 Everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here and this is a very special kind of unboxing video. In this dirty rusty old toolbox is the last of my childhood G.I. Joe collection. I don't know what happened to the rest of it, it may have been thrown out, it may have been left behind when my parents moved, I really don't know. But this whatever is in here is all that still exists and I haven't seen it for a very long time. This was in storage, my brother's storage unit and he finally dug it out for me and gave it to me. I've been asking him to find this for quite some time. So finally he got it to me and I want to open this for you guys so we can see what's left of Hooded Cobra Commander 788's childhood G.I. Joe. As far as I can remember there's nothing in here but a bunch of spare parts. I don't think there are any full complete action figures in there. I'm pretty sure it's just spare parts. I haven't looked in there for decades but I think that's what it is. Toward the end of our G.I. Joe collecting we were doing a lot of customizing. In fact that's primarily what we were doing. In fact that's why it has this writing here on the top. It says Wolverines special operations team keep out with two exclamation points because we mean business. So this is what we used to call our own team that we created. We called them to Wolverines and that was based on or inspired by the movie Red Dawn. And so you know we had our own characters. We wrote our own file cards. We would draw our own comic books. We had our own storyline going. It was a lot of fun. In fact that was kind of the last way that we were still having fun with G.I. Joe toys. Since by that time G.I. Joe figures themselves had gotten quite weird. There's definitely something in there so let's crack it open and see what we got. And let's see here we go. This is very kind of emotional for me here. I haven't seen this stuff in a long time. There's a lot of rust certainly. And yeah it looks like mostly figure parts. So I'm going to dig in here. I want to see what's here and if you'll bear with me hopefully this won't be too boring but I want to go through here and see what's here. I haven't seen this stuff and so I don't really know. I moved the camera up a little higher so hopefully we can see a little bit better so let's see what we got in here. I can see right away we have part of Zartan's chameleon swamp skier. Let's see what I'll get. Oh look at this. It's an action figure. It's not G.I. Joe. This is Battlestar Galactica. I am pretty sure missing an arm but there you go. First action figure non-Joe figure. There's probably some non-Joe stuff. I see one non-Joe thing right now. This is Star Wars. It is a bounty hunter. The name of the bounty hunter is escaping my mind right now. It starts with a D I think. Dengar. Right? I don't know. I think that's right. Anyway so another figure non-Joe. What else we got? We got an accessory that is Syfy's laser rifle. Let's stick the accessories up here. That is Tiger Force Dusty's back. Alright. Lots of spare parts here. Let's see. Lady J's legs. A leg that I think belongs to... That's got to be version 2 of Rock n' Roll. Now that's interesting. That's interesting. Hold on a second. Now if that part, now version 2 of Rock n' Roll, there's more of them, was the last GI Joe action figure that I got. And I'm actually surprised to see parts of him in here. Those aren't his arms. Whose arms are those? I don't know whose arms these are, but those aren't his arms. I did not remember doing any customizing with version 2 of Rock n' Roll. I don't remember that at all. But apparently I did because here's half of them and I don't know where the other half is. Well here's a leg. Maybe there's more of them in there. Let's see. So we've got my last ever GI Joe action figure right there. That's the last one that I got. And let's see. We have half of Ripcord with a painted head. We did a lot of painting, liberal use of modeling paint, speaking of which, this is the accessory pack version of Beachhead's backpack. And you can see that I painted it black. The original color was a really hideous kind of cream color that I hated. So you know, if they give us an ugly color we'll just paint it black. So that's what we did. What else we got? We got part of the Mountain Howitzer, half of the canon there, with the canon cap it looks like. I don't want to break it. What else? Let's see. More, let's see. This is Tunnel Rat's arms and chest and the head of a guy that I'm not placing his name. But head of a different guy and Tunnel Rat's chest and arms. Now we were, all of us, me, my brother and our friends, were big fans of Tunnel Rat. He was kind of a later Joe that had a more realistic military look. So we were really happy to get a figure like Tunnel Rat and we used the parts a lot on different guys. These legs go to Flint. Parts with camouflage, very valuable. You know, we really sought those out. If it had camouflage we wanted that and we wanted to use that. There is Firefly's backpack, still with the cover on it, neat accessory up there. Let's see how, part of Tiger Force Duke's leg. I knew I had this figure, I knew I had Tiger Force Duke. And looks like broken or just doesn't have the screw, airtight's leg. And now this is fun. This is sci-fi and of course he's neon green and we didn't like that too much. We just painted him a darker color green. I'll bet there are more parts like this. Let's see what else we got. Let's grab a handful and kind of pile it up here. We have Roadblock with, I don't think these are GI Joe arms. I think these may be Lannard the Core arms. We would get the Core figures from time to time and just mainly for parts. Sometimes their parts worked with GI Joe parts but sometimes they didn't. So you never know, you can get lucky and use the parts. And this is a painted, looks like breaker chest. I wonder if this is the chest of my first ever GI Joe action figure. Breaker was my first and that may be his chest right there. Which I used for a different purpose. Let's see, repeater's legs, hawk version 2 legs and okay now look at this. This is what I'm talking about. This is a Toxoviper. He's purple. We didn't care for any purple action figures so we just painted him green. How about that? So you give us a purple figure we're going to paint him green. The paint's mostly worn right now, been in there for a long time but that's what we did. Lots of customizing like that. This is a non-Joe part. There's a missile for the Wolverine. There is scrap iron missile. Let's see, that is a non-Joe arm. See Dock's legs, Falcon's legs. See C-3PO leg, alright a little bit of Star Wars in there. A painted arm, I'm not sure who the arm came from. An arm from Tiger Force Roadblock, part of Beachhead and an accessory pack flashlight for a wetsuit. Okay, let's keep digging, let's keep digging, let's see, let's see this is exciting. This is my stuff. This is my old toys here. This is, it's not much is it, it really, I hope this is an anti-climactic but I mean this is what we used to do. This is actually, this is not only the remnants of G.I. Joe but this is the last of Wolverine's, our own special operations team that we created. So this is some memories for me. It's the airtight leg, out back, out back leg, half of Beachhead, that was another valuable figure. We got lots of Beachhead because we really liked just the kind of military look of that figure. Now this, this is special. I recognize this, you might not think that I do but I do. It's kind of chewed up here but this is, we made characters that were based on ourselves and this was the figure for the character that was based on my brother, Eric. I remember this because I know specifically that we used Dial-Tone's head and we painted the beret. So this is half of the figure that my brother's character was, or the figure that we made for my brother's character. I do not remember what we called these characters, what their code names were, don't remember that at all but there you go, that's, that's my brother right there in plastic and it looks like a painted falcon chest and back and leather neck arms, those are leather neck arms. Okay, what else we got? We got a broken crotch from Zapp, we got another broken crotch, I don't care about the broken crotches, that is a non-Joe head, that's a wild bill leg, another duke, tiger force duke leg, there's a little more of tiger force roadblock, there's a painted mask from Fast Draw and I don't remember ever having Fast Draw so I don't know how I ended up with this one but there you go. All right, what else, how we got, we got some more in there, so hopefully this video isn't too long and boring but for me this is kind of special, gung-ho legs, gung-ho is one of my favorite figures from 83, I love that guy, let's see, muskrat I'm pretty sure. This is another thing we did, okay, this looks like a ratty piece of cloth but this, you can see that some tiger stripe camouflage is drawn on it and we used to make little tunics out of these and we put them on the figure and we, you know, put rubber bands on them to hold them on and so they'd have like little camouflage tunics so we used to make those, we must have made a hundred of those, a wheel for something, let's say that's a non-Joe accessory, see that's a non-Joe part, that is hardball's backpack and hardball's arm and snake eyes, 1983 snake eyes arm, I don't know why I put that in there, I'm just putting accessories in there right now, couple other waste pieces, one of them broken, outbacks is broken, broken Cobra officer waste piece, this looks like gung-ho in the dress blues but it looks like we painted it for some reason, let's see, that is, it runs duffel bag but it's missing the grapple and a figure stand, I can always use more figure stands, always running out of figure stands, alright, next handful, let's see what we got, let's see, air tights head, let's see, zaps legs, now I, my brother doesn't remember specifically but I thought that zap was Eric's first GI Joe figure, I know Breaker was mine and I thought zap was his but he's not so sure about that, he doesn't remember specifically, let's see, some hardball's legs, it'd be nice if hardball's waste piece is in here because if hardball's waste piece was in here then I could actually complete the figure, I have the top half of the figure, I just don't have the bottom half so if I could complete a hardball with these parts that would be pretty sweet, wild bill leg, storm shadow leg, pretty yellow, these are not Joe legs, those are, another piece of the chameleon swamp skier, dusty legs, muskrat legs, oh hey check this out, oh check this out, this is the head of Darth Vader, this is really interesting, I guess this would have been from my original Darth Vader action figure which I would have had from the 1970s, that would have predated GI Joe, don't know what happened to the rest of the figure but there is his head, interesting, let's see, a lego, let's see cross country, let's see that's the stinger driver's arm and a part of sci-fi, all right more, more I want more, let's see, getting a pretty good pile here, now this is interesting, we've got snake eyes, his chest, some arms that may be gung-hoes and then a cobra soldier's head, interesting, let's see, we have tiger force, roadblocks, backpack, unfortunately one of the pegs is broken, that's too bad, oh the handles are broken too, that's pretty broken, that's too bad, there's a falcons backpack without the antenna, let's see there's another piece from rock and roll version two and it looks like the little pegs right there snapped off, that's what you put the rifle on and I may have actually done that on purpose, I could see myself doing that, if I didn't like those pegs and you know it wasn't working for my customization purposes I might have just cheered them off, so I don't know, don't remember that, so anyway more of that figure, my last GI Joe and let's see a couple back pieces, charbroil, another part of storm shadow and another part of sci-fi, let's see a broken tunnel rat leg, let's see another waste piece non-Joe head, not a Joe head and an outback part I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure that is not a Joe part either, I don't think so, accessory pack, accessories, helmet and backpack, okay more, more and more and more, okay what is even is this thing, what is this, oh I know what this is, I know what this is, I know what this is, this it's not a hat, it's not a hat, this is part of a gas mask because at some point we picked up like a surplus gas mask somewhere, we used to play with that thing and that's part of it, okay, I know why I kept that and I think it's a non-Joe backpack, let's see a wolverine missile, Baroness backpack, let's keep that, let's see a stinger driver, whose arms are these, these are, this is a monkey wrench I'm pretty sure, let's see bomb, let's see more waste pieces, these are waste pieces I have, I'm not super exciting to me, here is a wheel to the claw and ooh I found something, I found something, check this out, that is a Cobra Commander pistol, yes that's what that is and you know what's great about this, I need this, one of my Cobra commanders is missing his pistol, so I will, this, this is great, this is awesome, so my Cobra Commander will be complete now, I don't know what that is, accessory pack helmet, toxo viper helmet, more parts of Tiger Force Roadblock, I wonder if I can assemble the whole figure, I don't know if that's here, zap chest, that is a non-Joe arm I'm pretty sure, part of Tiger Force Dusty, part of toxo viper painted green, part of sci-fi painted green, let's see legs and let's see other leg parts and that's a duke arm, that's part of duke right there, so that's duke, snow serpent, toxo viper, more more, let's just go through all of it, let's see what's here, duke legs, there you go, non-Joe, stinger driver, pretty bad shape, I think that's the last of the toxo viper, storm shadow arm, there's a storm shadow's waste piece, I can almost assemble a storm shadow with all these parts, this is a think from a train set, that's not a joke, let's see, lady jay waste, oh and this is, this is a modified leather neck rifle, took the grenade launcher off, we did this quite a bit too, we really liked leather neck's rifle and we used it a lot, sometimes we just use it as it was and sometimes we would modify it like this, it's painted and we cut a part of it off just to make it more individual, so yeah, we did that quite a bit too, let's see, part of cobra commander, oh another part of cobra commander, this is version one of cobra commander and this is version three of cobra commander, so yeah, there you go, let's see, tunnel rats, head, forecords, air mask, part of scrap iron's accessories, okay, okay, we are almost done, I still haven't seen the rest of hardball, which is unfortunate, that is a matchbox car, just grab it handfuls and pile it up here so I can look at it, hidden run, waste piece, hardball arm, getting closer to completing hardball, see beach head, dusty, sci-fi and footloose helmet that we have painted, we painted it inside and out, don't know why but there you go, let's see, storm shadow chest, very badly yellowed, cobra commander head, let's see what else here, stinger driver, I don't recall right offhand who that goes to, that is airtight, still going, still going, it's like a piece of duct tape there, that's gross, let's see, a painted arm, that is a bear arm that we've painted totally black for some reason, let's see, footloose, accessory pack, backpack, tossed it up there, that's another part of the swamp skier, not bad and that is a non-joe arm I'm pretty sure, see more cobra commander, sci-fi, that is a non-joe head that we've totally painted black for some reason, more parts of the stinger driver, alright, almost done, let's see here, what else we got, let's just pull it out here, this is another part of gung-ho and another part of muskrat, that's another figure that we really liked, we liked muskrat, there's another part of muskrat and another duke arm with a broken thumb unfortunately, what else we got, what else we got, oh hey I see something else I can use, this is an accessory for muskrat, I have a muskrat figure and I have his rifle, I didn't have this, now all I need is his machete, and then I would have the figure complete, I guess I need the file card too, a machete in there, no I don't see it, it's not in there, okay too bad, oh sorry, haven't finished looking through these yet, let's see storm shadow, that is I'm pretty sure not a joe weapon and it's broken, let's see that is I'm quite sure not a joe weapon, that is not a joe part, there's a badly mangled televiper head, alright what's next, let's see almost done, almost done thank you all for bearing with me on this little trip down memory lane, and let's see I'm just dropping things here, that is a fang helicopter missile, that is tiger force duke leg, there is muskrat's rifle, I already have this but that's alright, let's see that is falcons and non-joe arms and that might be tiger force duke's helmet, alright almost done, oh I forgot I was trying to keep the accessories up here, up here with the accessories, another part of the scrap irons, there's a storm shadow arm, I could almost make a storm shadow with this stuff, I think I missed, I still, I didn't see his head, tunnel rat back, toxo viper, cobra commander, sci-fi, is that it, it's almost it, gung-ho, let's see, I don't know what that is, that is beach head, another part of the swamp skier, let's see, and just some random parts here, I think that's it, and some crud, some leaves and some disintegrated o-rings and rubber bands down there, and that's it, wow that really was not very much, but you know what, it may not be a lot but it's mine, that's my stuff, being able to touch and handle this stuff means a lot to me because this was an important part of my childhood and this represents basically the last of my G.I. Joe memories in tangible form, so what am I going to do with all this stuff, I think I'm going to just take out a couple of accessories that I need, and the rest of it I'm just going to put back in the vault, I'm going to just put it back in here and store it away and this will just be kind of a box of memories for me, I'm not going to try to sell any of the parts, they're not worth a whole lot anyway, these are mine, so I'm going to keep them, and so that's it, I don't really know what to think, it was special, it was really cool to see everything, it's also kind of sad that I don't have, there's a lot that I don't have, it just doesn't exist anymore, so that's disappointing and some of this stuff is kind of sad that it's in terrible shape, in some ways I wish I had kept the toys in better condition, of course once you start customizing though, you're looking at them more as parts than actual figures, so we got some fun out of it, we had a good time, it was like a thing that my brother and some other neighborhood kids did for kind of a long time, so we enjoyed it and so yeah, that was my little trip down memory lane, thank you very much for watching and I've got another full review video for you coming up on Sunday, this one's a little bit different, we kind of got some different videos coming lately, not our typical thing, but I hope you enjoy it, thank you very much for watching and I will see you next time.