ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

Once again, a property that I passed up during my childhood because I was playing with butterflies instead of imaginary machine guns comes back to haunt me. Maybe it’s the references made in The Venture Bros., or maybe it’s my secret desire to be a faceless drone in an evil machine (which doesn’t mesh with my revulsion at Wal-Mart), but the 1/6th scale Cobra Trooper from Sideshow is a bit appealing.

The $100 Trooper comes decked out with about a billion accessories and weapons, including three sets of hands for various weapon grippings, and something called a ’smersh rig with buttpack’, which just makes me uncomfortable. While you can’t build a suitable army at $100 a pop, the ol’ blueshirt is third in a series of GI Joe 1/6th scale baddies from Sideshow, which has also pre-ordered Snake Eyes and Cobra Commander.

As the Joe-nerds get all spazzed out for the GI Joe live action movie (because if Transformers and Indiana Jones taught us anything, it’s that our favorite childhood fantasies should all be remade with Shia LaBoeuf), expect to see a continued resurgence of Joe stuff. Show me some Thundercats and we’ve got a deal.

And is it just me, or does that Cobra logo look a little feminine and biological? It’s just me? I’ve been thinking that for about a year and I just had to put it out there.