I remember very fondly when the Python Patrol faction was released in the Hasbro G.I.Joe toy line. I was just about losing my interest in all things 'Joe (it was 1989 and I, along with the rest of the world, was renewing their obsession with Batman). But those Python Patrol repaints sucked me right back in. It seems silly considering how young I was at the time, but I found the nostalgia for those re-used original sculpts irresistible. The cartoon explanation of the faction was pretty generic (magically-induced camouflage) and the actual deco with yellow (geometric) diamond patterns and splashes of red, wasn't very snake-like at all, but the alliterative name, Python Patrol, and seeing all those old figures again was all my young brain needed to get me fully obsesssed. This Python Patrol Vypra figure is a repaint of the Cobra Blue Ninja. It's amazing to get a female character in the faction, even if we had to wait 34 long years. I hope they repaint one of the Classified Valkyries now too. Let's check out Vypra below!
Vypra inexplicably has a skull mask, but I personally love it - especially because the painted eyes under the mask look very bizarre to me.
Vypra comes with a Compound bow, a loose arrow, a quiver that holding several sculpted-in-place arrows, two sword scabbards that are attached to that quiver, two swords, and a skull mask.
Time for some Group and Comparison Pics!
Here is Vypra with the Cobra Blue Ninja figure from 2023. They share the same sculpt.
Cheers!
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