 Hello everybody, HoodedCoverCommander788 here, I'm back with another vintage GI Joe toy review and this time we're going to look at a figure that I probably should have reviewed earlier than now. I've had the figure complete for a long time, it's been sitting on my shelf staring at me saying, review me, review me, it looks like he's starting to get really mad now. So let's look at the 1984 GI Joe dog handler Mutt and his dog Junkyard. This is Mutt and Junkyard, Mutt is GI Joe's dog handler, he was first sold in 1984, he was also available in 1985, he was discontinued in 1986 and he did not have a replacement that year. However in 1987 we got Law and his dog Order, Law was a military policeman and a dog handler so sort of a replacement for Mutt. Mutt was the first GI Joe figure to come with a dog companion but he was not the last. In 1985 we got Snake Eyes with his wolf Timber and again in 1987 we got Law with his dog Order. So let's take a look at Mutt's accessories and he came with a lot of accessories starting with his weapon. The contents of the card on which the figure was packaged call this a Mac 11 with silencer and this is actually a real world weapon. This is a Mac 11 with a suppressor. This is a fairly accurate representation of the real world weapon. This does not fit in the figure's hand very well, at least it doesn't fit in mine. In his hand it fits very loosely and it wants to fall out so that's something that you do have to be careful about. This is a fairly small accessory and it could be lost very easily. His next accessory is this night stick and it has this loop so it can loop around his wrist and that I like. It's nice that he can carry the weapon even if it's not in his hand. This night stick has minimal detail though it does have a little bit and it is fairly short for a night stick. It's long enough though if you want to pull a Tanya Harding. Please tell me someone remembers who Tanya Harding is. Like the Mac 11 the night stick does not fit very firmly in his hand and as you can see it can just kind of slide right out. Not a good fit. I usually just loop it around his wrist and leave it that way. Next we have Mutt's face mask and the face mask buckles in the back like that. It is removable. It's a separate piece. It is not part of the helmet. It's kind of tight though it's not too easy to get on and not too easy to get off either. The strap is only barely long enough to go around the helmet. This face mask looks a little bit like a dog's muzzle which is kind of weird. Why would the dog handler wear that? Maybe it's a gas mask but it doesn't really look like one. I'm not sure exactly the purpose of this thing. It's an extra accessory and it looks kind of cool on the figure but as far as functionality goes I'm not sure what that's supposed to be. Next we have his helmet. This is a black helmet that has goggles and there is a variant of this helmet out there. Some have little holes in the side like the old classic GI Joe helmets did. This one does not. I really like this helmet. It's very cool looking. It's got some nice detail. It's got some goggles here. It kind of makes me think of like an old school motorcycle helmet. This may be my favorite of his accessories. This is a cool helmet. Next we have the leash which fits nicely around Mutt's wrist and it loops around Junkyard's head. It doesn't have a buckle or anything like that. You just kind of have to pull it over his head. It's made out of a soft flexible plastic. It does not tend to break. This is a pretty robust accessory. It has some minimal detail on it but not very much. It has a faint texture pattern on there that looks like it's supposed to be leather and finally we get to Junkyard. If you consider Junkyard an accessory, he is Mutt's dog Thampanian. He is molded out of a single piece of plastic. He is not articulated in any way. He's kind of frozen in this angry ready to attack posture. Junkyard is a rottweiler and he's a very nicely sculpted representation of that breed. He has a brown paint wash on his belly. That's the only detail that there is. There's no other paint application. His teeth are not painted or anything like that. Very simple but really very effective. It's a really cool animal companion and a great accessory. Junkyard has a bobbed or docked tail. It's actually illegal to do that in some countries now. He takes his name from a Junkyard dog which is just a really aggressive dog that guards a scrapyard or a junkyard. Let's take a look at the articulation on Mutt. He had the typical articulation for 1984 G.I. Joe action figures. That means he could turn his head from left to right like that. He could also swing his arm up at the shoulder about so far. He could swing his arm all the way around at the shoulder. He had a hinge at the elbow so he could move at the elbow about 90 degrees. He had a swivel at the bicep. He could swivel his arm all the way around. The figure was held together with a rubber o-ring that looped around the inside. He could move at the torso a little bit. He could move his legs apart about so far. He could move his leg at the hip about 90 degrees and he could bend at the knee about 90 degrees. Let's look at the sculpt design and color of Mutt starting with his head and his head. The first thing I think you notice is his very prominent mustache. In the last month of videos on this channel we have seen some very impressive mustaches. He has short black hair not a lot of detailing on the hair. It's pretty simple. He's sculpted with an expressive face. He has a permanent angry face but I think it looks more like he's straining really hard on the crapper. I tend to prefer passive face sculpts to these expressive faces. On his chest he's wearing a brown tactical vest over a dark green shirt. He's got some red shoulder pads, a black knife. On this side we have a pocket and we have some kind of a badge. I haven't been able to identify what this badge is but it's a very distinctive star and cluster badge. His arms feature that dark green shirt with rolled up sleeves and his left hand is covered with a dog handler's protective glove so the dog would not be able to bite through this. This is really cool looking. I like this. It just looks like an armored glove. It almost looks like a robotic hand. On his waist piece we have dark green trousers the same color as his shirt. A very simple black belt not a lot of detail to it. One green pouch on the right side. His legs are dark green and on his right leg we have a brown holster with a black pistol. Nothing really on his left leg. We have knee pads and that's a nice bonus. I do like knee pads in brown. We have for some reason lace up sides on his trouser legs and I'm not sure of the purpose of that. We have some fairly well sculpted brown boots. Mutt's upper legs his thighs here with this sculpted on pistol were reused for another action figure the 1986 Doctor Mindbender. You can see that is the same pistol holster. The same upper legs and thighs and that's a really interesting reuse of parts. You wouldn't expect parts of Mutt to end up on Doctor Mindbender of all people. Let's take a look at Mutt's file card. This file card was printed on the back of the card on which the action figure was packaged. You can see a little bit of the artwork on the front of the card there. It has his factionist GI Joe and it has a nice portrait of Mutt here. It says he's the dog handler in parentheses K9. Of course this is a play on the word K9 which just means a dog. It has his code name as Mutt. A Mutt of course is a mixed breed dog. His file name is Stanley R. Pearlmutter which may be a play on the word Mutt. His dog's name of course is Junkyard in all caps. His primary military specialty is dog handler. His secondary military specialty is infantry. His birthplace is Iceland, New Jersey and his grade is SP4 that's Specialist 4. This section says Mutt is a natural with animals. He likes them and they like him. The problem is he gets along better with dogs than he does with humans. Graduated jungle warfare training school attached as cadre to special ops school and as advisor to security and enforcement committee. This cadre basically means he had the responsibility of training the unit to which he was assigned. He had expert M16, M14, M1911A1, Auto Pistol and Mach 11 of course that's the gun that he came with. This bottom section has a quote. It says if you're sitting next to Mutt in the mess hall don't try to filch anything from his tray. He'll bite your leg off. So this file card portrays Mutt as not only being a dog handler but also having a lot of dog-like traits. He could not be more dog-like if his file name were Wolfie McBarkbark. Looking at this figure overall it has remarkable detail for a 1984 G.I. Joe action figure and he is loaded with accessories. Wow! What a lot of accessories! It's hard to think of another figure that had more accessories than this guy did. He was also part of a trend that started in 1984 of introducing animal companions for some of the figures. Another figure that came out in 1984 with an animal companion was Spirit. Of course he had an eagle rather than a dog but we started a trend here and we started to get a lot of animal companions with our G.I. Joe's. In the G.I. Joe comic book Mutt was portrayed as irritable and frustrated while his dog Junkyard was portrayed as very smart and endearing. He was so smart in fact that in one issue he was able to trick and trap some cobras. In the various G.I. Joe media I think sometimes Junkyard was portrayed as being a little too smart. He was almost like Wonder Dog from Super Friends. I think it's important to keep in mind that even though Junkyard is a very smart dog, very highly trained, he should be portrayed as a real dog not like a cartoon dog. He's not Scooby-Doo. Although it's amusing to think of Mutt as Junkyard's Shaggy, a very irritable Shaggy who will kill you. I think Mutt and Junkyard would best fit the role of a guard or a sentry but they weren't really portrayed that way in the G.I. Joe comic book. They went on missions like any other G.I. Joe team member. I would place Mutt and Junkyard in the top tier of figures that came out in 1984 and that's saying something because a lot of great figures came out in that year. 1984 was a great year for both G.I. Joe and Cobra. That was my review of Mutt and his dog Junkyard and his file card. 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