Cobra Trooper Photo/Discussion Thread

[Darth Cruel]

Gohastings trooper?

I wish. I didn't get on that order until WAAYYY too late. I odered 10.

gohastings just laughed at me.

But I got a small discount, I guess. If I remember correctly (I have been picking up a lot of the Joes and Star Wars stuff I had to cancel last year), I think he was 90.00 shipped.

Could have been worse.

Edit - And I am seriously thinking about that 60.00 Cobra Officer.

 

[FLOSI]

Get it!! $60.00 is a steal.

 

[Darth Cruel]

Get it!! $60.00 is a steal.

You talked me in to it.

 

[FLOSI]

I like mine every bit as much as the trooper. (not that there's a hell of a lot of difference.)

 

[Darth Cruel]

OK. Listen up! My name is Ralph 23. I am a Cobra Trooper. I have been a Cobra Trooper for over 35 years. And for 35 years I have been fuming over the portrayal of Cobra Troopers in the GI Joe Stories. We are portrayed as halfwits who couldn’t kill a Joe to save our lives. The comics and cartoons have given us the pathetic job of being the idiots that the Joes fool to get to the real prizes of the Cobra organization! And I have had enough! I demand some action be taken to improve the image of the Cobra Trooper and we can start with these ridiculous weapons!

I mean, seriously, what self-respecting, ground-pounding, ass-kicking, name-taking battle monger would use a weapon like this for anything but sniping. Get real! You can’t lay down a serious barrage of fire with a Semi-Auto and a 10-round clip.

And just how in the hell are you supposed to fix a bayonet and personally extend a welcome to a Joe with this thing!

Fix it! Damn it!

Oh! Someone IS listening! Well, in that case, let’s not stop there! Now I want to address this uniform! Who in the hell wears BLUE to combat? BLUE!?!?!?! Are you kidding me? No freakin’ wonder the Joes nail us with a single shot! We stand out like a sore thumb and have a big red bullseye disguised as a Cobra Logo on our chests! You think I’m not seeing what you’re doing there? Sure! Hide near one of the neon bullseyes we have walking around to draw Joe fire! Cobra Command can’t lose, can they? Fix that too!

 

[Darth Cruel]

Hells to the yeah.

Now Ima go kill a Joe.

 

[Buttmunch]

Except he still has a big silver target on his chest!

 

[EVILFACE]

. . . . . . .

 

[Darth Cruel]

Except he still has a big silver target on his chest!

And now he also has a big silver arrow on his helmet pointing to it.

Joke's on him.

 

[King Darkness]

I want what Darth Cruel is smoking

 

[thenammagazine]

I want what Darth Cruel is smoking

I'll pass. Look what it did to him.

 

[karamazov80]

Good stuff, Cruel

I'm still not feeling that Sniper at all, though.

 

[Darth Cruel]

I knew my rendition of the Cobra Trooper would not be very popular with some. So I tried to at least make showing it off a little entertaining.

 

[ProgMatinee]

I will like the sniper...when its $26 a pop.

 

[Darth Cruel]

I will like the sniper...when its $26 a pop.

If he gets clearanced like that...I'll be lovin a bunch more of them myself so that I can convert some more Troopers.

 

[karamazov80]

Is the extent of the conversion just the head and gun swap?

 

[Darth Cruel]

Is the extent of the conversion just the head and gun swap?

And the web gear to go with the gun. Effectively what is there is the Trooper with the Sniper's Uniform and helmet.

 

[Primus]

Really well done figure!

 

[ProgMatinee]

wonder what you get bleaching the black suit? probably a brown or red I would guess.

 

[thenammagazine]

wonder what you get bleaching the black suit? probably a brown or red I would guess.

Orangy yellow.