 And we're alive. Very good. Everything seems to be working. Don't have anyone here yet, but hopefully somebody will go up soon. Once again, I neglected to post any kind of notice for this live stream, so hopefully people see it. It has become a regular Tuesday thing. Hey, Elvis, how you doing? Let's see here. I'm going to do something real quick here. And Josiah, hey. Hello. And Jan, Eric, Penhold, hello from Montreal, Canada. Hello, Montreal, Canada from the United States. And Gaz, how you doing? And Bill, alright, cool. The gang's all here. Excellent, excellent. Okay, I was doing something really quick. One moment. And then I'll give you my full attention. Pence of Ruin, there you go. And Matt, hey, nice to see you. John. Player three productions, Howdy Doody and There's Green Yeti. One of our favorites. Thank you, Jan. Thank you very much, very much appreciated. Hey, Beach, from Portland, Oregon. Hello, Portland, Oregon from the United States. Hi, Port. Actually, I like Portland. I've been to Portland before. Hey, Benny. Livestream with Joefan82. Yeah, hey, that'd be fun. I like Joefan82. I like working with him. He's a pretty cool guy. Lance Otaw, hey Lance, how you doing? From Fredericksburg, Virginia. Hello from the United States. That's going to be my running gag for the evening, I guess. Okay, let's see. Let's just plop this into Facebook here. Hello, McDowen, how you doing? And Anne-Marie. Hey, everybody's here. That's awesome. Okay, see you, Anne-Marie. You can't miss that. Yeah, the John Timmer's video. He's got the two-parter on the Belgian catalog. Yeah, that was exceptional. We didn't get anything quite like that here. Now, sometimes like in the store catalogs, like, you know, your Sears and your service merchandise catalogs, they would have some nice diorama displays with the toys, but it was like one half of one page at the most. That was like a book. The Belgian catalog was like a whole book with some incredible photography. Toy photography is becoming kind of popular now with Instagram and why not. Well, they got a pretty good start there in Belgium with that catalog. What other interests do I have other than G.I. Joe, Albert asks? I like movies. I like old movies. I like watching bad movies. And, you know, just hanging out with the fam. I don't like play video games very much. I just don't usually have time to do it. Doing the videos every week is, you know, takes up a lot of my free time. But I do like to watch a movie every once in a while and I like watching, I know this is kind of silly, but I like watching other people's YouTube stuff. Stuff other than G.I. Joe's stuff. I watch quite a variety of YouTube stuff. Yeah, that's what I spend a lot of time doing. You get Jace Traber got Scarlett at Service Merchandise back in 1983. Now, Service Merchandise is a bit of a blast from the past. We haven't had a Service Merchandise here for quite some time. Hey, that's me has excellent videos. A channel very much worth checking out. Okay, I think we are in good shape. Okay, Snake Goat says friend who was a Marine thinks Leatherneck is cooler than Gung Ho. Now, I'm not going to like get between any Marines arguing who's better Leatherneck or Gung Ho. I like them both. I'm more familiar with Gung Ho just because, you know, he was around longer, but I always like Leatherneck too. And Leatherneck was given, I think, a really interesting personality both in the comic books and the cartoons. So Leatherneck's pretty cool. Hey Bjorn, how you doing? And Nyquist, hey, how you doing too? You want to start a YouTube channel too? Okay, go for it. It's not hard to start one. You just got to I've got to put in the time. Hey Jenna, driving in Boston traffic and the human mechanism. And I saw JoeMotionVideos was here too. This is great. It's nice to see everyone. Human mechanisms videos are excellent. They're going really well. BiggiePine's been a long time supporter of the channel. Right now, I do have stuff to talk about. I do have G.I. Joe's stuff to talk about. But right now, I'm just saying hello to everyone because I'm seeing a lot of names that are familiar to me and people that I like to see. So hello everyone. And there's Adam Airwolf, who I keep calling Airwolf. But hi, Adam Airwolf. Nice to see you. So, yeah, hey, this is cool. We've got a lot of really cool people in here. Newer zombie vipers that are more like biovipers. Yeah, zombies in G.I. Joe is not really my thing. So it might not be the best for me to pass judgment on it. I know a lot of people like code name players hello and Brandon. Yeah, yeah, nice collection, Brandon. Team Outreach Army Green Yeti says TOA. That's true. Dr. Meinpender is a zombie. Yeah, now that's something that I didn't know, of course, because I had stopped reading the comments before that storyline. So when I was looking into it, reading some of the later issues and learning more about Dr. Meinpender and I saw that alright, well, Dr. Meinpender died. How is it that he is in these later issues? And so I you know, I had some gaps in the collection. So I went and found out it was like really, really they did that. They did that in the comic book. My theory is that I don't think Larry really liked Meinpender as a character. And as soon as Hasbro told him that you know, these characters are not going to have action figures, he killed a bunch of them off. So, you know, Raptor and Crockmaster and Voltar, all those guys that were in the landlocked freighter and then Battleforce 2000 all gets killed off. But then, of course, some of those did end up having later action figures, which is a little bit funny. Kind of have to figure out a way to work that back into the story because he kind of already killed them. So, you do things like resurrect Dr. Meinpender from The Dead. Alberto says will you review the new Mark Belomo book on G.I. Joe? Yes, I will. Yes, I will. This will be the first Mark Belomo Ultimate Guide that I actually have a physical copy of. The older ones are out of print and it's really expensive to get them. But I pre-ordered the new one the third edition hardcover. And so, as soon as I get it, yeah, I'll get it in front of the camera and I'll give it a review. I'm really excited about it. I think it's pretty cool. Do I read the IDW G.I. Joe comics? Not yet. I mean, I've read some of them, but I haven't read a lot of them yet. And before you say anything, I know I have been strongly encouraged to read those. I just haven't found a time to do it. I've been told that the IDW series by Larry is really good. I just haven't done it yet. So please forgive me. I will get to it. I will get to it. That's right. Albert, he did give Raptor a pivotal role. Yeah, Raptor had something to do. Hey, Max, read those ghost music. Hey, nice to see you. Airborne and Wild Bill, best team in a helicopter. Put in my 118 Apache. Hey, that's cool. You have a 118 scale Apache. That's awesome. But yeah, Wild Bill and Airborne. That's it. Pilot and Gunner. That's the team. How do I display my file cards? I don't really have them on display, but actually, if you give me just a second, I'll go get them and I'll show you how I have them stored right now. Hey, time out. Time out. Talk to yourselves. This will take just about seven seconds. I'll be right back. I stepped on bubble wrap. I'm back. Anyway, this is what I got. I got this big metal tray that I found just at a resale shop and I have them divided by year with these index cards for dividers. So that's what I'm doing with the file cards and that's the way that I found that it's just easier to get access to them when I need them for reviews. Yeah, that's mainly what I use them for is for reviews. I don't really display them and I've got some stuck in here in the front that I just haven't filed away yet, so I just need to put them where they belong, but I get in a hurry and one of the biggest problems that I have is putting things away when I'm done with the review stuff gets left out here. So in fact what you can't see, what's off camera is just a bunch of stuff from other videos that I've done recently that I just haven't put away yet. I have most of the 1982 lineup just sitting here and I just haven't put them away yet. A big, tragic one says Hail Cobra. How's it going? Do I have space left in my house? I do Byron. I do, but the collection is taking up more and more space. So yeah, space is an issue. McDonnell says used to photo box to store your cards in, full cards were stored elsewhere. Yeah, that's, photo box actually would be about right. In fact, I used to have my file cards in a black metal box that was about the size of a photo box. But I switched to this mainly because I wanted to keep the full card backs with the cut out cards and also keep them in order. So I went with this. This isn't the best system, but this is what I've got right now. Of course no system works very well if I don't, you know, put things away. Okay, human mechanism is speaking of space, do you prefer the Defiant or the Crusader? Well, I don't have the Crusader yet. I'm interested in getting it. It's on the radar. I do have the Defiant incomplete, which I still want to get complete and and and, you know, review at some point. But as to which one I prefer, I'm not sure. The Crusader of course was just the Shuttle. But it had a little bit, you know, different features. It had the Shuttle thing that was actually the drone from the Cobra Knight Raven. I'd be interested in seeing how that all works together, but I don't have one yet. So to answer that question, I guess I'd have to save the Defiant, but only because that's what I have at the moment. But I'd like to look at seeing them side by side. Oh, did Green Yeti mention Team Galovulus? Green Yeti is on Team Galovulus. Oh, Comic Tropes is here. Another excellent channel on YouTube. And why do I got to do these while you're at work? Well, for one thing, you're on the West Coast. So why you got to be on the West Coast? We got another guy in here from Portland, Oregon. Everybody's on the West Coast. Well, you know what? You just got to move closer to the middle of the country. Yeah, McGowan says 3DJose has better quality cards than Yojo. Yeah, the 3DJose website has much better scans of both the cards and the blueprints and instruction sheets. And in fact, if I need the instructions for something and I don't have them, I usually go to 3DJose because their scans are nice and good and you can read them. 3DJose, excellent website. Excellent. Okay, Jeff is here thanks to a rain out with baseball. I arranged that. So you're welcome. You know, I called the mayor out there in wherever you live and I said, hey, let's get some rain in going in here. You got baseball it conflicts with my live stream. The live stream takes precedent. So, yeah. Hey, we got some east coasters. You got Team Galobulus. You know, you keep at it. I know there are fans of Galobulus. I'm not one of them, but there are fans of Galobulus and you keep at it and you will get more people on Team Galobulus. You will. Oh, thank you. Thank you Comic Tropes for the super chat. What is this? Who is the handsomest GI Joe and who is the ugliest? Oh, wow. The handsomest GI Joe. I tell you what, I think the handsomest GI Joe is it's the one that I reviewed sci-fi the one that comes with the I'm blanking on the name sci-fi version what version three has that just gorgeous beautiful hair that feathered hair is what a handsome gentleman that is. Yeah, the starfighter I'm blanking on the name. I reviewed it and it dropped out of my head. I think that version of sci-fi quite the dapper gentleman as far as the ugliest that's that's more difficult because ugly can mean a couple of different things. I mean is like the whole figure ugly like it has an ugly uniform and ugly colors and everything that like that or is like the face sculpt just kind of ugly if you're talking about like just facial features I'd have to say Armadillo needs to be in that conversation a steamroller is yeah but as far as like taking the whole figure into consideration like the ugliest that's really tough there is let's see night force version of the night creeper I think I'm forgetting but there are some night force ninja force sorry a ninja force figures that need to be in contention the shadow ninja figures that may be cheating because the shadow ninja figures have that gimmick but they're pretty bad Jedi cross country now here's the thing about cross country I did kind of say that cross country was a little odd looking in my original review of that toy but I have retracted that because cross country is sculpted to look like a real person cross country is it has the likeness of Guy Cassidy who designed some of the GI Joe vehicles that felt bad about calling cross country ugly when when he's a basically a real guy so I'm sorry Guy Cassidy it's not you it's not you it's the figure road pig is unique looking he's got an interesting look himself but yeah that's an interesting conversation oh Kevin Heinz a super chat for 5 euro thank you very much thank you very much sir and Lance agrees about about road pig have you seen the Netflix show about how GI Joe came out Alberto are you talking about the toys that made us that series yeah I have seen that and that episode is really good yeah it's really good and they're coming out with a third season now I think that's a really cool series now it's a series I think more for like you know people who aren't the hardcore collectors a lot like the really hardcore collectors and fans probably already know a lot of that stuff but for somebody who doesn't know and is being introduced to that information you know for the first time it's very informative and I think it's a lot of fun it's really nicely put together and as much as I liked the GI Joe episode I think my favorite episode might actually be the Barbie episode because I didn't know really very much about Barbie because why would I but I think it had a lot of information I learned the most probably from that episode so that was really interesting plus there's a lady in that episode that has a chair in the shape of a naked woman and it's like obscene it's the weirdest, strangest thing I've ever seen so if you watch that episode you just can't take your eyes off of that but yeah it's a good series I like the series and I most enjoy the episodes that are about things that I don't already know a lot about that I can learn more so yeah, yeah that's a good series and if you haven't checked out the Barbie episode worth checking out very interesting do I have any insight when the next batch of figures will be released? Gaming first responder my understanding is that they have a planned movie for the year 2020 and there will be some toys that are released to coincide with that movie so still a couple years away is my understanding and we will watch Larry Hama in MASH or as cameo as himself in the comic tropes brings up here something kind of fun and interesting Larry Hama has been in several movies and TV shows including everybody knows the episode of MASH that he was in you probably know about that and it's kind of a cameo he also though does a cameo of himself in this really odd movie called the ambulance that's a strange movie that may actually be close to a so bad it's good movie it was it was different and for some reason for some reason that has nothing to do with the actual plot of the movie the protagonist in that movie works as a comic book artist at Marvel Comics so you have a ton of amazing cameos from Marvel people like he and just people that were around the Marvel bull can so yeah that's the thing that happened but the fact that the guy works specifically at Marvel seems a little bit random but yeah it's in there oh hey Marvel and DC met Jim Shooter that would have been interesting people have mixed feelings about Jim Shooter but of course I grew up and really got into comics during Jim Shooter's era his tenure at Marvel Comics so meeting Jim Shooter that'd be pretty cool and hey speaking of Jim Shooter a few years ago he put up a blog post and gave some behind the scenes insider information about G.I. Joe at Marvel Comics so yeah Jim Shooter you know he's been in the industry for such a long time he's got he knows where all the bodies are buried I guess hey EV GMZ how you doing how do I feel about Micronauts getting a cartoon and possibly new toys next year hope G.I. Joe will tune sooner than expected I don't know if Micronauts does well certainly Hasbro is not opposed to making money so if if if Micronauts does well then it could result in more G.I. Joe you never know if Micronauts doesn't do well then that actually could be a problem for it so we'll see we will see in the United States I think Micronauts has doesn't have as much name recognition as G.I. Joe does but I know that it has fans Micronauts has fans well I do a live show with others such as Joefan82 I would be happy to if anybody wants to do a live show since I'm doing my live show on my phone I'd have to figure out how to get guests on the show I'd have to figure out the logistics of it but I would love to do a live show with Joefan82 or maybe with Timur of course Timur is in Europe so he's probably asleep when this is going on but if I could figure out a way to do it I would love to that would be awesome so yeah I haven't got to any of the G.I. Joe topics that I was going to talk about and now I'm not sure I even remember what they are I got sometimes hello Green Yeti welcome back I have this problem right for any given review I have to get out a lot of toys that you know I need for reference who asked that wait oh Primal Savage asks when do you plan on reviewing the G.I. Joe movie it's on the agenda I have a pretty good idea of when I'm going to do it but it's going to be a task it's going to be a lot of work so probably going to have to stretch that out over time but it will be this year it has to be this year I promised it this year it will be this year while still on my Joe bucket list as far as items to get the 1982 Cobra Missile Command that's still a big one as far as like not toys but Joe related things to do meeting Sergeant Slaughter is still on my bucket list I've never met him before and so that would be really exciting and it looks like I'll have the opportunity to meet Sergeant Slaughter almost had Sergeant Savage to meet Sergeant Slaughter at Joe Fest next year and as we get closer to Joe Fest in June of next year I'm going to be talking about it a lot more because I should be there and so a whole bunch of other GI Joe related personalities and it should be a lot of fun Do I have a list of figures top middle and bottom? I've never actually made a list I've never actually compiled that if I did what I think that you would find is that most of them are in the middle it's basically more or less a normal distribution curve where you have a few that are bottom tier most of them are in the middle and probably there's probably more more in the top tier than they're in the bottom tier but that's mainly because I like GI Joe so of course I'm going to like more than I dislike so yeah so anyway when I'm thinking about what to talk about on here I have to keep in mind that I usually do these live streams after I have recorded like a short video like a quick shot or something like that and so usually that's what's on my mind but then I have to remember you guys haven't seen that yet so if I talk about that I'd be talking about stuff that you haven't seen yet so so like like I said I've got almost the entire 1982 GI Joe lineup here just setting here because I use them to record something but it's something that you haven't seen yet and I don't like to give away surprises I won't tell you what it is this isn't going to give away anything because even though you are seeing the figures that are in that particular video just knowing what the figures are won't give you any clue as to what it is and it's still here I haven't put it away I've got oh here's one here's one I like to show off sometimes it's Starduster this is the one that doesn't have accessories I have version 1a that does have the accessories and since Chris Mahalika is here there is an allegation that version 1b of Starduster is not really even a thing that it's a kit bash and that it wasn't actually released by Hasbro in that form now Yojo.com has a picture of a sealed in bag version 1b but those can be resealed so that is a controversy that I will have to address when I review Starduster but I have occasionally seen some figures that claim to be a Starduster version 1b and so I'll probably still try to get one but we'll talk about this little controversy about whether version 1b of Starduster is a real release or if it was kit bashed by collectors later Sergeant no I accidentally started a Sergeant Savage discussion I actually like the Sergeant Savage figures the toys themselves I like I actually like them a lot and they don't fit with G.I. Joe they're in a different scale but they have a real authentic military appeal to them and sorry I had to reconnect there Hello Styles how you doing a lot of more modern action figures don't really feel like toys they feel more like collectibles and display pieces but Sergeant Savage still felt like a toy that was meant to be played with but the problem with Sergeant Savage that I had was not so much with the toys it was with the concept of it kind of borrowing or lifting wholesale from from some other things hey it's Michael Lopez how you doing hey good to see you here this is awesome we've got some great people I'm so happy to have all of you here this is really cool this is why I love doing these live streams because of my schedule you know I'm at a new position at work I'm having to learn a lot I'm having to work a lot and of course I'm putting together the videos as well I haven't had a lot of time to like read comments and things like that on YouTube so this is finally an opportunity for me to interact with you guys in ways that I'm not able to do other times in the week Michael Lopez is at work right now we'll get to work sir actually it is I'm glad you're here I'm glad you're taking a break from work to join us and Adam yeah thank you I am better it took some some action on my part to make things better if I hadn't done what I did I don't think things would have gotten better but I tell you working for the right people and doing the right kind of job makes a big difference so yeah we're in a much better place now and thank you to everyone who lended their support and their kind words through that recent difficult time but we're doing better now and I'm trying to chug along and keep joining everyone every week and keep new content coming out because I love doing it it is fun somebody ask a question oh Kevin Heinz channel has rejuvenated him that's fantastic I have healing powers that's so cool subscribe a few months ago again the task of rebuilding a childhood collection that's cool and I hope you enjoy your collecting journey and have fun doing that I love collecting this stuff certainly not the only way to enjoy GI Joe but it's a great way to actually have the physical toys in your hands that you played with way back then and Marvel and DC thank you for your support that really does mean a lot to me you know years from now I'm going to look back at this year I'm going to look back at it probably as being kind of a tough year but I'm also going to look back and see a lot of kindness and a lot of support to watch here so that is something that I'm going to remember for a long time hey Subbozer still has his childhood Joe's that's really cool I wish I still did I wish I still did but that's awesome if you've been able to hold onto him that's really cool Chris Brewer asks what I think of the 89 Raider I don't have the Raider complete but I do have some thoughts about it and I want to save my thoughts for when I actually do the review but I have some thoughts about it and I have some positive thoughts about it the Raider an incomplete Raider was sent to me like a couple of years ago and I keep intending to complete it so that it will be ready to review but things keep getting in the way you know things come up and I haven't been able to prioritize that but I do look forward to reviewing the Raider at some point oh thank you Marvel and DC I try not to be excessively harsh I'm sure some people think that I am harsh but I do even if I have a negative review I still try to be fair sometimes it's hard to find something positive to say about some things but I really do try to be fair but one thing that I think has become evident over the years that I've done this is that for some folks it doesn't matter how fair you are they really don't like being disagreed with and so if you have an opinion that doesn't match up with theirs they're not going to like that too much and you get a very negative reaction out of some people but even at that most people get it most people are pretty fair minded themselves so really most of the reaction has been pretty good hello chile sware of welcome oh hey I posted a picture of this on Facebook and Twitter I got this guy at an antique shop it's the only Joe that I found I replaced his O-ring because his O-ring was pretty much gone and nearly hanging together but hey check that out I have a python patrol officer but without accessories but that's the picture still pretty good let's see you guys are having conversations on your own and that's just fine John disagrees with that well I disagree with your disagreements and thank you Adam thank you very much yeah what else do I got just kind of laying around here I've got the screwdriver that I used to repair my Joe's I don't know where I got this thing I mean it's got what is this land tech incorporated some kind of a company but I have no idea who that company is and so it's just got this thing and look at this I'm down to two O-rings more O-rings so yeah I've got I've got just stuff around here and I don't want to show you too much of it because I want you guys to still be surprised at the stuff that I'm reviewing yeah Woodman on eBay you can get some O-rings for pretty decent price I have some eBay O-rings myself oh Andrew Baker I never said hello to you well hello Andrew now now the party can begin Andrew is here and we've said hello thank you for joining I've ever had a Joe you could just not get apart well I mean obviously Zartan Zirana and Zandar they don't come apart there was a Scarlet action figure with the nail so rusted out and so stripped that I couldn't get it um and it really needed an O-ring too that was years ago but there was a Scarlet figure that um I did something with maybe I sold it or something but I could not get I couldn't get it apart the screw was just too far gone um Marvel and DC had ideas for GI Joe customs all customs are cool um yeah beach um yeah that is true I'd be trying to emphasize that I mean obviously not everybody's gonna agree and that's fine I mean I have respect for someone who can listen to someone else's opinion and absorb it but still be able to form their own opinion so you know I don't need everyone to agree with me um and you know I think in some ways it's a little bit of a hindrance to my popularity um because I do have opinions and I feel that I should express those opinions not every reviewer does uh if you look at some other reviews not again not specifically GI Joe toy reviewers but other toy reviewers on YouTube some of them just don't seem to have opinions they just show the thing and they talk about it a little bit and everything's great and nothing's ever wrong with it um and that's fine and some of those guys are really popular uh but that's just I just can't do that I feel like I mean I'm trying to look at these and analyze them in context and you know talk about them and I feel like it would be a little bit of a cop out if I did all of that but I didn't actually come right down and tell you what I think of it you know uh it's like academic writing right in academic writing you uh you have to have a position right you have to take a position and defend that position it doesn't you know it doesn't mean there can't be disagreement opinions but um but you know at some point you know you gotta you gotta say something anyway that's my approach to it um uh thank you Josiah I appreciate it um uh okay Greeny Eddie says which girl in G.I. Joe do I think is the best um I like pretty much all of them but I still gotta go back to Scarlett Scarlett's my favorite character the Scarlett action figure both of the Scarlett action figures are not great but I like the character of Scarlett as far as the best figure goes um there aren't a lot to choose from but I'm gonna I agree with Josiah Lady J is probably the best figure the best execution of a female figure in G.I. Joe although the bareness is a pretty good figure too um but uh the the Lady J figure uh in detail uh nice accessories uh good sculpting on it uh it looks really good um but uh but uh yeah I uh but as far as characters go um you know it's hard to beat Scarlett uh she's one of the most developed characters in the entire um in the in the whole mythos so it's hard to not like Scarlett for me anyway um uh and Paul Cheek likes the bareness well there's nothing wrong with liking the bareness the bareness was an excellent action figure and also a very well developed character a very interesting character uh Covergirl I like Covergirl um Covergirl is maybe a little lacking uh as a some parts of the figure I think that like the head sculpt could be better I like the the utilitarian look of the figure though it's really nicely done uh so yeah I can't forget about Covergirl I like Covergirl um so um this is weird a 13 year old and a bunch of old men talking about GI Joe girls uh yeah that's not weird that's not weird at all uh Serena is so good they did her twice yeah that's true um uh anyway um oh wait did somebody say Joefan82 is Joefan82 here hey Joefan82 is here hey cool um well okay and he's here picking up dinner well cool well I haven't had dinner yet I'll have dinner after I'm done here um so um oh well okay there was something that I was gonna talk about uh something I was gonna mention at least um it's not directly related to GI Joe but it's in the category of I can't make any video without making a mistake I make at least one mistake in every video um and apparently Nyquist thinks uh everything is overrated tonight well you know what uh mistakes are overrated too um I uh in the most recent video I wanted to put a tribute to my grandfather and I did a typo in it I put that he passed away in 2008 instead of 2018 way to go and of course uh not let me edit a video that's already been uploaded so the mistake is just there right at the front of the video and that's really very frustrated with myself that is a video that I really only just barely got done on time uh I had to you know I was editing and rendering it like right up to the wire and I just missed it uh but that's the kind of mistake that I'm actually thinking about re-uploading the video um or uploading a corrected version of it because I don't want to lose all of the comments on the original video so I don't think I'd take it down but I feel like I ought to correct that but uh um but yeah it seems like in every like which video was it uh was one uh not too long ago it was the heat viper video where I called metalhead heavy metal and I did it twice and not only did I say it because I said it and I was typing the text overlays as I was listening to the video I said it and then I typed it wrong too into the video that is frustrating uh so these are the things that that annoy me when I watch my own videos um I do kind of wish that there was some way uh YouTube had some mechanism for correcting some of that but it really you just can't you'd have to take the video down and re-upload it but then if you do that then you lose all of the comments and stuff um yeah Joe Finn I have done that a couple of times uh mentioned the correction in the description and I also like to append post um append comments so it's the first comment people see if I don't do that then what happens is I get like 50 comments all correcting me about the same thing um when I already know about it because uh because I already read the first comment and so I still get 50 more so uh yeah you can do that but then of course if people don't watch the video on YouTube if they watch it on another site it's embedded or something like that or they just don't go and read the comments or the description and they never see the correction um so that is that is a little bit of a frustration with uh uh with YouTube um uh my clue has true story Flint got his degree through correspondence courses yeah yeah I'll buy that I'll buy that that seems like something Flint would do um interesting uh in the comic book series again you know I left the comic book series um in in the late 80s I didn't carry on into the 90s so I didn't see some of the story development but in the 90s as the series went on Flint had some very interesting character development he kind of became a real jerk in some of the later uh uh issues of the comic um uh I thought it was an interesting direction to go with Flint um what's the deal with all the comic book characters not being depicted as figures I think my theory is um Hans bro might have been concerned about having to pay uh royalties to Larry um uh so like sometimes they would like on some of the October guard characters they released figures that were similar to uh some of the October guard characters in the comic book with a little different uh that's my theory I don't know if that's true or not but there were a lot of characters in the comic that were not figures and I think that's just because you know Larry was telling a broader story and he just needed a bigger cast to play with needed a bigger cast of characters to uh to work with so uh so he just made him up and I guess that worked um also you know he needed characters that could have consequences right because he wouldn't wasn't allowed to kill off characters that had action figures that were still for sale uh but he could create characters like Quinn and Dr. Venom and they could die in the comic book without you know having any consequences in the action figure world so you could do stories with those characters that you couldn't do with characters that actually had figures for sale um and some of those are likes eco warriors and battle force 2000 well you go for it you keep liking those don't let anybody stop you oh hey um who was it I think it was uh Dell or might have been branded but somebody in an email brought up an interesting question of why the G.I. Joe team would need all these sub teams when G.I. Joe team itself is a team of specialists so I thought that might be an interesting question to see what you guys thought about it now G.I. Joe is made up of specialists uh so if they're all specialists why do they need even more specialized subgroups uh and in universe uh answer of course the the real answer is so that has sell more toys and also like reissue old toys with new colors and pretend that it's new hey look it's Tiger Force it's exactly the same toys you bought a couple years ago but look the colors are different so now you gotta buy them again so that's the real reason but as far as an in universe reason um I thought it was an interesting question uh G.I. Joe itself um it kind of assembles uh it's um on a mission by mission basis based on whatever specialties they think they will need on that particular mission um so um yeah Joe fan the sub teams are very special specialists yes uh John Battle Force 2000 uh there's you know Battle Force 2000 is not my favorite but there's still a lot to like about Battle Force 2000 um I I maintained that Battle Force 2000 could have been a a decent stand alone toy line not as part of G.I. Joe but its own thing if they had done Battle Force 2000 as its own thing I think they might have had something there but as part of G.I. Joe it kind of got lost in the shuffle a little bit plus the future fortress was kind of a rinky dink um um okay uh secret uh Rebel says your opinions are your opinions shouldn't have to worry about fans getting upset fans need to relax it's toys go lobulous rules alright uh thank you uh U.H.C.C. you're awesome I thank you secret rebel I kind of feel the same way sometimes though when you're on this side of the camera you do still feel a little bit of that heat when you you express an opinion and a whole bunch of people don't like it um but I it shouldn't matter and we are still talking about toys you're exactly right um but uh but yeah um I it shouldn't get to me but sometimes a little bit it does but I still have to I still feel like to be honest and to be true and to um you know uh to to give you guys um uh real honesty in my reviews I still have to express my opinions even if I know they're not going to be popular so um for my uh channel honesty is more important than popularity um uh Andrew uh uh didn't get the comic books all came from the TV program uh and that's cool um uh I mean the animated series was very popular here and for a lot even for a lot of Americans it was the animated series that's the main or sometimes the only thing they really saw uh back then uh so you're not alone in that um uh yeah Chris Mahal like night force um yeah just all reissued figures uh but the um the uh I mean some of them the color change I feel is a vast improvement on uh the original figures um like out back I think is really great uh uh night force crazy legs uh is gorgeous and I would take that over the original crazy legs any old time any old age that's a beautiful figure uh but as but you are also correct for collectors they're just crazy expensive uh because they were exclusives uh they just aren't as many of them out there uh and a lot of they're desirable to a lot of collectors so there's a lot of demand for for them at least for specific ones um and for my purposes I need the figure the accessories I also need the file card and a lot of sellers will have the figure sometimes for a price that I'm willing to pay for it but not the file card that's the that's the thing that gets me um Nyquist asset stalker is still my favorite job yeah he is in fact where is he there's stalker right there there's stalker from 82 and oh I have oh and there's stalker from 83 now back in uh I believe it was 1982 when we had this guy he just seemed so special um we just you know um thought this guy was was something special I mean the camouflage the beret it was just it really stood out among all of those 1982 figures uh and then you know I got into the comic book and saw what Larry Hama did with the character uh and that just that really cemented in my mind um the uh appreciation for uh stalker Nyquist wants to talk about kung fu grip okay kung fu fu grip um my recollection is that it originated in the UK with action man and was imported to the United States um and it's basically just rubbery hands uh so the those 12 inch figures could actually grip things um I have a couple of the 1960s 12 inch GI Joe figures and they have they call them the nose picker hands because the hands are like in this pose and they're actually it's actually really difficult to get some of the figures in the hands when they're like this but kung fu grip is supposed to kind of fix that so it's basically rubbery hands that are more in like the C shape um and they can hold things better so there you go there's a um uh a brief video of me carrying this carry on uh kung fu grip okay Nyquist wants to talk about swivel arm battle okay that's what you mean swivel arm battle grip okay uh well you have uh your 82 figures that had the straight arm um there were other o-ring figures with this same basic articulation a lot of them from Migo Migo did figures for mash and for um uh chips stuff like that licensed figures that had this basic design and they all had you know just had um uh had elbows and in the era of star wars five points of articulation this was fantastic i mean you had guys with knees you had guys with elbows this was great this was posibility at its finest in 1982 but there are some things that the 82 figures could not do for instance they could not put two hands on their guns on their rifles so then you have an update in 83 all of the new release figures in 83 had swivel arm battle grip so they could actually swivel their arms and hold their weapons with two hands uh and then they reissued all the 82 characters updating that articulation i think that's the only time in the in the line where they actually did that they actually reissued earlier figures but updated the articulation um so yeah uh true story the awestriker isn't really all whether environment Joe will freeze his thumbs off in winter it's true i mean look what happened to stalker look what happened to stalker look at his thumbs oh my god he's froze his thumbs off in winter um but um yeah secret rebel uh mental head in the dick series i'm looking forward to reviewing that uh figure because uh uh yeah the way he was in the dick series is uh strange and kind of hilarious uh well hey guys it's closing in on an hour uh we've got a couple minutes i usually try to keep these set about an hour plus like i said i haven't eaten yet i gotta eat my food gotta eat my dinner uh but i'll keep it going for a couple more minutes just uh make sure i had time to uh say good evening to everyone um but uh and i'm sorry i wasn't able to keep up with all the comments so i'm sure i missed some of your questions i'm sorry about that hey david fitchner how you doing uh so but thanks to everyone for coming we have almost a hundred people in here we have almost a hundred people in here that is just incredible to me um and i didn't even advertise this i didn't post any notices or anything so uh thank you thank you all um and thank you george uh from guatemala hello guatemala from the united states uh thank you dt um yeah i think that'll uh about do it guys um i've got some editing to do shoot some things that'll go up i think next week um and uh plus i need to eat so um so thank you to everyone uh thank you for all your kindness and generosity thank you for all your support um and um i will do it again next week uh next Tuesday same time so then uh but for now i will say good night uh and i will shut this thing off