 Hello everybody Hooded Cobra Commander 788 here, and I just wanted to sit and talk with you guys about a few things I just kind of wanted to give you an update on the channel and also just have a moment to connect with you guys We don't get to talk very often So I just wanted to wrap with you guys about some new stuff coming up The first thing I wanted to say is I'm sorry for not keeping up with my comments and my messages very well I apologize for that. I have really been struggling with time management issues Work has been very busy Videos have been taking more work and more effort and more time And I just have not had the windows of time that I would normally have to reply to everyone And I really regret that I'm still reading everything that I get today even I actually I was able to reply to a few Comments on the fast draw video today. I replied to as many as I could and I just ran out of time There was something else pressing that I had to go do and that's just the way life has been lately I could very easily come home from work sit down Start editing or start shooting and just keep working from the time I get home to the time I go to bed every day just on video stuff My workload is that great and I've got more things planned more things coming up that will take more time I feel that I'm losing something I'm losing the personal connection with the audience that I've always cherished And I regret that and I'm going to do my best to try to recapture that and then try to Reconnect with you guys on a personal one-on-one level As the best I can and as soon as I can but I apologize to everyone who has sent me messages Or has made comments has not gotten a reply That is not the way I want things to be but that's just the way things all right now Maybe if I get past some of these projects, I'll have a little bit more time But it's taking everything that I have just to keep up with my weekly schedule You guys deserve my best effort and I try to give you my best effort every week Speaking of projects the next video that I have coming out this Sunday has a kind of a personal touch to it It does get pretty personal, but it's something that I felt was important to do I know that not everybody likes that You know some people are even turned off by this kind of per injecting my personal life into the reviews And I have to admit I've been a little bit nervous about posting that video Worrying that it's a little too personal people might be upset that I even did it But after thinking about it, I concluded that I Trust my audience. I have I Think a great group of viewers. I see your comments I see the things that you have to say and you guys are the best Whether we agree or disagree. I don't care about whether we agree or disagree All of you have been just incredibly decent and thoughtful and helpful And that means more to me than I can tell you so Yeah, I was a little nervous about getting personal in this next review And it's not really even about the review the subject of the review is not what I'm really personal about it's more about my history and How I came to be doing what I'm doing now. I trust you I trust all of you and I think that we can do it So I'm just gonna stop being nervous and do the review and do the video and Hope it all turns out. Well, I have a viewer participation opportunity soon I'm not ready to announce it yet, but it will be announced very soon So if you remember the grunt review where I had people send in clips This will be similar to that, but it's gonna be a little bit more open-ended Look for the announcement on that. I would really like to have as many people as possible participating in that I want you to be in my video so Look for that announcement. It'll have specific directions to follow Everyone who wants to be in the video can be in the video. And so please please participate when you see that I'm introducing a new perk for patrons. I am going to be giving patrons early access to videos To the reviews mainly not necessarily to every video because honestly not every video is done early enough to give you early access But on the main reviews I do try to work far enough ahead that Patrons should get a pretty good advanced look at the main reviews every week So that's something that patrons will be able to look forward to and I'm also working on some additional perks for The patrons even if you don't increase your support level, you will still get more stuff So I'm working on that and hopefully it will make all the patrons happy I am doing everything I can to make every video more interesting and exciting and fun I know not everybody likes the extra stuff, but it's important to me this Channel and these reviews are a creative outlet for me So I need to be able to express my creativity in these videos the reviews still have to be solid That's the number one thing. This is still about the toys And it's still going to be about the toys And so I'm still going to do my absolute best to give you a really good solid review of every single toy that we do But all the extra stuff the skits the funny stuff the storylines that Whether any individual viewer likes it or not that stuff is for me. I need that stuff I need that creative outlet in order to keep doing this and to stay motivated to do it and To get the fulfillment out of it that that I need that I just personally need so that stuff is not going to go away Now some things of course will work better than others I've tried some things that didn't work out and I've tried some other things that were really successful You know, that's just another thing that will not change. I will keep experimenting I will keep trying new things and it's just inevitable not every experiment will be successful And of course, I can't please everyone but I'm sure trying and I'll keep trying and I'll keep Experimenting and I'll keep failing every once in a while. That's okay Failure doesn't really bother me But stagnation that would bother me. I'm working on some format changes for next year Usually at the beginning of each year. That's when we do some major format changes So I've got some thoughts and ideas of how I'd like to change the format of the videos starting in 2018 Now you will not lose any of the content of the reviews You will get exactly the same content for every review that you currently get but there are just some Aspects of the format that I think can be better One thing that I will probably be doing is I will not be using the green screen Except on maybe on special occasions But the green screen I like the idea of the green screen and when it works well I think it looks beautiful But if it doesn't work well if the settings are slightly off then it can end up looking not too good Plus it adds an extra step that I have to do on every video Doing the chroma key and doing the background and all that and it just takes time And if I could do it in a way that took less time Without diminishing the quality of the video then that would open up open up some time For me to do some other things that I think would positively improve the quality of the videos I'm hoping that the whole thing will just look a little bit more professional And easier to watch finally. I just want to say thank you to everyone. Thank you for watching Thank you for subscribing for those of you who support me on patreon. Thank you for that It means the world to me. This has been a very fulfilling endeavor This has been rewarding in ways that I didn't expect I want everyone to be excited for every video that comes up every week every time you see that come up in your Subscription box man. I you got to see it, right? You got to see it right away in every video I want there to be a surprise something like a little Christmas present something that you weren't expecting But you got anyway just because you clicked on that video You might have thought you were gonna get a toy review and I still hope you get a great toy review every time But maybe there's a new angle that you hadn't thought of about that toy Maybe there's just something funny that that you didn't realize about the toy Maybe we can bring that out or maybe we just have a little bit of fun Or maybe we could do something dramatic or maybe we could just do things together as a group Just something special something that is more than just just setting through a toy review I want you to enjoy all of them and I want to do my best to make that happen. Thank you everyone for watching We've got that review coming up on Sunday. I hope to see you then