The Tele-Viper are Cobra’s Telecommunications Operators for their ground forces, and carries a standard module radio pack that sends and receives orders and relays that information. Their module radio pack allows for frequency hopping, encryption, and passive jamming and anti-jamming.
Thank you to BigBadToyStore for sending along Hasbro’s G.I. Joe Classified Series Retro Collection Tele-Viper figure for review.
Availability: August 2025
Tele-Viper is packaged on a bluster card that is inspired from the 1980’s packaging, with logo’s and images on the front, images of the figures on the back and a bio.
The Tele-Viper is inspired by his 1985 release and given some modern updates into the 6″ Classified line. He comes in his classic dark blue outfit, with sculpted textures on the legs, a metallic silver zipper on the shirt, a purple and black retooled vest, purple pouches on the legs, purple and black boots, purple and black belt with a metallic silver Cobra logo on the belt buckle, and a Cobra logo on the left shoulder in red.
He includes three head sculpts, all with a metallic silver visor, blue helmet with purple and black. Two of the visors have the words ALERT and “What Tha…” written on it. There are no changes on the mouths or facial details between the three heads, only the wording is different.
Also included is a black base with the Cobra logo, a VS-11 Scanner, Communipac, and a cable. The Communipac is placed on his back, and is black with metallic silver details. The cable attaches at the bottom, and to the VS-11 Scanner. The VS-11 Scanner can also be placed on the side of the Communipac, and the cable can be placed around his shoulder as shown. The VS-11 Scanner can also be held in both of his open grip hands.
His articulation includes a ball jointed head and neck, swivel-hinged and butterfly shoulders, swivel biceps, double-hinged elbows, swivel-hinged wrists, ab crunch, swivel waist, ball jointed hips, swivel thighs, double-hinged knees, swivel calves, hinged and rocker ankles.
The Tele-Viper is repainted from the Tele-Viper figures that have come before, and I a much better and visually The vest is retooled and the middle part of it was removed so show the shirt underneath. Also removed was the devices on the forearm, and his arms are now bare.
Overall, the Tele-Viper is an excellent offering and a nice update to the previous release. This is surely an essential character and figure to add to your collection, so make sure to grab him now at BigBadToyStore.
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