Blood for the Baron!

The aai rdf looks very Wolveriney too.

Chopper wrote:Ed, you have too much time on your hands.

Thats why I really like the GI Joe stuff, so much is copied/inspired by/ripped off real world prototypes or models.

The website that shalln't be named but rhymes with go bo has an entire thread dedicated to them.

[quote="Chopper"]The aai rdf looks very Wolveriney too.

..& the Lynx too Do you have a link to that thread, Rich?

Quick distract the Baron:

http://forums.yojoe.com/toys-1982-1998/ ... world.html

The Baron wrote:

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Not a wholly dissimilar sentiment to that of the Ukrainians when Meertoh's VAMP turned up in Crimea. Blütiger Russians now have a 1:1 version, a licence built IVECO chassis manufactured in some vulgar Magnitogorod or other in the Urals, Russian military call it the 'Tigr' ( EDIT: 'Tiger'...). FKRS!



Even an electronic warfare / electronic intel version



But it can't survive mano-i-mano with a trolleybus. So maybe isn't exactly the Meertoh version.





PS.

ODB wrote:Quick distract the Baron:

http://forums.yojoe.com/toys-1982-1998/ ... world.html

Nice.

Some parts of the list are just ultimate Polly Filler tho'.

FLAK - perhaps influenced most by the German 88mm Anti-Aircraft FlaK. Although the main construction seems very modernized, the overall look is the same. There is a chair placed on this one, as well as the obligatory GI Joe computer system upgrade.

Thundershot wrote:

Herr Tshot inspired this coda for all the right reasons.

weapon system, bazooka or not, probably based on this and a *Joe* analog, seems to originate in the depths of FIM-43 Red Eye, fire & forget man portable IR man portable surface to air missile





Personally thought it was a Stinger at first but then figured it out due to a surfeit of contemporary weapon-system mags c. 84 given to me by a Twin Peaks type (long story).

Here's another candidate for the weapon:



A lot of the early Joe accessories are stylised forms real life weapons, the designers probably looked @ both weapons for inspiration.

Another example would be 's weapon, which seems to combine elements from both American M60 & German MG 3 machine guns.