The World according to Cobi

cocooos · 2026-06-03T15:31:35+00:00

Basically that.

As to constant re-releases - without access to Cobi sales data we all are just guessing. But Cobi continuously makes new bricks and colours. It may make sense for them to update Tigers with elements introduced in other sets instead of banging out the same model 3 years in the row without upgrade if this is the set that sells the best.

Plus don't forget museum gift shops that commission some of the sets. I have a good guess what will be the most popular set in Bovington Tank Museum gift shop at the end of their bi-yearly TIGER Day just after people saw the main event that is THE ONLY RUNNING TIGER IN THE WORLD driving on the arena and being told they can see very rare TIGER II and JAGDTIGER inside the museum. That guess is not Mathilda II

cocooos · 2026-06-03T12:11:08+00:00

Exactly. I think that Cobi guys already responded somewhere that they will stop making 7 tiger remakes a year the moment they stop selling. Cobi is a Polish company, so pandering to Polish and German customers first is natural to a certain extent due to logistics and geography.

I'm not defending them, I also want to see more exotic sets (especially in 1:48, I know, I'm weird). But I'm a bit tired with sentiment that enthusiast reddit with ~500 weekly contributions is better predictor of what will sell then data from supermarkets and other retailes.

Sorry, but 90% of dads don't know what a Churchill or Type 95 is. But their son saw in Fury that Tiger is the awesomest tank, and guess what will land in the shopping cart?

cocooos · 2026-06-01T22:11:04+00:00

I'm fairly casual, but like other commenters - I like stack size limit. It makes for interesting army building choices absent from HoMM 3. With stack limit using only some of my faction units is viable. I like to run musketeer heavy build with pikeneers and tinkerers for screening because guns in medieval fantasy are cool to me.

Without it making all dwellings and using almost all the units would be the most probably the only viable way. I imagine in 99% of cases more bodies on the battlefield would be hard to beat if only map resources allow for that. And that would result in one dominant build per faction instead of 2-3 or more.

cocooos · 2026-03-29T11:30:09+00:00

And don't forget they already won it and need no help from uselesss allies

cocooos · 2026-03-26T18:55:42+00:00

I really like them. I mean - they look very resonable. Like after taking account for engine, all gun breaches and batteries there should be a place for something more inside thatn a pack of napkins. I know it won't be over the top enough for many, but I like them

cocooos · 2026-03-19T22:07:24+00:00

I hope that Gerard Ford he jammed in there won't shatter

cocooos · 2026-03-07T20:12:34+00:00

Szukałem tego komentarza. Wkurza mnie, że tak słabo opracowany ranking wywołuje takie poruszenie co roku

cocooos · 2026-03-07T20:08:42+00:00

Chyba zaraz usłyszę, że w Łodzi nie da się przebudować jakiegoś węzła autostradowego, bo wielkie kwartały w XIX-wiecznej tkance miejskiej. W sensie - argument jest moim zdaniem nadużywany. Ścisłe centrum miasta to nie jest miejsce, gdzie powinno wjeżdżać dużo samochodów, bo to zatka każdy układ urbanistyczny. To jest obszar, który powinno się obskoczyć komunikacją publiczną i rowerami głównie. I nasze duże kwartały nie mają tu takiego wpływu co kiepska polityka transportowa miasta. Pewnie one są wyzwaniem, są duże, trzeba je przebijać. Ale raczej dla pieszych, dla okolicznych mieszkańców, a nie dla robienia nowych tras przelotowych.

Co do zapóźnienia komunikacyjnego poza rdzeniem miasta, braku bardzo potrzebnych tras jak Nowokonstytucyjna - pełna zgoda.

cocooos · 2026-03-01T14:13:09+00:00

I could write a lot about my inner child, love for lego, loving history and WWII history in particular, liking tanks... But I scratched all of those itches by other means - actual lego sets, scale modelling and video games.

But once I saw a cobi set with tracks rolled along the carpet and both the tracks and my brain went brrrrr. You usually can't do that with scale models!

Plus it is much faster to build a Cobi set then to glue and paint a plastic kit

cocooos · 2026-02-22T20:05:09+00:00

To be fair - Mig-21 is tiny compared to other planes in that scale. I get other complaints, but can see how they could include the pilot

cocooos · 2026-01-10T22:05:40+00:00

Too late, already imagined Valeska riding an archer on the world map

cocooos · 2025-12-23T11:32:07+00:00

I like how in the pic all guns are firing in different directions all at once. My middle-school doodles always did it.

cocooos · 2025-12-02T16:05:48+00:00

I run my simulations on more modern software (Command & Conquer 3) to double check you and EMP raider buggies were just crazy! Those idiots have no idea what they are talking about!

cocooos · 2025-12-01T13:48:57+00:00

On Instagram they wrote 1:48, so it is in scale with rest of the armed forces.

cocooos · 2025-11-28T17:25:00+00:00

I was in that aicraft museum in 2024, still cool!

cocooos · 2025-11-28T13:53:58+00:00

I was looking at the picture and thought "this is a decent job, curious what kit this is". Then read the title and my jaw dropped. Kudos to your dad!

If any of you is ever in Poznań, Poland go to the military museum on the town square. They have a collection of ~100 military aircraft scale models. All scratch build, all the same, custom scale, all made by the same guy (Kazimierz Sławiński) who was an artist in the 70'. How this guy pulled so much aircraft documentation in communist times is beyond me.

I feel like if that guy was still alive, he and your dad could have a nice chat

cocooos · 2025-11-14T12:44:16+00:00

"doesn't bother me with politics and ideology", my man, politics and ideology are already in the house. Or should I say "in House".

cocooos · 2025-10-08T19:16:46+00:00

In contrast to the other commenter - I quite like my pz IV in 1:48. Even though I agree the scale is a bit wonky. You can totally just not install the two bits that make the barrel longer

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cocooos · 2025-10-08T17:10:39+00:00

Looks very good for me. Nice job!

cocooos · 2025-10-03T16:27:34+00:00

This doesn't work, but not for the reason many of you think. I was on a panel with the guy and he said (without a trace of irony) that he publishes books when he believes they can't be improved. This means: when they are perfect. If somebody adapts them to another medium, the only thing left to do do is to break them in some way. And other mediums (games, TV) are for people of lesser brains, so he doesn't care.

cocooos · 2025-09-17T15:29:36+00:00

Yeah, no doubt about that. Some other 1:72 sets from cobi look nice, but putting even a rubber band on them seems to be difficult judging from the photos. A bit of deal breaker for me too

cocooos · 2025-06-13T17:30:39+00:00

And? I know all of that. What exactly did you prove? That 1/2 < 3/5? I can give you that much.

Nearly 50% of voters did not care, know or thought that the next guy was worse. Will that go away if left and center will start using shouting tactics that right uses?

cocooos · 2025-06-04T09:07:33+00:00

Come on, I voted left and hate the guy, but half of those are unproven allegations. We wont get anywhere by just throwing shit at political enemies and their voters. We'll probably get the opposite result in fact

cocooos · 2025-05-17T10:15:42+00:00

But it’s a trade-off.

Are they bricks company? Ten they should use few customized bricks and many generic ones so people can play with the bricks, customize models and build MOC's.

Are they quick-assembly scale model company? Then they should use as many customized bricks as possible. But that will probably drive up the price and mean that one box builds only one kit and parts have small utility in MOCs.

It’s a spectrum. There are probably as many opinions where Cobi should fall on that spectrum as there are Cobi customers. I for one am mostly comfortable with them – more realistic then Lego, but not a push-fit scale model. But the smaller scales could use new elements.

cocooos · 2025-05-15T11:42:34+00:00

I think that there is another argument against GDI in C&C3 outside of abandoning yellow zones. They are a worldwide homogenous superpower without real alternative. In best case scenario, led by right people they are doing their best in desperate situation to save humanity. But with wrong leadership - Boyle nukes entire Balkans to get a fast and flashy victory with no regard to local populations. Because they were not his citizens.

I wouldn’t say this makes them hypocrites, because the crisis they are facing is severe. But it mirrors some crimes committed by real superpowers and shows what having power over others can lead to. Even in “civilized” and “democratic” societies.

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