It’s becoming almost a daily occurrence, and ACToys.com comes through again. This time around, we’ve got some very cool pictures of the upcoming Dr. Mindbender and Strato-Viper, errr… “Air-Viper”, both from the Defense of COBRA Island 7-Pack. The more pictures I see of these items, the more fired up I get…these are some damn cool looking figures. Considering there is a lot of existing tooling being used, I can’t help but really smile at the mileage Hasbro’s getting out of it, and at the same time, be a bit melancholy that we’re not still going full steam ahead with non-movie product.
Don’t get me wrong, though, the movie stuff is looking pretty freaking sweet as well, but there’s something to be said for a bare-chested ex-dentist who now specializes in mind control. And fans are bitching about the MOVIE’S wayout concepts? Yeeeeeah…. anyway, images are mirrored below.
Lol.
‘Think warm thoughts, soldier….’
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The original Toy Fair shots of Mindbender had him with different legs, didn’t they?
The CG legs are a touch lither than I would have preferred.
I love the Mindbender figure. I would love a 25th rendition of the Lab coat Mindbender, but this guy looks nice. He is probably the only guy I’m really looking forward to from the cobra set.
I like how the ” Air-Viper” (new name must mean it’s not a repaint/hash of the same figure but a completely new Cobra unit, insert eye roll here) looks like he is running away from a shirtless guy “parading” around Cobra HQ with some large unknown instrument. 😀
-Anonymous