 Commander 788 here and I want to try something that I've never tried before so I'm just going to get started and hope it goes well. What I want to do is I want to look at a modern GI Joe action figure and briefly compare it to the vintage equivalent. This is the 1985 Cobra Snow Serpent, the Cobra Polar Assault Trooper and this is the 2008 Cobra Snow Serpent. One thing you notice is this modern figure is taller than the vintage figure even taking into account the figure stand that he's standing on. These vintage figures ran about three and three-quarter inches. The modern figures went with a fold four inches so modern figures are a different scale from the vintage originals. The modern figures accessories are very similar to the vintage accessories. Looking at his weapon he has an AK-47 gray with a folding stock and that is very, very similar to the gray AK-47 with the folding stock that came with the vintage original. The modern accessory is just made a bit more substantial for the modern figure. Then the modern figure has that blue parachute pack that the original figure had, a slightly different color but a little bit more detail and that's definitely necessary because the Snow Serpent is also a paratrooper. The modern figure came with snowshoes that are very similar to the 1985 figure snowshoes and that was a nice accessory on the 1985 figure. Very similar indeed, almost identical sculpting on those accessories and the snowshoes for the modern Snow Serpent are made so that his feet will still fit on the figure stand when he is wearing the snowshoes. So that's a nice bonus and by the way another nice bonus is modern figures came with figure stands. They have figure stands, the vintage figures did not come with figure stands. Attached to their backpacks both figures have missile pods and these missile pods each have a stand so they can stand up and they are very similar, so similar that it would be very easy to mix these up. They have almost exactly the same details, they're almost exactly the same size. The pegs on the side of the missile pods are different sizes so you cannot put the modern missile pod on the vintage backpack and vice versa. The backpacks are very similar indeed, in fact they're almost identical. Down to the sculpting of the folds of the cloth the modern backpack is definitely an homage to that vintage backpack. Of course they have different peg systems that go in the back, the modern and the vintage and of course those are not interchangeable. You cannot put the modern backpack on the vintage and vice versa. This is the vintage file card for the snow serpent and of course this was printed on the back of the card on which the action figure was packaged. I have the full card back for the modern snow serpent and he does have a file card and the file card for the modern snow serpent is not quite identical in text to the original but very close, some very minor changes but overall almost an exact copy of the original. The modern figure obviously features modern sculpting and articulation which just wasn't done in the 80s so it has a lot more detail and more points of articulation so that's nice for the modern figure. It also has a couple of nice bonus features in that there is clear plastic for the visor on the top of his helmet and these straps that are just sculpted and painted on the vintage figure those are actually removable on the modern figure and if you pop the head off of the figure you can even take this fur lining off of his uniform so of course you couldn't do that on the vintage figure. If you ask me which one I prefer it's going to be the vintage figure every time I mean these modern figures there's no knock against them they look great the sculpting is excellent lots of great points of articulation very nice accessories but this is the figure I took into battle with me as a kid. I hope you enjoyed this comparison of the modern cobra snow serpent with the vintage snow serpent I'm going to do a few more of these I have some other modern GI Joe figures to compare with vintage figures and maybe I'll tweak the format a little bit try to make it better but this is just a first attempt and I wanted to let you guys see some of these modern figures and see what you think about them I know there are a lot of modern GI Joe figure collectors out there and so you can take a look at these see if you like them and of course you can leave your comments and tell me what you think of these figures I'm always happy to hear it but keep an eye on this channel for full vintage GI Joe tour reviews every week thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.