What a difference some color makes… the initial Rise of Cobra version of Cobra Commander got universal disdain (though personally I thought it was a pretty cool, revolutionary new design) got this new, mail order version is getting pretty wide praise. And honestly, it freaking deserves it. Regardless of how much it does or doesn’t resemble Cobra Commander, that is one bad ass looking figure. The vac metallized mask, the chrome red torso…the staff, weapons, and nasty looking miniature HISS sentry? Hot damn that’s a cool looking figure.
It takes a lot to make me like Cobra Commander…there’s been so much ridiculous redundancy with this character over the past several years, seeing something new and cool is a very good thing in my book. Check out the mirrored images below. Holy crap it’s awesome. How cool will it look alongside the Crimson Neo-Vipers? The packaging is sick, too…
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Images courtesy of Zoltron from HissTank.com.
If you ask me, the design for Cobra Commander works much better as a toy than it did in the movie.
I agree that this looks gnarly. Have they mentioned yet exactly how this is going to be redeemed? Pursuit of Cobra proof of purchase?
I dig this one. Love the chrome mask, definitely looks closer to the movie’s highly-reflective silver mask than the transluscent mask with a smidge of silver spraypainted on.
I wonder if beneath the mask, they’ll at the very least fix his skintone to match Rex’s.
You say “It takes a lot to make me like Cobra Commander”
and later on in that same paragraph “Holy crap it’s awesome”
Really?
You talk about redundancy and the chances are that we’re going to see much more of this sculpt as the line progresses in many, many different color schemes.
He sucks IMO
Whew, that’s awesome! Love the chrome mask. I’m almost considering getting two, to keep one in the pack for the first time ever. That’s just one good looking package! I can’t believe they keep making me look forward to the next versions of characters that we have a million of. This one is very slick!
Oooh! so he does have a chrome head and wears red and black? You know who else wears these colors? Destro, and he doesn’t have a goat-face. Man, gijoe is dead.