Flirting with Treason - Figures

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Which or figures and/or characters, if any, would have fitted into the universe?

After the long twilight of I used to try and figure out who could fit in to an additional wave. Could a wave 4 have reinforced and ranks one last time? Started thinking about it again the other day after re-reading a few more BAF strips and some of the posts here, not least about :baronness: and viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3254



Assuming one discounted the :snakeeyes: figures to avoid 'duplication', who's left to add in?

Maybe not , but with for sabotage missions. There was a great BAF story about him that would also have worked perfectly in the era.

HALO Assault for ?

But what about the others? Slightly too American? Too kitchy for a Arctic Assault? Maybe could have worked in not least for obvious APC reasons; in or ?

But what about ? and his Skystriker could have worked in ; maybe too. Or are we at the point where went to via sensitive crimes with Playmobil via a Hasbro/CPG Products' factory in Taiwan?



Again, arbitarily discounting as duplicate figures ...

could have ably worked in the 's global conspiracy, adding a bit of backbone to 's always overstretched management team, and meeting a few of their amphibious and aerospace challenges on top of unleashing additional mayhem. Why should have the skillset advantage when is an evil genius with plenty of gold hidden in Switzerland and Panama and a lot of "investments" in Colombia?


But is what dreamed up to to nix and his goddess?
Would Red have been too similar to ?
Was the missing link between and ?
Or have Playmobil issues already raised their gnomically-botoxed faces towards the heavens?

And what about (too Star Wars-esque) (not a patch on and Australian to boot) and the 'duplicates'? Too close to for comfort?

One day (at this rate 2020) I'll do some customs and filecards for those who make the cut. Maybe I'll try and figure out how to do a poll too.

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is for sure, I'm a bit disappointed Palitoy didn't use him for (or even ) as with a yellow & blue repaint the figure could of looked very good indeed.

[Red Laser]

Cutter would have been Q Force as well but I am not sure about the WHALE being in Q Force colours. Ton Up I could see in Z Force with Mutt & Junkyard.

[Thundershot]

would of made a good

Are we talking figures as "released" or "would of made cool if re-paints"?
After all was a repainted & a (good guy) not (bad guy)

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Are we talking figures as "released" or "would of made cool if re-paints"?
After all was a repainted & a (good guy) not (bad guy)

This is something else I was wondering about. Maybe either / or, partly cos it's easy-ish to fuse the two.

just need insignia; would need to be repainted; maybe black and red kit for losing the blue. But what to do with if ?

would of made a good

Always preferred him as an sab. But maybe too conventional: after all, has the Commando from hell and the majestically loopy as minions to name but two. I just don't see dressing up in kit that falls somewhere between the two OTT camps of full-on Spetsnaz or SEALs.

[Chopper]

and could easily be and , and could be

The other colour schemes don't really lend themselves I think. Firefly is an awesome Cobra figure and like Stormie, shouldn't be messed with

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Cutter would have been Q Force as well but I am not sure about the WHALE being in Q Force colours. Ton Up I could see in Z Force with Mutt & Junkyard.

Yeah is too yellow for (esp with all its recently acquired connotations). But what about Sealion treatment? Thinking otherwise.

in is still a bridge too far for me tho', and, , I still get palpitations thinking about the green Wolverine vs version.

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i was thinking about this meself the other day.

i came up with:

Firefly as a v2 of Quickfire, repainted to SAS colours
Torpedo as a V2 of Barracuda
Breaker (US) as a v2 of Breaker (AF)
US Doc as a v2 of UK Doc (repainted as white bloke)
Ace as a V2 of Hot Jets
Deep Six as a V2 of Leviathan
Crimson Guard as a Shad officer
Viper as v2 of the Shads
Bludd as a V2 of Black Major after he's been badly injured in a battle.
Baroness as a Shad spy
Lady Jaye as a Z troop
Footloose, Grunt and Hit&Run as Z troops.
Tripwire as a V2 of Scout
Flash and Sci-Fi as Space Force. either as are, in new colours or as V2 of Hawkwind and Blast Off
Recondo as Z troop
Snow Job as SAS arctic ops
Ripcord as a V2 of Sparrowhawk in SAS colours
Wet Suit as a Q diver or V2 of Shark
BAT as mk II Muton
Flint as V2 of Skip
Blowtorch as a Shad flamer troop in red and black
Airborne as a Z troop
Duke as a Z troop
V2 Hawk as a V2 of The Commander
Airtight as a Space Force bloke
Alpine as a Z mountaineer
Snake Eyes V2 as an SAS troop
Wild Weasal as a V2 of Red Wolf (duh)
Scrap Iron as a Shad anti-tank bloke.
Eel as Shad frogman
Snow Serpent as Shad polar ops.

can't remember who i thought should be a V2 of Eagle, although I know i did come up with someone...

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is for sure, I'm a bit disappointed Palitoy didn't use him for (or even ) as with a yellow & blue repaint the figure could of looked very good indeed.

On which note that Flying Submarine thing looks a bit like the force experiment Mr. "Hello Dave" Tree uncovered (if you put some beer goggles on).

But Deep Six himself still a bit too Buzz Lightyear for , nichts?

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and could easily be and , and could be

The other colour schemes don't really lend themselves I think. Firefly is an awesome Cobra figure and like Stormie, shouldn't be messed with

Yeah is in a Cobber league of his own. Maybe he'd be a handy Hyena-stig, maybe he'd get in the odd drunken shuriken group-hug with But basically he is through and through.

As an old-fashioned merc hired by occasionally, could remain himself. The Boba Fett of the universe. And a bit of diversion in the Operation Stubborn is a solid story after all.