Should Hasbro Make a 💥 GiJoe Classified 💥 Hooded Cobra Commander ⁉️

[@happybuttersblast8334]

I think they should do one as a 3rd tier in a haslab.

[@TheIslandViper]

Imagine the rivers of tears... You must really like swimming. lmao!

[@19jjace]

No. Make Battle Armor CC. I got a painted hooded CC head off eBaY like a year and a half ago and it’s fantastic.

[@TheIslandViper]

What body did you put it on?

[@lonedragon3261]

I feel like I have the solution. We need someone to directly ask someone in charge...and when they ask the question directly, they should have in their hands: Baron Zemo and however many Power Rangers figures that Hasbro has made with pointy white hoods. "Hey, can we get a Classified hooded Cobra Commander?" *wave figures in hands around for emphasis if necessary

[@TheIslandViper]

The only people who could be asked that question directly by the consumer probably want it just as bad as everyone else. Things become a little convoluted the higher up it goes I think. Their concerns are more connected to the perception of the company by people we will never be acquainted with.

[@mikerea4961]

Just put it up on pulse. It would sell like hotcakes. Every collector would want one.

[@cyberfrank-bx2nv]

great idea, like the ol days, post - mail in

[@TheIslandViper]

Pulse exclusive. Avoid the stores.

[@the13thprince]

short answer - YES. It's an executioner's hood not that hood.

[@TheIslandViper]

Agreed.

[@lunchboxkilla8052]

If they don’t make a hooded cc. I’m happy with my 3d printed hooded cc. I would like the armored cc with the pogo…

[@TheIslandViper]

It is speculated that the armored version is coming.

[@zartanicus]

most importantly Fresh monkey is doing a Hooded figure in a suit that looks exactly like CC. When this hits the market, Hasbro will start working on theirs. Look how fast they copied Valaverse Ghillie suits and Infantry troopers.

[@TheIslandViper]

Maybe. Maybe not. The Fresh Monkey version looks cool, but It's a mix of a bunch of different IP's. As for copying Valaverse, GiJoe didn't copy anything from them. They are literally using old Hasbro IP for troop builders, and GiJoe have had ghillie suits way longer than Valaverse has been around. The 60th anniversary figures are a legacy line... Hence it being the 60th anniversary of the brand. I dig the concept of Action Force, but man I really wish it had been something original, and not just reuse of older names. I would like to think that Bobby has more talent than that.

[@zartanicus]

@@TheIslandViper the point is that when Fresh monkey's Hooded figure comes out, i know they will feel pressure to release Hooded CC. Its a special kind of jealousy to watch another company make money from something you feel originally belonged to your company. the dark suit from Fresh Monkey looks almost exactly like the Hasbro Podium CC in business suit that was a SDCC excl. Do you think they will see it and say "we still wont do it because Bonaventure has a problem with it, we can pass on the money." while customers want it and other companies are making it? BTW Vala made the alternate ethnic heads for troopers before Hasbro copied it for the TeleVipers and 60th anniversary. that idea makes troop builders sell in greater numbers because it makes displays more realistic.

[@typeonegative1835]

He is the wrong person to be making decisions for the G I Joe brand he’s the Kathleen Kennedy of G I Joe and needs to step down or be fired

[@happybuttersblast8334]

worse than that, he's also behind the transformers movies. Granted Bumblebee movie was really good and the rise of the beasts was decent but his work with michael bay was atrocious.

[@typeonegative1835]

@@happybuttersblast8334 yeah don’t have alot of hope for the new Transformers Joe universe movies they totally fd up the snake eyes movie with an idiot making decisions who wants to cancel Cobra Commander if smart they would do what the Energon universe is doing in the current Skybound comics.

[@TheIslandViper]

Especially since he isn't really involved in anything but the film aspect.

[@DaredevilDave1975]

Clan hoods are pointy! Cobra commander clearly wears an executioner hood. Duh

[@lonedragon3261]

And yet Hasbro has made Power Rangers figures that have white pointy hoods. Doesn't Storm Shadow come with technically a hood that is both white and pointy?

[@lonedragon3261]

And Cobra Commander CLEARLY wears a Pacman ghost. :P Hasbro won't pony up the dough to Bandai-Namco for the rights.

[@Dreadnok_K6]

​@@lonedragon3261Kinda....

[@TheIslandViper]

Correct.

[@Dreadnok_K6]

We probably won't see it till Hasbro needs cash flow....

[@TheIslandViper]

Give it a wave of figures that doesn’t sell well. Lol!

[@kyleholder3785]

Yeah it's called a spec script. Studios use staff writers (or AI now usually) to churn out generic scripts and producers can just plug in their character names instead of paying writers to make good material. It saves so much money that even though the movie tanked, Paramount & Hasbro can just claim it as a tax writeoff and make a profit anyway.

[@Dreadnok_K6]

They already have scripts ARAH and the comics......

[@TheIslandViper]

$110m budget, with a $40m worldwide gross. Man it could have been modernized, and actually a good movie. It really sucks that, even if we had film makers in the collector community, the only ones who would be allowed to make a movie are the likes of Di Bonaventura. There are a couple of indie shorts out there, but I'd love to see a feature length indie GiJoe film, fan made.

[@TheIslandViper]

@@Dreadnok_K6 Which would perform even worse than the Snake-Eyes origins movie.

[@retrojoe8290]

Ha!, don't even mention that producers name. Over 40 years of iconic imagery wiped out because of 1 man getting butt hurt. Hasbro also makes star wars toys, u know Hasbro?, the storm troopers are a direct reference to a certain little atrocity?. WIPE EM OUT!, IM OFFENDED!!!😅 (I'm jk). Oh, but SnakeEyes origins?, what a masterpiece! (Threw up in my mouth a little)😂. I made a hooded CC head from sculpy, it's not hard😊. Yo Freaking Joe!

[@JES_788]

Absolutely

[@TheIslandViper]

I think they should do it for the retro line, maybe a few waves from now.

[@JES_788]

@@TheIslandViper better yet, make the mask/ head a mail away offer. So people can buy it if they want and hasbro can keep the overhead down (no pun intended).

[@AZMarine78]

Yes and YES!

[@TheIslandViper]

Yes!

[@yorktownjoe]

"His hoodie is blue, His eyebrows are mean. Make Hooded CoCo My money is green." S. Bludd

[@TheIslandViper]

I wonder how many would get that reference.

[@mikaelschaefer7720]

Yes

[@TheIslandViper]

Long live the hood!

[@ljkelty1766]

Yes, absolutely. They made a hooded Baron Zemo (who is a ratzi) and Lighting Collection's Ninjetti White Ranger. If you separate him from the team he looks a little "clannish." AND Fresh Monkey Fiction is planning Red, Green, and Blue hooded figures. Unfortunately, I feel that we will never get Hooded CC or Dress Marine Gung-Ho (Hasbro would need approval from the USMC). Just make it a Pulse exclusive to avoid the non-fan busy body's who see one in Target and write angry letters to Hasbro. They could even blur the head on the Pulse listing. True Joe fans will know what's there.

[@TheIslandViper]

It all comes down to them putting stock in the opinion of Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, and the unknown reason why. It’s dumb. I don’t think anyone associated it with anything negative until then.

[@Dreadnok_K6]

Yes TR, we need him. Hasblo management and IP direction SUCK.

[@TheIslandViper]

IP direction?

[@zartanicus]

i confirmed this twice with Hasbro. its too Iconic to not do. its on hold not banned. same strategy as not releasing all 12 green shirts at once. they want to give fans a reason to stick around and not finish early.

[@aaronm8098]

People lost their minds about the OAM Cobra. A hooded version would be an instant sellout guaranteed

[@TheIslandViper]

I don't get this whole concept of "finishing early" Like is the only reason some of you guys are in it, just to get the OG 13 and be done?

[@TheIslandViper]

@@aaronm8098 People also threw a fit because it's Cobra La, and not the hyper realistic Cobra Commander from the comics. lol!

[@zartanicus]

​@@TheIslandViper gi joe was a yearly thing. if you were in school while collecting, each year was a different grade for you. 1985 felt very different from 1987, more so as kids. some of us may have quit the brand after a certain year. I quit around 1993 because of the new designs like the battle corps viper. others may have skipped certain years like 1988, 1989. they're mixing the releases and not exactly following the actual chronological order on purpose. with this selling strategy, we may buy some figures we never considered while waiting for our old favorites. I deliberately didn't buy Raptor as a kid but I did PRE order the classified version. they tested this tactic with 25th anniversary and with Star Wars figures.

[@TheIslandViper]

@@zartanicus That makes more sense considering it's been what I've seen a lot of lately. I find that a lot of collectors who want so much early stuff just made in 6"... They're around 10 years older than me. Most of them stopped collecting, and stopped being interested, around the late 80's. Some into the 90's, but not as many. They didn't bother with any of the later offerings, especially early 2000's. Now it's like Classified has brought them back. I never stopped with GiJoe, not completely, from around 1988 to current. Almost all of the lines offered in that time frame. Some were obviously more interesting than others, and better than others, but I have always been into it. I've narrowed my collection focus, sold off parts of it, bought whole new sections of it, but was always excited for something new. That's probably why I don't care for the same thing made over again so much.

[@cyberfrank-bx2nv]

good topic video bro ;yeeessssssss! my 3 fav 80s CCs, light blue - helmet red cape, hooded, in armour I have class dark blue, exsssssscellent! he matches reg troops - officers like a charm, a childhood dream the ideal thing to do is include a dark blue hooded head with armour, but I doubt it will happen. Cobra, the supremacists... I m French Canadian, white, and I have no issue laughing about a group of white kkk like organisation, but... I think it hits too close to home for some Americans, ha, ha after all, we all know Cobra is American US crazy fanatics, it s so outrageously funny to me, guts! hey, I m all for a laugh, come on! joke about lumberjacks, it won t offend me. but, here s a detail, I m masculine, + polarity, and feminine is - negative who s offended? feminine guys and gals.... so now you know.... God bless America and world peace! good show bro

[@__TW__]

yes, they should.

[@TheIslandViper]

Agreed.

[@BrothersWebOfficial]

They made an Ultimate cobra commander 3.75" for retaliation. Wonder why that was approved if so? - Luke

[@TheIslandViper]

Very valid point, but that was also a decade ago. A lot has changed in that time.

[@BrothersWebOfficial]

@@TheIslandViper It's really dumb how they still pass every time now.

[@iasiahharrison9185]

Well yeah we definitely need a hooded cobra commander and an armored cobra commander, you can't tell me hasbro can't do it because they fricken gave us "I was once a man" cobra commander.

[@TheIslandViper]

It’s not that they can’t. They won’t, at least so far.

[@gl425]

To piggyback on that, this sounds more like the response of a new, young Star Wars fan, NOT a G.I. Joe fan.

[@TheIslandViper]

I've been a fan, and collecting GiJoe, for over 35 years. Let me guess... True GiJoe fans never touched a figure after 1986, and haven't had one in their hands again until the classified line reminded them they had a childhood once. That's what some act like at least.

[@WompaStompaCyn]

At this point I want them to do it just so I don't have to hear about it anymore.

[@TheIslandViper]

Same here really.

[@jasonswitzer1748]

Better question… if the ever DO give us a hooded Cobra Commander, do you guys wanted the head to be fully molded plastic or do you want a cloth softgoods hood?

[@TheIslandViper]

Molded. I think cloth would have a hard time holding shape in that size. Either cloth, or soft plastic like the 12” Hall of Fame HCC.

[@MrMADGUS]

Cobra Commander doesn't wear a Klan Hood he wears a Executioners Hood.🤷🏿‍♂️

[@TheIslandViper]

Bingo.

[@stonewoe1]

what up Brodie

[@Hurricanelive]

Love to see V5 and V6. If they do a V2 I need it classic as well but in BOXED classified, same as Armor CoCo, they need to stop retro'ing and pushing the tons of nasty tattoos. Just make a good figure with the added detail that couldn't be there at 3.75 and stop giving terrible paint apps, and retro even more terrible paint apps with terrible garbage load outs. Put the money of a single figure aside and do proper load outs. I can do without an extra figure or two a year if Hasbro just gave better load outs.

[@TheIslandViper]

I'd much rather the figures be updated to reflect a more modern take, than to be the same tired old designs that we have gotten multiple times over. Retro designs belong on the Retro cards. I would like to see some better loadouts, but at that point something like Mezco seems to be exactly what you're describing. High quality, tons of accessories, and all of the detail that was missing form the 3.75" line. I honestly thing people expect way too much from a mass retail $25 action figure for kids aged 3 and up.

[@IgcFilms]

Cobra Commander hooded no it's possible for the law about terrorism representation.

[@jeremymcmillion6671]

The time-line is off. The hooded one should have been the retro carded one. And put out before the once a man one.

[@TheIslandViper]

I don’t think the timeline really matters, as it doesn’t have to follow the 80’s timeline, nor has it. It does however need to be on correct body, and on a retro cardback. That would be the MMCC, and mass market retro CC bodies. Hell even the lower half of the OAMCC.

[@aaronm8098]

I just bought my hooded cobra from a person off ebay.

[@TheIslandViper]

The best option! Support the independent creators!

[@lonedragon3261]

Clue Club Clan? What? ;P

[@artrendon6101]

Yes, they should. It's a fn€£ing toy. If a TOY triggers you, or makes you "feel some kinda way", you probably should never go outside. Or deal with real life. While they're at it, Hasbro needs to make a classic comic Mandarin. Robes and all.

[@TheIslandViper]

Agreed!

[@enriqueae7532]

It’s stupid. It’s only him that thinks this and no one else.

[@cyberfrank-bx2nv]

feminine guys = drama

[@brianhoffman8756]

Haslab tier

[@ogiedumandan8504]

Cobra does not discriminate. The goal was always world domination. Woke is a joke! 😇

[@davidallen6880]

I agree . This is total BS by Hasbro .

[@Dreadnok_K6]

It's an executionioner hood, not a pointed white hood....I am so over woke agendas trying to pervert our nostalgia.

[@cyberfrank-bx2nv]

bingo! so now you know....

[@DanaCornZine]

To be fair, everything that guy produces is horrible.

[@TheIslandViper]

That’s definitely fair. I’m not sure why his opinion is held in high regard.

[@gl425]

This is because they don't want to upset the hyper-sensitive snowflakes who get triggered if the wind blows the wrong way.

[@Ut00bsux0rz]

oh please. notice how there wasn't a direct quote from Hasbro in any of the article he read. so you just pulled all of that out of your ass and you're being a hyper-sensitive snowflake about it.

[@Dreadnok_K6]

Fuck those idiots. They don't even buy the stuff anyhow.