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02-28-2013, 09:05 AM | #1 |
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What motivated me to post this, is I was flipping through Netflix last night and came across a 3 part episode of Elite Forces and and the I chose was about Marine Tankers!! Sweet show and how this fresh out boot camp Marines headed to FT Knox KY for M1-A1 Abrams tank training and after seeing that took me down memory lane to what I use to have a Mauler for my Joe army and which i believe the Mauler was based of the Abrams tank. And this got me thinking, man, I wish Hasbro would release this again for the 25th, POC and 30th figures and I remember seeing on here that Hasbro was going to re-introduce the Mauler for the ROC lineup, but cancelled out either at the last minute or didn't have enough funds for this product. Anyway, if Hasbro could bring the Mauler back out that would be awesome!! It dont have to be motorized either, just free rolling treads like on the Hiss tank V5! and maybe have it a desert theme and jungle theme and places on the tank for the backpacks. All I can say is, maybe next year the Mauler MIGHT be the next release that Hasbro will do, but only time will tell.
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02-28-2013, 09:22 AM | #2 |
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We almost got new Maulers at the '07 convention... man oh man, they would have been sweet - olive drab for the Joes, blue for the Cobras. :(
Unfortunately, there was some issue with the tooling, so they were never produced. I hadn't heard about them being intro'd for the RoC line, but I guess it's probably good that they weren't - they'd probably be in that weird RoC blue, after all... After the Tomahawk, who knows? I guess I could see it. If so, I hope they rework the pieces a bit. The size is fine but we need a turret with an actual commander's hatch at the very least. They can get rid of the driving mechanism for all I care.
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02-28-2013, 09:46 AM | #3 |
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I think the tooling for the turret is unusable so they would need to create new tooling to release the Mauler. I would love to see the Mauler in OD.
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02-28-2013, 09:47 AM | #4 |
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We almost got new Maulers at the '07 convention... man oh man, they would have been sweet - olive drab for the Joes, blue for the Cobras. :(
Unfortunately, there was some issue with the tooling, so they were never produced. I hadn't heard about them being intro'd for the RoC line, but I guess it's probably good that they weren't - they'd probably be in that weird RoC blue, after all... . I know that in '07 the tooling was broke, the club was going to cover the cost to fix one piece so they could produce the maulers, then found out another mold for a piece was broke also, and it was going to cost too much to reproduce another one. So the club had to cancel production.
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02-28-2013, 10:16 AM | #5 |
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I remember that...it caused a huge fiasco for fans that wanted them.
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02-28-2013, 10:42 AM | #6 |
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What motivated me to post this, is I was flipping through Netflix last night and came across a 3 part episode of Elite Forces and and the I chose was about Marine Tankers!! Sweet show and how this fresh out boot camp Marines headed to FT Knox KY for M1-A1 Abrams tank training and after seeing that took me down memory lane to what I use to have a Mauler for my Joe army and which i believe the Mauler was based of the Abrams tank.
The HSTV(L), actually. Anyhoo, after announcing the Tomahawk I suppose almost anything is possible. |
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02-28-2013, 10:47 AM | #7 |
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In Kre-O, it's very likely.
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02-28-2013, 11:32 AM | #8 |
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I would think that the mauler is on a short list of future large vehicle releases. I liked the VvV era patriot grizzly too. If they have to do new tooling, I would like to see a mauler with nods to the patriot grizzly as well. It would be nice if it could hold 3 figures.
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02-28-2013, 11:43 AM | #9 |
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Make your own! Picked up the World Peacekeeper MBT, painted in the Testors Afrika Braun, ordered Mauler decals from Cobrastickers and you have your Mauler MBT. Yes, its based on the a Chinese Type 91/92 battle tank, but it comes pretty close. Plus it seat two in the turret!
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02-28-2013, 12:19 PM | #10 |
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I was never a huge fan of the Mauler b/c the only place to put figures was in the driver areas. That being said, if the price point is reasonable... I would buy one and horde it away.
I'd prefer Hasbro to come up with some original designs like the Cobra classic transport helicopter.
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