News · 2026-08-04
Arctic Battle 3-Pack: Three Cobra Cold-Weather Troopers, 27 Accessories, $84.99
Cobra is going cold-weather again. The G.I. Joe Classified Series Arctic Battle 3-Pack was shown at Hasbro’s San Diego Comic-Con 2026 panel at $84.99, shipping Fall 2026, with a preorder announced for Wednesday, August 26 at 1:00pm ET. That listing is now live.
Update, August 26. The Hasbro Pulse product page went up on schedule at 1:00pm ET, so the date that came off the SDCC panel rather than from Hasbro directly turned out to be good. Price is $84.99 as announced, the SKU is G20305L00, and the page says the pre-order will be available to ship on approximately November 1, 2026, which sits inside the Fall 2026 window. The listing is badged a Pulse exclusive, and ordering opened behind Pulse Premium, with “Premium Members Only” sitting on the buy control at 1:00pm ET.
Update, 5:15pm ET. The Premium gate is off. Checked signed out and cache-busted: the “Premium Members Only” wording and the Premium Only badge are both gone, and the buy control now reads a plain Pre-Order that any shopper can use. Price and ship line are unchanged at $84.99 and on or around November 1, 2026. That is the same pattern the Sgt. Slaughter and Triple “T” set followed on August 12, when the gate came off within a few hours of the drop. If you checked at lunchtime and bounced off the Premium wall, the set is open now.
Get the roster right
There is a naming error circulating on this one that is worth heading off. Some panel writeups describe the set as two Cobra Snow Serpents and a Steel Corps Trooper. Hasbro’s own product images say otherwise. The three figures are the Arctic S.A.W.-Viper, the Arctic Drift Viper and the Arctic Steel Corps Trooper, which lines up with the trio Hasbro first showed during an Adventures In Collecting appearance back in December 2025.
So no Snow Serpent in this box, despite the arctic dressing. That matters if you were planning your shelf around one.
The packaging settles it too. The box front reads “Arctic Steel Corps Trooper vs. Arctic S.A.W.-Viper (Squad Alternate Weapons) & Drift Viper”, and carries the product number #224.
Do not confuse this with #216. That number belongs to the Arctic Assault H.I.S.S. and its driver, a separate and already-listed item. Several aggregators have run the two together.
27 accessories, and they are not padding
The loadout is the strongest argument for the set. The S.A.W.-Viper carries a bear pelt cape with a snarling head, a visored helmet, a pistol, a knife, a chainsaw, a large machine gun, an ammo belt, a carrying case and a backpack. The Steel Corps Trooper gets a gas mask head, three firearms, a grenade and a gold-capped canteen. The Drift Viper brings a face mask, a red-accented visor piece, a pistol, two knives, a scoped rifle with hose and bipod, and a twin-antenna backpack.
That is 27 pieces across three figures, which puts it in the same value bracket as the recent retro cardback Classified preorders rather than the thinner army-builder packs.
What to watch
That question is settled. Hasbro Pulse has it badged as an exclusive, and at the 1:00pm ET drop there was still no listing for the set at Big Bad Toy Store or Entertainment Earth, which is what you would expect from a Pulse exclusive. The buy link is at the top of this post and again at the bottom.
Sources
- Hasbro SDCC 2026 G.I. Joe Classified Series panel reveals and information, Toy Habits, 2026-07-23
- Hasbro confirms an arctic three-pack during Adventures In Collecting, ToyNewsi, December 2025
- Product photography: Hasbro official press images.
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