 Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. We have reached the end of Cobra Convergence Thank you to everyone who presented Cobra Convergence content this year and thank you to everyone who followed the calendar on HCC788.com. For the last day of Cobra Convergence 7, let's take a look back at the amazing things we've seen this month. I would I would definitely say that the the siblings would have a better chance at taking down the renegades than the dreadnoughts themselves and I like the dreadnoughts Ryan. I like the dreadnought I'm just saying that there are any any any three combinations of the regular dreadnought I don't think except you know, maybe maybe road pig would would be a tough one But I don't think any three combination is is as strong as this three here Now before the terror drone was released Cobra did have a couple of other bases to speak of The first initial base was the Sears and Roebuck 1982 missile command center This was a cardboard type base, which is actually pretty rare to acquire complete these days And then there was some mini bases like the 1985 Cobra Bunker And then they had the surveillance port which was actually released in 1986 This could be used for a rallying point for the Cobra troops This is the saw viper Cobra's heavy machine gunner from 1990 This figure was released in 1990 and was only available in 1990. It was discontinued for 1991 This is the only vintage version of the saw Alrighty last round Johnson Henderson I saw that your friends and fellow gi joe enthusiasts. It's chad Today as part of Cobra conversion seven I have the privilege of discussing that master of intelligence and espionage the baroness Let's get into it I don't care how many times we saw Paris That guy just died Like we saw the vipers. We saw him bust out of there, but you know, he just fallen to his doom Or it was his corpse falling out of the chair. I don't know was that red cork with a jump pack on it was He had to be so bad damn Of course, he's got his red uniform with his leopard skin Patches around it with his red disco medallion Going to go catch up with the baroness. I suppose Had his rendezvous with the baroness He'll ever make an agent faces or scoop and classified. Do you ever think there's a chance? I know the whole never say never but realistically Man, I would say if this if this line lasts down a line, maybe a three or more years, maybe we got so much Awesome characters to to keep going. I wouldn't go this deep for a long time to be honest with you There was the original one. There was a desert one. There was the tiger force one. There was the cobra stinger There was a dreadnought one. There was male aways. There was variants But what never happened was cobra commander Didn't get his own specific So today Cobra conversion seven you're gonna write that wrong Storm saddle was a series that was created at devil's dew and featured the writing of larry hama returning to a gijo book again This one would be quite a bit different though It wouldn't feature the gijo cast that we have grown used to but instead would be a narrow spotlight on storm shadow and some new characters This series would introduce some things that would later come up again in the idw real american hero books So I think what we're going to be getting for mole rats are these figures that we're seeing with some sort of alternate zombie head or Um, you know like make it you can kind of make a zombie out of it. If you know what I mean That's what I think we're gonna get or it's a mole rat and it's already zombified What do you think about that idea? It could also be shawna the dead just woken up Okay, so let's take a closer look at destro So this figure came out in 1983 and I got this figure in 1983 not this exact one But a copy of this figure back when it was released. I remember getting it. I believe I was sick at the time and My brother and my father had come home And they had a destro for me to help me feel better Which did So really cool to have this guy in my collection Let's take a look at the pilot first wild weasel You know, he really stands out Very cool action figure Call me codename kujo. You may remember me from such endless international toy scuttlebutt as the gi joe bird podcast Or my catalog of peerless community interviews Where I interviewed the artist and the occult But it was on that journey That I scraped the ceiling The truths I uncovered too esoteric for the mainstream I'm insane. So join me on this journey to see what the hell happened Meet the battle hornet. This vehicle was released in 2004 with all original parts And for a small vehicle that sure is a lot to take in In today's episode, we're going to take a look at this copperhead action figure Why because he's cobra related and because I just got him from hasbro pulse in the mail two days ago So I was saving him for cobra convergence seven. What I'm going to do is like in all my videos We're going to take him over to the photo booth. We're going to break down the package We're going to break down the figure and we're going to talk all about copperhead Released in 2003 as part of the spy troops line This was during the new sculpt era of gi joe His version one figure was a new sculpt figure while his version two figure, which was a mail away Use the o-ring design That man is part of the def subset line now you guys know I've talked Quite a bit about how much I love the different subsets. There's more than just gi joe and cobra in the original 82 to 94 joes In keeping with the theme of this year's convergence of spies and saboteurs I chose a vehicle from the gi joe spy troops line I mean it literally says spy in the toy line. So it is part of the theme by default Really before I start in going into what's going on in my life Needless to say the o-ring based three and three-quarter inch scale movement was on and there was no stopping gi joe from being at the top Of the hearts and minds of young children with that Let's have a look at the sophomore year of this amazing military based toy franchise as we watch our favorite Real american hero fight for freedom over land and air against a certain ruthless terrorist organization Determined to rule the world Today we're going to take a look at some later characters and a depraved overlord who oversees another of dr. Mindbender's genetic experiments today We're going to find out who venomous maximus is dr. Mindbender has had many evil vile plots and schemes over the decades That did it all right snake Go get them The monster is still so much bigger than snake eyes. This isn't looking good But snake eyes is a master of combat. We serve together in vietnam. I learned to never count snake eyes out He'll find a way I see thrasher and the thunder machine and get your googles ready because not everybody may notice I'm not trying to sound all cool here. I'd literally just sit on toy websites all day uh Tonka had a toy line called steel monsters that is one of the coolest most Below the radar toy lines ever. I didn't even remember it until like a few years ago All right, so let's talk about team cobra then you know, I look at cobra and Cobra comes in two flavors The troops that are the zealots. They're the ones that bought in believed the hype The fear mongering and the propaganda of cobra commander The used car salesman demagogue rebel rouser The every the everyman the everyman And then there's the top line all the named characters and a lot of the named characters aren't technically cobra. They're hired by cobra Also deeper encrypted file The fun blueprints for the vamp clutch is not going to be happy about that They even had information about the devil fish that I arrived at co-riald on Hopefully they aren't on to me as well But it's not all bad news That information on the high speed sentry hips The his tanks should be arriving on the continental united states very shortly Head of Mars the military armament research syndicate. Here's the leading supply of weaponry throughout the world However, he is also known by another name one that has imposed his will across generations and nations Destro international terrorist and scottish noble Good evening, David So this year my contribution is to take a look at three of the most wackiest craziest bankruptcy inducing Schemes that cobra has come up with over the years within the gijo cartoon series A bit more about the sky commandos the gimmick for them was that they came with a glider so um, you know, you could basically Pop your figure on there and plug him in on the bottom and then just Throw him around the backyard or down at the local park or wherever you Do It's testing a new rail gun design and something went Team was dead I had severed my spine Viewed us in yards before I blacked out woke up like this And invalid like this any longer the sense today Hey, you look last big guy, but don't worry. You're all friends here. Is that a cobra and signal in your chest? Of course it is you fool. I am cobra commander. Here comes those awful cobra mini figs Firefly I order you to cool packaging So on the side here you have the symbols Uh that you could look up online number 31 in the line And here is the the typical poster Like I said, I haven't looked at this Physically so it's still sealed Like the cover for the window is still sealed here I haven't looked at it and I've been saving it For a while right now And I thought this would be very uh a good idea to do this for cobra convergers Remember being an eight-year-old kid and during this time we would get cartoons for The marvel gi joe comic and when I saw the zartan one, of course where he pulls is That disguise off of him and then he changes colors and you know the announcer talks about you know Be on the lookout for zartan and the next issue of gi joe comic and all the mayhem and destruction that he caused I just knew this is one character them automatically fell in love with Giojoe was released in japan in 1986 Unfortunately, it only lasted one wave The 1986 release of gi joe in japan included hasbro figures which were released between the years 1983 and 1985 i.e. the first three waves There were a mixture of vehicles And also carded figures in total there were 24 individual carded figures released by takara 13 unlucky gi joes and 11 cobra So open up the book take a look at the cover for gi joe cobra from 2009 If i'm not mistaken all the covers for gi joe cobra are done by harrod chacon how chacon of course is known for doing numerous Years of work. He did a lot of Original run stuff for the marvel star wars run, which i'm sure jaren is familiar with he did um Several covers for id the regular idw gi joe book as well like the primary covers He's a really nice guy. I met him and had him sign one of the idw covers. He was he's a very Energetic guys got a lot of it's got a lot of character gi joe has somehow managed to infiltrate our Imperitable command center find a skirking coward and bring him to me So that i may test his metal and wits in my dungeon of deathly doom Commander we really should just shoot him on site instead of committing to some overly complicated murder maze Every time we do that it just gives the joes more time to send a rescue party and save them Basically, uh cobra has taken over the world and gi joe is now a small of Cell that's underground like basically they're freedom fighters And they're not they're using the same names That we all are familiar with but the characters are completely different Um as far as their backstory and how they came to be the opening sequence of this, uh 10 ten issue story arc ten issue story arc With duke being assassinated by major blood at point blank Definitely gets your attention Yeah, end of june 2003 at joe con. They revealed a three pack It was going to be called infiltrate cobra island and it was a crimson guard three pack But if you looked at it you could clearly tell that none of them were crimson guards They were all gi joe members in disguise. It had an approximate retail price of 999 so for 10 bucks Three brand new crimson guards right after the drought of no crimson guards Yeah, we both take two very different approaches on stuff Yeah, i'm influenced by the comics a lot and the cartoons More so than the toys. I mean love the toys. Don't get me wrong Yeah, especially the comics love the comic books. Well, I guess we'll just jump right into it and then uh Anything at the end. We'll just add on All right, and our list is top 10 most unlikely Spies we we think would make the worst spies for cobra what we do here at plastic profiles is review a classic gi joe figure And its file card and then compare it to a more modern interpretation to determine Which of the two best represents that character? And today storm shadow So excited. I have been hyped about this figure That's not all the cobra convergence content we got this month I asked everyone to join the convergence and make their own cobra creation And many of you got involved Remember only cobra is cobra