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so here's a "25th Anniversary" version of the Red Shadows' own ghoul. :skeletron:

hey, the skeletal remains of Montezuma from the Serpentor DVD set had to be good for something, right?


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Interesting paint job! I quite like Skeletron (and have a spare one if anyone needs one & has a tradelist!).

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I made the custom just because I could. Wish I knew the background on it though.

I know the Skeletron figure was a mail-away special but what's the story with the character? Was it one character or an undead army builder or what? Where did it fit into the Red Shadow army exactly?

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Skeletron never appeared in the comics, and didn't have a file card. He's actually a robot, (his elbows and knees have pneumatic piston things like c3P0). I envisioned them as being very basic remote control type robots, as opposed to the more sophisticated 'death robots' that were the Mutons. I think with them being 'manufactured' they'r an army builder though, not a one off character.
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Maybe they are the guts of a Muton? Like C3P0 in the Phantom Menace. Unarmoured varieties.

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I remember someone was going to customise a Skeletron head inside a Muton helmet along that very theory, but apparently it was oversized!

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Chopper wrote:Maybe they are the guts of a Muton? Like C3P0 in the Phantom Menace. Unarmoured varieties.

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ooooh I like that idea.


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isn't it a dead Kraken?

*g, d, rlh*

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Chopper wrote:Maybe they are the guts of a Muton? Like C3P0 in the Phantom Menace. Unarmoured varieties.

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:skeletron:
Oooo I was thinking the same thing! :D

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I thought they were made out of the bodies of dead AF soldiers :skeletron:
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