Read through his file card, and you'll find he has many years in the army with his MOS of Infantry and SMOS of Heavy Weapons. Like a few of my picks for my small team, I think Repeater has that one figure aspect going for him, with a strong touch of "blank slate" for characterization. Vehicle interaction can become less fun with waist tabs sticking out on a figure, especially in earlier "arah" vehicles. It was a lot of really close decisions where it was just little things that at the time, I made myself make the call. It kind of came down to that versatility factor of a figure here, where one had one tab, the other two. Pathfinder also came from the same small town that Repeater came from and had been purchased with the same people. Pathfinder has two tabs for his guns, and those guns seem like they would pack more of a punch for that matter. Another Joe that was a possible pick for my team, but got the cut, was Pathfinder ('90). I think some of my lesser use of Repeater over the years was due to his waist tab (I think "tab" fits, not sure what else to call it.) Now, I like the concept of the machine gun snapping onto the figure, at the same time it kind of detracts from the figure for me. If it came to simple preference, my Roadblock and Rock & Roll I find much more fun. Other than that, Repeater really hasn't stood out that much to me strongly over the years, and I had heavily debated if having three machine gunners on my small team was overkill. So essentially, Repeater got the "sentimental emotion boost" when all other factors were in my decision process of figure elimination.
I think Repeater is the last actual figure that's left of all those toys, though, the others all gone away now.
(versus my 2nd Iron Grenadier, at that!) There were actually many toys that I purchased, or were purchased for me, over those years long ago in the same very same area that Repeater came from. And from there where I opened up the figure and set it up for the first time. With Repeater, it isn't so much where the figure was purchased that kicks in an emotional connection, but rather it is who I was with at that time. While for many years I denied sentimental feelings had anything to do with figures or vehicles as a collector, well, in some cases they do. But when and where a figure came from, essentially the origin of a toy, became a bit of a factor in deciding which figures to keep on my small team of 28 GIJOE figures. All of this information means nothing to most of you reading this, though.
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