Seems I can ramble on since everyone else is, don't want to feel left out afterall. Well my two cents is that when I first got into GI JOE as a kid I did like the unrealistic probably because I didn't really consider combat functionality. Now though being older as I am (or at last I think so) I prefer the more realistic vehicles because they were created to be more practical well most of the time. If vehicles were created based on other real vehicle designs then yes we would be seeing more practicality. Anyone remember that cruiser vehicle that had the launcher on it that could shoot that little blue glider. For me that had to be the pinnacle of the poorer designed vehicles as open driving positions like those were just way to exposed. So I voted for realistic vehicles.

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