 Hello everybody hooded cobra commander 7a here, and I'm gonna do something. I've never done before I don't often do reaction videos But I thought it would be fun since we just passed the five-year milestone to do a reaction to my First video not my first review, but the first video I uploaded to this channel, which was not a review It hasn't been seen very many times not a lot of views on this But this is what I originally thought that I would do with this channel Obviously I had a YouTube channel before so it's not my first video ever But it is absolutely my first ever GI Joe related video and the first video on this channel uploaded April 16th, 2014 so This is basically a Part of like a little mini movie that I was trying to make Using the GI Joe action figures as the actors. It's not exactly stop motion I think the kind of animation this is is called chuck a motion Not exactly stop motion But it was something that I thought would be fun and I had like a whole story planned out in my head And this was supposed to be the first part of it It was going to be my own version of GI Joe with my own origin of GI Joe and my own Origin of Cobra basically starting at the beginning it would draw some influence from the Larry Hama Version of the comic book But it would also take a few elements from the cartoon series But but with an entirely different story that I just made up myself And this was supposed to be the beginning of it. I never got past part one Okay, there is no part two I never made a part two and I think you'll see why for this I built a bunch of sets I Had like props and everything that I made for the action figures so that they could have a world to walk around in I Put a lot of effort into it. They're all pretty bad It may not look like a lot of effort went into this but for me at the time it was a lot of effort It was so much effort and in fact it took it was so time-consuming to produce I decided that you know, I was gonna put this on hiatus, right and For the next video. I decided to try a review which was breaker my first review So the second video on the channel was my first review a review of breaker I want to show you this I'm gonna just hit play and I'm just gonna react to it as we go I'll make sure to put it up on your screen here. So you can watch along But it's it's rough. I've I've seen it. I made it. It's it's pretty rough But I hope you guys enjoy this reaction to it. So let's have a reaction to my first ever video and Let's go ahead and hit play and go And we have a disclaimer right off the bat I was always worried about copyright infringement even back then Even though IDW wouldn't have been a copyright holder. They would have been a Licensee, but still didn't want to step on anyone's toes There we go GI Joe age of terror that was gonna be the the name for the thing and part one the cobra hatches because Cobra's hatch from eggs snakes hatch from eggs And this is Cobra commander In the early days of Cobra giving an impassioned speech Now I didn't have enough action figures to use as the crowd So obviously I've just used the backs of the heads of some Joe action to figures I didn't have enough extra action figures to make a crowd out of them. That's what I had to do I only had a handful of figures at the time Yeah Basically what I did is I kind of integrated several different types of populist rhetoric I always assumed this is how an organization like Cobra would have gotten started and at that time I was doing a lot of reading about terrorism and counter-terrorism I Drew a lot of the ideology of Cobra commander from some of the works from from I think Paul Berman And and some other writers on terrorism And I wanted to have An Explanation of kind of the symbolism of the mask and the patch and there's this guy He's a new recruit, but we have this dramatic moment. It's looking into his eyes Where he has the mask on and now he his identity doesn't matter anymore. He is Cobra Two years later. Okay. Let's see what Cobra commander has done in two years Stock photo he's he's managed to produce a stock photo One of which I put a sign that says welcome to Springfield and here you go this Arbco industries that I made out of box and there's major blood see my thought was At the beginning of Cobra as he's amassing an army He's promising these people that he's promising glory. He's promising, you know world domination But it takes a lot of time to build an organization. That's ready for that So I thought like this is why he would bring in major blood. He'd bring in major blood because he needs somebody with military experience to kind of Guide these troops that they're all inexperienced troops at this point. They're they're recruited But they don't have like actual combat experience So he brings in major blood to kind of give a little bit of backbone to his army Mystery pilot. I didn't have enough Cobra Tube action figures either Cobra commander only appears in the hood here because I don't think I had any other Cobra commander figure at the time so I Had I had the thing on On fishing wire At the time I wanted to do this without showing any like human hands Manipulating the figures so I did things like you I used fishing wire everything to keep me out of the shot Although there is one shot where you can see my hand, but it's on purpose But now looking back at on it, I don't think that was necessarily a great idea because if I had not bothered with the The fishing line I could have like had the blades spinning and I apologize for the very bad Scottish accent I gave Destro here. Oh, and I apologize to everyone in Australia for my major blood impression. Sorry about that There is one thing that I still think is a nice touch I put electrical tape around Destro's wrists because he's supposed to be unarmed here Right, he comes in peace and and so I covered up I didn't want him to have wrist rockets, right because then he would be armed So this is him without the wrist rockets. I basically taped over them with with electrical tape Destro has sought out Cobra Cobra didn't seek him. He found Cobra I Like the shadow some of this is not bad, you know lit with a flashlight But I kind of dig the shadows. It's not all terrible, but a lot of it's terrible Bring the Baroness So then we have the interior and it's I Hey, look it took hours to put this together and like the chair isn't even straight You know, it's the best I could do at the time It's a lot of talking it's a lot of talking have you noticed there's no action of any kind so far For for this first video though, what I wanted to do is I wanted to establish everyone's motivation I wanted to kind of get inside the head of Cobra commander and Destro and major blood and Understand, you know what they all want and why they would all come together Well, my daughter did the voice of the Baroness on here. She was very reluctant to do it I think I had to bribe her to do it So she seems to know a lot about Destro She is the Cobra intelligence officer Now, obviously she knows Destro, but she doesn't want to let on to Cobra commander that she knows Destro a lot of talking I got that Cobra trooper with his gun is a Rifle up like that. It's broken. I didn't have one that wasn't broken Is I Hadn't been collecting all that long at this point. I I did not have enough action figures to do this but I did it anyway, so This It's a lot of talking If I were to do this today I would definitely try to add a bit more punch and like maybe start with some action and then roll into the the the exposition There there. There's my hand. Okay, that was the only time you see my hand in this But I thought it would be cool to have a close-up of Destro Placing the blueprints on the table and of course it's the blueprints for the his tank and the fang So basically Destro is trying to sell the his tank and the fang helicopter to Cobra Yes, he wants to join Cobra, too Now I think that would be a big ask for Cobra commander who's been demanding complete loyalty from all his troops And here comes this guy that he's never known before and his loyalty is questionable at best so Little nod of the head from Destro, man, this is this is a lot of talking Yeah Backhanded compliment little a little dig at major blood There you go handshake and Destro has joined Cobra and Has made Cobra more dangerous because he's going to supply Tanks and helicopters to be continued actually it was never continued and And the credits age of terror part one By me Music by other people see even back then I was trying to make sure to attribute to things to the proper people I was worried about copyright back then so I didn't want to have any copyright infringement So watch for tar apart watch for part two the origin of GI Joe that was gonna be part two Was the origin of GI Joe and that's it. That's it That's the whole thing. So there you have it. That was my first video and my reaction to it. It is pretty bad You can kind of see like what I was going for you can kind of see the idea that I had But the execution was certainly not what it should have been I actually did work on part two I did some work on part two because part two is supposed to be the origin of GI Joe now that we've got Some background on Cobra. I was gonna have a scene where General flag and general Hawk go to the White House to propose this idea for this This team of you know fast response team For anti-terrorism that would draw from all of the branches of service, but they'd all be under one roof They'd be a super secret team And they'd need a super secret base. So there was gonna be a You know I was gonna use the pit like just like in the comic book But I was gonna make the pit it was gonna be an abandoned base from a previous team There's gonna be a previous team called adventure team that had used this as a secret base this This underground base at Fort Wadsworth But that team was discontinued so this new team that was gonna be called GI Joe Would take over that base and kind of remodel it and make it into the pit so That was the next scene it would the scene was gonna be Basically in the White House while they're making this pitch And getting approval to form the GI Joe team so and I made a A set like a little miniature set for the Oval Office You know, I it I think it was actually impressively detailed, but I Tried to film a little bit of it. I shot a few of the The shots that I would need for it But when I went back and looked at it to try to see what I could piece together and add it together None of it turned out good. I mean it was it was all basically unusable. Nothing really turned out well at all That was kind of the end of the project. I was like, okay I if I continued this I'd have to reshoot everything to even make it usable my flimsy little set for the Oval Office Would have to be fixed because it It wasn't very sturdy and it didn't hold up very well So Yeah, it's it that's when I finally kind of gave up on it I was doing reviews kind of regularly and the reviews were a little more fun And people were watching them. So I kind of just Gravitated toward the reviews and I have done some of these kind of chukamation action scenes So I didn't completely abandon this kind of idea but I did abandon the story that I had because Honestly, all of part one is Just talking just people talking and all of part two would it's gonna be just people talking and it would take in Really too long before we actually got to any of the adventures any of the action Yeah, it needed a little more work. It just it wasn't quite what I was hoping that it would be So that's my reaction to it. I don't think it's very good There are still some things that I like about it, but some of the choices that I made I think could have been better And Yeah, and I apologize for the terrible Australian accent and the terrible Scottish accent I'll never do it again. I promise. I promise. I don't recommend going back and watching the original video It's not very good. You've just seen it here. It doesn't get any better Watching it on the whole screen But yeah, that was the beginning of the Hooded Cobra commander 788 YouTube channel And I don't regret it made a lot of mistakes back then But I can't regret those mistakes because it got me here and able to Talk with all of you guys and get to know a lot of you guys Thanks for watching this and don't forget. I'll be taking this weekend off No new review this weekend, but I am working on other stuff. I am I'm still working Because there's a lot of cool stuff coming up. So I'll see you soon and remember, you know, you know what? You're supposed to remember. We'll see you later