 Hello everybody hooded cobra commander 788 here and this is another small cobra convergence 3 video I thought we would do another unboxing. I hope you're enjoying the event so far We really worked hard to get this together and give you a lot of really cool content But this is just a small contribution to that effort. So I wanted to unbox this toy I'm shooting this right after the one I did last week the cobra adder Which is why I'm wearing the same shirt, but this time we're going to look at the 1992 Cobra rat this box appears to be glued On the cobra adder box. I knew that was a reseal because it was taped with clear tape So I wasn't at all surprised that that vehicle had been assembled before this however I can't tell if it's been resealed or not the box isn't pretty rough shape But like I said last time I picked these up kind of just at random at Joe con these box vehicles they were Incredibly inexpensive Cheaper than I would have spent to just buy a loose vehicle by itself So getting the box is a nice bonus One of the benefits of going to Joe con and again Thank you to everyone who came up to me at Joe con and said hi that experience was was overwhelming and I'll never forget it. Thank you very much So for now, let's take a look at the Cobra rat all right first. I'll show you the box There's the artwork on it not too bad, but this does look like quite a simple vehicle and Someone at the show mentioned that it was a little bit disappointing a little underwhelming I guess And that maybe I don't deny that but I haven't seen it yet So who knows my opinion may be different. It's a pretty rough box Lots of scuffs and scars and dents, but I am not a box collector anyway I just kind of get them occasionally when they're cheap and just as a nice bonus Sometimes I'll just get them with a vehicle if it doesn't cost me anymore But I don't believe I've ever paid anything for a box Unlike the box for the Cobra adder last week. This is not taped. So there's no tape to cut less certain about how to Open this I guess it doesn't matter if I damaged the box anymore because the box is already quite damaged and I have no idea If this is already assembled or not. It does however Rattle quite a bit. So it sounds like there are some loose parts in there So I have a feeling that this is not going to be factory sealed But I'll just open it up. I guess from this end That does look seem like factory tape or not factory glue Doesn't seem like it was resealed But there it is opened for the possibly the first time. Ah, yes these 90s vehicles inside the box had a cardboard tray. I forgot about that even though I've done this a few times I forgot that was a thing they did in the 90s, but let's see if I can pull this out and we have We have parts Unassembled parts, so I guess this is how it came it was Not in factory sealed bags. That's a little surprising But it looks like it's never been assembled before so guess what? That means we get to do an assembly in this video. Okay, so let's start by just taking things out of the box and laying them out It looks like That's pretty strange. It seems like there should be a hull So is everything really here? I'm not sure Let's set it out and we will See here look at the instructions it seems to have all of the literature in it the sticker sheet and And the instructions So let's see But just looking at the parts it seems like it's missing something. Oh wow Looking at the instruction sheets. I think it isn't Missing something. I think that's actually how it's supposed to be in which case. I think I understand why people call it An underwhelming vehicle, so we've we've done underrated cobras for Cobra convergence well now we may have an underwhelming cobra toy, so let's Follow the instructions. I forgot to get something To use as a surface to cut on so I'm just going to use this empty Bubble envelope so I can cut these parts off. So what am I supposed to do first the first? I need this the main body of the vehicle and I need this the turbo engine and How is this supposed to go on it looks like? All right that matches up with that and that is supposed to clip on There okay all right here is aware the use of a different color of plastic would have added color interest to this vehicle without having to do a paint application or anything like that But they just went with red on red which Really causes the The two parts to I mean it does look like one They look like they are melded together Because they are the same color, but you have some engines here and those engines could have been a darker color And I think that might have been a little more interesting, but okay. I'm sorry. I shouldn't Critique the vehicle while I am assembling it. I'm supposed to be putting it together not doing a review So on step two we have a flat rotor launcher Installation and that's these things. These are supposed to launch Wow, I Guess it's this okay on which side supposed to launch the Rotor blades that shoot out of the sides Okay, so this one Goes on this side, and how does it go on it just has four clips, and it just presses on I guess there There sit on One more Yeah, one more clip this old plastic always makes me nervous, and I know this is a cheap vehicle cheap as an inexpensive and I could easily replace it if I accidentally broke something, but I don't want to break anything so There's that bit and now what the other side step three This piece just goes on like the other piece All right, so carefully These four tabs should snap on that could not be simpler Done they are on the correct sides, and they are in the correct orientation. Okay next Machine gun installation now. I've got to cut some pieces off of here And I've got a knife to do it. So let's cut the machine guns off Carefully there we go. I'll make sure I get those Cut as cleanly as I can perfect. There's one careful now There. Okay. There's two. Let's not forget safety oops put knives away All right These machine guns and they go just on the side it looks like but which way Looks like they tilt in so they go this way. Okay Just kind of a mushroom clip that presses in like that Get all the way in just about There that's all the way Doesn't really snap it kind of just sweeps squeezes in there Yeah Push it in till it goes all the way down to the base there that is the machine guns assembled next Step five there is a canopy That I need to clip off of here so Rather insubstantial canopy Pretty small there we go and How does the canopy attach the canopy attaches? It's got a couple of Nobs there and looks like they attach right there. Is that really it? Is that really that all there is to it? It looks like that would squeeze together. Yes on there in that There it is canopy is Attached there we go Okay, next step is we have Wheels wheel installation. Yeah Wow guys this there is not much to this vehicle that is no lie It's it's basically hollow I'll show it to you guys here in a second What I was thinking when I wheels are rolling away from me What I was thinking when I was pulling it out of the box is like Where's the bottom of it? Shouldn't there be a hole or something? This is supposed to be you know kind of a water going or swamp craft kind of thing but There's no there's no underside at all So I thought that was maybe a piece missing that would go on here, but But it didn't have that It wasn't designed that way. So let's put it together as it's designed with wheels This set of wheels goes in front It looks like it just presses in until the axle lines up with some notches there and Then this this set of wheels goes in the back much the same way Press in until they snap into place Now you have the wheels. I believe that is the entire underside of the vehicle assembled Well, maybe I think there might be one more thing. Oh, yeah, okay these little blade things also go on the all of the Pieces from the plastic Trees are all black. We've got two. I think if they had Done one of these plastic trees in a different color plastic maybe a dark gray or something Really would have helped the color on this vehicle Because you have only Red and black. That's all you got And maybe something else some dark gray Anything might have Spiced it up a little bit. Okay, so these it says Assemble by pressing into these holes in the front. So let's press those in until they snap in place kind of spin sort of and not much to that See if I can do this where you can see it, but just Press it into place. This one's a little tougher. Come on. Why are you being tough on me? You know correctly? It's not that complicated. It's just a mushroom clip in one space to put it But this one is just not wanting to go. All right. I got it. It didn't have a nice satisfying snap when it When it connected but there you go those two Spinny blade things that go on the bottom. Okay, that leaves what that leaves the What does that leave it says how to work flak rotor flak rotor launcher got it Flak road rotor. Okay. Oh the flak rotors. I still need to cut off of the tree So let's do that Come on now. Now this some these flak rotors The cast in the same black plastic as the the canopy But they almost look like a dark gray not because they're that's the plastic color But because in places the plastic is so thin It's almost translucent and it comes out as sort of a Dark gray rather than a pure black So Let's see about this. How does this work? So I guess you put put these on see this is the launcher part And it goes on Somehow that it. Oh, no, that's not it come back here. All right. I think I see once it lines up it should Should stay on pretty well Okay, I Think I think that's it. I really I'm not sure but let's see. Let's put this one on the other side I think this is this one just stays on And this one is the side that launches and get this out of the way get that out of the way And now how are we supposed to use it? See Okay, turn vehicle right side up place flat motor on to post on flak rotor launcher Wine rotor of approximately three full turns in a clockwise direction 15 to 18 clicks to fire push trigger and an upward motion as indicated Caution always point launcher away from eyes and face, you know You don't tell me what to do if I want to point it at my eyes or face I will do that if I want to it's free country, bro Okay, so this man, okay So we're supposed to wind it Approximately 15 to 18 clicks and I'm not counting clicks so I don't know if I'm Doing it right or not, but approximately three full turns That should be pretty close. I think okay. Oh that sounded like it stopped. Okay. All right And then we're supposed to press this trigger up and let's see if it works. Oh There it goes. Hey, it flew that actually worked. I can't believe it. All right Now I have to shut the camera off because I got to go fetch that thing. Okay. I got it and since it's Spins it does kind of fly sort of helicopter like and so that is the one thing. It's got I'm gonna actually I'm not gonna Put it back on because I don't want it to fall off While I put the stickers on and as everybody knows this is the best part. There are not very many stickers for this And they are all paper stickers, which is all right. It's all right Not the best and not as cool as what we got in the 80s with the nice vinyl stickers that Weren't so easily water damaged. I've got the catalog I'm terror on the tundra And I've got What's this? This is Official combat pay Oh Instant win sweepstakes And it's got a scratch off. I think we need to scratch this off and see if we want and then we've got this other Oh, yeah, here we go catalog with bunch of stuff from that year But we're not gonna look at all that right now. I'll just put that back in the box for the time being I'm going to take my trusty tweezers And try to put the stickers on as the instructions Tell us to And I'm going to start With these green cobra stickers The green I'm glad they went with green because they need some kind of color to break up the Plain red and black I like red and black I don't mind that at all, but like other red and black vehicles like the stellar stiletto They broke it up a little bit with like some silver parts And some dark gray and that helps It's a little less plain so this cobra sticker goes Right here be thoughtful about where I put it because I want the other side to match pretty closely Now it goes over a curve, which I'm seeing right now has caused a crease in the sticker And so that kind of stuck the sucks and these paper stickers are not very forgiving It's very difficult to pull them back up probably impossible to pull them back up and reposition them Once they are on they are more or less permanent All right, but let me try to get this one to line up pretty closely to how I put the other one Which would put it right about There flat six stickers on a curved surface Don't always work very well. So that one a little bit better not Creased as much, but yeah, this one has a small crease in it on this side. So too bad Next what's the next sticker Cobra rat G Dg3 hover, okay, so this is supposed to be like a little hovercraft basically Hovercraft are amphibious they can go on water and land But if you're gonna send this thing over water, it has no hull to float And it's got paper stickers that can be damaged by water. So Excellent choices there guys it has bro Okay, there is one Cobra rat sticker On that side one more on the other side I am trying my best to get these stickers on perfectly If they are slightly imperfect it there's absolutely nothing I can do about it I Can't pull them back up so Gotta get them as close as possible to exact on the first try Okay, there's that side And we have something that says vortex trigger and that is for the let's see that's for this side There's a vortex trigger. Let's pull that off Rectangular sticker and that's gonna go Right next to the trigger for the launch mechanism Just like There we go Okay, there's trigger vortex on there not as straight as I would like it to be Stickers coming along that leaves leaves a Cobra sticker Cobra emblem that goes right in the middle of the canopy on The sticker design You know they did Help it a little bit by making the Cobra symbols green adding a little bit of purple And giving us a little spot of color right here on the canopy Gotta be careful on this one because there isn't a lot of space to work with It helps a little bit If it helps enough you'll have to judge, okay, and that leaves us with these big rat stickers that go on the engine, so I'll try to do this correctly, let's do They're both the same. They simplified the Task of making these stickers by not doing like a left one and a right one. They're both the same So it doesn't matter which side you put them on All right, and as a lot of you know, I wasn't collecting GI Joe by 1992 so I Had no awareness of this vehicle until I was an adult collector and I got to say I Don't know how kids felt about it in 1992 but There's not a lot to this I Certainly hope it was sold for a low price point because there is not much to this thing there I go stickers are on as close as I can get them to the The instructions and I think I Think we have one more thing to do I was going to show you guys the scratching off of the Combat pay instant win game, but apparently I didn't record that properly so way to go me So I can't show you that because I already scratched it off But I can't tell you what a kid would have won if you had played this game back in 1992 would have won third prize What's third prize you may ask? Well the grand prize Is a trip to four to Universal Studios, Florida in Orlando? That would have been useful last year So too late on that See first prize is a Huffy bicycle second prize roller blade zebra And third prize is More great savings on gi Joe products So for third prize you get the opportunity to spend more money and I guess get a discount for it So that was the combat pay instant win game. That was my assembly of the 1992 cobra rat. I hope you enjoyed it And yeah, the guy at Joe con who said this was an underwhelming vehicle. That's no lie It seems like there's like a bottom half that's missing, but that's really the whole thing But no, this is not a review of it. This is just an assembly I will review this at some point and I'll have plenty to say about it Believe me, but I hope you enjoyed this this little mini entry for Cobra Convergence 3 Thank you very much for watching And I'll be back in a few days with a full Cobra toy review for Cobra Convergence 3 and until then remember only Cobra is Cobra