 Hello everyone Just gonna post this where I need to post it and and I'll start saying hello to everyone Hi Chad. Hi G.I. Spidey Elk Hills and Brandon Knight nice to see you Bradley. Good. Hey, yeah, I'm just grabbing the URL out here Hi Jeremy feeling Well, I'm surviving one quick moment. Hi Dominic Yes, Brandon, you made it. Oh green. Yeah. Sorry. You can't stay, but it's nice to see you Be the defiant and build the defiant. I'm trying to do both. All right. That should do it All right, we got 27 people in here already. That's cool masked vigilante Great to see you too. Thanks Brandon. Yeah, that's true And yeah, I'll talk a little bit about myself in this video a little bit. I don't want to overdo it But you know, you guys deserve an update But I'll give everybody a minute to show up I Have less, you know planned for this Livestream than the previous ones. I always tried to have you know Something an idea of what I wanted to say and I have a little bit that I want to say But what this will be a little bit more open-ended. Well, we'll see what you want to say and we'll talk about that Hi Dave Thanks masked vigilante. I'm trying to hi. How are you Gonzalez? How are you doing? Yeah, mr. Gonzalez, I did get your emails I haven't been able to reply yet, and I'm sorry about that I'll try to as soon as I can You guys I've been it's been tough to to keep up with everything And so I'm sorry if I haven't gotten with some of you guys. I'm at all right since I'm doing this on my phone Things pop up and I got to get rid of them. Hey Shane 1982 the flak you got the flak today. Oh, that's nice It's always nice to get one of those 1982 pieces I'm a big fan of those And the flak the flak is you know, it doesn't have wheels. It just has the legs and everything It's a little bit limited in what it can do There's got a really some really fantastic detail on it, and you know, it's functional And that was you know Functional was important back in 92 or 82. I believe you mr. Yeti Archangel, hello. Oh Brandon, yeah, please keep sending emails. That's fine. I'm sorry I'm not able to get to all of them as fast as I'd like to but it's it's nice to hear from you So please feel free to email anytime you feel like it. All right, and we're indoors this time because we learned our last lesson from last time We know that in about a half hour 45 minutes from now the cicada is outside. We'll get very very loud, so Yeah PTSD and ADHD I sorry you're dealing with that, but I hope that you're getting the help that you need with it green Yeti Where do I get GI Joe well from a lot of places sometimes I try to pick them up from Trading and selling groups on Facebook. I do get things from eBay from time to time a lot of times you guys Send me stuff. So that's been a big help to me Yeah, those those bug sounds. So yeah lesson learned from last time. We're we'll do better this time Hey, Max for those ghost music. Hey, how are you doing? Yeah, I mean I Suppose it could be worse. So I'll try to you know keep a good Keep the best attitude I can I got a maggot and worms yesterday and sci-fi. Oh cool The the maggot is actually a pretty sweet vehicle and I have a feeling that that popularity on that thing will go up Is more people get their hands on it. Yeah The Tulsa backwards is a slight that is something that everyone here has pointed out at some point or another Hello, Joel Yeah, I'm glad you can make it to hey Joe fans What did Lady J say to heart wrencher? I give up. What did Lady J say the heart wrencher? Recently started collecting Joe's within the year 82 to 87 the years I had as a kid I mean that that is, you know, the most logical way to Collect is to get you know get what you are familiar with and get what you had as a kid So cool. I hope you enjoy collecting. I hope you enjoy your Your collecting adventure Comic tropes is only sort of here. I won't tell anyone that you're Livestreaming or watching live stream at work. I won't tell nobody Diapers spelled backwards is repaid. Well, thank you Mateo surreal I'm I think we're all better off knowing that so thank you for pointing that out Hi William Do I have the brawler I do not have the brawler That's one of the one that I've thought about especially since it was mentioned on Leathernecks file card Leatherneck version 3 I thought now do I want to get the brawler? I probably I mean I will get the brawler eventually, but I Haven't really actively looked for it yet But it is a vehicle that is missing. I have not ticked off that That box Hi Jeff, yeah, let's say something about You say you have it for me Well, send me an email and I'll we'll talk about that. Thank you Let's say something. Let's say something about comic tropes since comic tropes is sort of here Comic tropes his channel is really taken off right now, and I think the channel really deserves it You know, he covers comic books. He covers kind of like all aspects of comic books. Hi Max and You know the potential audience for that is huge And it's really nice to see that a channel getting attention and getting You know getting some of the the audience that it deserves So congratulations to comic tropes. Very happy to see that happen And that's really cool Question you have anything special for reviewing Well, will you do anything special for reviewing the animated movie? It's the whole thing's going to be special because I don't I Don't do movie reviews. So it's going to be totally different from what I usually do I thought I might kind of do a little bit of a parody of some other movie reviewers just for fun But I my plan is to Do like a short mini review of the Transformers movie to put the gi joe movie in context Hi, Dave So I'll do like the I think the first part of it needs to look at the Transformers movie and then the gi joe movie in that context. So That's kind of what I'm thinking about it How can you send stuff now, uh, I promise no more 90s If now, of course, you guys don't have to send me anything Matt, thank you for recently subscribing to the channel But you and if you want to you're certainly welcome to but please don't feel obligated to I usually have stuff sent to my work address Now because it's just the safest way To send things and make sure that I get them make sure that they are secure and they aren't left on the porch by The postman and stolen by neighborhood kids So if you want that address just send me an email At let's see Can I type a message in here? Yeah, I can try to anyway. Let's give you the wrong address Okay at that email address that is appearing on your screen right now Okay Gonzalo, thank you for the review about one of my childhood memories. Keep up good work. Thank you I'm glad that you liked it Rambo and gi Joe just would have made so much sense, wouldn't it? So Yeah, but no, please don't ever nobody think you feel like you have to send something I don't want to I don't want to take More than you guys would be willing to give but if you are interested in sending something Just send an email at that address and I'll tell you how I have as far as stuff that's been sent to me this month I I have less stuff than last month had a huge amount of stuff last month But the stuff that was sent to me so far this month is pretty amazing. So It's it's less stuff, but really cool stuff. So I'm looking forward to the end of the month when I can show you that No Pepsi this time Just water. I'm actually out of Pepsi Review all the inserts like the battle ribbons command rings micro figures That sounds really really cool. I need to get my hands on them But I would love to do that That would take some time because I would need that that would take some time to collect all those But if I could get those, I think that would be fun. I think that would be cool those inserts. I remember them Just because you know I mean there was a little bit late in the game for me But I do remember them and I particularly liked the battle ribbons and you know the the face paint I think the face paint came along if I remember right really kind of just before we got out of gi joe if I'm remembering correctly But we liked the face paint for some reason um Water his life. Yes Too unhinged to be a joe. I agree with you. Okay Um John Jay Rambo is too unhinged to be a joe. I agree. I agree. So I he would have maybe not been an official joe But he easily could have existed in the same universe as gi joe and they could have cross paths Maybe teamed up on a mission or something like that. Um, but yeah, I don't think he would have um passed the psychological examination to uh to Become an official joe I'm glad you like the clean sweep review Uh, I had a lot of fun with that too. I remember I was editing that review. Um, last year in florida During joe con. I was just trying to do a little bit each night to get that done. Uh, and that was um, uh, comic tropes, um chris pierce Uh, collaboration and that was a lot of fun. Hyde pence of ruin. I'm glad you made it The russians have fluoridated our water. Yes, they've uh Uh, they have interfered with our precious bodily fluids And thank you. I'm glad you liked the headman review. Um, it's always a little bit of a risk to You know Have any kind of heavy subject matter in these reviews, but sometimes I think it's appropriate um interview series, uh Interview patrons or subscribers about their collections. Hey, I think that's not a bad idea. Um, I don't think I don't have a lot of experience interviewing people like this kind of Interviewing so I don't know if I would be a good interviewer. Uh, but um, but I could try Um, hey chris, it's okay. It's okay. You know You gotta you gotta take care of your your job your real work, but I I'm glad that you're here I'm glad you were able to stop by Hey, jj the micro figures, um The micro I'm trying to remember. I don't recall as a kid getting any of the micro figures. I don't think Uh, I could be misremembering, but I don't think I got any of the micro figures But one thing about that's nice about that is that if I collected the micro figures and did a review of them They'd be new to me. So I'd be kind of like getting a neat new thing Is work any better? Not a lot Um, so yeah, I might as well give you guys an update You know work is still as difficult as it has been Um, I'm doing my best, but it doesn't seem to be getting a whole lot better But um, you know, we're um, I'm trying to take care of myself. Um, I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow So I'm gonna be getting Getting the help that I need to you know, take care of myself. So I'm hoping that that will improve At least my condition And uh, I'll be able to keep you know Coming to you guys and and bring you stuff and talking with you and enjoying your company. So That's that's really all I have to say about that I I don't want you guys to You know worry or and I don't certainly don't want, you know, the the channel to become about me You know complaining about my private life Um, but uh, it's um, it's it's a struggle right now But we'll we'll make it through We will make it through um Yeah, oh, what's um, what's a micro figure gas? Um in um in some of the Package with some of the carded figures. Uh, there were these little tiny mini figures a little statuine Figuring kind of things Oh max, we will you are you are um, you are dropping some hints here. I am intrigued Um Johannes uh likes the um the marvel gijo and transformer crossovers That's fine. Um, I there was the uh transformers versus gijo mini series that was written by larry I I think it was And I seem to remember that one being not too bad Uh, but to be truthful, I haven't read a lot of Like the more recent, uh gijo and transformers crossovers. Um, of course, I've read the Issues of the regular gijo series that also featured transformers That was kind of weird, uh, but uh, yeah um Oh, you have a mini figure of dunho on your desk. Hey, that's cool Um, yeah, pence of ruin. That's kind of I mean I one thing that I liked about gijo As a kid and reading the comic book is I actually Likeed that it wasn't set in the marvel universe. It was its own thing. There was a gijo universe and um What that meant for me was that, you know, you weren't going to have An issue where the x-men were going to swing in or you know, have a Cameo by spider-man or something like that to me that would have just taken me out of the fantasy that They were building in the comic book. Um, so I'm glad that they kind of kept those two things Uh separate Making mask part of gijo. Yeah, and again, I haven't read a lot of that I understand why they do it. It's just not my thing. I know that that that will appeal to some fans But it's just not my thing. Um, I uh My concern like in uh Yeah, going forward if they were to cross gijo over with other hasbro properties Like transformers that gijo would end up basically playing second fiddle to transformers And and I you know transformers are fine and transformers fans. They're great and I'm glad that you know The thing that you like is kind of popular right now, you know, you got Uh, you've had movies such as they were, you know, michael bay movies, but hey, they made a lot of money um, and um, you got another movie coming up with bumblebee and that's great I'm glad you guys like that. Um, but I just don't want gijo to be You know second banana to transformers. I want gijo to have its own thing and have its own day in the spotlight um Yeah, um, the the later years of the comic. I mean, there were some Issues of the later years. I've talked about like the marvel run not the current idw run, which again I'm still trying to read the the larry homa idw run on gijo. I've been it's been highly recommended to me I even got a few issues But I haven't been able to just sit down and read them yet, which has been very frustrating But the later years of the marvel run There were still some some good issues in there and some good writing There were some issues where it seemed to me kind of obvious that larry was really straining to try to Make this all fit together and make sense And some issues work better than others, but um, there are Uh, I know um But I mean, yeah, there were still some really excellent issues in that. Hey odc That's me and comic tropes has a question. I know you're a good artist. Well, I'm okay Who was your favorite artist as a teen as a teen my favorite artist? And it was you know after the gi jo era. So we're talking about the 90s Um, so I've been a late teen, but I always liked jim lee. I liked jim lee on x-men Um, because I mean he had that flashy style that was becoming popular in the 90s But I felt like he had good fundamentals and um, uh that appealed to me a lot So, um, I've always wanted to see In my fantasy world, uh, you know larry hama Writing for jim lee in a gi jo even a single issue that would be that that's my dream I would love to see that In the image era jim lee did, um What was that thing called? Uh death blow or something like that? Um, it was a kind of a military-ish kind of Story, um, yeah, I guess it was a series for a little while And it was it was all right, but I mean I just feel like he could He could do something with with all the uniforms and you know technical stuff in gi jo I really feel like he could do something with that Um, what's the most entertaining bad move a movie ever? Um, it's for me. It's still birdemic shock and terror Um, there are worse movies. There are worse movies, but the problem with some of the worst ones um Was that they're not entertaining birdemic is at least I I think it's entertaining and I actually Like I enjoy the first half of the movie um Larry hama and jim lee did work together in wolverine and marks of estuary is here. Yeah. Yeah. Um, uh, that was that's correct That's right. Hey, so hey, maybe that's an in right? So larry calls up jim and says, hey, you know Let's do this gi joe thing. Let's make that happen. Let's start a hashtag Hashtag, uh, hamalee or something like that um But uh, yeah a birdemic shock and terror Um, I I even like I actually prefer the first half of the movie when it's just a really really bad romance story Um before all the stupid birds and special effects come in Um, I just find those characters so hilariously lame that I just I just love watching it um The comic series taught you a lot about reality at a relatively young age to you know, that's that that may be true and um larry has said that, you know, he kind of assumed that Um, you know the kids, uh, who were spending money on the comic books Maybe a little older. Maybe a little bit more mature. And so he was kind of trying to write to them Um, but yeah, there was some real, you know, some real stuff in the comic books Um, what's especially or ms that gi joe could have used but never had or played up That one I'll have to think about I don't have an answer on the top of my head about that one And I'm sorry if I'm missing your comments um Let's see Uh gi joe crossover with sergeant rock um Yeah sergeant rock Uh, I used to get that comic. I think I guess most of them were probably reprints by then but I like gi combat uh and sergeant rock, uh, whenever I didn't have um Whenever there wasn't a gi joe comic book on the the On the rack that I didn't already have So yeah, I read quite a few of those. I always enjoyed those They were gritty, um And they tried to be may a little bit more realistic than gi joe and no, you know No shape changers or anything like that in sergeant rock The sergeant rock toys not that great. I I kind of remember the sergeant rock toys and I think you're right about that Um, but I don't remember enough of them Um Live the strato viper life with hypoxia surgery um Well, that's that's an interesting dream. Uh, and I hope someday you can achieve that Uh, did I ever blow up toys or burn them? I didn't um, we played pretty roughly with them, but uh, we didn't we didn't usually intentionally destroyed them because I mean, we we like to You know Do lots of scenarios and we'd like to have lots of figures and vehicles And if we destroyed them then we would be able to play with them anymore and plus, uh, I mean Our parents were working class and they weren't going to go out and buy another one if we broke it If we broke a toy, we're out of luck. They're not going to buy a new one greatest series of cartoons and toys ever Well, I think so um Any recommendation for getting a background for your joes? I'm not sure like like a like a backdrop kind of thing or Yeah, thumbs and o-rings broke. Uh, yeah, and now we figured out pretty early on how to take that back screw out um, and you know down at our local dollar store, we could get a set of Screwdrivers and there was one that would fit that so we were taking those screws out But of course we didn't know how to We didn't have a source on o-rings. We didn't know like they were just like plumbing o-rings So we just take a rubber band and like loop it around that hook a few times And it was never quite as good as new, but at least the figures would stay together Yeah, um, uh, Michael. Yeah, we we usually got the small stuff, you know with our allowance But we'd occasionally get big stuff for for birthdays or Christmas or something like that and I mentioned Before our friend Sam, you know, Sam is very important character very important person in our um GI Joe experience because I mean he lived, um, you know just down the street a few houses down and um He was really into GI Joe 2. Hi, Delvis um, he was really into GI Joe 2 and um, he lived with his grandparents I don't I never found out exactly what happened to his parents, but he lived with his grandparents and You know, they were very much working class like the rest of us But man, they spoiled that kid. I mean they got him the big stuff all the time I mean he we'd you know show up at his house and he's got the the uss flag We'd show up at his house one day and you know, he'd have a pterodrome So he got big stuff on a more regular basis than we did But we just put all of our stuff together uh, we you know We just play with all the stuff together As if it belonged to all of us Green Yeti, I knew that wasn't you typing that so I wasn't gonna say anything So sometimes it's hard for me to remember exactly what belonged to us and what belonged to Sam Because our GI Joe toys were all together all the time anyway um Yeah, the Leonard court figures we got those two. We sometimes use them as just kind of extra characters But when we started customizing We figure out that some of the parts on the core figures Could fit with GI Joe Not all of them, but we start using those parts for customizing at some point I know Green Yeti. I know it wasn't you I figured that out pretty quick Albert, uh, yeah, I mean you have to be careful who you share with But uh, but Sam and me and my brother, uh, we just Everything belonged to all of us. It was it was a it was a GI Joe commune, right? It was a GI Joe collective Um, and it was a great way to play because between the three of us We had almost everything Up through 86 and a lot of the stuff 87 and a little bit from 88 Repaint the e honda street fighter GI Joe figure to be horror show from october garter. Um, it's an intriguing idea I think you should try um Ever review custom shows uh that my brother and I made uh, I don't have any like that are still intact I would love to do that. Um, I wish I could find some of the drawings and stuff because we made our own file cards We made our own comic books all with our own characters And if I could find any of that stuff, I would get it in front of the camera The only thing that I've been able to find Is the that toolbox that I showed you guys and that seems to be all that's left Um, I can't find any of the other stuff and we did so much Long awaited o ring returns. What's going to happen to the imitations? I don't know Um, I I'm always I wonder if we will get Uh o ring figures again. I'm wondering I'm wondering if the You know just the materials I'm I wonder if they're actually more expensive to produce than uh modern non o ring figures Um, I don't know, uh, but I'm curious about that. Uh What would be the cost of producing an o ring figure versus a modern figure The moray and the snow cat. Yeah, those were great. We didn't get a lot of snow. Um Oh o ring figures at joe con. Um, I don't remember if I saw o ring figures at joe con Um We didn't get a lot of snow. I mean we got some. I mean usually every year we get at least a little bit of snow Uh, but not enough snow to really play with the arctic vehicles. Um outside Uh, so we didn't get to take advantage of them. So, you know, we play, you know, like arctic indoors But not as often as, you know, like Sea adventures and jungle we'd love to we'd love to go into the backyard and pretending that the tall grass was a jungle We did quite a lot of that Um An instagram account. Yes, I know I know I need to I'm a little behind the times I need to uh, get uh, get myself on instagram Um, and everybody's been asking me to create a wish list. Uh, and I'm still working on that um but um It is cheaper for the tooling uh for the old school o rings Yeah, that I was wondering about that. Um, because I mean you do have you gotta have You have different materials. You have the the metal j-hook and you have the The rubber o ring and the screws and the rivets and all that I was just wondering if that is something that made it cost-prohibitive nowadays. I was um, I didn't know Um Yeah Yeah, um What do we plan to do once done with gio? Just sit back and enjoy your collection Well, I enjoy it more now because I get to share it with everyone. It's more fun For me to talk with you guys about it Then to just have it sit on the shelf But this is something that that I don't have an answer for. Um, I mean there is a finite number of reviews to do um In vintage, you know gio within the parameters of my channel. So Um, I've given some thought to that. I have some ideas of what I want to do But I haven't settled on it yet. So, uh, I don't know yet is the answer Um Yeah, uh, yeah, I think People are really liking the articulation of the modern figures Um I'm curious as to whether or not like kids enjoy the Uh articulation if that makes that much of a difference to actually kids that would play with them That I do not know Um Yeah, I can review her rainbow bright. Thank you video game nerd fan timpson Yeah, you know, she got a couple. So hey that would keep the channel going for a little while, right? Um You know, I in the last Uh, a few months, especially since joe con. I have far thought more about how I can How I could do this You know as a regular thing rather than just a side thing Um, I've thought about it a lot. Um And I think the channel is still at least a couple years away from being able to do that um, if We reached a point where like this was, you know, my regular everyday thing, um, then I'd have to give some serious thought to what would happen after After I finished reviewing all the vintage stuff Because I would definitely want to keep it going Uh, yeah, uh, yes, and I still and I've figured out I don't think I can actually fix fix the mirror thing the since the Picture is reversed. Uh, so yes, everybody gets the funny, uh, ha ha Um Is roadblock obligated to cook for everyone every day Not everyone every day because sometimes they're in the field and they're just eating rations, right? They're just eating mre's But maybe they make him cook those too. That's that's a raw deal Randall, thank you. I'm glad you like the channel um If the group would like to send a collection video Uh, can you ask if the group would like to send a collection video of gi joe? Um, sure. Does anybody want to send a collection video? um What does scoop do most days probably file reports? He's got to you know, take everything that he you know records with his camera and he's got to transcribe that So that's like 80 of his time A cobra commander and resolute um feel of the comic book version. Yeah um Yeah, I didn't like resolute. Hey, Troy Smith. Hey, nice to see you um Makes yeah I do have some ideas for like some stories that some um some action scenes and and like more like An ongoing story that I would enjoy doing with the figures If I had time to do them, um, I actually got like in my head. I've got pretty much like a like a feature length movie um Planned out that I could do with the figures and vehicles and add some special effects Um that I think would be a really fun. I would enjoy doing that so much. Um, I just Uh right now I just can't but that may that could be something that I could do after reviews are done and we're talking about years from now, right? You know, there's still a lot to do where we're not going away yet. Um, there's still years worth of gi joe toys to review um Joe bases area 51. Well, they didn't have the base in the desert didn't they? Um, but yeah, I for for at least a couple years. I've had Uh, I've had an idea for Basically, it's a movie Um, that um, I could I mean I could do it scene by scene. Um, I could break it down. So it's it's a smaller project um Or a series of smaller projects, but man that that would take some time to do what I'm envisioning um Review of other 80s nostalgia. That's also something that I've considered um I've that's that's one of the options They have thank thank you, uh, mr. Gonzalez um If fans sent street fighter 2 would I review them? Man I mean you guys are gonna make me do it. You're gonna make me Review street fighter 2. Are you sure you want me to review street fighter 2? Because I gotta be honest with you I got some problems with street fighter 2 and I know that there There are people out there that love them some street fighter 2 um And so yeah that one uh I I'd probably do it. Yeah, I'd probably do it if I had if I had a a set of them Uh, or at least enough of of them to make a review out of it Uh I'm your favorite retro joe. That's awesome And I'm o-ring um Use patreon to get sergeant slaughter to appear and review man. I would that would be so awesome. How awesome would that be? um Yes, I have one more serge figure to review and how great would it be? Hold on. How great would it be to uh, to have sergeant slaughter um, I think like contracts are what keep him from doing joe stuff. I don't his, uh, wwe contract makes it hard for him to do joe themed events, but I wonder if there's a way around that because um, I would he seems sergeant slaughter seems to really um enjoy gi joe and and uh, he seems to really enjoyed his participation in it Um, and I think he would have fun doing it. He would slaughterize it. Yeah Um, that's just one of those things where contracts may make it impossible. Uh, that's why they couldn't get him to joe con this year He, you know, they would have loved to have him, but uh, his contract with wwe apparently Makes it hard for him to do anything joe related Reviewing yeah, um, I don't know. I mean the review might be entertaining, but Doing the review wouldn't necessarily be fun Uh Of course, you know If we had sergeant slaughter on the then we'd have to we'd have to do something Uh, so with hc, uh, what mrs. Uh, htc, uh, we'd have to have uh, have a few jokes about that. Yes, you're uniety um Yeah, rowdy rowdy piper is sad that we lost him it is um What do you think the odds are of getting any new gi joe toys movies and cartoons? Well, we're definitely gonna get, um Uh, we're definitely gonna get uh movies. They've told us that we know that um Uh Make your own toy line with uh, you as a gi joe. I'll get right on that. Thank you greenie eddie We know we're gonna get movies And there will probably be toys associated with the movies. Um, I think Um, they are gonna be more like the modern era figures and Vehicles, which means like a lot of reissues stuff Uh, probably I'm guessing there's not going to be a lot like new new but a lot of reusing old mold molds um And I think it's probably also going to target more the the adult collector market Uh, which I think it has been in recent years. Anyway, that's my guess I'd really love to see something more for kids and something to bring the next generation in And create the next generation of gi joe fan. I just don't know. Uh, I mean we've had two movies Um, they weren't super popular, but I mean, you know, some kids saw them Um, but it didn't really, you know kickstart, you know, the next generation of fans. So I would like to see Something uh for the kids Uh, okay, james berry would Buy several of me as a gi joe Uh and pins for the channel. Hey, that's not a bad idea Pins for the channel I have to give that some thought See how see how I would Make those That's an interesting idea. See this is why I have you guys around you have good ideas Uh, yes, I'm sorry. I didn't have like a real topic to talk with you about I was going to, um I was going to, uh, you know talk a little bit about the most recent video in the the 90s and kind of just my my uh, my thoughts on not just that figure but, um But uh, but you know doing You know reviews that I know are going to be negative and I know are going to be ranty. Um, and there's You know in the early days it was you know, I had no problem doing a ranty video You know, everybody seemed to like it and have fun and everything but, um Nowadays I want to be careful about one thing. I want to Make sure that, um, if I'm gonna review something and it's going to be a negative review And I need to feel like I need to rant a bit about it. Um, I want to make sure that I'm not inciting, um, any kind of, uh animosity, um, hatred, uh, vitriol among The the fans and I I don't want to be the guy that divides the the fan base, right? I don't want to be the guy that that drives a wet wedge between people. Um, I do I try to be careful to Make sure that if I'm going to rant about something that it's about about plastic and not people um, and I also want to make sure that uh, everybody understands that What I'm expressing is my opinion. It is just my opinion But uh, I I want everyone to form their own own opinions. All right. I prefer it if you form your own opinions Uh, so, uh, I hope I hope that gets across to everyone. Um, I You know, when it's a bad action figure, I enjoy ripping those things apart And there are some that are easy targets Easy targets Um, and I shouldn't have to hold back on that if I feel I gotta feel like I can express myself honestly Uh, and truthfully And so I'm gonna continue to do that, but at the same time man, I don't want to start any wars within the fans I don't want to split everyone and I don't want everyone to Um start thinking that you know attacking each other is Um is a good idea because Right now, I mean I can after all the support that I've gotten and I've heard from a lot of you um There's so much positivity in the gi joe fan community right now It's you guys are great. You guys should feel proud of your fan community because There are some amazing people in it right now And just the the overall attitude Uh is uh is really good um What I I'm hoping is that when these new movies come around that, um Everybody will keep their perspective and not it's just inevitable there Whether the movie is good or bad or you know in good bad or mediocre There's just gonna be some people who who don't like it and I just don't want Uh, you know like it or not, you know like the movie if you like it don't like it if you don't like it But let's not like Let's let's not go to war with each other over it. Um express your honest and frank opinion But you know, I remember that you know, we're joe fans in the end Uh, and we we you know, we're kind of on the same team here Um, there are some other fandoms and I won't mention any names But there are some other fandoms that have allowed themselves to be ripped apart Um and have gotten quite ugly and uh, I just don't want to see that happen to the gi joe fan community You guys are too great. You're too good. You're too smart Um, you're too kind. Um And I just I I want you guys to to remember that you However, these new movies come out, you know, they can't take away your gi joe. You already have your gi joe um We have something that has been great for You know decades And they can't do anything that makes that disappear, right? So, uh, let's remember that no matter what happens with any new movies. We already have something that's great Okay, so that's gonna be my mantra Even if I end up hating the movies and if I end up hating the movies I'm gonna tell you guys that these movies suck. All right. I'm I will be quite frank and honest with you if I look at these movies and I Don't think they're good. I'm hopeful I'm hopeful right crossing all my fingers That the movies are gonna be Good, uh, they're gonna be enjoyable that the movies will will appeal to a broader audience And will bring more people in to enjoy gi joe and discover gi joe for the first time maybe that's my hope Uh, but if that if it doesn't turn out to be the case Um, I'm gonna try to keep that in perspective too because I've got my gi joe and and they can't take it away from me They just can't um Review the ballad of gi joe that was fun. Yeah, we did a little little, uh Tribute to that in the terror drone review Uh, that was fun. Uh, you guys are typing fast Uh chili. Hi. How you doing chili swerve? um Don't have any type of high expectations of the reboot. So yeah, uh, yeah, let's Yeah, I hope that it turns out good But let's keep in mind the track record, you know and uh, let's you know Make our expectations realistic But uh, I I mean gi joe has potential to be great. Um, they're I mean we The reason we are fans is because we've seen it be great. Um, thank you james. I appreciate it So yeah, we've seen it be great and it can be great again, but man, it's I think we also know from experience that it's not easy to make something great It's it's easier to make something mediocre So, um, which figure is worse lobotomax gallobulus or ihonda? Uh That's tough. I'm gonna say Gallobulus because of the tail the tail makes gallobulus almost Unplayable. I mean that thing Don't work. It just don't work um Previous movie movies to be flawed but rather enjoyable. I'm glad you like them, johannes. Uh, I know that a lot of people didn't care for them. I I When I rewatched, um Rise of cobra, you know more recently I still Still didn't love that one. Um retaliation Uh retaliation was flawed. Um, and there are some problems with it. I really have a hard time getting past But there were some Good moments and there were even some moments in retaliation that really kind of felt kind of like gi joe to me So I liked it better, uh, but you know, it was I felt like it was a step in the right direction They weren't quite there yet, but it was a step, you know a step and if they take another step Maybe they could have had something that was gold Uh, but that was a few years ago and I haven't taken that step yet um Yeah, that that And green yeti loves globulus. I'm great. I'm glad you do So everybody get green yeti's address and send him all your globulus figures You know, he's gonna, you know, hang him up, you know, hang him from his ceiling Uh, you know, he's gonna make a Wall art out of him Um My favorite figure mark, uh, my favorite figure, uh, I always go back to the same answer The figure that was the most important to me and the character that was most important to me was stalker So version 1.5 the swivel arm stalker Is a figure that I always enjoyed, uh, and I'll also always love the character in The comic book. So that's always my go-to favorite Um Hi. Hello, brian. Uh, yes, I know it's it's backwards Uh, I have let's see had to be like Almost 20 years ago now. There were some local kids that, um Dead like a zine Anybody remember zines? Anyway, that it is zine with the ace blood title Um, it didn't last very long nice kids though, you know All favorite vehicle. Oh, that's harder. Well, no, it's not actually that hard. Uh, the killer whale Um, is my favorite Uh, lots of fun with that when I was a kid As an adult, I just love just having the thing. It's so big. It's got so many so much stuff on it Um, I like the colors on it. Um, it's it's pretty cool killer whale. Uh, still my favorite Uh chat, you like the sky striker. That's also a really good one version 1 of grunt, uh Mr. Blind Crow. Yeah, um, you know, I've got even though grunt wasn't my favorite figure I always had a lot of uh, of respect for grunt and I was uh, and The grunt was a more important character and figure than he really, you know got credit for Uh, so we got we got a lot of use out of grunt grunt was an important guy He was often on our missions Uh The hydrofoil again, it's really awesome Um, and I you know, I do like the the smaller vehicles too And I like the smaller play sets and I want to keep that in mind that, you know Not every kid had the big toys Some of them only had the smaller ones and um, and some of those are really good too Um, but as far as like just sheer, you know, feature play features and everything It's hard to beat, you know the killer whale the The moray and the the night raven The tomahawk You know, they were big and so they could uh pack a lot of really cool stuff in them Um And I'm sorry if I'm missing your questions guys, uh, we're closing in on an hour And I've been trying to keep these uh reviews to or I'm sorry these live streams to about an hour So I'll probably wrap it up in about five minutes. Um But man, we've got almost a hundred people in here right now. That is that's amazing. That is amazing Um The hydrofoil is sexier than killer whale. Yeah, but the killer whale is not supposed to be sexy I mean, that's a fighting machine, right? That's that thing is it's armored. Uh, it's well armed Uh, it's not it's not fast, but it rolls in there Um, you know with cannons and missiles and machine guns And that thing will get the job done um Wayne uh scarface, uh, yeah I've told the the the legend from when I was a kid the story that Like I mean we read the comic book and we saw scarface in the comic book and then we got this there was this um Rumor or myth among our friends that you know, there were scarface action figures That some of the cobra officer action figures had scars, you know sculpted in around the eyes Just like the scarface figure Uh in the comic book So we'd always check when we got the store we'd pick up the cobra officer figure and look really close to see if we could could could um See if it was a star face or scarface figure, but of course, you know, we never found one because they never existed um Customize a scoop slash ice cream soldier hybrid and column ice cream scoop. Thank you Byron Thank you, uh Enjoy the 10 part resolute show. Uh, yeah, I thought the resolute uh show was really good Um, and I thought it was the right blend of elements from like the cartoon and the comic book series Uh, the animation was really good. Uh, it's so good. It almost seems like it's like Like like it was just fan made. It's hard to it almost doesn't seem like an official release because uh, you would think that You know more official release Cartoon would be watered down a bit But uh, it was It was really impressive. I liked it a lot Uh flash and grand slams were were cool designs. I always I liked the uh, silver pads grand slam. I had that as a kid I remember that um Because and I liked the silver pads better than the orangey red pads um And I thought that looked pretty cool um Do an hour long video focusing on the killer whales motorcycle um Don't think I couldn't do it. I could do You know, it's easy for me to it's easier for me to do a long video than a short one um What do I use for audio on the show, um, I've got a microphone, um, and it's not handy I'll try to remember to show the microphone to you next time Um, but I recently picked up a new microphone for the Uh the camera And it's been working pretty well, but I when I do the front of the camera stuff. I think I need to Um, I need to to fix some of the room echo a little bit And I think I may need to get like a lapel mic to do that Like I want to I noticed that um Form bx 257 has been using a lapel mic and that seems to work for him So, uh, something I might look into They're not super expensive But that's something I might look into to improve some of the audio when I'm in front of the camera So, uh, anyway, so hey, that's about an hour. Um, I want to say congratulations again to comic tropes for The success of that channel is going really well Congratulations to Timmer from half the battle again for getting a thousand subscribers Really cool video from form bx 257 His reviews are always a lot of fun Um, uh, make sure you check out gi joe berg All these great gi joe creators that are Making really cool stuff right now don't um You know don't neglect those guys because you know one of the things that makes this fan community great Is that so many people are putting their own effort into creating Fun content for uh for fans to watch and see and listen to And I think it's great. Uh, I know there's not a lot of or not really any gi joe on the shelves right now But I think it's a great time to be a gi joe fan. Uh, there's some cool stuff out there. So Make sure you guys check all that out. Um, and that brings us to an hour Thanks byron. I'm glad that you made it Thanks everyone for showing up. Um, I'll wrap it wrap it up now And we will do it again next week. So thank you everyone. Thank you for all your support all your kind words all your messages All all the emails that you sent me uh, it's really been Heartwarming and it's really helped me get through a tough time. So thank you all Uh, and with that I will say good night and I will see you next week