 Look at this. Oh my god, GI Joe has perfected human cloning. Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here and I'm back with another vintage GI Joe toy review. This time we are going to be looking at the 1982 MMS with the action figure Hawk. Before we get started I want to remind everybody to smash that subscribe button and if you like this video go ahead and give it a thumbs up. If you hate this video go ahead and give it a thumbs down. If you're watching this video on any website other than YouTube I would appreciate it if you would take a little trip over to the hooded Cobra Commander 788 YouTube channel and go ahead and subscribe. I've got a lot more videos coming up and you won't want to miss them. This is the MMS mobile missile system with action figure Hawk. It was released in 1982 as part of the first series of GI Joe action figures and vehicles. It was also released in 1983 and it was discontinued in 1984 when it was replaced with nothing really. The next surface to air missile system like this in the GI Joe toy line didn't come out until 1985. That was the air defense battle station and that was a small play set that did not come with an action figure. The MMS was worth three flag points. That's the same number of flag points as the Hal laser cannon even though the Hal was bigger than this but both the MMS and the Hal came with an action figure and that's probably why they were both worth the same number of flag points. Now I'm going to take a closer look at the action figure later but I'm going to set him aside for now and we're going to take a closer look at the MMS. The MMS is modeled after a real world military armament, the Hawk MIM-23 missile system. The Hawk moniker for the MIM-23 is actually an acronym which stands for homing all the way killer. Let's take a look at the parts of the MMS. The MMS came with three missiles what the blueprints referred to as Patriot missiles. As you can see they're pretty large and they each have four fins. Now these fins are very easily broken. As you can see I have a couple fins broken on this one and the one behind it. So as you can see they are very susceptible to breakage. They connect to the missile pod with these slots which connect to these pegs and there are three, one on the top and two on the side. The pod itself rotates all the way around 360 degrees and it elevates. One problem that I have with the missiles besides the fact that they tend to break like this is that they don't stay on very well I mean they slot in there but if you're rotating the missile pod they're very easy to knock off. It also came with this firing panel and stand. It was two parts came apart like that and the firing panel was connected to the main body of the toy via this very thin plastic black wire. The stand connects to the firing panel here at the bottom and this little square partition that's the same shape as the post. You just slide it in there and I have some sticky tack on the stand because it doesn't always like to stand up on its own. On the front of the MMS we have two folding legs. They're held down via this little notch, the same thing on both sides. They fold up to change it to the toe mode and I'll demonstrate that more later. The same with these two legs on the back they fold up and slide in. We'll get a better demonstration of that here in a minute. For transportation when the system is in toe mode it has wheels. Nice free moving wheels. They are plastic wheels it would have been nice to have rubber wheels but that's okay. Let's look at some features of the MMS. First of all we have some really nice detail on it. Look at all that detail. This really does look like a high-tech military missile system. And even on the bottom we have some detailing on the bottom and that is really cool. This is an example of Hasbro going the extra mile with these toys. If this had just been a plane bottom here you probably wouldn't have cared. But they went through the extra trouble of molding on some detailing on the bottom of the toy. I already demonstrated the missile pod and you can take off the missiles of course. But the other main feature of this toy was that it could be towed by other GI Joe vehicles. To tow the MMS behind a GI Joe vehicle you have to transform it from its stationary mode like this to the toe mode and I'll demonstrate how to do that now. First of all of course you have to move the legs up. These front legs go all the way up like this. Both the same and the back legs they go up and in. Then we have to take the control panel apart. Take it off of the stand and that fits nicely in this little slot right here. There's even a space for the stand and this little notch in the back under the back legs. I've taken this sticky tack off just so that it looks a little bit nicer. And now that it is converted into its toe mode this hook here can connect to a tow hook a standard tow hook on most GI Joe vehicles like the vamp here. And the wheels make contact with the ground and there it goes. It moves very freely. It's a nice towed vehicle. Now the vamp is a nice choice to tow the MMS because as you can see when the MMS is folded up and in tow mode a hawk needs a place to ride. And there is a passenger seat here in the vamp. So just fit hawk right in there and he can ride along. There you go. That's pretty much it as far as features go. The MMS was a pretty simple toy which accounts for why I did not get it when I was a kid. It really just didn't look all that much fun to play with. So let's take a look at the action figure hawk. Hawk is a special action figure in the first line of GI Joe figures that came out in 1982 and that he was the leader of the GI Joe team. Let's look at hawk's accessories. He came with only two, the helmet and a very tiny visor, clear visor. Some of the other GI Joe action figures came with these and these are very frequently lost. As you can see they're clear and if they get dropped on the carpet they're pretty much invisible and very likely to be vacuumed up. The visor fit in these holes in the side of the helmet like that and of course it could move up and down. Let's look at the articulation for hawk. He had the typical 1982 GI Joe action figure articulation which meant that at the head he could turn his head left and right about so far. Later in 1985, GI Joe action figures had a ball joint in the neck so that he could also look up and down but in 1982 they could just move their head left and right. His arm at the shoulder could swing up like that and it could rotate all the way around. He had a hinge at the elbow so that he could move his elbow about 90 degrees. In 1983, GI Joe action figures added another point of articulation at the bicep which would allow the arm to swivel. It was referred to as swivel arm battle grip and it looked like what was on Steeler here. The arms would move in and out like that as well as at the elbow. He was held together with a rubber O-ring that looped around the inside of the action figure which allowed him to move a little bit at the torso. He could move his leg at the hip about 90 degrees and he could bend his knee about 90 degrees. Let's look at the sculpt of hawk. Now in 1982, the GI Joe action figures reused a lot of parts between different action figures and that is especially true of hawk. Essentially, hawk entirely reused the body of grunt. Same arms, same chest and back, same waist piece, same legs, same everything except for the head. Now the head actually was borrowed from short fuse and not only do they use the same head, they have the same hair color. Look at this. Oh my God, GI Joe has perfected human cloning. Now I understand that in 1982, Hasbro was not certain that this new GI Joe toy line was going to be successful. So they went the cheap route and they just reused a lot of parts. They repainted them and they call them a different character. But in this case, they didn't even repaint the head. They used exactly the same head for two. So it looks like they're twins. Now this is not the only time that that occurred in 1982. For instance, here's another set of twins. Flash and Steeler. Not only did they reuse the same head, they have exactly the same hair color. Sometimes for the sake of diversity they would at least change the hair color, like with Zap here, who had the same head but at least he had black hair instead of brown hair. Now I think there's a missed opportunity here because the toy designers had an option that would have made Hawk unique and it would have fit better with the second version of Hawk. So let's bring in Hawk version 2. This is the version of Hawk that came out in 1986. As you can see, he has the ball joint and he can move his head up and down as well as side to side. Now take a look at these two action figures. Two versions of Hawk. These two action figures are intended to represent the same guy. Obviously they don't look anything alike. Consider if you will, if instead of using Shortfuse's head and hair color they had used Grunt's head but colored the hair blonde. I know they wanted the character to be blonde because he was in the comic book and if they had used Grunt's head with blonde hair he would not have been a clone of anybody. None of the other action figures used this head sculpt with blonde hair. So he would have been unique. Also, he would have looked more like the second version. You can kind of imagine this guy as being a slightly older version of this guy. It's closer, certainly closer than these two. Of course you would have needed to keep the blonde hair in the second version. The hair color change from blonde to brown is never explained. This isn't the only time Hasbro has spontaneously changed hair colors for characters when they issued a second version of them and I hated it every time. I just really wish they wouldn't do that. As you can see, Hawk has silver paint on his webgear. This silver paint rubs off very easily and the reason he's painted silver may be to signify his rank. He is a colonel and as I said he is the leader of the GI Joe team. When I was a kid I did not know that this action figure was supposed to represent the leader of the GI Joe team. When I saw it on the shelves in the store it looked like a very plain vehicle with a very plain action figure and I really just didn't have any interest in it. I didn't find out that this was supposed to be Hawk, the same Hawk in the comic books, until after the toy was no longer available. Later in the GI Joe storyline Hawk was promoted to General and General Hawk is represented by Version 2. This is Hawk as a general and this is Hawk as a colonel. Let's take a look at the file card. This was printed on the back of the box that the MMS came in. There's nothing on the other side. It was just the back of a box and you were encouraged to cut these out and keep them since it contained a short biography of the character and the action figure. Up here it says interestingly missile commander, not GI Joe leader or GI Joe commander if it had said something like that I might have taken notice of this toy earlier than I did. His codename is Hawk which could refer to the Hawk missile system which the toy is supposed to represent or it could refer to a war Hawk sometimes just called a Hawk person who favors war in a debate about whether or not you should go to war. It says his file name is Clayton M. Abernathy His primary military specialty is artillery Secondary military specialty is radar His birthplace is Denver, Colorado that's a nice town, I've been there His grade is 06 which is a colonel Here it says Hawk comes from a well-established read loaded family He's a West Point graduate and has seen action in a number of trouble spots Graduated advanced infantry training Covert ops school Served on Cadre North Atlantic Range Command and USA ENG Com EVR missile and radar training Classified Qualified expert M16 M1911A1 auto pistol This quote down here says He's keenly intelligent and perceptive and quite capable of totally selfless acts in support of his teammates An excellent leader And that line right there is our only hint that this toy is meant to represent the leader of the GI Joe team. If you take a look at this guy closely you can kind of see why I didn't think he was the leader of the GI Joe team He has a very passive expression. He doesn't look like a leader. In fact, he just looks kind of sleepy. His eyes are kind of droopy. That was my review of the MMS mobile missile system and the action figure that came with it Hawk. I hope you enjoyed this review and if you're thinking of getting an MMS or a Hawk action figure, I hope you found this video informative. If you liked it, go ahead and give it a thumbs up If you didn't like it, go ahead and give it a thumbs down And don't forget to subscribe I've got a lot of great GI Joe toy reviews coming up and you won't want to miss them Thanks for watching and bye bye