Friday, May 24, 2013

SURVIVAL RAMBO FIGURE

Fuck yeah, dude! Before the he was turned into a cartoon character and parody of himself, JOHN RAMBO was a great character in one of my all-time favorite movies, "FIRST BLOOD". One of my favorite scenes of the movie is when he's holed up in the mine, surviving. Well NECA has made a figure based on it! I wish the sculpt and paint job was a little better, but I'll still pick this one up with a smile. Man, I've wanted this figure since I was a little kid!
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6 comments:

Andrew Glazebrook said...

Vagrancy wasn't it? That's gonna look real good on his grave stone in Arlington: Here lies John Rambo, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, survivor of countless incursions behind enemy lines. Killed for vagrancy in Jerkwater, USA.

12:27 PM
Anonymous said...

Yeah, well, that was the nature of things way back when, Andrew. This whole new wave of "welcoming our troops home" & "support our troops" was pretty much the opposite back then.

The term "baby killers" comes to mind.

8:33 AM
Jim said...

I believe Andrew was quoting the film - Col Trautman.

8:35 AM
Andrew Glazebrook said...

I was !!! :)

9:14 AM
Anonymous said...

I know, I was really just amazed at how that has drastically changed in the last +/- 30 yrs, really. How poorly soldiers were treated when they got back home.

Surprised something like this didn't happen w/ more frequency than "just in a movie", honestly!

Dealing w/ PTSD, ETC w/ warfare, ETC w/ the warfare that went down in Vietnam, being spat at, yelled at, and treated like dogshit when they got home...

Just asking to fray a fractured mind until it cracked.

10:30 AM
Jim said...

Definitely a dark, shameful stain in our U.S. history

10:58 AM

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