 Okay, hello everyone looks like at least for my in it looks like video and audio is working. Hello, everyone How do you do? I I'm gonna say right up front. I am really pushing it on my internet connection Given that I've already been live for 13 hours this month. So if it cuts out That's not entirely unexpected But hopefully it'll it'll keep going and we can we can get this going Hello, Rob Vegas and Thane Woods and the figure six pack and big a Dave and codename YouTube R2 and Cyclonus and Nyquist and sparkster and big I'm saying hello to the same people multiple times. Hello MC DJ ACD. Hello comic tropes nice to see you Chris Hello the figure six pack and core commander Cody So, yes Yeah, thank you. See I Feel a little underdressed I I was spent some time outside and I've been trying to get like get my arms a little bit more sun So I have this this This sleeveless shirt that and I just You know, it's it's comfortable. Hello, Beta Ray Bob. Hello, Brian. Hello Matt and other Matt And David. Hello. Hello, Skyfall. Hey, Robbie or is airy This is my exact in a structure Yeah, so We have yeah cobra law We have I've so much to talk about and I really hope the internet connection works Yeah Yeah, Nyquist like this is formal where I you know, I'm in Oklahoma. I wear this to a wedding Yes slim good body Wish it were slim So So many things to talk about we are in the middle of Cobra convergence There are things and what not happening. Hello Cobra Island. Hello, Charlie Hello, Daniel. How do you do? I'm glad you finally caught a live stream. Hey bubble wrap memories And and hello, Sean Beckett. Yeah, yes Sean if if if I'm bringing out the guns, I'm afraid I'm unarmed. I Have no arm artillery. Let's let's just be honest about that. Hello jump in general. Hello Bueke City and Bad ape and anybody else that I might have missed. Hello. Thank you all for being here. That's awesome. G'day there Rob Vegas and woodman. I do have stuff. I Right off the bat. I want to say since Rob Vegas is here two things about Rob Vegas who is there Hello, Ivan who is there in your? In in your live chat right there first of all we're in Cobra convergence the entire month of July. We are Doing Cobra content Rob has been uploading like mad for Cobra convergence doing his own stuff For the event for the whole month. They've been Doing so much stuff that I have been able to keep up to share all of it second thing We Rob Vegas is going to be Substituting for one of our presenters. So he is going to slide into The July 25th slot on the calendar for Cobra convergence since that Opened up. So thank you very much Rob. I will update the calendar tonight But what I want to do Brow the tack. Oh, sorry. It's reversed on mine. I got I got the Cobra Hello Matthew Thanks, thank you very much Matthew. So, yes Oh, Thane was injured in a Pogo accident. Oh, thank you Christian bricks greetings from Denmark sweet wife Peter. Thank you and Greetings from the United States. Thanks for being here So I wanted to start I wanted to start out by thanking everyone who has participated in a Cobra convergence so far this year We are just on day 12 right now. We got a long ways to go But thanks to everybody who's on the calendar and thanks to everybody else who has just jumped in to do their own thing Including sparkster Who has been doing some Cobra convergence stuff? We got some great stuff coming up But before we talk about any of the great stuff coming up. I wanted to go over The presenters that have already made stuff So that if you haven't gone back to see it, you should go and check and see what's been produced so far HCC 788 calm the calendar is there links to everyone is there on the calendar so on day one we had sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse and Zazzle had me and Ken from toy connections and Steve from GI Joe Berg and Kelly slaughter Sergeant slaughter's daughter on there to talk about the world's without in two-parter a hello gray fox nice to see you Hello spaced Cobra And and anybody else I miss I wouldn't miss anybody Let's see bad ape says what's your opinion on the new GI Joe transfer crossover toys? I'm not I'm not big on transformers. I know they're hot and they're popular It's just not my thing. So I don't know if I can really weigh in on it. So yeah Hello. Oh, hey. Hello. Hello gas. Nice to see you. Hello Mike Layton So we started off Cobra convergence with sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse With a bunch of us talking about worlds without end then the full force was did theirs on the second That was Chris and Pat talking about the his The has lab his tank Then I did a review of scrap iron with some guest appearances from some of you guys And then Joe motion videos 82 did a review of valor versus venom Venomization chamber and venomous Maximus version 2 That's a tongue twister then Cobra Island did a review of retro the retro his Three the retro his three. I want to say that right And then Timmer On half the battle did a review of the mega viper. That was crazy Then peg warmers did a special episode on crazy schemes and weird figures with far-point toys Plastic battles went live on Instagram. Let's talk about the crock master and his dios setup for his photographs Snufa's corner cafe did a special post about the Cobra eels, which is my favorite Cobra army builder And once on Joe mind did a ranking of all of the Cobra classified figures Toy connections did a video about the Cobra throne. It shouldn't be for Cobra commander or Serpentor And then JLS comics did of an episode about M. Bison from from Street Fighter 2 special mission force did a special photo of toy photography presentation with the classified Cobra command figures and then today Forgotten figures did a special article a special blog entry about cesspool a Figure in a character that it's not looked at at often enough. So cesspool and then tomorrow Joe on Joe the Joe on Joe podcast has something special coming If you remember a couple years ago Joe on Joe podcast did a Behind-the-music episode featuring cold slither. It was really good. It was really entertaining So that is coming up tomorrow from the Joe on Joe podcast now I'm We've got a lot more I will wait until next week to To talk about the next presenters that are coming. We've got more stuff coming. So if you have any interest at all in Joining the event in you know producing your own Cobra stuff Just go to the website HCC 788 calm to find out how you can get in on the promotional video that I do every Week and get your stuff shared with everyone. So thanks everyone who's doing that Woof, okay, that was a lot of information in a very short amount of time. Hello Lakoj 78 nice to see you Making history, that's right so yes, and And thank you to Rob Vegas again one more time. I wanted to say thanks because we had one person who Through no fault of their own just they had to drop out. They couldn't do it. So that calendar Spot will be filled by Rob and make sure you're checking out Rob Vegas's channel because he's got a lot of Cobra conversion stuff And it's been really keeping up with it. It's really cool. So yes and and Hello mark to design. How do you do we have Stuff to talk about Because We are getting a new Cobra commander figure and it's not it's not a reuse of the Oh, it's up there. It's not a reuse of of the Yeah, it's not a reuse of the same Cobra commander that we have seen already what three times we are getting a a Version one inspired Cobra commander So that is that was the final stretch goal for the haz lab his tank They crossed that threshold. So It's interesting. I wanted to talk about it. Yeah, Mickey Mouse. So it is gonna be a Mickey Mouse Cobra commander So for those who are not familiar Hello and thank you Marshall For those who are not familiar Cobra commander was first issued as a mail away a figure back in 1982 a straight arm figure And the earliest earliest the very earliest releases of that figure Had a simplified Cobra emblem on the chest like the one you see in the in the photo right there In and it has like the eyes are kind of separated and look a little bit like Mickey Mouse ears. So that variant of Cobra commander is referred to as the Mickey Mouse Cobra commander. So That is the one they are going to be doing for the For the haz lab his tank. I've got to say I'm pretty happy with it It's not exactly what I was hoping to get but this is not bad. Hey Davey. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here MCDJ ACDC nice to see you as well. I hope nobody sneaks in hello white white Vegeta I'm trying to say your name right now Tier five is dinner. Yeah, exactly. I in fact like let's we should do that dinner Tier five has lab his tank dinner with me. You're buying. I Like this idea a lot. This is great So the This is my understanding is gonna be on a retro a retro card back Since they have the mold they will definitely Definitely be reissuing this figure probably in a standard deco not the Mickey Mouse But this would probably be your only chance to get the Mickey Mouse Variant of a classified Cobra commander. So that's fine. I Obviously, I was hoping to get some kind of a tow towable weapon system and SMS or an Asp or something like that now that would have been a big order that would have a tall order But I mean the thing has a tow hitch on it and it would be nice to have something to tow Yeah, that's yeah, that's kind of a good point chewing bubble gum. I'm not so much interested in the Transformers GI Joe vehicle Cross-overs I am interested in those o-ring figures though, and I would really like to see those released some other way So I would like to get my hands on the Baroness, and I would like like to get my hands on stalker But yeah, it wasn't exactly what I was. Oh, thank you comic tropes. I think there's a chance for one more unlock like the SMS Oh, and thank you MC DJ AC DC drinks are on me for dinner. Okay, that hey see well, this is working. This is working great Thank you both. Thank you very much And I'll I'll have a drink right now on MC DJ AC DC I would Comic tropes I would be surprised if they do another unlock because at some point, you know these extras, you know The the costs on them add up and it's got a you know, they've got to recoup those costs It's all got to fit within the the cost of the you know the initial Price of the his tank, you know the $300 his tank, which is a lot. That's a lot of money So at some point when they if they keep doing more Stretch goals they get diminishing your returns, but if we were talking about like Impossibility of crossing like the 20,000 Threshold. Oh Davies sends super chat. Thank you Dave Everyone sent send me your his Megatrons and your Oz Bumblebees so Dave wants the Megatrons and the bumblebees and we can keep the bearinesses and the And the the stalkers poor sock. Yeah, pork chop sandwiches We got pork chops sandwiches and the drinks are on McDJ AC DC Yeah, so I Would be surprised. I mean, I think they would have to be a pretty significant Threshold if they were to announce another tier So what that means then I guess if we're gonna get towable weapons for the his tank It's they're gonna be down the line and they're gonna be separate. So, okay, fine. I'll tell you what they could do is In the future if they ever decided to do another has lab I think the the vamp is probably the most logical choice. It's smaller than the his tank But I mean, I think people would still like a vamp but if they added a A missile system like you like the MMS to the vamp as As a stretch goal Once they have the mold for that It's just a matter of recoloring it to fit with the his tank if they wanted to re-release it for that But yeah, I We have a tow hitch with nothing to put on it. I Wonder if it I guess I could probably tow a vintage Ask it would be a little out of scale See what about opening up the last tier for the sky striker as an add-on for those who went for it, of course for reasonable fee. Yeah, so The the last year of the sky striker. They didn't quite make that wish they had but they didn't quite make it I know a lot of people do want to see that and it was I think it was the ketchup and mustard Uss flag debt crew is my recollection. I think a lot of people would really like to see it And hopefully some that that will be released in some context Speaking of vamp working on one with Lego blocks. Hey, hey, Lego bricks. That's cool the van see the van Well, I look forward to seeing your Lego vamp sparkster And the vamp is very versatile, you know You know the vamp was reused a lot of times I have a picture that I've shown In the past where I have like all of the vamp Molds, you know all the vamp uses lined up and of course you've got the vamp But you also have the vamp that was with the howl The vamp and howl to pack which is slightly different And then the vamp mark to in the mail away vamp mark to you've got the stinger And apparently there's a mail away stinger as well that is slightly different I have never been able to find that either loose or in the package But yo Joe says there's one I've never seen it, but apparently there's a mail away vamp Or a mail away stinger and then you've got the the tiger sting with for Tiger Force, so the vamp got a lot of Reuse in the vintage era and even more reuses After the vintage era, so the vamp would be a big one. I the vamp Even if you're not willing to Even if you were not willing to wait for Hasbro to reissue the vamp in you know different colors It's very customizable, and I would have to imagine given that it's smaller than the his tank It would be less expensive than the his tank you would hope So yeah, that would be Starscream Rattler see that and yeah, see this is where you got to dive into customization You could do a Starscream Rattler The Starscream and the other Decepticon jets I think were F-15s, but that's close enough to an F-14 You can turn that a sky striker. In fact, I'm pretty sure the sky striker has been released as a Starscream at some point But yeah, the The version one inspired Cobra commander Is is going to be coming with the his tank so You were getting four figures four figures Nearly a hundred dollars worth of action figures just all by themselves With the his tank so you're gonna get the driver. You're gonna get the The tactician you're gonna get the gunner and you're gonna get a Cobra commander I mean to me it was worth it before I knew I was getting in four figures total But but that not not everybody felt that way and you know on that that's okay. That's okay As with everything else this is not for everyone and there's some people who just they don't collect Classified series at all so it doesn't even matter what it is. If it's classified. They're not interested Comic tropes there was there was a guy at Joe Fest doing 3d-printed vehicles for the six-inch scale one of which looked a lot like the armadillo and I got the guys card Hello, Rodimus. Thanks for being here. Oh And thank you the killer weasel I don't mean change subject. Why doesn't Timmer not have the following like you? He's reuser good and funny just for fun. That's a good question. Um, I Timmer has been doing it longer than I have Maybe Timmer doesn't Shamelessly plug himself the way I do Timmer's just not he's not as shameless That's I'm that's what I'm chalking it up to but But thanks for bringing up Timmer. I am a fan of half the battle I've been a fan of Timmer for a long time and You know Timmer has become a really good friend. He's just a great guy behind the scenes just Yeah, I think Timmer is great and and I try to not miss his stuff. I really enjoy what he does But thanks. Thanks for bringing that up a skyhawk a skyhawk would be nice a skyhawk see Like is it for classified vehicles? We're basically getting motorcycles right now and that's okay But there are other Small and medium-sized vehicles that you could you could reach into you could really you could reach into my understanding is that The eventual scrap iron figure is supposed to come with with a drone of some kind No specific idea what that could be some of speculated. It could be a cobra claw That would be all right See it you could you could do something like the cobra claw and it wouldn't be so expensive that you couldn't pack it with a six-inch figure so Yeah, thank you the killer weezer Steve and Timmer That's yeah, it's It's the odd couple I Think has really missing missing an issue by not reviving old small play sets at retail for the yeah That's a good point and I think now that they are finally getting back into o-ring figures They can at least me try to expand that a little bit I mean they did expand it a little bit with the sky striker, but the sky striker is a big thing It's not a little thing, but the the small sets Would be less expensive to produce and you know you could have something For your o-ring figures, I think that would be great. Even if they didn't reissue them Something that small, you know, you could produce something, you know something new, you know something new But that that could be reused for other purposes in the future A cobra fang wouldn't be too big. That's another one. The fang is a relatively small vehicle, you know Now that now that it's been shown that The gi joe o-ring stuff will sell And the gi joe classified stuff will sell and gi joe can successfully do Multiple has lab projects it opens up the possibility of lots of other things Are there any small vehicles play sets that are hard to find? Hard to find The toxo I don't know if you consider the toxo lab a small play set Because it's I mean it's kind of it's not it's not actually that small, but it's small ish, you know, it's But that one that one's a difficult one to find and the eco warriors all striker Is is can be a little bit tough too and again, that's kind of a medium-sized vehicle Um, if you're looking at variants the the mail away Uh fire bats That's a tough one. That's a tough one Um, yeah, uh the mountain howitzer Hello, uh, ruxford. Nice to see you. Thanks for being here. Hello the blue Libra. You guys are There are people who've shown up that I haven't said hello to hello everyone Um See the coil, um It should have been the ferret. Yeah vehicles like the fang claw snake armor battle a pulled by the way out Yeah, would all work at classified scale. So you could do stuff like that size for classified and it wouldn't be so expensive Um, Diane david says what about a new play set small or something cool that hasn't been done for That's a good idea. See that's kind of the direction I was going Um earlier Diane and hello, Diana Davis. Nice to see you always nice to see you here Uh, hello sergeant slaughter slaughter house. Nice to see you as well And I think the photo vipers snuck in somewhere. Uh, hello photo viper. I must have missed you Um, yeah, but that's what yeah, that's kind of the direction I was going because I mean you've got You you've got new o-ring guys, right? You've got some new o-ring guys gun fell out but um and You know, you could you could easily well Easily as a relative term you you could realistically Create a little small environments for these guys something something more significant than a cardboard diorama background That's Hey, it's peg warmers. Hi peg warmers. Nice to see you and thank you for your contribution to cobra convergence much appreciated Also, uh, sergeant slaughter slaughter house Uh, another cobra convergence, uh, participant From day one from day one Uh, so, yeah, uh a classified headquarters, you know, okay Hear me out. Uh, hello gen one red alert. How do you do? Hear me out here A classified headquarters now, obviously doing something like the 1983 headquarters command center in a classified scale would be prohibitively expensive, but hold hold on Back in the olden days Uh, large play sets were were made differently You know, take a look at the the mash play set The mash play set from I think me go did that in the three and three quarter inch scale And it had it, you know, it had uh like a jeep It had the the buildings the tents and stuff and some signs and whatnot and it was all on a a vinyl mat Right um, so You know, you could do something like that. You could do something like that You know, I don't I think it would probably be impossible to get um To get anything larger Oh, there's a limit to what you can realistically do Uh at the six inch scale the six inch scale is like the three and three quarter inch scale is great for vehicles That is uh, uh, that's a great scale for vehicles Um, the six inch scale is a great scale for you know, detail and articulation and accessories and stuff Missed the launch platform behind you. Yeah, see the see. That's what I'm saying card. Well, okay I say that but like the idea of getting A cardboard diorama background has become a little bit of a Uh, a cliche and a little bit of a joke But see the idea is there the idea is there you could you could there all are there are alternatives To tooling up a giant plastic play set. Uh, thank you the killer weasel Um, uh, classified series minus two of the 80s toys spiral zone toys, but they seem big and bulky They are well, they are big and bulky. I don't have one out that's handy to show you as an example um Right here like Here's what I'm talking about Uh, hello, uh, Michael Mitchell. How do you my first play set was the missile command center? Yeah, uh, maybe hasbro could uh Let's say make one in plastic hint hint. See What about small play sets that would be collected and made into a mega play set? See that's see That's a great idea for for For collectors like it's uh, it's a reason to It's a reason to go to the store and look for new stuff, right Because you got to collect them all But if they do that what I would like to see. Hello, uh, kaley and matthew commended or nice to see you. How do you do? If they do that though, uh, what I would prefer that they do is not do A bunch of small play sets that only work if you combine them I would like them to also work separately But have the option of putting them together Um Rob says would be nice but not counting on it. I don't know where to which which part would be nice But I but but don't count on it. Actually don't count on any of this stuff I am flying by the seat of my pants. I am Maverick, um Yeah, so, uh, anyway this um So like an average classified figure like uh Like flint here it is it is chunky Compared to like um an o-ring style figure But with with this guy You can make a vehicle Um at you know a reasonable cost And a reasonable size Right, um, but for this guy You know Anything other than a small vehicle is gonna be 200 to 300 bucks But what these guys are good for is just like There are things that you can do at this scale that you just can't do at the at the smaller scale. Um There's some some details that you can add Uh, some accessories that you can add which I I don't have any of them on this guy right now because I just took them out of the package Uh, but the point is like they're different scales. So they have different, um different pros and cons So I would um Um I would say yeah, like the his tank honestly is about as large as I think you should expect to get Uh for classified like in any uh context Uh, if you got anything In fact, in fact, I I really do think the his tank is is going to be about the largest that we're going to get We I think we'll get other vehicles, but Uh, but smaller Smaller, uh, I I hope someday that we will get a vamp. I think that makes sense Um But like like look at this This this picture has there's a mauler right front and center on the back of this packaging for Uh classified flint And I think there's uh close to zero percent chance That we will get a mauler that that just doesn't make sense and think about how big that would be Think about how large a Uh, a classified mauler would be I think that would be insane but like The skyhawk, you know, you can get a skyhawk you get you maybe Maybe an armadillo things things in that range things in that range and you know I think maybe don't rule out the possibility of of maybe someday getting something new Um, because like getting vintage inspired stuff is cool Um Um, yeah getting vintage vintage inspired stuff is cool But you know, I think I think it would be nice to get something new Uh armadillo isn't far off. Yeah. Yeah. Um Um So, yeah armadillo Um, a single man tank, you know But the mauler holds two figures on the inside Um With the money pumped into the his tank project Surely this will send message to how well the fandom and funds are from fans Are there for any future project? I think that's fair and this is something that I try to tell people like if there's something that comes out for g Ijo that that you don't like your ears. Not a fan of you. Like you don't like the classified or You don't like the retro o-ring or that whatever. Um, that's fine. And I am of the view that you know, it's your hard-earned money And you should not feel obliged to buy anything. Hello, raisiner. Nice to see you. Hello, holonet. Nice to see you Uh, you should not feel obliged. Hello, Jasper bicycle. That's another one a new one. Oh, and Joe fan 84 nice. I think I don't think I said. Hello. Oh, and hello, Andrew as well And hello, toy bounty hunter Um, you should never feel obliged to spend money on anything that you don't want like it in it You can have any reason for not wanting it, you know, you can not want you could not want this flint because you know You you only are interested in eco warriors flint and what's this business? And that's fine. That is your right and that is totally fine That is your right and that is totally cool. But even if you despise classified flint here you should um, I I think Still hope that classified flint here is successful Because the more successful gi joe is the more different kinds of gi joe stuff we will get And the more different kinds of gi joe stuff we will get the more likely we are to get something that you Will like maybe someday even ego warriors flint Uh, but yeah for the people who are complaining like why don't they get back to o ring? What's all this six inch stuff or the the retro line for walmart was Not not even really a retro line. It was all like modern construction figures. Well Here you go, you know They did get around to it But you know, they've got to have some success to keep that rolling and to justify diversifying it that way. So um, yes, there are some things out there that I um, yeah, all flints are beautiful exactly Um, so there's there's stuff out there that I don't have any interest in and and I am comfortable passing on that I um, the only thing that I'm a completist on is the the vintage series, you know the the 82 to 94 I am not a completist on anything else So I am I'm totally fine Skipping some things that I've just you know, I'm just not interested in But I mean the fact that we've had some success now means that we can Maybe look at getting some more stuff You know It opens up some doors. It opens up some possibilities Including things like we were talking about like play sets like maybe something new Doing retro inspired figures. These are great because I'm I'm a vintage guy But you know, it still might be exciting and fun to maybe get something something new I think arguably Like the blue ninjas are are kind of new sort of but like Like a new character like a new named character or something like that You know, um I uh, oh, hello. Thank you. Uh, what's on Joe mind? Where the hell are the singing cat? I'll tell you where the singing cats are The singing cats are on what's on Joe mind on friday So check youtube and your local listings. Check your tv i'd For what's on Joe mind live friday night Um, I I do try to uh make it to what's on Joe mind as often as I possibly can Uh, if you would date any woman from gi the gi joe universe would it be lady j scarlet cover girl Zirana or the baronist? I think I tell I'm not going with any of those. I think Uh, I think I think I would have really good conversations with dr. Adele burkhart. I'm going with dr. Burkhart. I'm going completely you know, we're Uh, we're kind of going going totally off the reservation here I'm seeing me and uh, dr. B Uh, I think we'd have a good time I do We'll talk about some pinheaded intellectual bull crap. It'll be it'll be a great time There are more. See that's what I'm saying. Diane is there are more women than that. Exactly. Exactly And such as dr. Burkhart So I'm going Me and Adele You know I call her edie We're that close Um, anyway, uh Can't see yeah candy. Um Grunts girl was lola. Yeah, lola Um Yeah, hcc and and lady doomsday Um Yeah, so um, hello, w w jd 80c 85. Wow. I can't talk. I'm totally losing my mind. Hi How you doing? Hello Garcia gung fu. Nice to see you Uh, hello, uh draws. I don't know if I said hello to draws, but if not, hello. Hi matt Um, so yes What was I saying? Yeah, um Hopefully the fact that we've had some success means that we can have More things. It means we can have nice things A honda lu. Yeah honda lu her own grocery distribution company very successful business person, you know That's that kind of that's kind of my speed. That's kind of my the bareness Ranna likely to shoot you in the back You know And look, you know, I've already been married once. I'm not doing that again. So Yeah, uh me and dr. B. We're we're you know It's what what we call that um Uh Brihart It's it bryhard dr. Biggles jones. That would be another excellent choice, but I I think I think me and dr. Burkhardt I think we'd get along quite well Uh, remember those years with no gi joe product. Yeah, I see exactly. Um, and that was not that long ago Uh, that was not that long ago Um, all the tasty vitals you could want. Um, yeah, uh low one bow two Uh brings up a really good point and that is not very long ago. We had nothing We had nothing nothing They did the the 50th anniversary line, which I thought was amusing because it was the 50th anniversary of the 1964 gi joe And their celebration of the of the 50th anniversary was all real american hero stuff I I don't know how fans of 60s and 70s gi joe felt about that for For people my age. It was like, okay cool. You know, I'll tell you I'll get a sideline figure That's really cool and a and a and a sky striker. That's groovy um, but uh, yeah, they did that and then It was Specifically announced that there was not going to be any gi joe product until the next gi joe movie was released And there was no release date for a gi joe movie gi joe 3 Was teased years ago gi joe was teased years ago um and it just um Never happened right and finally they shifted gears. They they did the snake eyes movie, but then the snake eyes movie didn't You know didn't take off that one didn't explode So I I am sure they had to switch gears You know when the snake eyes movie didn't take off I'm sure they had to to change a lot of plans very quickly. I I would I would I mean they'd have to Because if the movie is successful if if the movie is a blockbuster Then they've got to capitalize on that, right? They've got to get some movie stuff out and they did get some movie stuff out But I'm talking like The longer term because they're talking gonna be like sequels. We need sequels. Well, that didn't happen uh, that didn't quite uh Didn't quite do that. Um So despite that I have to give my um I have to to give kudos to the brand team for Still putting out some pretty successful stuff and you know, I am only too willing to criticize where it's due um But what the job that they are doing it's a hard job It is just not possible to please everyone. It just isn't And no matter what you do, you're gonna have people saying, ah, this is shit. You know, I What is this crap and who are the morons coming up with it? No matter what you do, that's gonna happen uh, but they still successfully funded To has lab projects You know the classified series seems to still be going well. We're getting more o-ring stuff We're getting uh more retro stuff and you know, it's There's a future to we're getting more licensed stuff. There's licensed stuff out there So so there's a bit more future to it. Um, and I'm I'm I'm optimistic about that um I I tell you in my in my heart of hearts in my guts stand up flint stand up flint In in like deep inside me in my colon I feel like there's still something missing Um and as much as I I have Liked a lot of this stuff coming out like I mentioned before I was not interested in six inch figures I had no interest in the classified series until I actually got a few in my hands And I was impressed and I ended up liking them more than I thought but even at that I still feel like there's something missing. Maybe it's that there isn't like A lot of media for it. Maybe that that there's not um when we got the comic book Thankfully two comic books. We've got like the uh the Saturday morning memories is is seems to be doing really well We've got larry's series, which is is still continuing and hopefully we'll we'll carry on Um, so we've got that We had the the movie that kind of bombed. Let's just call it what it is. It kind of bombed Um, and we got the uh the the video game which I did get and I tried to play I I did I did try it for a little while Um, but I don't know there's They're just I can't quite put my finger on it, but it still feels like something's missing Um, and as soon as I figure it out, you know I'm gonna I'm gonna wake up in a in a a cold sweat in the middle of the night and be like That's it and then I will immediately shoot off an email uh to The the hasbro gi joe brand team Which they will never read because it'll probably go into their spam folder You know they get flushed out, but but eventually it will come to me, but I still feel like there's something Missing it may something to tie it all together something, you know I don't know I don't know um I think this is the first time I've actually voiced that opinion because Uh, I've I've been thinking it for a while, but I like I don't I don't I don't do I don't I don't do hot takes here That's just not my shtick. Um, I like to think about like My feelings and thoughts about something Before I go spouting off about it um, so That's something that's I hadn't mentioned it because I really I don't know what the I don't know what the answer is I don't know what the solution is, but it still feels like there's something missing in modern gi joe that um And not necessarily like a specific product type or something like that. There's something like elemental that uh That's just it's it's just like that close, but it's not quite there Um, thank you chad kimmel if you get one job with cobra What would it be a basic trooper crimson guard eel, etc. That's a good question. I'm going with crimson guard because you get to go undercover all the time and uh, I Hey, I'll I'll get facial reconstruction. I'll be a fred You know, and yeah, I'll have cobra buy me a house and a car No problem. I'll spy on whoever you want to no big deal. That's I think that I think that's what I'm going for Hot take hoodie. That's that's it. That's it Uh reaction figures. Yeah, the um the reaction figures are its own. I didn't mention that. Yeah, that's another one. I was talking about, um License stuff. We got the reaction figures as well um, but um Like they're bringing in the military aspect. So like this like flint Flint looks like flint, right and like his shotgun doesn't Look like a specific real world weapon, but it looks like a shotgun. You know, so it it looks like you did like Unlike battle force 2000 This looks like futuristic military stuff to me like a real soldier looking guy carrying a real weapon that to me. That's futuristic soldiering Um, so that's that's not what's missing. I don't think I mean I don't know. So but I'll think about it. I'll I'll chew on that. I'll I'll I'll give it some more thought and see if I can nail down Exactly Exactly what what's on my brain? um 60s through 80s user joe coaxing edge innovation modern to joe isn't making uh, what a toy is like prayer Uh, like prayer lines. Yeah, um, and honestly From start to finish with a few just a few exceptions This is all for adults. I I don't see a lot of it. There are a few things, but I don't see a lot of it that's actually made for kids and I think um I think uh You to to really sell something to kids You gotta have some kind of successful media somewhere You know, you got you gotta have something driving that and they they have tried and my idea Long ago was a video game. Well, they did a video game I did try to play the did I mention I did try to play the video game. I didn't in fact try I did I'm a good sport. I you know, I'm I took one for the team um Which you prefer if you had to choose one super seven, uh, ji joe ultimate line or valver's line This is for everyone like no, which for that's that's a tough one. It would not be super seven Um, and I'm a g. Well, the thing is I'm a gi joe. Well, okay Okay, here's the thing. I'm a gi joe collector So my focus is always going to be on that. So if I get anything Other than that for instance um Carson metaxis from 3d joe's launched operation recall and I'm that's really cool And I did get in on that But anything like that is an extra thing for me. I I'm a gi joe guy I have chosen I chose long ago to limit my the scope of my collection um For several there are a lot of reasons for that. Uh, so um Rob says yes, this property needs to branch out and grab new fans. Not just lifers. Yeah rob. That's that's exactly right Um, and but the solution to that I don't I don't have an answer to that my answer. They've already tried my answers, right? I I wanted a video game I wanted a movie. We already have the comic books, right? We got the comic books um, and Um, I mean larry's larry series is a super long running series and larry's great I I love larry and his work, you know, I grew up with larry homa's comic book The saturday morning adventures comic Um, I think appeals to an entirely different a different demographic. Oh joe's says well, I'm so late That's okay. Thank you for the super chat. Thank you for being here It's okay that you're late, but I hope you get brought, you know A snacks for everyone because the last guy to show up. He's the snack guy. You got to feed everybody But thanks for being here. Hello david sharp. Nice to see you Um Yeah, um Oh, what was I saying the yeah, so they they tried a video game. They tried a movie They have the comic books. Oh, yeah, my point about the comic books is for the most part People are going to buy the comic book because they're familiar with gi joe for In some way even even the saturday morning Adventures series which has been refreshing. That's been refreshing Um, it um You're still gonna pick it up most likely because you have some familiar familiarity with gi joe Some have suggested a Like a new animated series Maybe maybe some have suggested like a A live action series on a streaming system like net netflix Uh, that would be great. I mean, these are great ideas. The thing is like Um, they got it like the that's big budget stuff. That's that's like lots of money stuff and actors and and uh Um, I would love to see it But you know, they've got to be able to justify, you know getting a return on that But something like that I I would hope would bring in more New fans, you know turn a lot of people on that that are not familiar with it and did not grow up with it Hello cow puddles nice to see you there Uh, the cow puddles dislikes skin tight uniforms me too. They chafe they chafe. Yeah, I'm I'm right there with you um But uh, yeah, um Matt would like a modern gi joe anime so that see um Yeah, I think maybe this Maybe we're not there yet But I think there there has to be a phase for gi joe Maybe in the next few years where we we need to try to replicate the success that we're having with the plastic in media They're trying uh with coming with the coming young young adult novel and the anticipated series I I've I saw your post about The young adult novel and I will uh, let's see Um, dine it says I read book one and see what they're going for. Yeah I I I do want to get the the young adult novel. Maybe we'll do a dramatic reading um, and yeah, that's And hopefully some kids will pick that up and you know have some interest in the broader You know franchise. I think that would be great. Um the uh the series I like I haven't heard anything about a gi joe series for quite some time Um, and that's one another one of those things that was teased It was teased a while back, but then like You know is is there any progress on it? I I don't know but but I would like to see that I would like to see that Um, Matt says looking forward to reading the young adult novel. Um, yeah, me too I'm expecting the young adult the young adult book to be a young adult book Which means that it is not going to be aimed at my demographic whatsoever You know, which is but that's fine the whole that's the whole point That's the whole point is that it's got to be aimed at somebody other than other than you know, 40 something uh old guys um But In the long run We've got to have some kind of success in media in order to get like As with the figures, you know success breeds diversity success breeds more different kinds of media so, uh For instance, say, you know, they they do um an animated series But but you didn't want an animated series. You wanted a live action series. Okay, under understandable understandable, but If one series is successful It opens the door for other options. So We just we just got to have success Um, it's well done for what the intentions are. Yeah, um, I'm hoping so I'm hoping so um I wish it were to choose your own adventure book Maybe we could somehow read it like they choose your own adventure book. Hello Hans chow. I'm sorry. I didn't say hello to Hans Hello, Hans. How do you do? Uh, love triangle it probably is the uh, love triangle uh, Hans, but um, I got to hang out with Hans Doing a special thing for j bar. Let's show uh for later in cobra convergence I don't want to spoil it, but nice to hang out with you. Hans nice to see you here. That was that was fun. That was fun Um, thought they did other joe. What a bit of a way. Um, okay. You guys are going too fast um gi joe mad libs. Oh, jeez. Okay. Uh, gi joe mad libs We will save for next time because I didn't realize we're like We're getting close to to eight o'clock and I do need to wrap this up at uh, at the one hour mark my time Because I do have some additional work to do. I'll tell you what's going on Okay I'll tell you what's going on. All right, so I I don't know if you've heard this but I do these these review videos on youtube of the gi joe action figures and we got this whole thing cobra convergence going on For the entire stinking month, right? So it's it's still happening um, and So I have a schedule. So I'm doing specific reviews each week for that And I get to the thing that I need to review for coming out. Oh, thank you. Rob. Vegas lulls 40 something We're all uh, 23 in this chat. Yeah, okay Me too as you can tell i'm i'm 23 actually 23 is a really good age That's it's old enough to really get out and have some fun, but also Uh, young enough to just be wild and crazy, you know, it's 23 is a good age if I could be one age it would be 23, I think Oh, yeah, no, I was telling the story I was telling the story the So I I'm doing this review. I'm getting it written. I'm getting it already and I realized that I don't have the file card For this guy, which I usually check well in advance Right. So like, okay I've got to order a file card. I need to go on ebay. I don't like to pay ebay prices But guess guess what my options are because I can't find it locally. It's not around Uh, they're not that many options locally anyway. So I got I got a resort to ebay So I go on the ebay and what I find is a reasonably priced Mint on card example and I'm like, okay, I'll get that I'll take it And then it just never gets shipped and I I messaged the guy and I'm like, hey, I need this When are you gonna send it and my order gets canceled Just cancels the order So then I go and I order a full card back for this review that's coming up by the way I need to have the early access Ready for patrons by friday today is tuesday So I'm fine. I I go when I I get the the full card back and it gets Mailed it gets sent out in plenty of time. It's coming from massachusetts And uh, it's supposed to be here saturday Today is tuesday The shipping tracking the the tracking just got updated this afternoon that it's gonna come in tomorrow So Assuming that it actually does I will need to shoot and edit Almost the whole review And get it up for early access by friday and get it ready for everybody else By sunday and I like I usually I work like a week ahead, right? This is not no, I don't like doing things at the last minute You know, you leave things to the last minute and that's when that's when disaster happens Right, it's then something happens and you you don't you don't have any options, right? um so Yeah, so now what I've done though what I've done is I've done everything that I can without that, right? I've done All of the other stuff. I've basically every other part of the video is ready except The part that I need that for so Um, you know, do you ever shoot and edit around a segment? Yes. Yes, I do and in fact, I did That's what I had to do with this one. So As soon as that stupid thing comes in I've got to sit down and record Like crazy and then edit like crazy to get this Thing done in time But it's fine It's fine. I'll get it done I'll get it done. Um, it's just uh, yeah Uh Yes, that's always when things go wrong. See that that's what I'm saying. So but see that's why like I I did order this stuff with plenty of more and if I had known that I needed it I could have got it at joe fest. You know, I could have got it at joe fest But I didn't know that I needed it Uh, but but the thing is I did order it uh order it with plenty of margin of error Like there's plenty of time plenty of time to get it And get it done And here we are Tuesday and it's not here It's close. It's very close, but it's not here. So anyway, yeah, I've got some work to do So I'm gonna be busy for a few days a couple days or so uh, but Uh, but to wrap it up. I want to say thanks to everyone For being here. I want to say don't forget To go to hcc788.com if you have any sort of creative endeavor at all if you have a website if you have a YouTube Channel if you have a blog if you have a podcast if you do anything if you if you do art if you do photography Whatever you do I would really be happy if you got involved with cobra convergence Created something like like sparkster who you see on the screen right now He's been doing stuff for cobra convergence along with lots of other people So please do um, you can go to hcc788.com to get instructions for how to send that to me so I can Include that in the weekly video and stuff. So please do that. This is me imploring you to join um and Make sure you check out all of the presenters who have already done stuff for cobra convergence We've had somebody every single day so far in july and on a couple of days. We had more than one people so The calendar is at the website at hcc788.com and um and tomorrow Joe on Joe the Joe on Joe podcast will have something and it Joe on Joe always does something special. So you do not want to miss that you would want not want to To miss that it'll be a lot of fun. So Uh, I think it's well, we got like three minutes. Um by my clock. We got three minutes. So I'll I'll somehow keep Keep talking for three minutes Four score and three minutes ago Um, yes, and rob vegas. Thank you rom. Um, I mentioned at the uh start of the hour A rob vegas has been doing cobra convergence stuff every day. So check his youtube channel and rob will be filling in for us Uh on the 25th. So thank you very much rob. Uh, and thank just thanks for your support. Um, Good night. Rodimus. Thanks for being here Good night. Lester Good night. John boy um hcc788 cc 22 um You know, I used to do the the cobra convergence initials with Uh, roman numerals like cc Uh II for cobra convergence two and so forth, but then I thought hold on a second C is a roman numeral The letter c is is a is a a roman numeral and so that that could be That could be misinterpreted So then I switched it. So we're doing like The the arabic six now. So yeah, there's a little behind the scenes stuff This is what the this is how my brain works is like, huh? 206 Um, anyway, um Um Uh, so thanks rob for being here and photo viper and raisiner and fitch geist and draws and dave and thane And chat and hey jls comics. How do you do? Don't forget to check out jls comics as well Thank you for being in cobra convergence. Thanks for all your work. Uh, thank you, uh, shan and jump in general But I do believe it is time to say good night We will do this again I've got I was just in the middle of an autopsy They got to stitch this back up. It turns out. I wasn't dead. So I gotta go take care of that But I'll say good night to you all And I will see you next week. Good night everybody Goodbye. Bye. Bye