 Hebro asks, will you ever review the 25th anniversary shows and if so, will you do the vehicles as well? I don't have any plans to but mainly again is because I don't intend for my collection to grow to encompass those Every once in a while I may get one and I may review one for a special occasion But that's all it would be is a special occasion. I'm really trying to stay focused on the vintage line So I don't have any plans to do that right now Kevin mail asks, will you be at Joe con 2017? Well, the plan is at this time to be at Joe con 2017 So yeah, I plan to be there barring anything happening that would keep me from going, but yeah, I expect to be there Next question by Tyrell white out of all the sub teams of the GI Joe line What is your favorite figure from each team? Well, that is a huge question. There were a lot of sub teams So I wrote down my answers the best I could think of them So dreadlocks that would be buzzer Slaughter's renegades Mercer I guess Cobra law I guess nemesis and forcer although I don't really like any of them from Cobra law But I guess he's the least bad one Battle Force 2000. I kind of like the look of blocker iron grenadiers. I like the basic iron iron grenadier soldier Tiger Force. I like Duke Python patrol. I like the viper night force. I like outback Slaughter's marauders. I like sergeant slaughter sky patrol, I guess Altitude if I have to pick one eco warriors, I guess cesspool if I have to pick one DEF I like bulletproof Ninja Force nunchuck air commandos spirit. Does that count as a sub team? I don't know Battlecore, I'm not sure that counts as a sub team, but if it does I kind of like the roadblock Dino hunters, oh man, I don't want to count dino hunters ambush I guess from dino hunters mega marines. I couldn't I couldn't find any from mega marines that I That I really liked same with star brigade With aliens and not a big fan of star brigade shadow ninjas. I'm sorry. I can't pick one from shadow ninjas I just think they're all terrible. I'm sorry. David Sharp asks will you continue to review the Marvel comic book series? I would like to but I don't know when I will find the time to do it and looking at the schedule for 2017 It doesn't look like I will be able to get to it in next year So I really want to I enjoyed that but I just don't know when I will do it Bubblewrapped memories says do you have a dedicated gi to a room in your house? If so, I'm jealous I don't this is not in its own room. I wish it was Maybe someday, but not yet Michael Johnson Scotcher bourbon and which brand? I like scotch and I like Glenn Livitt, but it's a little bit expensive. So I don't get it very often So I've been known to drink bourbon every once in a while James Berry, Jr. What is your fondest memory play with your Joe's and who was it with? I can't narrow down a specific memory, but we had a neighborhood friend named Sam He lived just you know just down the street from us my brother of me And we would always go over to his house or he would come over to our house And we just between all of us all three of us we had almost everything in the gi Joe line So man, we really created some huge battles and it was a lot of fun. So I'd say playing with Sam Was the most fun that I had playing a gi Joe as a kid Chris Mahalik Asks Brian. What is the one-figure vehicle or play set you don't own yet that you hope to get in 2017? Man there. That's a long list But I guess at the top of that list if I can narrow it down I'd like to get a complete and intact bridge layer And or a complete mauler MBT those have been challenges and I kind of You know hope to get one or both of those this year not sure, but I'm gonna try we'll see how it goes GX bouncer will there be more joint videos like with form BX 257? Cobra convergence. I hope so and I you know I've got some ideas and I want to ask you know guys if they want to collaborate with me I really hope they do because that was a lot of fun Kyle Allen Asked you actually play with the toys if so how big babble stories, etc. I don't really You know I did those action scenes, you know a while back and those were fun for a while But I just I had a hard time, you know Setting aside the time to do those that was about as close as I could get to playing with the toys So yeah, not really. I mainly display them and I have them for review purposes. And so yeah, that's about it Shannon Fargo says what what was there a toy Slash figure from your childhood that you thought was the best but as an adult collector Makes you think the opposite now. Well, that's a tough question because mostly my opinion goes the other direction I was a lot more lenient or I was a lot Harsher on toys back when I was a kid than I am now When I was a kid man that non-military stuff I just hated it so much if it had bright colors on it. It was just it was like toxic. I couldn't stand it Now I've mellowed out quite a bit now. I can tolerate a lot of that stuff more now And so there are a lot more things as an adult collector that I appreciate That I did not appreciate as a kid But if there had to be one that I thought was kind of cool when I was a kid But I don't like as much now and that might be maybe the silver mirage I do remember kind of liking it back then but now when I have it and I'm you know I'm handling it. It seems just really fragile and flimsy and I'm a lot less impressed with it now than I was back then Next question by max blue Says do you like the Joe cobra subteams? Which is the best and which one is the worst in your opinion? Joe a toy and Joe lore wise, okay? I do like some of the subteams. My favorite would be the dread knocks The worst is it's hard to pick between star brigade or mega Marines as both of those are man They're pretty painful to look at Stay dread asks. What do you think are your main strengths as a GI Joe reviewer? In parentheses he says I've got answers to this but curious to hear your thoughts man That's a tough question my strength as a GI Joe reviewer I think I'm a decent editor I I try to keep improving I try to You know avoid Mistakes as much as I can I you know, I try to you know bring other reviewers in and kind of build the community in my in some small way But man, I mostly when I look at my reviews. I mainly see the flaws I'm mainly looking for the flaws because I want to see what I can do to improve So it's hard for me to point at strengths Sonic 360 asks what's your take on the upcoming Hasbro shared universe? Do you think it's a good idea for such diverse Hasbro franchises to share a universe like Marvel does well? It's not my thing. I know that other people like it and if you like it great I'm glad that there is something that you like. I don't think it works particularly well I mean these separate toy lines were created with their own separate universes. They're not really compatible They don't really need each other and for me, it just it just doesn't work I don't really have any interest in it Maybe it'll take off, but I just it doesn't do anything for me So Terry and coil says what is your favorite season EG EG series last year and who is your favorite female Joe and Female Cobra Tell us without the miss it when the missus isn't watching. Well, she's not watching right now so favorite like favorite a year of the toy line I think is 1984 and a favorite female Joe Is probably scarlet, you know, I really would have liked to get a better version of scarlet in the vintage line Favorite female Cobra is probably the Baroness. I know that's a such a cliche scarlet and the Baroness But I mean there weren't all that many female Figures, so there's not a lot to choose from And those are the ones that had the most impact on me and the ones that I liked the most Jose Elgato de Schrodinger Sanchez Schrodinger's cat, that's clever He says HCC 788 I have two questions one Why do you believe Cobra have so many youtubers that are fans and people that love them if they are presented as a terrorist organization and to do you believe Cobra? It is really a terrorist organization like Al Qaeda Well The answer the second question first I know that in the cartoon series it calls Cobra a terrorist organization But it's not when you look at it. It's not really set up like an Al Qaeda like terrorist organization It's more like a fascist movement, which doesn't make it any better. I mean that may be worse It's still really bad. So the first question is really interesting then. Why do people like it so much? Why are people wearing the t-shirts with the logo on it for this fictitious fascist organization? Well I would say that it shouldn't read too much into that. It's more along the lines of A good team of heroes also needs an adequate villain a villain that is worthy of You know all of their effort to fight them And so it's kind of the same thing as liking Darth Vader in Star Wars It's not that you love evil. It's that you appreciate a good villain and Cobra is A worthy villain for gi joe. So I when people are, you know, like Cobra characters wear Cobra You know costumes and things like that. I don't think they're endorsing Terrorism or fascism. I think they're just appreciating a good villain for gi joe Ben Kurth asks top five or top 10 Joes slash Cobra or joe slash Cobra vehicles Also might be interested to have a community vote for all-time top five or top 10 joes And the railway experience asks a similar question. So I put this together the railway experience asked What are your top 10 favorite gi joe figures? If you could have only 10 joes and 10 cobras in your collection, what would they be? And would you ever review a Leonard core figure? Well answering the last part first I don't have any plans to review Leonard core, but I would be interested in doing it Doing it sometime maybe just for comparison purposes So I'll think about that But as far as my top 10 I did a video for top 10 vehicles a year ago And I was thinking about it and about whether my top 10 would change And at least for now I think I'm going to keep it as it is There are some vehicles that are getting really close to the top 10 because I really like them But I think I'm going to keep it the same for now My top 10 vehicles were the Cobra Moray the dragonfly The headquarters command center the tomahawk the stinger the vamp the sky striker the his tank the uss flag and the killer whale And there are some other really great vehicles and I really like them But I just have a hard time Knocking any of those 10 off of the list because I like them so much as far as top 10 joes Well, okay, if I could choose 10, it's hard for me to put these in any order Actually, I'm going to answer this question as like If I could only have 10 joes and only have 10 cobras, what would they be because that's a slightly different approach um, my 10 joes, uh, would be stalker version 1.5 Snake eyes version 1.5 scarlet version one I just like I think I like the straight arm version better than the swivel arm version on scarlet Duke version one gung-ho version one leather neck version one roadblock version one Breaker version one because he's my first figure Rock and roll version two because he was my last figure And I guess sergeant slaughter version one. Um, I've really grown to appreciate sergeant slaughter Even more than I did as a kid. I really like sergeant slaughter. I'd like to have him in the 10 As far as 10 cobras. I like to have uh, I bring with me cobra commander version 1.5 Also the hooded cobra commander, you know because you know Also storm shadow version one cobra soldier version 1.5 Cobra officer version 1.5 might as well have both of them Viper version one a crimson guard version one really like the crimson guard Destro version one, um, the baroness and major blood version one Those are the ones that I really have a hard time living without Michael Pytel says, uh, hello, hcc 788 great great channel. Thank you Is your collection of figures complete? Do you have all the figures slash characters you want to have or is it never ending? Uh, I it is not complete. Um, I would estimate that it's about a third of the way complete Um, but it's not never ending I do have a an end point that I'm trying to reach and which uh, when I reach that point I will stop uh, jamie marie blanchard asks, uh The toolbox video, uh recently begs the following question. Do you have any plans to revisit customizing figures? It seems like it would be incredibly fun. It probably would be incredibly fun I don't have plans to do that right now again just because of time um, I don't Uh, I think that I would have the time to develop that skill and really do it well So I don't plan to do that right now if I ever do though. I've got some parts to get started Uh, next question, uh, matt lurch, uh, a number of questions Uh, one, what is the one-figure vehicle and play set you would keep if you needed to sell your collection? Uh, and two, uh, how do you uh, did you convince mrs. Hood and Cumbercrant or 788 to help you with your reviews at times? Well, uh, one figure vehicle and play set I would want to have my breaker Version one, uh, just because that was my first figure Vehicle, um That is harder. Maybe the vamp Uh, no, no, no his tank. I would want to keep a his tank uh and play set, um If I could only have one, you know, the uss flag takes up a lot of space So I'd probably choose the headquarters command center Um Just because it's more compact and it'd be easier to keep Um, so how did I convince mrs. HCC 788 to help? I just asked The first time I think was in the review for low light Um, and then after that, you know, I just come in and say hey, would you do this thing for me? And she'd say okay, so we did the thing and you know, it It progressed and we had more and more fun. So uh, she seems to enjoy it. So we'll try to keep doing that Um L01 bo2, sorry, I don't know how to pronounce that Asks as a kid was there a friend who had a ton more jiojo toys than you? If so, were you jealous or happy to be able to play with them sometimes? Like I said, we had a friend sam from the neighborhood and he had all the big stuff I mean he had the uss flag and the terror drone And my brother and I had a lot of the smaller and the medium sized stuff But we weren't really jealous because man, we were over at his house all the time He was over at our house all the time We played with all of it together As if we all just owned all of it So it was kind of like having a uss flag and a terror drone It was kind of like as if I had it because I got to play with it every day So I just really appreciated that I wish I could find sam again I haven't had contact with him for decades and I have no idea where he is Tony Williams says first of all, thank you for all your hard work. Thank you very much I think I speak for all of us when I say it doesn't go unnoticed or unappreciated Thank you very much. Secondly, Merry Christmas to you and your family. Late Merry Christmas to you My question is top to bottom. What do you think is the best year For the joe toyline 82 to 94 Um, also similar question jason galleon says better year 84 or 85 and s dowling 35 16 Asks a similar question. What is your favorite year for gi joe? Is it different for vehicles and figures? For example, I think 84 is the best year figures and 85 for vehicles Overall, I think 85 is the strongest year, but from 83 to 86 was an amazing run of hits Thanks for all. Oh, thanks for the great work. You do. Thank you very much And so basically answering all of those questions. I think my favorite year is 1984 But 1985 is really close second man. 85 was a great year But I I like some of the characters that were introduced in 84 Just slightly more And as far as vehicles go you had the killer whale in 84 and it's hard to top that So 84 is going to be my top year, but But 85 was also really good and is a very close second place So close as it's hard to choose between the two But if I have to choose one, I think the answer is 1984 Cyber tiger retro toys showcase and reviews who has a channel on youtube, which you should check out He says what are your thoughts on the current state of the gi joe live action movies Do you feel joe fans have been sidelined in favor of transformers movies? What sort of movie would you like to see if we are lucky enough to get another thank you? Okay, I do think That the joe movies are being sidelined a bit for transformers movies I think that's to be expected of the transformers franchise at the moment is more popular And is making more money So you got to kind of expect that kind of thing But what I would like to see man, I would like I'd like for him to start over Now I gi joe retaliation. I thought was was okay. It wasn't bad, but You started out. I think on the wrong foot with rise of cobra You didn't You missed out on a lot of the development of gi joe that you got especially in the comic book series And so I'd like for him to just start over Scrap all of it start fresh but start on a smaller scale so we can get to know the characters a little bit better So you'd have more time for storytelling and more time for character development So I would say uh start out with the gi joe roster being about the same size as it was in 1983 or 1984 kind of at the beginning of the team So that we get to know the team the team members and then as you have sequels we grow with the team We get to know the new characters as they're introduced. So I would I would try to simplify it a little bit Get back to basics Okay Tonka tony Says I've asked my dad who's a big fan of your videos. Thanks dad This and I would like to ask you as well when gi joe was dying out in the late 80s What do you think could have saved the gi joe line? And if you worked for hasbro in the late 80s, what would you have done differently to save it? Or do you think it was inevitable? It was going to die anyway. Anyways, uh, I'm thinking about the arah line Not the goofy decline. Okay, and by goofy. I mean the bright neon colors sometimes I have to wear dark sunglasses just to look at their bright green and blue weapons. Yeah, I know what you mean Anyways, my dad thinks it was going to die out due to other cartoons coming out TMNT and marvel series spider-man x-men. What do you think? I think your dad's probably right I'm not sure anything could have Saved gi joe and kept it going for the long term just because trends had changed And gi joe tried to change to keep up with the trends But the thing is it's you can't out ninja turtle the ninja turtles, you know, you can't out power rangers the power rangers So it just I mean, I feel like if they had just Let the line end maybe a little bit sooner, you know preserve the the You know the success of the brand you go out on top rather than just Out of desperation keep trying to Copy other toy lines They would have been in a position In the longer term to bring gi joe back When the time was right And in the mid 90s, I just don't think the time was right Jordell 2010 In a hypothetical scenario where no live action film adaptations of gi joe were made and you were commissioned Was writing a pitch for the potential gi joe flick How would you approach it? Who would you prefer to direct the film? Which actor would you cast as cobra commander? Well, I don't know the who should direct it and i'm not sure who should be cobra commander The cobra commander is behind a mask. So it's the actor is somewhat important But the voice for cobra commander is more important But um, how would I pitch a gi joe movie? Now eventually I would like for there to be a new gi joe that is geared Sully toward the next generation and that does not copy our old 80s gi joe But I understand that if they're going to do a movie they're going to try to capitalize on nostalgia. So It's going to be real american hero. That's just uh how it's going to be So if they're going to do a movie of real american hero, I I want them to Start at the beginning start at the basics. It's not a huge team yet It's does they don't have the pit is a secret underground base, but it's not this giant underground city You know make it believable make it relatable I know it's hard to imagine like a movie That isn't on the largest scale possible But I would like to see a gi joe movie that is scaled down just a little bit So we can get to know the characters more and develop the characters As we got to in the comic book series So that would be what I would like for them to do Hector canales Says does your family have a problem with you collecting? Do you collect any other figures? I'm being a I being a husband and father as well don't collect with Anyone really because as far as I know I'm doing I'm doing grown man whose house looks like 80s Toys rs. Yeah, okay As far as I know they don't have any problem with it. I try to keep it within reason So if they've had a problem with it, they haven't told me so But I do understand not wanting your collection to explode into Something that's unmanageable and takes over your life And so that's something to always keep in mind, you know real life is always more important than collecting plastic toys But you know I just try to Keep it reasonable Tony Jackson Says which arah character should have gotten a version two There's more than a few top tier and lower tier characters who got Second and even third figures while lady j alpine tunnel rat never got a second chance at greatness or as a second part of the question were the original figures perfect and Didn't need an update like leaven at Leaven at low light or mohawks arc and mohawks arc and that's funny. Okay. Um, I think that As far as Characters that should have gotten the second version. I think the bareness should have gotten a second version I mean that's one of the most important characters in the line and There was only one version in the vintage line. I mean scarlet got a second version The second version wasn't great, but at least she got a second version. The bareness didn't even get that So that would be my pick for one that should have got another version uh, lee gray Says when will you be reviewing fast draw? I'm working on it. I'm working on it. I'm trying Also, uh to make your reviewers even uh reviews even better than they already are. Uh, why don't get uh Why don't you get more full card backs and do comparisons? So it would be easier to see what certain items on the figure may be and see Where the artwork differs from the figures such as color differences and unpainted details Well, I'd like to and I do when I can But uh the scope of my collection when I first started it was you know Figure accessories and file card. I really wasn't looking for full-back file cards Now I have quite a few now and I'll be including those in the reviews But um, it's just again one of those things where I'm trying to think about the scope of my collection Make sure it doesn't get out of control and make sure that I stick with what I really want to get so For me complete means figure accessory and file card, but I will get full full card backs as I'm able to Uh woodman 29 says hi hcc. Uh, I've been here since the beginning and have enjoyed watching your channel growth Thank you very much. Um, I'm an avid and longtime joe collector Uh, I've been uh contemplating starting a channel of my own to review my collection any advice you can offer Uh, the uh dedicated gi joe community isn't that large and I would like to do a cooperative video with you Some time keep up the great work. Well, cool. Um, I think it's a great idea You know the more the merrier, um, I think the more people are who are doing this time Kind of thing kind of generates interest and that helps all of us. So, uh, I think it's a cool idea So my advice, um, you know, one thing that I will would like to do Soon is do like a how-to video on how I do this process of putting together my videos And so I think I'll save my advice for something like that. Uh, but Uh, just generally, you know, go for it. Um, it takes some time to develop, you know Your skill and your to get your own voice But it's fun. Uh, and so if you want to do that, you should probably give it a try Um, and if you end up doing that, uh, then and you want to do some kind of a cooperative thing You know, we can talk about that and see what we can do. Um, I just have to make sure I have time And it's make sure that it fits with what I'm trying to do, but I I really enjoy doing the collaborations Uh, I'd be happy to do more of them. They are really time consuming So I kind of have to limit what I do just just for time sake But, um, you know, I good luck, uh, and send me, you know, your channel, uh, information If you start doing it so I can check out and see what you got Uh, Bart D man 95, a lobby works Uh, has four questions for Okay, uh, he says one What is slash are your opinions and thoughts on gi joe action figures and vehicles that came out in the year 2001? personally, I love that year because Joes were back in the stores in my area and I bought almost all of them. The answer to that is I don't really know It's not within the scope of my collection. So I don't really know enough To really tell you what I think about it. I know I've seen some stuff from that era and some of it looks really cool I just don't really have any of it. So I can't really tell you a whole lot about it Two, can you give a quick tip on determining if a gi joe gun or backpack is legit and not a bootleg? Well, one sometimes people do the float test, um, like, uh, vintage real vintage accessories will float and some Repros will not that is not a surefire test though. Some repro Uh, accessories will float. Um, so I mean, but that's like a preliminary test that you can try Uh, just to identify if you have a repro versus, uh, a legitimate vintage accessory Um, uh, third question. Uh, can you ask me a question for my q and a video? He he he, uh, okay. I didn't know you were doing a q and a video. Uh, so Um, my question would be, um, what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? Uh, four, could you please yell yo joe? Yo joe!