Cobra B.A.T. (2013 Kre-O)
Everything I said yesterday I’d like to echo with this figure, only in cute, blockier text.
I’m continually amazed how Hasbro has taken nearly every vintage figure they’ve attempted within the Kre-O line and made it work as homage as well as its own unique bricky offshoot of GI Joe. It’s the cutest gosh-darn killer robot ever made.
My only beef: the single pack Kre-O GI Joe figures are too hard to find. I’d like to amass a squad of these little guys, but it was like pulling teeth to get a set of the latest assortment. Thanks to internet Joe pals, I’ve got all but one. I don’t usually do this, but if anyone has a line on a Mutt and Junkyard, drop me a message.
Hey Rob, I picked up an extra Mutt today. Hit me up on twitter if you want him.
Aw, it IS a cute widdle killer robot, isn’t it?
I think it was back in the October 2001 issue of toyfare, there was a wishlist of properties the writers wanted lego to make [superheroes, star trek, more star wars] but Lego said they could never do GI JOE as it was too close to a war theme and that was something they wanted to avaoid.
Times change, Skymate. And so do corporate executives, apparently.
Volkswagen feels the same about the classic Bug design and won’t let Hasbro or Takara use it for Transformers. Something about a company stance on war toys. I guess the fact that the Bug was Hitler’s idea in the first place weights too much on their conscience nowadays. Not so much in the 80’s though.
@Clutch
From what i remeber of the toyfare issues at the time [ive got them lying around somewhere] was that the magazine was two or three months ahead [probably due to release dates] The first Toyfare magazine i picked up was from September 2001. Featured in it was a 12′ doll of a New York Policeman [who bore a striking resemblance to Leatherneck] and the compony that made him also put out a “mad bomber” terrorist [possible for the Policeman to fight] but that issue i mentioned earlier i think had a caption about the mad bomber being cancelled. You can probably understand why.
And dont forget, Gobots had a VW Beatle aswell [in both red and yellow too].
I also heard somewhere that the Alternator Jazz toy which was released in 2004 was originally meant to be 911 but Porsche didnt want a product of theirs being assosiated with conflict so Jazz became a Mazda
Nice little robot!
It’s telling that you can’t even find GI Joe Kre-o’s at retail.
Skymate, you may be thinking of 21st Century Toys:
http://www.pistolpetechecklist.com/madbomber.html
@Jester
Thats him alright. Goodgreif its a good thing he got cancelled. He was probably the last thing all those worried citizens wanted to see a week after 9/11