Ninja Leader

Code Name:

Storm Shadow

version seven

Carded Figure (w/Snake Eyes)

Storm Shadow's Filecard

Figure Description:

Storm Shadow (version 7) was released as part of the eighteenth series (2002) carded in a two-pack with Snake Eyes (v10).

Versions of Storm Shadow:

• Version One (1984)
• Version Two (1988)
• Version Three (1992)
• Version Four (1994)
• Version Five (1997)
• Version Six (2000)
• Version Seven (2002)
• Version Eight (2002)
• Version Nine (2002)
• Version Ten (2002)
• Version Eleven (2004)
• Version Twelve (2004)
• Version Thirteen (2004)
• Version Fourteen (2004)
• Version Fifteen (2004)
• Version Sixteen (2004)
• Version Seventeen (2005)
• Version Eighteen (2005)
• Version Nineteen (2005)
• Version Twenty (2005)
• Tommy Arashikage (2006)
• Version Twenty-One (2007)
• Version Twenty-Two (2007)
• Version Twenty-Three (2007)
• Version Twenty-Four (2008)
• Version Twenty-Five (2008)
• Version Twenty-Six (2008)
• Version Twenty-Seven (2008)
• Version Twenty-Eight (2009)
• Version Twenty-Nine (2009)
• Version Thirty (2009)
• Version Thirty-One (2009)

In 2006, a Tommy Arashikage figure was released, showing Storm Shadow from his years prior to Cobra and G.I.Joe.

Accessories:

Storm Shadow came with two silver swords, a white backpack (that held the swords), a black knife, and a silver submachine gun.

The packaging also included a color background.

Variations:

The very earliest carded Storm Shadows had slight packaging differences. Among them - the text on the back of the card described Cobra as a "terrorist" organization, and the figures were posed to have the heads looking at each other.

Later carded figures had no mention of the word "terrorist", the figure heads looked out and not at each other, and the packaging included the 2002 figure catalog.

These later packagings also included a new colored background that no longer had the white "explosions" around the figure. The filecard for Storm Shadow was also changed by adding the text "Characters and events referenced herein are fictional and are not intended to depict actual characters and events."

Body Construction:

Storm Shadow (version 9) has an entirely new body sculpt. The same mold was used to create Storm Shadow (v8) (2002) and Storm Shadow (v10) (2002).

Note the changes made from previous versions of 3 3/4" figures - including new waist construction.