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Target Exclusive Modern Era Cobra Rattler Review
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10-04-2008, 07:02 PM
Shin Densetsu
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i got mine and i am in awe...save the shitty stickers. love, LOVE this thing. who makes the best repro stickers for the money?
Cobrastickers.com from what I've heard, pre cut.
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maybe the rattler is supposed to be small so it can fit so many others in the hidden hangers of cobra bases and that massive cobra headed flying monstrosity thing...what was that called anyway? anyone?
No it was made small to fit into the constraints of the 1980's toy retail market. No company dared to make true 1/18 scale vehicles till 2000, and even then, it is a market that has become idle, due to companies changing philospophies, shifting towards the smaller 1/32 scale, and change of management/leadership. Back in the 1980's, no vehicle for 3-3/4" was ever really to scale, look at the X-wing, TIE fighter, both of which did not get anything close to true scale til 1997(x-wing), and past 2000(TIE). Basically back in the RAH days for a kids toyline, a 1/18 Rattler and Skystriker would be too huge, too expensive for kids to buy. Maybe adults would buy them, and yes it was less risky back then than it is now due to the current economy and mass retail dictated market, but I doubt the joe line would have lasted as long as it did if it did not compromise the scales all throughout RAH (82-95).
One important thing to remember is that the Rattler, and joe vehicles in the comics cartoons did not follow the scale of their toy counterparts(or shouldn't, most of the time it was dictated by the proficiency of the artists drawing the vehicles). The vehicles in the comics and cartoons are supposed to be true to scale of the characters.
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My only complaint is that I spent MUCH more than this on crap busted old Rattlers and a red-gold Rattler right as the 25th line started never expecting to get a Rattler.
Man this is the same reason why I have not bought Skystriker parts or more busted Skystriker carcasses; because I have hope that eventually we see it again.
The only thing that the old Rattlers have over the new one is higher sticker quality. The new Rattler is the best of all the Rattler molds. It is not like the Conquest where previous versions actually did certain things better(aside having better stickers).
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