 Cody Cobra Commander 788 here and unfortunately I have to announce that due to circumstances beyond my control I do not have a full vintage GI Joe toy review video for you today. And I apologize for that. You guys deserve better than that. In fact I've said before that you guys deserve my best effort all the time. So when I can't come through for you and provide a video review on schedule that really hurts me and I apologize. You guys deserve the best video that I can produce every week. So unfortunately since I don't have a full review for you I'm going to try to kind of make up for that by giving you three shorter videos starting with this one. This is going to be a quick shot of the 1987 Techno Viper. The other two videos will be kind of updates on the channel and the website. Those are videos that I've been intending to do for a while but I hadn't gotten to them so I'm going to get to those today and hopefully that'll kind of make up for not having a full review for you today. This Techno Viper is special. It was sent to me by a viewer Zartan 121 along with a very nice note and I have to say thank you to Zartan 121 for sending this to me. That really means a lot to me. I mean it's viewers like Zartan 121 and you guys that really get it and appreciate it and show your appreciation that keep me motivated to make these videos and I want to make sure that I express to you how much I deeply appreciate that and Zartan 121 it is my privilege to look at this very nice Techno Viper that you sent me. So let's look at this guy. The first thing you notice is the deep purple color scheme with silver highlights and some black details around it. Now normally purple is kind of an off putting color for me but I really don't mind it for the Techno Viper basically because he's a technician. He is a battlefield technician so he will be on the battlefield sometime but you can see this guy really maybe mostly hanging around the terror drum you know fixing things repairing equipment and that would be the role that I would usually use the Techno Viper in and for that this color scheme is fine. I really don't mind it at all and the silver really pops on this really nice looking and I got to say the details on the figure are also very nice and you know if you're going to have a purple figure this is not a bad way to do it there are other purple action figures that are just really horrible looking but Techno Viper I don't mind so much. So he has some accessories he has his laser rifle thing and I kind of imagine this more as like a laser welder or something like that a tool rather than a weapon and he's got you know all kinds of wires and hoses all connected to his backpack and the backpack itself is pretty spectacular because it holds no less than three tools that can all be detached you pull them out and he can hold each one of them there we go that one was snapped in there pretty solidly and he has three tools and each of them have a peg to fit on the wire that connects it to the backpack so these are power tools and you can detach each one and the fact that each of these fits in the backpack is a great bonus I mean the ability to store accessories like this is something that we should have gotten more often on GI Joe figures and accessories I really like that a lot. So a lot of details on each of these each of these accessories would be some kind of tool that he would use to repair something and then the backpack itself is pretty nice and it has a couple different or a couple knobs here to connect these standard black wires that came with a lot of other GI Joe action figures those are pretty standard and that connects both to his laser rifle and to the power tool whichever one you want him to use at any time so excellent accessories and appropriate accessories for his job and the details on the figure itself just removing the accessories so we can look closer at that just really impressive I mean just looking past the purple I know the purple will not be the favorite of a lot of viewers but even though I don't mind so much I mean just the helmet design is very unique lots of detail in like hoses and wires going through his uniform who knows what that's used for and just overall very nicely done I mean he does look like a technician he doesn't look like a normal combat troop and so I really can appreciate the techno viper in the role that he was given let's go ahead and reattach his accessories because this is a figure that does look best when he has all of his accessories I mean he looks very geared up and he should and that kind of fits his role as a technician so I just think he looks the best when he has all of his technical gear together so there he is techno viper thank you again to Zartan 121 for sending this to me it is very much my privilege to receive it and you guys it just it's never necessary for anyone to send me anything it's you're not obligated to do that but when you do it it just it really reminds me of how great this community is and how much you guys mean to me so thank you again thank and again I apologize for not having a full vintage GI Joe toy review for you this week we will move forward I will give you the best video that I can every week and thank you again for watching and I'll see you again next time