HEY REMEMBER HOW IN CHARLIE IN THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY CHARLIE ENDED UP BUYING SOME CANDY BARS AND GOT A GOLDEN TICKET? HISS TANK BOARDS MEMBER KINGBIOHAZERD AND LATER FELLOW BOARDS MEMBER SERIOUS_ADDICT HAD SOMETHING SIMILAR HAPPEN TO THEM KIND OF…
Well…ah yes the gold-faced Cobra Viper. We never saw one officially released for the GI Joe 25th Anniversary line…..well until now. Factory error? Inadvertent example of “good things come to those who wait”? Chrome “yellowing”? What?!
The aforementioned boards members found Hall Of Heroes Cobra Vipers with gold face helmets. Or gold visors. Whatever. Both were found at Tj Maxx/Marshalls, and Toys R Us Express. In fact, some of us may have gold-face Hall of Heroes Vipers without even realizing it. Hard to believe at 1st, in fact, it brought back memories of a random guy and his “alleged” variant from a few years back. This Viper variant is not the same as the one which was supposed to be released in the canceled Modern Era Viper 5 Pack we told you about early last year. The helmet on the canceled 5 pack version lacked a vacuum metalized faceplate, had removable goggles, in fact the head sculpt was different entirely, and the wrists were not “fixed”. In a way, the recent “variant” found is arguably the superior version. More photographic evidence after the jump!
“What we’ll see
Will defy
Explanation”
Or maybe not.
KingBiohazerd says
So i stop at a marshells todaay and found hall of heros no biggie. till i looked at the vipers and one look to have a gold face i made some calls no one heard of it so.So i called gyre to see if he knew what it was well he stopped by and we both agree its gold gyre got the pic and will post in a sec
Hicks_Royel says
You didn't buy it? I mean, really? Possible unheard of variant just sitting on a shelf and you're thinking "Meh, better just take a picture..."
My guess, Gold background packaging, shiny chrome face shield... one reflects the other and another Viper tries to pick a fight with himself to pass the idle time.
jaimanstone says
Cool, I'm stoked to see it.
Gyre-Viper says
we tried everything... we tried blocking the gold inner box edges with white paper to avoid any reflection... we tried turning off the lights and using a flashlight. kingbio had another HOH Viper in-hand so we did have another to compare it to. COULD it just be a trick of the light... yeah of course but I spent a half an hour in his kitchen and I gotta say this thing SEEMS pretty gold.
the most telling evidence is that under the mask... where neck hits... it looks gold. and that's a place on the figure that wouldn't really have too much access to reflect any gold if it was simply a reflection of the HOH packaging. unfortunately we did NOT open the figure (which of course would be the ONE way to determine what was what). but like I said... it could very well be just a mix of odd paint and reflection. but like I also said... having seen it in hand... I'm leaning towards gold.
this one looks the most silver but that could be attributed to light...
KingBiohazerd says
o i bought it for sure and we sat he shineing lights at it in ever way we could trying to be sure and its gold the silver one no matter how you turn it dosent let off a gold at all
SNAKE EYES says
Pretty damn cool nice find KB
Is the mask gold chrome or gold paint?
Gyre-Viper says
King Bio was far more skeptical than me and I was pretty skeptical so we
weren't applying wishful thinking or anything like that. one minute we'd be like... 'man, that's totally just a reflection'... but blocking out the gold card bits and then turning off the lights and then putting a flash light right up to the faceplate... it was gold. i guess if anyone else has HOH Vipers still MOC lying around... maybe yours does this too and we can just call it a reflection.
OSOK says
damn man, had to run an check mine, nice find!
Gyre-Viper says
it's driving me nuts.
i wanted to open it so bad. hahahah.
KingBiohazerd says
Is the mask gold chrome or gold paint?
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