 Hello everybody, HoodieCoverCommander788 here. In this box is the 1988 G.I. Joe A.G.P., the anti-gravity pod from Destro's Iron Grenadiers. And all the parts are in here, it is unassembled. So I'm actually going to assemble this on camera, so we're gonna go through this together. Some of the parts are still on the trees, on the plastic trees that they came in when you first took them out of the retail box. Some have been removed, but I believe all the parts are here, including the sticker sheet. So let's go ahead and assemble this vintage vehicle together. I think we're gonna have fun with that. I've enjoyed the assembly videos, I hope you have too. And this is really my first look at the A.G.P. I did not have this toy when it was originally released. I had not picked one up as an adult collector. I wanted to get one because I think this is the only Iron Grenadiers vehicle from 1988 that I didn't have. So now I have it. Let's put it together and see if all the parts are there and see what it looks like fully assembled. Okay, first things first. I have the tools that I think I will need to assemble it. I have my clipboard here just to use at the flat surface in case I need to cut something I don't want to cut my table. So let's go ahead and take the parts out of the box. We have a canopy. We have, looks like some fins. We have, looks like, half of the main body of the vehicle and the other half. We've got a bag of parts that have come off the tree or were taken off. So hopefully all those are what we need. We've got one part here, a gold part that is just barely hanging on the plastic tree. So that hardly even seems worth cutting off. I can just kind of pluck it off. So there's our first part that we've taken off of the plastic tree. There is an empty plastic tree for the other parts that are in the plastic bag. Of course the blueprints and in here we have a sticker sheet. So very good. One of my favorite parts of doing these assemblies is putting the stickers on. We have a seat for the cockpit. Looks like we have the pods, like the propulsion pods. Those are still on the tree. And I think that's it. Oh yes, that's it. So let's set aside the box and let's start by looking at the instructions. It's always a good idea to start with the instructions first, setting aside the sticker sheet. And let's see, what is step one? Step one is very simple. We take these two halves of the main body. Let's move these guys out of the way. Take these two halves of the main body and in them we place this pilot seat. Let's see, how does that go? That goes like, oh I see, it's got a little, yeah it's got a place right there that will fit. Yeah, let me make sure I'm doing it right. Make sure it's lined up. Let's see. Not as easy as it looks. It helps if I put the seat in right side up. It has a hole right through there and that should fit right in there. Perfectly. It works great if you do it right and follow the instructions. So we just kind of make a sandwich with the main body. I'm trying to do this where you can see it. The main body and the seat. Let's see. And that clips in like so. If I line it up right. Let's see, that is not lined up right. Okay, alright. Always is the struggle with these assemblies. None of them can just be easy. And lining things up properly seems to be what I have the most struggle with. But that looks close to right. The way the instructions show it, it's like you just mash these two pieces together and it just slides on very easily. But that is not the case. There's actually quite a lot to line up with just these two main body pieces. And it looks like I do finally have it lined up. And it's, yeah, it's snapped together. Everything looks fine. But that was not all that easy. That's just step one. What do we do with step two? Step two, we have the stabilizer wing. Which way does it go? Looks like it goes that way. That just slides on like this. Hold on. Okay, another thing that has got to be lined up just so to get it to work properly. Okay, this stabilizer wing really is tight. I mean that will go on, but it's made of a slightly softer plastic than the main body and that's a good thing. Otherwise, this thing would be too brittle and that would just snap. I don't think I got that right. I got to back it out a little bit. Line it up and slide that in. And it is quite tight. I want to do this without breaking anything. But I tell you, it sure does not want to go. Okay, all right. Yeah, all right. It went, but not easily. So this thing is already kind of tough to assemble. All right. Oh, and also in step two, we have the canopy. It has a couple of holes here and this canopy is supposed to slide up in there and go in those holes. Or actually, I guess, it doesn't slide in there. I guess we can pry that apart slightly. There we go. Hey, the one thing that went easily. Is it lined up right? Yes, it is. Okay, well kind of. It doesn't close very well. All right. Make sure this is working properly. I'm going it's on the way it's supposed to go. Yeah, all right, it closes. Okay, good. Okay, that parts on. Next, step three, we put, oh, this rudder. That's in this bag here. There we go. This rudder goes in here. So which way does it go? It goes this way up. And we got a couple of teeth here. I don't like that design. That puts a lot of strain on these teeth. And if they get too much pressure, they will just, they'll snap. And once, if one of them snaps, this won't stay on. So let's try to do it and put as little pressure on those teeth as possible. Come on now. Go in. There. Okay, it's on. And it did not break. I have yet to break one of these vehicles while assembling it. So I'm very proud of that fact. There we go. All right. The canopy is still working fine. And it says to go ahead and put the missiles on. So we have four missiles. And they go, how do they go? They go on the top here. Pretty standard looking missiles. Naturally, they don't want to fit very easily. Let's see there. There's one on the end here. And I'm trying to do it so you can see it, but it's hard to fit these on without them facing me. So let's try. Man, these missiles don't like to stay on, something I will note in my review. I mean, they stay on once you get impressed on well enough, but the slots for them is actually quite narrow. So lining them up is not, not easy. About got it. Come on. There we go. All right. Now four missiles on. Yay. Okay. Now we are to put the guns on. There's one. There's the other one. And they fit on either side of the fuselage. And wait, which way do they go? Yes, this is correct based on the instruction sheets. So I believe they just press on. Yeah, I can see where they click on. Yeah, perfect. Other side. Okay, come on. Get in there. There we go. All right. Both are on and I managed to knock off a missile while I was doing that. All right. Now some things I do like about this vehicle, it is in those classic iron grenadiers colors. They didn't go with any crazy color scheme with this one. They gave us that classic iron grenadiers, black, red, and gold. And that's how I like it. All right. So the guns are on. Missiles are on. What do we do next? Now we have to assemble these engine nozzles, as the blueprints call them. All right. I'm going to have to cut these off the tree. So I don't want to cut my table. So I'm going to use this. And I'm going to trim this carefully. There. As a kid, I don't remember ever cutting these off. I think I just kind of twisted them until I pulled them off. But we'll try to be a little more precise as adults. All right. Now, carefully trim that off. There we go. Yeah. Okay. Now these are now free from their plastic prisons. And we can assemble them. Let's check the instructions again. Now I just love doing this. I think this was one of my favorite things about getting GI Joe as a kid was putting the vehicles together. It was genius. Genius to have these vehicles assembled by the kids. Let's see. So, okay, I see. There's a left and a right. They are not the same. There's the left inside. There's the left outside. So I should be able to put these together. How do they go together? They go this way it looks like. Let me make sure. It doesn't seem right because I picked up the wrong one. That's the left one. That's left. Okay. And that makes a whole lot more sense. Okay. There. Should just press together. Now, of course, it can't be easy. No, nothing can be easy. I'll give you that idea. We don't do anything easy. Okay. It's got tabs and holes that have to be lined up. And that's a little bit difficult to do because you can't see them once you put them together. So I got one tab here that's not wanting to line up close though. If you keep working with it though, it does snap together. So, all right, there you are. That's the left side. Now the right side. If I can tell my left from my right, let's put this one together. It should line up very much the same. And you do have to press it a bit to make sure it clicks together. Learn that from the other side. All right. It looks like it's not going to fit, but you just have to keep pressing until it snaps on. Okay. So that's it. Now, I think we just have to put these on the AGP. All right. This is the last step. And I'm double checking to make sure I put these on the right side, the correct side. All right. Like so. Oh, I see. They kind of click together, don't they? All right. That's how they turn simultaneously. All right. Very clever. So, let's see. If these line up, they should snap together. Of course, I got to do it right. Helps if I do it right. Oh, yeah. That's it. It worked. It worked. All right. That is, and these should now, yeah, they tilt together. Excellent. That is an assembled AGP. So now, the really fun part, let's put the stickers on. I would like to thank everyone for watching. It's a special thrill for me to be able to do this every week. And the response from you guys has been really overwhelmingly positive. So thank you. And I hope you enjoy doing this with me, because this is one of my favorite activities. And I appreciate doing that with you. So, okay. Now we have, okay, number two. Okay, number two is the black Destro symbol, and that goes on the engines. And we have a gold Destro emblem there, and that goes underneath. So we just wanted to make sure we're clear about that. Let's try to get this good and straight. That's good. Back when I was working at a used bookstore many years ago, in my early, early 20s, we used to have a guy that came in, and he was a family member of the guy that owned the store. And he would do odd jobs, like when we needed new bookshelves built, he would put them together. And I always help him. I always liked it. The guy's name was Sandy. He was just an old dude. Sandy always had a little saying. Every time he put one of those bookshelves together, he'd say, that's good enough for the girls I go out with. That was Sandy. And everything that he did was just, it might not be perfect, but it was good enough for the girls that he goes out with. Let's see. There we go. He was also always getting into his cough medicine before working every day. You know, just helping get him through the day. I miss Sandy. I heard a few years ago that Sandy passed away. He was pretty old when I knew him, and that was a couple decades ago. But I always had fun building bookcases with Sandy and getting them all, you know, close enough. Close enough. I wouldn't say those bookcases are perfect, but you know what? They're still there in that bookstore. They're still standing. All right. So we've got a couple of numbers, some high-tech digital type numbers. And those just go on the pods, on the engine pods, like that. And one more. There we go. And the last sticker is the instrument panel for inside. So I'm going to lift the canopy, and hopefully that'll stay up for me for a minute. Pretty simple-looking instrument panel. Not too impressive, but it'll add a little bit of color to our cockpit. And that just fits right there. Let's try to get that nice and straight. So when I review this toy and I get a close-up of these stickers, and if they're not nice and straight, you can all make comments and make fun of me that I can't get the sticker straight. That is good enough. That's good enough for the girls I go out with. There we go. There we go. The assembled Destros iron grenadiers anti-gravity pod from 1988. Not with the driver. Still got to get the driver. But this baby is complete and about as mint as you can get. That was my assembly video for this anti-gravity pod, and it's not exactly an unboxing because I didn't have the vintage box that it came in. But all the parts were there. All the parts were in perfect condition. It was a little bit of a struggle that we did get this thing together. I've really enjoyed these assembly videos. I hope you have too. I'll try to do more of them as the opportunity arises. It's not often that we get to assemble a vintage vehicle like this, be the first person to assemble it. And so that's kind of special. And that certainly brings back a lot of memories for me, and I hope you like it too. So thanks for watching, and thanks for tuning in every week to see vintage G.I. Joe toy reviews. I'll have another one coming up for you soon, and I'll see you then.