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07-14-2018, 08:41 PM | #1 |
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I've been rewatching the GI Joe ARAH cartoon as I've built up my collection and I noticed that Cobra basically uses only one type of gun in all the early episodes. It looks like a laser submachine gun of some kind.
What kind of gun is this supposed to be? Did they ever release it with Cobra troopers or other figures? It's obviously not the Dragunov or the AK47 that regularly came with Cobra's blueshirts. In the same vein, what is the laser rifle that GI Joe always uses? That has been released many times in toy form. It looks almost like some kind of a stubby WWI rifle.
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I don't know the name of that gun, but it came with the 2008 Flint in Cobra disguise.
https://www.yojoe.com/action/08/flint13.shtml
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07-14-2018, 08:53 PM | #4 |
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Yep, I think you're both right.
In toy form, it looks like a German submachine gun from WWII.
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It is a scoped U.S. M3A1 submachine gun (.45 ACP, with a 30 rd. magazine).
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Wow. Thanks. You are absolutely right.
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07-14-2018, 11:03 PM | #7 |
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Except Cobra’s shoot lasers and don’t shoot them straight!
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07-14-2018, 11:16 PM | #8 |
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I think it was based on Destro's card art. We know the figure himself (and in many of the comics) used a "broom handle" Mauser, an actual handgun, but the artwork made it look like a small rifle or submachine gun, and which closely resembles the generic "Cobra gun". Not surprising, since they just stole Snow Job's rifle for the Joes.
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I hadn't noticed Destro's card art, but you might be right. It looks like a pistol to me, but I can see how it might get confused for a submachine gun.
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07-14-2018, 11:52 PM | #10 |
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Awesome, is what it was. And can I say what a tragedy it is that we never got Sunbow-accurate Cobra troopers and officers?
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