 Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. We are back with more Cobra Convergence 7 and I have Snoova's Corner Cafe. So welcome. First of all, could you introduce yourself to everyone? Tell us everybody Who you are what you do and where to find you? My name is well, I go by Snoova, but Dave Dave's my name and I Am the writer of the blog Snoova's Corner Cafe It's a it's a GI Joe blog where I just kind of look at basically the 82 to 94 line just looking at the figures and and Not so much the vehicles. I haven't really got into that yet, but then some top 10 lists and just stuff that kind of Chronicles my thoughts on the line and stuff like that Cool So your name is Dave you go by Snoova. I know some of us don't always go by the name on our birth certificate I in fact my birth certificate is not say hooded Cobra Commander 788. So I think we're in the same category there so When did you get started with Snoova's Corner Cafe and what inspired it? Well it started It was 2019 is when the the it started going through my head to do it and Once COVID hit Being stuck at home gave me a lot of time to start moving towards it. So I think I started it in July 2020 Was that Cobra Convergence 5? 2020 I that I'm pretty sure that would have been five. Yeah Because yeah, I I what I just created it in time And I actually posted a thing on Destro and then I talked to you and then actually pulled it down and Kind of held it off and then re posted it when Cobra Convergence was going on As far as the Genesis for its starting that actually kind of goes back to you I had kind of just My collection was Star Wars GI Joe Transformers had grown to a massive proportions that was just it was too much and I just we were moving and It just made sense to let stuff go. So I started letting stuff go and I was okay with it and Then I I was on YouTube one day and it gave me a recommended video of yours of The rat and I said to myself. I thought of a rat. I go, man that vehicle sucked I wonder what about it So I watched it and I was cracking up and I agreed with you on it totally and I was like What else is this guy got so then I binge watching your videos and then that kind of was the catalyst to restart it Later on I started checking out other content that was out there and I became friends with Chris Hemsworth of GI Joe 365 and I had actually ordered some stuff from him and I think something got kind of messed up So he contacted me and then we ended up talking and then I just somewhere along the line said Yeah, I kind of would like to do something too, but I don't know what to do And he's like, what do you do? I'm like Well, I'm a writer and he's like well then you should write My wife was kind of on the same page. I must mentioned it to her and she said well, you're a writer You should write and then so that that just that was kind of it No, I said 2020 the big old break I just said I'm gonna do it and just saw being at home I just was writing like mad and then that's where it fired off with Cobra convergence 5 and it's been going ever since That that is awesome. First of all, thank you. It's nice to know somebody is watching. That's that I'm very grateful and yeah that that time period during You know 2019 2020 2021 That sparked a lot of people to start some new projects and so you've got one here You've got it going you mentioned that you had collections beyond Gijo, what kind of things do you like other than Gijo? What else kind of inspires you in that? What do you like to either collect or talk about? well the The Star Wars is where it started and then once you know Star Wars faded out Gijo was starting up So it kind of I just kind of switched tracks and then obviously Transformers Were a big part of it But Gijo, you know kept going for a long time even after I walked away It was kind of a comforting feeling knowing that it was still going, you know So I ended up kind of walking back into that world eventually But also I'm a musician as well. I'm a drummer. I play a little big guitar and stuff So I do music as well at some point. I'd like to do something content-wise with music, but I Just haven't I kind of I have a lot of focus on on this project now And I'm kind of just letting it roll and I don't know where this project will end I feel like I'll know when I get there, but I don't even feel close. I keep finding more things To talk about and it doesn't take much I could be at work and I could see a color scheme And I might say oh that looks like Light foot and then I start thinking about light foot and I'm like, you know what that it's funny This file card says this and then then it's just starts a whole thing. Okay. Well, that's the next guy. I'm writing about, you know That's that's great You're you're a musician which I think is fantastic. I am not people pay me to not sing So like musical talent is like voodoo magic to me. So congratulations on that So, yeah, you've been involved in Cobra Convergence before do you have any Special memories anything that sticks out in your mind about Cobra Convergence Yeah, I I mean last year was great I thought that that was my first time as a as a full-fledged presenter and I had put it in my head that I'm gonna check out everything everybody did and I believe I did. I mean there was a lot out there I can't I couldn't I couldn't tell you anything I missed out on but there was there was a lot of stuff Obviously, I was looking forward to what you were gonna be putting out My side of the laundry room. I knew I thought his was really cool. I think he did the monsters. Yeah Yeah, he always does cool stuff and I think there was No, okay. I apologize to ever whoever's channeled is by no whoever had I think was far point collectibles on there and Talking about the schemes of Cobra. Yeah, that was that a couple times. That was peg warmers. Yeah Yeah, our friend Kevin from peg warmers. Yeah, that's I love that show and love that dude. Yeah So that was one of my favorites. Like I said, I listened and watched that one a couple times That's that's awesome. Yeah, that's awesome So but with my own I had fun with the eel thing. We were going on a vacation To the beach and so I'm like this is perfect. I'm taking that eel with me And so I got some pictures of him on the beach and stuff That that's awesome. I was actually gonna ask you to talk about what you did last year So you rolled right into it. Yeah Now for those who are watching we are recording this well in advance of the time that you will see it So we're recording this before Cobra Convergence starts, but I'll put you on the spot Do you have thoughts ideas or inspirations yet at this point at this early stage for what you might do for Cobra Convergence 7? I do I actually Back in January because that's what I actually looked up when you contacted me for six And it was in January. So I was like, okay I need to be ready because if I get that call that you know, then then I need to get things fired up so I already had my brain kind of churning and I Had something in mind. I don't know if I should I even say it or well at the time people see this It should be up so you wouldn't be spoiling anything. Okay. All right I mean, I guess it could change. I've got it. I had two main things in the works But right now I'm I mean either one I think both of them will will be up at that time But the one I'm looking at is the crimson guards looking at the four different crimson guards that came out Right now. The only problem is I still don't have the Python crimson guard. I have the other three That one's kind of hard because he's not a favorite figure Honey, so it's not like Wow Tricky one, you know, I Don't know. So I've thought about some different ways to go around that But I might end up getting them. I've I've looked at it on eBay several times. I haven't pulled the trigger yet They're like to go to an Indian. I'm hoping they have it. Maybe I Work out a deal or something. Well may the force be with you. Yeah, that's that one's special And it's okay if it changes, you know what if it changes and people don't end up seeing what you talk about here That just stokes controversy and that's how you become famous on the internet. So it works either way Either way, so but I'm looking forward to To seeing what you do. I'll I always do And thank you again for participating a second year in a row and I hope that you will come back Let's let's fire some softball question. No, not softball. Let's fire some hardball questions There we go. Put you on the hot seat Do you have a favorite Cobra since we're Cobra themed is there a Cobra character that Speaks to you the most That's a hard question I'd say that like as far as looks go when Firefly came out. It was just wow And I think that that camo pattern the accessories just as job way does I think he is such a cool character Unfortunately, I was not on board with the whole lime green night ninja thing place later That kind of that kind of took him down a little notch. Sometimes I try to ignore that that part exists I don't think that was necessarily a bad figure, but I Don't see where anybody in their mind would say, you know what I want to stand out a little bit more when I'm doing my It's probably the way to go That's that's for when he's infiltrating Nickelodeon, you know Nickelodeon studios. He's like has to wear the lime green Yeah, yeah on the other hand also Zartan was great and then as far as like army builders I really liked the alley viper even though he also was loud I always I thought his the shield was cool in the in the rifle There's something about that rifle even though it's got the weird offset clip I always thought that guy was cool and as soon as I saw that classified was doing him I'm like because I'm getting classified kind of sparingly. I'm getting favorites But when I saw that they were doing him, I'm like, okay, I've got to do out I got to buy that figure so Allie viper has a lot of fans There are a lot of people drawn to that figure another one of our Cobra convergence collaborators Joe motion videos 82 alley viper favorite figure. So yeah people dig that one. Yes It's it's loud as crazy, but people are just drawn to it. I think that's amazing Yeah, it is a weird figure even I can say that but there's something about it. I like Uh, you mentioned you kind of already talked a little bit about um, how you got into gi joe But let's expand that a little bit. Um, can you talk about like your early gi joe experiences and kind of what it meant to you When you were a young person kind of in it for the first time Sure. Um, well, uh, I still remember uh going to uh, I think well, I think it was called airway But it became target But that's where I get my star wars figures and I remember being down the toile and just seeing all these gi joe figures And the there was a lot of hype with uh, like commercials coming out and I'm just kind of like Yeah, I don't know, you know, and I remember looking at them and I thought that the Accessories looked so much more like intricate than the star wars were star wars. A lot of times, you know, they just had the one gun Sometimes it wasn't even accurate to their character Not saying it wasn't cool, but sometimes it just wasn't the same and then, um Breaker was my first figure, which actually was your first figure. Yeah. Yeah. Yes Yeah, I think the reason I got him was because he had the backpack and you put the The headset on his helmet and the connected backpack and it was just like wow star wars don't have anything like that yeah, and uh So that was my first figure and then I think for christmas. I got the vamp and the howl and a couple other things And uh, I had this weird theme When I first started getting them of getting figures that didn't have weapons I mean breaker didn't have guns clutch didn't have guns Grand slam didn't have guns and then by the time series two rolled around my first figure's trip wire He didn't have guns So I'm just kind of like what's up? I have a bunch of gi joe figures that have no weapons Um, but but that changed eventually. I uh got a couple others, you know, obviously kept growing um, but the gi joe line, uh was so unique in the fact that um The the stuff went together, you know, like um, uh, for for example the uh, the headquarters Um, and actually I didn't even know how intricate that was until I watched your video on it I had no idea that the flak could fit in there and I had the boat And so I'm like, ah or the uh, the uh, snowball bill. I had no idea that give in there too. So So it's cool that you could kind of piece things together as you wanted and and everything so I kind of think it left a little more to the imagination You know let your imagination run a little bit more But again one of the things for me is and and I think it's funny that the slogan is gi joe is there because for me It was there. You know star wars. It just kind of died unfortunately And transformers in my opinion came and then went and star and gi joe kept going And um, then like I said, there was you know, I got to high school and I started getting into music and stuff like that and I Okay, I need to be done with this now. So took a break and uh, it was it was still there gi joe is still there And so I would find myself every now and then going down the toy. I was kind of like See what they're doing now, you know flint battles, you know ecological warfare problems now, you know It was it was weird. So but my curiosity was still there and I always read the comics I never gave up on the comics even when I was collecting figures. I kept reading the comics I tried to stop but my curiosity kept going so um So I just kept going with that and then uh, eventually it just came time. I was out of high school Uh, one of my best friends actually uh had got his first house and I was visiting He was showing me around the house and he we walked into this room And he said, you know what this room's gonna be and I said no and he goes It's gonna be my toy room. I'm gonna start collecting star wars again And I'm like Well, you can collect star wars. I can collect gi joe. So I'm going back and then about that time They cancelled gi joe So But that's okay. That was okay because it made it easier to go back and get stuff rather than Keep going Because I came back in 93 So it was hard to get all the new stuff and at the same time try to get the old stuff But uh, yeah, so So you you came back in 93. Is that when you um Became like a collector. Um So that but that's still pretty early on that was uh, uh, the line was Still had a little bit to go. So, um, so you're a veteran. You're a veteran collector Yeah, I was there all the way back in 82 when it started so Yeah, um, and I think it's interesting that It seems like almost everyone who started in 82 their first figure was either Breaker or flash I should we should Do a survey or something because there seems to be like Maybe there's like a personality Difference between the breakers and the flashes, but I think that's that's fascinating. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know Thought about that. So you you started back in 93. So when you picked it up back in 93, um It was very different. I mean from the way it was in 82 Um, what do you remember from back then? Uh, because I think a lot of us Me included didn't come back into it until much much later. Yeah Um, 93 it was it was again one of those kind of, uh, you know, just happened to be in the toy aisle and and uh, I had saw the crimson guard commander and, um The artwork was cool. I thought the artwork was cool even though he doesn't have the gun he has in the picture But um, yeah, I thought I thought I looked at it and it has the, uh, sculpted Cobra symbol and stuff and I thought wow, this is this is still pretty cool and he's red. He's you know, he's not yellow Um, so I was kind of like I think that was the first one I bought re-bought, you know, kind of kind of that kicked it off And then I know that I got like the green heat viper and stuff and stuff, you know, shortly after and he had all the green weapons and On one hand, there's something cool about it. And on the other hand, there's something very bizarre about it Um And again, it goes back to I like it But I don't know it's still different. I there's something different. It was different about sci-fi's lime green than there was uh with the heat viper one, but um I don't know. Maybe it makes sense to I don't know it makes sense to me. Probably no one else, but um But it was it was still fun. There was still like I said gi jo was there. I liked a lot of the ideas Um, I actually liked a lot of star brigade figures um The alien thing again was a weird twist on it What I didn't expect but uh, yeah, you know, it's like so I don't know. Um When uh, and then they cancelled it and then I remember being kind of like, why do I do now? So That that about the time though. I started getting back into star wars. Um That's they traded they traded hands, you know and right at 82 or 83 was the last star wars movie and it kind of ended for me there Well 82 was the first line of first year of gi jo Now you're flipping it the opposite way where 94 is the last year gi jo and star wars starts again in 95 so I kind of went back that direction But I still kept getting gi jo stuff as I could find it and the good thing was is back in 95 wanted it One of the weirdest things for me was I didn't even know about night force I didn't have a choice rest near me. So I totally missed the boat on that And so did my friends that I grew up with nobody was talking about nobody knew anything about it um, I was at a toy shop uh couple About an hour away from where I live and they had a box it was like a Girl scout cookie box just full of figures and I found two night force figures in there I think they were like a buck a piece and the guy I felt like he was inviting people to steal them And the guy didn't like me either because because when I came in I'm looking at the cheap stuff where my My one of my best friends bobby. He's looking at all the star wars stuff Which is you know all the all the rage at the time again. And so this guy He's kind of like hey take your take your figures. I'm like, I will It was a good opportunity for me to to really kind of advance my collection, you know I think a lot of us wish we had started back then considering the inflation of Prices since then I think that uh the the idea of Coming across a couple night force figures in a box is quite tantalizing. Yeah But they they did They did kind of bring out gi joe again in I think around 97 They started uh issuing some recolored, you know reissued stuff not new but kind of putting out some new stuff there Did you did you get into any of that? Um, did when it came back around kind of as a nostalgia product? I I actually didn't I I wanted to but like um, Whether it was like a stars and stripes set or something. I think yeah, I was looking like the skin tones looked all off. Yeah It wasn't all the original figures and it was like it was such a good idea, but I felt like somebody kind of Missed something along the line, you know, like I don't know So much care went into the beginning That it seemed like whatever was going on now that same consideration wasn't being taken. It was almost like Yeah, you know, hey, let's make a few extra bucks, you know or something, you know, we got these molds or something So I really didn't um I uh Once the 2007 figures came out uh for the 25th. I grabbed Quite a few of those um, and that was kind of funny because I was actually working nights and uh Some we got done really early and um Supervisors said hey, I don't need to go home. I'm like, all right. Bye So I just went to walmart because I'm like, wow, it's You know, I'm still wide awake and everything and I feel like, you know, I'm not gonna go home and sleep now You know, I don't know so I went out to walk. I I didn't know they were even that was a thing I I just was like, where did these come from? So Yeah, I had I think I bought snake eyes and storm shadow right there and that and I Uh, I I grabbed a couple others But they kept going with it and and I was starting to get Again, it was kind of when I was at that overwhelmed stage and I was like I don't know how much more Stuff I could just keep adding you live Yeah, it was just it was I did get to yeah So I was yeah, I was wondering um if I mean since you've been a collector since so far back. I was wondering Uh, if you continued and picked up some of the new stuff, but it does sound like you got into the 25th anniversary Um, and I guess that was gi joe for quite a while until more recently Um, so and you mentioned you you pick up Classified here and there Anything new that you like to pick up? What do you look for if you're looking down the toy aisle for for gi joe? um Well, the classified like I said, I was just kind of grabbing favorites. The the price point was pretty high Um or is pretty high. Yeah, but um, I have been lucky and have Scored a couple of these latest figures on clearance. I don't know what's going on with that, but I'm not going to argue it Um, I did miss dusty though. I I couldn't get dusty at the time So I kind of stowed him away and I came back for him. He was gone. So I was that's kind of bummed about that um, but the otherwise, um The uh gi joe those jada Dike and a bigger ones. Those are amazing. I wish I've got all three of the ones I wish they just I wish they'd go gangbusters with that. I think I'd probably buy them all. Um Because I really liked uh back in the day, um, the star wars action fleet and they had the small vehicles with the small figures I thought that was a really cool line Um, and I wish uh, they would kind of do something like that with gi joe Classified, you know, it's a it's such a big footprint on your shelves. Yeah um And those those jada sets those are those are really cool Um, I would I would like to remind everybody snuva's corner cafe is presenting for cobra convergence seven There will be a link In the description of this video so you can go straight there and check it out by the time you see this This should this will go up on the same day as snuva's corner cafes Cobra convergence seven content. So uh skip on over there Please right away as soon as we're done here wait till we're done But then when we're done Skip on over there. Make sure you check them out. Um, and check out like you've been you've been doing this now for a while So you have a significant back catalog. So Um, so go check that out. Um, can you tell people? If they do check out your back catalog, what can they expect to see? Um, like I said, I've uh, I've done top 10 lists and stuff like that Which is really fun. Another thing that I do that, uh, I think is fun Uh, personally is that there's a couple childhood friends that I grew up with That also collected gi joe and I do a thing called one word reviews with them Uh, a long time ago one of my friends that moved away would uh when subsequent gi joe lines would come out He would send me a list of the figures and a one word thought on each one So I've challenged these other buddies of mine that you could only use one word and you can't reuse it And I think it's been kind of easy, but now it's the we're getting ready to do series six now I think and the line's growing. So they got the birds. So there's more there's more of a challenge to it and stuff and You're gonna have to pick up a thesaurus. You're gonna run out of words. Exactly. Yeah, you can only say awesome or stupid ones You know Series six there's both Uh, that that is awesome. I hope everybody uh, checks out to the snooves corner cafe again link is in the description And we are about out of time. So before we wrap up I would like to turn the floor over to you for any last Last minute comments you would like to uh, give to our audience Um, I don't know. I thank everybody for uh joining in. I thank all the presenters I thank you for all the people that check out the content Um, it's cool to connect with other collectors. It's it's fun to uh bounce things off of one another about um, maybe why a certain figures, uh, Is cool or important to you? Um, whereas, you know, maybe another one's not or uh, you know, just any of that, uh, it's it's it makes for a fun connection The gi joe community is really tight and that's part of what kind of helped pull me back Is I was like wow these people are just like me You know, I'm like we're all kind of we all have a common thread that runs through our lives You know, I mean we all do different things But uh, again, it goes back to gi joe is there, you know, and it again, it's it's there and it's cool whenever You know, I meet even meet somebody, you know one of my co-workers just you know one time We were talking and I just said something about gi joe and he's like I used to have the mobile command center And I'm like I didn't and there's a conversation, you know, and so it's just cool. It's it's a fun thing I think everybody should Take time to try to check out as much of it as you possibly can because as fun as I think mine is For me, there's so much awesome Hooded cobra commander on on sundaes is part of my sunday ritual I get off work, you know, if I if I work sundaes I get off at six That's right about the time the video goes on perfect timing So yeah, I really enjoy it. It's fun And uh, I thank everybody for being a part of it, uh, whether it's my blog or just the gi joe community or anything It's a good time Well, thank you for being a part of it and thank you for taking some time to talk with me We will wrap it up there. I'll remind everybody. Go check out snooves corner cafe Thanks for joining us and uh cobra