![]() ![]() This 1982 / 1983 Cobra soldier must have been pretty popular for Hasbro to still have been selling it individually on cards up until the 1985 series of G.I. I did amass quite a few of these guys in their later multi-pack and comic pack iterations, and they do look quite impressive en masse. As a Star Wars kid, I only had a couple of Stormtroopers. Even before my fascination with GI Joe, I wasn’t an army builder. I was usually playing with Cobra Commander, Destro, Major Bludd and later Zartan, Firefly and Storm Shadow as my Cobra forces. The few basic troopers I had seemed to suffice. Plus, I would have rather used my limited funds to pick up the good guys and bigger baddies. Ten year old Rob had more interest in playing with his toys than lining them up in formation. I guess the army building concept escaped me. My collection of named Cobra characters surpassed the troops within a couple of years. I never had very many Cobra troopers as a kid. Seems like an expensive kind of uniform for Cobra to manufacture, not to mention weird. The arms are also interesting in that they don’t appear to have gloves, but rather are one long sleeve with gloves attached. Maybe the guesomeness of the wire as a weapon is the reason the arms haven’t been reused since. There just haven’t been enough villain toys made with weapons used to strangle their opponents. That was a little disappointing, because I really like the little details of the spare rounds (I’m assuming they fit the weapon that’s on his right chest strap) and especially the garotte wire on the right bicep. The mold made appearances later in a troop builder and comic pack, but never with the entire original arms. Pointless? Pretty much, but I felt like mentioning it anyway. Of course, the Cobra Officer also had the same code name. Although, the early file cards were odd in that the figure’s specialty was displayed on the tab rather than the code name. ![]() Wait a minute, isn’t the code name Cobra? Not according to the file card. I’ve covered the weird and the wild over the last year and a half, but somehow this guy hadn’t fallen under my gaze till now. Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides as follows: he fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.Well, here it is folks, the original Cobra trooper. G.I.JOE: A Real American Hero, its associated logos, COBRA, all character, group, and vehicle names and their respective likenesses are registered trademarks of Hasbro, Inc. Copyrighted works that are part of this web site are being used under the "fair use" doctrine. This site is not sponsored or endorsed by Hasbro, Inc. They took a lot of work to make and this web site deserves the traffic as a result. Please do not steal and redistribute these assets on your site. All 3D photos, traditional photos, scans, videos, audio recordings, and commentary are ©2012–2023 3DJoes / Locomotion Media Group, LLC. ![]()
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