In 1989, two years after G.I.Joe the Movie aired and the Sunbow cartoon ended, a new animated series produced by DIC Enterprises began and ran for 44 episodes. In most ways, this new series paled in comparison to the 95 Sunbow episodes. The animation was more crude and most of the stories seemed like blatant attempts to sell toys (way more obvious than all the other 80's cartoons). But there were some cool highlights. I especially liked the Operation Dragonfire storyline. In this story, a jilted Baroness finds an ancient skull headdress with crystal horns that enables her to concentrate the Dragonfire power. This power is used to return Cobra Commander to his human form (after the events in the the Movie that left him in the form of a giant cobra). The power was also used to fuse vehicles and uniforms with animals - creating the Python Patrol. It was a pretty fun story. An added benefit is that all the character redesigns from DIC gives us fun color variants to collect. Let's check out the DIC Baroness below!
Baroness comes with two guns and a holster. I believe all three of these accessories are new.
If you haven't watched the DIC cartoons in a while, there is a pretty startling design change from the Sunbow episodes. The characters look like they're drawn by a different artist in every scene. Plus the line quality in many scenes looks like it's drawn with a marker. I believe this is because they are enlarging previously drawn cels instead and creating a new zoomed-in drawing.
The dispute between Baroness and Zarana is very amusing. Who would've thought that Destro was such a player.
If we ever get a Zarana ReAction figure, I hope she will get the DIC repaint treatment as well.
Time for some Group and Comparison Pics!
And here are the ReAction Baroness figures so far: Glow Patrol Baroness (2022), Baroness V2 (2022), Sunbow Baroness (2021), Python Patrol (2024), and DIC Baroness (2024).
Cheers!
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