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Hello, Beta Ray Bob and Terence and Daredevil Dave Awesome to see you guys really nice to see you. We have stuff to do We have stuff to do I have stuff to show you we got show and tell I got I got Gijo the comic book issue number 300. I got two covers. I got cover B as well so I'm not gonna spoil anything but We'll talk about it. Hello Matt. Nice to see you. I also got I also got mine Bender This just came in today so we're gonna open mine Bender and and Just for for fun. I got I got my my vintage 1986 mind Bender out so we will compare and contrast to the 1986 mind Bender now the cat would really like to Disrupt the show. He's he's currently behind the scenes Planning disruption but hello rich Yes, we are gonna we're gonna whip it out as they say Hello Dan and yeah, so thanks. Oh, see he's he's already destroying things Thank you the shirt by the way is from Chris from comic tropes. He got me this shirt. Thank you very much Chris and speaking of Chris. There's Chrissy How do you do? Yes, dr. Mind Bender right here? I have not opened this. I have not opened this. Did I get I? Didn't get a knife to cut the tape, but but we're gonna open this I will open this for the first time on this show. I have not seen The figure itself, so we will do that together And hey, it's sparkster nice to see a sparkster always good to see you there, sir Hello Franzi hello Franzi hello there Thank you all for being here. Thank you for being here We no matter how rough today was we're gonna make today. We're gonna make tonight a good night We're gonna make this a good show. We're gonna enjoy Being here. Yes, Chris started early I've been trying to start just at least a few minutes early in case I run into any Technical difficulties which I have which I have sometimes run into some technical difficulties So, you know instead of you know starting on time and then being late I've tried to start early So if there's any delay then I'm on time Oh Chrissy likes dr. Mindbender. Well, you are in luck because we have got the latest and greatest dr. Mindbender Hey, hello Paine's toy samples nice to see you there. Hello Daniel and troublemaker ricks. How do you do? Trying to say hello to everyone. Hopefully nobody sneaks in Before I can say hi, but hi. I really do appreciate you guys being here. Hello Albert Glass Hello, Maryland from the United States. Thank you very much for joining We so And again, I have I have two covers of GI Joe number 300 we will talk about that no spoilers No spoilers, but we will talk about it. Hello chewing bubble gum on mine bungler. Yes. Here we go we've got We've got some mindbender to look at so we will do that um One of this one has angry nipples like the vintage one while I hope so I really you know, I think that Action figures should be anatomically correct. So, you know There's no shame in showing male nipples. There's that's that's not illegal Hello Peter and nice to see you. You know, I got I got my vintage dr. Mindbenders out only to discover that On one of them the the The o-ring has snapped So I gotta I gotta replace an o-ring on one of these guys But but the other one the other one is intact. So we will we will look at the vintage and the Classified Dr. Mindbender and see how we think hello flash. Nice to see you. Hello. Good evening, Virginia from the United States Lots of GI Joe classified getting delivered. Yes, hurting the wallet. Yes Hello, Joe fan. Nice to see you there. Hello, Marianne. Nice to see you as well So, thank you all for being here. Yes, I and I gave full credit To chris from comic tropes for sending me the shirt. Thank you chris. Thank you chris And I I felt like, you know, the GI Joe camouflage Was gonna be appropriate for discussing the GI Joe number number 300 Does um Does mind better have three nipples, you know, um, see the problem is he's Let's say, um See he's he he it's covered by the the chain Um, so you you can't really tell you can't really tell um So so that's that's an undetermined answer to that question And by the way, oh like this is like some s and m stuff here. Look at look at what he's wearing He's like got no shirt. He's wearing chains. He's got a cod piece and a cape that that's, you know, um It's it's it's not you know, you're typical, you know Going to walmart wear um Yes, his his his nipples chafed so So yes, um, but before we get started Before we get started two things, um number one There is still a little bit of time to participate in Timmer's charity drive Um, that's going to the end of the month, but we're almost at the end of the month the video explaining how it works is in the description of this video Uh this live stream so just go look at the link and uh check that out and participate if you can, uh, please That's a very good and important thing that Uh that we do every year and timmer spearheads that so i'm very happy to be a part of it I am donating a prize for the For the drawing so make sure you check that out. Also today is tuesday. That means there is a new Half the battle video from timmer today and, uh This one is about the scandals of hasbro Of which there were many so uh check out timmer's video. Um, so anyway Um, I wanted to start with that And uh, where shall we go next? Um, it's It's only two minutes after seven by my clock. So Who's got lots of time? Um, uh, he'd make a good wrestler. Yeah. Yeah, he's he's gotta he could have a wrestling theme here He could have a wrestling theme. Oh man Okay, so um the reason I have two dr. Mindbenders is because I have the cape variant So, um for those of you that don't know, um, he came with two different cape capes, uh, the One of them was like this with the cobra emblem Uh printed on it and the other one Was with a patch that was kind of just glued onto the cape Um, so I had to get both I did find both But the patch on this one is starting to come loose the glue is Failing so I'll have to decide if I want to uh repair that or not But uh, I'll put him in here and we'll uh, we will use our intact Our intact dr. Mindbender now, um Some background on on dr. M Uh, he was a dentist who uh ran some mind control experiments on himself and went mad um, he he's initial role was as An interrogator, um, essentially a torturer. He look he comes with this cattle prod thing But uh, but he he instead became the mad scientist Of cobra inventing the battle android troopers and a bunch of other Crazy inventions that cobra used to attempt to take over the world. Hello, rob vegas. Nice to see you. Hello rich Thank you for being here Um, oh did I say hello to cyclonus? I don't know if I said hello to cyclonus, but hello cyclonus if I didn't say hello to you Um, so that that's mindbender. That's who we're who we're looking at. Um, so So Where do we start we've got two things to to look at here. We've got we've got the comic book and we've got, um Dr. M It's and by the way, I've broken the trend here. I do not have a blind box to open I Don't have one because I didn't think to get one So we are we are not doing the blind box this week because I didn't get one besides which, you know So far my luck has been absolutely zero, right? I've gotten everything but A joe character in those blind boxes Um, hey, Dave. E nice to see you. Thank you very much for being here Dave so Yeah, we've got like a couple representatives from australia here. We've got of course our friends from the united states Thank you all for being here Um, let's let's start with the comic book. Okay. Let's start with this. Um, now I have two covers Um And I can show you that No, no spoiling in that Um, yes zazel is here. Hello, jeff. Thank you for being here. I'm sorry. I'm trying to Peel the tape off of this without Getting that in the microphone um um Yes, I I could say I got another tila So we've got two covers here and Let's see Yeah, um, and I think both of these are by by jamie solovan if i'm if i'm not mistaken Uh-huh Yes, both are by uh jamie solovan and this one um, yeah, this one is I think the the main cover, sorry That's the front. Uh, this is a wraparound cover and it has like I haven't counted them, but I think that's roughly one trillion Gijo and cobra characters in this image You know that took a while to draw um So that's the wraparound cover and then this is the b cover um, which has cobra characters standing in front of the terror drone and a good uh, uh good representation of cobra characters there um We have our our old favorites along with uh some more obscure character. You know what this is Uh, yeah, check this out. This is like Destro's uh gang right up here And and like iron grenadiers back there. So this has got some iron grenadiers here down in front um, but um But it's got some some standard cobra guys, too I mean you've got a a techno viper back here and you've got some cobra bats You have a couple different generations of cobra bats There's a cobra snake armor there So, uh, really nice nice cover. This one is not not a wraparound cover has the the basic logo in the back um, so um Anybody sneak in that I haven't been able to say hello to hello to anyone. Hey andrew andrew the guy's so nice They named him twice. Nice to see you. Thank you very much for being here so, um Please cat don't destroy my stuff um, so this um the creative team on this we have the writer larry hama Of course um artist s l galant Inks by maria keen colors by jay brown Of course, we have a letter editor letter editor group editor and then Research specialist diana davis and I wanted to give a special shout out to diana davis She is sometimes in our live chat but not all the time But um, I To diana if you happen to see this I wish you well. I hope so things go very well for you Diana is someone who has been very active in the fan community for quite some time And it's nice to see somebody who's actually from the fan community contributing to Something official like the book so So so thank you diana for all that you've done over the years And uh, and I and I hope you do well and I wish you well Um, sorry the cat is absolutely going bonkers um What was I saying? Yeah, anyway, so I wanted to uh Sorry, the cat's very distracting. I wanted to uh, to uh, give a shout out to diana um, I I've only sort of met diana in person um In in the sense that we were in the same room at one time I think it was the joe the joe con in loveland, colorado And I I knew Uh, I knew who she was Uh, but I didn't know her personally and she wouldn't have known me at all So I've only met her in the sense that we were in the same room at one time But you know, I've I've had the opportunity to you know, follow her on the social medias And she seems like a great person and of an excellent an excellent choice of someone to Uh contribute to the book. So that's that's really cool. Shout out to diana. So Um I'm not gonna spoil the ending. Okay Uh, hey yo joe. Nice to see you and dale. Uh, nice to see you as well Um, oh thane woods. I don't think I saw I said hello to things. Hello thane woods And rich if I didn't say hello to rich. Hello. Uh, thank you for joining us this evening um So I'll talk a little bit about the the beginning of the book and the setup, but I'm not gonna spoil the ending Uh This is issue number 300 This is the final issue of of the idw series. So this is the series Published by idw this series picked up where the marvel series left off The marvel comic series ended on issue number 155 And the idw series is ending on issue number 300 Um for that reason Um For that reason and I don't want to spoil anything But for that reason, I think everyone was expecting the Uh the ending of the book to be uh more Of a conclusion Which makes the ending a little bit surprising Hey, Sean. Nice to see you. Yo, joe is correct. It is exactly right. You managed to do uh 877 cch Is hcc 788 backwards you are correct, sir. You are correct But uh, so basically what we have uh is um We have dr. Meinbender using using technology that he has used before Uh to bring back the original snake eyes or or perhaps a clone you might say of the original snake eyes Um, but with the memories of snake eyes implanted into his brain with the brain wave scanner Uh, so for all intents and purposes bringing back, uh the original snake eyes. Hello McClew-Turig nice to see you. Thank you for being here. Uh, so uh Billy comes back as a blue ninja no spoilers bart no spoilers um, so um, so yeah, I mean the artwork is you know, uh SL galant has done a lot of joe artwork. So, you know, um, he he's pretty reliable and it it involves You know a lot of the core characters Um, yes snake eyes has been gone for a long time. There was um Kind of a a substitute or snake eyes part two If you will But this is supposed to be the original snake eyes Returned sort of sort of from the grave so So that's kind of where the book starts and It involves the joes, you know, coming in to try to rescue him But but I will say I will say that when I got to the last page, that's not what I was expecting Um, that's just really not what I was expecting. So, um So who knows What the future will will bring I don't want to spoil it. I don't want to spoil it um But but there are some things that we already know there are some things that we already know We we know that The gi joe and transformers license is going to a different comic book company So it will continue in some capacity. There have been a big question Hello j dioramas. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here. Hey, hello bad ape um so there But there were some questions as to whether The larry hama series would continue or if they would just do something completely new with it um Uh This this this leaves this does not answer that question entirely. So um I have to I have to assume that we are going to get a larry hama series. Hello explorer. So Thank you very much for being here. Yes. So that's That's what that that's all I can say I want you to actually get the book get the book purchase the book at your or your local comic shop or Order it if you need to I don't want to you know, spoil it. But the point is um It was expecting the ending to be you know a bit a bit more conclusive The fact that it wasn't Raises eyebrows. There's my eyebrow raising right now. You see that Oh look both eyebrows are raising that that was my expression when I was reading reading it is uh eyebrow raising um, and you know Dr. Meinbender is all over this book. So it's actually kind of appropriate that that we're we're looking at dr. Meinbender this evening. So uh, hey, that's um That's a synergy. It's uh, you know, it's it's um It's it's what the french call a certain. I don't know what um, so Uh, what we got Um, the uh Sparkster is gonna get the holiday optimus prime soon. That's very nice. That's the holiday That's where optimus prime is is santa claus. Uh, we transforms into a sleigh with reindeer. It's really great That's a great one. That's a great optimus prime. Uh, hey gray fox. Nice to see you. Um, Yes, you are late. Um, that means you you were supposed to have brought snacks for everyone. I hope you did Uh, hcc the graphic novel coming soon like the hcc graphic novel like the graphic novel about me Uh, yes coming any minute Um, oh if you if you mean the graphic novel about this I I assume That this will be, um Uh, this will be published in graphic novel form. This is I mean, this is part five of the story That they were doing all in part five So At some point sure, it should be it should be collected um Yeah, see joe fan 84 wants snacks, so I hope you brought some I hope you brought some i'll give you a minute to to distribute the snacks among The rest of our guests Ah So, yeah, um, I don't think I can say anything more about it without spoiling it, but I do encourage you Uh, yeah, see we have a second on the snacks Um, uh, I do encourage you to uh, to actually get the book Support the brand support larry Um, and uh, plus it's a it's a milestone. This is a milestone issue. Hey, hey christian bricks Um, uh, hello den mark from the united states. Nice to see you. Uh, you missed 23 minutes. I will start over I'm just gonna repeat everything that I said from the beginning. So, uh, you know, everyone who Was here at the beginning just just mute your volume now because the next 23 minutes You know, I'm just gonna be catching up, uh for christian, but nice to see you. Nice to see you Uh, uh, yeah, where are the swedish fish? Uh, so Yes, but I you know, I encourage everyone to To support the brand uh to support larry. Um, and uh And we will get another iteration of gi joe from a new publisher Uh, hello jump in general. Nice to see you. Hello stone great stone gate creations. Nice to see you as well Um Thane bought uh brought uh lima bean sea rations. Um Those are the ones that are like they're worth the most hated, right? That sounds delicious Um chocolate Um, uh T squallers says hey man is form bx still around. I have a friend trying to get in touch with him Um, I have not been able to reach kevin. Uh, hello christ mayor. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here Uh form bx 257 who has been a friend to all of us for quite some time None of us have heard from him in quite some time So the answer to that is I don't know. Um Hello varonic award. Oh, thank you. Dave for the super chat Whatever happened to the devil's due continuation of the original marvel run That's a good question and to answer that question. You would oh, thank you Uh, the killer weasler donation for snacks. Hey, we're this is this is Working out. Hello. Hello veronica. Thank you for being here. Um What was it? Oh, uh the the book after action report which I showed off in a previous live stream That covers the devil's due continuity. I'm not as familiar with the devil's due continuity So I am not a qualified expert to answer that question. Um, but I I mean, I guess Um, I mean, I guess that continuity is kind of its own It's branch offshoot. I guess Um Uh, there was I guess there was a question about the new publisher A new publisher has the rights to publish the old gi joe stuff. Yeah, I think the license includes that Uh, because that's I mean it would have to otherwise Um when idw had the license they wouldn't have been able to Uh do the the reprint books So, um, so yes um So yes um Hey everyone, um, so Uh, yeah the uh We should we will get another iteration of the gi joe comic book series um, I I kind of hope that we get a couple iterations of the comic book series because Obviously, I would like the larry hama series to continue. I grew up with larry hama series Uh, so I mean that's just that's legacy, right? That's that's just important to The brand and its history um but We've got stuff like this. We've got the classified series, which is Well, it started out kind of doing its own thing and then it kind of sort of Became a clone of you know the vintage stuff but I I'd kind of like to see uh, something take advantage of the um The the classified version of gi joe some kind of like Reimagining of it. I I'd like to see that because that I think is what this is missing the most um is some kind of a storyline some kind of um Some kind of lore to go along with it. Yes. Uh comic tropes is correct. The new publisher will be, uh Robert Kirkman, uh skybound imprint with image comics You may know Robert Kirkman from The Walking Dead. So I mean that's a that's a good person to take it over I think that's that's a good sign. That's a good sign um, but I I think I really think that's what The classified series is missing. We have these figures. We have a few vehicles. That's all well and good But What makes this something other than just an upscaled version of the vintage figures? I I'd like to see it kind of Do its own thing now. There is a little bit that now I it is not I would not be correct in saying that there's no storyline Related to this at all the the the cat is causing absolute chaos. It's a good thing. You guys can't see that direction It's a good thing the camera isn't facing that direction pure chaos happening right behind this camera Um, oh, hello rat face. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here um Uh, there is some because they did the video game, right? They did the video game a couple years ago That was, you know loosely based on the classified designs Um, I I got it. It wasn't great. Hello cobra island. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here. It wasn't great I'm not a super video game guy. So I not the best judge, but Uh, I don't think it was Extremely successful. Uh, they're the role playing games Also integrate some of the classified designs. So it is not true to say that there's no media related Uh, but I'd like to see some kind of more comprehensive lore That's specifically rated related to the classified series because I I really feel like that's what's missing Uh, hello daruti. Nice to see you Uh, no, I actually even if I wanted to uh, like I'd have to like turn the entire thing So so no, I'm not going to turn to the camera. Um, uh, thank you, Dave We'd love to see a new series with a new writer. I love larry, but it would be nice to see a new interpretation That's that's how I feel about it. Now. I do want larry's series to continue uh, you know larry if anybody has earned the right to Continue writing that series larry has Uh, hello, kory. Thank you for being here. Oh, kory just got his that's awesome Um, I really think that larry has earned the right to continue if he wants to but in addition to that Yeah, I'd like to see I'd like to see Um, a reimagining of it, uh from from a different perspective And I I'd like to see that maybe um Maybe center around The actual product that is actually on the shelf. So this wasn't on the shelf. I had to order this Cobra island Hit 200 subscribers. Congratulations Cobra island. Uh, hello chris mayor. Did I say hello to chris mayor? Induct your cat into gi joe. Uh, that is straight in the mouth. Well, let's see. Um, there is there is a cat in gi joe. There is um the bobcat Uh spearheads bobcat, uh, so so there is some precedent for it um But but anyway, so I think let's let's let's let's go ahead and tear into this. Let's go ahead and open Mindbender here and take a look at um at this figure so Oh, wow, this is That's interesting. Um, so all right. So here's the box It's got the artwork on the back and notice that they're not just using generic artwork anymore It's now character specific artwork. That's an improvement Um, yes max. Yes, uh spearheads, uh bobcat max Um, this is number 43 in the series. Wow, that's upside down. There we go. This is number 43 in the series Uh, that has the symbols on this side that represent his specialties and that is very low contrast um Let's see what is I'm not sure I can even I caramba um Okay Chaos pure chaos um See, uh, this one is like it's like an an atom I and this one is is that a bomb or is that a mace on a chain? Um, and this one is Oh, that's that's a brain with a lightning bolt through it. That means he was struck by lightning. That's why he's bald um, and this one is A a hammer an anvil um So so that's that his hobby is shooing horses So, uh, so that's what those symbols mean, but they're really hard to see They're really hard to see so like on these others I grab it um Like and on this so you can see that really easily and on this is like Super dark Okay, so This uh, this also is using the the new plastic uh, no plastic box So no plastic window pane, but we've got an outer box and an inner box and I believe if I pull this I should be able to pull the inner box out so and I will also point out that the there's the Printing on the back matches up. So when you pull it out, it's like that um, and then That is cobra dna The double helix appropriate for mind bender And um, and I should be able to swing this open in order to Show the figure I think And I have not looked at this yet. I haven't seen it. So I'm going to open this for you You will see it before I do. So let's take a look at Mind bender and oh, I am wrong. This has plastic This is not the plastic free packaging How about that? so There's the display, um, and there's a there are a whole lot of accessories with this guy this was this was an exclusive and Uh Therefore more expensive. Hey, it's peg warmers. Hey, nice to see you peg warmers Hello, kevin. Uh, thank you very much for being here um Yes, I'm decoding the classified symbols um So let me see if I can even get this guy out. This is interesting Um, let's see. I I mistakenly did not get a knife To cut the tape. So let me see if I can Do this Okay, I got it. I got it A little unconventional, but I got it Okay, all right. So let's see. Let's see if we can pull. Oh, thank you, Dave as some Thank you for the super chat as someone that works on the video game In the video game industry the gijo game was Not bad for a game develop in less than a year harsh deadline for the developers. Yeah, I I understand that I I think I can Uh, I can understand that And like I said, uh I'm not the best judge of a video game. I'm not really Much of a gamer But it didn't it didn't hold my attention very long um I do like the idea. I like the idea of using a video game to To promote the brand I I like that idea um, but it's gotta be like Since you're not going to have a lot of budget for you know advertising It's got to get word of mouth, right? It's got to get it's got to Create some buzz. It's got to get people talking about it So it's got to be kind of exceptional. It can't just be like a little, you know, quicky Short Schedule low budget game. It's got to be something that gets people talking. Yes. The cat is here There he is Yeah, he's looking over my shoulder. He's actually he's actively looking for something to destroy. Look at that Um, so, okay, let's let's pull Mindbender out There he is I was totally wrong about this being the plastic free packaging future packaging will be plastic free. We saw that with With sergeant slaughter So let's uh, let's pop out the figure itself That's Really tight in there Trying to not do this in front of the microphone Yes, look at look at him. He's like he's like really staring intently at the plastic things Ah Ratface as anybody check out sarana review yet looking for subscribers. Oh check out ratface's review of sarana I don't have the sarana figure. So, uh, that's a really great way to take a look at it. So check out ratface's video Thank you for mentioning that It is this is really in there quite stiffly That's what she said good grief Okay Okay, whoo. Oh, uh, thank you the killer weasler Uh, the cat is waiting for you to shoot dr. Mindbender. Oh, yeah, man. I need to I need a missile. I'll I'll get a missile launcher before we end That's how we we will end the show today With a missile shot at at dr. M Uh, so here is the figure itself. There there's baldy There's cue ball Um, ah, no, no, no, don't don't fall Um There's the guy and we might as well stack him up next to uh To the vintage. Oh, uh, thank you dave for the super chat. Um snake eyes did show up on Uh, Fortnite that is correct. Uh, and the joe showed up in world of tanks. I think collaborations like that Help the brand a lot. Yeah, that's a very good point. That is a very good point And yeah, that's kind of what I mean like you got to get some get people talking you got to get people talking about it Yeah, no third nipple in fact See, all right. This this is a travesty. Look look we got we've got no nipples That's that's not right That's not right. All right. Look However good the rest of the figure is I mean that that just ruins it to me. I'm gonna write a letter to hasbro Um, we need in in this day and age In this day and age what we're in the 21st century now we need to have the courage To give male action figures nipples. Look Quick kick nipple From that was from 1985 you can give a male figure Nipples in 1985. But here it is 2022 and we can't do that. I'm I am offended I am offended. Uh, but anyway, here's Here's the guy and like this is A very faithful representation of the vintage figure. I mean the colors the chains on the chest the uh cod piece The the design on the armbands are basically the same. This is This is very much an upscaled version one figure The major difference that I see is There is no cobra emblem on the cape The cape is an interesting Fabric has kind of got a sheen to it on the on the back side And it's more matte up here around the shoulders. So, um So that's the basic figure and we have We have a crowd of a lot of Accessories to get through Yeah, no no major updates to this this is they very much took the the vintage design and upscaled it You know, there's his monocle Because that's something normal people wear And there's there's his mustache his porn stash Um So it's stand there for a second mind bender while I get your stuff out. He's not going to stand there Hold on. Let me see. Okay. Ah, no That that didn't work Stand stand on your feet Okay, um If if I do this for too long does it what do you think that your screen is locked up? Does it look like the wi-fi went out? Okay, so let's take out the accessories and there there are more Because there are accessories in these in these two wing pieces too. So we've got to take those out as well so How shall we do that we've got okay, so let me go ahead and take these out because I think I can get to these relatively easily I say that and i'm probably completely wrong I am I am completely wrong. This is not going to be easy at all. Okay, so all right, hold on I'll get back around to that. I'll get I'll get back around to that Um, we have in here. We have some accessories we have this which is reminiscent of the The cattle prod thing that the vintage figure came with and it's two pieces. We have The prod piece and we have the hose so There is that and so this hose looks like both ends are the same So that will peg into there Nifty There there are lots of really tiny pieces here. So the cat is just salivating. It's like oh as soon as he's done I'm gonna eat him Um, there is whatever this is Uh, okay. Oh, no, no, I know what this is. Okay. So this is this has got to be the other end Like the the generator Um, yeah, that fits in right there. So that plugs in the other end of the hose and that is a modern update of of this piece That the vintage figure came with and now we have some pieces that I think oh my goodness. I'm not taking those out Okay. Um, all right. Look, I'm not crazy um, there are certain pieces That I'm not taking out and I'll show you why okay. I'm not even going to attempt to take them out of the plastic All right, so let me show you what I do have I have oh, that's that's cool. Okay. That's kind of cool um, so We've got some zombie parts. Okay, so we have a zombie hand No doubt from one of mindbenders evil experiments Uh, and we have um We have a brain. I believe this is the brain of Hans delbrook Hans delbrook. Anybody get that anybody get that now this don't know. I'm sorry the brain of Hans delbrook that that one It got ruined it got destroyed. This this is the brain of abby normal This is abby normals brain. Uh, hey kujo. Nice to see you kujo. It's always nice to see kujo um, and We have a skull with Uh, a blindfold on I don't know why he has a blindfold on he can't see anything anyway. He's a skull but um the the The skull opens and I believe you can yes, you can put the brain in the skull and uh, so now So now now you have now you have zombie skull with a brain in it uh Yeah, there we go I ain't got nobody And nobody cares for me ha cha cha ha cha cha Uh, so that's that. Okay. So here's what I'm not taking out. Okay Um, here's what I'm not taking out. Um this let me see if you can see this There are these four tiny little canisters. Um that look like Many it's your little nitrous oxide canisters really those are microscopic and if I dare take those out They will instantly be lost those will disintegrate into thin air. I'm not even gonna attempt it I'm not even gonna do it. So If you get this figure and you You choose to take it all out of the packaging be cautious about the extremely microscopic little things That it comes with uh, let's see let me put uh Let me put the brain back in there we go Put the brain back in the skull um Uh Maybe it's meant to be part of what my dr. Meinbender rated to build Serpentor Yeah, you you could look at it that way Uh, yeah, yeah, you could look at it that way Yeah, nothing sinister about uh About a blindfolded skull Um, let's see, uh, let's try. Okay. I've got to Gotta cut through a little bit more tape Uh, how are we doing on time? We still got 20 minutes. We're doing fine We're doing fine Uh, okay. All right. Okay, so I'm I've got to slide the these um These wing pieces out Otherwise, I cannot get the accessories out. So this is one And we have here here's what I was trying to get to this is um a pistol And this is an upscaled oops come on um an upscaled updated version of the Version one dr. Meinbender pistol as you can see it is Uh, the same pistol design and since the original vintage accessory was kind of oversized for the figure The upscaled accessory is almost the same size. Look at that It's only slightly bigger Than the 1986 accessory. So let's give Meinbender his pistol Let me give him a oh, thank you. James Thompson hoodie, uh mid to inset uh In september, um, I sent you a copy of my first ever gi joe vehicle. Did you ever get it? Um, I I believe that I did james. Um, I have been checking Um, my p.o. Box. I have warned everybody that I it's been much harder to um To check the p.o. Box. So I I have cautioned people about sending stuff right now Uh, but if you sent it at a time, I'm pretty sure I did it got it And I'm pretty sure I would have opened it on this show and thank you james And I will say uh just in general. Thank you james for your support. James. You've been very supportive It's been very much appreciated So so thank you. Thank you for all you've done Uh, it has really meant a lot to me that I really mean that Uh, so we have these canisters. So we we got these canisters. Do they open? Wow Yes, and it goes flying. This is what I'm afraid of where to go. Hold on. I'm gonna Okay, so we got these canisters we got these uh We got these canisters and it looks like kind of like it would fit Does this fit the hand the zombie hand? It does It does. Oh, yeah, wait it pegs in check this out pegs in And then you can put this on it's like it's it's like the terminator hand, you know, except, you know, not not a terminator I apologize james. I'll I'll double check uh since you brought it up But I still thank you very much, but I will double check for you, sir. Thank you for uh for letting me know and I'll I'll make sure that I did So that fits the zombie hand Uh, and in this I wonder if the brain fits in here Let me see if the brain fits. I'll bet it does so I'm taking the brain out And I peg the brain right here. Oh, yeah, that's gonna work. That's totally gonna work That's that's how yeah Check that out. Now we have a brain under glass Dig it. Um Uh, should I tell you what it was? Yeah, that's a good point james. I'll thank you for the super chat. Um, uh I will leave it up to you, but if you don't want to spoil it just to make sure that you know, I I didn't Uh already open it. I'll leave that up to you but, um Your choice your choice. Um either way Either way, thank you. You've you've been a really really supportive guy and I very much appreciate it Um, so there there is a brain under glass. There is the zombie hand And that brings us to the final segment Okay Okay, so the final segment I'd really love to get this out without taking the But I just can't I just can't Oh, no. No. Hey stop it. Hold on the cat the cat has something Stop it. It's not for you Okay Where was I? Okay. Yeah, I was doing this. I was doing this Um, um Hello, jeffrey ball. I don't think I said hello. Oh, good night bad ape. Thank you for being here always. Uh, happy to see you here Okay, so we'll pull this out There we go All right Put that there Uh, let's see and What we have here we have this There we go. We it looks like an alternate um nozzle or sprayer or something That for for this So it looks like you can pull this one off And put this one on There you go With some silver paint application. That's nice. That's nice And the final piece is Uh Is whatever the heck this is Uh, what do you suppose that is? You know one thing that um That these classified figures don't do is they don't give you any instructions no diagrams They just leave it to you to figure it all out yourself because you're smart, right? Well, you may be but I sometimes have a hard time figuring this stuff out. Um, it's it's like a pistol But it's got like A silver piece. I wonder if it's like an injection device to inject, you know chemicals into into, uh An experiment or something like that Well, yeah, we'll just say that we'll just pretend that's what it is and pretend that we know what we're talking about um Um A nipple accessory pack. That's what we need So, yeah, let's hey, there are lots of great, uh aftermarket Um accessories for these figures. Let's get let's get the uh the aftermarket Um, uh nipples going syringe gun. Yeah, that's that's the word I was looking for. Thank you. Um, yes It's a syringe gun of some kind Um, so those are all of the accessories and here is mind bender again If you can even stand to look at him, he's actually kind of deformed Uh without, you know, certain body parts that he's missing um but uh, yeah, I mean Uh, what's my impression of the figure? First of all, it's a nice figure. It's a really good figure. I mean, there's Um, it's a very faithful representation of dr. Meinbender. Look, he's got the the knee pads and everything um It's it's not bad. Um, I was just curious. So there there's the back under the cape You know, what's missing from that is the the vintage figure had Uh, I don't know if you can see it. It had, uh a cobra emblem there on the back Oh, thank you comic tropes of the soup chat. I hope your day is improving It is improving now that I've had a chance to talk to you find people Doing the live show always lifts my mood because this is just so much So much better than often most of my day. So it's really been nice to talk to all of you James, thank you. Uh, I will tell you just in case I need to track another one down It was a 100 complete bomb disposal vehicle. Yes Yes, I got it. Yes, I got it. I did open it. I did open it on one of them I'm sorry that you were not there for the opening but Uh, thank you for that Um, the bomb disposal unit is a cool, um, small. It's a small set But it's a cool set. It's like one of those world building sets that they started releasing around 84 a five And uh, and I I love the bomb disposal unit. Um The bomb disposal vehicle it's it's a really cool and but and thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you Oh, hey, hello photo viper. Nice to see you didn't see you sneak in here. Uh, nice to see you, sir Uh, and thank you albert glass. Thank you. Uh, so yeah, I mean, it's a it's a well sculpted figure It's you know, very sharp details Uh, the colors are exactly what you would expect from dr. Meinbender Yeah, dr. Meinbender is a pretty weird character anyway. Yeah. Yeah, he is. Yeah, so I mean Um If you update the the look of the figure, do you make him even more crazy looking? Well, that's kind of what they did in 1993 because they made him purple and yellow remember that he was like Well, I mean, you've seen Meinbender version two plenty of times on this show, uh, but he's uh, he's uh I'll rather not so But I mean, he looks crazy anyway. He looks Yeah, just wild Ron this this came from the imagination of ron rudat. So, uh, so thanks ron Um, but but you know, also thanks to you know, whoever In hasbro approved of this design and said yes, that's the one we want to Uh, manufacture for kids Um, so so there's that um, and uh, we have By my clock nine minutes yet. Hey action fuzz. Hey, how do you do? Nice to see you action fuzz I will remind everybody that action fuzz does action figures made of Pipe cleaner. It's a really cool craft project And he's been at the gi joe conventions So make sure you check out action fuzz and thanks for being here. Thank you for being here Being my first video vehicle is super nostalgic about it I thank you again james and thank you for for all you've done. Uh, it it has not gone gone unnoticed um, it has not gone un unnoticed that, um Uh, uh that you you have helped so much. Oh action fuzz uses the same post office. Hey, that's a kawinky dink Uh, well, maybe I'll see you there sometime. I'll I'll have to say hi, but um Uh, as I mentioned before I'm not making it to the post office nearly as often as I used to Because geographically it is much more distant now than it used to be Um, so we have eight eight more minutes. So you know what I've got to do right now You know what we're gonna do I've got to go get a missile launcher To to carry on our tradition tradition of firing a missile at dr. Mindbender, but I see I I was prepared I was prepared with the vintage figure, but I was not prepared With a 90s Spring-loaded missile launcher. So, uh, I'm gonna go get one right now And we will wrap this show we will wrap this show Uh by by striking Our friend dr. M With a missile Killer wezer when is your next room? That's a good question. I wish I knew and if I did know I would be happy to tell you I don't know is the answer. However Um, the it is going it is quite possible that I will have more time Uh to do fully edited reviews in the not too distant future um I've just kind of had to put that on hold for a little while, but I didn't want to lose contact I didn't want to lose connection um With with you folks Like I did last time. So I've been trying to keep the live stream going. Um I just I want to make sure to to keep in touch with everyone Peg warmers chris from comic tropes will be on peg warmers tomorrow night. That's awesome I will be there. I will be there. That's so cool. Uh, so yeah Two of my favorite people chris from comic tropes will be on the peg warmers show tomorrow. That is really cool So yes, uh, check peg warmers for that. Uh, make sure you check out comic tropes as well. Um now Without further adieu That is the wrong word But without further ado, uh, I'm going to go get oh, what's that? Uh, thank you. Jeffrey ball There is a peg hole on his belt for the canister. Thank you for pointing that out. Where is the peg hole? Oh, yeah, I also didn't point out that there is a holster for the pistol and A peg hole on his belt For the canister. I do not see it Um Oh, wait. No, I found it. I found it. I think Yeah, so I could yeah, okay, okay Okay, okay, okay. Okay, right right there right there. Hey dig it dig it Uh, and you can put this in this hand Uh, and Put his Finger inside the trigger. There we go. Look check it out. Check it out. Um, thank you james. Oh, thank you, uh rat face for the super chat, uh, and Uh, thank you james got a 100 bomb disposal disposal to review. Yes, and now since I have it complete I guess that means I got to review it, you know, uh, but the bomb disposal that's a Uh, that's a nice piece. It's a good piece Uh, and as a first piece that's that's a good one Um, oh, hello jls comics. Nice to see you. Uh, thank you very much for being here That's another youtube channel to uh, to check out. Uh, does great stuff Uh, comic trope says I had so much fun talking with peg warmers. That is so cool. I um, I I'm just I'm kind of thrilled by that. That's really I'm excited. I'm excited by that. I am I'm really jazzed to see you guys Um, I am so now without further ado. I'm going to step away from the camera. You guys talk amongst yourselves Talk amongst yourselves Uh, while I go to get a missile launcher. I'll be right back time out time out Um, just carry on carry on the discussion Okay, now now check this out. Check this out Where'd I put my glasses check this out? Here's what we're going to do This is like some kind of perverse stuff that we're doing right here Um, I got I got 1993 dr. Meinbender version two The purple and yellow one Uh, and what we're going to do is we're going to shoot this dr. Meinbender With this dr. Meinbender's missile launcher He we're going to shoot him with his own missile launcher Like the very thought of it makes me feel kind of queasy There's something wrong with that but there's something wrong with me. So we're going to do it. So let's uh Let's load The missile launcher we we got to test it. We got to test it. Make sure it's working. Make sure it's working Oh, yeah It works. It works. Okay, so we've test fired it. We've test fired it Um, so here we go and I don't have Is hold on I got an idea I want to I want to elevate Dr. Meinbender into the frame here So that You can actually see See the shot Okay, so There we go There there's the man There's the mad scientist There's the the weirdo Uh, all right, so stand there stand there dr. M. We've got we I got to turn you this way Okay, how are we doing two minutes two minutes? This is perfect timing perfect timing Hey, hey Meinbender version two. Do you want to do it? You want you want to shoot your your older self? This is this is sick, you know, uh, I don't I don't know who does this This this is something perverse about this uh firing his own missile at him but uh Uh, but but we're doing we're doing it. So, um, everybody count down Actually, you don't need to count down. It's it's because lag and everything I'll count down. I will count down ready ready Counting down from three three two one fire We have success we have We have a dead Meinbender We've we've uh, thank you Low one bow two. Thank you for the countdown. We have done it We have wrapped we have done Our duty we've done everything We intended to do we have succeeded Beyond our wildest imaginations. Well, maybe not that much, but we've succeeded anyway If I are in the hole, um Uh, so yeah, that that's so that is the show today Thank you. Um, yeah, Meinbender killed Meinbender That yeah, the cat will grab and run it away with it if I don't put this stuff away Thank you everyone for being here. Uh, it's been really great catching up with you guys. This is um This is always a great thing for me during the week. It always lifts my spirits to Uh, to talk with you and uh, you know to catch up with you and just to To be around friends. Uh, it's it's a good thing. It's a good thing But the reason I usually cap it at an hour is because my voice doesn't want to keep going Very much longer than that. So I will wrap up and I will say good night. So, uh, thank you all good night everyone and uh And uh, and until next time Remember only Meinbender