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Shadow Inspiration?
Posted: 12 Mar 2010 20:23
by Thundershot
Hi folks,
Just a random totally mad idea here, looking @ Sundancs's Crimson Guard photo...I wonder if the
figure was the inspiration for the
elite?
They do look very similar don't they?
Re: Shadow Inspiration?
Posted: 12 Mar 2010 22:11
by Sundance
i think i read somewhere that the Shads were an influence.
but i may have imagined it.
Re: Shadow Inspiration?
Posted: 12 Mar 2010 22:17
by Red Laser
It was asked in Q&A Hasbro said the Red Shadows inspired the basic Crimson Guard not the Immortal type.
Re: Shadow Inspiration?
Posted: 12 Mar 2010 22:24
by Sundance
ah... i thought it was a Q&A but couldn't remember, well done red light
Re: Shadow Inspiration?
Posted: 13 Mar 2010 10:24
by The Baron
That's not quite what they said...
Hasbro wrote:1) Given that the Crimson Guards first appeared in the 1985 GI Joe wave of toys, were these red uniformed enemy figures inspired, at least in part, by the success of the similarly outfitted Red Shadow toys that were such a huge hit with kids in Europe pre-1985?
It is hard to say for sure…but the Red Shadow influence in the US was high.
Re: Shadow Inspiration?
Posted: 13 Mar 2010 16:15
by gung-hoeddie
quite interesting... only quite though.
Re: Shadow Inspiration?
Posted: 13 Mar 2010 16:18
by Thundershot
It's probably just a coincidence, the red uniform & W.W.2 German with like epaulettes on the jacket...