Cobra Ferret

Over the last few years, and I've already made mention of it, I have drastically reduced my motor pool. Both GIJoe and Cobra have taken the hit leaving a bare bones vehicle department for each.

Sometimes in my haste to "make a decision" I think I have too quickly made some. After looking at my Snake Trax (old review post), I've been thinking about Ferrets. As well as how I think I made the wrong decision on trading these off.

Above, are a pair each of Coil Ferrets and Skull Squad Ferrets. Not inexpensive purchases originally, to say the least.

However, I ended up with the pair of each of these, plus the pair of mail-in blue Ferrets. I was very happy with SIX (!) Ferrets, but three different color schemes.

Originally, I sold the blue Ferrets, and I kept the Club Exclusive Ferrets in the hope that I could find someone that wanted to trade their Skull Squad Ferrets for my Coil Ferrets.

But that didn't happen. And when I saw the Cobra Fury previewed, it really looked like it was going to color match the Snake Trax. So, in my simple plans, I thought, why not "cash out" on the "exclusive" ones so I can buy more of the new Snake Trax. And then, with a few of those, I might pick up one "new Rage" tank (which have previously had the others in my possession, but traded out, too). With the new "rust" (?) color, that seemed like a great new scheme for me to make my standard Cobra ground color.

But, that didn't happen, either.

I didn't even see a Snake Trax until I saw one on sale at a chance stop. And after getting it, I was not as thrilled about trying to hunt down more. I wasn't going to pay full retail on these, either.

Looking back, I should have kept the Skull Squad Ferrets. I really liked those, not too gold-shiny, but somewhat a very cool Cobra-blue camo-swirl pattern that each Ferret ended up with a unique-to-each A.T.V.


Ferrets will be out there for many years, but is there a better option for an A.T.V. for my small Cobra recon. forces?

Cobra la, nemesis enforcer, and coil ramblings

Cobra La is out there. I don't "hate" it, but it has never been a part of the core of my Joe-verse, or Cobra-verse.
I've only got one original Nemesis Enforcer out of this lot of creatures, and he's a well-used figure that made it into my collection only through a series of trades where I was looking for anything from the original-ARAH line I didn't have.

Nemesis Enforcer has become part of my "Coil." Not an original name on my part, and very much inspired by the 2006 Convention set (GIJCC) and the DDP comic series. This is really a good example of how the outer world influenced my Joe collecting. Namely, in this case, this was how I resolved what to do with those strange figures that didn't or couldn't "fit" in my Cobra-verse. Put them into the Coil, with a revived Serpentor at the head, former Cobra traitors, oddities, and un-trust-worthies right behind him.

Currently, Nemesis Enforcer in my world is a formerly non-living person who is now something along the lines of the classic Incredible Hulk persona for me. Not green and mean, but a grunting, unfeeling brute who excels at close personal combat and general tearing up of things...as commanded by Serpentor.

Essentially, my Coil is where anything Cobra La that I acquire will be put. Serpentor also has Dr. Mindbender and Overlord at his side. These two have too many traitorous traits to be trusted by Cobra.

The 2006 Mercenaries GIJCC sets Coil team is the fanatical super soldier bunch that does the fighting and whatever Serpentor demands. Even though, as much as I like the green and gold of the GIJCC Coil figures, I can't help but think of TARGATs. Especially if TARGATs are on the shelf right next to the Coil Troopers. Should Coil Troopers get their own flying rocket packs, too?

With the mention of TARGATs, I also have to bring up the Nullifier (1988). Where, for as long as I have been staring at pictures of Iron Grenadiers, Nullifiers were the pilots of the A.G.P., now, I'm wondering if they should be aligned with Cobra La, as they were originally intended to be? The tan colors are there with the strange hieroglyph-like symbols, and these guys sit right perfect next to Nemesis Enforcer (he has the medallion with the hieroglyph-like symbol AND the same tan colors as the Nullifiers).

This would be a major -realignment/ re-imagining on my part, however. TARGATs could easily take over my A.G.P.s operation. For now, this idea is on a side-burner. I can always put a figure in a bag in one pile and move it around whenever.