I have three of these. Its my biggest troop build in my Classified collection so far. I keep one with the black head, he is the squad leader. I got him with Stalkers scarf and baret. His arm band is on the left arm. The other two I have with the white head/red mouth. Arm band on the right arm; they are "the grunts." I have the green snake eye googles on all of them, no helmets. They are armed with an Apex Legends rifle. I cant remember the Apex Legends figure (a purple fat guy) but they had him at Ross for 2.99 and I LOVED that rifle he had; so I bought three. The rifle is very District 9 imo. Very stylistic. I dont have the yellow bodied one yet. I love this trooper👍
Cobra had weird or confusing rank system. The original trooper and officer looked the same except for the upside triangle on the officer's hood. The named characters were in the upper rank structure. Except Major Bludd whose rank was from the Australian SAS. I'd prefer the paper ties for the windowless boxes. I noticed Helix's leg was bent slightly outward that I think was the plastic tie sitting on the joint. I figured out how to removes the ties without cutting them. That's neat, there is a head with a original scarf and another with breather type mask.
The confusion concerning the Python Patrol trooper and officer has been going on since the inception of the Python Patrol sub-team. What happened was the P.P. Officer and the P.P. Trooper were misnamed. The P.P. Officer was clearly reuse of the COBRA Trooper and vice versa. Fast forward to last year's S.D.C.C. to what was supposed to be the digital reveal of the Python Patrol Trooper they still haven't fixed the error and Lenny said that they would, however when they showed the figure and the packaging he was still named the Python Patrol Officer and it was too late to fix it. I'm assuming that we'll get a retro carded COBRA trooper and then hopefully when they reissue him in the P.P. they'll finally get his designation right.
Yeah, it's weird, huh? Original PP flipped which character was the officer and which was the trooper (despite the officer triangle still on 'trooper's' helmet), and I thought they were fixing that mistake by calling the Classified PP Officer an "officer" (as he's a repainted Cobra Officer), but then this new one is ALSO a repainted Cobra Officer (which I prefer instead of the Classified trooper's bulky vest), but probably forgot to rename him at SDCC and then again when they got back to Hasbro HQ, haha.
This release confuses me as well. Hasbro is re-creating the mistake they made in the vintage line where they swapped the Officer and the Trooper by name. They've done the same here, but then threw in that extra head; why? My thought is, they want to give you the choice of having the more vintage look vs having the Classified look. Again, they've chosen to swap names. The "Trooper" has the Officer helmet, as well as the boots and the web-gear and accessories. This "Officer" has the regular trooper helmet, but has the officer boots, gloves, web-gear and the same accessories. So, the extra head is to give this "Officer" a more Classified Trooper look. What bugs the hell out of me is that Hasbro has refused to use the Officer chest piece. What really messes up what they've done here is that none of the figures have the Trooper boots and none of the figures have the Officer chest, with the rank on it. It's actually aggravating to me, but oh well. I bought'em anyway. :)
My lone Python Patrol fig back in the day. Just sitting in Pulse to ship. Yes one was a Trooper and another was an officer. I have two of this new one coming and did not know had two heads coming with it. Kinda wish could mix it up on the skin tons
How man Sub-team of Cobra is there. Crimson Viper, Python Patrol, I had no clue they had sub-groups. Where are the Purple Gecko? Great review as always!
I have three of these. Its my biggest troop build in my Classified collection so far. I keep one with the black head, he is the squad leader. I got him with Stalkers scarf and baret. His arm band is on the left arm. The other two I have with the white head/red mouth. Arm band on the right arm; they are "the grunts." I have the green snake eye googles on all of them, no helmets. They are armed with an Apex Legends rifle. I cant remember the Apex Legends figure (a purple fat guy) but they had him at Ross for 2.99 and I LOVED that rifle he had; so I bought three. The rifle is very District 9 imo. Very stylistic. I dont have the yellow bodied one yet. I love this trooper👍
Cobra had weird or confusing rank system. The original trooper and officer looked the same except for the upside triangle on the officer's hood. The named characters were in the upper rank structure. Except Major Bludd whose rank was from the Australian SAS.
I'd prefer the paper ties for the windowless boxes. I noticed Helix's leg was bent slightly outward that I think was the plastic tie sitting on the joint. I figured out how to removes the ties without cutting them.
That's neat, there is a head with a original scarf and another with breather type mask.
The confusion concerning the Python Patrol trooper and officer has been going on since the inception of the Python Patrol sub-team.
What happened was the P.P. Officer and the P.P. Trooper were misnamed. The P.P. Officer was clearly reuse of the COBRA Trooper and vice versa.
Fast forward to last year's S.D.C.C. to what was supposed to be the digital reveal of the Python Patrol Trooper they still haven't fixed the error and Lenny said that they would, however when they showed the figure and the packaging he was still named the Python Patrol Officer and it was too late to fix it.
I'm assuming that we'll get a retro carded COBRA trooper and then hopefully when they reissue him in the P.P. they'll finally get his designation right.
Ah I must have missed that. Thanks!!
Yeah, it's weird, huh? Original PP flipped which character was the officer and which was the trooper (despite the officer triangle still on 'trooper's' helmet), and I thought they were fixing that mistake by calling the Classified PP Officer an "officer" (as he's a repainted Cobra Officer), but then this new one is ALSO a repainted Cobra Officer (which I prefer instead of the Classified trooper's bulky vest), but probably forgot to rename him at SDCC and then again when they got back to Hasbro HQ, haha.
This release confuses me as well. Hasbro is re-creating the mistake they made in the vintage line where they swapped the Officer and the Trooper by name. They've done the same here, but then threw in that extra head; why? My thought is, they want to give you the choice of having the more vintage look vs having the Classified look. Again, they've chosen to swap names. The "Trooper" has the Officer helmet, as well as the boots and the web-gear and accessories. This "Officer" has the regular trooper helmet, but has the officer boots, gloves, web-gear and the same accessories. So, the extra head is to give this "Officer" a more Classified Trooper look. What bugs the hell out of me is that Hasbro has refused to use the Officer chest piece. What really messes up what they've done here is that none of the figures have the Trooper boots and none of the figures have the Officer chest, with the rank on it. It's actually aggravating to me, but oh well. I bought'em anyway. :)
Yeah I saw a pic of the 3.75 set and Inwas even more confused 😂
My lone Python Patrol fig back in the day. Just sitting in Pulse to ship.
Yes one was a Trooper and another was an officer.
I have two of this new one coming and did not know had two heads coming with it. Kinda wish could mix it up on the skin tons
This figure is awesome.will troop build these
Gonna give mine a kriss vector from a different company and get rid of the AK
Give us the stands hasbro!!
Did u try the new head on the older green fig to see what it looks like
No but good idea..
How man Sub-team of Cobra is there. Crimson Viper, Python Patrol, I had no clue they had sub-groups. Where are the Purple Gecko? Great review as always!
Thanks. Tons of battle force 2000. Eco warriors. The space brigade etc
New version is better