Terrordrome

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The Cobra Terrordrome (sometimes spelled Terror Drome) is a fictional playset from Hasbro's G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line[1]. The playset is basically the prefabricated easilily set up fortress/headquarters for the Cobra Organization. Each playset comes with a vehicle service and refueling bay, munitions depot, a prison cell for a G.I.Joe action figure, tower-mounted cannons, and a launch silo for the Firebat interceptor mini-jet[2]. The original playset also included an action figure - A.V.A.C (Air Viper Advanced Class [3] intended as the pilot of the Firebat aircraft.

The Firebat fighter jet - minus the action figure - was later made available by Hasbro as a stand alone mail order-only vehicle.

In the cartoon series, the Terrordrome is portrayed as the premiere Cobra headquarters. Here, it is much larger in design and houses more troops, vehicles and equipment. The interior as seen in G.I. Joe: The Movie reveals it to be a much more complex structure than the toy design with the inclusion of a throne room and a maze of corridors.

In the comic series from Marvel Comics and written by Larry Hama, the Terrordrome is a small, but solid pre-fab fortress sold by Cobra to client countries. Of course, Cobra personell are required to run the Terrordromes, providing ways for Cobra to infiltrate the country. In issue #68, the dozens of Terrordromes littering the countryside of the fictional Frusenland were used to artifically incite the citizens to riot and thus, hopefully increase Cobra's sales of weapons even further.

In issue #69, a Terrordrome and it's Firebat were destroyed by one of Destro's pilots. All the Cobra soldiers still inside the facillity were killed.