Cobra de Aco - need help!

[Bigbot]

Thanks guys and thanks 300. I will inspect closely when I get him. I hope your right in that this is authentic. Its shipping out of Brazil so I should see it in a week or 2. In the mean time I am going to dig up the other example on the net where I found the squares to be silver as well.

[Crisesse]

Hello guys, I'm brazilian so sorry about my bad english. I have one Cobra de Aço here I got from my daddy when I was a child and a torso I got from a friend. The thing is: when it first came out by Estrela in 1986, the "buckles" where black (like mine two here) but later (around 1990) Estrela re-released it again as "classics series" and these Cobra de Aço had full silver shouders. I remember it because another friend bought it and we found this diference. So your action figure is the "secound release" so to speak. The "classics series re-released" was Cobra de Aço, Recondo, Mutt, Blowtorch, Spirit and Doc. Hope I helped you.

[turner]

Wow, good info from someone who lived it. Now just trade me one

[Bigbot]

Hello guys, I'm brazilian so sorry about my bad english. I have one Cobra de Aço here I got from my daddy when I was a child and a torso I got from a friend. The thing is: when it first came out by Estrela in 1986, the "buckles" where black (like mine two here) but later (around 1990) Estrela re-released it again as "classics series" and these Cobra de Aço had full silver shouders. I remember it because another friend bought it and we found this diference. So your action figure is the "secound release" so to speak. The "classics series re-released" was Cobra de Aço, Recondo, Mutt, Blowtorch, Spirit and Doc. Hope I helped you.

Nothing to apologize about your English! Thank you for your contribution. I did not know these were released twice, very interesting. The bad news is now I have to find a first release for my collection. Thanks my friend!

[Crisesse]

Here you can see (barely, I know) the black buckles. I forgot to say that there is the "ESTRELA" on the back of the figure, tried to take a picture but my celfone camera is... poor.
My Cobra de Aço is on a very bad condition, if I knew the rarity of this figure back in the day, I would take a better care of it.

[Crisesse]

Just to show you guys another exemple of this second release. Here is a Blowtorch. Is lot more preserved than the Aço because I was much older when I got it. Is a very good piece if you ask me, identical the first release.

[Crisesse]

Wow, good info from someone who lived it. Now just trade me one

Happy to help! About the trade... I dont know, just see the poor condition of my Cobra de Aço above

[dominic.18]

I just checked and i have the first version cobra de aco. I wonder which version is easier to find.

[Crisesse]

I just checked and i have the first version cobra de aco. I wonder which version is easier to find.

Probably the first wave since it was more larger in quantity than the second one. I spent the local web here in Brazil and I found only the firt wave and it costs around US$ 100,00 each!!!! I would trade mine for a good set of 25th hehehehe.

[yeti76]

Whoa! two versions? That is awesome. Now I gotta drag my 4 out of storage to see what I have.