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View Poll Results: Do you incorporate your own characters into GI Joe? | |||
I make up new characters all the time | 40 | 72.73% | |
I have only done it a couple of times | 9 | 16.36% | |
I have only done it one time | 2 | 3.64% | |
I would never use anything but Hasbro sanctioned characters | 4 | 7.27% | |
Voters: 55. You may not vote on this poll |
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04-11-2012, 09:53 PM | #1 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Poughkeepsie, NY.
Posts: 2,258
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Do you make up your own characters for your GI Joe universe? I use to be very anal about this and would never use anyone but true Hasbro sanctioned GI Joe characters, but times have changed.
With so many of the same figures released with different looks it was just too tempting to use them as new characters. Like the POC Recondo. To me he wasn’t Recondo but he was still an awesome jungle trooper. So I call him Bushwhack. Same with Frostbite, he looked nothing like Frostbite so I gave him and new name and now I have an all new snow trooper. Anyways, I was just wondering how many people do this and how many are against doing it. |
04-11-2012, 09:59 PM | #2 |
G.I.Joe medic
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Litchfield, ME
Posts: 3,183
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When i was a kid in the '80s, no. Today, yes, to a certain extent. I've done some custom figs of characters who hadn't been released as well as making modern upgrades to others, and taken left over parts to kitbash new characters. I'm also working on a sub team of Joes headed up by Lifeline and Barbecue that will mostly be customs, with a couple of off the shelf figs renamed.
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04-11-2012, 10:04 PM | #3 |
That's lo!
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Wa.
Posts: 31,050
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i'll make Cobra forces (or IGs) but no Joes. only Hasbro sanctioned Joe characters for me- so no re-naming or anything: one classic version of a character is all thats allowed on my Joe display.
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04-11-2012, 10:08 PM | #4 |
Iron Grenadier Sorcerer
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The Silent Castle
Posts: 34,271
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All the time! Don't let yourself be restricted by someone else's imagination! If Hasbro says Gung Ho in a life preserver can be Cutter, then POC Firefly can be an entirely different character and POC Jungle Duke can be Muskrat!
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04-11-2012, 10:09 PM | #5 |
"Commando"
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Boston
Posts: 273
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I love customizing and making my own teams, that have a uniform look.
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04-11-2012, 10:09 PM | #6 |
Crimson Guard Immortal
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: ARBCO Warehouse Michigan
Posts: 1,312
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Back in the day, I had multiple Stinger drivers. I took the best looking one and added a Mindbender cape to him and gave him a grey version of Airbornes gun. Anyway, I called him "General Steele", he was always my second-in-command. Made up my own file card and everything. Even my friends who came over to have Joe battles recognized that he was #2 in Cobra.
Several years ago I took the cape off and sold him as a regular Stinger driver, I miss him something awful...... |
04-11-2012, 10:13 PM | #7 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Poughkeepsie, NY.
Posts: 2,258
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Really though, that’s a good point. :o) |
04-11-2012, 10:35 PM | #8 |
Filecard Maker
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NJ
Posts: 7,300
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Yeah I for years would have said no, but somewhere along the line of VvsV, I changed my mind.
I had previously made a custom of myself, but that was it. But I started to be swayed when the TRU Crimson Guard sets came out...I was kinda pissed off at the inclusions of Firefly in both sets. But yet was not pissed off at the re-use of the mold for Wreckage from the TRU Tiger Force set...and I couldn't figure out why. I mean its the same damn figure so why should I be mad at one and not the other. I came to the conclusion that I didn't hate Wreckage because he was at least a new character. So I simply renamed the Crimson Guard Firefly's and gave them new bio's...I called them Crimson Commandos, and suddenly I was happy with them. That was the start. Cobra's Imperial Procession set came next I looked at the picture on the back and there was no way I saw The Baroness in that picture...she looked like a teenager... No matter what I just couldn't see Baroness in that. Love the artwork. So...I wrote up a backround that she was the daughter of The Baroness and Cobra Commander from the earliest days of Cobra's beginning...and Rayna DeCobray was born. From there I went a bit crazy, renaming all of Tiger Force, and Night Force, etc etc basically any figure I didn't consider my Alpha version of the character. As my customizing skills grow I ventured into parts swaps painting etc and have since made a whole cast of characters. Ain't nothing wrong with expanding you Joeverse. |
04-11-2012, 10:40 PM | #9 |
Question Authority
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Maine
Posts: 12,980
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Just like you mentioned, Gatchaman - my "rules" have relaxed.
I used to be rigid as hell about characters/figures, but recently my Volcano Vipers have become Hazard Viper Officers, and my blue-gauntlet POC Vipers have become higher-ranking than my red-gauntlet 30th Vipers. I guess as you get into it more, you're creativity expands and those kinda things just happen. |
04-11-2012, 10:44 PM | #10 |
Red Shadows Officer
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Citizen of the world
Posts: 681
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I use my own made up characters all the time. When I was younger, i put a different head on 86 Hawk and used Cavalry Wild Bill's blue hat and created "Deputy Death", a corrupt cop allied with Cobra.
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