[brditsme]

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Originally Posted by DFender

Lol ya, I got a similar email:

Regrettably, we must inform you there has been an unexpected delay in shipping the following item below:
G09555X02 - G.I. Joe Classified Series Retro Cardback Cobra Vi
The new approximate ship date for this item is: May 20, 2025
We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding and continued patience!

Regrettably we must inform you that your item has been delayed to today, ha. These emails are pathetic. I get more well written spam emails than this.

I think this is how they told me that Leatherneck was on his way?

[DarthBrett]

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Originally Posted by Griff

So is the frag viper a target exclusive too?

Nope, he's part of the main line's Wave 19.

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Originally Posted by MAJICobra

Ditto! Perhaps that goes without saying for me?!

The anticipation of either render or full reveal of Classified Night Viper is killing me - as I've talked about before in some posts, I really hope Lenny & Co. hew closely to the Retaliation line's design for NV and that they also follow that model for the load out...BUT I also hope that they make the legs sturdier than that design and perhaps a bit more akin to the original ARAH NV.

I want both a shotgun and M-4 for him too, specifically - and wouldn't mind an SKS stylized original ARAH weapon too. Not sure there is much precedent in Classified for 3x long guns to be included for a standard release though - maybe Alley Viper counts if you include the grappling gun?

The other part that really concerns me is how they design the head and helmet - I prefer removable, but will trust this team if they don't go that route to at least improve on the proportions from the Alley Viper (who comes across as tiny craniumed via the integrated helmet design).

Anyhow - let's go Night Viper!

So far it seems like Lenny uses the ME-designs for a decent amount of inspiration. The Alley Viper, Range-Viper, Techno-Viper and SAW-Viper all seemed to take a lot of cues from their Modern Era designs. Crimson Alley Viper is another one that comes to mind that borrowed heavily from a ME-design.

I think the Night-Viper will turn out awesome!

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Originally Posted by IzzyTipsy

The more I think about Night Viper the more I feel he should have come with the Cobra Port O John. it looks like a sniper nest.

Eh, the only problem with that idea is that one of the more popular army-builders from this brand should never be a pack-in with a higher pricepoint. Popular army-builders should be single releases, preferably main line.

[DFender]

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Originally Posted by IzzyTipsy

The more I think about Night Viper the more I feel he should have come with the Cobra Port O John. it looks like a sniper nest.

Is the Night Viper supposed to be a sniper?

His filecard doesn't imply that he is. I guess the vintage figure came with a scoped weapon. But I never viewed that trooper type as a sniper in my head cannon.

They were pretty much an answer to Night Force in my imagination. Cobra troops whose specialty is night operations.

[DarthBrett]

I kind of always thought of them as Cobra's answer to Low-Light. So I guess I did think of him as a sniper. His file card mentions his long-range abilities and hitting targets at over 100 yards (which I guess is not far, but at night and with no challenge like his fc implies...maybe? haha) I suppose he wouldn't wear the long-range monicule telescope if he was only close/semi-close combat.

Honestly, could be both. But I think it's not far-fetched to think of him as Cobra's sniping infantry.

[DFender]

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Originally Posted by DarthBrett

I kind of always thought of them as Cobra's answer to Low-Light. So I guess I did think of him as a sniper. His file card mentions his long-range abilities and hitting targets at over 100 yards (which I guess is not far, but at night and with no challenge like his fc implies...maybe? haha) I suppose he wouldn't wear the long-range monicule telescope if he was only close/semi-close combat.

Honestly, could be both. But I think it's not far-fetched to think of him as Cobra's sniping infantry.

Ahh ok. Guess I was just going off the fact that their specialty always said "Cobra Night Fighter".

This version of the figure doesn't help the sniper narrative either.

Granted, I know this isn't a very revered era of figures.





To me, they're like the Zero Dark Thirty version of Cobra, ha.

[wmichben]

For the Night Viper, I want the big fat scope on his face like the original version or I won't buy it. That New Sculpt era version is boring. Oof.

[DarkLordMordred]

Yeah, I think the Night Vipers are like Cobra Special Forces.

[IzzyTipsy]

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Originally Posted by DFender

Is the Night Viper supposed to be a sniper?

His filecard doesn't imply that he is. I guess the vintage figure came with a scoped weapon. But I never viewed that trooper type as a sniper in my head cannon.

They were pretty much an answer to Night Force in my imagination. Cobra troops whose specialty is night operations.

I always assumed that giant scope on his face was used for sniping. Like Frag Viper having that device on his arm to augment his throwing, I assumed this was to augment eyes for sniping.

Although I remember my mom seeing him one day and asking why he "has a giant Polaroid on his face". So then he became the Cobra Camera Trooper, who sneaked into the 1983 HQ and took racey spy pictures of Lady Jaye and Flint for Cobra to publish as blackmail. Oh, to be a kid again.

[IzzyTipsy]

I like how "The night is our ally, the darkness our weapon"

Good think I'm not a kid getting these now. I'd be calling them "Bane Vipers".

[wehrmanm]

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