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6/10/2025, 2:34:20 AM
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>The Vamp was always a quick Recon vehicle, never meant for frontline combat
There's a dozen other recon and scout vehicles that GI Joe has, such as the Awe striker in your collection. I also own a few of those, because it looks faster and has better weaponry, thus cooler.
So speaking as a non-nostalgiafag (I got into GI Joe in 1985), i never saw the point of the Vamp when there's many more vehicles that GI Joe has to offer that are better looking, faster, better armored, and have bigger/more weapons. As a kid, I saw the recon sled as the speedier, cooler alternative. As an adult? Well, there's the AWE Striker, LAV, hummers, Bradleys...
The Stinger, to me, it's an ambush vehicle. It drives into a picnic area, parking lot, or clear spot in a forest and waits for its target to pass by. Airliner, jet, general in a motorcade, etc. It just needs someonehidden at the top of a hill, pointing their laser at the target and the Stinger fires from where no one can see it. Or just portable radar. It can also be used as an opening attack vehicle, miles away, aimnig at bunker doors and/or gun emplacements.
It's not attempting to get into any direct fights, like a recon vehicle should.
And there's the play value with the Stinger, because GI Joe might get wind of this ambush or sneak attack, and try and prevent it from happening. The Stinger being target/play focus. This type reconning can't really be done with the VAMP and there are better alternatives for the VAMP if you just want something to push around in a car chase.
Those Mattel scout vehicles might look more boring than the Vamp, because there's no guns, but at least it has space to carry figures in the back. And i bought mine specifically just to customize. $15 each, so i can add a remote gun turret to it and paint it up. Maybe I'll just paint one up and just leave the hatch as is, because it's cool to have a guy aiming his gun at attackers behind him vs just turning a turret backwards in a chase.
>The Vamp was always a quick Recon vehicle, never meant for frontline combat
There's a dozen other recon and scout vehicles that GI Joe has, such as the Awe striker in your collection. I also own a few of those, because it looks faster and has better weaponry, thus cooler.
So speaking as a non-nostalgiafag (I got into GI Joe in 1985), i never saw the point of the Vamp when there's many more vehicles that GI Joe has to offer that are better looking, faster, better armored, and have bigger/more weapons. As a kid, I saw the recon sled as the speedier, cooler alternative. As an adult? Well, there's the AWE Striker, LAV, hummers, Bradleys...
The Stinger, to me, it's an ambush vehicle. It drives into a picnic area, parking lot, or clear spot in a forest and waits for its target to pass by. Airliner, jet, general in a motorcade, etc. It just needs someonehidden at the top of a hill, pointing their laser at the target and the Stinger fires from where no one can see it. Or just portable radar. It can also be used as an opening attack vehicle, miles away, aimnig at bunker doors and/or gun emplacements.
It's not attempting to get into any direct fights, like a recon vehicle should.
And there's the play value with the Stinger, because GI Joe might get wind of this ambush or sneak attack, and try and prevent it from happening. The Stinger being target/play focus. This type reconning can't really be done with the VAMP and there are better alternatives for the VAMP if you just want something to push around in a car chase.
Those Mattel scout vehicles might look more boring than the Vamp, because there's no guns, but at least it has space to carry figures in the back. And i bought mine specifically just to customize. $15 each, so i can add a remote gun turret to it and paint it up. Maybe I'll just paint one up and just leave the hatch as is, because it's cool to have a guy aiming his gun at attackers behind him vs just turning a turret backwards in a chase.
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