Dodger

Totally guessing, but I believe I bought Dodger  here at the 2005 convention.  Over the years, Battleforce 2000 had not gained my interest much, but between 2000 and early 2005 I had piled on a good number of vehicles in my collection.  I felt that I needed more drivers at that time, and I found Battleforce 2000 characters to work great; especially since I didn't have any of their respective vehicles at all.

Really, BF2K figures worked great.  From Maverick jumping into the pilots seat, to Blaster giving his hovercraft expertise to my old WHALE, to Avalanche bolstering my old cold weather forces.  Knockdown was my least favorite, but I found this anti-aircraft specialist to be a great vehicle gunner figure.   Dee Jay almost made it onto my small team, too, a very bulky character, but his pants and mostly his boots dissuaded me onto other picks.   Blocker made my team, however, as a 4WD specialist.   Dodger was picked to drive! 

When I had my former full collection all divided into "departments,"  Dodger and Blocker were together on my "cavalry scout" team.  Essentially, the light attack vehicle team that was consisting of AWE Strikers.

I had fun with this little self-made-up team within the team, very much a favorite group to play with and was right up there with my "security force" in favor.

Here's one of the "last missions" that the "cavalry scout" group had before I started trimming way back on my collection.  Here the team is meeting up with Freefall in the middle of a blanket desert!

(Yes, Sneak peek found his place on this little squad!)


Dodger really stands out as a figure to me.  He's got a nice amount of body armor but it's not overly plastered on.  He's still got the muscular arms exposed and a decent weapon that make me envision the figure being able to drive like few others and then jump into the battle on foot just as well.

It's common to read that Dodger harkens to the style of the colonial marines in Aliens movies, and I've seen many nice customs posted of Dodger in this style. 

For me, I started to think about his "assigned" role as the Marauder motorcycle, however, and I have just started to think of Dodger as my teams motorcycle driver.   I mean, like a scout style driver, and hopefully I'll get a RAM sooner or later.   This motorcycle trooper role is something I'm still contemplating, so more to come on that aspect, I suppose.   The guy seems to be an all-around awesome driver when one reads the file card.


If Battleforce 2000 had a leader, I would probably name Dodger as it.  The high rank of E-7 put Dodger up on my own made up teams roster, and even on my small team now, Dodger still ranks high.  There's no Duke on my team, and I see the potential for many figures to step into the role of a top-kick, of sorts.