 Yukon Cornelius 81 asks, if you were stranded on an island, what two Joes would you want with you and why? Two Joes, I would want outback because he's a survivalist and so you would help help us survive on a deserted island and then the other Joe I would like Scarlet and I would just sit back and watch those two redheads tear each other apart. World Warrior 7 asks, what's the first figure you didn't like as a kid? I remember not liking torpedo. That was one that I did not care for at the time. This torpedo didn't love it, did not love it. Okay, GI Bros. says, what do you do with figures you can't repair? I usually put them in a box and use them as parts. Yeah, pretty much. I mean, I have some bags of parts or things that either I couldn't repair or I just haven't had the opportunity to try to repair yet. So yeah, I have a like lots of parts that are just random and tossed in there and some of them are broken. I'll just never be able to do anything with them. I have a hard time throwing them out though. It's very hard for me to throw away any vintage item even if it's broken. That's a tough thing for me to do. Max Rebo's Ghost's Music says, what are the toy lines you'd like as a kid? And I mentioned this earlier. I like Star Wars, I like Transformers, I like Mask. If I were to choose any others, I remember liking the Rambo Force of Freedom toy line for a while and I liked Centurions for a little while. Definitely not nearly as much appeal as GI Joe, but I liked them. I had a few of them. What would have been your favorite if GI Joe didn't exist? Well, I probably would have stuck with Star Wars since that's kind of how I started out. Like most of us about my age, start out with Star Wars and then GI Joe comes along. So it probably would have been Star Wars. Was there any toy line you wished you had as a kid but didn't? I didn't have any He-Man in the Master of the Universe and now I kind of wish that I did. My parents didn't like it so they didn't get any of them for us so I didn't have any. But looking back at it now, I like it for reasons that are totally the opposite of GI Joe. I mean it is the opposite of realistic but it's just goofy and fun. And I think if I had them as a kid I think I would have enjoyed them but I didn't have any. David Neal Soriente says, if you could have had the chance to design a Joe or Cobra vehicle, tank, aircraft, boat, etc., what would you like to have had made? Okay, what would I have liked if I could have designed one? I would have liked to have the Cobra cargo helicopter that we saw in the comic book all the time. It always showed that thing, it looked really cool, wanted that vehicle, we never got it. So that's one that I would have done. Name your top five file card stories. So that is a hard question. So I did some thinking and the fives that I could come up with that stand out in my mind as kind of my favorites would be Keele Hall because it has just a lot of historical information in there. Jung Ho because it paints him as a real badass. Buzzer because it's just so quirky and really interesting. You could write a novel based on Buzzer's background. It's really that fascinating. Lady J just because her education background and her abilities with languages and all that I find really fascinating. And then Serpentor, oddly enough. I really liked all of the historical references in Serpentor's file card. The character was never my favorite, the figure was never my favorite, but the file card I thought was really well written. Name your top five mustaches in G.I. Joe and Cobra. I would have to go, well, Mindbender, Dr. Mindbender. Rekondo has a pretty wicked mustache. Torch from the Dreadknocks, Ambush and Bazooka. It's tough to narrow it down though because there are some pretty spectacular mustaches in G.I. Joe. Hezekiah St. Raven says if you could go back in time and stop Hasbro from creating one character, what would it be? But wait, there's more to this. You are from the future. You know how things will work out for the Joe line. You must keep in mind that the repercussions of your choice, perhaps removing one character from the line can make everything better. E.g. as a toy line, perhaps removing sci-fi may lessen the amount of future neon figures. Or canonically removing Dr. Mindbender would also remove Serpentor, which would in turn remove all of the Cobra law, etc. Okay, that's an interesting question. And despite the fact that I just said that I like Serpentor's file card, I think I would remove Serpentor from the line. And the reason for that is because that's where the whole Cobra law thing started. Because somebody at Hasbro decided they needed a Cobra emperor and so it was going to be either one that was created by Cobra or one that was some outside influence that influenced Cobra. And they ended up going with both of them. So if they had scrapped that whole concept, the whole Cobra emperor concept, and just kept Cobra commander as the leader of Cobra, it would have avoided Cobra law. It would have avoided all the cringe worthy moments in the animated movie. So even though I like Serpentor's file card and I thought it turned out okay in the comic book, I would have done away with Serpentor. I would keep Dr. Mindbender because I like the idea of the bad guys having a mad scientist that creates all these weird technologies. I think that's okay, but Serpentor I could have lived without. Rudy says I can just stick with his first name. So I'm going to stick with your first name, Rudy. So Rudy asks, hey, HCC7888, I hope you are well. Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thank you. Late Merry Christmas to you. One question is what do you think can be done to help the GI Joe brand be great again as it once was? Or are those days gone? I know the Bayformers helped Transformers be alive again. Do you think the same thing could happen to help GI Joe? For that I think, you know, I really think they need to start fresh. And I think that the next generation of GI Joe fans are not going to be real American hero fans. There's got to be a new GI Joe, something totally different. Nostalgia only gets you so far. And I think we've gone about as far as nostalgia can get us in GI Joe now. I think it is time for something new. Second question is what was HCC7888's favorite food and any more bloopers? Those were a lot of fun. Favorite food? I like Indian food. That's really good. Yeah, I like Indian food. I also like a good burger, like a good burger. Not just like some McDonald's burger, but a good burger. But I've actually got to cut back on those. That's a New Year's resolution. More bloopers, there will be more bloopers to come, trust me, because I mess up a lot. And, you know, Susan and I, we have fun doing it. So there will be more bloopers in the future. Another question is for fans of GI Joe, they're considering collecting ventures to 80s and 90s. Joe's could help us tell from the originals to the knockoffs. Because I saw recently there's a knockoff version of 85 Ventures Storm Shadow. It'd be great if you could. It's cool if you can't. Okay, and this is where he says I can just use his first name, Rudy. Okay. You know, that's a good question. I don't know of a practical way to be able to guide you through all of the knockoffs, other than just trying to show you as close as I can. This is the real vintage item and the variants. And if you have something that looks different from that, well, it could be an international version or it could be a knockoff. But that's probably the closest I can do to helping with that. Isaac Wilson asks a number of questions. What's your holy grail? That would be the 1982 Cobra Missile Command headquarters. What's the best reproduction stickers out there? It's been a while since I've gotten reproduction stickers. Last time I got them it was from Cobra Stickers and they worked just fine. I need a couple more sets of reproduction stickers, so I may pick up some more in the future and I'll let you know. Will you add any prototypes to your collection? I don't plan to. Again, it's outside the scope of my collection. I'm trying to stay narrowly focused. What do you think about reproduction parts? I think they're fine placeholders, but I want to get the original parts. I could have a reproduction part, but it would just be something that is standing in for the original until I can get the original. It's not complete until it has the original parts and not repro. If Hasbro asked you what one GI Joe figure or vehicle could be remade, what would you pick and why? The killer whale. I'd love to see that again. Even though I don't get modern stuff, I would consider picking up a killer whale. I mean, I have picked up some modern vehicles before I got the 2015 Silent Strike because I wanted to get the Gary Goggle's figure with it. But I would probably pick up a modern killer whale if they ever did that one. That would be really cool. If Hasbro asked you what one GI Joe figure, okay, you ought to ask that. Okay, last question. Any experience with chrome plating to restore sky patrol figures? I have no experience with that at all. If I ever get any experience with that, I will let you know. But I don't know anything about that. Trent Avery asks, have a couple questions for your upcoming Q&A video. One, what GI Joe's from the 90s do you find most impressive? There are some really good figures from the 90s. Well, I liked Ambush. I'm kind of liking Bulletproof from DEF. I like some of the later versions of Hawk. And there are several, you know, there are several really good 90s figures. So it's not all bad in the 90s at all. So yeah, so there's some good ones. And two, would you consider doing a review of the GI Joe 12 inch holofame action figures? I don't plan to just because it's outside the scope of my collection. And so, I mean, maybe if I picked one up at some point, I might consider doing it like just for a special occasion. Kind of like when I did the 1964 GI Joe action soldier. I would consider doing something like that. I just don't have any plans to do that right now. Carol Wack says, what other toy lines were favorites besides obvious GI Joe and Star Wars? Well, if I can say Star Wars, then of course mask and transformers. I liked Rambo for a while, Centurions for a little while. I really liked the cartoon for the Centurions. Also, I liked Secret Wars because I was a big fan of Marvel Comics and I was wanting to get some, you know, close to GI Joe scale Marvel Comics figures. And so that's what we had at the time. They're not great figures, but I still like them just because I really was happy to get some Marvel Comics figures. So I liked Secret Wars and Go-Bots. Actually, I didn't mind Go-Bots. I liked Transformers War, but Go-Bots were okay. Michael Brewer. What if GI Joe was canceled and stopped after 1982? Just the originals were made. Would you still be a fan? Man, well, that's a tough question. I was a fan back then, so I have to assume I would still be a fan of them today. But I definitely wouldn't be as much of a fan and probably wouldn't be doing YouTube videos about them because there just wouldn't be as much to talk about. I mean, you wouldn't have a lot of the figures that really made the line great. There's no gung-ho. There's no Baroness. There's no Destro. So, yeah, I would still probably appreciate and remember them well. But it's hard to be a fan of only the 1982 toy line because I feel like the line did improve over the next few years. John Paul Arradondo says, Will you ever review Steel Brigade Gold Head this coming year? Well, I definitely want to review the Gold Head Steel Brigade. I don't think I'm going to get to it in 2017. Looking at the schedule and looking at just my ability to acquire one is going to take longer than that. You know, that's a higher-end figure. I have to get it complete with all the accessories and the file card. So, it's going to take some time. It could happen in 2017, but it doesn't seem too likely right now. John Perry, what about a figure or vehicle you wanted as a kid but never got? As a kid, I did not have the Sky Striker. My friend Sam had a Sky Striker. We would play with it all the time. I really wanted my own and I never really had one of my own. And so now I do. I have one and I'm really excited about that. But I didn't have one of my own as a kid. Just the one that our friend had and of course we played with it all the time. Zazzil Logan Phoenix says, Can we get a Marauder's Slaughter's review? Yes, of course. I would love to review Slaughter's Marauder's Sergeant Slaughter. It's, I think, my favorite from that sub-team. I don't have one yet, so it's going to take some time, but eventually I will do it. I just don't know when. All right. They Gone says, Are there any Joes that just got away? You know, that figure, you could just kick yourself or not getting that you could have gotten. Well, as a kid, I never had SnakeEye's Version 1. Always wanted it. Never found it on the shelves, at least when I had the money to buy it. That was frustrating. Friends had it. I never had SnakeEye's Version 1. Of course, when SnakeEye's Version 2 came out, I was all over that. But as an adult collector, there are some times when I should have picked up some Starduster versions. When they came up, they were at a good price, but I didn't pull the trigger on them. I do have one version of Starduster. I need to get the others in order to be ready to review it. And I could have done it, but I didn't. And sometimes I wish I had. So that's one that I'd like to get in the near future. Deke Winsome says, I love your videos. Thank you. He says, Now, when will you review the finest GI Joe figure of them all? SnakeEye's Version 4. I don't know. It is one that I know that I need to get to and has been requested. I'm still looking at a way to fit them into the schedule next year. But I know that's a big one. I know. By the way, if you ask me to review a figure and it's like your favorite figure of all time, be prepared for me to maybe not love it as much as you do. I may have a different perspective and maybe you won't like what I end up having to say about it. And I hate that. I don't like to disappoint people. But I'm always going to give you my honest and unvarnished opinion in every review. But I can guarantee you that I'm going to get to all of them. That's the goal. That's the whole point of the channel. I will get to them. I'm not sure on that one, but that one's a slightly higher priority. That's one that I'd like to get to as soon as I can. He also asks, Does Mrs. HCC788 know about this Q&A? If so, will she be fielding all Sergeant Slaughter questions? And how many questions can we ask? Yeah, she knows about it. She could have answered a Sergeant Slaughter question if you had asked one. Apparently, I didn't put any limit on how many questions you can ask, so people are asking lots of questions. But you didn't ask any additional questions. So, oh wait, no, here we go. Here we go. He did ask questions. Here we go. He says, You seem to not like the 90s very much, other than the bright ugly colors, stupidity gimmicks, lame file cards, and generally low quality. What's so bad about the 90s? If not for every other era of Joe, they'd be my favorite. I see what you did there. He also says, Also, I know you don't get political, but after this diverse election, divisive election cycle, wow, I can't read. After this divisive election cycle, I think your fans deserve to know Coke or Pepsi. Pepsi. Always been a Pepsi guy. I loved the Pepsi. The last few questions I have include Mrs. Hooded Cobra Commander 788, so I brought Susan in here to answer these questions. Are you ready? I'm ready. All right, here we go. The first one from Playful asks, or says, As well as being informative, your videos are also fun to watch because they are entertaining with small skits and special effects. Thank you. Which leads me to ask this question. Which of your humorous skits or special effects was the most difficult to create and what was your favorite, or was it your favorite? The most difficult to create was the back to the sci-fi, the back to the future skit. That was really hard. You know, I had multiple characters on screen at the same time, had to sync them up. Really hard to do. My favorite, though, was probably, was the introduction to Cobra Convergence. That one's still my favorite. And then he says, the blooper reel suggests that Mrs. Hooded Cobra Commander 788 has as much fun as you do acting in some of those. So I would welcome her comments as well as yours on this topic. So the hardest one and most favorite. My hardest was the back to the future. It took so long to do because I kept on laughing. But it was really fun. But I don't... My favorite would probably be the weed eater because that lawn really had to be done. And that was fun just griping at it. Yeah, that was a good one. I like that one. Okay. Bjorn Jacob Benanesen says to Mrs. HCC 788, did you know about G.I. Joe toys slash comics slash cartoon when you were a kid? Did you have any brothers or neighborhood friends that played with Joes? If so, did you ever play with them? What was your favorite toy line when you were a kid? Merry Christmas to you both and your family. Best wishes from Norway. I did know about G.I. Joe. My brother had a few toys and he didn't have any play sets, I don't think. But he had a plane. I forgot what it is. But we would end up playing as kids. G.I. Joe and Star Wars combined. And it was fun. But my favorite toy line was Rainbow Bright. And I had that doll and that horse forever and then Mom gave it away. And you can't find them in good shape anymore. That's how it happens. I know. Mom always gives them away. She ruins it all. Come on, Mom. Okay. Next question from Travis Miller. He says, how big was your collection when you met your wife or did you start to collect after you got married? Mrs. HCC, did you ask to be in videos first or did Mr. HCC have to convince you to be in them? First, I didn't have a collection when we got together. I only started collecting a few years ago and we've been together a lot longer than that. So, it's something that I started doing more recently. So, the question for you is did I have to convince you to be in the videos or did you ask me? I didn't have to be convinced he asked me and I thought it would be fun. So I joined him. And it was fun. It's been fun. And then I think there's one more question from Delios the Greek. For Mrs. HCC 788, how do you feel about the current state of Mr. HCC 788's collection, i.e. has it expanded and taken up too much space in your residence? Not anymore. We moved and so it took up, it actually took more space, but we have more space now to use. Um, it's, collection's been fine and he can keep it for now. Great. I'm sure you'll find more space somewhere. I'll find a space for it. It'll all fit. So that was it. We got to all the questions. I'm pretty sure I got everybody's question. I hope I didn't miss any. I don't think that I did. But thank you all for asking the questions. Also thank you for watching every week. I really appreciate it. And thanks to Susan for helping me out and being a good sport about everything. And so, you don't want to say bye to everybody? Bye. Bye. Goodbye 2016 and we will see you all next year.