 Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here, and this is an unboxing and assembly of a vintage GI Joe vehicle And this one is special. Usually I unbox and assemble common vehicles from the 1990s This is the 1987 Cobra Wolf. This was sent to me by James Thompson with the express purpose of Opening it and assembling it. So that's what I'm going to do. Thank you very much James for this I hope you all enjoy it. I have the tools I will need to open and assemble this thing. Let's not delay Let's crack this thing open. This box is shrink-wrapped. Originally it wasn't shrink-wrapped Somebody has done this aftermarket probably just to make sure it doesn't get any further damage and to keep the thing together So the first thing I will do is remove the shrink wrap and I will try to do it without damaging the box There are some holes in the shrink wrap here, and if I turn the blade away from the box I think I can slice it open Without scratching the box. The box already has a few scratches on this side. So if I did end up scratching it Oh, there we go. I don't think it would be noticeable. So There we go shrink wrap almost Yeah, so the the original tape on the box has been cut so It has been opened before but I can see that the figure is still sealed on the red card On the bubble I can see that through the little window pane there so There is a hope of having Sealed contents in this thing, but let's let's check it out. Let's find out and set that aside This actually both sides appear to already be open. So I'm going to open this side So you can see from the camera's angle and let's see. What do we got? We've got a Cardboard tray Actually, it's not a tray. It's just a no. No. Yeah, it's a it's a tree and it's facing this direction. So let me Slide it out Yeah, we have sealed contents guys Yep, that everything. Yes. Oh Yeah This is a trip. I always enjoy assembling these GI Joe vehicles, but I don't do very many 80s vehicles because they tend to be more rare and expensive So this is a special treat this I This is something I could have experienced as a kid In 1987 and I'm doing it now as an adult and that is exciting We have the blue clear plastic pieces for the canopy Looks like we have a sealed bag with the other parts and there is the The sticker sheet and the sticker sheet looks a little bit rough If this thing was stored in heat It may have melted the glue a bit So the the sticker sheet may be a bit if he will check it out. We will try it the body of the vehicle looks Pristine it looks like it's never been touched It's yeah, it looks Exactly the way it would have looked back in 1987 Not a scratch on it perfectly clean Beautiful. That's just just beautiful There's the there are the instructions And the blueprints So be following that to assemble this vehicle so the paper has browned a little bit I guess just due to age We have some catalogs. There's Yeah, this is the male away catalog Has some stuff that you could get through the mail in 87 and this is the 1987 Selection it just shows you everything that was Available on that year at retail and right there is our Cobra wolf so groovy very awesome the other 1987 vintage vehicle that I unboxed and assembled was the C-ray and there's the C-ray right there All right, let's let's carefully slide the figure out of the cardboard. I want to try to do this Gently, but it doesn't seem to be a gentle way to do it. I'm just gonna have to push them out Come on now as he taped on or glued on or something he may be Because he's not coming. Yeah, I think I think he may be glued on Let's see here Well, I don't want to I want to cause as little damage to it as I can but I can see there are some glue spots in there Let me see if I can Kind of just cut through the glue Without cutting my finger, hopefully I want to cut through the glue and get this off, but I want to keep the cardboard intact The backing board for the figure because I'd like the figure to still be completely sealed When I open it There we go. Yeah And I don't remember these figures being glued on like that But it's been quite a long time since I've opened one of these so I wouldn't remember that Yeah, a couple spots of glue on there, but there's the figure still sealed with his accessories We will be opening that and this Is just the cardboard insert I will set that aside for now And let's get to work on this guy. Let's look at the instructions and Start putting it together. Okay. We need some parts for step one Try cutting this open real quick and There we go Parts we parts Some skis and some missiles and Yeah, that sticker sheet is sticking to the inside of the bag and Yeah, I'm pulling it off. I'm peeling it off, but it's Trying to take some of the stickers with it so The stickers may be a project. Um, in fact, yeah, one just came off on my finger Okay, so I'm gonna leave the stickers there for now I don't want to lose any Um, but I'm gonna get these other parts out. I will take those stickers I will take that sheet off of the plastic, but it's stuck on there pretty good I have seen that happen before with other vehicles where the You know, perhaps at some point in the last 30 years or so It was stored in a hot environment and um the glue on the sticker sheet kind of melted and sort of Just stuck to everything That's okay though. That's it's could still be salvageable and we're gonna give it a try but for now I need these tracks I need Where are they? The wheels there are the wheels. I need these wheels And oh and these skis and I have My nipples to Nipple these wheels off Okay there There got a clean nip on those wheels And what it tells us to do is Place these wheels um on these tracks and the um the hollow side of the wheel should be facing in So Yes Just press those on That was easy These pegs for these wheels are often broken on the Cobra wolf, so it's really nice to see some beautiful intact pegs and those wheels fit on perfectly so far everything has been very easy Um for the next part I need to put these skis Let's see this back posts Yeah, the back post Into the snaps underneath the front Of the body should just Easily hopefully easily snap right on there Don't give me no trouble now. Oh, there it goes. Yeah, perfect perfect All right, so the front skis are on these go On this underside and they fit on these bars here these little clips fit on those bars, um I guess it doesn't matter Okay, there isn't really a front and back They are symmetrical So what's really important I guess is having the hollow side of the wheel on the inside So See here That should snap on hopefully easily Right there Maybe it's not going to be so easy, but we're going to get it. We're going to get it Um, I just need to that uh Wrap around that bar You know who I feel sorry for dads in the 80s A lot of dads in the 80s had to put these things together And they had to deal with these frustrations Um, I remember, you know, I assembled a lot of gijo vehicles In my younger years and I don't remember them being this difficult. I I seem to remember getting them assembled, you know in a few minutes and and playing with the things But now As an adult It's a struggle Now there could be reasons for that maybe the plastic has deteriorated some since Uh since it was first manufactured that's possible, but I don't think so on this the plastic feels right The plastic moves right It's just given me a heck of a time and I can't My fingers are too big to like really get deep in there and press in To make sure it Goes on properly. So I'm hoping to this screwdriver will Get some pressure right where it needs to go Okay, there's one And Can I get that other one, please? There we go All right, they are on and I didn't break anything. So those are the back treads With the wheels. Let's move on to step two This came out of the box with the top and bottom pieces already snapped together So I had to take them apart in order to complete the next step, which is the Missile launcher And that goes in this slot right here In the bottom piece I am doing it correctly. Yes It goes there and There we go and this Snaps on top of it. There's got a couple of tabs here in the front And another in the back. Let's try to line that up really good It's it's an odd shape. It's an asymmetrical Sheep and it's got a lot of quirks and personality to it But um, but it's still really cool that snapped in easily back Oh, I see there There All right. Now that is snapped together. There we go Next um step three we've got to do the canopy. That's this Let's cut that open And this is pretty straightforward All right, we put the canopy pieces on There is a front and a rear canopy, which is which Let's see. Well, it'll only fit one way, right? This has already Come off, but I don't have to nipple the other one off There we go Okay Let's see. So this looks like the front one. Yeah, and this is the back one. Okay, no problem So we just kind of Yeah, snap the pegs into place and it should Go in like that. It's that was incredibly easy almost too easy So then that should close now come on Don't make a liar out of me. You're supposed to close easily and snap into place. Well that It is hinged properly It is in the proper alignment, but that is Hard to snap close. I don't want to break it I'd rather leave the canopy open than break it. Let's go ahead and get this one See if we can be more luck with that There Yeah, they are both hinged Properly they are both connected properly, but both of them are struggling to close They should be flexible enough that these tabs should go right in the center there There we go. Well, sort of there back one's closed Let's get this front one closed We'll have to open them again, of course because there are stickers that go in there but I want the vehicle to work properly That's I think more important than the sticker placement That tab just seems to be a little too long And it does not want to go So it looks like we've run into our next difficult piece The canopy is on it's on perfectly. It fits It hinges it opens exactly as it should It doesn't want to close And I don't want to break it That's as good as I'm going to get it. I'm not going to struggle with it anymore I might I may play around with it later to see why Why she's not closing but I'm gonna leave it there for now and move on to the next step the next step being This engine panel which will go there and The gun and mount Those are here So let's let's nipple these pieces off That's the wrong tool. Here we go There we go nipple nipple there Oh, that didn't get a clean cut. There we go and the cannon nipple nip nip nip nip nip nip nipple, there we go. All right another Plastic frame that we don't need right now. Okay, now. Let's do the let's do the engine panel first That should be fairly easy um, it goes like that and Let's see. What's the best way? oh, man, I think From the bottom first is the best way put it in the bottom first and then push that tab in maybe Maybe not. Let's see. All right another piece that just refuses to go easily So maybe the top goes in first. Yeah, there we go. All right, wasn't that bad So there's that back panel there um the cannon We have this part that plugs into the this hole The turret and then we have the cannon which just clips on like that and that goes Like I don't want to put pressure on those wheels. So let's do it this way try to do it so you can see maybe there That was easy except the gun came off. So come on now clip on and stay on There we go. There we go. All right cannon assembled Backage and panel assembled. What is the next step? We need the side skis. Let's get those there And then we'll need the ski pedos These are our removable pieces. So now we're putting the removable pieces on these little skis that connect to the sides they have foot pegs So you can attach a figure to it. That's kind of cool. There And these go Here now, I know you fit look I have one of these right I have a Cobra wolf. I have a couple of them actually so I know these pieces fit on So I should not struggle with these and yeah, that went easy. That was easy That was easy. And also you can flip these treads up which man, that's really tight All right, well you can flip these treads up and Right on the skis, but that is so tight. I'm just gonna leave them. How about that? That's a better idea Just gonna leave them. Don't risk breaking the silly thing All right ski pedos. Let's clip these off Since gijo vehicles didn't have a lot of paint on them In fact, most of them had no paint on them The way they had to add color was to use different color plastic You know for different parts Um, but to do that you'd have to produce, you know different color Plastic frames for those parts And so they they tried to be efficient with that and mold Same color parts together as much as they could although on this vehicle the Canon and the canon mount Are about the same color as the um The treads and the skis Yeah the same color and yet they came on two separate plastic frames instead of one big one and maybe they just didn't want to Have one big enough for all of them. So the ski pedos slide Right back in there Um, like I say a little right back in there Here we go. All right, they should wedge. Yeah, they wedge there There you go. You got your ski pedos there and this Missile launcher should pop up Because it is hinged there And now we've got four red missiles So you see you have red missiles to add a splash of color But no paint no paint on the vehicle at all Um And the stickers help as well Sometimes stickers will add a little spot of color and that helps Keep things from being monochrome 234 Come on now There is a mail away version of the Cobra wolf and I still want to get it. It's mostly the same as this. In fact, it's almost exactly the same Except for the ski pedos and this missile launcher are in dark gray instead of this, uh Off-white this very light gray. That's almost white um It's not That significant a change, but It's a variation that um, it's kind of special a little different and I do want to get one I've seen a couple floating around Uh, I haven't pulled the trigger on them. I probably should have um But I want to get one that it doesn't necessarily have to be complete But I want all of the parts that are different from the, uh Retail release, which means I want the different colored I want the different colored ski pedos and I want the different colored missile launcher If it's missing the rest of the stuff, that's fine. I just want to make sure it has those parts Um, so that is that and I believe we are yes, we are fully assembled There's the fully assembled vehicle, but it is naked. We need to try to put the stickers on Okay, here's what I had to do I peeled the sticker sheet off of the inside of that poly bag and I Some of the stickers were stuck to the inside of the bag So I had to peel those off and reassemble the sticker sheet It is All here and all the stickers are accounted for But they may not stick because, um The back of some of those stickers are dry And the front of the stickers are sticky. That doesn't help us very much What I'm going to do is I'm going to try to encourage them to stick With a little bit of rubber cement just the tiniest spot of rubber cement On each one, uh, as I stick it to the vehicle Uh, I have the Sticker sheet instructions here and we are just going to go for it Uh, this will be a challenge. No doubt. Um But I'm going to start in the front With number seven, which is the large cobra emblem This one is still stuck to the sticker sheet. So maybe it will stick on its own Uh, let's see There's a nice little space there for the sticker in the mold of the vehicle that was nice Is that going to stick? Oh, no, it's not okay All right, so let's just uh very lightly Dab it with rubber cement And encourage that guy to stick right there Yeah Um, congratulations to everyone who Is actually made it to this part of the video I guess I'll it doesn't say where this one goes There's an extra number 13 sticker Uh, it's on the diagram, but there's no arrow pointing to where it goes um I don't know Um Am I missing something? I don't think I am. I'm gonna put it. I'm gonna put it here Because that's a good place for it. It looks like it could go there One thing that has changed is um In the past The revenue I get from ads on this channel and from Patreon that's just been Money to buy toys and uh cover equipment on the channel that I need for doing videos and It really has kept the Channel alive because uh, I've been able to To Cover expenses that I would not otherwise be able to Um, what's changed though is that that is going to More and more be part of my regular income That I will need to you know actually pay my bills And it's it's been working though. It's it's been enough which is awesome I may trim some of this video because Not talking about anything particularly interesting And uh putting on stickers that you can't really see until I get finished So yeah, rather than show the entire sticker Uh process especially since I have to do a little extra work on it Probably what I'll do is skip to the end so you can see the stickers actually on the vehicle So here are the stickers. Uh, they are all on and accounted for is it perfect? No, but I think that's what I like about it I will need to remove some excess glue in spots. I will do that later Uh, but right now I'm just happy to have the stickers on Uh, and I want to move on to the action figure Now we move on to the ice viper still sealed in the plastic bubble After the challenge of putting the vehicle together and putting the stickers on I want to Practice extreme caution with this figure I've been thinking about the safest way to Open the figure so it will not possibly receive any damage So, uh, let's um There we go that'll that'll do Get it There we go. There's the guy My fresh Fresh out of the bubble Never before been touched by human hands. Uh, the o-ring Is still pretty good. Some of some of these figures Even when they're fresh out of the package The o-rings can be a little weak just because of age, but this o-ring is good There is his helmet Ah, oh, okay. The helmet doesn't want to stay on but we're gonna make it stay on. There we go He has helmets and his little um His little ice picks here the uh ninja sigh Uh, oops. Oops. Yeah, I don't know. You know, you can't Actually, let's put him in his hands. There are these little um slots where you can place them on his leg But why not let's put him in his hands It feels like stabbing somebody today There we go. So there we have it A complete and assembled cobra wolf and a fresh out of the package Cobra ice viper. That was my unboxing and assembly of the 1987 cobra wolf with the ice viper Thanks, james thompson for sending this. I really appreciate it. I hope you enjoyed it um Does this improve my estimation of the vehicle? Well, I already thought it was pretty good And this one is now special because I got to put it together myself. So That's all for now. I'll be back next week with a vintage gijo toy review I hope you will join me then i'm already working on it and I think you will enjoy it So thanks james and thanks all of you for watching and I will see you next time