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Your thoughts regarding Super Trooper
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04-22-2021, 05:03 PM
Playful
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I loved his Action Force introduction and how he was the last one in the Super Trooper program. He is one that I still want to eventually make a modern version of for my collection.
I never had him as a kid, but I did have Rapid Fire. I did eventually get him as an adult though but sold him when I sold my vintage collection.
I also had collected the 1990 Rapid Fire action figure, which has sort of a connection to the 1988 Super Trooper figure. If the ultra secret new Army school that produced Super Trooper were the Fratelli family, then Rapid Fire would be Sloth (if you get the Goonies reference there).
Much in the way that Super Trooper was meant as a compliment to Paul Latimer, Rapid Fire comes across to me as an embarrassing kiss ass attempt to serenade the new DIC executive and partner to Hasbro, Robby London, so they put his name on the action figure's file card.
I can just imagine him reading his misspelled name on the product (because they accidentally typed Robbie London).
Then, rather than have Larry Hama whip up another file card, they plagiarize his Super Trooper dossier by changing just a few sentences here and there across the file card. If Paul Latimer is an O-2, then Robbie London is an O-3.
If Paul Latimer's class required fluency in three languages, airborne qualification, and earning the Expert Infantryman Badge, than Robbie London's class required every soldier to have done the same, but instead of the EIB, they have to have received the Medal of Honor!
Rapid Fire is mentioned to have made it to West Point the same way as Super Trooper, but it says that he completed Cadet Summer Orientation in only five weeks instead of ten (although I think West Point might be running the orientation in a span of three to four weeks time).
How many G.I. Joe collectors have had to wash their eyes with bleach after reading that file card?
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