Handy Pardner

Handy Pardner
Basic Information
Used by:	Engineer
Slot:	Primary
Contributed by:	neodos

The Handy Pardner is an experimental PDA for the Engineer that was being play-tested by Valve. It is the PDA you use to build the Mini-Dispenser, which itself is an experimental building that has not yet made it into the game.

The backpack icons, model and textures for the Handy Pardner were accidentally leaked in the Jungle Inferno Update. Based on the patch diff for the update, it appears that when Valve migrated some weapons and cosmetics over to the tf\models\workshop directory from their original directories (tf\models\player\items, tf\models\weapons\c_models), they accidentally migrated some staging build (in-dev) Workshop content they were testing at the time (if not for the past two years) and pushed it in the update.

Update history

October 20, 2017 Patch (Jungle Inferno Update Patch 1)

• [Undocumented] Files for the Handy Pardner were added to the game.

October 23, 2017 Patch

• [Undocumented] Files for the Handy Pardner were removed from the game. Oops.

Gallery

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  Backpack icon

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  BLU skin

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  First person view (RED)

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  First person view (RED)

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  First person view (RED, Gunslinger equipped)

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  First person view (RED, Gunslinger equipped)