 All right, that's it. We are live and it looks like I've got audio and everything. Hello everyone who all is here within my view We have sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse and Andrew Andrew. How do you do? Hello codame new to vero to always nice to see you here. Hello Damien from Shetland Scotland Hello Scotland from the United States. Thank you very much for joining. Hello Ivan and Baderie Bob and Cobra Island so How you doing? It's Tuesday We are at the end of Cobra Convert, Cobra Convergence is done. Hello Dale and Dan Jimman and MCDJ ACDC So we've had a whole month of Cobra. Hello, Thane Woods a whole month of Cobra And it's time to draw back from Cobra for a little while. Hello anything Joes. Hello Matt Edwards Yeah, hello Jamalyn. I don't think I said hello to you, but hello. How do you do? Hello Adam Verwolf? Hello Lester So yeah, we will we will give Cobra a rest for a little while. Hello GI Joe team 6665 nice to see you. Hello Mike Layton How do you do? Hello Bryce Norton? I hope I didn't miss anybody. Hello Jeff Yes, so One consequence of doing Cobra Convergence is that over the month of July I say the words Cobra Convergence Approximately 60,000 times So I'm ready To to give that arrest give it a rest and focus on some other things. Hello. Thanks Cobra Island I'm I'm doing a live stream. That's what's up, and I'm glad you're here. Hello Joshua and beach 76 and Brent So Hello, Brian and Ivan. I think I said hello Ivan before but hello again. Hello Ryan Daly. Nice to see you the Dreadnought Divergence see that's a great idea. Somebody needs to start that. Hello draws. How do you do? Yeah, the Cobra Convergence 6 I Really liked it. A lot of people responded really well to it. Thank you to everyone who participated Thanks to everyone who was on the calendar. Thank you to everyone who did your independent things and sent them in So that I could share them. Thank you to everyone who did that and thank you to everyone who watched and followed Hello, white Vegeta. Nice to see you. Hey, there's sparkster. In fact, there's someone right there sparkster Who was participating in Cobra Convergence the entire month? So thank you very much for that sparkster. Oh, I'm sorry Cobra Island is getting over Kobe I'm sorry you got that but I hope that you feel better. Hello, Joe fan 84. Nice to see you, sir. So so It's still a few minutes before the actual start time. So I'll just Before I like go into anything. I do have a few things a few things to talk about and a little bit I have show and tell I have Minimal show and tell Small bits of show and tell but I do have a little show and tell hello bronze age nerds. Nice to see you there Thank you also for jumping into Cobra Convergence. Thank you for doing that and I'm glad you liked it Andrew Andrew a lot of people put a lot of effort into it and like did some really amazing things. I mean I Mean if I start Rattling off all the really cool stuff We saw this month and then that's all of you doing for the next hour, but like GI Joe Berg did a finish a feature length movie Joe on Joe did a whole like radio play There's an amazing amount of effort and Just incredibly awesome stuff Sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse who is in here Managed to get a clip of the actual real sergeant slaughter, you know doing a little promo bit for For the event that was that was really really cool. So I Enjoyed it. I had a lot of fun. I'm so appreciative of everyone who who jumped in I This was a little bit of a comeback year right because I was I was away for a little while You know, I was away for about a year and I skipped Cobra Convergence last year There was some stuff going on in July of last year in my personal life I don't think I could have done it and under any circumstances Yeah, that's awesome Jasper great hello Blunted Vegas nice to see you there. Hello Chad Yeah, me too codename new to vero to I just I'm I'm always inspired to see What people do? You know, you got some amazingly talented and creative people and if you just let them be Amazing and talented and creative they come up with awesome stuff. So it's really really cool to see and if you would like a summary of at least the people who were on the calendar and the people who Were in the promo videos the weekly videos. I do have the conclusion video up on the channel That's the most recent video Yes, and they thank you for being part of it Cobra Island Hello, Chris. Hey, it's Chris another Chris. Hello Chris and Chris Hello Chris from comic tropes nice to see you. Thank you very much Chris and I have to apologize I I really do try to catch the comic tropes or the the spinner rack Livestream when I can lately though. I just like It's just like stuff that gets in the way and I just I haven't been able to Hello, Christian bricks. Nice to see you again Greetings from Denmark greeting den greetings Denmark from the United States. Thank you for being here I'm glad you like the convergence. I was gonna say so Cobra convergence this year was a bit of a comeback and I Feel like Next year, I've already got some ideas for next year But one thing about next year is I think that it's gonna be a lot more organized. I think it's gonna be Hopefully more impactful for for everyone who watches it for everyone who participates in it Hey, there's Rob Vegas another guy who was in Cobra convergence all month. Thank you Rob. Hello Cyclonus nice to see you Yeah, Sparster did Lego vehicles and that was a really cool idea So next year hello the killer weasel No word from Kevin Referring to form BX 257. I haven't heard from him in Over a year I haven't heard from Kevin in a long time and I have tried to reach out to him and I've not heard anything back Hello treasures for trigger. Thank you for being in Cobra convergence Well, hello jump in general Yeah Next year is gonna be more organized and I think it's gonna be bigger and I've got some ideas on how to To make it bigger and to make it more Rewarding I think for the viewer to follow all the way through Joe fan 84. Thank you for the super chat Hey, I finally sent that bow for a storm shadow. Thank you very much to your PO box It should be there soon. If not, they're already. Thank you very much I appreciate that that reminds me to check the PO box because I did just check the PO box yesterday And there were a couple things in there, but I it's probably not that but But I'll check it again. So thank you very much and thank you for the super chat. That's that's really awesome We are actually officially at The the top of the hour. Hey there. Hello. They gone. Thank you Also, they gone for being Cobra Convergence Will we get a review of Cobra Commander version 7 as part of Cobra Convergence 7 no spoilers No spoilers, but maybe that's not a bad idea. Yeah, that's Yeah Yeah, so we got Sergeant slaughter like actually said my my screen name which is which is really trippy. It's it's it's just really cool That was a nice moment Yeah, so yeah, we got people already ready for cc7. I'm not ready for cc7 yet I'm not ready, but I have ideas. I have ideas Yes, I hope all as well for form bx257 To he's you know, he is the the grandfather of all Gijo reviewing on YouTube. I mean he was doing it before Before everyone else but Now that you mentioned it. Hello Damien. I think I already said hello to Damien, but hello again Um, there is one other person who has been doing the gi joe on the youtube longer than I have actually Other people have been doing it longer than I have but one in particular that I want to point Point out half the battle timmer on half the battle Um, he has a new review video up Today because it's Tuesday today Tuesday is his upload day He did the gi joe armadillo the mini tank and and Um timmers 10 year anniversary on youtube is coming up very soon 10 years on youtube coming up very soon. So I just thought I'd mention that just thought I'd leave that there um another thing that I wanted to mention is Um, there are five days left in operation recall Um, they've already met the the minimum funding threshold and now they're just sort of Unlocking stretch goals and new new characters. Um, they've got over $240,000 raised for operation recall But if you're interested in doing that, I'm already supporting it. I'm already, uh, I've already pledged to it um But uh, but if if you haven't yet and you'd like to got five days left Um, I like Carson. I like him as a person. I think that uh, the stuff he's done for gi joe has been um vital and uh Just very important for the community and I'm really happy to see him doing this. Um, Joe fence has got a covid positive test today was hoping you I'm sorry. Well, I'm I'm I hope you feel better. I That it's still it's still out there and it's still serious business. So my sympathies to you and I hope that you recover quickly But sorry, sorry that you, uh, Sorry that you got the positive test um Uh, yeah, uh, Dale says I believe brother Had the armadillo definitely decent tank the armadillo is a nice small vehicle very few parts There's hardly anything to lose on it. So it's like it's usually complete Um, and it's nice, you know, these small vehicles were important for You know, uh kids who couldn't get the the huge big vehicles Uh, thank you the killer wiser for the super chat. Uh, there are viewers that have been doing it Uh, longer than you but uh, don't have the following like you. What do you think is the reason? That's a good question and I've asked myself that Of on a few occasions and I don't know is the answer I don't know. Um But uh, what I and since I don't know since I don't have The the answer to that what what I do is I just try to focus on Like the content that I like and the people that I care about and the people who are like really putting the effort in to Produce great material for the For the community and you know kind and in my view just really doing it, right? So That's just kind of what I focus on more than like How much of a following that they have or how big a channel they have, you know, that that's kind of what I look Look at, uh, but as like I don't know how I don't know how internet Uh algorithms work. I don't know. I don't know how I got I got no answers. I got no answers for that Um Oh, Davey. Hello, Davey. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here Um, anyway, um, there is one other thing I wanted to address one Minor thing that I wanted to do address and then I have Um, I have a little bit of show and tell to do I have a little bit of show and tell Now in our g.i.jo fan community We've had a little bit of of drama and I have my channel has a no drama policy So I will not be addressing any of the drama here. I can't I don't that's not what I do However What I will do Is say something positive about somebody that uh that you should check out So, uh, Travis moody and a toy kind of mood. They went to san diego comic con They were there. They were at the classified panel They took the pictures of the new stuff that's coming out They shared all of that if you saw my Video last week the picture of serpentor that was in the thumbnail That was uh from travis and I asked for permission to use that I I I Always try to ask before I use any material Created by somebody else and also, uh, they did an interview with Emily and lenny About, you know g.i.jo and about classified and all that so Great work guys That is see that's effort right that that is You know actually going to the place and and doing it and being there and you know producing the material and providing some news and information for For the community so a toy kind of mood The link for their channel would still be on the website still be on htc788.com Because the calendar is still up there. I haven't I haven't changed it So, uh, yeah, so nicely done travis nicely done a toy kind of mood and Yeah, that's uh That's it's important I think To um to look at primary sources, right? This is something that we talked about a lot um in in academia is like the difference between primary sources and secondary sources For instance, I I am not a primary source for Very much. I am mostly at best a secondary source. I'm not a news reporter. I'm not breaking news or anything like that um, so You know, you want to pay attention to your primary sources and the primary sources are the ones that are actually there actually Seeing it with their eyeballs and have the camera and are actually, you know, um You know first person actually reporting, so um, oh Dicast Nick says hi from the uk. Hello the the uk from the united states. Thank you very much for being here um, I'm always reluctant to use Any material that's created by Someone else and when I do need to use it. I I always ask um, and I ask with Hello renegade biker. I ask with the mind that they can say no um, and like some material if I used it in a certain way It could be fair use and I could probably legally use it without permission, but Uh, the Being a good citizen within the community. I think goes a little bit beyond that um, for example We were talking about, uh, Carson from 3d joes um, 3d joes has a huge, uh resource of images and you know the 3d spins of the gi jo action figures and vehicles It's a great resource and um, I have used some of the materials from 3d joes.com As has a lot as have a lot of other people Um, but I always ask Right, I always ask and I always credit always always always credit um Always I always always always credit um the original source the the I want you to know where I got it and that's another thing, you know from You know writing academic papers and stuff is that you have to cite your sources Um, if somebody reads your your paper And wants to know where you got your information There should be a source in there that takes them directly to where they can see that information for themselves. That's Um, oh, uh, Jen says hello from the check republic. Hello check republic from the united states. Thank you very much for being here Hello chad far Another thing though is that I'm I'm reluctant to To even ask a lot of the times like I know that if I needed something from 3d joes and I asked Carson He would he would say it's fine but I also am cognizant that I am using the work of someone else and I should do that as little as possible As much as as humanly possible. I should be doing the work myself right um so There are sometimes when when it's been helpful Timmer from half the battle who we also mentioned earlier Has been very helpful that timmer has a much more complete collection than I do So if I'm missing a figure that I need for reference for a video, he's always been very helpful With uh with shooting me a photo of it. That's been really really helpful Um, but I always ask and I always give credit. So that is something to um Just to keep in mind now that and that goes beyond, you know talking about toy stuff or you know pop culture the stuff, uh, that's just something to To keep in mind for For life For anything that you're that you're producing. Hello photo viper. Nice to see you. Thank you very much for being here Hello woodman 29. Hello kb and wilkinson studios Um, so yeah with lots of good blokes in the chat today. Yes, it's really it's really pretty good. Um, so um the uh Uh, oh another another example. I just thought of another example. So um for my review of zapp version one I really needed some images from dan clenin smith's book um Because he had the photos of the head with uh with the mustache. Uh, thank you, joe syah for the soup chat Hit the like button button guys. Thank you very much. I think and thank you for being here and thinking Thank you for reminding everyone to hit the like button. I appreciate that very much um, uh Uh Um, sorry, I think I've missed some of the conversation. Sorry about that guys. Anyway, um Um Yeah, so the the thing is like, um, I needed some images. I like the the review would not be complete Without it. It's I think that's an important element of the review um, and it's something where I could have um, I could have used it under fair use if I had just I wanted to do that and I if I had, uh accredited the original source properly But I asked anyway, and if if dan had not Said yes, then I would not have used it. You know that there's You got in my opinion. You got it. You got to respect the work that people do Uh, and not only that I bought the book. I purchased the book with my own money. So um, so I I um I liked it to encourage people to create I like to encourage people to To produce work that is helpful to the community and um One way that I think we can do that is by, you know, um By, um You know Making sure that we direct people to that work whenever we Whenever it's used anywhere else. So anyway, that's that's it Uh So, uh, yeah Travis moody if you want to see their interview with Emily and Lenny from the hasbro gi joe brand team That's on the youtube channel a toy kind of mood and a link for that Is still on htc788.com. So Check out that now Um, I have show and tell should I do show and tell now? um um Yeah, um Yes, yeah, low-key. Uh, that's that's exactly right. I mean you you can't I was on um, I was on one of the law journals in law school and a large part of What we did as editors was go through these articles and Uh and subsite right we we would Clean up All of the citations that's that's below the line Right and so that stuff is it matters it matters. Uh, hey, hey peg warmers another cobra convergent sky nice to see you there um, so Yeah, the uh You got to consider that you know, you're oh, thank you. Josiah cobra island is putting up a crankcase video. Cool Uh, uh, thank you for pointing that out. So check out, uh, cobra island's a crankcase video. It's not cobra It's not cobra because we're we're we're setting cobra aside for a minute. We've had quite a lot of cobra Um, you you have to consider that your your audience, um Uh It may need to Look this stuff up for themselves Right, they may need to to follow that rabbit trail to the original source and find out where you got it right because and One reason is that you could be wrong, right? You could reach a completely Uh inaccurate conclusion or you could be completely misinterpreting the source material And if you cite that source material Then the person viewing or reading or watching can go back and And check it and check it for themselves and see that that's That's important. That's important. Uh, hello stone gate creations. Uh, hello nyquist Hello victor. Hello gray fox. I think that's everyone I haven't already said hello to but hi. How are you? Um, I have show and tell I guess I guess we'll do show and tell Very minimal show and tell Hello matt ruben. I don't I think I said hello matt ruben. I think I saw another matt in here too. Hello everyone named matt Uh, we all we always have a few mats in here. Hello everyone named matt glad you're here Um, and we have a few chrisses in here. Hello all of the chrisses. Hello the chris and matt Okay minimal show and tell. Um, I did actually pick up Um, a couple gi joe items and I will um, hello What's the hats? Oh, you know just hanging out. Um, just hanging out talking to the day So we got some davids in here too. So hello to the davids and the mats and the chrisses Hi all of you So I got a couple things. I'll show you what I got one thing that I got is Kind of it's something that I've been focusing a little bit on more. Uh, hello, johnny. Nice to see you Um, uh, hello k slater. Nice to see you there Uh, one of the things that I got was, um More reference material. This is the kind of thing that I have Been seeking out more lately more so than the toys and the figures and vehicles is stuff like this Uh, hello yo joe banjo. Nice to see you Um, this is the kind of thing that in my line of work has proved to be incredibly helpful Um, so, uh, this is it's least obviously you can read it. It's least guys two gi joe vehicles and accessories volume one 1982 to 1985 And this is it is it is just exactly what it says its photos Of all of the parts For all of the gi joe vehicles Uh up to 1985 uh and the figures and the file cards that came with them. This is helpful All right, and it's not it's really just a photo reference, but a lot of times that's all I need I don't necessarily need a big write-up on all of this. I just need to know what came with this You know what i'm saying? So this is the kind of thing that is helpful to me now this covers 1982 to 1985 And I've I've probably got a pretty good You know recollection of everything from 1982 to 1985 My I don't think they did a volume two. This is this is volume one And I've never been able to find a volume two And the if they did a volume two that would be a little bit more useful to me because um that 1980 It's like 86 to 90 or whatever that would be um Would be more helpful to me because that's an era That that i'm less familiar with Peg warmers says I used to cut and save those pages from lee's magazine. Yeah, see um if I think I have like some of the magazines, but this is helpful This is helpful. Uh, no no thumbing through issues or anything like that uh, but this That's nice, and it includes some variation as well. So uh, so yeah print reference material Very helpful very useful Want more of it we'll get more of it I don't think they did a volume two, but I I wish they did so that that's that's like the the main thing that that I picked up Um, so that's part one Uh, that is part one of Of show and tell hold on Oh, uh, thank you lj Uh, costanzo How you do an hcc i'm doing fine. Thank you very much for asking It's very polite of you to ask and very helpful for you to send a super super chat Uh, the thanks i'm i'm actually doing quite well Doing quite well right now. Um Oh, well, you know, I should have done I should have done something Um before I started the show and tell so let's backtrack. Let's backtrack. Let's roll it back roll it back just for a second um, so I'm doing art commissions. I'm doing sketch commissions I posted the information on facebook and twitter. Uh, so if you would like a A sketch a drawing of a gijo character Um, I you can get a commission and I will draw it for you and send it to you. So do check that out Um, and that's what I was gonna say Um Speaking of visual references. Are you getting the giant 3d joe's book? I am I am that's actually one of the things that I jumped on board with um, I I like karson like I like karson as a person And I like what he does he he does He does good work and I think important work for the community So that yeah, that was really easy to jump on board with I it's gonna be really cool absolutely um Uh, oh a sergeant slaughter slaughter's house says I'll hit you up for a serge soon. That's that's absolutely cool I have drawn sergeant slaughter a few times Uh, but not enough. I I like drawing sergeant slaughter and um, I would be happy to do it Just just let me know let me know So now now that I've backtracked and said the thing that I should have said before The show and tell let's get back to the show and tell this is Part one This is part one I told you it's not a very big show and tell it's a small show and tell small um, and Here's the other small thing. So, um, I was in five below with my kid because she wanted to go and you know find Cheap trinkets And um, I was just walking around and I saw a gi joe thing Right. I saw something From the gi joe and I I decided hey, it's it's cheap Ish, it's cheap ish I'll just pick it up. You know why not and uh, this uh, this is um This is what I got This is what I got and I'm gonna open this I'm gonna open it. It's an unboxing Of this and it was it was five bucks Which is cheap ish honestly could have been a little cheaper, you know that for what it is You know, it could be more like three bucks. But anyway um Uh, uh, draw says thanks so much for drawing of zartan. Oh, thank you. I'm really glad you like it Zartan is another fun one to draw lots of little details on zartan. That's that's a lot of fun. So um So I'm gonna open this and we're gonna check it out. This is um As you can tell this is um Snake eyes. I don't know if any of you heard of this character. It's a pretty obscure character Uh, I mean in in all of the movies and tv shows and everything He gets almost no lines He he like he barely says anything Except in that most recent movie he couldn't stop talking He's like usually he's quiet. But then he then he like there's this new movie and he couldn't stop talking anyway, so um A peg walrus says you've been looking for those cheap joes. All right. Well, here you go So This can be a preview if you if you ever ever find them. It's uh It's this guy. Um, I can tell just by looking at it that he has no um leg articulation Like that is a solid piece of plastic So let's let's open it up. Let's open it up and wow while i'm opening it up I will talk a little bit about zartan because i've been thinking I've been thinking I was thinking about I was thinking about the um the snake eyes g i joe origins movie the one that um The one that bombed, you know, let's let's just call it what it is. It just bombed um, there we go um And that's too bad because we're not likely to get a g i joe movie of any other kind in the near future um and I just I I think I think um hasbro and Paramount studios and whoever is working on g i joe particularly whoever's working on snake eyes Really needs to rethink How they look at this character um it the So I I understand that You know, they want to do a snake eyes who's not wearing a mask a snake eyes that speaks Okay, that's not necessarily the worst idea but um But you know, you you're at the end of the day snake eyes is masked and he doesn't speak And that's a pretty those are two pretty important characteristics of the character. Those are two important things So at the end of the day, you got to get there somewhere, right? So if you if you're if your plan is to Start off with the snake eyes movie leading into a larger g i joe movie. I don't think that's necessarily a bad idea either but um At the at the end of your snake eyes movie. I think he needs to be masked and and silent Davey. Thank you. I love that snake eyes got uh slapped like a bitch And on on the g i joe movie. Yeah Um, he did didn't he? Uh, yes, I I saw that I saw that um, his his ninja powers alluded him Anyway, so So so fine you you're gonna do a movie maybe with snake eyes and and it's before he is Silent and before he is masked. Okay. I I still don't think that's necessarily the best idea But I I can I can accept it. I can get behind that But at the end of that movie Um, he the end point needs to be him like this I'm not just looking like this but this character and um the uh Like if you're gonna if you're gonna start out with snake eyes speaking And unmask you you need to have pretty good actor for that. So they got Henry Golding. Who's a pretty good actor? He wasn't quite right for this role. He he really struggled with the american accent He struggled with the american accent. That's he just did Um, uh, hello, Davey. Oh, thank you Davey. Uh backhand is slapped, too Uh, yeah, I think I didn't get a lot of respect in the in the In that movie or or the animated series, but okay, but here's my point. Here's my point. However you get there Oh, um Josiah, thank you for the super chat low key def would make a solid movie. Yeah, you could you could do a def movie and it would be um Huh, I have to think about that. I there there's there's an idea there. There's some thought there But okay, but here's the thing um Everybody everybody's like, okay. I don't you know, I that here's the box Everybody's like, you know, what can we do with this guy? He's wearing a mask. You can't see his face. He doesn't talk so he can't express himself and so Um, the the filmmakers writers directors try to try to figure out a way around that This has had even move The head move the head moves the arms also move and he's holding um his his sword, you know uh 1979 Kenner's Uh obi-wan Kenobi and luke skywalker style um, he's he's uh holding it like a Kenner d'arth vader um but I I really think that's that's the wrong way to think of it I don't think you should run away from those attributes. I don't think thank you chad. What about a movie where he's Established and you get his origin via ptsd flashbacks or war Getting this figure see that's I mean that's kind of how they did it in the in the comic book Right because because we had flashbacks to To how all of that happened Uh, yeah, the wrist the wrist angle is a little awkward um but um In in cinema history, there have been lots of silent characters There have been lots of masked characters. They haven't been a lot of silent and masked characters um And so snake eyes would be somewhat unique in in movies but the thing is like If you're having a hard time figuring out what to do with a mask Can we get a film version of silent early? See that I would watch that I would watch that but um If you can't figure out what to do with snake eyes, you just need better writers Right, you just you you got to have somebody with a bit more creativity to to understand what to do with it because um What you have in a masked and silent character is a blank slate for the audience to um Project their own Feelings and emotions on and this is a tragic character, right? This is a character who has had, you know, many bad things happen in his life Um, and it's it's easy to look at this guy and think oh, he's a bad ass You know, we just need to have him beating up a bunch of people and yeah, you do want that with snake eyes But he's a tragic figure. Um, he has had many of experiences that um, the audience can uh connect with And for a good Writer that's not a liability And I know that it's gonna vary some from the larry hama Snake eyes and that's that's fine. It's a different medium. It's a different medium Oh, uh, thank you, uh red foreman. They should follow a dc and do a couple direct DVDs Streaming animated movies and focus on different joes each movie. That is another option. That's also an option that a few other people have mentioned um, and uh I don't know if we'll have time but we can talk a little bit about like The idea of us a streaming like a streaming show snake eyes would actually not bad on the first, uh Joe movies at least he didn't speak. Yeah. Oh, well, thank you. Josiah Df should be like a 1993 movie gunman versus Uh with oh as mario mario peoples Well, that's a flashback That's a blast from the thank you. Josiah for the super chat. That's a that's a blast from the past um But uh, you you could you can create something interesting and unique and although it will be different from larry's version What larry has done is Give you a template Right. Can he's given you something that that you can do something with? A really special character that is somewhat unique That is rarely seen And at the audience, I mean if you do it right the audience wants to project themselves onto this character And feel all of his pain and all of his emotions What that takes though is is it takes good writing And I think a good writer Uh Jumps at this. I think a good writer doesn't run away from these Uh character as attributes. I think the a good writer uses those to build something special Um, so that's that's my thoughts about the snake eyes. Um I think the parts of the movie that were more like The larry hamah universe were the better parts of the movie um, I I don't think the movie was all bad, but um that it needed some help and uh, and the idea that um That he's gonna be unmasked and uns and speaking and all that Fine. So another thing like let's talk about budgets. So you're gonna hire Uh, a big name or a reasonably well Known actor to play snake eyes unmasked and speaking. Okay fine, hollywood, whatever um You just do that for the one movie Right at the end of the movie, you know, he's he's got to be silent. He's got to be masked He's got to reach that point where it's it's the starting point of your gi joe series So when you hit your gi joe series with the ensemble cast We've already got this guy. He is already in the state Which we in which we know him we've already connected with him and um And like and he can Yeah, he's silent, but he's not a background character Anyway, that's that's kind of it. Yeah, sorry. I've missed a lot of the super chat when I'm holding it like this It's like from my screen my point of view It's like covering the the uh the live chat Like again through his arm right there if there's a super chat that comes up I can see like the super chat, but it's hard for me to read. Sorry about that So anyway, uh battleship, uh based on a hasbro board game um They did a they did a movie For battleship a few years back and it was pretty bad But that that movie is like one of my guilty pleasures because even though it's a bad movie It it really is a bad movie. Uh, I still liked it. Um There's no accounting for taste, I guess um Now the girl who played scarlet earth part absolutely and I also re I really liked storm shadow in that movie I like storm shadow. I like the actor. I like the characterization. I liked That could have made it a storm shadow movie. I think it would have been much more watchable Um red format they should do uh the first issue of the marvel comics as a movie train Abduction pentagon the pit meeting the team cobra Stuff assaulting the island. Um, so the first issue of the comic book was written kind of in a cinematic style. So uh, so that would um I mean, it's actually kind of an extra long issue too. So it might like be feature lengths Um, but but I understand and like I understand that Some things are going to be changed. So I I get that it's okay. I I can deal with that I'm more interested in how you do it and does it work Right How do you how how does it work? You know, what what exactly are you changing? How are you changing it? And does it improve things for for example? I think that some of the changes made to Uh, some marvel characters and stories for the mcu have been improvements on what they were in the comic book So, okay, that's possible. It can happen but um But this is a guy you cannot run away from the character and just because he's mask and silent doesn't mean he has no character he has more and Honestly a good writer A good writer can do something with this guy. Uh, that this this is a special character. It's an important character and Somebody out there got to be able to figure out what to do with him Um, anyway, uh, what do we got? Um So pacific rim is uh, nyquist guilty players. See we all have some we all have something like I'm not out here pretending that battleship was a good movie. It was terrible It was terrible, but I still liked it. I so sue me So, um Uh kb So it's not guilty. However, uh, love street fighter. Yes Now I I saw the street fighter movie in in movie theaters when that came out. That was that was interesting um But uh, anyway, so this is this little statuette. It's there are three points of articulation only His head will turn It's pretty tight Um, his arms Will swivel his legs do not move Uh, but he does have holes in the feet for figure stands Looks like where's it? Where's my where's my bag of figure stands? Where did I put it? Oh here Is that gonna fit a vintage figure stand? Let me see Let me see hold on I got I have these things just lying around everywhere. So let's let's see. Is this gonna fit a vintage figure stand It's it is it too small It's too small, isn't it? Yeah, the the the hole for the foot peg is too small For a vintage stand and I can tell by looking it's too large for a modern stand So this will fit neither a vintage nor modern. I don't know what the point is of having the uh The holes in the feet to begin with then Or maybe maybe this series has its own set of figure stands. That's that's vital Why is that in the package somewhere? I don't see any figure stands in here um Let's see, uh Rob says watched mad max 2 aka the road warrior about 700 times. I've seen that movie See that like Here's one thing that I think everybody should keep in mind You're allowed to like things even if other people don't And there are people who liked the snake eyes movie one thing that I thought was interesting is that um I went to see snake eyes with my youngest daughter um when it first came out And uh, she ended up liking it. She she actually liked it And I know christs from comic tropes has mentioned that he liked the movie. So Um, it's like it's not a matter of like being right or wrong about liking something. In fact What I've said this before I maintain it liking things is better than not liking it So if you can find A way to enjoy something that other people don't enjoy then you are ahead of the game All right, you win you win um, but One thing that is not subjective is the box office revenue for the movie and that Uh, that that's kind of more like indisputable And and the movie like whether you liked it or not the movie needed to do well It needed to make money In order to you know go forward and build on it So anyway, this is This is a hunk of plastic. It is pure plastic Honestly Like the sword is of course is is bendy. You mean you don't want You don't want kids poking their eye out with it Uh, the rest of it is pretty solid plastic and this All right, it was only five bucks, but honestly three bucks for this I'd do three for it I mean Yeah, like I think they had the berenice and um destro They're two But that'd be 15 bucks and I don't want to spend 15 bucks plus tax for three of these. That's just too much The you know what this is for this is for like Uh, the mom or the dad in the store with the kid is like the kid wants a toy Give me a toy. Give me a toy. Oh, that one's only five bucks. Sorry. You can have this one here Here and play with it. It's got a sword And yeah, yeah, yeah poking my eye out with the sword. Yeah, that's what this is for This is not This is not a collectible This this actually is hey, you know what this is different from from classified from like This this is a much better product A super better product But this is like this is really geared toward adults. This is this is more for collectors If you want a gijo toy A new one that's actually made for children This one's actually made for children. It's It's indestructible, you know, it's This you could give to your Your your four plus aged child and uh, and they will not be able to destroy it um Could you do five dollars for a cobra law? You know, there was a time When, you know cobra law figures were not very expensive and it wasn't that many years ago But now everything Related to vintage gijo is expensive. The prices have gone up Uh, space hundred. What are we doing? We're still talking about guilty pleasure movies. That's a great topic. I love that topic Uh, there are movies there. There are bad movies that I like. In fact, I'm Something of a bad movie aficionado Uh, let's see what uh, uh, rip roll julia who died right after street fighter Yeah, he was also suffering from stomach cancer at the time. Yeah, that that is a sad uh thing about that movie in particular That was you know, basically the last thing that he did. Um And uh, yeah, I'm he's like With with an actor like roll julia. I'm glad that we got You know, I'm glad we got one more perform performance out of him. I'm glad that we got to see him the one more time Um, but yeah, he he died way too young. He died way too young um Chad says I think everything vintage is expensive now. It is the prices have gone up Um cobra island my guilty movie pleasure is space balls. The space balls is funny though. That's that that's not a bad movie That's uh, I I I like space balls. I I think space balls is pretty funny. Um, what's that like? Now let's see Like okay here. Hold on. I'll show you this here. Here's a here's an actual bad movie. Okay Here's an actual An actual bad. Thank you. Dave. E roll julia made the movie because his kids were super fans of video Yes, I I did hear that and I'm glad that he was able to do that for them So, you know that that's something that for his family that'll be a fond memory that they can look back on At least I hope they look at it that way. Let me show you an actual bad movie. Okay, this is like This thing guys gi joe origins is oscar worthy compared to this Compared to this movie. I'm about to hold on hold on a second. All right Now here's an actual bad movie Uh santa claus conquers the martians Um and good lord look at the price on that I did not pay 59 95 for that holy crap Um vhs cassettes for those of you who aren't around for them They were actually quite expensive at the time because they were priced to be sold to to rental places Um, is it a cult classic? Is it Is it though? So anyway, so this is a bad movie and I actually do like this movie Not because it's good not because I've somehow dug a Some gem out of this garbage I like it because It's hilarious so, yeah, there's um I like like pia zadora was in the movie as a child So they're like playing up Her role in this Um, so yes, pia zadora was in it, but but like As as a green martian child Anyway, so so there's a bad movie if you want to look at a bad that this this one's this one stinks. Hello to skull reviews Thank you very much for being in cobra convergence. I very much appreciate it and nice to see you here Um, yeah, look at the price. Look at this This is this is nuts, but this so this was normal though. This was normal Uh vhs cassettes were very expensive back then They would be bought by rental places and rented out Um, so that's why most of the time you wouldn't want to buy them But the thing the thing is Like once they became obsolete people who still had working vcrs like me Could get them on the cheap Gardeners bookstore where I used to work They had like a wall of vhs for a dollar a piece and at that time At that time I picked up I picked up a few here's here's another movie that stinks, but is also a cult classic got that on vhs Here's um, I that's For some reason I have jesus christ superstar. I don't know why I have that one. Um Here's um We don't talk about him anymore. Um, here's another like crappy old sci-fi movie Um Here's here's a white christmas in here. Oh, let's not forget. Uh die hard with the vengeance So, yeah, like I would go Every weekend to gardeners and for a buck a piece Pick up like here. Okay. This is an actual good movie. That's that's a real good movie Um Another good thing but now see that cobra island. I think that counts much more. How are the duck? That's like an actual actual bad movie So anyway, so yeah the like back to the future too That's another really good movie And we've got um, this is this is elvira mystery mistress of the dark hosting The crawling hand So, yeah, I just like would pick up Arm loads of these things that you got you got your men in black. Oh, thank you rob vegas for the super chat Uh, thank you. So now for that one australian dollar, I can go pick up another vhs tape. I mean, I got I've got the three amigos Love that movie I've got dumb and dumber. This is my autobiography Um, I've got indiana jones and the last crusade. So, you know, you get the idea You get the idea um, and I I do actually I don't just have one working vcr I have two working vcrs So I can still watch these I can still watch these as god intended With staticky little staticky lines across the screen, you know video purist Um Try walking around a video store trying to carry 10 vhs cassettes great times. Yeah, see You see what I mean that you you get it. You get it. Um, anyway, let's put these um anyway, yeah, so like How do we get off on this topic? We're talking about like the snake eyes then guilty pleasures Battleship which is a bad movie, but I still like um And yeah, we were talking about like all right. What is what constitutes a bad movie? Do I have any others? um I probably but I don't see any on this But here's why hey who remembers this one Uh Who remember um, uh, Joe science says, uh, thank you for the super chat, uh, two dollars and uh, 10 minutes Um, 10 minutes for two bucks. You know what? For your two bucks just for you I'm gonna give you 12 minutes 12 minutes 12 minutes for you two bucks. So who remembers this one? Yeah, let's see this is The that's the now this is true 80s. Look, I if I wanted to I could I could I could immerse myself In 1980s media. I could just watch nothing else if I really wanted to do that um I I don't really want to do that. But if I could if I wanted to I could that's what I'm saying Uh, yeah, so Anyway, that's uh That's the end of show and tell this is a gi joe everyone. Welcome to the gi joe channel. Um, so uh How are we? Okay. Yeah, so I'm I'm giving I'm given I'm giving Josiah 12 minutes for his two dollars um So I will remind everyone, you know, this is kind of just fun to To just hold and play around with it's like it's substantial. It's Solid So I'll give it that samurai cop. Yes Samurai cop and kung pao. I think I have kung pao I'm pretty sure I have kung pao. I don't think I have samurai cop But samurai cop is online. You can watch that on youtube if you haven't watched samurai cop um You should watch samurai cop. Anyway, um Um, what was I saying? Okay, um before we wrap up Uh, I announced on the facebook and the the twitter that I am doing art commissions Some of you guys have already gotten some of my artwork. I do Excuse me. I do pencil sketches. Um, so This month. I'm doing fine. Okay. Uh, by the way, I'm okay I'm I'm not destitute or anything like that. However, um, like I had a friend who uh, is uh, Is sick and not able to work and so I I helped that friend out a little bit and uh, there is There's something that I'm wanting to do for myself. That's a little bit of an indulgence I guess I don't do that very often um, so, um, so if you if you have any inclination to Uh, commission a gijo, uh sketch Uh, the instructions are on the facebook account and the twitter account Uh, and I would be greatly appreciative. So, uh, thank you and Yeah, I'll uh I'll I'll jump on it So, yeah snake eyes. Oh, thank you, Dave. Uh, six stream samurai is a cult classic. I think I've Um, I don't think I've seen six stream samurai, but I've I've like I've seen I've seen something about it. I saw either a poster or a Or a video about it or something. I know I know I'm at least somewhat familiar with that, but I don't think I've actually seen it um The skull review says I was struck by lightning and bit by a cobra that is that's unlucky That's that's like don't don't go to vegas now Don't play the lottery. Just give that a minute. Let let that luck cycle run out. That's that's that's pretty tough Um, now, thank you, uh treasures. Thank you. I I honestly, um One of the reasons I haven't been buying a lot of stuff is that I've really been trying to focus on You know taking care of business taking care of other priorities so, um It's it's been very rare that I have done anything That's actually just for myself and not like for somebody else for the channel for That kind of thing. So but this is something that um Uh that I would like to do for me so There's that anyway And and like nobody has any obligation to do anything like that for me Nobody has any obligation to do anything, right? This is the internet, right? There's no obligation that you have to me in any way shape or form Um, if you are for those who do help, I greatly appreciate it. I really do but I don't feel entitled to that I'm not entitled to it. Not at all. No, I don't know not even a little bit Um Crazy but cheesy fun. See crazy, but cheesy fun is my kind of style. That's that's my kind of thing Um Um, I'm I'm reading through the live chat if you wanted some great recommendations for cheesy bad, but entertaining movies I'm seeing a lot of movie titles scrolling right now. So Go watch the replay and read the live chat, man There's some good. There's some good suggestions in there. Um, but yeah, I do Um, what's that movie with tom cruise as a samurai? That was the last samurai, wasn't it? I'm pretty sure that's what it was um Anyway, there's uh Tom cruise should have been the last ninja should have worn a mask and had no lines Snake eyes is a great character snake eyes Snake eyes can carry a movie on his own Oh, um Uh, thank you Josiah what's on joe mine friday plus cobra island crankcase. Thank you for the reminder I didn't mention cobra island's crankcase video, but I did not mention what's on joe mine That's another show that I do my best to catch when it is live and actually hang out in the live chat I'm not I haven't been able to do that every week, but I really try to as much as I possibly can Uh, so I'll do my best To show up on friday and actually be in the live chat for what's on joe mind. Thank you, Josiah for the reminder um, and uh, yeah, so snake eyes Here's one thing that I that I've been thinking about specifically for the snake eyes origin movie. So You have you start out. Well, I don't want to spoil too much, but you've all probably already seen it So whatever so you have you have snake eyes You start out with snake eyes as a child and his father is murdered by bad guys. Okay And this is supposed to you know evoke, you know an emotional response and like Help attach us to the character and it should do that it should do that but I don't think most of us can relate to that very well Honestly, I mean how many of us have actually had You know our parents murdered by assassins I'll probably in this chat only like two or three of us have had Our parents murdered by assassins, but compare this though compare this though to a very similar scene in guardians of the galaxy okay, where uh, it starts out with peter losing his mother in the hospital and That scene works whereas the scene in snake eyes doesn't it works because it's relatable it works because We probably have all had that experience and we understand and we feel the pain and the loss and the regret right so That works and that attaches you to the character Whereas what they were doing in snake eyes. I I get it. I understand what you were trying to do But it just doesn't it just doesn't work. It doesn't have that impact because because it's not relatable nobody That doesn't happen so anyway, that's I've already done a review of the snake eyes movie and I don't want to do A whole new review of it now. My point is my point is this is a really good character okay This is an important character. It's one of the most important characters in comic books and Could be one of the most important characters in film if he's done right So for the love of god, just do him right And if and if you have a writer or a director Who just can't figure out how to get around the fact that he doesn't talk and then he wears a mask Get a better writer and a better director hire somebody else hire somebody who can actually figure it out because It's a different medium. It's not a comic book. But the point is He was created with those attributes and people did get attached to this character people do still care about this guy And So I mean it can be done. It can be done. Okay I'd love to see it done. I love to see it done But Because we got what we got You know, that's not likely to happen in the near future um But like like I said storm shadow, you know what that could have been a storm shadow movie They actually did storm shadow pretty well storm shadow was interesting I actually cared about storm shadow and at the end of the movie when like He feels betrayed by the arashik hage clan and he walks away. I can I can rely that's something I can sympathize with that's something I can relate to I felt what he felt really damn good acting Good acting good writing should have made it a storm shadow movie. Thank you very much. God bless america. I don't know so the Sean says how about an origin of shipwreck movie? That's That's what we all want to see but it's it would be, you know rated nc 17 You know, it'd be for an older audience. There's a lot of I mean, have you seen pulp fiction? That's probably a little bit um, yeah, anyway um Two more minutes. I was giving I was giving uh, just I uh Um 12 minutes for his two bucks and we got two more minutes to go and then we'll wrap it up It's been really nice seeing everybody. I've seen a lot of people hanging out here um And a lot of great discussion. Thank you everyone for for indulging my My uh tangents. It's it is appreciated very much. Uh, hello will I don't think I said hello to will and I'm not sure I said hello to chew and bubblegum either hello and how you doing now that the show's almost over how I how you doing Hello, martin vasquez And I think I said hello to shondra beckett beatrain brady, but uh Hello beatrain nice to see you. Yes, the gi joe bird movie was amazing I loved it. It's it was just such Uh, not only is a great idea. It's a great collaboration gi joe birds bringing people together. That's awesome Hootie co co. Josiah is the vice emperor of cobra eye. That's all right It's good to know that there's there's that there are ranks That's that's good to know. It's good to know what what the pecking order is very good Um, too many snake eyes figures got to share the love with other figures. Yes. Um, that is something that We have talked about a little bit is that You know snake eyes has been an overexposed character for a long time but for for I think we had gotten away from that because Snake eyes can't be overexposed when there's nothing right. There's no gi joe of any kind So so this guy cannot be overexposed But we're getting back to that point though where snake eyes is starting to get A bit overused and overexposed again. Um And I like snake eyes good character good fit like it's hard. It's hard to do this wrong This is even though this is basically a lump of plastic It still looks pretty cool You know, it's hard to do that wrong But it is possible to do it just a little too much So anyway, we'll work on it. Well, we'll we'll see what we can do. Okay. So I've given the extra two minutes. I gave Uh 12 minutes for the price of 10, but it is time to wrap it up. Thank you lester. Good night to you too I will say, uh, thanks. Good night to everyone. Thanks for being here when we do this again next week I already have My idea for my next review video, but it's gonna be at least a couple weeks I always take time off after cobra convergence. I always take time off So I'm gonna take some time off now that cobra convergence is wrapped up And we will get back to regular gi joe toy reviews After the break, but I'll I'll keep coming to you every week for a live stream. So anyway, thanks everyone I will see you next week and for now I will say Good night