Firefly works for Cobra Commander in a variety of capacities. As a man of many talents (all of them criminal), this mysterious saboteur
is a master infiltrator and an artist with explosives. He prides himself on his precision, creativity and reliability, all of which make him the go-to person for any job deemed impossible. He welcomes the admiration of others, but a large fee is the only reward that matters to him. When Cobra Commander wants a direct line of communication with world leaders, he turns to Firefly, who carries out his assignment - in his own unique, destructive and frightening way.
Okay, now this is just weird. When the movie Flash came out, everybody pegged it as a repurposed Resolute Firefly mold - it had the same armor, and some decidedly non-Flash-like sculptural elements on the back. Hasbro made no secret of its origins, and lots of people made Firefly customs using it as a base. Now we finally get a Firefly... and he's not made from that mold? The hell?
The only part of this figure that is shared with Flash is the head, which isn't exactly an ideal situation: Flash's mask has one seam running over the top, while Firefly's had two. It's a minor thing, sure, but when they've gone to such pains on other characters, it's worth mentioning, at least. The rest of his body comes from the Cobra Trooper, which does provide a fairly accurate amount of armor, but it's still not perfect.
Firefly's accessories include the usual Firefly
backpack - you know, the one with all the crazy sculpted details and the panel that opens to show his bomb-making tools. There's the silver and black Resolute Cobra gun, and the brown padded armor is removable. The set includes a knife for the sheath on the small of his back. Packaged next to him in the tray is the same cool three-piece missile launcher that came in the five-pack - good news for me, since my dog decided the other one was something she should eat.
The release of this seven-pack is a testament to patience. Stolen samples from the factories hit eBay last year, with people paying through the nose for Baroness painted blue or Destro without his accessories. A few single-carded Storm Shadows actually made it to stores in the Philippines, so he was another one. Now fans are complaining about having to pay $40 per set, but before these releases were announced this February at Toy Fair, those same fans were paying more for individual figures than it would cost to buy both sets. Resolute was a great show, and though this Cobra set isn't as good as its Joe counterpart, these are still very cool new versions of the characters.
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he can successfully impersonate anyone. He's also a clever acrobat, contortionist and practitioner of several mystic martial arts. Elusive and secretive to the extreme, he is difficult to to find and almost impossible to capture. His skill as a marksman is less well known, but was used by Storm Shadow in the past, with tragic results. Zartan encounters 
In the cartoon, Zartan was 
Zartan's Resolute costume seems very influenced by the 
Both Zartan's onscreen weapons were designed by Dan Norton, and the toy versions are very accurate. He has a 
an arsenal of weapons. To graduate from their training program, they are required to survive a full burst of machine-gun fire across their heavy body armor, execute a thirty-foot jump onto concrete with full combat load and run down a hundred-meter, gas-filled corridor without a gas mask. Who else would Cobra Commander send to guard a missile silo essential to his latest plan to conquer the world? The darkened, decaying station is their native element. They know how to use shadows, corridors and industrial structure to their advantage.
more reasonable uniforms. In fact, they just look like slightly advanced 
Alley Viper's head is new, though it has an angled mouth area similar to the movie's various Neo-Vipers. The eyeholes are large enough that you can see he seems to be wearing a ski mask beneath the hard faceplate. Must be for comfort. The figure comes with a helmet that has a removable pair of red goggles - but unlike the 
Other than the vest and helmet, the figure includes the same two weapons as the plain Resolute Cobra Trooper: an oversized black rifle with a grenade launcher attachment and an ultra-modern silver submachine gun of some sort. No backpack, sadly.
This is a man who understands power, and the ruthless actions that are often necessary to acquire it and keep it. He heads to the far north with the Baroness to take over a complex communications array, as part of a Cobra plan to control every country on the planet. His technological understanding of the system serves him well, but he finds himself challenged by the stubborn ingenuity of the GI Joe team.
Like Zartan, Destro's head is a reused piece. It was used for the 
is similar to the SAR-21, but obviously a different weapon. That makes sense: Destro isn't just an arms dealer, he's also a designer, so of course he'd carry his own product. The set includes two silver pistols that fit in the holsters on his belt; a really fancy MARS briefcase with a full keyboard, a flip-up screen, and a space for the included HK MP5K; and a replacement arm with the coat sleeve torn away. Why the arm? It's from a deleted scene in the movie. After being captured by Roadblock and 
wealth will give him his greatest desire: limitless power. But lately, he has come to realize that he must first achieve complete control over every nation on Earth. Once he holds the world in his fist, the money will be his to enjoy. He used technological sabotage to bring the world to its knees, and demanded that every country turn over control to him. His hunger for power and wealth have utterly corrupted him, to the point where he will easily obliterate cities without even a twitch of remorse.
release fans already bought. Yes, the particular shade of blue is slightly different, but that's a minor change. If you already bought Cobra Commander a year and a half ago, then this is just a wasted space in the seven-pack.
Cobra Commander even has the same accessories: a sword and a black pistol (as well as the removable helmet and shawl). Adding a bit of variety, we get a new dagger - probably the one CC used to kill Major Bludd. It has a silver blade, and a golden cobra-headed hilt. And that's nice, but you know what? It could have come with Arctic Cobra Commander just as easily.
then moved to the international arena. She eventually found her way into the Cobra organization and became a close associate of Destro and a trusted lieutenant to Cobra Commander. Her relationship with Destro calls into question her true loyalties to the commander, since she allies herself with the strongest individual in an organization and will change allegiances when necessary to keep herself in a position of power.
Comparing this figure to 
noting that they're sunglasses, rather than the wire-rims she actually wore on the show. Good thing, since her eyes look so weird. She's armed with a matched pair of silver submachine guns - more MARS Industries specials? Same model as the cartoon, but there they were black.
world, and the only person standing in his way is Snake-Eyes. As a young man in the Arashikage ninja school, Storm Shadow demanded that his uncle teach him the final step in the Seven Steps to the Sun, a ninja technique of immense power. But his uncle refused to do so, questioning his nephew's worthiness. Now, Storm Shadow has instigated a showdown to prove that he is a greater ninja than Snake-Eyes - and by proving that, he will also prove that he was the most favored student in his uncle's eyes.
white gi, but this time it's removable. Yes, you can strip him to the waist, if you so choose. It's a new sculpt, obviously, with a thick red belt and a small brown pouch on the back. His shins and forearms are wrapped, and he's wearing sandals. His pants are sculpted to be slightly baggy. He has a red tattoo on each forearm: a Cobra symbol on his left arm, and the Arashikage hexagram on his right. Incidentally, one of Larry Hama's working names for the character back in the '80s was "Ghost Shadow," at which point the family name would have had to be "Yureikage."
In the Real American Hero continuity, Storm Shadow only took to wearing a hood over his usual mask when he 
chest is a separate molded piece that you can pull off if you want, but he's got some real accessories, as well. He's got a black, three-clawed tekagi-shuko, two swords, and a brown backpack with sheaths for the swords. Unfortunately, the backpack has been designed the wrong way: he's supposed to draw over his right shoulder, not his left, and technically the backpack should be straight up and down, not at an angle, but we can forgive that.
