 Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. We are in the midst of Cobra Convergence 5 That's the GI Joe fan community's celebration of GI Joe's enemy Cobra And we are going to open and assemble a Cobra vehicle We've done this before but we've never done it quite like this before this is A built-to-rule vehicle. This is the Cobra Raven With the action figure wild weasel I've never opened one of these before Never had one of these before I don't know that I've ever seen one of these before I know what it is though This was from the spy troops era of GI Joe and this was GI Joe's attempt to be compatible with Lego So that's right. This is akin to a Lego set So this will be kind of like a Lego build, but it comes with a GI Joe action figure of wild weasel a Cobra action figure And yes that action figure has Lego pegs on it So you could attach Lego pieces to it if you ever wanted to do such a thing So we're gonna put this thing together. It has a couple different modes as it says here on the back. It has Mode one jet fighter mode to hydrofoil I'm going to put it together in the jet fighter mode because it does have wild weasel after all I have the tools. I think I will need to put this thing together So let's move the camera get some nice close-ups and join me as I build the GI Joe Cobra built-to-rule Raven with wild weasel this will be Something else. All right. This is supposed to be a sealed vehicle. I got it incredibly cheaply now We haven't always had the best luck with sealed vehicles before We found out that they were in fact resealed and the pieces inside were were loose This has a figure in it and that figure is just kind of kind of rattling around down in there So I don't know if that's normal But let's open this up If you ever want to get Built-to-rule Vehicles and put them together for the most part they seem incredibly inexpensive There seems to be not a lot of demand for them. So the prices have not Gone crazy. I Did not intend to tear that but this is Okay, it is taped that does not necessarily mean that it wasn't re-taped. So let's Let's slice that open and Get this out so we can Put her together I'm not a Lego person. So I haven't built Lego for Ever like since I was a kid or well, you know I helped my kids build some of theirs. So I guess that Here's a piece and I think there's a oh, okay. Yeah, there's a tray, but it's got stuff behind the tray so let's just pull it out and Just let the pieces go where they may And Okay, that's everything. Okay. Nothing left in the box. I noticed that it has a file card So hey, it's one up on the GI Joe classified figures which Which did not have file cards. There is Wild weasel. I see what happened He had these little rubber band things that were supposed to hold him like right here but those have snapped at some point and so he was just kind of kind of Sliding around in the tray. So let me just take these off of them And there's wild weasel now. I don't know how well you can see this But he's got little Lego pegs on his arms And on his lower legs What purpose they serve I guess that we will find out there's Something else attached here, and I'm not sure what it is. Let's just pop it off and see It's a piece I Have no idea what that's supposed to be. I guess the instructions will tell us. Let's see what the instructions say Here we go Oh Btr built to rule action building sets The instructions This looks like a catalog Yeah, there's the There's the GI Joe and Cobra range right there And it came with a Locust and moccasin and a Few other things that didn't really look anything like the vintage Vehicles that's okay though because you know, this is a new era, right? So they they're giving us something new. I'll see there's Transformers, I guess they had some transformers So I mean it is nice that this was an era In which Hasbro was attempting to keep GI Joe relevant along with its other brands In recent years They've kind of neglected GI Joe and have only Really this year started to give GI Joe any real attention at all Let's see so Here are the assembly instructions now are we assembling the jet? We are assembling the jet. Okay. All right. So mode one Yes, what mode one fighter jet Let's see we start with This piece and Okay, that's interesting. So this is just an example piece And it has a mate in there. I Don't know guys. I don't I don't understand. I don't know from Lego. So I don't know if that's normal I do believe These were not especially popular it seems But maybe that was a mistake. Maybe they're a lot of fun and they should have been popular We'll see if we enjoy building this this does have the snake design on the side of the moray hydrofoil And that kind of makes me think the hydrofoil mode might be better But we are doing the jet mode today If you want to do the hydrofoil mode, you know, you're certainly welcome to do that on your own time It looks like I need to open this one. Maybe I should just open all of them and Start assembling Oh, I need to sharpen this knife that knife is getting dull Shame on me for not sharpening it before now. I don't like dull knives All right, so according to this These two go together in one particular way This symmetrical Front and back it seems to be so it goes like. Ah, yes goes like that Yes Fits together Like Lego and it looks I mean it looks like Lego, but instead of the little knobs Having Lego stamped on them. It has BTR stamped on them This was not the only attempt to make GI Joe compatible with Lego. There was also the the Creo sets Which were Lego compatible And some of them look pretty good And they actually came with many figures instead of like three and three-quarter inch action figures, so it was even more of an attempt to be Compatible with Lego and they basically were a lot like Lego except Except not a Lego knockoff if you will. Okay, so there are these wing pieces. How do these go on? these go on Let's see. Oh, okay. All right. Oh For one thing. I'm looking at it the wrong way. It goes that way and then Let's see this one goes on this side not that way. No, it goes on this side like so And the other one goes like this There we go and We've got these little ski things that one and this one and These allegedly go where? Like this Yeah, I guess so Okay Well, I'll tell you there is a possibility that this might be a fun build because when we have built some vintage Vehicles straight out of the box They have been difficult Surprisingly difficult to construct So if this is like just putting Legos together Then it might be more fun that we might not have to worry about pieces not fitting properly Okay, so next I need This let's get this stuff out of the way. I need this and Let's see two of which one This and this okay, so this goes here Like how like this I think so line it up That does not feel right that feels right there we go There we go and of course the Legos are sticking to my arm Make some room here and these go in the back like This and this that's interesting. I wonder why they didn't make that one piece instead of two Because it kind of makes an unbroken piece there Okay, so now we have wings and this and a long piece Is that the right one yes, don't try to get away from me This have spring-loaded weapons. That's what this looks like it looks like a missile for a spring-loaded missile launcher Oh, it does Wow, okay Legacy of the 90s. All right one thing at a time. We got the wings We got this and this goes on like so Get this more in your center screen. This goes on here Line it up. I know lots of people like Lego out there. It's not my thing I think I understand why people like it And I'm glad that people like it. I It's just not something that I do I Think I think it can be fun People put on an amazing amount of effort into it For me though No matter how much effort I Didn't line that correctly no much how no matter how much effort you put into it Building some amazingly complex item Some huge play set or something It's still got all these telltale knobs on it and It still looks like bricks in a lot of ways And there's nothing wrong with that. It's just it's just a preference thing is No knock against Legos This goes like that I Think I've got that right if if I lined the Wings up correctly then it goes like that The problem is it's hard to tell from the diagram here if I lined the wings up correctly But if I didn't it should become evident pretty soon it looks like I did though No, except this has to go one more back Okay All right, so two of these That with these numbers on them and then one of These I think Yes, and what else? Oh and this there we go Oh two of those okay got it. So these are the pieces that we need this time. These need to go number side out like so So once this is assembled it should be compatible with a three and three-quarter inch figure This the wild weasel action figure should be able to fit in it And work as a driver for it or a pilot I should say And I am struggling with this one for some reason There we go And then this piece goes Like that and it should stick out a bit from the back. Uh, let's see hold on Hold on. Ah, there we go like that Is that it? I think that's it. Uh, all right. It's hard to whoops. Maybe not No, no, it's it this is I I'm doing it right. I'm doing it right. It just needs to Snap into place so snap or click or Whatever you do just get into place Working I think so Yeah, there solid cool. All right Not bad so far Step six I need these fins Need another one of these. Oh, I forgot to put those on Need um This okay, let me put these on because I forgot How did they go they just kind of Snap into the center of this Wing tip, okay, I think they want it I think they want it like that Maybe okay, here we go. There we go. There we go One in The other one Snap it in There we go. All right. So now we have two Spring-loaded missile launchers on the wing tips. That's fine I mean, it's a reasonably cool looking vehicle vehicle so far When it's fully assembled though, we're still gonna have little knobbies on it. So I guess you can Continue to customize it if you want to by adding additional pieces or moving pieces around I guess that's the point isn't it that's uh That's one of the reasons people collect the lego sets and Build them. You don't just have to build what they give you You can build your own When I did play with lego as a kid, that's what I liked about it. Um Not so much building sets as They were given but Building our own sets I'm kind of making whatever we wanted. Okay Okay, we're kind of building a structure here in the center to hold the back piece together And I need this which goes here No, oh wait, hold on I missed a piece this goes here Which way that way That goes there All right, I'm getting it. I'm getting it. So we've got a sort of a Uh, a body piece here or like some kind of an engine piece or something This goes here and What's next step seven we need the canopy Canopy hinge and one of these flat pieces. Okay, so Let's see the canopy hinge Is going to go where? On top of that piece we just assembled Like oops That I'm trying to do this so you can see it There we go I try to When I do my reviews Keep my person my body behind the camera and reach around it in order to Manipulate whatever it is. I'm Reviewing on the in front of the camera. Yeah, there we go canopy on But I can get awfully complicated because sometimes I have to execute Complex movements That are on the other side of the camera and with the Tripod in the way, so it's kind of like I would liken it to trying to tie my shoes You know reaching around a tree it's um It can be tricky sometimes but For the most part I try to keep my hands and arms out of the way and you know show you what you Came to see Which is not my harry arm you came to see the The toy Okay, I need one of these need one of these I used a different one of those for the previous step. Oh, but I need that one now I need hinge and hinge. That's it, right? Okay So these go in here. They just kind of peg in Will they swivel? A little bit but not very much they're pretty tight there Let's see and those are going to go on the tops of these Fin this in the back Looks like there aren't any stickers to put on these. I guess I should have expected that but I got my Tweezers out hoping we would be able to put stickers on Okay, come on. I know you can do it and you will do it because Because you have no choice. There we go. So I've talked about sandy before Old guy I used to work with out at gardener's bookstore He was just kind of a handyman and when old man gardener wanted some bookcases built some new bookcases to Expand some of the sections Called upon sandy to To put them together and when sandy needed help I would help him out So sandy and I Built a lot of bookcases That are still standing to this day But old sandy he uh sometimes needed some cough medicine to get through the day so Sometimes he'd run off to the convenience store and get him some cough medicine as he called it and What he would always say when he you know put that level on the shelf to make sure it was Level enough to to not be noticed if it wasn't perfect He would say that was good enough for the girls. I go out with So I I get you I feel you sandy And this I think is good enough for the girls. I go out with I missed something in step eight I gotta go back and finish it. It does take all There we go All four of these and have I missed this Is this a piece that I was supposed to put on and I've missed it But let's hold on one thing at a time guys and I'll go back through the instructions and make sure that I Haven't screwed it up, which I probably have because I don't know nothing about this um So we got to put these uh These guns here on the front. This does not look anything like A cobra night raven or a cobra raven or whatever you want to call it But it does have a passing resemblance to a fire bat So, you know, this could be an avac And we could call this a fire bat um, it does have the uh The cobra emblem, um the snake That is from the moray hydrofoil that still looks cool on an air vehicle Not too shabby. All right, I think I've gone through and found where the missing pieces went and were supposed to put the spring loaded missiles into the launcher One and two And those should fire Not too bad. Not quite as powerful as some of the oops that one's got stuck That one doesn't fire well Uh, oh, there we go. Not quite as powerful as the old 90s gijo missile launchers and canopy swings up And wild weasel can We can move them a little bit Can go in The cockpit And let's make sure that the canopy will go over him. There you go. There you go It's gonna be a little windy in there because there's nothing on the side. It's open there But uh, he can fly around on that in that thing Um, there you go. That is the built to rule cobra raven and wild weasel That was my unboxing and assembly of the gijo cobra raven built to rule Vehicle that came with the wild weasel action figure. Um, that was interesting. That was kind of fun Was it more fun than Building a vintage vehicle out of the box No, not quite. Uh, we didn't have some of the hassles that we usually have with building vintage gijo vehicles But we had different kinds of hassles with figuring out where some of these lego pieces go But we did get assembled. There she is in all her glory I hope you had fun We will do more of these as time goes on As I get vehicles to open I don't have any other boxed vehicles to open right now. I think I've assembled all of them I don't think I have any That are still sealed in the box. Um, I usually only open vehicles From the 90s, although I have Opened a couple late 80s vehicles But usually only common vehicles. I try not to open up anything that would be rare and expensive So as I get inexpensive vehicles to open, um, I will open them on video and we'll just have fun putting them together So, uh, thanks for watching. I hope you're enjoying cobra convergence five and until next time remember only cobra is cobra