Personally, if these were done in the original 3 3/4" line, I'd be all over these figures............I love how the colors 'pop'

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I have to agree, that stormshadow and cobra commander are pathetic. At least the stinger driver makes SENSE ,yet he will never fit in a stinger . That cobra jump jet is interesting though.

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Cobra Commander looks at least good - as for me. Storm Shadow has a small problem with Cobra on his face mask (that supposed to be a Cobra logo? ok, nvmd...), Grunts look... well... like bigger 3 3/4 figures - but I was always damn curious WHY on Earth they're equipped with Dragunov-like sniper rifles??? Have you seen any grunt running around and assaulting anything with a sniper rifle? Hasbro is weird.
And the jet pack trooper looks... I dunno - as for me more like for a Sgt Savage line...

Again - disappointing

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I'm not a fan of the Cobra Commander and Storm Shadow by any means. But I like the other three, especially since the trooper and air trooper are in comic book colors. I'll probably wind up picking this up if for no other reason than to add to my 25th Cobra forces.

Maybe I can do a head swap with a carded officer to make a comic book Cobra Officer...

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If Storm Shadow was teal like the Ninja Viper, I'd be all over the set. But now, the only one I really like is the Stinger Driver, and somewhat the Jet Pack Trooper. I would like more red symbol Troopers, but I'm not gonna sweat it if I have to get extra Commanders and Storm Shadows.

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It's been noted that Hasbro wants to push the Cobra Trooper mold as far as they can. Gotta make back some of that cash spent on doing all this. I'm not excited for the pack myself, but I'll still get it. These were released at the SanDiegoCon...

I like the Storm Shadow even if it is overkill.

Cobra Commander, bleh.

I'd rather see the Trooper w/ a black mask as a re-release to get him out to the kids and fans as opposed to scalpers.

Jump pack... Uhmmmmmm... Ok.

Stinger Driver. That mean a Stinger is in the works?

Two five-packs and one series of single-carded figures and they're already scraping the bottom of the barrel for repaint ideas.

Comic book Trooper: Why? And why so soon?

Jet Pack Trooper: Uhm... I can't understand the reasoning behind this. Were the CP gas mask troopers really THAT popular?

Stinger Driver: Useless without a Stinger.

Storm Shadow: The epitome of barrel bottom-scraping.

Cobra Commander: Not all that bad looking, but a third repaint so soon? That's pushing it...

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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?