 Hey there 788ers hooded co-comander 788 here, and this is a special video to show off my new Joe room and Studio a couple weeks ago my oldest daughter Victoria moved to Des Moines, Iowa for University And we miss Victoria Victoria if you're watching we miss you and we hope to visit soon Since she moved it freed up an extra room in the house as you may know or you may not know I previously had my GI Joe collection in our living room and we have a large living room So there was enough room for all of it But it was kind of out there and it made it a little difficult to have company and entertain And I also had to have access to things When I did reviews so even though I try to pack things away and make it come packed I'd have to pull it all out again because I would need to get things To include in videos and reviews So it really just wasn't a practical setup in addition to that I was using our dining room as my studio to record videos and that had its own set of problems I had the green screen set up and I would use the dining room table to shoot videos But there was so much set up with the green screen and the lights and everything that it was impractical for me to Tear it all down after each video and then set it up again when I needed to record So it all was all just out all the time which means we didn't have a dining room table. I was using it We didn't really have a dining room. It was all being used for my stuff. So that also wasn't very practical So I really needed a space for my Joe stuff and a space to record videos Finally I have that so this is my studio my collection is here My you know equipment is here everything I used to shoot videos. It's all in one room now I wanted to show you earlier, but of course Timmer had magically stolen half of my collection So I had to wait till everything was returned to show you my new studio So I'm gonna take you on a tour. It's just this room But I'm gonna show you my new studio show you my setup and just show you where my collection is right now Now keep in mind. I had to move this stuff into the room pretty quickly So not everything is exactly where it will be, you know permanently Some things are sort of temporarily put places because I needed to have a space for them But there's quite a bit of rearranging I will do in this room now the larger pieces like the tables and the bookcases and shelves and stuff Those are probably stay where they are because before I started moving things in I was measuring everything to find out Where things would fit and this is pretty much the only configuration where I can have the flag and the green screen and The bookcases in my my recording table and all that There's pretty much the only configuration for that but but as far as like where the pieces in the collection are those will be moved around a bit as I Rearrange and as I find more spaces for them. So keep that in mind. It's not good This is not the final version, but this is a pretty good start So let's take a tour of the HCC 788 Joe room and studio Let's start with the door and this door may not seem like much But this door is a big benefit of having this room as I was moving my stuff I was a bit dismayed at how much of it the cats had gotten to and chewed on or broken or in some other way messed up and It was quite Unsettling for me. I do try to protect my toys, but it's really hard to keep cats out of things But this door Will remain closed most of the time Basically unless I'm entering or leaving this door will be closed cats will have no access to this room ever and no more not never again will they Mess up any of my Joe stuff. My stuff will be protected from the cats. It's a total cat band So just inside the door. I have some things. There's my extra Black backer boards that I use for the reviews. Those are some older ones But they will work as spares as I need them And there's my super trooper shield and super trooper armor back there in case I ever need those again And my backpack for my laptop And here we finally get to some of the collection. So this is the first bookcase and That 92 headquarters folds up amazingly compactly and it's really convenient. I Really like that headquarters It it doesn't actually take up a lot of space for such a big play set, which is awesome I got my dragonfly up there with the helipad from the 83 headquarters and then I've got Some loose figures here and I just kind of had to condense the loose figures on to one Shelf that's not normally how I would want them displayed. They're really tightly packed in there But I just I had to create some room Even though this is now my own space I had to Fit a lot of stuff in less space. I had to fit my collection in less space I had more space before it was moved in here So some things just had to be condensed a little bit So we have a lot of figures on one shelf and then moving on down. We've got some Cobra stuff The hydrofoil and the AGP and the stun back there and a few Cobra guys We've got some Joe stuff here and slaughter's marauders and sergeant slaughter There isn't exactly an organization to it yet It's just basically this is the space that I could find to put things. I got some Cobra stuff down there The some his tanks and water moccasin thunder machine and so on and then down at the bottom We got the mauler and the whale and I feel safe keeping those down there for now Because the cats can't get to them So I it was always a struggle a challenge to place things high enough that the cats couldn't reach them Well, now I don't have to worry about that. They're safe down there on the bottom shelf Accessible whenever I need them. I don't have to climb on anything to get them And also they will be safe moving on up to the next bookcase on the same wall We've got some space stuff. There is the defiant still need to get some parts to it The extra parts to the defiant are in a box in the closet. I'll show that to you We've got you know the stiletto and the starfighter. We've got the Cobra ask ask and there's the pogo And some of this stuff is covered up. I didn't move my remove my lighting stand There we go moves the lighting stands so you can see this a little better. I got some of my books there for research and oh the old toolbox that The last of my GI Joe collection was in is back there I've got some of the find your fate books again the stuff. This is temporary Like I want better access to the find your fate books I don't want to leave them back there, but I just haven't found a space for them yet. We'll work on that We'll work on that so Over here we have lots of vamps And the awes striker and the vamp howl to pack there I want to display that better definitely, but again, I got to find the space for it So moving on down. We've got a 3d joe's poster of the file cards. So that's cool I've got a GI Joe lunchbox, and we've got the 1983 headquarters command center with some figures around it These are just you know random figures that I didn't have another space for yet I've got the Wolverine on top of the apc Again, we're making space where we can find it it works for now And then moving on down. We've got some more figures and some more lunchboxes there Over here. We have the tiger rat mating with the cobra rattler and You may not have known this but this is how the cobra claws come about the two rattlers mate When two rattlers love each other very much They do a special hug and then about nine months later They have a cobra claw and then if you feed that cobra claw and take care of that cobra claw Someday it will grow up to be a cobra rattler. We got some more vehicles down here And again, they're just kind of stacked in there for now. They will not stay that way But I just had to find a space for them where I could But yeah, so there is a space for them. Hey, so, you know, at least they have a home right now But these need to be displayed better and so that's going to be a work in progress So that's that wall and there's a lamp in the corner for some extra light You can see over here on the next wall is the green screen and the lighting Hoping the camera will focus a little better Yeah, the green screen and the lighting are setting it set up on this wall One issue that I have in this room is the lighting of this lamp up here Does not give out enough light really I had a lot more ambient light to work with in my old setup that just doesn't exist in this room. So This I've got to play around with the lighting set up. This is not again. This is kind of temporary The lights will be different. I have filmed a little bit in here already And it didn't all turn out quite the way I wanted it to so there's definitely some Some lighting work that I have to do. I may have to get some extra lights in order to make this work But that is a new challenge that this studio Has has imposed is the lighting. I just don't have as much light in here So we will see how that works out in the future. I have some ideas But yeah work in progress swinging around to the other side so you can see the next wall There's the green screen from that angle and over here I have the USS flag with some stuff stacked on top of it, but let's go over here so you can see what we got this is my display for a lot of the 82 figures and some of the rare figures and This I had this on the wall in the living room And it's I think it's a fine display But the issue that I had with it is it was way up high and it was on the other side of the flag Which I mean it still is the flags right there, but it's much lower and everything is it is within reach I can actually reach everything so it'll be easier for me to Pull the 82 figures or you know say that the night force figures pull them off the shelf when I need them and put Them back so that is much more convenient Everything within reach and then down here. We have the USS flag and some aircraft on and around it I was actually really happy to have space for the Cobra night Raven because Previously I had the night Raven just on a table kind of awkwardly with the defiant but actually can fit it on the flag now and so some helicopters and Some additional figures kind of just Standing along there until I have you know a better spot for them Not a great display, but again, I just had to find space for everything for now some of my Some of the internal parts of the flag are kind of just resting in there right now, but I will fix all that later So here's some junk This is another thing I need to work on This is just like stuff that I need for reviews. Oh, that's a drawing of Kermit the frog from my daughter and Some drawing paper so another thing that I don't have that I need to get is Probably another Rollaway cabinet With some drawers that I can put stuff in is the stuff that I use to do reviews Stuff like this like tape and markers and my pencil box with all my tools and like like over here my big bag of figure stands and my Battery-operated rotating table all these things that I use in reviews, but I don't have a space for them yet So for the time being some of it's just sitting on the deck of the flag There's the transportable tactical battle platform. Don't look too closely It's very dusty and like one of the missiles fell off. I got to put it back on It's yeah, that one's a little rough right now. I'll fix it later I'll clean it up later, but at least it has a home for right now Bringing you around here actually before you do that I got some blackout curtains because there's a window there and Since after measuring the room I decided this really is the only space that will fit the flag I did not want to have the flag next to a window because I didn't want The Sun to Discolor the plastic of anything that's sitting here So I had to put up some curtains to keep the Sun out and keep the Sun off of the plastic But coming around here We've got some small vehicles and I don't know if I can show you but a lot of small vehicles are in this space Under the flag in the back half of it. There's a lot of space back there if you have a flag This is something to think about. There's a lot of storage space underneath it So if you have small vehicles and you don't know where to put them That space right under there fits a lot of them. So yeah, but not everything fits there So we have a few things out and about but that's that's the USS flag. It has a home It fits in the room and I'm really happy to have it here then under the flag we have the terror drone and Temporarily on top of that. I have the box for the Cobra battle game. Gotta find a better place for that and that box right there is the The mobile command center for some reason I was blanking on the name the MCC the mobile command center is there I did take it apart enough to put it back in the box and then all of my drawers for my loose figures 87 through 94 that's 88 and so on so yeah, so those are my loose figures And that set up has actually been pretty convenient so far. I may pretty much keep it that way The table for the flag I put on these glide pads So if I need to get behind it for any reason the table actually glides really easily across the carpet So that is that wall There's a space where I'll probably put a poster and And that brings us around here and that's the closet door, okay Here's the closet and there is a lot in here Okay, and some of it's fine. I wanted to have my boxed stuff like way up on a shelf Very safe, but also accessible. I can get up there. I can see where everything is And I can pull it down as needed So that'll probably pretty much stay the same Because I can get to things when I need them for reviews. So that's not bad We've got the rolling thunder not on display at the moment unfortunately, but It has a home at least for the time being but then we have all these totes and Yeah, they're they're stacked All the way up and they're too deep in there. They go all the way to the back wall And I've got a next one there on the floor. They're the defiant parts That's where they're living right now and then kind of a few other things there in the corner I've got my review shirts up here. This is this is actually another big deal In that I can keep the shirts that I use that I wear for reviews in you know in one spot because other people in my house wear these and Sometimes I have a hard time finding them. Well, no more they will be They will be in the closet So I can always find my review shirt when I want it now one thing that's really horrible about this closet is These totes these totes are probably the biggest problem with this setup Nothing is where it should be There are some things that you might be able to see in there things that have been sent to me Things have been donated to the channel. They can't stay there that this is not the right place for them But again, I had to move things very quickly So I had to kind of slam things together and toss them in you know in the closet but I am taking a week off after After Cobra convergence, so one of my projects for that week is to go through all of these To pull out things that should not be stored away things that need to be on display Move things around because there are some things that I will need for reviews And they're way in the back and then other things that I don't necessarily need for reviews are way up in the front So that's obviously not gonna work. So this is a project This is actually a big project that I need to work on It's like vital that I work on it because this is not a workable situation right here, but At the very least, you know, it fits It all fits back there. And so at least I do have a space for it But yeah, it's not gonna stay this way. It cannot stay this way. So over the next week I'm gonna be going through all of these condensing them labeling them Pulling things out that should not be there And maybe putting a few things in there That are you know out here for the time being but they would be pretty safe, you know being packed away In a tote like that. So That is the closet and a big future project. Okay, moving on from the closet We have my review space and there is my black backer board with my desk lamps for lights. I have still set up the Figures for the patrons choice poll As I'm recording this, I don't know which one is going to win yet. The poll is still going So I just have these guys out so whichever one wins I can start the review and the other two will be put away where they belong And then, you know, there's some extra stuff here the card backs and file cards my clipboard my remote for my camera and my My tripod kind of a bundle of wires there need to reorganize that Another thing that can't stay where it is is I have my comic books Under the table and that just ain't working. I don't have an access to them when I need them So they really can't stay there. I have a different idea for them But I have to move some other things around first. So the comic books will not stay there I need more access to them. So one nice thing about this setup is Like there's where I can do my reviews and you know, there's my backless chair that I sit in but after I do the Video I can after I shoot the video. I can just swivel chair right over here to my laptop and Start editing. So I'll be editing like right next door to where I'm shooting the reviews This is gonna be a big deal because If while editing I find something that I need to reshoot I can just go right over there and reshoot it in the past that has been a challenge if I Find an error in a video as I'm editing sometimes it is Difficult or even impossible to set things up again and Reshoot it. Well, that should not be a problem now That's the laptop things we edited it on and Right there is where the video is shot There are my file cards and my card backs There's another 3d joe's poster. There's my joe fest card Which is a temporarily there until I get a frame for it I definitely want to frame that But when it's unfolded, it's actually quite large. So I need to get a big frame for it So that is my workstation Where I will be recording My reviews. That's it. That's the tour of my new studio. It's just one room. So it's a short tour but This is a big leap forward for for me and for the channel now Don't be alarmed if some things Looked a little disorganized and some things were kind of stacked on top of each other And some like you if you donated something to the channel and it's living in a tote right now Again, it's not gonna stay that way. I've got a lot of work still to do on this There are things that need to be moved around But at the very least it has a home. It has a space right now Whereas before everything was just kind of in borrowed space so for me This is a big deal. I've never had a space like this for my collection and a studio like a an actual studio set up For recording videos. I've needed a space like this for years, and I've never had it So this I'm hoping will make life a lot easier for me. It will Help me Get more things done make make it easier to produce things for you to watch And I'm also hoping that since I'm able to close that door and close out all the outside Noise and the the pets and all of the distractions that I will be able to focus on Projects and get them done faster so that I can walk out that door and spend more time with my family That's my hope but That's it. This is for me Revolutionary this should Revolutionize the way that I produce videos the quality. I'm hoping is at least as good or better than what we had before But it's going to streamline the process for me It's gonna enable me to do more and I hope in the long run enables me to do better So that's it Victoria again in Des Moines We miss you, and we hope to see you again soon, but at least for the time being this is the setup of the room and And I'm pretty thrilled about it. So thanks everyone for watching I will very soon start shooting the first full review from this studio And you'll have to tell me how you like it. I hope I hope you like it So I'll see you all again soon and remember only GI Joe is GI Joe