 Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here, and we are going to do an unboxing and assembly of this vintage GI Joe vehicle I have had this 1993 mud buster in the box for some time. I haven't opened it yet And I hadn't actually planned to do an assembly of this video quite so soon But I discovered that I really need this vehicle for a review that I'm going to do in the near future of a different vehicle if You can guess which other vehicle that this might be essential for Leave a comment below with your guess and if you get it right you will get a no prize There is no prize. I've said before I would never Open and assemble a rare vehicle. I've really only done that with things that are fairly common So 90s vehicles. I really don't have any problem opening these and putting them together So let's not waste any more time. Let's crack this thing open These 90s boxes were actually glued closed. They don't have the stringy tape that was used on 80s box vehicles So I was thinking about which side I should open this side is a little bit damaged already So I guess I'm going to open it from that end So let's See here Do it facing the camera as much as I can Now if this is like other 90s vehicles, then there should be Yes, there should be a cardboard tray That should pull out Like that. There we go. Set the box aside for now Sometimes it's helpful to have the box handy though So I can get a better idea of the sticker placement Of course the instruction sheet includes includes the sticker placement, but sometimes it's not always very clear Sometimes the picture helps. So we've got plastic frames with With the pieces Got some wheels should have four of those. There's a spring-loaded missile launcher That'll go on. There's a piece of the hood That looks like The front bumper This looks like the main body This is the rear axle We've got a catalog 1993 catalog. I've got a few of these already, but actually right See yeah right there is the vehicle. We will be assembling today. So there's a catalog There is the sticker sheet the other wheels a Piece of black thread. Oh and a Black rubber band. So that's a quite an old rubber band. It seems to still be pretty elastic And pretty strong Hopefully it's strong enough Sometimes old rubber like this will not hold but we'll give it a shot We'll give it a shot. We'll see if it actually works for this vehicle. This thread goes to it as well Here is This should be a male away catalog. Yeah, it's a male away catalog terrifying lasers of destruction and Yeah, there's there's the ad for a create a cobra right there and finally the instruction sheet so You set that tray aside now that we have all the pieces out Let's open that up It's the 90s equivalent of blueprints and here we go. There is our instruction sheet And here is step one. So It says step one Vehicle tops last chassis assembly insert green tabs at front of green vehicle top into slots in front of green chassis Press down sides of vehicle top until Side tabs snap into place. Okay, so we move these out of the way because we're talking about these two pieces here and It appears that okay I've got some tabs here in the front and Some tabs here at the back. Oops try not to Drop it and break it and what it appears it wants me to do is to Line these tabs up Let's see, but where but where okay? I can see where the front tabs go. Where do the side or back tabs go? Oh, I see it. Okay. Let's see. It should just yeah snap right into place That was easy. Hey, wouldn't it be something if we've had a vehicle assembly that was actually easy It seems like every one of these that we've done we've had some kind of trouble with it. All right here is the rear axle and I'm gonna flip this over. Let me flip it around and orient it in the way That is shown in the picture It goes Which way this way? Let me see. I should read Rear axle assembly with green axle post inserted through rear chassis hole As shown snap green axle tabs into green axle slots on bottom of chassis okay, so those are the Slots and the tabs are Are there okay, I get it. Well, that's that's not that hard just have to Snap that on trying to do I'm trying to do this facing the camera. I know I've I've in the past I have Not shown you very well what I'm doing because it's kind of hard to Turn the object to the camera Where I can't see it. Oh, that is that doesn't feel good That doesn't feel good. It says I just have to snap it in but That doesn't feel good is that it is it in is it in oh no Okay, I gotta be careful here I gotta be really careful Try not to break. I haven't broken one of these. Oh, I take that back. I did break the the ninja lightning But everybody breaks the ninja lightning Other than that. Oh, there's one. Oh That was a really loud pop. That was a really scary sound. I did not like it I do not like the sound of snapping plastic, but Did not break. It's on All right step three front bumper assembly loop rubber band Down onto green Front bumper hook as shown Okay, turn vehicle upside down and loop rubber band into green front Vehicle hook as shown, okay Okay, really? All right, okay, so this Let's see it goes this way. This is the rubber band okay, okay, so There's a hook inside this little I don't know. Whatever you call it. There's a hook right down there and I'm supposed to take this Really hold on Hold on I don't understand Okay, I hook it how okay. All right. I got it. I got it. I'm supposed to hook it on here If I can get it down there. Okay, I got it. Okay, so I've hooked it There and then I'm supposed to turn this upside down Okay so far so good and then hook it on there's a There's a hook here right in front and I'm supposed to hook the other end Of this rubber band. I'm trying to not get it all twisted around Hook the other end of it on that hook And then then what? Then for front bumper assembly continued press green bumper track down Between the chassis slot until the bumper track snaps into place turn vehicle over and push in bumper To activate press button inside truck bed. Okay interesting. So this is supposed to where does it hook on? Okay, that is that is very tricky. I'm still not sure I understand it Okay, I'm trying to do it the way that it shows and it shows it going in like that and then and then walk and then and then you Push it forward until it snaps in place, but That doesn't seem right. Does it do you think that seems right? That doesn't seem right to me Okay, hang on. Okay, so this I'm just supposed to like Push it in until it snaps. Is that really? Oh wait, is that it? Is that it? Okay. All right I think that's it. Oh, okay. I get it. I get it. I get it. So you push that in Then then what do you do? You push a oh, okay, you push a button which button do you push? Oh How did that work? Oh, I get it. I get it. I understand how it works now this back hook Catches on this right here. Okay. All right, so it latches there and then this Button here right here in the truck bed Once you push that down it Releases that latch under there and will snap the The bumper There we go forward and give her a picture of that So if you got like dread knocks standing in front of your vehicle, and you're like screw you guys boom That's kind of cool. All right, I dig it. Okay. I like it So that was not too bad not too painful All right step five Step five roll cage assembly Front okay fit front ends of the roll cage got the roll cage here Fit front ends of the roll cage into slots On the vehicle hood, it's right those slots are right here Back ends of roll cage fit into holes as shown those holes right there Roll cage can be opened and closed when seating figures sold separately. Yes Didn't come with an action figure as you saw So this is pretty simple and straightforward. It just goes on like that Okay, and so when you want to put a figure in you just rip rip. There you go Okay, cool. So there's that Step six is launcher assembly that's this guy right here Press launch blue launcher pivot into hole as shown Oh the pivot is on here. So let me use my nipple or is to Nipple the the pivot off Well, it's a common There we go so this little mushroom clip here fits in this hole there and It it looks like it is not gonna be easy to put it push in so I'm going to I May I got some other tools here just for such an eventuality Because I thought it might be a little bit difficult to do so Going to give myself a little bit of assistance here. Come on guy. You can do it The problem is is the mushroom clip is just a little Wide oh, I think I got it actually or just about oh there goes That was not as hard as I thought it would be now This guy there's a little bar right there and that goes on The turrets It's gonna be super easy, right? It's gonna be like really freaking easy But I can push down harder, but I'm trying not to break this thing and I really probably shouldn't worry that much about it I Mean these things were made to be played with right so it Probably will withstand my efforts to Assemble it right it probably probably will be fine. Let me move that out of the way probably will be fine Nonetheless, I'm trying to be careful with it Um This is I mean this isn't super hard plastic. It really shouldn't be that That hard. There we go My fear was that I pushed down on that and I would break this little side piece off, but we did it We did it. There is a spring-loaded missile launcher on a turret and There you go, and we've got a little bit of elevation there good so Roll cage It does. All right. Well, I guess if you lift it it'll go over the roll cage, but it The roll cage does kind of get in the way of the turret But this is not a review. This is not a review. We're assembling it Okay, so next Launcher assembly continued Grappling hook or missiles into launcher barrel tie ends of string to blue missile to blue launcher ring and blue grappling hook Hole to fire We know how to fire it grappling hook and missiles store in holes at the rear of vehicle. Okay. Okay, cool so This is The grapple hook right here. I'm going to nipple that off. Let's see here There nipple Nipple Everybody say it with me Hey, I'm not doing it until everyone says it with me. Okay ready three two one nipple. There we go Okay, next I'm supposed to tie this string to this Let's see Yeah, I go it the Grapple hook has holes here in the little wings your hooks and I'm supposed to thread this through. I Really should have got my glasses I'm having to squint to read the Instructions because I didn't get my glasses before I started So that's pretty genius, right? Why didn't I think of that? You know, I I knew I was going to have to read something with fairly small print And I haven't been able to read it obviously because you've watched me But I've just it's a little bit of a strain on the old papers I'm not getting any younger and my eyeballs don't work as well as they used to Let's see All right, let me make a double knot here This is riveting stuff here because I know you can't see this part. Okay, so there that's pretty well tied And I'm supposed to tie the other end to where? to Okay, there is there's a there are a couple little loops here on The missile launcher and I believe that's where I'm supposed to tie the other end Let's Carefully thread that through Easier said than done. I don't want to have to stop the video and get my glasses. Did I get it? Did I get it? Maybe oh I think I got it. I got it. Okay cool All right now Let's just double knot this real quick and Then we'll try out the missile launcher So this is a grapple hook and it's got this black thread tied to the launcher so It will you know, it'll tether It'll tether the Grapple hook. All right, let's fire it. Let's see what this is the button There you go And that is Sort of on the cool side What would be even cooler is if it had like a way to reel it back in That would be nice that that would be a nice extra bonus, but this is 1993 We're talking about it here that we can't do that in 1993, right? It should be lucky you got anything in 1993 Okay, next wheel assembly They've got four wheels. They look all identical and just snap them in with the The hubcap side looking out, of course, there aren't really hubcaps on there like with a lot of these vehicles You are you're gonna see those mushroom clips straight through through the wheel and I am going to actually wrap this around the string around the Grapple because that string is already getting in the way Okay, there there you stay there and Now these should be quite straightforward. I should be able to just press them on I Should be able to just Press them on and have them not break, right? There we go There we go and one more please please please please. There we go. All right Four wheels on they all Did not break the axles and there we go We're mostly done here, right? No. Well, I got I just have to nipple off The other missiles and then put the stickers on so let's nipple these off and let's let's try to Try to do it together now. All right. Let's have let's have some teamwork All right It looks like three nipples on each missile and I would like the entire class To say it with me. Okay First one Hold on there. We go ready and oh nipple nipple nipple nipple Nip that nipple. Oh, that was a hard nipple that that nipple was really hard and nipple There we go The other two missiles Okay See it says Okay, these it's got these Things here in the back and that's like you can store The extra missiles there there you go. I guess you could store the grapple hook there, too, but it doesn't look like there's Well, there might be enough room. Let's see Let's just find out Yeah, okay So you can store all three So the vehicle is assembled now we get to put on the stickers. I didn't get my glasses for this part so the The sticker application this is always my favorite part this is our opportunity to To slow down for a moment and to contemplate life as Some of you may know my life has gone through quite a lot of changes I'm going through a relationship change Where I am Going to be a single person After many many years of being married And that has been quite quite a change I've had I've had a lot of ups and downs with that. It's been It's been very strange. I'm accustomed to having a partner here To whom I am devoted But that is not the case now And although I could be in a very Poor emotional state about it I am actually okay. I've gotten a lot of help from friends I've talked to people who are close to me and I've reached a point where I'm all right But nonetheless life is changing life is changing very rapidly And I have to think about some things now that I haven't had to think about before for instance I Will be supporting myself on one income But at least for the time being staying in the same house So I have to Make sure my child is taken care of I have to make sure that I am taking care of that. I'm taking care of myself And so that is going to be an adjustment and it is That means that I have to very carefully Watch my income and expenses I will not have as much money now to Get g.i.jo toys But I will still get them I will keep the channel going in fact Having the channel is part of what has kept my spirits up The channel will continue. We will still get together every week. We're almost every week to talk about g.i.jo But um You know I have I have a patreon and I get a little bit of money from youtube through ad revenue a little not a lot but um these uh Sources of funds are now Really important because uh In the past That money was uh Money that I would use to purchase Toys that I would review and it allowed me to purchase some Some higher-end toys some rare toys It's through Patreon that I was able to acquire a gold head steel brigade and if you ever Want to know how difficult that is just you know go check ebay and look up g.i.jo's gold head steel brigade and take a peek at what they're going for I'd never be able to do that Without the income of uh patreon uh For a while at least for a time Uh the income from Patreon and the ad revenue from youtube um it's going to go to Making sure that I survive right I it's not gonna be extra money anymore. 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