyone ever pays attention to rank in G.I. Joe anyway (particularly Hasbro's filecard writers themselves after Hama stopped doing it). In fact, wasn't Altitude listed as Sergeant Major of the Army? I kinda doubt he's going to have much time for Combat operations given all his bureaucratic/administrative/political duties!
(Nevermind that he's got an absolutely ridiculous background for a supposed Sergeant Major of the Army...) So to make the fans happy and give them a classic Ripcord, they have to go and mess up 4 characters (Ripcord, Freefall, Maj. Altitude and Sky Patrol Altitude). So now the classic Ripcord fans are happy, but the Freefall fans aren't now.
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06-02-2009, 11:19 AM | #17 |
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And I still don't see how the fans are to blame for this particular clusterzark. All we wanted was a classic Ripcord!
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06-02-2009, 11:20 AM | #18 |
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Ehn, much like Short-Fuze and Downtown, I usually just considered Freefall "Ripcord v2" anyhow.
EDIT: Blowtorch and Charbroil, too. Last edited by Jmacq1; 06-02-2009 at 11:41 AM.. |
06-02-2009, 11:32 AM | #19 |
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We needed a Ripcord figure, we are now going to get a Ripcord figure. I think we're good.
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06-02-2009, 11:37 AM | #20 |
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Is the 7-pack Ripcord really Free Fall?
According to the filecard that is coming with the "Attack On Cobra Island" 7-pack SPC. Altitude (Ripcord) figure, it states that the character's file name is Philip W. Arndt. Philip W. Arndt is the file name for Free Fall the G.I. Joe Paratrooper that came out in 1990. I thought that was a pretty interesting way for Hasbro to stay away from using the name Wallace A. Weems due to the fact that they didn't want to confuse kids with the movie Ripcord character. In my opinion they should have just gave the SPC Altitute character a completely new file name instead of "borrowing" it from Free Fall. Or better yet they should have just kept his file name classified. of course it's Freefall, it only uses his entire filecard information. |
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