Must be, they played a huge role in the comic book (for one panel in one issue out of 155 issues). And I still see them at Toy R Us...(and I still buy them ).

The San Diego comic con showed a cobra officer helmet with the Jet Pack trooper, which implied that the gas mask helmet combo is removable, and then you could just make a comic book Cobra Officer. But I'm not sure Hasbro confirmed that.

The Storm Shadow repaint seems really lame because the Cobra on his mask and dragons on his legs are not detailed applications at all. (You can still find VvsV Storm Shadow at a Family Dollar near where I work!)

Really, if they insisted on including the Storm Shadow mold, they should've made it a Ninja Trooper/Viper or a black dragon ninja.

I sort of like the C.C., except the hand portion of the gaunlets being silver is stupid, just like when they made Imperial Procession Cobra Commander's lower arms all black. It looks bad.

But again, the big drawbacks to the set are 2 out of 5 figures are characters, making it a bad value for an army builder pack. $25 to $30 for 3 troopers, maybe four if you can stomach using Storm Shadow as one. Plus, the hip joints again . That Stinger driver can't even operate the vintage vehicle or hardly any vehicles. At best he can operate a motorcycle.

And I gotta say, all the Cobra trooper/officer variants and repaints in the past few years...they wait for a new format to give us a Stinger driver?