 Keep your eyes peeled boy. You never know when you might see bad guys What's that? drug dealers Selling drugs to kids in the woods those villains All right, boy. We're gonna take down those drug dealers. You ready to attack all right put on your mean face Cuz we're gonna take down those bad guys you ready and Go attack get those drug dealers sick of go get them go get tear them apart Go get those drug dealers get them sick of attack those guys go get those drug dealers now is your chance Go get them go tear them limb from limb. Go get those evil drug dealers. Show them no mercy. Go get them boy Go get them Hello everybody hooded co-recommender 788 here This is a show where we review every vintage GI Joe toy from 1982 to 1994 this video was made possible by my supporters on patreon without their help I really could not do these videos their support allows me to acquire toys to review update my equipment pay my bills Eat the winner of the most recent patreon poll was mutt version 3 This figure is part of the drug elimination force DEF in the 90s GI Joe tried to get involved with the social issues of the time It's a bit awkward now especially with DEF our approach to addiction has evolved quite a bit since the early 90s It's now generally accepted that these simple anti-drug messages don't work despite this DEF gave us some Surprisingly good figures and this is one of them HCC 788 presents mutt and junkyard This is mutt and junkyard GI Joe's canine officer and attack dog from 1992 this figure and the dog companion were available only in 1992. They were discontinued for 1993 They were part of the GI Joe sub team drug elimination force This is the third version of mutt and junkyard There were four total versions of mutt and junkyard in the vintage era version one of mutt and junkyard were released in 1984 it was one of the first GI Joe action figures to include an animal companion He wasn't the only figure to include an animal that year spirit was also released in 1984 And he included the eagle named freedom version two of mutt and junkyard were released in 1989 as part of the slaughter's Marauders subset they used the same mold as version one But mutt was in slaughter's Marauders colors with the light green dark green brown and blue also his hair changed color For some reason don't worry about it. It changed back version three from 1992 is the one we are looking at in this review It was a totally new sculpt and it was part of the GI Joe sub team drug elimination force shortened to DEF We will talk more about DEF momentarily the final vintage version was version four from 1993 This was part of the battle core set. It used the same mold as version three It had some updated colors and accessories the second year of DEF figures scheduled for 1993 Was canceled and the figures that were going to be in that set were rolled into battle core Mutt is quite the little joiner three of the four versions were part of sub teams Well sort of battle core was the name given to the main line of GI Joe figures in 1993 So it wasn't really a sub team even so half of the vintage figures were part of dedicated subsets drug elimination force or DEF was a sub team of GI Joe introduced in 1992 it was part of GI Joe's new social awareness in the early 90s in 1991 GI Joe added the eco warriors which had an environmental theme the new decade saw GI Joe try to tackle the real issues of the day The war on drugs was very much in full swing in 1992 when GI Joe joined the fight This series was no doubt considered progressive and educational at the time now it seems very dated We have a much more mature understanding of addiction now than we did back then the leader of DEF was Bulletproof a figure I quite liked the enemy of DEF was headman and his headhunters in 1993 headman got a new henchman Gristle headman was not part of Cobra in media He was portrayed as the enemy of GI Joe and Cobra Despite this later versions of the headhunters were Cobra troopers drug dealers were cliche bad guys In a lot of 80s and 90s movies and TV shows Lazy writers could always pit the hero against drug dealers and no other effort was needed to establish They were bad. It's something the naked gun movies poked fun at this week. He is being honored for his 1000th drug dealer killed Yeah in in all honesty the last two I backed over with my car Luckily they turned out to be drug dealers. The would-be second wave of DEF figures that were folded into battlecore in 1993 Were mostly just color variations of the earlier releases, but they did include different accessories and different cards So I think they qualify as updated versions and not just variations The first mud action figure in 1984 included an animal companion the dog junkyard He was one of the first GI Joe figures to include an animal Since then there have been many GI Joe and Cobra figures that include animals One of the most famous was snake eyes version two from 1985 with the wolf timbers for mud It makes sense. His job is a dog handler. So he should include a dog Not all animal companions fit as well 1990 undertow included a fish version one of mud and junkyard were designed by Ron Ruddatt For Hasbro the character was going to be a Cobra canine trooper But was changed to a GI Joe character in pre-production In some concept drawings he is wearing a cap that is similar to the one on the version three figure A mud is a mixed breed dog a pre-production alternate codename for mud was dog face Junkyard is a reference to a junkyard dog Which is a very mean dog that guards junkyards and scrap yards Pre-production alternate codenames for junkyard included dog DAWG and George This is another case where the final codename was way better than the alternatives Mud did not originally have a law enforcement role, but his specialty overlaps some law enforcement functions He was not an mp, but his replacement law was an mp And he included the dog order since much job as a dog handler can apply to law enforcement It makes sense that he's in def However law and order the actual law enforcement specialists were not in def K9 refers primarily to police dog and police dog units It's a simplified form of the word canine which is a dog The word sounds like the letter k in the number nine. So the word is often shortened to that dogs To the layperson This dog is not a pet. This is a working animal the us armed forces use dogs for reconnaissance and bomb detection In law enforcement, they would also sniff out drugs and track fleeing suspects. I have the card back for this figure So let's take a look at it It's larger than a standard gi joe card because it came with a lot of stuff It has some familiar 90s style card art and it has a purple laser background It has the gi joe logo at the top and it has a large def logo This is mud and junkyard and this is number three in the def series Figures in the 90s were numbered for some reason as if you had to collect them in a specific order According to the price tags, this was 499 at toys rs Which is expensive for a carded gi joe figure. It looks like it didn't sell for that So it was marked down to a dollar 98 which is cheap for a carded gi joe figure either mud or def Or gi joe or hasbro is a member of the partnership for a drug free america The front of the card advertises electronic battle flash net launcher batteries included in the space behind where the figure was packaged There are some instructions for the use of the figure stand and the net launcher the back of the card has the cross cell There's a partition for the def figures and then the other figures that were available at the time Oh, it turns out gi joe is a member of the partnership for a drug free america There is an advertisement that says watch the new adventures of gi joe on tv There is a 90s style flag point and a 90s style file card We will read that later. There is a list of features and accessories on here And i will refer to this when describing those things under the file card. There's this other clip and save section It's a communique from bulletproof the def leader real americans don't do drugs Except for falcon fake americans can do all the drugs they want gi joe says that you must refuse all drugs No matter who offers them to you even if it's aspirin and even if it's your mom These anti drug messages on the def cards is why we no longer have drugs in america today Let's take a look at much accessories starting with this pistol. The pistol is in black plastic It's not very well detailed, but it's adequate The card calls this a us army nine millimeter semi automatic pistol. That is not very specific It's probably supposed to be a beretta m9 Which was adopted as the us service pistol in 1985. It doesn't exactly look like a beretta This pistol does not fit in my figure's hand I have tried it with the other examples of mutt version 3 that I have and it still doesn't fit I'm not going to force it because I don't want to break the figure's thumb The next accessory is not an accessory. It is the dog junkyard the attack dog It is a black soft flexible plastic It is the same mold as version 1 of junkyard But that version was in hard plastic and it had a brown paint spray on the belly This version does not have that. It's a really good sculpt if a little undetailed It has no articulation gijo animals didn't have articulation at that time I don't mind that it's made of a softer plastic I wish more gijo animals were made of that softer plastic They would have been less prone to breaking junkyard was already trained to track bad guys and detect bombs In def he would have the added role of sniffing out illegal narcotics Version 1 and version 2 each had a leash But I guess he doesn't need that anymore because he's such a good boy To quickly tell the difference among these version 1 is in hard plastic with a brown paint spray on the belly Version 2 is in a hard plastic with no paint spray on the belly And version 3 is in soft plastic no paint spray on the belly The next accessory is the spring loaded net launcher. It is very large. It is in blue plastic It has a ton of technical detail all over it. It's double barreled and it has a translucent blue top You can see the mechanism in there with the two batteries There is at least one variant another in my possession has a translucent green top And I do not see this variation listed in online resources The final card calls this a sophisticated dual firing net launcher Well, it thinks it's sophisticated. It's kind of full of itself a real bore at parties The net launcher is spring loaded and it fires these two black missiles with a net connected to them I'm going to release them. I will show you the firing mechanism later But I want to show you this first the net launcher fires these large black plastic projectiles with a green Mesh fabric net between them the projectiles are attached to Opposite corners of the net and on the other corners. There are these two black balls for weights And the way this is supposed to work is when the net is launched It should spread out to capture the target. There's another potential variation The net that came with the other launcher I have is in a different shade of green This is different from the typical spring loaded missile launcher from 1990s gi joe It's a creative use of the gimmick instead of firing a missile to take down an enemy It fires a net. It's a non-lethal weapon which fits DEF's law enforcement theme These DEF launchers had an electronic gimmick It has a translucent top because it will light up when you press the trigger Mine just barely still works. Here it is with less light. You can see it a lot better These are standard size watch batteries, so you can replace them if you want Let's demonstrate how to use this launcher. We usually fire at dr. Mine bender But DEF takes out drug dealers. So let's fire at a drug dealer. Let's use gristle to load it Press the projectiles into the barrels with the notch side up Press them back until they click you've got to put both of them in that way So all the way in and then you have this cavity in front And that is for the weighted balls. You just press those in there And now you have a net that is ready to fire the trigger is in the back So let's take aim at gristle and see if we can catch him in the net That really did not work at all. So let's try it again. We've got to take this guy down He is selling drugs to kids who are smaller and defenseless So we can't let that go on out of the way kid. We've got to take down a drug dealer Let's take aim at gristle and fire Well, I hit him with a projectile which would defeat the non-lethal nature of this weapon And I did knock him down, but that's not the same as catching him in the net So I'm gonna try it one more time. All right gristle stop or my mom will shoot Okay, so that doesn't work. We definitely took out gristle, but we hit him with the projectile So he is dead. This is a nice idea. It's a really cute and clever way To use the spring-loaded gimmick, but the net itself doesn't actually seem to work as advertised That's right drug dealer. I bet you didn't expect to get caught in that tiny net. Now give me them drugs Junkyard back off. Them drugs ain't for you. I said back off. Don't Junkyard, I said back off. You give me them drugs. You hear me? Give me them drugs That is not a toy. Drop it. Drop it Corkane The final accessory is the figure stand. The figure came with a black figure stand And this was nice figure stands were harder to come by in the 80s But 90s figures actually came with them and that's great with the accessories out of the way Let's take a look at the articulation on mutt. Junkyard did not have any articulation This figure had the articulation that was standard for gi jo figures well before 1992 So he could turn his head from left to right and look up and down He could move his arm up at the shoulder and swivel at the shoulder all the way around He had a hinge at the elbow so he could bend his arm at the elbow about 90 degrees He had a swivel at the bicep so he could swivel his arm all the way around This was an o-ring figure meaning the figure was held together with a rubber o-ring that looped around the inside So he could move at the torso a bit. He could move his legs apart about so far He could bend his leg at the hip about 90 degrees and bend at the knee about 90 degrees Let's take a look at the sculpt design and color of mutt starting with his head and on his head He has a black cap with black headphones and a black microphone on the left side That's sculpted on and painted. That's not a separate microphone piece. Thankfully. He has a black mustache The face sculpt looks enough like the first version that you could believe this is the same guy Version one had a removable helmet and face mask the cap on version three is not removable But I don't mind that it looks similar to a cap mutt wore a few times in the comic book series This is an update that entirely makes sense for this character on his chest He has a blue vest over a dark green shirt with an elastic collar The file card calls this a life vest flak jacket on the upper left side of the vest There is a black grenade the file card calls this a 100 foot effective smoke bomb There is a zipper down the center and two pockets one on each side and each pocket has a black buckle There are these black details on the upper right side of the vest and I wasn't sure what these were But the card art and the file card reveal these are dog biscuits The file card calls these protein enriched energy boosting dog biscuits. Yeah, right there Mutt has a couple milk bones for junkyard on his vest his arms feature long dark green sleeves and dark green Extended elbow pads. Those are really cool. Very well done. I like that a lot His forearms have caramel brown colored padding And on the right side on the inside of the forearm, there is some stitching and on the outside There are some bite marks. That's a really cool detail the file card calls this forearm padding for canine attack training It perfectly fits his specialty We finish up looking at the arms with some black gloves the waist piece features light green trousers and a black belt And a black belt buckle. There is a small black pouch on the right hip And an even smaller pouch on the left side and then there's this black detail on the left side It's hard to make out exactly what that's supposed to be. There's no listing for it on the file card But based on the card art, I think that might be a dog whistle His legs feature light green trousers with seams down the outside upper legs On the lower legs over his shins and the tops of his boots He has caramel brown padding. The file card calls this lower leg anti bite shin and foot pads There are brown straps to go around the back of the leg and those pads are over black boots There's a possible variation. Yojo.com shows this figure with tan legs Mark Balomo's ultimate guide to gi jo describes the figure as having tan pants Even though they look green in the photo. I have only found this figure with green legs I have three examples of mutt version three and they all have green legs I was able to find a sealed example of a tan mutt, but it was not a north american release It was from greece. It may have been an international exclusive I've not been able to find any sealed examples on us or canadian cards The colors on this figure are almost identical to the colors on the slaughters marauders mutt version two You have the light green dark green brown black and a blue vest I really like this coordination of colors. It shows some effort went into this figure And I really appreciate that they kept the colors from an earlier version and made smart updates This is a good figure and a believable later version of mutt Now let's look at the file card and this is where it gets a little confusing There are some unresolvable discrepancies between this file card and the two earlier versions For starters, we have a close-up portrait of mutt here along with the numbered list of the features and accessories The codename is mutt and junkyard. They are the canine officer and attack dog The file name is stanley g pearl mutter primary military specialties canine officer secondary military specialties infantry Birthplace is iceland new jersey and his grade is e five. Well, that seems wrong on the version file card His middle initial is r the rest of the information is mostly the same his primary military specialty is dog handler rather than canine officer But secondary military specialty is still infantry and the same birthplace His grade was specialist four not e five The strangeness really starts with the version two file card which changes his middle initial to g without explanation And changes his grade to e five that was copied over to the version three card It's not just that the version two file card describes some of mutt's background and his total control over dogs That does not contradict the version one card, but it almost seems like it's describing a different person The version three card talks about his long experience with junkyard and does seem to describe the same person as version one But with the initial change and the grade change from version two And the serial number for version three and version two are the same So you figure it out. Good luck. It says vehicle specialty g i joe supersonic fort america driver And that is this the vehicle slash play set for g i joe supersonic fighters It was available in 1992, but it was not in tef It was in these supersonic fighters Which was a totally different subset with an electronic sound making gimmick Why would mutt drive this this section has a quote presumably from mutt himself It says taking drugs is stupid, but dealing drugs is outright evil Somebody has to try to stop it. It might as well be me. He has nothing else to do this weekend They cut out the quote from junkyard. It said ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff ruff This paragraph says mutt and junkyard have worked together for so long They no longer need to give each other audible or visible signals It's almost as if they function as one organism on def operations Junkyard sniffs out contraband substances and sets up the bad guys So mutt can tank them down with his dual net launcher if the bad guys decide to put up a fight They better be prepared to get ripped to shreds by a howling savage beast and then they'll have to contend with the dog This is one of the better 90s file cards I like that it shows the maturity of mutt and junkyard's working relationship The inconsistencies with earlier file cards is a little confusing, but it is well written Looking at how mutt and junkyard were used in gi joe media They first appeared in revenge of cobra part one briefly. They had more of a role in part two They were trapped by destros creeping vines. They escaped and encountered shipwreck They appeared in quite a few episodes having a cute animal on the show provided a lot of opportunity for comedy Their most prominent episode was cobra's creatures in that episode cobra takes over animals And yet another harebrained plan to take over the world junkyard goes kujo on mutt It was a good way to bring in all of the animal companions in the series for one episode mutt appeared in his version two uniform in the deke mini series operation dragon fire DEF appeared in the two part story the greatest evil parts one and two In those episodes the drug kingpin headman is selling a drug called spark Both gi joe and cobra agents become addicted drugs are so evil gi joe and cobra teamed up to stop it It was a rare occasion when a character died in the cartoon Headman became a victim of his own product in the comic book series published by marvel comics Mutt and junkyard first appeared in issue number 25 They were with a team that was sent on a mission to investigate Zartan's cabin in the swamps of the florida everglades in the early appearances junkyard was not very obedient He often ran off on his own. He even befriended destro before leading cobra command into quicksand He wasn't very obedient, but he was smart also in those early appearances Mutt sometimes wore a cap that was similar to the one on his version three figure in issue number 73 Mutt appeared in his version one uniform, but it was recolored brown In future issues where he wore the version one uniform It usually had that brown color the color change looks good Mutt and junkyard were in issue number 79 buzzer slashed junkyard with a chainsaw He can always tell the bad guys because they hate dogs Fortunately junkyard recovered in issue numbers 99 through 103 Mutt junkyard and spirit got caught up in cobra's attempt to take over the town of millville While visiting mutts uncle mutt appeared in his version three uniform in issue number 124 DEF had a short run in the comic book series. They appeared in issues number 124 and 125 They shared pages with eco warriors and ninja force Honestly, it seems that the writer of the series larry hamma just wanted to get the DEF story over with so he could move on Mutt fought against cobra's attack on gi joe headquarters in issue number 131 Again in his version three uniform after that he appeared a few more times in his version one uniform Usually with the brown color looking at mutt and junkyard overall. I think the set is mostly really good I think the figure is great. The colors are not bad for law enforcement He's not camouflaged, but he's not supposed to be the use of slaughters marauders colors Is a surprising callback to an earlier figure the sculpting is sharp I like almost everything about this figure the dog biscuits on the vest are kind of silly But that's my only complaint. This thing is awesome. The accessories are better than expected too I'm not a fan of the spring-loaded missile gimmick, but this is a very creative way to use it It's a non lethal weapon for law enforcement not for combat It is unique and interesting and the light up feature is just a bonus The pistol accessory also seems more like a law enforcement weapon Some actual thought went into this accessory set junkyard is basically the same as version one But in a softer plastic and with no paint spray. I don't mind that so much I wish more gi joe accessories came in the softer plastic They would break less frequently junkyard is a character. He is as important as mutt So i'm happy to see him featured here with his original sculpt mutt was never a very important character in gi joe media But he had his moments junkyard always stole the spotlight You know what they say never work with kids or animals the 1990s was a rough decade for gi joe The whole concept of de f is a bit dated and cringy now the figures though were really good Too often I have to point out the laziness of 1990s toys But not this time some real thought and effort went into it. We looked at the eco warriors last week That's another sub team with a social message the eco warriors toys are obnoxious and gimmicky But the environmentalist message of the eco warriors has aged a lot better than the anti drug message of de f It's not that an anti drug message is necessarily bad, but we approach these issues a lot differently now That was my review of the de f mutt and junkyard I hope you enjoyed it. 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