Hasbro G.I. JOE Classified Series Retro Cardback Cobra Commander Figure
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00:00How can he possibly take over the world when he can't even get out of this plastic plastic bubble?
00:04Here's a look at the Hasbro GI Joe classics the Cobra leader Cobra commander
00:08This fanatical leader rules with an iron fist he demands total loyalty and allegiance his
00:31main battle plan for world control relies on revolution and chaos much like his plans
00:37the snakes look is stuck in 1983 just before of course we get a close look the Hasbro GI Joe
00:42classics the snake leader Cobra commander the tape measure is going to tell us that he stands at six
00:47inches in height or the deer Cobra commander stands at 15 centimeters tall have we looked
00:52at GI Joe retro card back figures before are you new here of course we have looked at recently in
00:57fact we both looked at duke and we also looked at scarlet i know i'm stuck in the 80s by saying
01:02this but one thing i do really like about the retro card back figures is that they look like
01:05their vintage toy counterparts also really no different than the also super 7 release of cobra
01:10commander much bigger much obviously a little bit more lighter colors and closer to the cartoon
01:15but very much similar to the retro card back release that we're getting here from Hasbro
01:18as for cc's accessories the figure first does come clear with display stand i will say it does
01:23answer one question i had was it going to be different from the duke and the scarlet
01:26joes have at least you can see the little shooting star display stand cobras while they have the same
01:31size and same placement of pegs does have a cobra symbol in the middle of that so that's nice
01:36the stands themselves actually look like the cobra ones are a little bit shinier is it my
01:39own eyes playing tricks on me or perhaps it does look like more of a matte plastic gets afforded
01:45the joes the more shinier plastic cobra spends all the extra frills gets the shinier looking
01:50display stands you can see that there are some placement of pegs two of them in fact they can
01:55plug into the under boots of cobra commander we'll get back to that in a second the figure also comes
01:59with some swappable hands right now you may already notice that the figure does have a gripping
02:03hand over here he has a trigger firing finger hand over here so he's already good for holding the
02:08following accessories but if you didn't want to have close fists instead copra is not one that
02:12really gets down at punching joes but i suppose if you want to have close fists you can do that
02:16as well it's just simply a case of popping off the hands that he has on the ends of his forearms
02:21and swap them out with these hands instead the figure also does come in clue with a pointing
02:25hand he's always good for giving instructions go over here he says go clean the washroom cobra
02:30commanders made a mess good for pointing and instructing his fellow minions of course the
02:35figure also does come in clue with this hand a world conquering hand i don't know it doesn't
02:40really have a purpose necessarily other than if you just want to have the figure looking like he's
02:44just like he's power hungry that's not probably the best gesture he's power hungry this is a good
02:50hand for that and then of course the figure does come also include with a couple of weapons
02:54now the original vintage toy had a weapon like this it looks like the varentee disruptor from
02:58the classic star trek next generation episode i can't remember the name's guy's name now
03:05vagio was accused vagio he had the varentee disruptor he had like two of them cobra
03:10cobra commander had a vintage toy gun like this as well the only thing that the original toy didn't
03:14have though was it didn't have this little symbol up the top corner a little nice added touch to
03:18detail if you are familiar with the one from 1983 cobra commander actually had on the back of his
03:23body a little indentation and you could actually take the gun and just wedge it in there didn't
03:29really conceal anything because it obviously was a different color from his torso so i mean
03:34you sure would be walking by not telling anybody that he has any weapons on him until you look at
03:37the back of his body and you're like wait a minute are you packing heat on the back of your body
03:42cobra commander does have that now although he has it as a separate backpack so if you want to
03:46replicate the look that he had from the original vintage toy then he has a backpack that looks
03:50pretty close to that so nice silver accents been added there as well there's a little cobra symbol
03:54there too you can take then the gun and the gun just plugs onto the back you kind of when you
03:58want when you're looking at it you know you want to make sure you got a face in the right way
04:02and then you'll just take this peg that's on the back of course located on the back of his body as
04:06a whole simple shapes guys you can put them together just plug the two together and you can
04:10see now he's got himself a little storage space on the back it obviously jets out a lot more than
04:15the original toy but at least it does kind of give you the look that the retro toy would have had
04:19i like that uh the figure also by the way as well like i said does have also a knife now the knife
04:26is a fairly soft plastic luckily it wasn't warped and bent out of shape when it took out the
04:30plastic prison you can take the knife you can fit into his hands fits okay using this hand i mean
04:35obviously it would fit okay using the other hand as well but let's just say you're somebody that
04:39doesn't like to have cobra commander with knives guns better for you okay you can also take as
04:43well the little holster on the side of his leg you can sheath the knife you don't have to make
04:48the noise when you're doing that of course if you want to take the gun as well using of course the
04:52trigger finger hand you can go ahead and just the plastic for the fingers are soft enough at least
04:57that's easy to get the pistol in there easy i say easy i say then we could go ahead just plug that
05:02into his hands i will say though getting him out of the packaging his elbows are extremely tight
05:08not a bad thing at all i would rather of course have tighter joints that overlay loose joints but
05:13cobra commander does have that hand let's go ahead and also swap this hand out with the
05:19power hungry hand just plug that in place it's wiggling in place and yeah that's you know again
05:25it doesn't really have a purpose for at least holding accessories but it does have certainly
05:29a purpose for cobra commander to want world domination that being said let's go ahead and
05:35remove the gun for right now maybe what we'll also do too is we'll just remove the backpack
05:40and get in closer look at cobra commander's face the one thing though about his face is that they
05:44opted for using like the vac chrome finish it's a departure obviously from the original toy it
05:49certainly is a departure from the one we got from super seven super seven went with more of a matte
05:53silver finish initially i was thinking you know i would have preferred if they had gone with more of
05:59a matte silver instead this shinier mirror finish i find don't doesn't work as well necessarily for
06:04cobra commander but you know the more i look at it the more i think i'm warming up to the idea that
06:09chrome dome literally has a chrome dome yes it would have been nice i think if they'd use more
06:14of a matte finish but you know all things said i actually do think that the mirror finish looks a
06:18little bit better on cobra commander one thing i also really like too is that when i chose the
06:22coloring of his neck cobra commanders tend to do this super seven tends to do this as well they
06:27gave him a silver neck very much like the cartoon instead hasbro what they ended up doing was they
06:33gave him a blue neck i like this myself it matches of course the color that he has for the majority
06:38of his body it breaks up nicely and it doesn't look too close of a color to his head i think it's
06:43a nicer choice than just first of all obviously using the lighter blue for his collar because
06:47that would take away from his collar you can't really use gray because first of all that the
06:51head isn't a shiny it's a shiny finish it's not a matte gray so i don't think it would have worked
06:55as well i think the blue is a better choice honestly that's the cobra symbol they're featured
06:59on the front it's just a double breasted uniform as you can see there's some buttons down the side
07:04the cobra symbol gets a little bit lost just because it's so dark it's still there though and
07:09it's well printed it's probably tempographed on there the color is nicely done there as well like
07:13he had in the original cartoon and the toy line a silver belt there down below he's got the cobra
07:18symbol there oh sorry that's not a corpus i'm a little triangular symbol there featured on the
07:22front some pockets there on the side i don't know necessarily what he's storing in there
07:25gum perhaps cover commander does like his hubba bubba he's got some nice panel striping down
07:30below here the actual harness though or at least the part that holds the holster is actually a
07:36looser plastic i was kind of expecting this really to be molded onto his leg and then they would have
07:40just glued the holster in place but it's nice to see that this is a separate piece i'm sure that's
07:45probably so that they can use some more mileage out of this particular leg mold it's a lot easier
07:50just to mold this as a separate piece and then wrap it around the figure's leg it's a nice stripe
07:54striping down the side of his leg as well uh this does not feel like i'm just running my finger
07:58across it it is molded at least separately but it doesn't have a very high lift to it i can kind of
08:04feel my finger running along it and there's a little bit of an edge but at least it's not painted
08:08in place like it's not just a case like they someone with a careful eye and a steady hand
08:13just ran the paintbrush down the side of his leg if you feel it there is a bit of an edge to it
08:19so they've nicely done that i don't know if necessarily it works as well down below here
08:23for his feet just because again let's it's a different darker blue and it's a different
08:26darker red they've done their best to try to match the colors they're not the closest but i
08:30guess that gets the job done belaying back to cobra commander's head sculpt here i'm running
08:35through the figure's articulation the head is first on a ball joint so it allows the head to
08:38rotate all the way around the head can look down and can look up you can also move it back and
08:43forth as well you may also see this too at the base of his collar that there's actually a secondary
08:48ball joint there too so the figure in fact does have one here and he has one right here as well
08:53so he gets himself to the arms rotate all the way around little on the tighter side for mine at
08:58least you can also as well he's got the shoulder crunch so you can bring the arms forward you can
09:02also arch them back the figure does also have a means to bring the arms past the point of 90 degrees
09:07you can also rotate at the bicep a double hinge which is really tight on this figure i probably
09:12will have to go and heat that up a little bit but he's got a double hinge so there's a hinge and a
09:16hinge and connecting in the middle is a tiny little elbow bridge look at the little people
09:20crossing the elbow bridge stop that the figure does have a swivel there in his is a elbow or i
09:26should say in his glove the hands rotate also all the way around hinging back and forth there as
09:30well upper torso crunch a rotation in the waist legs split out you can bring the legs forward and
09:37back uh being the fact that his leg now one thing also you want to make sure i just mentioned this
09:41earlier the fact that the holster is on a separate piece if you do inadvertently when you're moving
09:47his legs back and forth and out sometimes you'll kind of find yourself catching the straps
09:51and you slide them down his leg and when it gets to a point like this they become overly loose i
09:55suppose if you wanted to take this opportunity you could remove the holster altogether but you
10:00might find yourself maybe doing this a couple of times shimmy shimmy shimmy all the way up back
10:04up the figures legs uh it does have a little bit of swivel at the top of the thigh the figure does
10:08also have a double hinge on the knee very tight there then he also also has the ankle articulation
10:13up and down back and forth figure doesn't have any toe articulation i don't think he necessarily
10:18needs toe articulation i think if you're going to sacrifice anything on figures pose ability
10:22ankles are one i think can be done without or toe articulation can be one done without don't
10:26do don't go without the ankle articulation whatever you do all in all though nice looking
10:30corporate commander the things that i thought i would be bothered by aren't the things that i'm
10:34ultimately bothered by the figures chrome dome i thought was kind of the thing when i first took
10:38him out of the packaging well when i was first removing him from the shipping box where i ordered
10:42this guy from i thought i looked at it and thought hmm not sure i like the vac chrome finish for his
10:47helmet but now though comparing it along with super seven he isn't necessarily supposed to be
10:51his cartoon version of corporate commander even though he has very similar costumes he's supposed
10:55to look like the original 80s toy because of that he doesn't have any additional accessories i mean
10:59he has a knife and he also has himself the blaster i believe the original toy only really would have
11:03had the blaster and of course he's got some swappable hands so like a royal scepter a big
11:08globe that he can hold in his hand aren't the things that will apply when it comes to corporate
11:11commander he has basically the things that the original toy would have had of course bringing
11:15back in duke bringing of course also in scarlet i like this line quite a lot corporate command
11:20is fairly affordable too i think when i ordered him online he was 25 to 26 dollars that was i
11:26think in also u.s dollars and i think when it was all said and done with the exchange the shipping
11:30blah blah blah blah blah i think i probably paid about 35 to 36 dollars not a bad not a bad price
11:36for a corporate commander that looks this good what i do really like about cobra commander here
11:39is that he's a fusion between the cartoon and the original toy for those that want this to look
11:44exactly like the toy the little white stripe that he has on the top of his helmet for example need
11:48not apply it wouldn't have even been there on the original one and also his collar would have been
11:52black instead of the blue that we get here he has at least enough of the nods of the original toy
11:57like the little holster that he has on the back of his body instead of actually embedding that
12:02into the actual uniform they were smart i think instead to give it as an extra backpack so if you
12:07didn't like the look and you wanted just a little more of a cleaner suit you can just leave it off
12:11all together instead if you want to it's probably one of the reasons too because like the original
12:15vintage toy he wouldn't have had a whole lot of extra accessories if anything a gun and a file
12:19card he gets the file card at least and now it gets that same carried over retro gun the gun
12:24doesn't have a place to store if you don't have the backpack with him he doesn't have a side leg
12:29holster i guess they probably could have given him a holster but i don't think he necessarily
12:33needs it either if you're probably going to have cobra commander you're likely i'm guessing to have
12:37the figure displayed with the gun in his hand the knife is also one thing it's removable the leg
12:42holster though if you're not careful when you start to move his leg around as you saw in this review
12:46the straps only being forced there by friction tend to slide down his leg when you start moving
12:52them so you may want to just leave them in place all in all though the cobra commander doesn't have
12:56much in the way of accessories the warranty disruptor it's not really that the knife
13:00a couple swappable hands and of course the display stand shinier display stand this time around too
13:04different from the ones we got from gi joe yeah pretty happy with how this one turned out could
13:08have used more accessories perhaps sure but again i think he keeping it trim and a little lighter on
13:14cobra commander was i think the better choice to have gone with they probably down the road
13:18release a deluxe version of cobra commander utilizing perhaps the same mold that if you
13:22don't like the vac chrome finish that he has for his chrome dome maybe that a later release will
13:27still use the same mold with a matte silver instead what do you guys think this figure let
13:31me know down below in the comment section perhaps as well i can ask this to you the viewing audience
13:35would you have preferred if cobra commander have had a mirror finish like we get in this release
13:38or would you have preferred if hasbro had instead made it a silver finish or more of a matte silver
13:44paint finish instead which which way of cobra would you preferred instead let me know if you
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