That definitely makes sense! I actually like Croc Master a lot. He was a contender for my Top 10 list. If it had been a Top 15 list, he probably would have been on there!
I happily have 10 out of your top 10. I have a vague, twinkling memory of the night that I found a Storm Shadow version 1 at a Bradlees. That action figure changed play for me. A Magical night.
Copperhead was Bad Ass.. All my fav figures were the special ones .. Zartan, Serpentor, Tomax and Xamot, , slaughter, gold helmet Destro, battle suit cobra commander, Cobra Las golobulos
I have cobra commander with a hood. I can remember cutting out the offer for the cobra commander w/hood from the cardboard back of another GI Joe figure. I was in 4th grade, filled out the envelope, put cash (with change) in the envelope and sent in in. Several weeks late he showed up in the mail. My parents didnt even know I had done that. Geez I was 5!
I think the reason ninja popularity continues is because as soon as popular opinion wanes, a new cool ninja comes out in a toy or a movie or a comic book, and everyone gets excited about ninjas again.
Great choices. Zartan, Copperhead were two of my favorites in addition to many of the ones shown in this video. Nice photography of these classic figures. Thanks.
Storm Shadow also passes the Law of "Diminishing Ninjas" test. As a lone ninja, his Ninja Value (NV) is 1. However, because of the Law if he had another ninja as a partner, that ninja would only add half the NV that came before it, or .5 NV. And each added ninja adds only a half of the last added NV. So NV of 2 cannot be reached. This is why a lone ninja is almost as much of a threat as a horde of ninjas.
*0:46* Those Dreadnoks were the only ones that ever mattered. Zartan's daughter was introduced in the comics & became an action figure from what I heard, but that's The Dreadnoks
I read the comics so StormShadow was never a bad guy to me. V2 is my favorite GI Joe figure period. 10. Astro viper 9. Night creeper 8. Cobra commander 7. Cobra Solider 6. Viper 5. Night viper 4. Maj Bludd 3. Zartan 2. baroness 1. Destro
My grandma passed away two years ago this December. When my family was cleaning out the old farmhouse we found a bunch of older fisher price toys in the attic crawlspace. I was checking out the children's hospital and noticed the elevator wouldn't come all the way down to the ground floor. So upon investigation I found a 82-83 mail away hooded Cobra Commander and a 12in Rambo M-16. And I also have and love copperhead and the water moccasin. Great work, really enjoyed . Your list is pretty much the same as mine. Wish I had all the Joe toys me and my Lil brother had.
@@Supreme36074 that's what they tell me....but then when you try to sell them you are lucky if you can find a person to pay a third of what it's worth...mainly bc there are way too manyy people trying to make money off of us actual collectors....if you want something you pay three times it's worth, but want to sell and you get a 3rd of its value.....I quit collecting all my childhood toys and gave away a lot of Fisher price toys bc of this fact....
For me, Storm Shadow and Firefly(I always thought of Firefly as a Ninja from another clan allied to Storm Shadow's clan. With Firefly specialized in sabotage and arson) They both would have been number's 1 and two on my list respectively. Right behind Zartan. Who was my all time favorite action figure to this day. In my adventures Zartan was almost always the most dangerous and best hand to hand fighter. Not even Quick Kick or Storm Shadow(the next two best hand to hand Fighter's)could deal with Zartan's mastery of near every Martial Art that ever existed. This is because Zartan was always an Ancient being who could not die naturally. And could only be killed from certain equally Ancient weapons. This was why Zartan changed colors too camouflage himself, and warp through walls like we see in the cartoon. Because he held Ancient mystical powers learned and honed over the hundreds and thousands of years of his lifetime. Zartan always worked for himself, playing all sides against one another(just like in the cartoon). But in my universe Zartan was never a coward. And feared no one or nothing. Not even when death was about to claim him. His ancient wisdom taught him to never fear death and to welcome it when it came for him. I wish I had bought three of him. I saved lunch money, paper route tips, and lawn cutting money to buy Zartan and two other figures, with an accessory kit as well. His gun looked just like the one Eddie has on the cover of the Somewhere in Time album of Iron Maiden. Oh man did that fuel my imagination. The 80's action figure era was the best there ever will be!
I have all the figures mentioned in this video with the exception of copper head and the cobra eel. Now, I did have copper head and the cobra eel figures back in the day and they are also cool.
Great stories I play with my GI Joes until I couldn't play with them any more and more or less because I got too old or because it would just seem silly but I played with them all the way up until High School just be quiet and I had a Storm Shadow which I did wipe because he beat up a gorilla and one of the cartoons and I froze him in ice for awhile don't ask me why
Although I had stopped really 'playing' with them, I still bought GI Joe figures even after I had my driver's license. The first place I drove was to get GI Joes. :)
I love lists like this. Mine 1. Stormshadow 2. B.A.T.S 3. Crimson Guard 4. Both Cobra commanders 5. Zartan 6. Crimson twins 7. Cobra officer 8. Firefly 9. Serpentor 10 Destro Most of my favorites were cobra. I always thought they looked better. Other than Snake Eyes
A pretty good list bud, I agree with a lot of your choices here, though personally I would have taken Wild Weasel over Copperhead. I loved The Rattler as pretty much the coolest of all the jets in the entire line and Wild Weasel was such a bad ass and a cool looking figure. XD
Cool video. I loved Firefly and Storm Shadow. I honestly liked most all of the figures that came out up until around 1990, then I lost interest. I also had the Water Moccasin and for whatever reason, I had Copperhead and CrocMaster as fighting buddies. Now, all of these years later, my boys like the old action figures. If they still made the 3.75 inch figures today, I’m convinced they couldn’t produce them fast enough.
I have a nice collection , my sons finds them cool . I’m older now so I collect them as a hobby & it’s still feels cool. Would love to tap into that old imagination that allowed me play with them 😂😂😂
my Top 10 (in no particular order) : Stinger driver, Copperhead, Stormshadow, Viper pilot, Raptor, Serpentor, Dr. Mindbender, Crimson guard, Big Boa and Croc Master
Storm Shadow was definitely the best...but many other cool ones were forgotten from this list: Zartan Destro (Both chrome and gold) Major Bludd The "Twins" Cobra Commander with battle armor
Well he does limit himself to 10, and mentions that he didn't include the Dreadnoks because he thinks of them as another faction. Zartan being their leader would exclude them. Same could be said of Destro too.
I actually never liked Tomax and Xamot. Zartan, I count as a Dreadnok and I didn't include them on this list, but Destro was close to being on here! There were so many that a limit of 10 is tough!
Awesome Top 10 cobra action figure list and totally agree with your ranking. By 1986, I also started to loose interest in playing with gi joe, as I grew older. But, I still have my original 1986 cobra viper with all his gear and card back. Keep up the great work and excellent toy photography bringing these beloved characters to life. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much, Mario! Most of the figures from this video (including the Viper) were the exact figures I had as a kid. I think only the Crimson Guard was a replacement. That one was a recent gift from a friend!
it's just like hooded Jason Vorhees was scarier than hockey-masked Jason Vorhees seriously though that Cobra Eel would have been cool - never had it but I did have Firefly and Stormshadow, the former of which I believe to be the superior figure
Remember those dioramas in the catalogs in the 80's? They had Baroness, Firefly, and Scrap Iron in a photo one time. I bought all three figures because they looked cool.
I’m the same , my interest started waning around 86 still like a few 87 figures but by then I was in 7th grade so let it go for girls lol. But today, I’m now a collector & have rebought alot of these guys. Especially the main character guys. Once I get more space I’ll add the headquarters, Flagg etc … it’s a hobby for me these days as I approach 50 these next couple years .
Around that age, I started to really notice girls, but I was just too clueless about how to act around them. They would come over to my house and hit on me and I'd offer to let them play my Nintendo. 😣
@@WeHadThat lol… girls definitely made a difference, I think that was a big part of it as well. I bought a couple 88 figures I liked. The last vehicle I bought until I started collecting was the Night Raven. Didn’t help we had moved so I was playing with the thing by myself lol.
@@MrAvenger1975 yes, exactly the same. I had already stretched my imagination with Serpentor & Cobra La… once they started getting goofy with the colors. Making missiles orange I kinda went hard into Nintendo as that was just blowing up as you know.
Cobra commander armed with a hair dryer 😆, did you notice that cobra are based on Soviet troops while here in the UK the red shadow were based on the Nazis . As.for the skull shaped tie fighter ... Rip off ...lol ☢️☣️🇬🇧
My favourite Cobras have always been the Crimson Guard. The name, the uniform, the eliteness of them... They barely even seemed like a part of Cobra. Every other Cobra unit was named after some kind of vermin, but when s**t got real, it was time to call in the CRIMSON GUARD. It's too bad that Classified devolved into just straight remakes of the originals, because it would have been nice to see Tomax and Xamot with a less ridiculous, actually Crimson Guardesque uniform :)
Major Bludd and Destro seem to be the two that most people think should be on the list. Destro was close, but even though Major Bludd was a favorite early on, Hasbro just kept releasing so many cool figures that Major Bludd fell off my Top 10 list pretty early on.
Storm Shadow was my first real memory of peg disappointment. Must have gone to TRU every chance I could and did not find him. Once I did, loved all of the ways you could put weapons on his backpack. Still, Firefly will always be my favorite Cobra figure. I like that your reasoning includes how you used them, like the Crimson Guard was almost more character as you only had one. Or Cobra Commander was mostly in the base. As a kid I didn't have multiples, so, my Cobra would die, and then be a different Cobra. Still prefer the Officer, with the silver logo.
There were so many Cobra greats, it's hard to pick a top 5, top 10, or even a top 20! Your list is full of some of my favorite figs as a kid, but Wild Weasel, the BATS, Crimson Twins, Alley Viper, Night Viper, Desert Scorpion and others were also heavy hitters for me. Great list though! Right now, my Water Moc is on display, piloted by Copperhead, of course, with Ninja Viper nestled in the gun turret, Firefly to his left and Storm Shadow on the right.
Nah, he just gave me the figure and I gave him the money...but for a minute there, I was thinking, "I wonder what picture they'll use on the milk carton?"
@@WeHadThat storm shadow probably was going to kidnapp you because of your parents' secret lab. snake eyes probably foiled the plans. sorry I drifted off in to nerd world there. what I meant to say was, cool story related to you getting your figure.
@@camcordernonsense5264 Haha! But yeah, Snake Eyes saved me and he was so fast, I didn't even see it. He was probably beating up the real kidnapper while Hawk was selling me the Storm Shadow figure.
#1 Storm Shadow (v1). #2 Ice Vipers (v1/ Came with the Cobra Wolf). #3 Storm Shadow (v2) #4 Beach Head (v1) I used him as a bad guy in the Cobra Wolf with the Ice Viper. #5 Sludge Viper (v1). I always wanted a Crimson Guard (v1) & Serpentor (v1) but never got them.
Favorite Cobra list. That's tough. All time favorite came late on the list with The Headman and his Bounty Hunters. The Bounty hunters looked awesome and I loved characters that had equipment that attached to them and they had sawed off shotguns. After that it would be Alley Viper BAT Night Viper Night Vulture Firefly Crock Master Tomax & Xamot Snow Serpent with a SNOWBOARD! Roddy Piper
I HAVE TONS of these figures, all the ones u showed and more even the ones that didnt have the swivel arms and all the damn vehicles including the gi joe base and aircraft carrier. yours look like they are in pretty good shape....how many times did you have to replace that rubber band haha BY THE WAY EVERYONE. look up GI Joe LIVE in youtube..there is a 24/7 non stop stream of all the cartoons, IN ORDER.
I'm going to play your rules and put Zartan and Destro in different factions. So in no particular order Storm Shadow, Firefly, Wild Weasel, Eels, Snow Serpents, Crimson Guard, Crimson Guard Immortals, Baroness, Major Bludd, Serpentor and Hooded Cobra Commander. Now I know you're saying to yourselves that guy can't count because that's 11. Well according to the file card. Snow Serpents are Eels. So they both count as one!
Very cool had everyone one of those except the baroness. I never even saw her figure in the store. Storm shadow you could trade him for any other figures in my school. The original cobra troops were ok the vipers were awesome. Big boa the cobra trainer who came with the boxing 🥊 gloves . Great choice I just wouldn’t have put the baroness or the first cobra troops. Firefly and storm shadow were my favorite cobras and big boa. Most people I don’t think know about him he was rare serpentor was great. We might be a few years age difference so it kind of depends on how old you were during the golden years 83-86-87 were the prime years . The optimus prime 😁🇺🇸👍🏼.
the only one I had from the list was the baroness and she always got her but kicked. All the ones you showed were exotic to me. I never knew they existed. I stole all mine from Kmart, put them inside a Freezee Cup and walked out.😁😁.Pretending to drink from, Sorry Kmart.
Major Blood was always my favourite. But probably the most bada** cobra ever was Nemesis Enforcer. I know you purists will say that's not really cobra but still...
Snake eyes and storm shadow were my favorite Gi joe action figures. Like you I had a hard time getting storm shadow and I don't remember ever getting the first storm shadow action figure I think the one I got looked totally different...I'm going to look for the one I had...it's been a very long time since I thought about how exciting it was playing with my cousin and our Joe's...in the summer time we would stay up all night having the best times of our lives .....too bad those days are lone gone...
Cobra Bat was very underated. For me, I hated The Baroness. The glasses just killed it for me. Never had Firefly as a kid, but indeed a very cool villain. I have one now as an adult, no play time but he looks awesome on my display shelf
excellent list! other than the crimson guard (never had one as a kid) being supplanted with scrap iron, and putting the viper at #1, my list would be identical.
A few weeks ago I picked up my water moccasin and heard a noise inside... I was pleasantly surprised to find cobra commanders gun that must of been in there for almost 40 years.. lol
Man who didn't want firefly and storm shadow ☺️☺️...firefly cause he was out there when it came to causing trouble and storm shadow because of he get down and dirty with his ninja code
Omg, we love the same figures. My favorite is the crimson guard and iron grenadier.. plus I had a similar storm shadow story. But a coworker wanted to show me storm shadows sword in his truck.. no way was I going to look at another man's sword in his truck.
storm shadow, zartan, crimson gaurd, the cobra bats, and the pilot of the jet from the terror dome.. I wanna see he was a crimson but just a bit different man I wish I still had these figures 😞
My neighbor across the street was a bully and took my copperhead, threatened to beat me up if I told anyone. What really irked me was when his mom told my mother how great he was as a student, son etc. And my mom said to me why can't you be more like him!
I kinda like the crazy ones like Croc Master and Big Boa. But that might be because they make good wrestling opponents for Sarge 😎
That definitely makes sense! I actually like Croc Master a lot. He was a contender for my Top 10 list. If it had been a Top 15 list, he probably would have been on there!
I happily have 10 out of your top 10. I have a vague, twinkling memory of the night that I found a Storm Shadow version 1 at a Bradlees. That action figure changed play for me. A Magical night.
Storm Shadow was the coolest when I was a kid!
I lost the Crimson Guard gun the night I got it in the carpet. Haunts me 37 years later.
Ouch, that's terrible! It's such a cool gun too.
I lost Chewbacca's gun on my carpet in 1979 and I still remember frantically looking for it and never finding it.
Everyone wanted the Elite Trooper. The bigger toys stores never had them. But our local Coronet’s had them.
My sister lost my Yoda with the snake . My dad found him 15 years later when he was having his rock garden removed . Very sun bleached
@@stop-the-greed oh my God I completely forgot until just now that I had that too!
Copperhead was Bad Ass.. All my fav figures were the special ones .. Zartan, Serpentor, Tomax and Xamot, , slaughter, gold helmet Destro, battle suit cobra commander, Cobra Las golobulos
I have cobra commander with a hood. I can remember cutting out the offer for the cobra commander w/hood from the cardboard back of another GI Joe figure. I was in 4th grade, filled out the envelope, put cash (with change) in the envelope and sent in in. Several weeks late he showed up in the mail. My parents didnt even know I had done that.
Geez I was 5!
Wow! That's a great memory!
@@WeHadThat still have him
@@cyberpimp29 Awesome!
I love the look of the original Cobra Commander. The silver faceplate gave him a lot of mystery.
Yep!
So sure.
Hooded Cobra Commander was the GOAT Cobra Commander. Helmet/face shield Cobra Commander was #2 in my opinion.
Great list. I love Storm Shadow. He was my favorite as a kid. I also love the Cobra BAT.
The Cobra B.A.T. was one of about 10 figures that I had that disappeared mysteriously at some point. That was a cool figure too!
Bro, Same and Snow Serpents and Firefly and some of the Cobra ninjas from the 90s
@@WeHadThatI had the bat he was one of my favorite next to tomax and xamot i had the fridge mail order figure he mysteriously disappeared
I wanted the water moccasin the moray hydrofoil and the shark
@@jaredharris1970 B.A.T.S. were awesome! Very close to being on this list!
I always liked Major Bludd, something about him made my imagination run wild.
You loved his poetry.
when you're feeling low and woozy
Snap a clip in your Uzi
Assume the proper firing stance
then make the sucker jump and dance.
@@wendellsawyer4386 was that from his bio or did you just make that up? Either way it's awesome.
Exactly!!!when i played major bludd was pretty much the boss 🤣😂
The cobra scuba diver was one of the best looking figures made but a lot of stuff to keep track of
Definitely! I'm lucky to still have all of the gear for my childhood figure!
I think the reason ninja popularity continues is because as soon as popular opinion wanes, a new cool ninja comes out in a toy or a movie or a comic book, and everyone gets excited about ninjas again.
The COBRA uniforms still scare me a little. Cool.😎
Haha! As they should! 😉
Great choices. Zartan, Copperhead were two of my favorites in addition to many of the ones shown in this video. Nice photography of these classic figures. Thanks.
Thank you! I enjoy taking the photos!
BATS,Scrap Iron and Battle Armor Cobra Commander was great...I had them all...
There were just SO MANY awesome GI Joe figures!
Great pick bud!
Destro and Storm Shadow were my Cobra favorites
Storm Shadow also passes the Law of "Diminishing Ninjas" test. As a lone ninja, his Ninja Value (NV) is 1. However, because of the Law if he had another ninja as a partner, that ninja would only add half the NV that came before it, or .5 NV. And each added ninja adds only a half of the last added NV. So NV of 2 cannot be reached.
This is why a lone ninja is almost as much of a threat as a horde of ninjas.
Stories in "The Tick" comic book support this theory!
“The numbers don’t lie. And they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice” - Scott Steiner
Great list. You should do a best Cobra Soldiers list. Keep the main guys out.
That's a good idea! No one with a name, just the army builders!
My friend had Destro, I always thought he was the coolest. Possibly because I just never had one.
That seems to be part of it!
*0:46* Those Dreadnoks were the only ones that ever mattered. Zartan's daughter was introduced in the comics & became an action figure from what I heard, but that's The Dreadnoks
Those were the Dreadnoks to me too!
Awesome video,nostalgia every time I see vintage Gi joes
Thank you! It was a fun video to work on! :)
I read the comics so StormShadow was never a bad guy to me. V2 is my favorite GI Joe figure period.
10. Astro viper
9. Night creeper
8. Cobra commander
7. Cobra Solider
6. Viper
5. Night viper
4. Maj Bludd
3. Zartan
2. baroness
1. Destro
That is also a good list!
Loved Stormshadow. The second version was the best though........
My grandma passed away two years ago this December. When my family was cleaning out the old farmhouse we found a bunch of older fisher price toys in the attic crawlspace. I was checking out the children's hospital and noticed the elevator wouldn't come all the way down to the ground floor. So upon investigation I found a 82-83 mail away hooded Cobra Commander and a 12in Rambo M-16. And I also have and love copperhead and the water moccasin. Great work, really enjoyed . Your list is pretty much the same as mine. Wish I had all the Joe toys me and my Lil brother had.
Things are worth money now & I actually collect both .
@@Supreme36074 that's what they tell me....but then when you try to sell them you are lucky if you can find a person to pay a third of what it's worth...mainly bc there are way too manyy people trying to make money off of us actual collectors....if you want something you pay three times it's worth, but want to sell and you get a 3rd of its value.....I quit collecting all my childhood toys and gave away a lot of Fisher price toys bc of this fact....
Thank you! What a find in the elevator shaft!
Man, I haven't seen that Cobra Eel since I was a youngster. I'm not sure if I had one or buddy brought it to school but his equipment was top flight!
Definitely!
My EELS were always delegated as Moray gunners it seems.
For me,
Storm Shadow and Firefly(I always thought of Firefly as a Ninja from another clan allied to Storm Shadow's clan. With Firefly specialized in sabotage and arson)
They both would have been number's 1 and two on my list respectively. Right behind Zartan. Who was my all time favorite action figure to this day.
In my adventures Zartan was almost always the most dangerous and best hand to hand fighter.
Not even Quick Kick or Storm Shadow(the next two best hand to hand Fighter's)could deal with Zartan's mastery of near every Martial Art that ever existed.
This is because Zartan was always an Ancient being who could not die naturally. And could only be killed from certain equally Ancient weapons.
This was why Zartan changed colors too camouflage himself, and warp through walls like we see in the cartoon.
Because he held Ancient mystical powers learned and honed over the hundreds and thousands of years of his lifetime.
Zartan always worked for himself, playing all sides against one another(just like in the cartoon). But in my universe Zartan was never a coward. And feared no one or nothing.
Not even when death was about to claim him.
His ancient wisdom taught him to never fear death and to welcome it when it came for him.
I wish I had bought three of him.
I saved lunch money, paper route tips, and lawn cutting money to buy Zartan and two other figures, with an accessory kit as well.
His gun looked just like the one Eddie has on the cover of the Somewhere in Time album of Iron Maiden. Oh man did that fuel my imagination.
The 80's action figure era was the best there ever will be!
80s all the way! Zartan was a great one! I didn't include any Dreadnoks on my list because they weren't really Cobra in my mind.
I have all the figures mentioned in this video with the exception of copper head and the cobra eel. Now, I did have copper head and the cobra eel figures back in the day and they are also cool.
Sounds like a great collection!
Great stories I play with my GI Joes until I couldn't play with them any more and more or less because I got too old or because it would just seem silly but I played with them all the way up until High School just be quiet and I had a Storm Shadow which I did wipe because he beat up a gorilla and one of the cartoons and I froze him in ice for awhile don't ask me why
Although I had stopped really 'playing' with them, I still bought GI Joe figures even after I had my driver's license. The first place I drove was to get GI Joes. :)
I love lists like this. Mine
1. Stormshadow
2. B.A.T.S
3. Crimson Guard
4. Both Cobra commanders
5. Zartan
6. Crimson twins
7. Cobra officer
8. Firefly
9. Serpentor
10 Destro
Most of my favorites were cobra. I always thought they looked better. Other than Snake Eyes
Good list!
A pretty good list bud, I agree with a lot of your choices here, though personally I would have taken Wild Weasel over Copperhead. I loved The Rattler as pretty much the coolest of all the jets in the entire line and Wild Weasel was such a bad ass and a cool looking figure. XD
Although I personally wasn't a huge Wild Weasel fan, I can 100% see how he would have made a lot of people's Top 10 Cobras list!
Cool video. I loved Firefly and Storm Shadow. I honestly liked most all of the figures that came out up until around 1990, then I lost interest. I also had the Water Moccasin and for whatever reason, I had Copperhead and CrocMaster as fighting buddies. Now, all of these years later, my boys like the old action figures. If they still made the 3.75 inch figures today, I’m convinced they couldn’t produce them fast enough.
Copperhead and Croc Master would make a great team!
I have a nice collection , my sons finds them cool . I’m older now so I collect them as a hobby & it’s still feels cool. Would love to tap into that old imagination that allowed me play with them 😂😂😂
It's the twins for me, I wish I could buy them now.
They never really caught my attention as a kid.
my Top 10 (in no particular order) : Stinger driver, Copperhead, Stormshadow, Viper pilot, Raptor, Serpentor, Dr. Mindbender, Crimson guard, Big Boa and Croc Master
Nice list!
Storm Shadow was definitely the best...but many other cool ones were forgotten from this list:
Zartan
Destro (Both chrome and gold)
Major Bludd
The "Twins"
Cobra Commander with battle armor
Well he does limit himself to 10, and mentions that he didn't include the Dreadnoks because he thinks of them as another faction. Zartan being their leader would exclude them. Same could be said of Destro too.
I actually never liked Tomax and Xamot. Zartan, I count as a Dreadnok and I didn't include them on this list, but Destro was close to being on here! There were so many that a limit of 10 is tough!
Awesome Top 10 cobra action figure list and totally agree with your ranking. By 1986, I also started to loose interest in playing with gi joe, as I grew older. But, I still have my original 1986 cobra viper with all his gear and card back. Keep up the great work and excellent toy photography bringing these beloved characters to life.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much, Mario! Most of the figures from this video (including the Viper) were the exact figures I had as a kid. I think only the Crimson Guard was a replacement. That one was a recent gift from a friend!
I would have worked Major Blood in there somewhere, but your list. Over all I can dig it.
Im sorry but DesTro, Zartan, Storm Shadow, Firefly & The Crimson Twins were my fave Cobra figures.
Great list of Cobra villain figures. I'd put Scrap Iron and the BAT on there somewhere
B.A.T. was close. Scrap Iron was a favorite for a while, but as Hasbro kept releasing great Cobras, he got less play over the years.
it's just like hooded Jason Vorhees was scarier than hockey-masked Jason Vorhees
seriously though that Cobra Eel would have been cool - never had it but I did have Firefly and Stormshadow, the former of which I believe to be the superior figure
Firefly has ALWAYS been a favorite of mine.
I found a Storm shadow at Sears and thought i won the lottery. Unfortunately, i lost it and was so bummed!!
Personally, I would've put the BATs in the list, m'self. Great figure!
Yes, the B.A.T.S. were great figures! I can't argue with having him on your Top 10! :)
Crimson guard is left handed, because he carries the side arm in the left leg.
Remember the Techno Viper and the BAT.
The Techno Viper is a cool figure! I've never had one though. I did have a BAT and he could have easily made my TOP 10 List!
Remember those dioramas in the catalogs in the 80's? They had Baroness, Firefly, and Scrap Iron in a photo one time. I bought all three figures because they looked cool.
Those dioramas were great! Someone's job was to do that!!!
Top five or me:
1- Storm Shadow
2- B.A.T.
3- Zartan
4- Big Boa
5- Road Pig
Awesome list!
Joes were such a great toys. As much as I love Star Wars and those toys GI Joe clearly surpassed SW toys.
I think my childhood could be divided into the Star Wars years and the GI Joe years.
Awesome ones not on your list - Tomax and Xamot Crimson Commanders, Destro and Serpentor
I never had Tomax and Xamot or Serpentor. I really wasn't a fan of those guys. Destro on the other hand was very close to being on this list!
I’m the same , my interest started waning around 86 still like a few 87 figures but by then I was in 7th grade so let it go for girls lol. But today, I’m now a collector & have rebought alot of these guys. Especially the main character guys. Once I get more space I’ll add the headquarters, Flagg etc … it’s a hobby for me these days as I approach 50 these next couple years .
Around that age, I started to really notice girls, but I was just too clueless about how to act around them. They would come over to my house and hit on me and I'd offer to let them play my Nintendo. 😣
I guess you're about the same age as me. I began losing interest with the 87 series. It was just becoming too futuristic and unrealistic to me.
@@WeHadThat lol… girls definitely made a difference, I think that was a big part of it as well. I bought a couple 88 figures I liked. The last vehicle I bought until I started collecting was the Night Raven. Didn’t help we had moved so I was playing with the thing by myself lol.
@@MrAvenger1975 yes, exactly the same. I had already stretched my imagination with Serpentor & Cobra La… once they started getting goofy with the colors. Making missiles orange I kinda went hard into Nintendo as that was just blowing up as you know.
I would have bad a BAT and cobra commander in battle armour in that list agree with Storm shadow.
I like all of this but your story about how you got Storm Shadow worried me that could have turned out a whole lot differently in end
your firefly suffers elbow arthritis!?! it seems like I hardly see elbow cracks on the earlier figures.
Firefly suffers from so much that I'm surprised he's still together. He saw a LOT of action over the years!
@@WeHadThat ours too. so cool.
@@camcordernonsense5264 Do you still have your chilchood Firefly?
YES! I have been waiting for this video!
Thanks! I've been working on it for a long time...now let's see if all of the work was worth it -Haha! :)
Cobra commander armed with a hair dryer 😆, did you notice that cobra are based on Soviet troops while here in the UK the red shadow were based on the Nazis . As.for the skull shaped tie fighter ... Rip off ...lol ☢️☣️🇬🇧
I never noticed the Soviet troops connection!
@@WeHadThat yeah . The helmets are a dead giveaway . Happy New year ♥️
Storm Shadow is my favorite character in the entire G.I. Joe mythos.
He's such a great character with a lot of depth for a toy line!
My favourite Cobras have always been the Crimson Guard. The name, the uniform, the eliteness of them... They barely even seemed like a part of Cobra. Every other Cobra unit was named after some kind of vermin, but when s**t got real, it was time to call in the CRIMSON GUARD. It's too bad that Classified devolved into just straight remakes of the originals, because it would have been nice to see Tomax and Xamot with a less ridiculous, actually Crimson Guardesque uniform :)
i liked Crimson Guard more than the troopers. Destro was one of my favorites
COBRA!!!!
My top cobras were firefly crimson guards wild weasel and snowserpent.
Destro, B.A.T.S., and Wild Weasel seem to be some of the main ones that aren't on my list that most people would have added!
Great List but no Major Bludd?
Major Bludd and Destro seem to be the two that most people think should be on the list. Destro was close, but even though Major Bludd was a favorite early on, Hasbro just kept releasing so many cool figures that Major Bludd fell off my Top 10 list pretty early on.
Storm Shadow was my first real memory of peg disappointment. Must have gone to TRU every chance I could and did not find him. Once I did, loved all of the ways you could put weapons on his backpack. Still, Firefly will always be my favorite Cobra figure.
I like that your reasoning includes how you used them, like the Crimson Guard was almost more character as you only had one. Or Cobra Commander was mostly in the base. As a kid I didn't have multiples, so, my Cobra would die, and then be a different Cobra. Still prefer the Officer, with the silver logo.
The officer was definitely cool! The silver logo came off of mine though.
1. Zartan
2. Stormshadow
3. Firefly
4. Crimson Guard
5. Destro
6. Cobra Infantry Trooper
7. Barroness
8. Cobra Viper
9.Battlle Armour Cobra Commander
10. B.A.T.
Great list! I didn't include Dreadnoks, so Zartan wasn't eligible on my list!
There were so many Cobra greats, it's hard to pick a top 5, top 10, or even a top 20! Your list is full of some of my favorite figs as a kid, but Wild Weasel, the BATS, Crimson Twins, Alley Viper, Night Viper, Desert Scorpion and others were also heavy hitters for me. Great list though! Right now, my Water Moc is on display, piloted by Copperhead, of course, with Ninja Viper nestled in the gun turret, Firefly to his left and Storm Shadow on the right.
Several of those were close to making THIS list!
@@WeHadThat awesome!!
odd that candy was replaced by stormshadow.
so did you get in the van or not?
Nah, he just gave me the figure and I gave him the money...but for a minute there, I was thinking, "I wonder what picture they'll use on the milk carton?"
@@WeHadThat storm shadow probably was going to kidnapp you because of your parents' secret lab. snake eyes probably foiled the plans. sorry I drifted off in to nerd world there. what I meant to say was, cool story related to you getting your figure.
@@camcordernonsense5264 Haha! But yeah, Snake Eyes saved me and he was so fast, I didn't even see it. He was probably beating up the real kidnapper while Hawk was selling me the Storm Shadow figure.
What about the crimson twins
Tomax and Xamot? I never really was crazy about those two. I never even picked them up as a kid...or an adult actually.
MY TOP 10 COBRA ACTION FIGURES:
Storm Shadow
Hooded Cobra Commander
Zartan
Destro
Firefly
Cobra Commander (silver mask)
Tomax & Xamot
Cobra Guard
Baroness
Nice list!
Great man, my top 10:
1. Cobra Commander V1
2. Destro V2 (Iron Grenadier)
3. Range Viper
4. Serpentor V1
5. Alley Viper
6. Storm Shadow.
7. Firefly V2
8. Crocmaster V1
9. Snow Serpent V2
10. Dr. Mindbender
Excellent list! Croc Master v1 was So close to making this list!
#1 Storm Shadow (v1). #2 Ice Vipers (v1/ Came with the Cobra Wolf). #3 Storm Shadow (v2) #4 Beach Head (v1) I used him as a bad guy in the Cobra Wolf with the Ice Viper. #5 Sludge Viper (v1). I always wanted a Crimson Guard (v1) & Serpentor (v1) but never got them.
Man, the Ice Vipers were awesome!
Favorite Cobra list. That's tough. All time favorite came late on the list with The Headman and his Bounty Hunters. The Bounty hunters looked awesome and I loved characters that had equipment that attached to them and they had sawed off shotguns. After that it would be
Alley Viper
BAT
Night Viper
Night Vulture
Firefly
Crock Master
Tomax & Xamot
Snow Serpent with a SNOWBOARD!
Roddy Piper
Thanks for sharing your list!!! A lot of those were a little after my time, but Croc Master was very close to making it onto my list!
I HAVE TONS of these figures, all the ones u showed and more even the ones that didnt have the swivel arms and all the damn vehicles including the gi joe base and aircraft carrier. yours look like they are in pretty good shape....how many times did you have to replace that rubber band haha BY THE WAY EVERYONE. look up GI Joe LIVE in youtube..there is a 24/7 non stop stream of all the cartoons, IN ORDER.
I've only replaced the o-rings once on most figures and not at all on the rest! That streaming Joe toon is awesome!
I'm going to play your rules and put Zartan and Destro in different factions. So in no particular order
Storm Shadow, Firefly, Wild Weasel, Eels, Snow Serpents, Crimson Guard, Crimson Guard Immortals, Baroness, Major Bludd, Serpentor and Hooded Cobra Commander.
Now I know you're saying to yourselves that guy can't count because that's 11. Well according to the file card. Snow Serpents are Eels. So they both count as one!
Well played, but not all Eels are Snow Serpents. 🤔 We'll just say Eels / Snow Serpents.
Wow,,, talk bout flashback
Firefly was my number 1 by far
What a great figure!
I love how you pose your figures "in the wild."! Great video. New subscriber.
Thanks! The photos are the most fun part for me!
Very cool had everyone one of those except the baroness. I never even saw her figure in the store. Storm shadow you could trade him for any other figures in my school. The original cobra troops were ok the vipers were awesome. Big boa the cobra trainer who came with the boxing 🥊 gloves . Great choice I just wouldn’t have put the baroness or the first cobra troops. Firefly and storm shadow were my favorite cobras and big boa. Most people I don’t think know about him he was rare serpentor was great. We might be a few years age difference so it kind of depends on how old you were during the golden years 83-86-87 were the prime years . The optimus prime 😁🇺🇸👍🏼.
The original Cobra Troopers were my first Cobras, so they kind of stand out for me!
Destro? Maj. Bludd?
Destro was close. Major Bludd wasn't so close. I liked him a lot when he first came out, but so many figures that were cooler to me came later.
the only one I had from the list was the baroness and she always got her but kicked. All the ones you showed were exotic to me. I never knew they existed. I stole all mine from Kmart, put them inside a Freezee Cup and walked out.😁😁.Pretending to drink from, Sorry Kmart.
I suspect you weren't alone! 🤔
B.A.T.S. would have to be in my top ten. Major Bludd also.There's so many cool cobras it would be hard to pick only 10-lol!
Major Blood was always my favourite. But probably the most bada** cobra ever was Nemesis Enforcer. I know you purists will say that's not really cobra but still...
I was never into the Cobra-La guys.
Snake eyes and storm shadow were my favorite Gi joe action figures. Like you I had a hard time getting storm shadow and I don't remember ever getting the first storm shadow action figure I think the one I got looked totally different...I'm going to look for the one I had...it's been a very long time since I thought about how exciting it was playing with my cousin and our Joe's...in the summer time we would stay up all night having the best times of our lives .....too bad those days are lone gone...
Man, you're not kidding. Those days were the best!
25th did Copperhead, Eels and Troopers well.
So far, I'm awaiting those and Snow Serpents in Classified.
Woah! A Classified Snow Serpent would be so cool!
Cobra Bat was very underated. For me, I hated The Baroness. The glasses just killed it for me. Never had Firefly as a kid, but indeed a very cool villain. I have one now as an adult, no play time but he looks awesome on my display shelf
Destro and B.A.T.S. are the figures that most people think I should have included on this list that aren't here.
Major bluud was my fav all time...destro,zartan, and the twins all get honorable mentions too😂🤣🤣when i played with em they always won🐍🐍
They were some bad dudes! 😁
Memories man...
🍻🇨🇦
I was surprised the "B.A.T.S" figure didn't make your list
They were SOOOooo close!
Storm Shadow, B.A.T., Viper, Snow Serpent, and EEL were my favorite
All very cool figures!
I likewise somehow ended up receiving 2 Water Mockasin's for Xmas that year!
It's not a bad one to get twice!
excellent list!
other than the crimson guard (never had one as a kid) being supplanted with scrap iron, and putting the viper at #1, my list would be identical.
Nice!
A few weeks ago I picked up my water moccasin and heard a noise inside... I was pleasantly surprised to find cobra commanders gun that must of been in there for almost 40 years.. lol
Woah! Nice find!
Man who didn't want firefly and storm shadow ☺️☺️...firefly cause he was out there when it came to causing trouble and storm shadow because of he get down and dirty with his ninja code
Easily two of the favorites in my neighborhood!
eels go in bath tubs and then rusty screws happen.
The first time my Eel was ever in the water was when I took the photos for this video -Haha!
When I was a kid I wanted crimson guard figures SO BAD!! Alas, I never got one.
I wanted a squad of them!
Omg, we love the same figures. My favorite is the crimson guard and iron grenadier.. plus I had a similar storm shadow story. But a coworker wanted to show me storm shadows sword in his truck.. no way was I going to look at another man's sword in his truck.
HAHA!!! 😆
Color changing zartan and destro and....... whatever that thing was it had a serpent's body and it was the original cobra.
I didn't include any Dreadnoks, so Zartan wasn't an option for this list for me. Destro was very close to being on the list! Golobulous was not. 🙂
Firefly was definitely my favorite Cobra figures
Awesome figure!
@@WeHadThat thx for these videos..
@@ezgezg8618 Thanks for watching!
I wish I still had my V1 Cobra Commander.. shame I blew him up back in 92
Ouch!
I gave mine all away when I went to college,,😭 I was very upset when the comic book ended. My childhood ended.
I didn't make it all the way to the end with the comic book...but I came pretty close!
storm shadow, zartan, crimson gaurd, the cobra bats, and the pilot of the jet from the terror dome.. I wanna see he was a crimson but just a bit different
man I wish I still had these figures 😞
Great list!
My neighbor across the street was a bully and took my copperhead, threatened to beat me up if I told anyone.
What really irked me was when his mom told my mother how great he was as a student, son etc. And my mom said to me why can't you be more like him!
Was you're response, "You want me to be like him? What kids do you want me to bully first, mom?"
Nice list... I like too Croc Master, Scorpion Desert and Destro special forces....
Croc Master came very close to being on this list!
Almost identical to my list. Copperhead was my favorite.
Copperhead is awesome!
Nice List. Destro was my favorite. Firefly was right there though.
Both great characters!
Cameron...One thing you forgot.B.A.T. (robot troopers).
I definitely didn't forget. They almost made the list. There were just too many awesome figures!