 Hello everybody hoodedCoverCommander788 here and it's time for another unboxing video, unboxing donations that I received to the PO Box in the month of November 2019. I've got a little different set up this time, I thought it might just be easier to do it this way, I had been doing it on my big table but that requires me to move a lot of things around and this set up does not require me to move a lot of things around so I'm hoping that will just be a bit easier than past videos but hopefully you will still get a good experience out of it. These are the things that I got in November at the PO Box. I always remind everyone you do not have to send anything to me, I'm not asking for donations, it really is enough for me to just have you watching the videos. I'm very grateful to have you here, I'm very grateful to have you going on this journey with me and so you don't have to send things to me in order for me to appreciate you. That being said the donations from viewers have really helped the channel in a lot of ways, they've gotten things for me to review that's allowed me to review things much earlier than I would otherwise have been able to to show my appreciation. When you guys send something to me I'm gonna make sure to put it on camera in a video like this showing everybody what you sent and expressing my appreciation for it so that's what we're gonna do now. So thank you to everyone who sent stuff in, we got something here from another YouTuber, we got something here from another Oki, and we got two boxes here from Brandon Knight, a long time friend of the channel. Alright I'm on my small table here, that's one consequence of doing it this way is I don't have a big table, I have a small table but it still should be fine. I have four packages here to open and I actually just checked the PO box before I recorded this video, I want to make sure that I got everyone in for November that actually sent something in that arrived in November so there was this one which I guess I will start with that I picked up in the post office today and this is from, I'm gonna set these others aside for now, this is from Kevin Jones, otherwise known as SEO toy review on YouTube, it's got a great toy review channel, make sure you check out SEO toy review, well he told me he was gonna send something and here it is so I've already cut this open, I will cut open the other boxes you know off camera just so to make it easier to pull things out but I already cut this open so I can just pull it straight out and then we can see what it is and the first thing we have is a letter that I like this paper email and yes the subject matter gives away what's in the envelope it says hey hoodie no your stalker needed an upgrade have a few straight arms laying around glad it can go to help fix up a figure and that's that's exactly what it is my straight arms stalker figure has broken thumbs and so we have right here a straight arm for stalker there we go a straight arm for stalker with an intact thumb so finally I can have stalker looks like his his left arm his left arm is kind of finally have a thumb so thanks Kevin I guess Kevin noticed after I posted my 1982 retrospective video that my stalker was thumbless so he wanted to help out a little bit thank you very much for that Kevin and thanks for all the great content that you do and thanks for your help that thanks for the help that you've given to me the collaborations have been fun thanks for taking part in Cobra Convergence each year I just love what you do and I really appreciate this thank you this counts as a letter and I do keep all of these so thank you Kevin and I can add this to my memories of you guys so there is letter from Kevin goes right in there so I can keep it for all time let's look at the next one and the next one is from Chris looks like Chris I'm not sure about his last name here but I do notice that he is from Oklahoma so am I so this is from a fellow Oki thank you for that and since I've already cut the tape I'm just gonna pull it right out of the box up and here we go another letter thank you Chris and his name is Chris Gatliff Chris Gatliff thank you very much his letter says dear HCC 788 hi my name is Chris Gatliff I really enjoy your YouTube channel I saw it from retroblasting of how I've worked with retroblasting a couple times they're great people I really like GI Joe I have many things from when I was a kid I have the whale and many others that's cool that's cool would like to start collecting again but I am a mint inbox type of guy which can get really expensive yes and getting more expensive by the day thanks for all your work hope you like what I sent thanks Chris thank you very much Chris and again keeping this letter don't throw I don't throw away any of those letters and so let's see what Chris sent it is okay which do I open first I'm not sure what this paper roll is so I'm going to do this first see should I cut the tape I don't know if it's if it's safe to peel because I'm not sure if this paper should be or could could be torn if I try to peel it so I'm just gonna carefully cut the tape carefully cutting the tape because I don't know what it is and I want to be on the safe side trying to cut the tape come on now tape there we go I safely cut the tape and okay the outside paper roll was just protective very good oh I know what these are this is cool these are copies of I got to zoom in on these copies of the character model sheets for the GI Joe animated series and we've got the Baroness there let's see what's the date on this I yeah this is for a geek animation so this is for the deeks theory at series there's my favorite right there there's stalker oh who else we got oh this is cool this is this is great reference material too we got we've got the hooded cobra commander and come on there we go yeah the bat leader which I guess is supposed to be overkill that's awesome so these are copies obviously but these are part of GI Joe history this is these are model sheets for the for the animated series this is what the animators used as a guide for how the characters were supposed to look it seems it seems we do have a a nude Baroness on there you know just in case they ever needed she ever appeared nude in the series we've got one just sort of over the shoulder but but apparently topless you never know you know the scriptwriter might want to a topless scene with the Baroness and they got to be prepared to animate that so that's awesome thank you very much for that there is one other thing in here that is bubble wrap and let's check it out and it is oh yeah okay I mentioned before supplies are important and necessary and we have o-rings and screws very important I frequently get low on o-rings replacing o-rings is a fact of life for GI Joe collectors and we have some some accessories a bag of accessories let's see what we got here of course they're black and I'm wearing a black t-shirt now this is how it goes if I wear a black t-shirt you guys will send something that is black that doesn't contrast with the t-shirt and then if I wear a white t-shirt then you guys will send something white and that you know I don't know how you guys guess which t-shirt I'm gonna wear for the unboxing when I don't even know that's amazing but let's carefully pull these out here oh there's quite a variety here we've got some Zarena whatever you call that that fan saw gun that I believe that is no that it's not quite the one from ambush we've got a spear that I think goes with undertow and just a variety of things here and I'm gonna go through these later so I can pick out more specifically what they are looks like we've got some modern accessories as well so cool so thank you for that Chris very much appreciated nice to get a package from a fellow okie and finally we have two boxes from Brandon 9th Brandon 9th's been a friend of the channel for a long time so thank you Brandon this box I got early in the month and the other box I got just a few days ago and that other box is really heavy but I'm gonna open this one first I've already cut open both boxes so it'll be easier to pull things out so here we go it is whatever it is it's well packed multiple layers of bubble wrap here Brandon always packed stuff very well so thank you Brandon nicely done we have a letter and it looks like yes judging from the size of the letters I will need to get my glasses so I can read this one moment okay dear HCC 788 if he gives away anything that's in the box I'll stop reading but let's see what he says the end of year 2019 is near but 2020 is going to be a great year I hope so as the chapter of another year ends the next year chapter begins let us remember and reflect on the wonderful memories we have made been a lot of great memories in 2019 it was the best of times it was the worst of times in some ways that is very accurate tell let's let us keep making new friends and keep growing our community our stories and love G.I. Joe will keep going on as long as someone keeps the torch light and going lit and going I look forward to see what happens to Cobra Convergence 5 yet Cobra Converse fifth year of Cobra Convergence yet the next year can you believe it now to the important part what's in the box what's in the box what's in the box in this box are special items for you to enjoy also maybe in the future you can review these items to help grow your the community even bigger I thought it would be fun to expand our G.I. Joe family and you are the perfect man for the job thank you very very much please plus something new and different you can try I am trying to push for an agenda maybe so he's got an agenda here let's see enjoy and never stop playing with your dolls let's make 2020 the best year for reviews Tuesday livestream and Joe fest that's right Joe fest coming up next year your pal Brandon aka night viper you look really if you look really hard in this box there's a piece of cake just for you it will be the best cake you ever had enjoy you deserve this cake and you will know why hmm all right cryptic so let's see what's in the box let's check it out more bubble wrap very nicely packed no damage could possibly come to this because it is very well packed well done Brandon yeah here we go here we go here we go oh I know I know what this stuff is and I think some of you guys probably know what this stuff is too well first of all we have version I think version 2 of the flak viper with file card which is great because as you know I review the file cards too so it's important to have a file card and looking in here there's there's a lot of not Joe stuff so but stuff that G.I. Joe fans especially from my era will probably remember let's start going through them shall we first of all we've got a bunch of the core this is the the core he's got a nicely labeled here thank you the core hammer 1986 the core boomerang Billy I remember this figure gunner O'Grady 1986 I remember this figure I did get the core figures sometimes just to use as extra guys because I needed extra guys they were cheap they were cheap back then and sometimes just for parts because later in my G.I. Joe fan experience I started doing customizing and a lot of these parts were compatible with G.I. Joe so I got a bunch of these figures the core John Eagle crock 1986 carefully set these aside because there's there's a good number of them oh we got some more accessories here and these look like accessories from the core and the other figures that are in here I'm not gonna pull these out because I don't want them to go everywhere and get lost we have a bipod and a looks like a side but these these are not the core figures this is US forces American force Bush a brush fire by Remco and I did get some of these Remco figures you may or may not remember when I opened my toolbox that had the last few parts of my childhood collection there were some parts in there of these American forces Renco figures also used for customizing back then this is jungle raider Remco protector Remco 1986 really fascinating and you know they they don't look too out of place next to G.I. Joe but of course that's they were designed that way right they were designed to be this is the core large Sarge they were designed to kind of appeal to the same kids that were buying G.I. Joe and you know also be this is a little little less expensive and it hooked me in because I got a bunch of them captain combat Remco and I think this is the last one junkyard from the core 1986 awesome stuff there is still more stuff in here there's a backpack yeah this thing is packed we've got some plastic bags for what looks like packing material and we've got an envelope filled with plastic bags and let's see here we go yeah we've got some car protectors and some small plastic bags so these these will help keep me from having to steal storage bags from my house and these are actually the right size too for accessories and stuff so that's cool and digging deeper I see a what is either a letter or a post-it note all right very funny the cake is a lie all right look I already pulled that trick on Timmer so I guess I guess I deserved this so that's very clever Brandon thank you very much I got a kick out of that so thanks and we still have one more box from Brandon a really heavy box and let's open that now all right you may be surprised how many G.I. Joe fans also collect the core and Remco figures or you may not be surprised if you're from my era you probably remember those figures I wouldn't exactly call them knockoffs they weren't knockoffs really they weren't trying to like recreate you know something that you know precisely looked like G.I. Joe characters but they were G.I. Joe compatible and definitely intended to appeal to G.I. Joe fans but my recollection is they were often quite a bit cheaper you can get a multi-pack of them for like the price of a couple G.I. Joe figures and of course that appealed to me especially when I was customizing for the parts and they had some really nice you know military colors military uniforms that I didn't have to paint over very much in that era G.I. Joe was getting a lot more colorful a lot more neon a lot more purple and a lot of those I painted over with like modeling paint not very well but you know that's that's what I did well these Remco figures and a lot of the core figures had some nice colors that I didn't need to paint over so I was a big fan of them at the time it's really cool to to see these figures again because I remember having a lot of those figures back in the day all right here is Brandon's second box and the last box we'll be looking at again nicely packed plenty of packing material no harm to possibly come to this package because it is very solidly packed and we have a letter and grab my glasses it says dear HCC 788 glad the show in the community keeps on growing also we keep making new friends along the way yes and that's what it is really about it's amazing how time has gone by once we were playing our our toys reading comics watching cartoons the strange how G.I. Joe changes each decade even though we can't go back to a time when it was great to be a kid we can share those memories and keep them alive that we can do unfortunately there's no time machine but honestly now it can be even better because we can remember the better times in kind of we don't have to bring back the things that are not such good memories we can remember the better things of our childhood today's generation spent too much time on games and phones don't know how much fun it is to play with toys and use imagination kids and parents need to get back into playing with toys and reading comics that's why every year at the farmer's market I in town I sell comics okay cool I was a big comics fan too introduced to comic books through G.I. Joe G.I. Joe was my first comic book enjoy it and love doing it always wanted my own comic shop well this is the closest I will ever get now inside the box is something different for a change thought you would enjoy new adventures enjoy the past in a whole new way and see something you've never seen before there are many items for you but there is one first item for Susan okay Susan misses HCC get something in here um you might want to pause the video and have her enjoy surprise I hope you both enjoy the items you get want to wish you both a merry Christmas and a happy new year cobra claws are coming to town yes it is about that time of year so thank you Brandon keeping that with the other letters and right off the bat right off the bat here on top we have it looks like it's all it's I think it's all comic books so that's why it's so heavy there's a bunch of comic books in here a lot of them and right off the bat we have legends of dark claw with a story by Larry Hama I'm a big fan of Larry Hama and I haven't read as much of his other work outside of GI Joe but I've read some of it and I'm happy to get more of it so I can kind of explore his career beyond the pages of GI Joe because Larry Hama honestly has done a lot he's done just a lot more than you think even if you think he's done a lot he's probably done more than that amazing stuff and we got GI Joe European missions that is a new phase of GI Joe that I am less familiar with but I am interested in we have now here is something I remember okay I totally remember this the A team look at that we got a couple issues of the A team here love this stuff it's so out there it's but it's just so fun yeah tv's blockbuster adventure show is now a marvel comic check that out I guess I don't need those anymore lovely lovely and we have the num which is another series that that I enjoyed a lot oh there's there's the one I found the one for Susan I'm gonna I'm gonna pull that one out I'll show I'll show that to her later but I don't want to spoil this price so in Indiana Jones we have a couple issues of Indiana Jones and yeah when I was a kid I absolutely did get these movie adaptations of of the movies that I like and this is the further adventures of Indiana Jones so with that before or that's got to be oh that's that looks like Temple of Doom stuff there so and yeah oh yeah now you want to talk about classic war comics from marvel sergeant fury and his howling commandos I have some from this era it's it was a different era I've read some of the ones from this era and it was a different time different way of telling telling stories different types of stories just not what my era was used to at all fight marines we got oh yeah from Charlton Conomix more fighting how many have oh how many issues a fight marine oh cool we got a nice run of fight marines so this will be something that I can that I can dig into a bit and actually read a series of stories that's cool and we can't have fight marines without fighting army and this okay these okay there's more than just fighting army here I don't know if Brandon intended to go through each one but I mean I want to because I want to see what's here so we have oh we have a good run of fight in army too from Charlton comics group yeah it's got that old comic that old comic book smell just can't get it with with the electronic media so oh I like this um all these have like these hot pink ads for military diamond sales that's I get nostalgic about the ads and comics as well um battlefield action Charlton did a bunch of war comics um the iron corporal that's one that I remember finding in like some old comic shops I remember that title um battlefield action kill Joe of the uh the nickname of Joe or G.I. Joe for American soldiers has been around for a very long time much longer than the toys so yeah battlefield action uh great art on these covers um yeah I can't wait to like really dig into these uh so that's that's why this box is so heavy it's filled with filled with some amazing comic books that I can't wait to read thank you very much Brandon and thanks for being a friend of the show for such a long time really appreciate your support um and uh all I can say is thank you and that's everything we got in the month of November 2019 thank you thank you everyone who sent stuff I want to remind everyone you do not have to send anything to me if you do want to send something to me I will put the PO box on the screen right now but please remember that I'm not asking for anything if you do want to send something I will put it on camera I'll show everybody I will uh say thank you um and you know eventually I may end up reviewing it if it's the type of thing that I review on this channel uh so um so so thank you if I get more packages in the PO box uh in the month of December we will do another one of these videos in January and if I don't get anything then I won't do another video and that is absolutely fine as well uh I am just happy to have you watching the videos I'm happy to have you interacting I'm happy to have you going on this collecting journey with me so thank you for that um but that's all for now um you should have a another vintage GI Joe toy review coming up this Sunday I hope you enjoy that we'll be taking a little bit of time off uh in the month of December because of the holidays but you'll still get a good amount of content and I think some pretty cool stuff so thanks everyone for watching I'll see you soon and of course remember that only GI Joe is GI Joe but the core is is pretty cool too