 This is the Cobra Law Team. They were introduced in 1987 and were also available in 1988. They were discontinued for 1989. There were no other versions of these figures in the vintage era. After they ran their course, they were forgotten. After all, according to the movie in which they appeared, all of these characters are dead. This Cobra Law 3-pack included Galobulus, the Royal Guard, and Nemesis Enforcer. All three figures were sold in a single pack. They were not available separately. This isn't the only time a 3-pack was available related to that 1987 animated movie. Sergeant Slaughter's Renegades were also released in a 3-pack. They had the virtue of still being alive at the end of the movie. I'll have to mention the 1987 animated movie a lot in this review. I won't go into detail. I've already done a full review on it. Instead, I asked Kevin from SEO Toy Review to talk about the movie in the media segment of this review. He actually likes the movie, so he's more qualified than I am. Some collectors have speculated that the 1988 Iron Grenadiers nullifier may have originally been intended as a Cobra Law figure, but was repurposed as the AGP driver. The seed for the creation of Cobra Law came from the advertising agency Griffin Bacall. Joe Bacall wanted to go in a sci-fi direction for the 1987 animated movie, and Cobra Law was the result. The backstory and specifics were hammered out by animated series writer and story director Buzz Dixon. He was tasked with creating a Cobra Emperor to replace Cobra Commander. He came up with two ideas. One, Serpentor would come from a shadowy organization somewhere called Cobra Law. He would be sent to replace Cobra Commander because of the commander's consistent failure to take over the world. Or two, Serpentor would be created from scratch by Destro and Dr. Mindbender. Unfortunately, Sunbow Productions liked both ideas, and Buzz had to figure out a way to make them both work. The name Cobra Law was supposed to be a placeholder name until something better could be chosen. The name is an allusion to Shangri-La from the 1933 James Hilton novel Lost Horizon. Unfortunately, that name stuck and was used in the final draft. Let's take a look at the card back, and I have the full card back thanks to Brandon Knight. And it is huge. It held three packaged figures. There's a GI Joe logo on the top and a Cobra the Enemy logo here, which is sort of true based on the movie. It says Cobra Law Team. Here it says fully poseable modern army figures, and that it definitely is not. The artwork is okay without being exceptional. There are some mountains in the background, which I guess is supposed to represent the Himalayas. You can see where the figures are packaged. Nemesis Enforcer was here, Royal Guard was here, and Galabuelus took up all this space. There is a list of contents, and I will talk about this when I discuss some of the accessories. Slipping the card around to the back, we have some more artwork, and this artwork is way worse than the front of the card. They are out of proportion. The heads are too big for the bodies. There's this blurb that explains what Cobra Law is. I won't read the whole thing, but I'll give you some highlights. First, Galabuelus is a biomechanical creature, and Cobra Law is a colony based solely on living organisms and hypergenetic manipulation. Cobra Law lives in an ice dome deep in the Himalayas, and they believe that the human technology based on inorganic lifeless substances is a travesty to their culture. So that's the premise of Cobra Law. Cobra Law is a culture based on organic technology, and they consider technology based on inorganic matter to be a travesty. But that's shown to be BS right away, because even these figures come with some inorganic technology. And in the movie in which they appear, they use a piece of inorganic technology to carry out their nefarious scheme. There are three file cards on here. We will take a closer look at all of those later in this video. This set was worth three flag points, as it should be since it was a three-figure set. There's a cross-sell for Sergeant Slaughter's renegades, and this example still has some birthday wrapping papers still stuck to it. Let's look at these figures individually, and I'm going to start at the bottom of the totem pole with Royal Guard and work my way up. This is the Royal Guard. This was an army builder. In the movie, there were many Royal Guards, so you would want to buy multiples of this figure in order to build an army. But it was only available in the three-pack. The only way to build an army of Royal Guards was to also build an army of Galabuluses and Nemesis enforcers. Let's take a look at Royal Guard's accessories, starting with his battle axe. The battle axe is a wicked shape. It looks really cool. It's in silver plastic. It has lots of nicks and scrapes on it. Looks like it's been used many times. This kind of looks like a Klingon weapon. It is silver to look metallic, and this kind of looks like inorganic technology to me. This does not look like biotech. His next accessory is his pistol. The pistol is in grey plastic. It is pretty plain and unexceptional. This definitely does not look like biotechnology. This definitely is inorganic technology, which again is contradictory to the premise of Cobra Law. The final accessory is the antenna. The antenna is detachable. It is removable. It connects to the side of the head. There's a hole on the antenna that connects to a peg on the side of the head. The antenna itself is small. It is red. It is made of flexible plastic, so it does bend very well. But it does not stay on the figure very well at all. You can peg it on, but it will fall off very easily, and this is a frequently missing part. Let's take a look at the sculpt design and color of Royal Guard starting with his head, and on his head he has a bug-like helmet or face. I don't know if this is his real face or if it's a helmet. He's got big blue bug eyes and a grey snout. The top of his head is red, and he's got some tan, sort of organic splotches on his head. His chest features a dark grey base uniform with a tall collar that goes all the way around. He also has some red shoulder pads that reach up pretty high. That kind of makes his shoulders look a bit low. He has a red chest plate with organic shapes and texture on it. On the back, he also has a back plate with similar organic texture. On his arms he has red upper arms and tan rings around his biceps and grey elbows. The grey is a different color than the grey on the chest. In fact, all of the grey on the lower half of the figure is a lighter grey than the grey on the head and the chest. And I think that's an unfortunate choice. It would have helped the figure to look more consistent if they had kept the same grey throughout. He has red forearms with elbow guards and those elbow guards are really wide. To me, they look like the arms of a chair. And then he has grey gloves. On his waist he has a grey belt that's the lighter grey color and there's no way this is organic technology. That looks like a belt he could have picked up at JCPenney. He has a bit of that red armor directly under the belt. And on the hips he has some ridge details that continue down to the legs. The legs feature grey trousers in that lighter grey color. According to the premise of Cobra Law, these pants must be alive in some way. The ridge detail continues on the outside of the legs and then on the front of the thigh there are these organic tan shapes with some texture on them. He has some red boots with some additional texture on them. On this particular example, there's a hole in the leg. On the lower leg, on the right side, there's a hole in the molding and this does not appear to be damage that happened after the figure was manufactured. That is not something that is on every Royal Guard figure. This appears to be a factory error. I believe this is what's called a short pour. That's when not enough plastic gets into the mold and you're left with an unfinished piece. The overall look at this figure is insectoid. This is fine for an army builder. The forearm guards are my least favorite parts. It looks like he sat on a chair and there was super glue on the arms of the chair and when he stood up, the arms of the chair went with him. It doesn't look like armor to me. It looks like furniture. This is Nemesis Enforcer. In the movie, this character was big and menacing. The figure is of average height though, so he is much less intimidating. Let's look at Nemesis Enforcer's accessories. He came with bat wings that attach to the figure with a peg like a backpack. They are in gray plastic. It's a soft rubbery plastic, so you can flap the wings like a bat. It has finger and vein and hair detail. It's well sculpted, but they are very undersized, way smaller than depicted in the animation. And even smaller than depicted on the artwork on the card, just much too small for this figure. I'd say these wings are comically small. They are totally inadequate. These wings should be at least twice the size, if not larger. His final accessory is this back attachment with tentacles. It has eight tentacles four on each side. It has molded in details like sucker details similar to an octopus. It also fits on a figure with a peg like a backpack. In the movie, Nemesis Enforcer did not have tentacles, but he did have a tentacle weapon. In the movie, the tentacle weapon was used to attack Sergeant Slaughter. And you can kind of do that with the toy by putting the peg in Sergeant Slaughter's back and then just kind of wrapping him up in the tentacles. But unfortunately with the toy, when you let go, the tentacles sort of spring back out. Besides which, that's not how the tentacle weapon worked in the movie. It was more of a face hugger that attached itself to Sergeant Slaughter's head. But the toy doesn't work that way at all. Let's take a look at the sculpted design and color of Nemesis Enforcer starting with his head. On his head, he has a purple helmet with a texture pattern. That helmet has a nose guard that runs right between his eyes. It also has his ears exposed. He has white eyes, which is kind of creepy. Not exactly scary though. On his chest, he has a purple uniform with a texture pattern. Now this uniform, I could believe is alive. It has like an animal skin texture on it. It has texture, but not a lot of detail. He has a red harness that goes around his back and over and under his arms. And it clasps in the front with this silver emblem in the center. On his arms, he has unpainted shoulder guards with that texture pattern that look like they should be painted purple, but they are not. They are just flesh tone. And this is bad. This is a glaring unpainted detail. And in my opinion, this is not an unpainted detail that can be overlooked. He has bare arms down to his gloves. He has silver spikes on his elbows. And these spikes should be much larger according to the animation. These spikes are small and disappointing. He has purple gloves with some devices molded on them. On his legs, he has that purple textured plastic. There are 10 straps around his thighs and 10 holsters on the outside legs on both sides. At least they look like holsters. They don't hold anything. He has red patches on his upper and lower legs that meet at his knees. Those are not knee pads. The lower legs are otherwise in that purple texture plastic. He doesn't have defined boots. More like his purple uniform just covers his feet. This figure has a lot of wasted potential. It's missing paint applications. It's too short. The arm blades are too small. The wings are way too small. This figure needed to rival Sergeant Slaughter, but it doesn't even come close. Nemesis Enforcer was revisited in the modern era. He got a modern action figure. It was in a comic two pack that also included Lieutenant Falcon, which is a pretty good figure. The modern Nemesis Enforcer figure was renamed Nemesis Immortal. And it's a decided improvement on the first version. This Nemesis Immortal figure is taller than even the average four inch modern action figure. So he has the size to be intimidating. Those wings are much larger than the version one figure. Perhaps not quite as large as in the animation, but still much, much better. Huge improvement and those spikes on the arms. Again, much larger, much more intimidating. One downside of this figure, the wings are so large it makes him top heavy and he wants to fall backwards. So in order for him to stand, he has to be hunched over a bit. The figure was in a comic two pack, as I mentioned, and it came with this comic book. So he did make it into the comic after all, just not the regular series. This is a story with Lieutenant Falcon. Lieutenant Falcon versus Nemesis Immortal showdown at the top of the world. And this is reasonably well written and drawn. This is Galambulus and this one is a doozy. This is the figure that always gets a big reaction. Whenever I show it to non GI Joe fans, they always think of something obscene. And the movie Galambulus was voiced by legendary actor Burgess Meredith. I covered that at length in my review of the movie. There's no way to avoid looking at this. He has a big long snake tail. So let's do it. Galambulus came with only one accessory. What the card contents call his laser gun. It is in red plastic. It's intended to be slung under the forearm like this. That's not the best way to shoot a gun because you can't look down the barrel to aim. You have to shoot from the hip, which is not very accurate. The accessory itself is well sculpted with lots of organic looking details. It looks like it has a video game joystick on the top and a magazine on the bottom. That magazine looks like it could come from Colt firearms or Smith & Wesson. Maybe they have a retail presence at Cobra Law. You never know. Let's take a look at the sculpt design and color on Galambulus starting with his head. And my God, that's an ugly head. But that's okay. It's supposed to be mission accomplished. He has a bald head with veins. He has a device that goes around his head and covers his right eye. He has a big black gross left eye and the rest of his head looks pretty human. Perhaps he was once a man. On his chest he has red crustacean-like body armor that covers his chest and back, but leaves his left shoulder and his midsection exposed. That red crustacean armor even has crab legs sculpted onto the chest. This armor, not only is it indestructible, also tastes great with lemon and butter. On his right arm he has a couple red armor plates on his upper arm, but it has his bicep exposed and the red paint does not go all the way up the shoulder. So it looks like he has armor pieces just stuck onto his arm. His right arm is mostly bare, but it has some extra veins sculpting on it that looks grotesque. His hands are bare and he has a red armor on his forearm with some kind of device molded on. His left arm is totally bare, but the arm is green with red veins all the way down the arm and all around. You gross. According to the artwork, there's supposed to be claws on that left hand, but it's just a regular C-shaped hand on the figure. I guess they hadn't quite gotten away from that standard buck for the hands. Finally, we can get to the snake tail. The lower half of his body is a snake tail. It is in green. It's a lighter shade of green than the left arm. The front has a texture on it that looks like snake skin. The back has a ridge pattern. It is segmented apparently to make it easier to bend, but it doesn't help that much. This is a bendy tail. It has a wire that runs down the inside and you're supposed to be able to bend this into any shape you want. The problem is it isn't bendy enough for you to form it into a coil for him to stand up or to coil it around his enemies because it just doesn't bend enough. It doesn't stay. What that means for Galobulus is he can't stand up on his own. To keep him upright you have to lean him against something or he has to just lie down. The catalog photo had a different tail. I don't know if it's an improvement. I don't think it's possible to make half snake guy here look good. This in my opinion is a terrible action figure because the tail won't bend in a way that will allow Galobulus to stand. There's no way to keep him upright. He must either lie on the ground or lean against a wall and neither option is very fun. He can't effectively use it against his enemies either so the tail is just a nuisance. I've always been curious about the construction of this figure given the very non-standard lower half. So I'm going to use my old crappy Galobulus and I'm going to take him apart and look at his innards. He has a screw in the back like a standard action figure so I'm assuming we can take him apart just by unscrewing that. He feels like he has an O-ring but what exactly is that O-ring attached to? Alright, looks like he is splitting apart. There we go. There we go. Oh man, this one's all cracked and broken. Oh alright, check this out. He doesn't have an O-ring at all. Well alright, I'm not going to be able to get this one back together. He's all busted. But look, there's no O-ring. There's just a post, a rubbery post that simulates the movement of an O-ring figure. But there's no O-ring on this guy. So his torso just wraps around that post and the post will bend a bit so that's fine. It's an interesting way to construct that without any extra parts and without the standard J-hook and without an O-ring. It may seem strange to say that a pack of three figures did not have enough figures but there's an omission here. There's a missing figure for Cobra Law. That is of course, Pythona, a female Cobra Law character that was prominent in the movie and important to the story. There was no vintage Pythona figure. There was a modern figure from the G.I. Joe Collectors Club figure subscription service. That figure was reviewed by Timmer on his YouTube show, Half the Battle. I didn't review that. That was reviewed by the ghost of a future version of myself that I killed in 2012 and you know what? Doesn't matter. Pythona, I really really like this figure. It looks absolutely fantastic and it's a damn shame that it took decades for this character to get an action figure. And of course you could then only get it through the Collectors Club so it's rare, expensive and kinda worth it. The only thing I don't like is that the hair on top of the figure is just plugged in, not glued in so it comes off really easy. Yeah cause that's what G.I. Joe Collectors really need. More small stuff you can lose. Especially when it comes to rare figures. Still, it's a pretty awesome figure. I'm just sad that not a lot of people get to enjoy it. Thank you Timmer. Please make sure you check out Timmer's YouTube channel and subscribe as he's trying to reach 2020 subscribers in 2020. Let's take a look at the file cards that are printed on the back of this giant card back. There are three file cards. Let's start with the bottom and work our way up. This file card for the Royal Guard has their faction as Cobra, which is not exactly true but close enough. There's a portrait of the Royal Guard here, codenamed Royal Guard. He's on the Cobra Law team. This top paragraph says, Bread and surgically enhanced for size, strength and endurance, the Royal Guards of Cobra Law are responsible for the personal protection of Galobulus, Supreme Leader of the Hidden Valley and last descendant of the Serpent Kings. Encased from head to foot in organic insectoid armor, Cobra Law are impervious to any ordinance up to high explosive anti-tank round. Although formidable in battle, the Guards tend to be tactically unimaginative and are relatively useless without close supervision. Bread and surgically enhanced for size, strength and endurance and yet the figure is average size. This is a problem I have with Nemesis Enforcer as well. These guys are supposed to be big and intimidating and they are not. This bottom paragraph says, there was an attempted coup in Cobra Law about the time when Emperor Hadrian was building his wall. 500 irate noblemen stormed the inner sanctum of Galobulus' summer palace and were confronted by just 20 guards. Galobulus slept through the entire incident. One guard was slightly wounded. Of the 500 noblemen, there were no survivors. This bottom paragraph does a great job of describing the Royal Guard as bad asses, but the figure just doesn't live up to it. Next up is Nemesis Enforcer. Once again, Cobra is the faction. Portrait of Nemesis Enforcer here. Codename is Nemesis Enforcer. He is on the Cobra Law team. This paragraph says, they say in Cobra Law that Galobulus raised the Nemesis Enforcer from a pile of dead things and that where his soul should be there is nothing but emptiness. His leather and wings have beat across the night sky since before the Ice Age as he tirelessly carried out the dark will of his master and creator. Fleeting glimpses of his sinister form gave rise to legends of vampires, harpies, and countless other things that go bump in the night. He is the reason we have vampire legends. Not with those little wings. This bottom paragraph says, he can glide silently and land without a sound. He is the other presence in the pitch black room. He is the lurker in the dark just outside your bedroom window. He rattles the garbage cans and makes your floors creak. He is the dread that stands behind you in the dark and dares you to turn and face him. Finally, we get to the file card for the head man himself. The faction is Cobra. Again, not really true. According to the movie, Cobra is more of a faction of Cobra Law than the other way around. Portrait of Galobulus here. Codename Galobulus. He is the Cobra Law ruler. This top paragraph says, descended from the serpent kings of prehistory, Galobulus rules over Cobra Law. A hidden secret valley in the Himalayas where the high priests of the biomechanical cult have created a technology based solely on living organisms. The buildings of Cobra Law are really colonies of crustaceans and the clothes of inhabitants are as alive as the people who wear them. Galobulus has achieved immortality through symbiosis at the cost of his humanity. But he never was human according to the storyline, unless he was once a man. This bottom paragraph says, the plates of Galobulus' body armor are living mutations of lobsters and crabs. Each genetically altered to perform a specific function and bred for the tensile strength of their chitinous shells. Over the centuries, so much of Galobulus' body parts have been replaced or biomechanically altered that very little of the original is left except for his brain and his central nervous system.