 Hello everybody hooded Cobra commander 788 here and this is another small contribution to Cobra convergence 3 I thought why not open a vintage Cobra vehicle box While I was at Joe con, I just picked up a few random boxed vehicles They were very inexpensive. It was a great way to get them and it looked like some of them Were still sealed sealed boxes So this is one of them now. This looks like it's been resealed. It's been taped on both ends But I thought it would be fun to open this open a vintage Cobra vehicle box And I don't know if the toy inside the box has been assembled or not If it hasn't then we will assemble it here on camera. We've done that a few times. It's been fun I have my tools here that I might need if I'm gonna put this vehicle together If it's already assembled, we'll just take a quick look at it and that'll be pretty cool, too This is the Cobra adder from 1988 This would be the oldest GI Joe vehicle that we've unboxed not the oldest that we've assembled. I assembled the 1988 AGP In a previous video. So this is from the same year 1988 This is the Canadian release and I believe this is the first Canadian box. I've ever gotten It as you can probably see there. It's in both English and French As I've mentioned before GI Joe vehicles released in the US and in Canada are the same but on GI Joe vehicles the Canada releases have Instead of US flags, they have Canadian flags and instead of United States stickers They have stickers that say Canada for Cobra vehicles though since they don't have country-specific stickers They should be the same as far as I know they should be identical Inside the box to what we got in the US. So I am going to open this first. Let me show you the box Two flag points and their flag points were different from what we had in the US And I have it's sealed with clear tape on both sides And I'm pretty sure that's not how it was done at the factory. So I believe this is a resealed box This is going to be a surprise. I'm going to open it up. I don't know if this thing has already been assembled I don't know if it's still in the factory sealed bags. It Doesn't rattle around too much. So there's not a lot of loose parts in there So there is some hope at least that this thing has not been assembled before so I'm going to slice the tape on one side and Open this up and See what we've got There it is Opening this end here and ooh it does appear to oh, no, no, it's not factory sealed It's in a ziplock by a bag Okay, so it it has been assembled and it has the stickers on here. So not exactly an assembly video So I'm going to first make sure I didn't leave anything in the box. So there's the box the parts are Are loose in the bag though so I'm gonna go ahead and put this thing together and just quickly show you the 1988 cobra adder even though this was Re-sealed I I cannot complain at all and I'm not in the slightest disappointed Just because the prices that I paid for these box vehicles. They were Cheaper than I would have paid for just The vehicle itself without the box. So I can't complain at all really it's One of the great things about going to Joe con Is that you can pick up some things for Far far less than you would pay on eBay. All right, I was just looking at it to figure out how to assemble it and it looks like it's pretty easy This bar here looks like it goes into this slot And then we have a bar here at the Back that these C clips seem to clamp on too. So let's see if I can Carefully do that so it oh yeah, that's easy. Yes, perfect The adder is an extremely simple vehicle. It's basically this car with a little raising Missile launcher and two missiles and that's it single Single-person cockpit. I'll go ahead and put these missiles on everything Already assembled so I'm just kind of attaching the missiles I Like to say thank you again to everyone who came up to me And said hi to me at Joe con That was a thrill it was Far more than expected and I want you guys to know that I care about you and I listen to you and now sometimes I get Negative comments on my videos and sometimes people get angry and they just unsubscribe and they're done with me, right? Well, that can't bother me too much because I have you And I have the fine people that came up to me And said that they enjoy what I do And got pictures with me and that is not something that I'm used to Doing these videos is kind of a solitary effort, right? I'm here in front of the camera Kind of doing this all by myself, but I put it out there for People to see and I just you know hope that Uh, some people like it So I don't normally get to see people who are actually watching the videos, but when I got to see you guys You were fantastic. Um, you were So good to me and I'm I'm so grateful. I will never forget that experience It was special. So thank you for making the last Joe con A very special event for me on this adder. Um, I noticed a reuse of stickers on the The um, oh, you probably can't see that on the Control panel inside the cockpit See if I can move things out of the way. You still can't see it very well But I believe that's the sticker that was used on the 1982 howl heavy artillery laser With the airplane and the crosshairs. It was either that or the flak I'll have to check but that is definitely a sticker that's been used on another vehicle before I don't want to get too much into what I think of the cobra adder This is not a review. Uh, this is just a kind of a quick look at it I wanted to take it out of the box So I can show you the canadian box and show you the vehicle the vehicle does appear to be complete Which is expected the dealer that I got this from I've bought a lot of things from uh at joe con And they are always complete and unbroken and This looks about mint about as mint as you can get Uh, so yeah, I'm happy to have this in my collection now It's not one that I had gone after before Just because it's a very simple vehicle and um, I just didn't uh, it hasn't been high on the priority list But uh, now I have it, uh, thanks to uh, joe con and now you get to see it So that's all for now. I hope you enjoy the cobra convergence videos that are coming up Make sure you check out all of the channels in the list So you don't miss any And I will have a cobra convergence review for you every week And I'll try to do, um, little things like this in the middle of the week Just so you'll have some extra cobra content this month Thank you everyone for watching and thank you for making this project so special And making this experience special for me Thank you to everyone and I'll see you in a few days with a full cobra toy review And until then remember only cobra is cobra