 Hello everybody hooded cool commander 788 here, and it's time for the monthly donation unboxing This is everything I got in the PO box for the month of August 2020 and it I'm really excited I got a lot more than I expected including Letters I have letters to read For those of you who don't know I keep all of the letters that are written to me. I keep them in here I intend to keep everything that's been written to me forever So thank you to those who wrote letters. I'll be reading those. I also got some boxes I got an international package. We are in good shape here We've got a lot more than we thought I want to remind everyone that you do not have to send anything to me I do not ask for donations. I do have a post office box if you choose to send something If you do choose to send something It to be clear that you shouldn't send anything that you don't 100% want to send if you have any doubts about Sending something to me, then I'd rather you not send it and keep it but If you do send something then I will open it on a video like this and show everyone what I got so Thanks to those who did if you choose to do that I will put the PO box on the screen right now That's where you would send it if you choose to do so So I'm going to open all these. I'm really excited. I'm curious about what some of these things are There's at least one thing in here. I'm pretty sure I know what it is because I was told what was going to be sent And again, I have letters. I'm really excited. I mean who gets fan mail Anymore actually handwritten letters in envelopes who gets that well you guys send these to me and that's really exciting What I'm going to do with these letters is I'm going to pause the video I'm going to read the letters because sometimes people put personal information in these letters And I want to be careful how much I Read on camera. I want to respect everyone's privacy So I think it's better if I pause read the letters just to make sure that there's nothing too personal in there And then I will tell you what's in the letters and then we'll move on to the boxes These letters are safe. Not too much personal information in there. So I'm going to start with Luke Bartajay Luke thanks for writing and he has this here and He says hope to find you in good spirits pretty good spirits at the moment. Thank you First of all, let me tell you how much I appreciate your YouTube broadcast. Thank you very much Watch them all the time introduced me to form BX 257. That's a really good guy The whole online GI Joe community can't remember how I found HCC 78, but I'm glad you did. I'm glad you did as well Thank you for watching the show He's got a list of his collection here, which includes some nice pieces from the 2000s It says I hope to get More with this retro release and classified. Yeah, he's talking about The GI Joe retro line that's going to be exclusive to Walmart and the classified line Which is in most retailers, but there is a set that's exclusive to Target the classified line That's the six inch GI Joe action figures. I've been getting into him I was not expecting to like the six inch figures, but they've definitely been growing on me He says I emailed you a while back So if give me if I repeat myself at one point I put together a Marvel comic book and card collection from a nephew as a gift I will say this. I have been very behind on getting to my emails and private messages. I apologize for that My my private life has been a challenge lately So I apologize for the to those who I haven't written back to who have sent me emails and private messages on Twitter and Facebook. I'm sorry about that. I'm doing the best I can but hey one way is to send me an actual letter You know, then I have an opportunity to sit down when I'm recording The donation unboxing and actually read this so smart move smart move well done So he's talking about Putting together Marvel comics and cards for his nephew Cards are a lot of X men Although I got other Marvel characters comic books included secret Wars spider-man Marvel team up team ups Indiana Jones Conan the Hulk Captain America and of course GI Joe I enjoyed really all of those titles when I was younger I Just enjoyed Marvel comics once I made the transition from reading only GI Joe comics to reading more comics I Read a lot of Marvel and I have a lot of nostalgia for those Marvel comic series from the 80s He says I recently mailed him some random GI Joe cards and expressed his interest in GI Joe His birthday is coming up and got him for comics GI Joe order of battle order of battle. That's essential. That's the that's great Information because it reprints the vile cards for the characters It also has some technical specs for the vehicles It says a complete series Sunbow cartoons very nice Sunbow That's a good place to start if you enjoy the animated series and a sealed 1991 GI Joe pack of cards. Well, I can tell you from experience. It's a lot of fun to open those sealed packs Wrote this a part of the letter before his birthday will conclude it after he receives the gifts and He this next part is after his nephew's birthday. It says the birthday a gifting went. Well, I don't know what to say But that now there's another GI Joe fan on the planet We can use as many as we can get we need more GI Joe fans And it's really cool that you introduced your nephew to something that he may not have discovered otherwise It says thank you for all you do. It's awesome. Thank you. You're awesome Only GI Joe is GI Joe and in honor of Cobra convergence only Cobra is Cobra. Thank you so much and yes This was sent to me and was received in August And August this year was the month of Cobra convergence So, thank you very much Luke really nice letter and best of luck and a belated happy birthday to your nephew the next letter I'm going to read is from Brandon Knight and this is Actually a card it's a card With a lovely mountain scene. It looks like something Bob Ross would paint very nice Lovely a mountain and a mountain lake Nice. Thank you very much Brandon Knight by the way a longtime supporter of the channel a great guy He's supported the channel in many ways. So thank you Brandon for all you do that means a lot to me I really appreciate it and he sends me this card Inside is written dear HTC 788. That's me Congratulations, we did it. We survived another year of Cobra convergence until next year. Yes and survived is the right word On my end, there's a lot of work that goes into Cobra convergence and that's my goal every year is to just survive it It's amazing that even in our darkest times. We are able to come together and help each other in so many ways I agree with that and As I said in my personal life, it's been a challenge. It's it's not been an easy few months Let's keep growing this community and your love for GI Joe and each other But we are not out of the woods yet. We still have many 90s GI Joe figures to review That's right. This year is the year of the 90s It says keep up the great and hard work and remember knowing is half the battle yo Joe your Joe pal Brandon Knight aka a knight viper PS I've now given you a virus which virus the Cobra virus, you know must now stay home and make more Review videos how long maybe forever? Well, I'll tell you what your virus is working because I'm recording This is kind of a break from recording review videos, but after I'm done with this I'm back to recording review videos. So your virus has taken hold Thank you Brandon and thank you for everything else. You've done Brandon has done a lot for this channel, and it's very appreciated This next letter is from Kenneth Riley And it's a it's a handwritten letter on Online paper. This is just this kind of thing is very nostalgic for me If people don't like they don't write letters like they used to and I think they should you know Do it the old-fashioned race send somebody a letter put put it in an envelope put a stamp on it send it to them I think that is a bit more special and takes a bit more effort than just sending an email It says dear sir Likes the YouTube shows. I'm paraphrasing here He says that he collects gi Joe and g1 transformers and restores them, and if I know someone who? wants to Get rid of their transformers g1 and gi Joe. I he'll take them in and fix them so This is Kenneth Riley, and it says stay safe, and thank you. Thank you stay safe, too I don't have any extra, and I don't have transformers right now. However If you are interested in Having g1 and gi Joe Restored Kenneth does that according to his letter so Kenneth even though I don't have anyone in mind right now if you are on Twitter and send me an at and Let me know that you are looking for something to restore Maybe able to connect you with someone that that is there. Maybe somebody who can see that and They'll want to have some figures restored So Kenneth the gi Joe and g1 transformers restore Thank you very much for sending this and I will keep this with my other letters for the final letter the envelope just says Thompson So Thompson, thank you for sending and this He sends a very creative way in his view to kind of fix the gi Joe movie, and it's James Thompson Thank you very much James It says sorry about the print no reason to be sorry your print is fine Wrote this letter in response to the end of Cobra convergence five here's a way to fix gi Joe the movie Okay, let's see what we got. I don't know how you feel about sci-fi, but Cobra law is now aliens called in honor of Cobra convergence The convergence that would be cool. Wouldn't it actually have something In honor of Cobra convergence called the convergence. I Would feel honored if if that were a possibility Cobra commander is still human. Thank you Back story trying to prove the existence of the convergence. He becomes Cobra commander after exposure to the spores similar to the movie Okay, so he's not like part of the convergence. He's like trying to expose them. That's interesting Convergence is on earth to conquer it after being chased Off their planet when they fail to conquer it. Okay. All right Of course, you know how I feel about sci-fi, but this at least you know, it's an a coherent story Won't say it's perfect fix. The point is change story to try to make the animation already created better So suppressor still yells Cobra Thank you. See he's trying to prevent that ridiculous Cobra. La la la la la battle cry I hope you enjoy this idea thanks Just something to think about HCC forever. Thank you very much James Extremely thoughtful and A really cool idea to just kind of see what you can think of to to make the GI Joe Animated movies better now Lara some folks that love the movie and they don't want to change it They think it's fine the way it is, but you know if you Don't like the movie or if they're you think there's something that can be changed Let's do that Make your comments on this video for ideas that you might have to improve the GI Joe Animated movie from 1987 and to add to the challenge Let's say you have to keep Most of the elements as they are you can change it, but you can't just like throw out everything So you have to keep something that's similar to Cobra law even if you change its Cobra Law's backstory and origin I think we can make that an interesting challenge If you have an idea to improve the GI Joe animated movie from 1987 while keeping most of the same elements Write that in the comments below and we'll see what everybody thinks about it So thank you very much James a really cool idea and thank you for sending this letter now We get to the packages and I'm gonna start with this one This is from Tim Bentley Tim is a cosplayer and a pretty cool guy I know Tim I've had an opportunity to meet him and he's on my Facebook. So hi Tim and I'm pretty sure I know what this is because I think this is what What he said he was going to send to me And from the looks of it By the way, I've cut the tape and opened all these boxes and packages But I haven't looked inside. So we're all going to be surprised at what's in here But I went ahead off-camera and cut the tape on them So just to make it easier to open and you don't have to sit here watching me Cut tape get it. Okay. So Tim Bentley sends What not maybe another letter, so let's read that first where I put my glasses. Oh, it's a card That's a card with Halloween puppies That is adorable. Thank you Tim and I'm gonna get my Reading glasses so I can read this I'll read it ahead just to make sure it doesn't have anything too personal in here Okay I won't read this out loud only because Oh, and there's a little bit of personal information in there and all and best of luck Timothy Good luck to you. He also says what he sent in here And I want it to be a surprise so you can see when I take it out of the package So thank you Timothy. I'm always happy to hear from you You should never feel any pressure to write or send something, but it's always nice to hear from you So good luck with everything and let's show everyone what we've got here It's well packed nicely done. This is not gonna be damaged in any way Very nicely packed very nicely packed indeed It's got a plastic container and even inside the plastic container. There's additional packing material And what it is is I don't have a remote to zoom it is a wolf it is a wolf that is About in stale for the GI Joe classified so he sent this so my GI Joe classified snake Eyes will have a timber so that's very nice. That's very thoughtful. I appreciate that That is something that classified snake eyes is missing Really wish they had included a wolf in some way so Timothy this looks great. It looks awesome And I'm gonna put this with my classified snake eyes We're off to a good start right off the bat that will work great with snake eyes and this is a package from Finland from Rolly I'm not going to try to pronounce your last name because I'm afraid I'm going to get it wrong. I apologize Rolly Thank you for this. I was told this was coming and it was sent apparently quite some time ago And it took a while to get here apparently international packages are very delayed For example, I sent something to Timmer who is in Belgium sent him a box with some stuff in it Back in at the end of March and it's still not there It is still stuck in Chicago. I have already opened an inquiry with the postal service It's hard to get any updates and it's hard to get anybody on the phone by the way to talk about an International package and what the heck is happening with it. So sorry about that Timmer apparently international packages are very delayed And so this I'm told was very delayed, but it got here. Thank you so much, and I'm going to open this up I've already cut it open and I'm going to pull out the contents And I see a letter and an envelope and a comic book I'm going to open the comic book first because it has the letter in it And I'm going to grab my reading glasses again Oh This is cool All right, hang on a second everybody ever does hold on while I get my reading glasses Okay Let's see another letter I get to keep. Thank you so much. Ah Okay, so I don't want to go too much into this because he says what he sends and I don't want to give that away I want to I want to show you But it says it finishes with greetings from Finland Greetings from the United States. I says please make more comic book reviews working on it working on it Cobra convergence got in the way a little bit of the comic book reviews But I'm getting back to it and he sends this action force GI Joe comic book It's action force and it is not in English. That is I have this issue. I have this issue In English the US version obviously I want to I want to compare page by page These two issues. This is oh wow This is where GI Joe and Transformers crossed over. Oh, wow, this is awesome Oh, it's got like they reprinted some classic GI Joe comic book covers This is amazing. I love it. I Have a soft spot for action force. Oh, they like they reprinted some older issues as well in this in this issue I've I've got to I've got to do a side-by-side comparison. I'll have to go dig up my comic books and and Just compare these two and see See what the differences are. So thank you. That's awesome. That all by itself. It's totally worth it. Thank you and Let's Open this And there yep This is This is gung-ho version 4 I'm going to take it out so you can see it a bit better if I can do that without having to cut tape It's well packaged You you managed to send it Halfway around the world and it was undamaged So yeah, this is the version of gung-ho that I didn't have I had the others And this this kind of thing really helps me it helps me finish out The collection it helps me fill spots in the collection It does appear to have all of his stuff including his Super extra American flag And his Marine Corps tattoo that somehow moved over to his arm His m60 is missile launcher That's awesome. See this is really cool This helps me a lot and I got this from Finland So thank you very much Thank you for the letter. I was going to attempt to read The always got the Arashikage tattoo and I I don't want to butcher your language So out of respect for Finland, I will not attempt to say The the final greeting here in your native tongue But but thank you very much for this. Thank you for the help. Thank you for the comic and just thank you for Supporting the show. Thank you for everything you do and it's really awesome to know that you're watching there from Finland and Of course greetings from the United States Backpack is in here too. I missed it in the envelope. So he has his backpack as well. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Okay, I'm going to open the boxes now and I'm going to go in Reverse order of size. This isn't necessarily the order in which I received them But they it's the order in which they were stacked. So let's look at this and that is from The name is a little bit obscured on the label last name is Bandy From Virginia. So oh we have a letter. Good thing. I kept my Glasses handy Let me make sure that the letter is okay to read. All right. Well this I think this is safe to read. Here we go Um, it says I just wanted to send you a little something in appreciation for all the hard work and entertainment you provide Thank you very much. Um in honor of cobra convergence month. I made a cobra commander completely handmade by me at home So it isn't perfect. I haven't looked at it yet, but I'm sure it's pretty good Hope you enjoy it. It's least I can do to thank you for everything you do. Well, I I thank you for being here Without you being here the channel wouldn't be what it is. So Thank you for all you do If you want me to get want to give me a shout out you can't can but it's that's not why I'm sending it to you I'm sending it as love for your channel and it's content. Thank you for everything Jason bandy. Sorry your name. I didn't get it right from the label But it's jason bandy at bootleg.customs bootleg.customs Jason bandy. So a shout out to jason bandy and For my appreciation For him sending this to me. So let's see. Let's see what we've got. Um, we've got a handmade Cobra commander in here I'm going to attempt to Remove the tape without cutting because I don't want to accidentally damage What's inside? Let's see The camera that I'm using now it doesn't have a remote I kind of miss the remote, but the camera itself is a higher quality. Oh, look at that Oh, that is really fascinating. You think this is is not perfect. This is amazing This is It's basically it's a clear cobra commander That is incredible. It's a hooded version of cobra commander and somehow you managed to get the hood Right as well It's it's like it's like a hologram cobra commander. It's still fully articulated um This is cool I'm going to have to find something to do with this something some kind of display or something Because that is exceptional. Um, so it was bootleg.customs Jason bandy Bootleg.customs. Thank you very much for this custom the hooded cobra commander. Of course the hooded cobra commander is always special to me Um, and uh, I'll keep it in a place of honor. Thank you very much. This is from the clements family and uh, they already sent me my Gijo classified cobra commander The first item from wave two that I got. I really appreciate them sending that to me, but they sent me something extra as well So, uh, I'm curious what they sent Um, let's open this up. I did cut the tape on it, right? I did I did And it is Oh I know what these are. I know what these are Yes Yes. Yes. I'm okay. I got to show these to you These I know exactly what these are. These are the loyal subjects um figures They made several of these gijo figures. Um, and it's got like Uh, nicely detailed, but they've got like the big big heads on them. Uh, they're kind of uh, uh Sort of distorted proportion figures uh with file cards Um, that that's beach head Um, I really would I'm in fact, I'm going to stop this because I want to zoom this in a little bit so you can see these a little better Uh, I kind of wish I'd done that before But time out. Let me let me stop this and zoom in a little bit. All right. That's better So now you can see beach head better and while we're at it, you know, here's that awesome uh hooded cobra commander custom and uh and and gung ho and uh And the wolf that will be timber. So now you got a better view of everything that I've just opened Uh, I should probably should have done that a little earlier in the video I don't want to put that back in. I want him to stand right there. So, uh, there's beach head Come on beach head There we go. Um, and here is a cobra officer I'm a big fan of the cobra troop builders. Um, it's got his helmet This is still sealed. I'm not going to take this out of the bag. I'm going to keep these sealed. Um, but there is a cobra officer Um There we go Again with file card Includes file card. Is this like all of them? Um, because uh, I know they only made Certain characters, uh, they only made so many of them But uh, there's a lot in here. There's a copperhead Nice, uh, it's got the black, uh, m16 with grenade launcher that's reminiscent of the python patrol Um Copperhead, there's a wicked cool firefly Of course, I'm a big fan of fireflies. So that's always welcome Uh, there we go Kind of make sure these guys stand up properly Here's roe blonde. Again with his Uh, accessories still sealed. If it's sealed, I'm going to leave it sealed. Um But let's let's kind of put him in between There's blowtorch And I had somebody did send me a blowtorch So that's how I was kind of able to Um Get acquainted with these guys Um, and these all have the file cards as well. These are amazingly complete There we go Um, here is Let's see here. This is Major blood major blood with sealed Sealed accessories Let's see. We're still, oh, we're still seeing those here. Let's move them back a little bit Make sure you can actually see these guys Major blood and oh, yeah his, uh Dog tags those are that's a separate piece. That's cool Um For such tiny figures the detail work is really impressive These are a few steps above the pop vinyls, which um Have some detail but, uh Have often like generic Bodies and heads. These are not generic at all. These are specifically sculpted for these Characters And there is snake eyes With more sealed accessories, so we'll keep those In the bags Wow So thank you to the clements family. Uh, thank you for these Thank you for your help with, uh, cober cober commander as well. I just Bumped the table and knocked these guys over. Um, no, you guys are going to stand up Uh, while I finish this and so I can say thank these people for sending them to me Thank you is what I'm saying. Um, these are really cool. This is going to give me much more acquainted with these, um loyal subjects figures Um Because uh, yeah, they're kind of new to me. Um, I I kind of missed the boat when these were out and new So thank you for sending these to me and thank you for your support The final box is from Dave Domenico and he has sent some stuff before It is whatever it is. It's well packed and it's very lightweight. Um, let's get in here Um, if it has this much packing material, we need to take some care um I see. Okay. All right. I think I think this is it And I want to just make sure I'm not lost anything in packing material. All right. We're good. We're good That is all packing material. That is super well packed. Mr. Domenico Um, and what we have here Uh, oh that is interesting. Okay What we have here and I did not see a letter and make sure um No, no letters. No letters and that's okay. Just wanted to make sure that I didn't miss any and what we have We have um Let me open these up We have some later gijo figures. We have a shadow ninjas storm shadow If you remember the shadow ninjas, they are figures that would change color in warm or cold water Um, they are from 1994 So the last year at the line and the shadow ninjas replaced the uh, ninja force figures and reused Uh, the molds of ninja force figures So a lot of the ninja force not all of ninja force, but a lot of them were recreated as shadow ninjas and I just ratcheted his arm. Uh, just a reminder that he does have his Action feature. Uh, so that's awesome Uh Shadow ninjas. Thank you very much for that and what we have here is um What I believe is the Is that um Who's it's snake eyes it's ninja force snake eyes with somebody's helmet who helped me out Whose helmet was that I um, I'm blanking. I want to say it's like a robo joe helmet it's um Definitely got a batman quality to it. You probably can't see that well enough, but it reminds me of robo joe's helmet and And a a ninja force snake eyes, which is not a bad version of snake eyes and he should have his action feature Which is let's see. Let's get his arms in position Yes, and if I squeeze his legs his arms will punch punch punch punch punch Uh, so Dave, thank you for these. Uh, very much appreciated and that is everything We have unboxed everything that was sent to the po box. That was our donation Unboxing for the month of august 2020. Thank you to everyone who sent stuff in really cool stuff this month I want to remind everyone you don't have to send anything I am happy just having you here just watching the videos and I appreciate you simply being here If you choose to send something the po box will be on the screen Right now that's where you send it and if you send something I will open it and show everyone I got if you send a letter I will read it and as long as it's safe and not too personal I'll tell everybody what you wrote me. So Thank you very much. Um, this means a lot to me. You mean a lot to me. Um It's been a challenging few weeks. It really has but The support that I get from Those of you out there that watch the show that's really gotten me through it. So Thank you That's I wish there were bigger words that I could say but thank you Thank you for this and thank you for everything That's all for now. I've got to get back to work on vintage gi joe toy reviews There's some coming up. I've been working on them and I've got to get back to working on them. So Thanks again for watching. I'll see you Next month if we get anything in the po box, but until then remember only gi joe is gi joe