Yes, modern-era Joes have made it into the house. There's a lot of figures that I thought would really add to the character of my collection.
Specialist Matt Trakker is one of those that made the cut just a couple years ago. This is actually one of the few figures I hunted for. It's MASKs Matt Trakker, afterall. I really dug the cartoon back in the day and had several MASK toys. (These all got passed onto (much) younger cousins well over 15 years ago, perhaps even sooner than that. Well, hindsight is always...)
Being a "new" character to GIJoe this was a must have pick for me. Somewhere along the way, perhaps it was over-analyzing the file cards or something like that, characterization of a figure became really important. Specialist Trakker really seemed like he would play an excellent part of the motor pool. Perhaps a designer to help simply "beef-up" my teams vehicles? The "anti-Destro" player, perhaps?
Well, it didn't end up well for Trakker. I put him in figure line-ups, but he's too tall. In scale, he's a full foot taller than everyone else. Never really felt right in any vehicle, and despite the super-articulation...well, static poses were about all he ever accomplished.
He made his contribution in my Joeverse, however. The GIJoe motor pool has received many imaginary upgrades and enhancements that are not visible on the exterior of the old battle-proven vehicles of my pool. Trakker has been reassigned to assist (25th version) Barbecue and 1991 Rice Krispies Lifeline in working with a forming fire department here...that department is headed by the junior member of the household. The heli-pack will help these rescue troopers fight fires and whatever imaginations might happen in the junior members department.
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