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View Poll Results: Best Vehicle/Playset of 1988 Poll PART 4 | |||
Rolling Thunder | 15 | 39.47% | |
Skystorm | 2 | 5.26% | |
Swampmasher | 1 | 2.63% | |
Tiger Cat (Snow Cat) | 3 | 7.89% | |
Tiger Fly (Dragonfly) | 3 | 7.89% | |
Tiger Paw (Ferret) | 0 | 0% | |
Tiger Rat (Rattler) | 2 | 5.26% | |
Tiger Shark (Mocassin) | 1 | 2.63% | |
VAMP Mark II Mail-Order Re-Issue | 2 | 5.26% | |
Warthog A.I.F.V. | 9 | 23.68% | |
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10-15-2023, 07:30 AM | #1 |
Dark Lord of the Mods
Join Date: Dec 2021
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In the final poll, my vote goes to the Rolling Thunder. I had this vehicle and loved it. It was a fantastic late-line vehicle for the Joes and the only one better in the second half of the ARAH line would probably be the General, which I didn't have. When I finally sold my Rolling Thunder at a garage sale, it still had all the pieces and was in perfect condition. I'm so annoyed I sold it. I would probably get 100 times now what I got for it then.
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10-15-2023, 10:39 AM | #2 |
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Rolling Thunder - Another one by the time I got it, my family moved to a smaller place. Never had room to enjoy it.
Skystorm - Another one I got late, probably on clearance in 1990, because it looked lame. It really was. The phallic machine guns and the lack of landing gear. Give it molded on recessed guns and deployable landing wheels, and it would improve the thing. Swampmasher - I like the mini gun, the rest was garbage. Premise makes no sense even by late 80's GI JOE standards, triple metal wheels in a swamp. No amphibious aspect. Tiger Cat (Snow Cat) - Still has the easily broken launcher tabs. Again, one I got after my playing with toys declined. Tiger Fly (Dragonfly) - First TF vehicle I got. I liked it but the cheaper turret cannons that only swivel seemed disappointing. Tiger Paw (Ferret) - One where the tiger face aspect didn't work. Tiger Rat (Rattler) - Never owned one. Didn't get the modern one because I knew it would never leave its box. Oh, well. Tiger Shark (Mocassin) - Same problems as Water Mocassin. But with RED GUNS, making it somehow more Cobra than the original! VAMP Mark II Mail-Order Re-Issue - Never owned it Warthog A.I.F.V. - The one to beat, I'd think. (I appear to be wrong). It saw a lot of action, but...those big yellow missiles...just seemed gratuitous. |
10-15-2023, 11:12 AM | #3 |
Cobra Soldier
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Rolling Thunder for me; a friend had this and we had a damn good time using it as a Cobra chaser, or a platform defending a Cobra ambush. Big, beefy and loaded with sweet extras this was just a crap ton of fun
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10-15-2023, 11:36 AM | #4 |
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I loved the Warthog, i still love it now.
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10-15-2023, 12:22 PM | #5 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Aug 2020
Location: Boston
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This is actually a tough call for me.
Things I owned as a kid: Skystorm, Swamp Masher, Tiger Cat, Tiger Fly, Tiger Rat, Warthog. The Skystorm was pretty weak, but I loved all the rest. I never had an original Rattler, so I was very excited that the Tiger Rat sort-of gave me a second chance at that. Plus it came with the only Tiger Force-exclusive character. I think I'll go with that one. |
10-16-2023, 02:28 PM | #6 |
Fartbutt McGillicuddy
Join Date: Jul 2020
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rolling thunder is a core memory for me. i remember seeing it at my best friend's house. he wheeled it out with a bunch of corps figures on it. it was awesome. that vehicle. figures similar to gijoes.
every time i look at mine i remember that moment. plus it's cool as hell. |
10-16-2023, 02:36 PM | #7 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: May 2015
Location: CT
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Warthog for me. Love amphibious landing craft and this thing is awesome.
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10-16-2023, 02:48 PM | #8 |
Commando
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Britain
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I like the Dragonfly. I like tigers. I like the TF vehicles paint jobs. So, yeah, I went with the Tiger Fly.
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10-16-2023, 03:18 PM | #9 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: New York
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Always wanted to get the Warthog, love the old-school military look of that vehicle.
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10-16-2023, 04:27 PM | #10 |
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Had the Tiger Shark and the Tiger Fly as my only versions of said ships, so they were both favorites. But that year I'd say Tiger Fly, if only because somehow I didn't wind up with the Tiger Shark until 1993. Apparently my dad found one still at TRU all those years later.
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