 live everyone I hope the picture is not as herky jerky for you as it is me yeah my video is kind of kind of wacky so hopefully it's going smoothly for you hello everyone happy Tuesday welcome back nice to see you hope everybody's doing well I started a little early I always try to start a little early in case something goes wrong hello big gay Dave and garrison how do you do in case something goes wrong you know so if I have to scramble and fix something I'll have a couple minutes to do it hello Jamalyn and Chad and Jason how's everybody doing so hello Matt so I'm gonna be out of town for a few days starting tomorrow and of course that is when Hasbro is going to be you doing a GI Joe live thing at the just the moment when hello lol be both to good for you good for you hello Lester and the loud American and super super guy and Matt and Jeffrey hello hello and there's comic tropes hello comic tropes thanks for being here so yeah Hasbro had to wait until I was gonna be on the road to do a live GI Joe focused thing I don't blame them I don't blame them they did not check with my schedule before planning this but I understand but it's gonna be June and they have been hinting that they have been holding some things back so we can have some surprises in June so it's gonna be June hey it's Joe motion videos 82 how do you yeah be you have to be here for the next five minutes well I'm glad you're here thanks for being here it's nice to see you don't get to see you in here that often so I'm glad you're here thanks for taking the time one of the things that I guess the they're planning on doing is opening a vintage GI Joe vehicle hello sparkster who's that hello Jason hello Cyclonus hello JG how do you do hello raw Vegas good day thanks for being here hello MCDJ ACDC one of the options for a vintage vehicle that I guess they're going to open for this live thing is the GI Joe equalizer the slaughters maron oh thank you comic tropes for the super chat gas money this should get you a mile or so yeah gas is outrageous it's yeah yeah when I was planning this trip gas wasn't so expensive but it got expensive so since one of the options that they might open hello they gone is the equalizer it inspired me to dig into the the storage containers where I'm keeping a lot of stuff and pull out my equalizer so I thought it would take a little it's a little dusty I thought we'd take a brief look at this I haven't looked at this in a long time has for what's president they fulfill the classified pre-orders I've already made well that that would be a good surprise wouldn't I haven't looked in this in a long time and this is a hell of a vehicle so I thought I'd take a minute and look at this just just take a gander at it just cuz I haven't seen this for a while the slaughters marauders vehicles were the I think the best part of slaughters marauders these are great this is a great GI Joe vehicle I think for any era I mean just look at all the stuff on it look it's got camouflage paint that was a rare thing to get camouflage paint hello Loki and I I think that's the same math that I said hello to but if not hello there are lots of mats in here a lot lots of mats lots of Chris's but but I'm happy that you're all here thank you so I thought I'd take a brief look at that and then later in this live stream I thought hello Jason and Cobra Island and already said hello to Sparkster but hello again hello wwgad 85 always nice to see you yeah yeah this is the equalizer from 1988 hello hello Rodimus thanks for being here yeah the the slaughters marauders equalizer from 1988 and this is a this is a cool little thing so I wanted to take a look at this I'm gonna do that in this video in this live stream and then I thought maybe toward the end of the live stream hello Garcia toward the end of the live stream I might open something something that I haven't opened before something that I've been holding on to I thought I would open oh thank you Christian bricks thank you very much greetings from Denmark greetings Denmark from the United States my quick drawing is amazing as your sketch sales taken off I strongly suggest everybody get one thank you Christian I I haven't actually been advertising the sketches for the last couple weeks I will be not available for the next few days because I will be on the road but when I get back I can pick up the sketches again and if anybody would want to order a sketch I will do that I'm glad I'm really really glad you liked the Quinn I've never drawn Quinn before and it was fun it was fun to draw a character that I've never drawn before but I do need to get a lot drawn done I have a busy June a very busy June because I've got to get videos done because that's ready to rock and roll I've got to go to Joe Fest and I've got to prepare for Joe Fest and I've got to get my own videos for Cobra Convergence done and ready so June is gonna be busy busy I've already warned everybody you may not see as much as far as full edited content from me in June but that's not because I'm not working it's because I'm working a lot to do big project stuff so you will get a lot you will get a lot a lot lot but it may be a minute because I've got to catch up on some things one of the things I've got to catch up on is I've got to get more sketches done for Joe Fest Loki says where is Joe Fest Joe Fest is in Augusta Georgia and it is at the end of June you can I think they I think the website is just Joe Fest comm I think I think I'll find the link for you guys later sorry I'm unprepared I'm unprepared anyway so I'm gonna I'm gonna take a minute and look at this I'm gonna take a minute look at this cuz it cuz it's cool and then I thought of at the back half of the video I could open something and I'm gonna open something that's been staring at me hello same woods thanks for being here I'm going to open something I do need an intern yeah that would be great why can't I get an intern something that's been staring at me I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do it I'm going to open this classified Cobra bat I've got a couple of these now a viewer very kindly sent one in but then I found a couple in the wild shockingly because I hadn't seen any of these for months and then surprise I find a couple of them so I am I'm it's an impromptu it's an impromptu Army build of Cobra bats so I thought I would open this guy and then we can compare him to to the vintage Cobra bat I have my my bag o bats here that that's what it's a bag o bats I've got a bag o bats yeah so live unboxing I just before I started the live stream this evening I was just looking over there and had it sitting over here and I'm like man I I really want I really want to get my hands on this I want to see I want to see it really close up I want to check out all of the accessories and and the battle damage stuff so he's got battle damage stuff I want to check out all that so we'll do that later on let's see come across my favorite targets and walmarts our local targets and walmots haven't had any classified figures other than the snake eyes origins ones for months mine too mine too the promise is that there will be more but but yes I have the same issue and I've got all of the snake eyes movie figures that they have I still have scarlet I'll get scarlet but I've got the movie figures they have so it like they've there's nothing there for me to get I already have it so you know there should be some you know the next waves coming in at some point but definitely hasn't made it there yet let's see Beta Ray Bob oh hey Beta Ray Bob weren't you didn't you request a magnet from my trip if you did send me your address I shot you an email send me your address so I know where to send it yeah the equalizer I think it's intended to be a an anti aircraft tank it's missing a missile that means that must have dropped down in the box where I was storing it I know I had all the missiles but yeah look at it I mean this that that's a huge anti-aircraft system that's what that is with like radar or in like Doppler and stuff yeah thank you thank you Bob so yeah that's how I would interpret interpret this I'm trying to get the lighting try not get it in a shadow so you can see the the really nice camouflage paint on this guy but yeah this is to me this is this is a mobile anti-aircraft system and and it's gorgeous it's it's dusty it's dusty I could put dusty in it but it's got it's got dusty on it but yeah so well let's just let's just dive in let's let's look at let's look at this I have I got this a long time ago a long time ago yeah I'm missing another missile yes another rattler bites the dust that's that's how I that's how it got lost shot down a cobra rattler I got this a long time ago and I haven't reviewed it yet it was equalizer any paint of something are completely new it was it's it's half new the bottom half the bottom half is from the 1985 GI Joe Mahler just imagine it in tan instead of green and camouflage but the top the top is new and the other Slaughter's Marauders vehicles were like this as well they they used the chassis of an older vehicle but they added a new weapon system on top of that they did that with the links and the armadillo and they did the same with this one thing that is I find interesting though is that the Mahler was a battery powered motorized vehicle but the equalizer is not the the Mahler had real treads the equalizer has plastic fake treads and it has wheels right but here's a fun thing it doesn't have it doesn't have batteries but it still has a battery compartment sort of it's got a door for battery compartment you could you could like it's hollow in there but you know they they just took the body of a motorized tank took the motor out took the battery thing out and and just use the shell of it to make a new vehicle can I get this back on have I doomed myself by taking this off I think I can get back on my am I even doing it the right way hold on this is hard to do and and try to keep it on camera so it goes the other way then hold on hold on I gotta put it back on or I'll lose it there got it got it there we go so yeah I I love the slaughter's marauders vehicles one one issue with the slaughter's marauders at least a couple of the slaughter's marauders vehicles is is this thing this rather notorious toe cable which is almost always missing yeah um yeah that's a thing thing I'm sure noticed yeah the the the pillar whale also has like a cavity underneath so who knows what that was originally meant for but but this we do know that used to be a battery compartment this this silly thing these things are so absurdly rare and I'm glad I got this when I did because this would have been even more expensive than it was at the time I I gotta tell you I don't I don't love spending ridiculous amount of money on silly pieces of plastic like this now I don't mind spending some money on something like this yeah but but this not so much and since I will eventually review this I do need to have it complete so I've got to use this and yes these are very thin this is these these toe cables came with the mauler and the equalizer and the links and going all the way back to the Wolverine from 1983 this I mean I it it it's nice it's kind of cool a little bit it's sort of cool but that there's not a whole lot you're you're likely gonna do with it so it just becomes an extra piece I mean it adds a little bit of character to that side it adds some some depth to it sure there is that but but it breaks easily it breaks very easily Jeff says one with his Wolverine broke when he got it out of storage you're not the only one you're that it yeah you're not the only one so yeah that's this but yeah there's there's the equalizer this thing has like everything one thing I really liked about it is the missiles and the gun turrets the the guns are are are synced they're connected so they will elevate they'll like ratchet elevate together that that's just cool that's just cool and it comes with some like it has some of the other features that the the mauler had so it has some and get it off some wow that's really stuck on there some removable engine covers there we go so you know you can take you can take the engine covers off and it's got let's see why have why haven't I reviewed this yet it it's it's a big vehicle and so it will it'll be a comp a complicated review that will take a lot of time to shoot so it's a little intimidating but it also has the the hatches on the front so you know that's got the opening hatches so the figures here so the figures can fit in there it's it's just really nice foot pegs I don't believe it has any foot pegs which the the mauler did not either and neither did the mobat and the Wolverine also didn't have foot pegs so yeah that's it's it's short on foot pegs it was it was fairly common for troops to ride along you know on top of tanks and other vehicles so having put foot pegs isn't a bad idea but I think this is fine it's got a lot of great technical detail on there and I don't think hello jump in general how do you do hello dendo star hello sean beckett hello will and steven thanks uh thanks for being here guys um I said I I don't think I would want this really nice detail broken up with a foot peg I just think it looks good uh hello uh kellis how do you do um I don't I just think it looks too nice to to plop a foot peg on there so I I'm I'm kind of glad they they didn't put foot pegs on this one I think it looks better without it so there you go um I've got it it does have like tiny little antenna it's got a lot of detail has these little side grenade launcher things this piece here is hinged and it will it will open it'll open and I think you can like yeah you can like shove that in there I'm not sure what the purpose of that is I I don't know um I'm not sure if that's a feature or just just a way they they designed it to uh accommodate the radar dish but yeah you can open up the back um it's just that's this is just tremendous this is this I think is going the extra mile for a vehicle which could have been could have been a simple uh repaint of a classic vehicle and you know half of it is half of it is um oh thank you Ryan I will I I will do my best thank you I will uh he says have fun on your trip I'm gonna try I'm gonna try we should have a good time I I think I'm taking oops I'm taking my daughter um oh I knocked off the thing hold on let me reattach it these side panels uh don't stay on super well in fact I I've knocked them off a couple of times while I was getting ready for the live stream so let's see if I can there we go there we go all right uh anyway so yeah um it's got the the mud flaps in the front and the back so like it has every okay it has almost everything the mauler has I was gonna say it has everything the mauler has and then some but okay let's not forget it's it's hollow in there there's no motor so it doesn't have everything the mauler has um oh Harold says first time at Jofest uh well look me up there uh hey is Slaughter's uh Sergeant Slaughter Slaughterhouse in here did I miss that those guys um sorry if I miss Slaughter Sergeant Slaughter Slaughterhouse hello Sergeant Slaughter Slaughterhouse always nice to see you thanks for being here um uh hello Russell Samuel Russell how do you do uh hello Gray Fox hey hello uh yeah I was just taking a minute to look at and admire this uh this equalizer I just I just felt like it I just wanted to I just wanted to so I did um for those who missed it um I'm leaving tomorrow on a road trip with my daughter we're gonna go out of town for a few days uh it's something that we've been planning for months months and months uh we're finally gonna go so uh so I will be um uh indisposed for a few days but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna be working um I have Cobra Convergence to get ready I have my own videos to plan so I'm still gonna be busy but I'm gonna be busy on the road hey I figure expert expert how do you do um it's uh the equalizer one of uh top 10 Joe vehicles I agree this is this is nice and like they they really didn't slack on this they didn't skimp on this right down to the camouflage paint I mean it was a rare thing to get any kind of paint on a vehicle but this all over camouflage uh at least on the the main body that's special this is special so yeah I dig this I dig this I just I just wanted to to admire I just wanted to admire the beautiful vehicle so yeah uh so there's that uh I should review at some point should review I will I will I don't know when I will I would also really like to review the Mahler um I think I have oh thank you the killer weasel um uh bought that years ago uh Mendon seal box and enjoyed putting it together uh cool the killer weasel um since you mentioned that that is something that uh the Hasbro uh GI Joe design team um is apparently gonna do they're gonna open a vintage GI Joe vehicle and one of the vehicles that they may open uh hello James aka ratface one of the vehicles they may open is this one so that's what inspired me to check it out it inspired me to check it out um so uh so there's that there's I'm gonna set it over here so I can see it because I want to admire it and even as we're speaking here I want to admire this this lovely vehicle um well yeah I don't um I don't think um I don't think YouTube lets you do links I don't have any control over it YouTube doesn't do that so sorry uh but now now I want to open this now I want to open this it's it's time I I'm eager to open this I've already cut the tape um I found this and uh look at this see this is not one to keep this is not one to keep in in the box look what they did with the hang tag look at this that the hang tag is like sideways it's this this is ridiculous uh hello Whitman nice to see you how do you do uh so real great effort there target employees sticking the hang tag on there sideways nicely done uh so yeah this this is not one to keep in the box this this is one to open this is one to open so let's open it the classified cobra bat because I am eager I'm eager to see this let's see it um I missed your question Samuel um much apologies sorry about that uh sometimes when I'm soliloquizing or admiring GI Joe toys I don't I can't keep up with the the uh live chat as well as I'd like to sorry about that uh but let's let's open this this is well first of all let's look at the box let's see there are the symbols I will um oh what's your favorite GI Joe movie um I guess retaliation I guess um that's that's a that's a difficult question you ask a difficult question uh yeah yeah Sean I just love the I've seen the 87 movies so many times I must really love it right um so I whenever I actually do a review of this guy I will make up uh I will make up names for each of these symbols but uh there's there's the package there's the artwork uh but let's get them out let's get them out I don't want to get them out okay there may be a plastic crinkling sound sorry about that sorry um so here he is out of the box there is a nice red cobra at the back and and here we go uh there he is out of the box uh retaliation and none of the GI Joe movies have been perfect um but there were elements of retaliation that I liked very much uh probably more so than the other options we'll we'll say that I uh hello Chris uh and um uh yes uh hello Chris sorry um I thought I saw a new name in there sorry but uh but hello Chris hello Chris we got Matt's we got Chris's uh this is the Matt's and Chris's show um uh so and and Contropes liked the snake eyes movie and I I said before I didn't dislike the snake eyes movie there's a lot that I did like about the snake eyes movie um but uh anyway there's there's this that let's let's let's get uh let's get uh cobra bat out of his uh of his plastic coffin here um first first I shall remove the figure uh hello snake eyes declassified um oh okay uh thank you I I have not been able to check my uh my messages and I'm gonna be out of town for a few days okay I'm trying I'm trying not to make it too loud like the I'm trying to not let let the plastic creak uh make too much noise here but I gotta get him out here we go here we go here is the figure himself look at that there there you have a six inch cobra bat uh that is exactly what that is isn't it there's there's a 360 yeah rise of the machine this this machine just it's look it's the rise of the machine it's the lowering of the machine uh okay so let's I wish I could like uh I if I had something that I could like put it keep him in frame I would but I don't have anything this tall and the box the box is not tall enough easy to be like that uh so you'll just have to trust me that that this isn't vanishing as soon as as it drops out of frame but I want to take I want to take the accessories out take the backpack first very interesting the backpack of course has the slots for the extra pieces it also has these like tanks on the side that's interesting okay uh let's see it has an alternate head that is damaged I do like the damaged pieces see look here it has it has a chest piece plain and it has a chest piece damaged um and I think this is great because we often saw the cobra bats damage one of their features was that they could continue fighting even when they were severely damaged uh hello nyquist thanks for being here hello yo jo thanks for being here so that that's one of the their features right that they can keep they can take a looking and keep on ticking uh so uh so we have we have a bat that's bats it's a bat that's bats and when I say bats I mean bat s that's an acronym for busted all to shit bats busted all to shit bats that are bats so uh so we have we have a bat bat um and uh yeah let me let me see well before I pop on any before I pop on any um uh of the damaged pieces let me let me get the regular accessories on this is hard to do like and keep it in frame I'm gonna do my best oh but there's that it's got see it doesn't have a lenticular sticker like the original it has a sculpted chest with uh with the antenna internal workings and I think that's cool but it also makes sense that you would not you know just keep the internal workings of your robot exposed and so you uh you got an armor plate here so now now his chest is all armored up um a cobra emblem on that maybe would would be nice that'd be a nice touch but um but yeah so now his chest is armored um he's he's already got his um oh those joints are tight um he's already got his hand on and I believe let's see yeah uh you should be able to pull off the hand yeah the hand comes off and then you can attach uh like for instance this which is the flamethrower so yeah he can attach his other weapons like that I'm gonna go ahead and put the hand on because because I want to um so I'm I'm reattaching his hand uh that is that's a feature that the uh original 1980 hey uh hello peg warmers thanks for being here hello joe fan um I'm always happy to see uh peg warmers here and I'm always happy to catch uh the peg warmers live stream as well make sure you subscribe to peg warmers um and subscribe to every like there are a bunch of guys with youtube channels in here so um uh so comic tropes and sparkster uh and uh cobra island and uh everybody else um yeah support your support your gi joe fan creator community support your guys uh that's how we keep getting cool stuff so like with the vintage you can uh I guess plug the extra bits yeah into the backpack so there's storage uh let's see that's interesting so like two of these items store in the back of the backpack um do the bad weapons fit both arm that's a good question let me see uh yeah actually so that is a feature that the that the uh the vintage figure did not have is that you can pop off either arm or either hand um yeah you can pop off either hand and attach one of the attachments so uh yeah I mean pop the hands back on uh yeah the the hands uh are not bad that they actually come off uh and pop back on pretty easily that is a problem I've had with some of the other um six inch figure hands is that like I feel very nervous uh taking them off and putting it back on uh so let's let's get them fully racked up here I'm putting his uh his flamethrower there he has the claw oh and and that's interesting the hold on the claw as with the the vintage figure is a single piece it's not articulated that that's very interesting I would have thought they would try to articulate this uh at the six inch scale but it's fine it's fine I'm not complaining it's fine it's fine it's still a menacing claw I'm just surprised I'm just surprised it's something I thought they would do I mean they gave him a chest panel but they didn't articulate the claw all right so the other one okay other one pops on there and then uh pistol goes in the holster holster is on the left side uh but of course the bat being a robot would be ambidextrous it's an ambidextrous robot and I'm sure there are people out there like shouting and offended that I called him ambidextrous because what does his religion have to do with anything who cares if he's ambidextrous but but he would be ambidextrous uh so he could fire a pistol with uh with a single hand um claw would have been too fragile if they had articulated that size possibly uh and that you know that's something that uh they may have chosen in the engineering phase uh can you can the hand or claw hold the extra robot head um uh well like sort of um like you could you might be able to get that in the hand but I don't I that I think that would be difficult I'm not sure that would work um uh do hamlet I I anyway so yeah so there's there's him you know with his basic equipment um and let's see uh I'm I'm I'm diving into my bag of bats I have bats in varying uh conditions here so you like this one is missing um Nyquist stole his idea um this one is missing the the lenticular sticker um this one uh has the sticker and the flamethrower uh doesn't have anything else in the the paint's all messed up he's really loose too uh let's see this one um also missing the sticker uh let's see this one uh this one's not bad this is it's uh let's see well I mean it might be complete I don't I got I got oh thank you christy uh ambidextrous is that what uh is that like a dyslex dyslexic agnostic insomniac I know where you're going with that yeah basically the same thing basically the same thing um this one's a pretty good shape um I think I think only one of them is complete let's see what's which one's best I this one is the one that's in the best condition here it's a bad extravaganza I I'm Batman uh let's see let's let's let's let's let's assemble this one and put it all together there's the backpack uh let's see uh the backpack and I think all I need is the uh wait now there's the flamethrower where's the other bit he's got the laser attachment where's my laser attachment oh there it is found one okay so let's let's put a complete vintage bat up against the uh the classified bat of course putting them up against each other that's not fair I mean this guy's this guy's almost twice as tall as the other guy that's not a fair fight but I mean let's compare them side by side um uh so uh so there's the vintage and um so they they were very faithful they were very faithful it looks a bit more like it if I take it off this the chest piece there you go that's that's pretty faithful to the vintage design that's pretty darn close um and yeah like backpack too uh but that's not all look at this let me take actually take the backpacks off like the the classified bat even has like the the technical like recess here on the bat or on the back just like the vintage bat that's that's very faithful that that that's impressive that's impressive um I've said before that um I'll always be a vintage guy like if I if I could choose like if you put these on a table and said choose one the vintage will always win but this is still interesting this is still fascinating to me um look at the boots look at the boots they they essentially just took the details from the vintage bat and copied them almost one for one uh over there look it's got the silver bits at the top it's it's got the uh the little cover over the foot of the boot which is painted silver on this one it's it's just yellow on that one uh but uh yeah that's like it's got the it's got this little doodad here on the same side as the vintage it's got the holster uh that's um that's incredibly faithful um I have to say like if if you're a fan of the bats uh this this could be one to army build um like I said I I've got a small army I'm I'm not typically an army builder of a classified series which can be rather expensive um but um if if you're into army building a shelf full of these guys uh that would be pretty impressive a shelf full of these guys that would be more impressive uh but uh but still this uh a row of these guys on a shelf that would be pretty cool um let's see the uh he has a pistol uh the pistols are all I mean the pistol comes out uh the pistols are always a little bit difficult to put uh in the hands but let me see if I can pop it in here um what they they did not they did not uh do the thing that uh that I misremembered as a kid remember I mentioned like as a kid I misremembered the bat coming with the submachine gun that the vintage figure did not come with at all but for some reason I thinking back to my childhood I thought I remembered the cobra bat including a submachine gun well they didn't give him a submachine gun uh but they gave him lots of stuff here so one nice thing is that since this is a robot you really don't have to hide the joints the joints are part of the robotics so uh so yeah like you're not trying to hide joints for this guy um you're you want him to look like a robot so like having hinges at the elbows and stuff you know totally fine um yeah that's uh that that's interesting I do like it I do like it um and you know despite you know in general not preferring um not preferring science fiction g.i.jo uh you know this I have I have to say this is hold on look this this is a really good figure design that this is a really good figure design uh designed by Ron Rudette who is an excellent character designer um this is it's just nice like even if you you wouldn't prefer this guy in g.i.jo you could use him for something else this is just too nice a figure the colors that black which makes the the yellow and silver pop nice uh and since this copies that over almost one for one uh therefore this is a really nice design I'm glad I'm glad they kept I'm glad they kept the classic bat head shape uh in the artwork like the visor has kind of a different shape to it uh but I'm glad they kept I'm glad they kept the classic you know it is basically the same head that that is really really close so yeah um I uh I am one who does kind of like yeah it's it's bad and bad junior it's batman and bat boy it's batman and bat boy um I am one I think that prefers um when the classified series does a little bit of a reimagining of the vintage design but I know a lot of fans have been really wanting the vintage designs upscaled to the six inch scale I know a lot of people have been asking that for that but well that's that's what they're doing they are doing that more now than they used to so uh if that's what you wanted that is what you're getting because this is a this is a six inch cobra bat this is this is this guy just bigger uh and with more articulation right he's got the and the he's got the huh and it's got the huh and the the yada and he's got the yada and the yada and the ding of the dang and the dune uh so he yeah he's got all the doodads and thingamajigs oh like there you go uh he's got all the stuff so yeah so um I feel I feel better I feel better I I really wanted to to open this guy I was very eager to do that uh and um I just got inspired before I started the show I was inspired I just I wanted to do it now I just tonight is the night to open this guy up and look at this guy so we open this guy up and we look at this guy um Chris says I would like to see reimagine three and three quarter inch or price for kids not collectors I also would that would be great um it doesn't seem to be going that direction everything right now is still aimed at collectors it seems um but uh I would I would love to have a kid priced series some of the smaller snake eyes movie figures were more in the kid price range but I don't know that they moved very well um I think mainly because the movie didn't do very well but you know that's they didn't have any control over that at least the the toy side didn't have any control over that oil is expensive these days uh shipping is expensive hard to make affordable plastic toys that that is a fact that is a fact that is a fact that I will be living as I am on the road for the next few days sucking up petroleum um putting uh you know putting greenhouse and carcinogist gases into the air that was a great plan huh um but um yeah I I know that kids especially kids who are of the age to be interested in G.I. Joe they don't play with you know plastic toys like they did when we were kids but that that doesn't mean there can't be something for them right there could be something uh and I you know I hope that I hope they are able to capture some of that audience I really do um so yeah so now um I have I have the equalizer and the cobra bat and the other cobra bat um and so I can I can admire all of these hello bubble matter bubble wrap memories how do you do I don't think I saw you come in uh thanks for being here um yeah so uh so now I you all you guys can see is my face sorry sorry but uh I from my perspective I get to admire uh all of this stuff I've got like a whole bunch of I've got a whole bunch of bats ah it's okay you didn't break I've got a whole bunch of bats he's fine uh I've got the equalizer I've got a uh a six inch bat I've got all this stuff that I can look at and play with this is a great night for me uh and you you poor saps just have to look at my face wow uh I think I came out of the better end of that deal because I I got this stuff um so yeah let's let's um put this guy over here um well I guess there is one thing we haven't done with our six inch bat and that is put on the damaged bits I'm always nervous popping off these heads let's oh the the head came off remarkably easy let's put on the damaged head I am really really not wanting to break that neck post there okay damaged head on and where is it there's the damaged chest panel all right so this this will our look at the cobra bats we have now put on the damaged pieces the bats bat this bat is bats there you go and this this particular damage we've seen in the comic book with like the the face shield broken and you can see the electronic eye behind it yeah that's pretty cool I dig it I dig it um uh yeah it seems to be doing pretty good thank you Ivan if if nominated for president I will accept I will of course rule this country with an iron fist so if that's what you're looking for you know get me on the ticket uh so there's there's our guy so okay that's basically everything I had planned then we got what like 20 minutes left to go um I gotta think of something to talk about for the next 20 minutes um hello uh hello Dale hello thanks for being here hello hello um you know if I just if I leave this in front of me I'm just gonna play with it the whole time yeah because it's here and then and then I've got the I've got the I've got the tank um I this is see this is why I this is why I don't do this very often uh HCC said head on a snake eyes body um that okay good thank you for bringing that up uh there was a rumor I don't know if it's true or not um that Hasbro was uh going to do a um a personalized action figure head where you get a head for an action figure that actually looks like you and you can put it on an action figure body and I think the snake eyes was the gi joe classified body that they were going to include with that um I don't know if they will really do that that's an interesting idea uh I think that would be very difficult to make it cost effective uh it seems like a very interesting it seems like a very expensive product to produce doing a single head for one customer and you know doing it in that customer's likeness that I think would be uh difficult uh but if it were true I would absolutely do that I would get an action figure of my head yes I would have to get it in on the snake eyes body but I would pop it off of the snake eyes body and I would put it on to this body so I would have the me cobra commander uh so you know that's that's what I would do um yeah uh uh it was going to be more expensive than um than a typical figure as you would expect and you know I I guess you know if they charged enough they could do whatever they want right if it's if it's expensive you know just charge a lot for it and you know as long as you have enough people willing to pay for it then then you can do it but um yes Rob Vegas and a Rob Vegas action figure absolutely um hello Chris Meyer uh nice to see you um uh but uh Rob though if you just wait long enough I'm sure they will they'll just do an action figure of you anyway you know that that's just a matter of time before you get your own action figure um uh what's my next video topic uh I am not sure is the answer to that because I have been um hip deep as we say uh doing convergence stuff uh and I still have more to do so I have really got to wrap some of that up before I jump to the next project because the cobra convergence stuff has a deadline and people are counting on me so um so I've got to take care of that I I think I know what the next video topic is going to be after that but I don't want to I don't want to spoil it um let's see we're picking up any vehicles or figures um uh in particular at show fest I'll just have to see what's there and I'm not bringing uh extra money for the dealer floor I will be selling my sketches at the table I will have a table I will be in artist alley and if I make anything on the um on the artwork uh that is what um that is what I will uh use for the dealer floor last hooded cc was in uh 2013 that sounds about right uh it would have been uh I I guess in the the 25th or 30th anniversary line um that sounds about right no it wouldn't have been that um no yeah I'd have to look it up but it's 2013 uh sounds about right for the last hooded version of cobra commander but I'd have to look it up to be sure um getting another cobra rat that that'll you know I did get the cobra rat at uh at jocon I think I got it at the last jocon at at in chattanooga Tennessee um and uh yeah I got it boxed I it was it was mint sealed in box and I opened it and I put that sucker together um yes Chris you are definitely getting a classified uss flag and in fact you know watch your mailbox watch your mailbox I think you individually will be getting a classified you uh USS flag that is bound to happen watch your mailbox um thanks chris thanks um I did I did I did have some fun with the cobra rat um yeah I oh if I had the cobra rat with me I could I could put a bat in a rat I could put a bat in a rat if I had the cobra rat but I don't have the cobra rat I only have a cobra rat so I can't put the bat in a rat um uh yes uh the the chattanooga Tennessee um that was the final uh the final official jocon uh joe fest took over after that and that is in Georgia uh but the last official uh gi joe convention was in uh was in chattanooga tessie um uh let's see oh yeah the golf cart yeah yes I I made a I made a crack about the triple t being uh uh being a golf cart um I've always like I wonder if uh if hasbro would ever consider licensing an official gi joe convention again uh they don't seem to be moving that direction I don't think so but you know we used to have joe con every year and you know it was a traveling convention so it would be in a different city each year and I really enjoyed that I really enjoyed that a lot um I went to the last five of them uh and then I went to joe fest but then the pandemic hit and then I didn't like I didn't travel uh but now I can travel I feel it is safe to travel again finally um um might include uh gi joe and uh hasbro con but probably not a dedicated joe con from hasbro uh that's that's what I'm thinking and uh the thing about uh has con as they called it I don't know if or when they're ever gonna do another has con uh but the thing about has con for me is that I'm not into it um I am a fan of this property that's that's my thing um I think hasbro learned how much work it is to run a con they still have not done a second has con yeah I um yeah convention is something that if they wanted to do it I think they they need to license that they need to license it to somebody who does that kind of thing and let them do it uh trying to do that like in house I think that that's a uh that's a rough one um not a a cobra con a cobra con would be cool see that's what you guys can do hasbro if you're listening and and let's be truthful they're not listening but if they were listening hey hasbro cobra con uh hey hey I'll give you one more I'll give you one more cobra con in July think about it think about it cobra con in July hmm yeah I'll give you that one for well okay not for free then send me a thousand bucks I'll give you that one for a thousand bucks and you can you can have it cobra con in July that that's that's my contribution hasbro if you're listening cobra con in July yes I know I think it has to happen now and it absolutely has to happen um uh HCC7A must be the largest active GI Jo channel across any social media probably so I kind of wish I was uh uh more active cobra con from he-man yeah see hey that's synergy you know don't work against Mattel work with Mattel and do a cobra con for cobra and cobra con it just works um yeah I've been working I've been doing a lot of personal stuff um which has made it difficult extremely difficult for me to uh yeah fund it with a cobra a cobra thon a cobra thon for cobra con for cobra and cobra con um so I it's been difficult for me to keep up with my social medias I'm working on that I'm working on it I'm I'm swear I'm trying but I'm not I'm not doing great um yeah so yeah yeah so you get cobra kai at cobra con you get a cobra thon for cobra con for cobra con and cobra with cobra kai um I I feel like um you know the the synergy is just there you know it just makes sense a cobra thong you know I think what would make a cobra thon successful would be the Baroness in a cobra thon so then you'd have your cobra thon and your cobra thon for cobra con with cobra kai and cobra con um uh you know so this is going to happen next year right this is you're rolling with it like I could just I could just see the like at the Hasbro at the headquarters uh one of the Hasbro brothers uh or our sisters uh it is like madly typing a memo cobra con cobra thon uh July I've got to remember this I know that's what they're doing I'm creating more work for you guys but I'm but I'm doing some of the work for you guys I'm coming up with the ideas these are ideas you cannot pass up uh cold I mean yeah you gotta have cold solar as a as a musical uh it doesn't rhyme though yeah uh wait what about Kevin uh let's see uh does anybody know what happened with Kevin um is he okay uh asked for uh just in case he was also going through some difficulties but form bx is missing yeah um I have not heard from Kevin I I did try to reach out to Kevin I did not hear back I don't know what's going on with them I hope he's doing well I really do um Kevin is one of my favorite people he's a really really great guy really nice guy really fun to work with and I just I just think he's great um and I I really hope he's doing well but now I have not heard from him um not a word not a word so yeah I hope all as well with with form bx 257 um uh when speaking of Cobra convergence uh when um when we first talked about doing it uh Timmer and Kevin form bx 257 those are the two people that I reached out to uh they're the they're the ones that um I saw you know doing this they were uh you know dedicated gi joe channels when at that time there were not a lot of dedicated gi joe channels out there but those guys were doing it they were doing it regularly they had been doing it for for several years and I was like they are the guys if we're gonna do something they are the ones that that need to be in it so um yeah I just I I floated you know the idea I floated the idea out there uh to to to both of them but and and they both said yes they both said they would do it um yes uh thank you joe yo joe I see one why would I do without you guys today is Tuesday there is always a new uh video from half the battle Timmer uh on Tuesdays he is wrapping up his main character may event uh looking at Destro so um so yeah make sure you check out make sure you check out half the battle uh on the YouTube's check out Timmer I knocked over my bat um but yeah check out half the battle uh always on Tuesday and his video today is uh wrapping up the month of Destro and Destro is a pretty good character to do for a whole month there's a lot about Destro to talk about so uh very good selection for main character may so I'm looking forward to years from now Timmer will run out of real main characters to do for main character may and it'll get down to like the payload main character may featuring skidmark you know main character may featuring windmill uh so yeah but it'll take a while to steal some pretty main characters yeah see yeah uh this uh Timmer has done a video on the Super Trooper before and it's pretty funny you should watch that that that was a good one um I'm remembering one of the jokes from his uh Super Trooper video and I thought it was funny um collaborations with other creators and induced me to a lot of great channels thank you very much much Chris I really appreciate that um since you mentioned it yeah ice cream soldier that's what you need a whole month of ice cream soldier videos um I haven't actually done a collaboration for a while I've done a collaboration with anyone since I return oh thank you Josiah uh Josiah says thanks for streaming hope to see everyone Friday on the what's on Joe mind stream what's on Joe mind live on Friday I unfortunately probably will not be able to be there because I will be on the road still on Friday uh if if I make it to the hotel in time I will try to be there but I don't know how the timing is going to work out but regardless if I'm there or not make sure you check out the what's on Joe mind live stream uh yeah I haven't done a collaboration uh since I uh picked back up doing videos again in uh December or did I start in November last year the last couple months of last year um uh yes I will be I'll be doing some videos of my route 66 trip on my other channel um on the Brian Tulsa channel so if anybody wants to check that out uh that's just a little slide thing that I do uh not a big deal but uh yes uh my my journey will be um on route 66 unfortunately not all of route 66 uh because I just don't have time to do all of it but um I will be going west we will be going west uh so yeah uh hello William uh William says hi HCC and I say hi William back I am planned to get many kicks I will be kicking all the way up and down the route 66 um so yeah that's uh one of my bucket list things though is uh a comic trope says when you hit meow wolf I will hit meow wolf we do already have tickets I actually already got tickets to meow wolf so I will be uh I will be doing that as part of the trip um one of my bucket list things though is to do a full route 66 trip starting in Chicago and going all the way to Santa Monica pier uh uh I can't do it this time let uh Lester says uh coming to Disneyland I would like to eventually I won't make it on this trip I just I I can't make it that far I just don't have the time that I would need to do it and that but someday that is that is something that I will I will do Ivan says shite town represent yeah I I like Chicago I've been to Chicago more than once Chicago is pretty cool but I but I feel that I mean obviously you can go either way right you can start in in Los Angeles and you can go to Chicago but I feel like Chicago is the real start point and then California is the end point that's just how I view it so to do a full route 66 uh uh tour I feel starting in Chicago is the right place hey it's gi joeberg hello gi joeberg speaking of youtube channels uh says hey brian you just wanted to let you know I've been in attendance all right always a good Wednesday when I can catch the livestream awesome thank you for being here I I appreciate you being here thank you joeberg uh now that you mentioned that it's time to end now that joeberg's here it's time to end the livestream I'm I'm just kidding it's not because you were here but it's it's actually time to uh to wrap up the uh the livestream I actually have to finish packing for the trip I'm leaving very early tomorrow so um so I can't stay late I can't stay late um and uh if I'm guessing the time correctly it should be close to eight o'clock uh so I will wrap this up uh here in just a moment um I mentioned it was a privilege to work with uh with kevin form bx257 uh with timmer it's also been a pleasure to work with uh with gi joeberg and comic tropes and all these other guys like um I don't think I've ever had a bad collaboration um everybody that I've worked with has been has been great um they all you know they have their own uh channels they they create their own content uh they uh uh they do a lot for their own audience so you know of course they will bring creativity they will bring energy and everybody that I've worked with has done that so uh hello gas thanks for being here I don't think I saw you there um but uh yeah uh uh I just I don't I can't say that I know why I haven't done a collaboration since I restarted doing videos I don't know I should do one I'll work on that anyway so uh yeah I'm gonna go ahead and wrap it up I've gotta do some packing I'm gonna be on the road starting tomorrow I'll keep you all posted I'll still be working on Cobra Convergence stuff you know at night when I'm stopped uh but uh but but we I'll still I'll also be back for next week's live stream I will miss that so I'll see you all later I'll say good night and I'll see you next time bye everybody thanks for being here see you later