This week we heard reports that a few Cobra Gunships from G.I. Joe Rise of Cobrahad been sighted with a different Firefly, one with a red helmet! Firefly is shown with a red helmet on the box packaging. Why a red helmet? Well originally, this figure was actually meant to be Wild Weasel, and this was mentioned at Toy Fair earlier this year.
This variant is reported to be packed 1 per 3 cases. Numerous HISS Tank.com members are reporting that they have seen both the black and red helmet versions, with some seeing one more than the other, and vice versa. Thanks to HISS Tank.com boards members MrClean, and Call Me EO_JIG for the heads up and OrionPax9 for the image!
MrClean says
Just a heads up for all you variant hunters out there!
There's 2 different versions of Firefly in the Cobra Gunship. One has the RED helmet as pictured on the back. One has a BLACK helmet.
I saw them side by side at TRU tonight. At Target they had red helmets. Not sure if one is tougher than the other, a running change, legit variant or whatever, but I figured I'd give the heads up.
I went ahead and picked up the black helmet version. I just think it looks better. The red helmet stands out too much.
Cdt Weasel says
I was curious about that. I want the red helmet so that will probably be the one I can't find lol.
storymodeller says
There's 2 different versions of Firefly in the Cobra Gunship. One has the RED helmet as pictured on the back. One has a BLACK helmet.
I saw them side by side at TRU tonight. At Target they had red helmets. Not sure if one is tougher than the other, a running change, legit variant or whatever, but I figured I'd give the heads up.
I went ahead and picked up the black helmet version. I just think it looks better. The red helmet stands out too much.
MrClean says
The Commander says
Should've got both, put them on eBay with 'variant' in the title and raked in the dough!
MTN says
I saw the red helmeted one a few minutes ago. Too bad I couldn't afford to pick it up. I blew all my money on the single cards. AWESOME FIGURES!
Jeffrozup says
I haven't seen a non-red variation yet so I am going to guess that's the harder one to find.
samantha says
I have the black one and I like it. I did not see the Red version.
Jeffrozup says
Hicks_Royel says
I intentionally picked up the red one. I'm hoping to do a body swap with a spare Wild Weasel if I ever dig him outta the pile.
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