Cobra Commander Toy Trailer Shows Sideshow Toys Clearly Has Some Time on their Hands
If you’re at all looking forward to Sideshow’s 12-inch G.I. Joe, line head over here and watch their (needlessly unembeddable) teaser trailer for the second figure in the line, Cobra Commander. No, you can’t get a really good look at the toy, but I’ll be damned if the video isn’t kind of awesome, full of hard rock music and talking about blood and revolution and showing plenty of armed Cobra soldiers chanting “CO-BRA!” at the top of their lungs. But it’s actually so awesome, it kind of makes you wonder why they’re making these videos instead of, say, making more 12-inch Joe figures faster. Regardless, it’s neat-o skeet-o.
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