Blast From the Past: Cobra Army Circa 2004
I’m not usually one for big time a building, or collection pics for that matter, but I was digging through my older Joe photo files, and found a few shots from about ten years ago. Apparently, I got a wild hair one night and set up most of the army builder troops I had at that point. I have to say it’s somewhat impressive to see them amassed in such a way. I’m a bit disppointed to see that I didn’t break out all the troop figures I had, from the new sculpt Python Patrol Vipers and Tele-Vipers, to the Night Creepers from the same period. Also missing from the shot are the multiple sieges from Operation Crimson Sabotage and the TRU six packs. I was stocking up on those, too. Why? Because they were there. Army building is a dangerous road to go down.
In the years since, I’ve picked up quite a few more Alley Vipers of varying years, along with Flak Vipers and more comic pack Cobra troopers. Some day I’ll have to line them all up again. It’s nice to have a small army, as long as it doesn’t come to dominate the collection.
My brother used to army build Flak vipers twenty years ago. Today i only have two left [one of which is missing its original head]
Good old army!
My hats off to you for getting them all standing like that without stands. One falls, you have a bunch of dominoes!
You have about as many original Snow Serpents as I saw on shelves from late 1985 thru the end of 1986.
Silver age of 3 3/4″ army building…stuff was affordable, relatively plentiful, quite a variety of choices. Nowdays people talk about army building $10+ figures IF they can find them. Meh.
Anyone know why Forgotten Figures is no longer available or whether it will be coming back?
@Anonymous
No kidding. I myself tried to check it out a minute ago and noticed it was down 🙁
Jealous…
With eBay pricing and international shipping I struggle to get one of everything!