With Mainframe I said during each series of figures there was always at least one character with a pretty useless function. In the 1987 series the award goes to Psyche-Out! Whose job was deceptive warfare. Nowadays he'd just sit on a computer posting fake news to Facebook, but in 1987 I guess you had to dress up like Lobot and run around with miniature radar dishes.
He didn't get into the animated movie or Sunbow show. Maybe he got into the comic book a few times. I don't know. He was part of the Night Force recoloring a couple of years later.
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| Second edition, now with bigger radar dishes! |
A reissue of him did get into the second season of the DIC show.
Somehow he managed to look almost as lame and be almost as useless.
Instead of Lobot, he looks more like a Borg. Why doesn't the real army have anyone this awesome?
Python Patrol was a COBRA unit that was just an excuse to recolor figures and vehicles. They did the same thing with Tiger Force, Night Force, and others. The figures were recolored yellow, gray, and green while the vehicles were recolored dark red with black criss-crossed lines.
They were in a DIC miniseries to fight Slaughter's Marauders, another recolored line of figures. COBRA Commander uses a gizmo to give COBRA and captured Joe vehicles the powers of a python! Um, sure. Makes sense. They also got into the comic book at least once. None of these recolored teams really stuck around long. The coolest vehicle was the recolor of the GI JOE X-30, which itself was based on the sweet X-29 prototype.
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Someone had an imagination when he was designed.
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