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Back in my junior and senior years in high school, I owned a navy blue Alpha MA-1 jacket like Mac's and up until today I couldn't remember what happened to it, I thought I had donated it to DAV or some such organization but wasn't sure. Then today I was talking with my mom about what dry cleaner her and my dad use and she said one of two they go to is in the same shopping center as their grocery store. It was at that point it hit me, that same @#&* dry cleaner had lost my jacket years ago after I took it in to get cleaned. What's worse . . . they only gave me about 1/3 of the jacket's value because they considered it "used" even though it was in excellent condition (looking at the one I owned and ones in the surplus store you'd never have been able to tell the difference) and the same style was and is still being made.
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Here's my latest MacGyver wardrobe replica acquisition.
Finally didn't get outbid on eBay. I apologize if the person I snipped was a MOL member.
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"Look at me. I'm a hurtin' guy! I'm beat up. I need a month's worth of sleep . . . and I need a haircut!" - MacGyver
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I have no idea. lol Sorry! I would assume it's from LL Bean, which a lot of his wardrobe came from. I also believe many of his shirts were custom made as well, but I'm not sure on that.
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Wow, is that a horse(polo?) or deer motif? LL Bean is usually much more plain-Jane(ermm. tame) with their shirt designs, no? Could be a made for the episode job, or another label entirely.
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There's no scenes of MacGyver in his army days what I can recall. There are episodes where he wears army camouflage clothing, but most times its in present day.
The flashback scene in Lost Love is never made clear if it's during his army days or not, but considering he was in bomb disposal while in the army it seems more likely that an assignment to blow up whatever that place was wouldn't have been during his army days.
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It's kind of strange that there wasn't any flashback scenes. The mid 80s were big into Vietnam, and I remember a lot of Magnum PI flashbacks. Now that you mention it, I recall there being very little references made about Mac's service time.
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QUOTE (Slater @ 18 October 2017 - 12:37 PM)
Maybe RDA didn't want to get the appropriate haircut to do an "Army flashback" scene
Getting a military haircut for flashbacks would really impact the continuity in the present day shots in episodes that were shot after the one with the flashback scenes. It would take months for his hair to grow back.
Maybe RDA didn't want to get the appropriate haircut to do an "Army flashback" scene
Getting a military haircut for flashbacks would really impact the continuity in the present day shots in episodes that were shot after the one with the flashback scenes. It would take months for his hair to grow back.
QUOTE (Barry Rowland @ 18 October 2017 - 01:18 AM)
It's kind of strange that there wasn't any flashback scenes. The mid 80s were big into Vietnam, and I remember a lot of Magnum PI flashbacks. Now that you mention it, I recall there being very little references made about Mac's service time.
I always got the feeling that it was an idea for a possible background story in season 1 that just hung around after they had decided not to follow through with it due to already having mentioned it in an episode.
Either that or they really didn't know what to do with it or explain it properly in connection with him hating guns, although they did address that a little with lines such as.....
QUOTE (Tough Boys)
"For someone who hates violence you seem to know a lot about it"
"That's why I hate it."
... which indicates that he may not have always been so advise to guns as he is now. I think there's quite an in-depth discussion about this around here somewhere...maybe the "Blood Brothers episode discussion? if any ones interested in trying to track it down...
This should have it's own topic if anyone wants to continue discussion the army background any further. I've gone way off topic.
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QUOTE (MacGyverOnline @ 20 October 2017 - 07:24 PM)
QUOTE (beth @ 21 October 2017 - 02:14 PM)
QUOTE (Slater @ 18 October 2017 - 12:37 PM)
Maybe RDA didn't want to get the appropriate haircut to do an "Army flashback" scene
Getting a military haircut for flashbacks would really impact the continuity in the present day shots in episodes that were shot after the one with the flashback scenes. It would take months for his hair to grow back.
Wigs until it's grown back fully.
Sometimes wigs just look like something just crawled up on your head and died plus with all of the action it would be hard to keep it on.😁😜
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QUOTE (beth @ 21 October 2017 - 02:04 PM)
Sometimes wigs just look like something just crawled up on your head and died plus with all of the action it would be hard to keep it on.😁😜
Yeah. The definition of "bad wig" is right there next to the entry about "Eclipse", the 3rd Twilight movie
I remember Lucas Till saying in an interview that as an army brat, he felt bad he had such long hair in the Army-Flashback in the 6th episode of the Reboot. That's why they decided to "cover" it up.
I guess since TV shows film an episode within 8 days, RDA would have had to wear a wig for the rest of the Season; so I guess cutting the hair wasn't an option; especially if it was just for a flashback of a single episode.
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