 okay how do I work this okay all right I'm glad I'm figuring this out now before anyone's watching okay hey Eric hi are you doing I don't hi Isaac I don't have anything particular to say right now I just wanted to test and see if I could do the live stream on my phone Adam Matt hey guys and Pence of ruin the guys sent me that rock-and-roll figure thank you very much sir so you know I tried to do the live stream on the old laptop the one that died last year awesome and but I got a new laptop but I hadn't tried the live stream on the new laptop before hi Albert so but I can tell you right now that laptop is badly underpowered and there's no way it would be able to do a live stream so I thought maybe phone would be a good alternative hi Edwin greetings from the United States and Todd and Bradley hey nice to see you guys can you hear me okay is the audio all right I'm just testing this out so I can make sure that I can do it and you know I decided to do it outside because I wouldn't have any indoor distractions but just as I decided to get started my neighbor decided he wanted to like vacuum his car out or something so you know great timing thanks Ricky hi Mark okay so maybe this will be how we do it you know maybe this will be how we do it going forward I've been wanting to do more live but but I can't do it on the laptop it just doesn't work awesome thanks Eric so anyway I'm gonna stay on here just for a few minutes hi JJ I'll stay on here for just a few minutes just to make sure this is working smoothly I've got a little bit of a lull in the action here I've been shooting today for my next video yeah Isaac it's yeah basically it was it was an inexpensive you know stop gap because otherwise it would have had no laptop and no way to edit videos so Susan was very kind to get it for me at a time when I absolutely needed one it was a gift and I appreciate it so but it just it doesn't have the power to do some of the things I needed to do so eventually that will have to be replaced and the probably like patreon funds that's probably what that's gonna go toward pretty soon because I do need a bit more power in my laptop that would help with live stream but also things like editing it struggles with those large multimedia file sizes especially now that I have the new camera the new cameras got much higher quality video the file sizes are also much larger thanks guys for showing up for this little test so I've been shooting today shooting the next mind-hober convergence videos and I mean I'm actually at a stopping point because there's a couple sections that I need Susan for I asked her to be in a couple sections of this video but she's busy right now so I gotta wait until she's free and then I can finish it up hi hey from Columbia say a big I hope I'm saying your name right thank you for sending your emails too so anyway this I thought this be good opportunity to just sit down and talk with you guys and see if I can get this to work this is actually this is good notice pop up there we go this is actually a lot easier than it was doing it on the laptop maybe I just need to do it this time hi Dennis Ricky I don't know you know I I don't know that Hasbro knows what to do with the brand but they have plans coming up in the next couple years and I can just hope that that it is that it's good I just hope that it's good at this point that's all I hope for I don't necessarily hope for something that is like the ideal thing that I would like I just hope that it's good I just hope that it's in general considered good and I'll take that considering some of the stuff that we've had from Hasbro you know the previous movies and things like that you know I'm happy if just a general audience likes it I'll take that the standalone snake eyes movie you know I am actually optimistic about that because one thing that I think GI Joe needs and hasn't had for a while is a cool factor GI Joe needs to be cool again and snake eyes is the coolest figure the coolest character now in the past I've said that you know snake eyes has been a little overexposed you know a little too much snake eyes a little too much focus on snake eyes and I understand that criticism however right now nothing in GI Joe is overexposed it's all underexposed so snake eyes would be brand new to a whole new audience Johannes hi how are you doing and Thomas nice to see you so I actually think all right are we reconnected I'm sorry I lost connection there for a second okay hi okay everybody's still there hey good anyway so it might give GI Joe that cool factor that it hasn't had for a while and I know that some people are concerned that it's be focused on a character that doesn't speak and has a face covered I don't really see that as a problem with a skilled filmmaker that actually might even be an asset because snake eyes doesn't speak for himself he actually kind of takes on you know her you know personality and feelings that the audience might put into him so you can use a character like that to become a very sympathetic character to the audience I don't really see that as a drawback for snake eyes so I actually I am a little bit optimistic about it and I hope that I just hope that it's done well and it gives GI Joe that little cool factor that cool factor that hasn't had for a while yeah yeah strident had a good idea and an alternative Steven from Joberg had the idea of setting it in the 80s and there there are a lot of ways I mean there are actually a lot of ways that it could be done really well and made really interesting for a general audience there are probably more ways they could do it right than they could screw it up yet somehow they still find a way to screw it up but my hope even if it doesn't turn out to be the kind of movie that I would prefer if it's a movie that a general audience enjoys I will be happy with that because it'll bring GI Joe back into the popular culture again that's what I would prefer more so than a movie that I personally would enjoy as far as the the toys go that I haven't expressed my opinion about that because I feel like I might be a little more pessimistic than hey Max Vivos ghost music guy that sent me the awesome box of 90s toys thank you again for that I'm a little maybe a pessimistic about the plastic the toys that might come from a movie or a reinvigorated GI Joe just because you know I have a couple kids I've seen how kids play now kids don't play with toys the way we used to they just don't and there I don't feel like there's necessarily any going back to that however I do feel like you'd have something for us though actually for us for the for collectors I think we'll see that I just don't know if we'll see a lot of GI Joe toys in the hands of kids like we who used to and like we hope to I don't know maybe I'm wrong I hope I'm wrong but but times have changed times have just changed it's not the 80s anymore and kids just have a different relationship with toys and then they did when we were young and Hasbro of course has to know that I mean they're the experts they would have done a lot of market research on that so as much as I hope that the toys might come back you know the way that they used to be you know come back strong and kind of take over the market I just don't know I'm less optimistic about that than about getting a good movie and there's the dog oh hey I got it time out I got a package hey I got a thing I got a thing oh okay I know my battery slow so okay this is why we have to keep it short I got this package and so I'm gonna open it here in a minute okay if you guys will give me about two minutes I'm going to grab two things I'm gonna grab something to open this with because hey Susan just brought this to me it just came in the mail I'm gonna do a live unboxing of something that I purchased and I also got to get my charger because my phone is about to die talk amongst yourselves I'll give you a topic the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy nor Roman nor an Empire discuss I'll be right back okay sorry about that I'm back I'm back but I got I gotta plug my phone in it's gonna it's gonna die on me the riveting huh this is probably the most exciting thing you've seen all day okay all right okay all right box just arrived I know what it is do you want to see what it is I'm gonna show you hold on that's wrong all right this is kind of cool at least it will be if it arrived intact any damage live totally unplanned unboxing right here okay it has brown paper it has no brown paper but there it is okay ready ready for this here it comes this is what I just got in the mail just moments ago that is the create a cobra and hold on hold on we're not done we're not done it has the cobra sticker sheets that came with it hmm all right just drink that in for a minute I got a good deal on it and I got a little bit of help from some other collectors to make sure that what I was getting was correct and authentic it doesn't have the figure stand but I know what figure stand should go with it and I have one already so I will marry it with the correct figure stand that came with it and I don't have the file card but I'll have to decide if I really want to get one of those but the figure itself though is here along with the stick sheet this I'm really happy about now I'm happy to get it it's rare and it checks off a box it was something that I needed but you know if you saw Timmer's review of this figure last year this is an ugly figure it's just so it's so ugly joints are nice and tight nice tight o-ring but there he is I'm see if I can get it to focus a little better focus can I get can I this will this focus nope okay anyway there he is so that is an iron grenadiers head target basically a target body but in those colors hey max yeah the prices are going kind of crazy I suspect that the Netflix series the toys that made us has something to do with that I think that brought toy collecting in general to a broader audience and and got some people to jump in so it's not just GI Joe toys Star Wars vintage Star Wars toys are just they're going crazy you would be shocked shocked at what people are paying for junk even what they're paying for junk figures figures that that you just toss in a box because they're broken they're just in terrible shape people are paying ridiculous prices for those and that's just the trend right now I don't know that if that trend will continue I think there is some speculation in the market right now yeah this is gonna be fun this will be fun to review and I won't have any reservations I won't need to hold back on this one that I don't think this is anybody's favorite here I won't think I'll be hurt anybody feelings with this one anyway so that is a live unboxing right now let me put it back in here carefully there we go that's all I got just drinking my yo-yo colo talking to you guys yep hold on fix that there we go okay yeah transformers yeah all of those popular toy lines from the 80s and even earlier some of the prices are getting ridiculous and I think if you if you got an early you know before the prices got crazy you're lucky but if you're getting in now I mean the there are still bargains to be found out there but be patient you know don't take a bad price don't make a bad deal out of desperation to get something I try to keep in mind these toys were mass produced they were turned out of factories in the thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands they may be somewhat rare now but rare for these items means there are still thousands of them out there you'll find them but now it takes a bit more patience to get a price that is reasonable so yeah be patient be patient the deals are out there to just a little harder to find yeah yeah on the jocon stuff that's one of the reasons I love going to jocon is like you're dealing with people who like are more experienced and you're they they can't they can't jack the prices on you because they're dealing with more experienced collectors who got a better idea what things should be worth you can at jocon you get some really good deals on things I would have gotten a lot more at jocon if I just had more time I spent most of my time just talking to people seeing people which is how I'd rather spend the time I have no problem with that at all but hey Jeff how you doing the guy that doing so I don't know okay what Jeff is talking about here this requires some explanation I don't know if he's still doing it or not but if you go back on the yojo.com for there's actually a thread for this there was this dude that was stomp piling hoarding even snow serpent figures by the thousands and thousands and thousands I don't know how much money he spent on that but it was a lot his explanation is he had the money to spend and he wanted every snow serpent figure he could get he was trying to see if one person could affect the price of a figure and so he was just buying everyone he could find on every form and for a long time when you if you go on eBay any snow serpent auction on eBay that you looked up the top bidder would always be the same account this one guy he would bid on every single one of them he wouldn't bid over a certain amount so if you wanted to pay through the nose I from New Zealand sorry hello from the United States Seymour if you wanted to pay through the nose for a snow serpent you could get a snow serpent if you wanted to lay down a lot of cash but any snow serpent that was in like any kind of reasonable price range this guy was picking them up I don't know if he's still doing that or not but I was I was not a really big fan of that practice but but yeah that's the thing that was really happening it's something that I I almost talked about I was thinking about talking about it in my snow serpent review but then I thought you know I don't I don't want to call out another collector that's not my place but I just didn't if you were just wanting a snow serpent just as a normal collector wanting that for your collection because of one guy you had to pay quite a bit more for it than you would otherwise have to yeah Paul you can still find figures for good prices you can in fact I just got it back from my local toy dealer I didn't find anything to buy today he has a bunch of stuff that I already have so I didn't get anything today but there are good deals there and if you can find a local vendor that is that's a great way to to buy vintage toys let's you first of all let's you see it and hold it in hand before you buy it that's one bonus rather than have it sent from an eBay seller and hope that it arrives intact and it's what you actually purchased yeah Bradley I didn't I wasn't a big fan of that at the snow serpent guy but yeah seriously go if you want to read about it go to the yo-jo.com forum and you can probably just search for snow serpent and it'll come up there's there was a thread and a lot of discussion about it the guy that was doing it was in that thread yeah I don't know how long I'll do this I get hey this already been running for like almost 23 minutes I guess I'll run for a little bit longer I was mainly just wanting to test this and see how it went and we got live unboxings as kind of a bonus but when Susan is free I do have to go back and finish my shooting so I can get to editing this next video my timetables on producing these videos have been a lot tighter for Cobra Convergence since I've been asking people to send in you know their clips and things that they want for the montage at the end of the video I can't complete the edit and render until all of that is in so I get it as done as it can be and then I have to wait to see if anybody else is gonna send anything in so I can drop it in there so it's been tight every week has been kind of tight to get these videos done but it's not a complaint it's just a fact but I'm enjoying the event so much this year I can't complain about anything thoughts on his tank message message board and side I Ricky I don't actually visit his tank as much as I used to I used to check their message board fairly frequently if nothing against his tank though I just haven't had the time to check out some of the fora that I used to just because I've been kind of laser focused on getting these videos done but I've met some nice folks on on on his tank and I'm sorry I missed that last question I thank you on thank you Jason I know I'll still be at the public defender's office it's just gonna be doing something different but it's what I've been doing has been that's my career I mean that's my home but because they have they're short-handed they have to move some pieces around hopefully temporarily but it's just one of those things hello Scotland hi in never produced that I wish I'd gotten I think my answer is always that you know the Cobra helicopter that was in the comic book the the cargo helicopter always thought it'd be great to have a toy of that I mean that that it was modeled so precisely in all the comic books it's almost like there was a toy of it but there never really was and it was used so frequently you would have thought okay somebody would have given us that Hasbro would have picked up on that but they never did yeah Pence everyone if I can if it's as easy as this I'll try to do a live stream once a week that was my intention before and it didn't quite work out so I'll try to get on here quite a bit more often hey this on the phone using my phone it's easy it's a lot easier than expected thanks Ricky coming up actually reviews on figures I don't like got some coming up yeah that that Cobra cargo carrier I just thought it was cool lunacy 07 has custom cargo cargo chopper yeah I'll bet that some folks have done some nice customs of it it seems like that would be one that that Joe fans would try to customize or to try to make a custom of it just because it was it was so prominent in the comic book again you change my mind about Cobra law probably not but you are welcome to try what however I will not try to change your mind about Cobra law I will think what I think and I am absolutely comfortable with disagreement doesn't bother me at all Cobra temple yeah the Cobra temple would be awesome and Cobra had the pterodrome but I always thought Cobra could use like another base like a like a headquarters like a big headquarters something that that's actually serves more as a central base where it's like in terror pterodromes at least in the comic book were more like satellites the pterodrome in the cartoon series of course was much bigger than the toy but something like a Cobra temple would be great especially since some variation of the Cobra temples like that were seen in lots of cartoon episodes and sometimes in the comic book series silent castle things like that you know I know people like Cobra law and that's fine you know it takes all kinds and I'm comfortable with people disagreeing with me but it's just something that for me is tied to kind of a really negative period in my childhood kind of a transition away from these things that I enjoyed and into things that I weren't quite so comfortable or easy so Cobra law is it's it's a little bit personal I guess but I mean why shouldn't it be I mean these things mean something to us whether it's good or bad so why wouldn't it be personal hello hello grease from the United States hi George the defiant you know folks have been sending me parts of the defiance and so the finance actually coming together a little bit when I do the next unboxing video from people stuff that people have sent to me I'm gonna do kind of redo my inventory and see what what I've got and what I still need so but the defiant is actually coming along it's coming along really well I still don't think I'll have it ready for the first review of 2019 but but it's actually coming along alright guys it's getting close to half an hour I think that's a good cutoff point I don't really have anything else to say but I'm glad you guys showed up I really appreciate watching and I hope you enjoyed the live live unboxing let's wrap up with this this will be the final image of the live stream is brand new create a cobra thanks everyone I will see you soon I'm gonna get back to recording my Cobra convergence video see you later oh wait wait no no don't forget to watch my side of the laundry room he just put up his Cobra convergence video today so make sure you guys go check that out and I'll see you next time see you later