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Endless Flight said:
I found Tunnel Rat in a bag of assorted figures I had. Not sure where he came from. I gave him a new o-ring and put him up there. I don’t have his gear so I might need to acquire that at some point.
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I heard rumour that Tunnel Rat was originally based on Larry Hama himself
 
so IDW doesnt have the license anymore?
 
I wonder if we'll get new reprints of the Marvel series - the IDW ones have been oop and going for silly prices for a while now. Somehing in the style of the Omnibuses, or even the barebones Essentials trades would be nice
 
TristramEvans said:
I wonder if we'll get new reprints of the Marvel series - the IDW ones have been oop and going for silly prices for a while now. Somehing in the style of the Omnibuses, or even the barebones Essentials trades would be nice.
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Depends on who the new publisher is. It’s not like you have to make a big investment. Just slap your logo on the previous release.
 
I'm brainstorming nw about how I personally would update GI Joe, make it relevant to a new generation.

I'd let the older team gracefully retire. Marry off Snake Eyes and Scarlett finally, have them take over the Arashikage dojo. Old Flint I see going into politics. Duke would be a retired general. Stalker becomes a doctor at a clinic in Detroit. Law runs an animal shelter. Hint at a final battle on Cobra Island that took the lives of many Joes and finally ended Cobra with the death of Serpentor.

Something would need to happen to cause the US to reinstate the GIJoe program. The rise of a new Cobra cult in the Middle East or something. New group of soldiers. I could see it working.

I dunno, maybe its just that I'm getting older, but I really like my old heroes getting a proper sendoff.
 
TristramEvans said:
I'm brainstorming nw about how I personally would update GI Joe, make it relevant to a new generation.

I'd let the older team gracefully retire. Marry off Snake Eyes and Scarlett finally, have them take over the Arashikage dojo. Old Flint I see going into politics. Duke would be a retired general. Stalker becomes a doctor at a clinic in Detroit. Law runs an animal shelter. Hint at a final battle on Cobra Island that took the lives of many Joes and finally ended Cobra with the death of Serpentor.

Something would need to happen to cause the US to reinstate the GIJoe program. The rise of a new Cobra cult in the Middle East or something. New group of soldiers. I could see it working.

I dunno, maybe its just that I'm getting older, but I really like my old heroes getting a proper sendoff.
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You mean Salvo didn’t get a proper send off? :devil:
 
TristramEvans said:
I'm brainstorming nw about how I personally would update GI Joe, make it relevant to a new generation.

I'd let the older team gracefully retire. Marry off Snake Eyes and Scarlett finally, have them take over the Arashikage dojo. Old Flint I see going into politics. Duke would be a retired general. Stalker becomes a doctor at a clinic in Detroit. Law runs an animal shelter. Hint at a final battle on Cobra Island that took the lives of many Joes and finally ended Cobra with the death of Serpentor.

Something would need to happen to cause the US to reinstate the GIJoe program. The rise of a new Cobra cult in the Middle East or something. New group of soldiers. I could see it working.

I dunno, maybe its just that I'm getting older, but I really like my old heroes getting a proper sendoff.
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Duke is a sergeant not an officer.

Anyhow, I'd probably have a utopian paradise run by a victorious Cobra with the Joes recast as the terrorists. The president of the world would be a BATS droid in a wig.
 
never even saw that game - anyone play it?

But it did make me think about how awesome a modern GI Joe game could be - like a combination of Metal Gear Solid & Call of Duty
 
TristramEvans said:
never even saw that game - anyone play it?

But it did make me think about how awesome a modern GI Joe game could be - like a combination of Metal Gear Solid & Call of Duty
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I had it for the Commodore 64. It was entertaining enough as a kid, but it’s not a game with much longevity. It was basically a series of one on one battles where you selected characters and then fought in randomly determined screens based on locations from the comic/cartoon.
 
hawkeyefan said:
I had it for the Commodore 64. It was entertaining enough as a kid, but it’s not a game with much longevity. It was basically a series of one on one battles where you selected characters and then fought in randomly determined screens based on locations from the comic/cartoon.
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I had it too. The biggest issue was the load times. After you'd select characters, you'd wait a couple of minutes of two fight a one-minute battle. My neighbor and I had fun with for a couple of weeks though. I don't think the gameplay would hold up today, even without the load times.
 
Baulderstone said:
I had it too. The biggest issue was the load times. After you'd select characters, you'd wait a couple of minutes of two fight a one-minute battle. My neighbor and I had fun with for a couple of weeks though. I don't think the gameplay would hold up today, even without the load times.
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Yeah, it wouldn’t hold up today even for nostalgia’s sake.

Would’ve loved to have seen a real GIJoe game at some point.
 
To describe the game a little more fully, it was a two-player run-and-gun game with an overhead view, like Commando or Heavy Barrel, but it was PvP, and rather than scrolling levels, you fought each other in single-screen environments. Each character had a unique weapon.
 
While I never played the NES version, I did read the writeup in Nintendo Power, and it looked like it was a shooter/platformer a la Contra, although I remember it looking a bit more non-linear. It also had some use of small vehicles--I remember that you could grab the infamous Cobra POGO in one level. Thus, it sounds like the NES game was substantially different from the Commodore 64 one. Also note that the NES game was a 1991 release; I think the Commodore 64 was a dead platform by that point.
 
I managed to snag an almost complete 1983 HQ, a Skyhawk, a Whirlwind cannon and the HAL laser cannon for a reasonable sum. I’m going to clean up the HQ a bit and get some reproduction stickers and make it look new. But here’s a couple “as is” pictures. I owned this as a kid and lost it when I moved years ago. The HAL isn’t pictured.

 
Those decals are in great shape. :thumbsup:
 
I had the HQ back in the early 90's. Found it at a yard sale for $5, complete, except the tabs had broken off one of the cell bar walls, so it leaned heavily.

Looking at it now, I have to question the design choice of having an open-bar cell adjacent to the main comms station, clearly within earshot.
 
We never really knew Snake Eyes in that format in the UK, it's a long story you may already know or even be interested in, so the Geordi La Forge look is pretty much where it's at here.

We did have the figure here but as Stalker with the SAS Panther.
 
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