 Hello everybody hooded cober commander 788 here welcome to classic Friday on Monday So I guess it's classic Monday Doesn't have quite the same ring to it following up my review of sergeant slaughter version 4 I want to look at the GI Joe classified series sergeant slaughter Finally, we have an official GI Joe sergeant slaughter in the six inch scale. Let's start by looking at the box This is the no plastic box so there is not a window showing the action figure instead We have this awesome Adam riches artwork Adam riches is well known for doing GI Joe packaging art And he gives us sergeant slaughter in multiple art styles on the side of the box We have a close-up of sergeant slaughter with some sky strikers reflected in his sunglasses This is number 53 in the classified series and on the back of the box instead of having that Generic poster style artwork. We have some photos of the toy We would normally see this through the window pane on the front But since this box doesn't have that we get photographs on the back since this is not to scale It tells us how tall it is classified figures average six inches tall But this one is a little taller as sergeant slaughter should be at six point seven five inches or One hundred and seventy one point three millimeters. There are these symbols which represent his specialties These are repeated on the side of the box. This symbol means he got a five-star Yelp review This is the logo for Cobra Kai karate. He learned the Cobra clutch at Cobra Kai This is a tree in Minecraft and this is the logo of prudential insurance Let's open the box and take the figure out I have opened this figure before so the figure and the accessories are loose in there There is a tray For the figure and there is a box for the accessories Here is sergeant slaughter out of the box looking very much like sergeant slaughter the wrestler This figure is based on version two of sergeant slaughter from 1986 This is the one that came with the triple T and it's this version that showed up in the GI Joe cartoon So it would be the most recognizable to GI Joe fans Let's start looking at the accessories by looking at the most unique accessory this extremely tiny is sergeant slaughter Micro figure. This is a sergeant slaughter action figure for your sergeant slaughter action figure. It is Incredibly tiny. It's much smaller than even the smallest previous micro figures It is on a GI Joe card with some artwork and it has the generic GI Joe star logo on the back and Yes, you can take this off the card. It is not sealed so you can take it out You can get an idea of the scale of this micro figure by comparing it to the size of my hand It is so small if you inhale deeply near it It will go up your nostril and get lodged in your lung. It is Microscopic despite that it has some pretty good detail and paint applications It's an amazingly detailed figure for this size Now I'm going to quickly put this back in the packaging because that's my only hope of not losing it Let's move on to the next accessory. Perhaps the most important accessory. He has a campaign hat It is brown with a darker brown band He has a gold rank insignia that I believe is supposed to be a staff sergeant But it's hard to tell because it is so tiny It is removable. You can take it off The hat is made of a soft flexible plastic which I like very much It fits well on the head and does not fall off too easily. Next we have the sunglasses They have silver lenses and brown frames and they are removable And somehow without pegs or clips or anything These do stay on the figure fairly well much better than you would expect These sunglasses are very small. These will probably be frequently lost accessories They are somewhat flexible, but I wouldn't flex those too much. I would be concerned about breaking them Mostly I'm just impressed at how they are able to stay on the figure pretty well Next we have the whistle. The whistle is removable It was just sculpted on to the vintage action figures, but you can take this one off It has a brown band and a gold whistle And this of course is for his drill instructor role So he can signal the start and stop of drills and training The next accessory is very reminiscent of a vintage accessory It's this swagger stick or baton and this is much like what the vintage figure came with Basically the same accessory but larger and with more detail. It fits well in the hand The accessory is a brown stick with a black grip And a gold cap And then there's this black curly q thing at the other end Which I think is supposed to be like a leather strap in motion And I understand what they're going for here. I'm just not a fan of this little extension here on the bottom The version two sergeant slaughter only included the baton accessories So the classified figure already comes with a lot more. The next accessory is the only weapon this assault rifle It is in black plastic. It has some paint applications. It has some brown furniture This looks like a modified and updated ak47 none of the vintage sergeant slaughter action figures came with anything like this It has a couple removable parts. You can remove this piece, which I'm interpreting as a laser spotter And the magazine is also removable. This is not a unique accessory This is the same assault rifle that came with the classified cobra officer Also in black plastic, there are some minor differences between the two It looks like there's an extra paint application on the sergeant slaughter rifle It has a brown grip whereas the cobra officer rifle has the grip unpainted Also, the brown paint is a little lighter on the cobra officer and darker for the sergeant slaughter rifle Even with these minor changes This does feel like something that was just thrown in because sergeant slaughter needed an extra accessory The final accessories, if you can call them that, is the extra hands This figure came with eight hands six loose and two on the figure So you get four hand poses You get each of these four hand poses for both the right and the left hands I'll show you how this works right now for the right hand I have the gripping hand so he can hold accessories But I can take that out each hand has a stem that fits into a hole on the wrist And I can replace it with the right hand in the grabbing pose Right now for the left hand I have the fist hand for punching But I can remove that and replace it with the pointing left hand with the index finger extended For when he wants to make his point The hand poses you get for both the right and the left hand are the gripping hand for holding accessories The grabbing hand in kind of a claw pose The fist for punching or doing fist bumps And the pointing finger I'm not a fan of these extra hands I don't really like accessories that don't go on the figure and just rattle around in the box or get permanently lost But I know a lot of collectors do like them. They give you some other posing options I call this one the Michael Jackson. Let's take a look at the articulation for sergeant slaughter He has classified articulation, which is excellent. He has a ball jointed head and a swivel neck So he has excellent range of motion at the head. He can swing his arm up at the shoulder and swivel at the shoulder He has a cut at the upper bicep with the swivel so he can swivel at the upper arm He has double jointed elbows He has a swivel at the wrist and in and out hinges at the wrist. That's excellent He has butterfly joints at the shoulders and those are not too tight. They actually work pretty good He has a hinge at the rib cage. So he has a bit of an ab crunch He has a ball and socket joint at the waist so he can have a pretty good range of motion at the waist Around and up and down He has a leg split. He can move his legs forward at the hip and back a little bit not as much He has a swivel at the thigh cut. He has double jointed knees. The top joint on this one is very tight He has a swivel at the boot cut and he has hinged and rocker ankles Let's look at the figure itself and as mentioned earlier sergeant slaughter is tall for a classified figure standing him next to Duke he is about half a head taller and that is as it should be Sergeant slaughter is a big guy and his action figure should reflect that the face is an excellent likeness of a younger Robert Remus the wrestler who played sergeant slaughter He has a prominent chin and a brown mustache and brown hair that hairline is perhaps a little generous Also, this figure is very muscular with lots of ripped muscles all over him It's important to keep in mind that this figure is based on the gi joe character of sergeant slaughter So this is not a literal representation of the physique of the real sergeant slaughter The rest of the details are pretty simple, but they are exactly what they need to be for the character He has a black tank top with a texture on it. He has black wrist bands He has a white belt with a gold belt buckle on the version one figure This had the marine core emblem, but this is a plain gold belt buckle as with the version two figure The legs have a camouflage pattern. He has green bdu trousers with a brown camouflage pattern He also has texture. I like how they add texture to these figures makes them feel more realistic He has pockets on the outside of his thighs He has green knee pads He has jungle boots with green canvas sides and green laces and black toes heels and soles if these legs look familiar they were also used on tiger force outback the same legs different colors I don't really mind this reuse of parts for classified figures. These cost-cutting measures mean they can give us more figures Which I am for I would have a bigger problem with it If they literally reused parts without changing anything But here they have different colors and outback has some accessories on the legs So even though they have reused parts, they don't look identical looking at sergeant slaughter overall I like this figure. This is one of my favorite classified figures so far It's not as flashy as say serpentor which has a lot of gold and minute details and came with a small vehicle But the details on here are exactly what you need for sergeant slaughter If you started adding more the figure would be less recognizable as sergeant slaughter This was a premium figure so they tried to give us some extra accessories But I can live without the bonus hands and the assault rifle does nothing I like the hat and the sunglasses and the whistle and the baton and if that's all it came with I would be happy. So where does the micro figure fit in? It's fine I like it well enough. It's meta. It's a reference to sergeant slaughter as a gi joe action figure And it's okay. It looks good, but I just don't know what I'm going to do with it That was my review of gi joe classified series sergeant slaughter It's class of friday on monday if you haven't checked it out yet Please watch my review of sergeant slaughter version 4 with special guest sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse Also, please give this video a thumbs up on youtube and subscribe to the youtube channel and share this video You can find me on social media on facebook and twitter and I have a website hcc788.com If you like the channel and you'd like to support the channel patreon is a great way to do it You can get some special perks and get your name in videos like the names you see scrolling on the screen right now Thank you for watching. I'll be back with more gi joe and until then remember only gi joe is gi joe