[46 Zone]

Awesome work on the figure and the pics again!!!

[HissHissFangFan]

2020-12-12_03-44-49 by HissHissFangFang, on Flickr

[KnightStryke]

That looks fantastic!

[sbartek1974]

Cool ass picture!

[46 Zone]

Awesome!!!

[ARBCO Avenue]

Right on! Now there's a Cobra who is ready to fly in a tiny chopper with no cockpit! This picture belongs in a comic that I would want to read!

[HissHissFangFan]

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Originally Posted by KnightStryke

That looks fantastic!

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Originally Posted by sbartek1974

Cool ass picture!

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Originally Posted by 46 Zone

Awesome!!!

Thanks gents. Vehicles aren't really my thing, Photos of my figures in vehicles even less so, but I can't "sell" this guy as the true FANG pilot against Hasbro's modern version without shooting him behind the stick...

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Originally Posted by ARBCO Avenue

Right on! Now there's a Cobra who is ready to fly in a tiny chopper with no cockpit! This picture belongs in a comic that I would want to read!

I cropped this one more for a file card, but I'm glad you can envision this as a comic panel. I'm trying to give this concept design and figure more life beyond just a custom figure on my shelf, and beyond simple photos of the figure in my collection.

More pics coming later, when I can get onto my proper computer terminal...

[axonrey]

Nice updates. Don’t know why they swapped the forearms on the new HISS driver. Accessing a different tool sprue (presumably) to make that figure worse was an odd decision on Hasbro’s part.

[HissHissFangFan]

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Originally Posted by axonrey

Nice updates. Don’t know why they swapped the forearms on the new HISS driver. Accessing a different tool sprue (presumably) to make that figure worse was an odd decision on Hasbro’s part.

Full arms and upper body seem to match the ComicCon Missile Command Set Officer and Trooper. Coupled with the way all 3 of those set figures were made with figure parts from all over the spectrum, I'm not buying into this whole figure spree idea as some kind of budget restraint unless told otherwise by someone actually involved with Hasbro. The designer must have liked the longer cuffs?

I think the lower arms they chose are too long, especially when with shorter legs.

[46 Zone]

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Originally Posted by axonrey

Nice updates. Don’t know why they swapped the forearms on the new HISS driver. Accessing a different tool sprue (presumably) to make that figure worse was an odd decision on Hasbro’s part.

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Originally Posted by HissHissFangFan

Full arms and upper body seem to match the ComicCon Missile Command Set Officer and Trooper. Coupled with the way all 3 of those set figures were made with figure parts from all over the spectrum, I'm not buying into this whole figure spree idea as some kind of budget restraint unless told otherwise by someone actually involved with Hasbro. The designer must have liked the longer cuffs?

I think the lower arms they chose are too long, especially when with shorter legs.

Those forearms are the work of Bobby Vala. In the effort to make the MCC CT and CO look as close to the vintage figures as possible, he decided to use those forearms instead of the usual forearms that that torso came with. I guess the elbow pads was a deal breaker. That's why the legs are all messed up too.

Anyway, I guess the mustache just used that build as that was the last time that torso was used. Another example of not doing any research on what figures have been out before.

Why spend the time designing new thighs (even though they have messed up engineering) and not just looking at the previous figures to.get these builds right?

How many times have we seen that torso, upper arms and lower arms since 2011?

Cobra Trooper, Steel Brigade, Night Viper, etc...

Why not just look at what's out there and use that?

Damnit!!! Here I go again!!! I said I would stop getting upset at these poor builds and lazy work. Ok. I'm done.