 Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here and this is a special unboxing video of everything that was donated to the channel in the month of March 2019 and oh my gosh I got some stuff a lot more than I was expecting. Now this does not include the stuff that was sent to me for my birthday by Brandon Knight. I already opened that in a live stream because he told me to but this is everything else that was sent to me in March. I want to go through all of this and the first thing I'm going to show you is something perky big. It is a painting. It is a portrait of me and Mrs. HCC 788 as Cobra Commander and the Baroness. This is from Lance Toth. Some of you may remember Lance he did the painting for the for the bridge layer review the review that I did with Kevin Maley. He's the one who did that awesome painted artwork on the title card. So thank you Lance for that and thank you for this. You know it's I never exactly know how to react when somebody like does artwork of me. It's a little unusual. That's not something that most people have done so I'm always extremely humbled and flattered. Lance has a an inscription here on the back that says Lance Toth 2019 for HCC 788 Brian. Hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoy your channel. I do enjoy it very much. So thank you and thank you for making me the commander the ruler of all. I appreciate that and I believe technically I outrank the Baroness pretty sure. So thank you Lance and Lance does have a letter. I want to be careful with that. I don't want to damage it. Lance does send a letter. It's fairly long but let's get through it here. Dear ACC if that's who you really are and not some Fred posing as a retired Cobra commander I'm not telling because we all know that doesn't turn out well in the end. That's true. Just kidding. Hope you got the humor in that and it wasn't too far out of their joke. I got it. I got it. It took a long time but finally decided to call the painting I started of you so long ago finished. I had a difficult time painting your face. This face it's very difficult to capture on canvas. Hard to look at you for such a long time. Yes I know. I've had to do that myself. I think I got it the best I can. Thank you. However you feel hopefully you feel the same way. It's okay if you don't think it's a good representation of you your wife. I can take the criticism and the truth. You'll have to let me know what you think. I do like it. Thank you. I've been watching the channel for the past four years and impressed with how you have perfected your style. Still working on it but I'm trying. You put out so much content it's hard to keep up with it all. Well that's you know I do push out a lot of stuff so hopefully at least you like some of it. I know that the stuff that I put out not everybody's gonna watch every video but I like to have stuff for out there for you to watch you know I like to you know keep giving you something new. My job starts at 1 a.m. so I'm always missing the live stream on Tuesday nights. Sorry about that. You're not the only one. I wish I could do it maybe at a different time for some people but right now that's just the only time that it's been available. But I catch you on the flip side on Wednesday morning. Thanks for all the fun entertainment over the years. You're welcome and thanks for sticking with me Lance. You're very clever in your skits. I particularly like the Andy Kaufman reference. Okay all right thank you for getting that. You seem to embark on a mission to bring the YouTube community together and doing so you've introduced me to Comic Tropes. I very much enjoyed Chris's insight on the characters I grew up reading about along with the knowledge he has of the artists and writers. Two of you should review a G.I. Joe comic together. Good idea. I also like Comic Tropes. He's a really cool guy, a cool YouTube channel. Unless you have it I miss that. Speaking of communities I bet you are excited for Joefest. I am excited for Joefest. I truly planned on coming to Joefest this year but I lost my father and I had to use that vacation time to help my mom and brother deal with the things back in my hometown. Well that's understandable and my condolences for your loss. I think it would be fun to meet you face to face. I hope we can someday. In closing please do me a favor. If you truly do not like the painting which is okay if you don't please do not show it in your unboxing video. Well I just showed it. The painting was a thank you for the opportunity you gave me to paint a thumbnail for one of your videos. That painting put me back into the swing of things from such a long struggle, a struggle to get back into painting. And you know what? Good job. Great job. And sometimes life can be a struggle like that and you just have to keep pushing forward. And for that I'm grateful. I'll leave it up to you if you want to share it. So enjoy and keep pumping out great content Lance Top. Thank you very much Lance. Thanks for the painting. Thank you for the kind words in the letter. And as always I'm keeping all of these letters. I have an envelope for them and every single one of these letters will be kept. So thanks Lance. Thanks for the painting and thanks for the kind words and thanks for all of the support over the last few years. Okay what shall we open next? We have this one that says fragile and oh I know what this is. This is from Mike Lopez. Mike Lopez as you may know sent me the boxed C-ray to open and has sent me a lot of parts for the the Defiant space shuttle which I'm still trying to complete. And he sends some Defiant fins that are intact not broken. Little tabs are still there and so that's that's a frequent break point. So thank you to Mike Lopez for this and for all of your help. It's very much appreciated. The guy has helped out in a lot of ways and thank you for this. Still working on that Defiant. Still have a ways to go but you know making progress inch by inch. Doing this box next because it was on top and this is from Byron Kellogg. Long time friend of the channel. Thanks Byron. And there's another thing from Byron here. So we have two things from Byron. He also sends a letter. Now I have read this letter and some of it is quite personal so I won't share the entire letter but I just wanted to say thank you Byron for that. And I want to show you what he sent. Now this is really cool and interesting. I have looked at it. I did peek to see what it was and this is a 3D printed Cobra Throne for Cobra Commander. It looks like it's the perfect size for the vintage action figures and yeah here this is another 3D printed piece. I'm going to zoom in so you can see a little better because these are cool. I can get the bag open. There we go. And I'm not going to take all the pieces out because I don't want to lose them but this is like a podium for Cobra Commander giving a speech to the troops and there is a snapping bubble wrap. There we go. There is the Cobra Commander Throne. So these be awesome for dioramas. Now they are 3D printed and they are white but it looks like they could easily take paint if you wanted to paint these in other color and I may do that. I don't do a lot of customizations in dioramas but these just might be worth it because they're just so cool. It's like the throne is especially interesting. It's got the Cobra head. It also has the globe on this side because Cobra Commander does want to conquer the world. So thanks for these Byron. And this is actually a birthday card from Byron. My birthday was a couple weeks ago on the 15th of March and I got some cool stuff for my birthday and this really nice card from Byron. It's kind of a joke since I am a lawyer. It's kind of a lawyer joke but he did write something in here and again this is going with all of the letters that I receive keeping all of those and this will go with it. It says, hey, you couldn't pass this card up if there ever was a card meant for an individual. It's this. I hope this birthday is enjoyable. I know that you enjoyed watching. I know I enjoyed watching you age in your videos. Ha ha ha. Yeah, I've seen my old videos. I can see how much I've aged and it's only been almost five years. Amazing how much you can age in five years. You are one of the best friends that I've had the pleasure of knowing. Thank you very much Byron. Byron also a very close friend of mine. Here's to you and many happy birthdays. Thank you very much Byron. I did open that for my birthday and I enjoyed that very much and at risk of Byron's embarrassment I wanted to share it with you. So that was very kind. Thanks Byron. Okay, this is from John. It just says John. John is from Long Beach, California and I don't see a letter from John in here. Now John if you sent the letter and it's not here I apologize. I may have taken the letter out and read it and then not put it back in but I don't recall a letter being with this but at any rate thanks John for sending this from Long Beach, California and it is looks like a couple things. One of those things let me zoom in a little bit is this is a modern spirit with the slaughter's marauders colors. So it's like a modern slaughter's marauders spirit which is really interesting. Let me there we go. There we go. Now I don't recall if this was one of the convention toys or not and what's amazing is I still don't even have the vintage slaughter's marauders spirit. So this is one of the very few modern figures that I have before the vintage figures. So really cool and I wanted to see this. Yeah he does have his eagle. Now this is one maybe I should do a comparison because I did a compare and contrast between the vintage and modern spirit action figures. Well when I get these slaughter's marauders version of spirits maybe I should do a side-by-side comparison of these. So thank you John and there's one other thing in this. This is what is it? It's in Japanese oh thunderbirds. It's like a it's like a thunderbirds thing like a thunderbirds cutout thing from Takara. I'm sorry let me show you instead of just talking about it. Yeah see and the whole thing is all of it's in Japanese. That is really cool. I don't know if this is a thing to open or not. I'm not sure. I can feel something inside of it. It's like a blind bag. Nutrition fact. It has nutrition facts on here so I believe I'm supposed to open it and eat it so I probably will. I won't do that right now but for right now I just wanted to say thank you John for sending these and yeah whenever I get the vintage slaughter's marauder spirits I will do a side-by-side comparison with this one so thank you for that. And next we're almost done almost done but we've still got a couple boxes left. This is from Robert Perky and I know what it is because he told me he was going to send it so this is a bunch of the find your fate books for our GI show and there is a letter in here. Let's see. I should have my reading glasses. Robert says hello HCC 788 hello. I have been watching your show now for the better part of a year and now and I enjoy it a lot thank you very much. While watching your show I remember all the fun I used to have with my friends as a kid thank you for doing the show. Thank you for watching. Recently my wife had me condense my book collection. I must have gotten rid of over 200 paperback books. I've had to do that before so I understand. When I found these on the shelf I just knew just knew just where to send them where they would be appreciated yes yes. I also thought they could make good a good activity on a live stream or something letting everyone vote on what paths to take. Good idea. I'm gonna have to see if I can do that. That's not a bad idea. Anyway thank you for what you do your friend Robert Perky. Thank you Robert and let me show you these. These are now you may or may not be familiar with these. I'm familiar with them. I do remember them when they came out and I think I had a couple of them. These are the find your fate books. Kind of like Choose Your Own Adventure kind of thing where you have to you know at the end of the page it gives you a couple options to try and you know you turn to the whichever option you want you turn to that page to find out what happens and that kind of thing. So these are awesome and the cover art on a lot of these books are just just a really nice roadblock and and blowtorch and the Baroness there. Really nice painted artwork. I mean that's just a really good painting of bazooka and snow job. This one's oh yeah flint and breaker and snake eyes really nice. Yeah the cobra stun we got some vehicles there nice action scene. This one is oh shipwreck and the GI Joe shark. Just really nicely done. Nice snake eyes with with a tiger and storm shadow. So these are awesome and I'm going to read them and I will also consider doing that idea that you had of doing them on a live stream because I think that could be fun. So yeah good idea and thank you very much for these Robert. These will go to some good use. And last but not least this box from Lee S. Gregor and let's open it up and see what's inside and it is a game. It is a GI Joe board game make sure I didn't lose any pieces in there. This is the GI Joe real American hero adventure board game. Now I have the like the live your adventure game and like the cobra missile attack game but I didn't have this game before. This one's a new one. I've not played it yet but I did open it up because I wanted to see the pieces. Oh and we have a letter like I said I did open this up before because I wanted to see what the pieces look like and it says just a reminder of of the find your fate RL Stein book is in the extra space in the of the box. Oh okay there's an RL Stein find your fate book in the extra space of the box. I hope this is worthwhile of your collection. Okay okay well I opened this but I did not see the book. Apparently I should check a little more thoroughly huh so we've got some game pieces and some packing material and well what do you know right there look at that another find your fate book and this one is by none other than RL Stein. That is awesome so um yeah like I said I did open this but I didn't look in that little space and I hadn't read your letter so awesome so I'm going to put this with the other find your fate books and we may have to do these on a live stream or at least one of them so um yeah this awesome awesome awesome now um yeah let me pull this packing material out I don't want to lose anything in case anything is in there but we've got like these cards that say like equipment and battle and we've got some little stands here we've got a pair of dice and we've only zoom in a little bit we've got our game pieces which includes like the artwork for the characters there's uh breaker and stalker I would play a stalker of course because he's my favorite um and uh so now this oh yeah the end the game board oh and the instructions instructions always important and yeah and that's the game board um so like it's got start here and it's got like the pentagon um it's uh oh Fort Wadsworth hey you know with the gijo continuity Fort Wadsworth and apparently you got a oh there and there's cobra island this is kind of cool this is like uh desert kingdom cobra and the desert kingdom and ambush path uh but this is like this has got a little bit of the the comic book continuity here so I will absolutely uh will play this game I want to try it and see if it's fun um and so uh thank you very much for sending this and and the rl stein find your facebook uh awesome really awesome stuff thank you that was everything that came in in March thank you everyone who sent stuff uh once again I want to reiterate you don't have to send stuff to me I do appreciate it when you do if you do send something to me I will put it on a video like this so everyone can see and so I can express my appreciation if you do want to send anything I have a p o box I will put it on the screen right now so you can see send any kind of donation that you want to that p o box and you know I'll get it and I'll open it up on camera here so thank you everyone uh some really heartfelt stuff here sent to me and some uh some stuff from some good friends some longtime friends of the channel and some new folks uh who are uh getting involved and I am thrilled um I'm more thrilled to have you guys you know involved and interacting uh that even receiving the stuff I'm just happy to have you here with me so uh thanks for that um I'm going to get right to work on another vintage gi show toy video I got a lot to do but I wanted to take a break I wanted to show you this cool stuff the letters that were sent to me I have nicely tucked away here and those will be be saved I save all of those letters and I will never let those go so thanks for the memories everyone and thanks for all this uh these donations and um if I get any in April I will do another one of these videos at the beginning of uh June but if not then I won't so you know I don't always get stuff but if I do I will absolutely make a video uh so I will see you guys soon for a gi joe toy review uh thanks everyone and I'll see you next time