 Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here and it is time to open this boxed vintage GI Joe Cobra C-ray, which was sent to me by Mike Lopez. Thank you very much Mike. This was incredibly kind of you and Mike sent it to me for the purpose of Opening it and assembling it and that's what we're going to do now I understand that you guys who like to keep your toys meant in sealed box Might be triggered so trigger warning you might not want to watch this video So I just oh my god. I cannot believe it cannot believe it actually going to open this actually I already opened the box. Yeah, I already opened this box For a specific reason I had reasons to suspect that this box had been opened before and Re-sealed and after I opened it. I confirmed that this box at some point Had been open. The reason that I know Is because some of the vintage tape that stringy tape that they used to use on the boxes That was folded under and there was some clear tape over it. That was definitely not vintage And once I opened the box first of all everything is here Everything that's supposed to be sealed in a factory bag is still sealed. That's cool But I did notice that there were like little cobwebs on some of the parts in the box and also one of the parts is Significantly discolored now. I'm just informing you of this so you know what you're going to see today I'm not complaining Mike's gift was extremely generous and I'm very happy to receive it and I'm thrilled to open this This is something I didn't have this will fill a spot in the collection. It will be reviewed in the future There is one part that I will replace because it is somewhat discolored You'll see what I mean when I open this up and put it together But I just wanted to let you know and again Mike. Thank you very much. Absolutely not complaining about this I am going to love putting this together I don't want to show it to you and the figure is still sealed So nobody's touched the figure but with that explanation out of the way Let's open this up and put it together. Okay I have the tools I will likely need to assemble this vehicle So let's open it up to take it out and put it together I'm going to open it here from the end that's already opened the other end is still sealed with that factory tape I'm going to take out the main parts of the body first Which are just kind of loose in the box Then I'm going to take out. We've got some paperwork the ephemera here There are the blueprints and instruction sheet which we will follow the live the adventure This is kind of fun operation space station I don't want to spend too much time on these But these were kind of fun cool things that you always got with the vehicles And then the catalog for that year. This is the 1987 catalog with all of the figures and vehicles that were out that year So set that stuff aside. We will need the instruction sheet. So let me go ahead and unfold that Get it opened up. There we go And now let's finish taking the rest of it out There is the The canopy that is sealed in the bag Here are all the other parts Missiles and whatnot and the sticker sheet all still sealed And now we got to take the figure out and the figure is on a cardboard Yeah, there we go There we go the cardboard insert So that is everything So I'm going to set this the box aside so it doesn't get in our way It's a cool box though some of that nice vintage 80s G.I. Joe box art very very nice And I'm going to save the figure actually probably for last so I'll set the figure aside for now as well And let's start with step number one Step number one a says turn pod top. Where's the pod top this turn it over? and Fit top of engine between ribs in pod top now the engine I believe is in here So we got to start out by opening this sealed bag Trigger warning everyone. This is opening a vintage factory sealed bag. It's too late to go back now I just opened it So let's pull this stuff out here There's the sticker sheet and it's It's a little sticky This may have been stored in some heat and some some of the glue may have melted a little bit But all the stickers appear to be there. Let's set those aside Let's pull out the Missiles and guns on the plastic free We have other parts here parts of the fin and whatnot Okay, now It appears that This aside so it doesn't get in the way it appears that this is the engine And the engine goes how does it go? See that is the back and it goes toward the front I mean orient it the way it is in the instructions And it goes like this. I see exactly how it goes So that fits in that those little slots there Perfectly we have an engine And then step 1b turn pod bottom Over I guess we're supposed to keep this upside down the pod bottom over Fit exhaust tab near rear of pod top and snap Snap Four tabs into place make sure rear exhaust is completely Closed. Okay. I see that's the rear exhaust Let's see there are okay. I see the Clips Let's see here. Let's see if we can get these Snapped on okay, so that is together. You really got to make sure these four tabs are snapped into place But that appears to complete step one now step two requires us to open the bag in which the Canopy is sealed and we will have to take the guns off of the plastic tree So another factory sealed bag bites the dust There's that piece And we have a plastic out of the way There are the guns Let's snip those off carefully Looks like that's the best way to do it Yeah, there we go Nice clean cuts All right, I guess when I do a review of this and you can see The parts close up in HD then I guess you can decide if you think they're nice clean cuts So let's see the hollow side of the gun goes on the inside And this is the top so It's just snaps together on a mushroom clip Look like Careful now Oh, it's Got to be firm with it but Always cautious about being firm with this vintage plastic So i'm trying to Gently add the force that's needed but also do it so you can see what i'm doing So there we go guns are on and they kind of pivot upward like that Okay, so The next step is Oh, I guess the guns have a left and right Mark on them I didn't look at that but based on the diagram that is correct and how it goes So the left is on the left one the right is on the right one So now we put the canopy on like Like really carefully this is one of those Clips that's got like three teeth on it And so you got to be careful not to Break any of those teeth off. Otherwise it will not work at all And this is going to require Some caution. Oh, okay. All right. It's supposed to go up like this That's the thinner angle And snap it on Okay, guys I had a positive video just for a minute because the plastic clips for the canopy just were not giving enough To allow me to put the canopy on and I did not want to break them So I used an old trick using a hot hairdryer To soften the plastic just blow hot air on it for maybe 30 seconds Softens it just enough and now the canopy fits on there just fine And it even closes Like that no problem at all But yeah, if I hadn't done that I did worry about breaking those plastic tabs Okay Step three says turn main wing Upside down. This is the main wing And this is the part that is discolored If you can compare those colors you can see what I mean There is significant yellowing on this part. It almost looks sun damaged I don't know that it was actually left out in the sun or not These kind of light blue parts Do tend to yellow on their own over time, but exposure to sunlight And sometimes the heat will accelerate that process And that seems to have happened with this So I will eventually replace this part, but I'm gonna go ahead and assemble this for now Because this will this will be absolutely fine for our purposes today So it says the I need the control panel Which is apparently this I guess that's a control panel I'm supposed to turn this upside down Um Then okay, it slide the exhaust Into a main panel into holes in wing as shown. So this is the exhaust It seems to go like this And it fits In Here Oh, yeah like that Does it snap into place? It looks like maybe it just wedges into place. It's hard to tell. Let's see here again. We are not wanting to Break anything We want to be gentle with the old toys Oh, there we go. Oh, that was easy. That was easy. Okay, uh that parts and then Let's see Okay snap tabs on control panel into holes as shown Uh, this is the control panel And uh, let's see it goes this way Snap into holes as shown Make sure I'm orienting that right Correct As long as the diagram is correct, then I am doing it the right way Okay, uh into holes this black plastic is a little more flexible It's not quite as worried about that. Is that actually snapped in almost? Let's be careful with it There we go snap one Oh There we go almost almost got to make sure it snapped into place I'm not worried about the black plastic at all. I'm more worried about the gray plastic That's discolored because this discolored plastic Does seem to also be more brittle than the uh the Plastic that's not discolored. So that is that okay turn wing right side up slide Tab on rudder wing Into notch on main wing and snap into place So it goes how it goes. Let me see Okay, I think I see how it goes Okay, I see I see how it goes. Once again, um, I'm gonna be a little bit cautious with the old plastic Uh, the black plastic seems to be more on the Uh Soft or bendier side There. Oh, it's just perfect snapped right into place. Okay That part is done. Um, and I hope you don't feel like I'm being too rough with the plastic I can assure you I am being as gentle as I can while still making sure that it gets assembled So step four is basically to attach the one-man glider to the The submarine part of the sea ray and the way it says to do it is to hook these hooks On that bar and then snap it into place. But this is getting awfully scary Uh, and I'm concerned about once again breaking the plastic Um And so I may have to do the blow dryer trick again Which means I may need to pause the video again Okay, that did not work. Uh, and I am not going to break this vehicle to get it assembled I just simply will not um, and so I am going to eventually replace This part anyway, uh to get one that's not discolored. Uh, but so I'm gonna stop there I have a feeling that if I keep going, um, I I will just damage the vehicle beyond repair. So let's not do that Let's move on. Let's put the other bits on. Uh, we will keep the two halves separate for now Um, and um, we can still put the stickers on which is always my favorite part All right, there's the engine cover The engine cover goes with the tab toward the front So it goes on like this Like that Engine cover nice now. We've got to cut all the missiles off. There are eight missiles So let's nip them off After that, I believe we will be about ready to put the stickers on um, and that That is my moment of zen of the, uh The placement of the stickers which I always enjoy, and I hope you do too So thank you for joining me for this vintage vehicle assembly or at least partial assembly As soon as I figure out how to make that thing fit on Um, it may it's possible that maybe I, uh, haven't completely Uh assembled this as well as it should be. So it's, um, not It's not fitting in the space where it's supposed to that's possible I don't think so though as I look at it the tabs appear to be completely, um Where they're supposed to be they're all the way in so I will work on that, but I don't want it to hold up our project here. So let's move on All right, uh all missiles have been removed And Let's go ahead and place them on the vehicle. Most of them go on this one-man glider Just your standard basic gi joe missiles with the dumbbell shaped pegs So they slide on there And hold pretty firmly A nice color choice To offset the gray But they are all the same There's no differentiation between the missiles on the one-man glider and the missiles on the submarine That's fine. I guess I guess that gives it when it's assembled when it's all together it gives us gives it a uniformity There we go So those missiles on Two missiles go on here on each side There we go and now Now we're ready to put stickers on. All right, let's start with the stickers on the glider part first um Let's see Yeah, the print on that is tiny and my eyeballs aren't as good as they used to be it looks like 10 Goes on the Wings, but how does that go? Uh, let's see. All right. Okay. I see on this side Uh, let me make sure I'm doing that right. Hold on. Yeah, okay on the underside It goes in these spaces and it goes with the Cobra emblem facing out With the head toward the inside I should say All right, let's get these guys off And get them placed. All right. There's number 10 They are not wanting to release from the sheet very easily, but we got them. We got them. There we go Uh, stickers may require a little bit of cleanup, but that's okay Let's place them Where they belong. I don't know if you can hear that we have a thunderstorm going here as I'm recording this Um, so I am super relaxed right now. You want to talk about zen? Uh, it's perfect Thunderstorm Kind of a peaceful day quiet And we get to assemble a gi joe vehicle and put the stickers on And this one has not been the easiest to assemble, but that's okay Because we have to accept challenges When we are faced with them. So This one was a challenge Um, but not too big a challenge is not nearly As big a challenge as the star brigade Invader There we go So those stickers on Okay, next, um, let's see some smaller stickers are supposed to go on the underside of The back fins, which ones are those number two? Number two. Okay. I almost need a magnifying glass to see The instructions They are printed in very tiny print But these two white cobra emblems Go Let's see Yeah, right there That's a lovely thunderstorm That's nice. I don't know if you can hear that but it's Fairly loud here. All right, and the other number two sticker goes on the other side There we go having to Work this a little bit to get an edge on it so I can pull them up Oh careful now Okay There we go Sometimes I get comments from people who don't like the way I assemble these gi joe vehicles out of the box And to those people I strongly encourage you to get your own That way you can assemble it any way you want to I wouldn't stop you and I certainly wouldn't criticize you for that Okay, now let's see These radar stickers number eight That one goes on this side Well, they look like they're the same size so you saw you could put them on either side, I guess number eight and number nine Could go on either side But we are going to put it this way Let's see with what orientation looks like looks like that Okay there And sticker number nine the other radar sticker which goes on the other radar screen And with what orientation There we go The sticker sheet does not want to give up the stickers, but we're going to make it work anyway Okay What orientation it looks like? Looks like that There's a grid On these and so it does give you some clue as to How they should be oriented all right okay now we've got sticker number Seven Where is ah there's seven and it goes where? That goes I don't understand what it's telling me. All right. Yeah That goes. Oh, okay. I see it goes um on here Got it So we have two number seven number seven stickers And if you are in any way to satisfied with how I'm doing this Complaining is always free So it costs you nothing To complain in the comments Let's see. There we go There's that one and I can already tell I did that wrong Let's see if it will let me Yeah, oh, yeah, I can peel it right back up No problem. No problem because these actually need to go the other way Because I've got it bottom side up now And if I put it on this way You can read it right side up When I flip it there like that Like that. There we go the other number seven Go ahead and cheer along at home. You know, I appreciate it. I can hear you through the camera. So So, let's hear it everyone. Let's make some noise Okay, I got to flip that over Um, I I do admit that in my uh personal work life I've had some frustrations lately Uh, and it's gone to me a little bit Been a little bit down about it But uh, Michael Lopez a friend of the channel, uh, did a very kind thing and he Sent me something with stickers to put on so That actually helps probably more than you would think I think we have done the stickers for that side of it Let's flip it over And let's find the stickers to go on this side of it It looks like we have some small cobra emblems in red Uh sticker number one. There are two of them all right I hope you guys enjoyed Cobra Convergence 3 this year I thought it was fun. I enjoyed everyone who Um participated and thank you for those of you who created your own cobra stuff I hope you were happy with your appearance in the montages um It actually uh to me, I thought it went even better than I expected. I had more of a response than I expected So, uh, I hope you all enjoyed that And I hope everybody, uh, can see that there are plenty of people in your community out there That are creating really cool things Next number one sticker All right As you may know, I'm a completist, which means that I'm Trying to get every vintage gi joe toy, uh, us domestic release From 1982 to 1994 and review it on this channel and by doing that In a way, I Uh Give these back to the community. I I share them Even though they are in my collection. I enjoy having them in my collection Uh making videos about them gives me an opportunity to uh do more than just put them on a shelf It gives me an opportunity to share them And sharing is to me The most fun part of collecting After all, I could just buy things and put them away Where nobody could enjoy them And certainly if that's what you want to do with your collection That's absolutely fine Uh, however, that's not my preference I prefer sharing with all of you Which is why I'm doing this right now. I could have simply assembled this Uh all by myself in a quiet room Uh and uh enjoyed that Might have showed you the final final Uh product But this allows us to assemble it together There we go Um, I think We have completed No, not yet Almost completed the stickers on the glider section But there are c-ray stickers which are number 15 or 16 Um, let's see 15. Okay. Here we go Oh, we got it. Okay. We got a 15 and a 16. They're almost the same, but I guess they're reversed All right 15 goes on this side. Where's 15? There's 15 I uh as I review these I will always tell you what I honestly think about them I do not require agreement. You do not have to agree Uh, I hope that disagreement does not Result in you not watching the videos anymore But if it does I understand I will still be making videos in which I express my opinion About things And I fully understand that that will not be everyone's cup of tea Um, I fully understand that I might indeed be more popular if I just kind of Went with the flow and agreed with uh Agreed with everybody else's opinion and refrain from expressing my own after all, um Expressing any opinion at all either favorable or unfavorable Puts you at odds with some people Some people just are not going to agree And are not going to like being disagreed with Um, and if that's you I uh I can't help you You're gonna have a tough time if that's your attitude Not with me. I'm not your problem You will have a hard time with uh life and the internet in general so Um So my suggestion is to do what I have done and learn to live with disagreement Uh Discuss debate Be open to persuasion but Um, to demand agreement from other people is uh Not likely to be successful Okay, what next now we can assemble or put the stickers on the submarine portion Uh, and we've got a lot of kind of the same stickers. Let's see here Um We've got okay facing this way Uh number 14 Which is where's 14? There's 14. Oh, they're tiny Number 14 goes where? Oh, it goes on the on the engine cover Well, it has to be tiny to fit On that engine cover. That's going to be tough to get off The um This apparently was exposed to some heat and some of the glue has kind of melted and sort of Overlapped to the front side of the sticker sheet Which uh Is making them a little bit difficult to peel off And these go there Um The image on the back of the box is actually helping a little bit like that Excellent other side Same thing I don't know every once in a while People get really disagreeable Um Really vocal that seemed to feel personally attacked Because somebody on the internet doesn't agree with them Well, that's not really fair And I try not to Take any shots at any person And I'll talk smack about plastic all day long plastic doesn't have feelings Um, but I try not to Um I try not to attack people ever And if you will notice in my videos, especially my really negative ranty videos, I do try to in each of those Remind everyone that you can and should always think what you want to think about any of these things you should Keep your opinion If you are not persuaded Um, if you feel like you have better reasons, uh, you should Go on thinking what you think and I should not change your mind I'm not really trying to change your mind So if I don't change your mind, that's perfectly fine with me All right number four But I do do occasionally see Some gi joe fans Who, um, perhaps in the interest of defending what they like Uh Take some shots at other fans And I don't agree with that I don't think that's a good way to treat your Your other members of your community So keep that in mind The plastic is just plastic But I don't tell other people how to collect I don't tell other people what they should like Uh, and if they disagree with me, I don't tell people that they should change their mind I would not insult you in that way I believe that you are all intelligent people and capable of making your own decisions And assessing things for yourself But then so am I I am capable of assessing things for myself And I will And as I uh form opinions, I will express them on this channel Uncensored All right, this here There we go these pivot stickers We are making progress, but there's actually a lot of stickers that go on here And that's good because it needs a little bit of color. Um, I mean it's got Uh the gray the black and the kind of sort of pinkish red And so it has some color, but it does have it does have a lot of That blue gray Um, which Is fine. It's just it's a lot of it. Uh, so breaking up some of that blue gray with Uh with some stickers some some color Is actually a really good idea Okay Let's see. No, I'm doing that wrong Did I place the other one wrong too? I better check the other side Is that going to interfere? Yeah, well All right. Well I can These vinyl stickers are so forgiving If you're careful you can pull them up and Re-position them Which the paper stickers Do not allow you to do once they are on there. It's like cement So it's nice to have these vinyl stickers to work with Okay, what next caution the caution stickers, uh, let's see Number 12 Where do they go? They go right about there Uh, and I'm sorry if uh, if this is boring to you This would probably be a pretty long video of me rambling and so it's probably one of those videos that Will not get a lot of views and some of the people who view it will give it a big fact thumbs down And that's okay I really don't pay attention to the Downvotes the thumbs down I don't really pay attention to them at all I don't know why I would I've been very fortunate that there have been, um, people who enjoy my videos And I'd rather pay attention to them I'll give them my attention And my appreciation And if anybody doesn't like it, well Perhaps they will move on and find something they do like caution sticker There Okay, and these okay number six these uh letters There we go. I've had to really practice Letting things go lately um Because there there has been a bit of negativity about No denying that, um, but If you put things in perspective You know, there's a bit of negativity, but there's a lot of positive things going on right now positive things in this channel positive things in my personal life um, so he's kind of But Make sure you keep your perspective Negativity can Color things so you don't See them clearly There we go All right, uh, it looks like we have four more stickers, uh, some big, um C-ray Ambulums and then a couple cobra emblems to put on Let's see. We have a sticker number 17 and a sticker number 18. So Let's see sticker number 18 goes on this side that one right there We're almost done folks With this part. Oh, we still have to open the figure So this may indeed be a long video But That's okay. We're gonna be fine. Okay 18 goes on It goes on this side. So That's strange though because it looks like it's reversed from what's shown on the sticker sheet And what's shown well no on the box. It is like this I think let's see that's interesting Um, let's see see it would be reverse of that. Let me see It says 18 on this side and 17 on this side, but I think that's wrong It is wrong Okay, I'm going to do it the way it should be done not the way the sticker sheet shows because If I do it that way then it will match the um the direction that's on the The wing part so I'm going to do it the right way. Uh, once again, the sticker sheet is not 100 accurate Okay, so that should go on that side. This should go on Oh, come on now That sticker sheet doesn't want to give them up. There we go This will go here Yes like that And we've got the symmetry from the front end to the back end of these C-ray logos And now two cobra emblems and we are done With the stickers at least Okay, come on give it up peel off Okay There we go All right, and they are pretty simple. They go on the sides right about Let's try to get them straight Right about there. Okay There's one Last one There we go We are done Okay, now it's time to Take the figure off his blister. Let's see if we can pop it off the cardboard here There we go one end and it's kind of Oh wow All right, his gun fell out so We got that There we go. It's kind of glued on the back But there is the sea slug and let's go ahead and take him off of this Yeah, there there is his his little gun Let's do this Carefully I feel like Slicing the plastic Like this Maybe on three sides Without touching the figure not going to touch the figure with that blade. I'm not even going to get close to it Going to Only cut the plastic Actually, that's enough. I think I think that's all I needed to do I don't need to do any more than necessary because I do not want to scratch the figure And there he is the sea slug First time ever being brought out of The sealed Blister And there he is never before touched by human hands There we go So there we go, and there's his gun and that really is everything That was my unboxing and assembly partial assembly of the cobra sea ray and the sea slug I hope you enjoyed it didn't quite get those pieces to fit together But I will make sure I get it to work before I do a full review on it Thank you again to Mike Lopez You gave me a project to work on at a time when I really needed one So I can't thank you enough for that Just really needed that sort of moment of zen and did very much enjoy putting the stickers on the sea ray So thank you again. It's absolutely invaluable to me And thank you everyone for watching. Thank you for being part of this channel I hope that you will stick around. We will have more full vintage gi jo toy reviews coming up But I thought this might be something for you guys to watch while I'm taking the weekend off And I'm very happy to have this with the box and the file card on the box and the figure You know absolutely mint and of course one piece to replace here, but otherwise The the sea ray is totally mint. So I'm very happy So I'll see you guys next week with a full vintage gi jo toy review already working on it. So I hope you enjoy it I'll see you all then