 Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here, and we're doing things a little differently this week I don't have a full GI Joe toy review for you this week I'm taking the weekend off not really off But I just needed the extra time to catch up a little bit on the regular reviews So I will have a regular GI Joe toy review for you next week But since we don't have a review this week. I thought we would do something a little special I have here a boxed Unopened GI Joe Scorpion Desert Attack vehicle a Cobra Battlecore vehicle from 1994 and I thought we would just open it up and put it together I know some collectors are opposed to opening and assembling vintage vehicles in this case This is not a rare toy You can still find plenty of these out there in the box sealed in mint condition So I'm not really depleting the supply for those who want to get this and keep it in the box You can still get them and you don't have to hunt all that hard for them but for my purposes for reviews I need to have them loose and The best way to get a loose mint vehicle is to take it out of the box And I will be the first one to put it together and see it completed So I'm gonna give that a try today. I would not do this if it were a rare toy if it were a vehicle from The 80s or any rare vehicle. I I wouldn't do this The only reason I'm doing it on this one is because because it's not rare So I really don't think there should be that much controversy with me opening this up and seeing what's inside there's also a variation on this vehicle some of the scorpion Desert attack vehicles had a lighter color body with the darker color accessories And others had the colors reverse where it was the darker body and the lighter accessories And I don't know which one this is so we're going to be surprised We'll open it up and see which one of the variations we have I got this vehicle because I do intend to use it in an upcoming video This is not on the slate to be reviewed in the near future But I did want to have it for a different review because I wanted to show it So I thought I'd go ahead and get this it was inexpensive relatively inexpensive And it appears to really be sealed. It does not look like it was resealed. It looks like it's factory sealed so Let's open her up and let's put it together. I have the tools that I will probably need and let's be the first to see this GI Joe's scorpion out of the box I gave some thought about the best way to open this without damaging the box any more than necessary And it looked like oh running a blade Basically down the glue holding this side together Would probably be the best way so I'm going to attempt to do that without cutting my fingers and Hopefully also without cutting the box. I really just want to Yeah, peel away that glue Yeah, I think that should work I really am trying to be careful Because when I eventually do review this toy I will want to show the box as well and I would like the box to be And as good a condition as possible So I'm trying not to crease this side, but I'm also trying to Run this blade down And just kind of cut Right where the glue is just separate the glue And there we go. It is now An opened box. So let's put our blade away safety first And let's um Yeah, this is a 90s vehicle. So The inside of the box. It's got the cardboard tray that you pull out We've done a couple 90s vehicles and that seems to be how they are all boxed So sliding The cardboard tray out We see a few other things that are familiar to us from 90s vehicles set the box aside This is a catalog This is this looks like a catalog that came with 93 vehicles are 1993 It's got some ninja force Um, we've looked at this catalog before I'm not going to look at it too closely but um interesting that uh That is still the 1993 catalogs in a 1994 vehicle Of course 1994 was the final year of the vintage gi jo toy line It was canceled after that year and then we have this, um Which appears to be a see terrifying lasers of destruction terrifyingly, and we've got a menacing maze on the back um, and this is yeah, this is a mail away catalog And in the mail away catalog, that's a lot of a lot of 1993 items um, and in fact, uh, is that a There's a uh A ninja viper on that battle barge That's interesting So yeah, and there's a the 1993 rapid deployment force mail away set so This is a bunch of 93 stuff and 1992 stuff like I said because there's the gold head steel brigade form right there Fascinating, uh, so that was in there And then we have some parts We have some bag parts We have the instruction sheet And the blueprints should have the blueprints on That side and the instruction sheet on that side We'll follow that to put the thing together. We have four wheels Oh, there we go Looks like we have the chassis and uh, what looks like a missile launcher And then we have the sticker sheet and this appears to be the, uh, variant with the dark colored body And the lighter colored accessories. So that's the variant we got. Um, when I Review this vehicle, of course, I will want to have both variations But now I know which one to look for. Um, I've got this one. I'll need to look for the other one so What I will do first is I will browse through the instruction sheet And make sure Um, I have everything I need and I know what I'm supposed to do All right, I think I have a pretty good idea of what I'm supposed to do to assemble it I think one thing that's interesting in step three. It has a warning One time assembly It says a once assembled cannot be taken apart So I guess we better do that one the right the first time So I want to open The sealed bag Okay, so I'm going to open the sealed bag for all the small parts And then we will See once what Looks like we've got to take some things off of a plastic tree. We've got three missiles. They're hanging pretty loose Probably don't even have to cut those off looks like the hood Um Some other parts looks like there's a part missing there. We'll have to check on that And uh, or oh, I bet this is this part just fell off um Looks like a turret and uh and a bumper And I think that's it. So Let's follow step one Well, let me move these a bit so that you can see them better as we assemble them And step one is the vehicle hood assembly And it suggests That we snap these three teeth into Which bar this bar right here the top bar Right there, which you probably can't see too well because it is dark. It's black So it looks like we're supposed to snap it on like that And then close the hood One issue with that is that we've got some plastic teeth here and um We've got three teeth if one of those breaks while we're assembling it. Um, this thing is not going to Work right. So I'm gonna have to be a little bit cautious And placing this on this top bar Up went on without any trouble at all Well, that's helpful at least it didn't require a lot of force to place it on No risk of breaking those teeth So that's the hood Does lift and there is some engine detail under the hood So there's that the next is the front bumper assembly Um position the okay, where's the front bumper? There is the front bumper Looks like that's the front. This is the back. Um, that's the top And it says to uh position the bottom of bumper below The front of the vehicle then snaps slots up into lower front bar as shown So position it in the All right, hold on. This is gonna take one second. Make sure I'm doing it, right? Okay, I get it. There's there are some slots down here that this little bar is supposed to fit into And then it's supposed to swing up and then it's got some teeth that connect to this lower bar So that may take a little bit of effort to line up But let's see almost got it And again, we have these teeth that Are supposed to grip around this bar And if for any reason they don't Go on easily then They could break And then the whole thing is not going to hold together properly Yeah, that is not going together easily at all. It doesn't look like it'll quite line up is what it looks like um, it looks like the the Teeth for this clip Is resting below the bar And I've got to be very cautious about this. Oh there goes Did it actually snap in? Did that actually snap in? I think it might have All right. Well that's All right, that worked better than I thought um, the teeth for this front grill Once you slide it in the way it looks like it's supposed to go It seems to be resting well below the bar that they're supposed to snap into But I guess if you work it well enough you can get it to get it to snap on So there you go. We have the hood And we have the front grill and that moves us to step three which we have the warning Uh, one time assembly only Oh, this is a an axle that is not a turret. So let's see. This is the turret um And it goes Into the uh, hold back. So this right here This hole right here is for this turret right there And I'm told by the instruction sheet that once I snap this in it cannot be removed And I can see why not because it's got It's got some ridges on the inside that's going to grip this mushroom clip pretty tightly Once I press it in And yeah, that'll be about impossible to get out, but at any rate it goes this way and you press it in Uh, press it in. Oh man, that's tight. Hold on Ah, there we go. All right, it's in Uh, it rotates pretty tight rotation on that But yeah, that's insoluble. You'll never get that out once you get that in so that's fine. That's fine As long as it's not breaking while we're trying to assemble it. That's okay Uh, so now we need to cut a piece off of This plastic tree and I need to find my knife again Um The piece we need to cut off is this one This is another turret And it is a turret for looks like the spring loaded Spring loaded missile launcher Uh, it appears to go on this turret. How does it work? Oh like that Um, so should we put the turret on the missile launcher first or should we put the turret in the Body and then the missile launcher on um on it Then let's see Um Snap launcher pivot into turret holes. So it says to do this first. So let's do it first So this goes into this hole in the front here It's another mushroom clip We do not have a warning that it can never be removed But I have a feeling that once we get this in it ain't never coming out All right. Well, ah, there we go Snapped in that was a awfully loud snap when I hear plastic make that noise. It always makes me nervous um, and then this this bar on the bottom of the Missile launcher should Rest right in there and it's got some ridges on it that run along some ridges On the inside of the clip. So I believe this would ratchet. Let's see Yeah, it has a ratchet Uh, not great elevation but some All right, cool So there's that It says caution do not aim weapon at eyes or face. So well, it's too late. I'm aiming at my eyes right now Um, the the missiles. Okay, let's it's got three missiles Um, only one of course can fit into the launcher at a time But I believe we have yes, we have some pegs for the remaining missiles Which is nice. I like it when vehicles do that You're going to have spring loaded missiles and You have more than one. I won't put press that all the way in um, then It's nice to have an extra peg or two For the remaining missiles. Well, there's one peg. Where's uh Where's a peg for the other one? Uh, oh, I see it goes like that So the other two missiles peg into the back here Let's go ahead and test out this Test out this missile Let's see Press it all the way in. Okay. It looks like the trigger is here on the top and let's fire Oh, yeah All right, I went straight off the table. I will collect that later But does it spring loaded launcher works great? So now we have the rear axle assembly for some reason. I thought this was a turret. It's not it's a rear axle Now that goes in the back The front wheels have a kind of a molded in axle Um on the chassis But the back wheels fit on this axle and I didn't notice there's a A sticker with a random number. I guess a parts number of some kind On there and we've seen that on a few other gi joe vehicles as well Uh something done at the factory, I guess So let's see how to do this and let's try to do it right Hold vehicle upside down fit rear axle grooves into sides of vehicle Snap axle tabs in place and it looks like it goes This way because this hook goes in the back I see So if you do it that way So we should be able to just press this in in theory That's tight And it makes me nervous to put a lot of pressure on old plastic So let's let's take it easy here Let's take it easy. Okay. It did go it went. Okay So it snapped into place No breakage at all Rear axle is in so now we have four wheels to assemble Or to attach and once again, we have a one-time assembly warning So once these wheels go on they never ever come off again And the way they appear to assemble it looks like they will We're going to have some exposed clips On the outside of the wheels Exposed clips instead of hubcaps That's never my favorite way to do these wheels, but that's what we got. So let's do four wheels All right All four wheels appear to be identical So it shouldn't matter which one goes into which peg One in Two in i'm not sure if I will like the variant with the lighter color body More than the one with the black body. I'm not sure I'll just have to get the other one and look at them side by side Um and decide which one I like the best That's three And finally there We have wheels and that leaves one part That is oh, yeah, it is on the instruction sheets The the gas can the fuel Tank as it's called on the instruction sheet But this this little jerry can here which Safety first There we go Which fits into this little slot in the back So that's kind of cool So earlier gi jo vehicles had a tradition of um having these Jerry cans like the first couple versions of the vamp Had these and vamp mark two had water cans, but you know same idea So that's nice a little extra accessory there And that is fully assembled this thing is done. It's together But that leaves us to my favorite part, which is putting on the sticker sheet Okay, let's start with step one, which is sticker number one, which is a little instrument panel That is supposed to go On this little space here Behind the missile launcher looks like Just some instruments and gauges let's try to get that as straight as possible These are paper stickers not our classic vinyl stickers So they have a bit more vibrant colors than What we typically saw on uh vinyl stickers But the trade-off is they're not very forgiving Once you place them, they don't want to come up again. So they have to be very cautious to Put them in the right position before you lay them down In fact, I got to move these missiles out of the way because they are They are absolutely in the way of this one Um, and this one I'm going to try to get as straight as I can Looks like it's supposed to go a bit lower. So let's put it right Right there That is not straight. I did not get that straight, but That's part of the problem with these um And even though Yeah, if I tried to peel that up it would just tear the paper So uh for better or worse that one is on And the next step is oh well there's um There's some kind of a technical Panel like with a some circuitry layout That goes right in front of the driver And let's see which way is up that way is up To peel it let's try to get this one straighter. So It goes all the way down there And press it on There that one's much better. I got that one a bit straighter, but not perfect not perfect Next step. So we got some instrument panel stickers, um, which I don't think you can see very well, but we got them And then we have on the what is that that's the back we have a sticker that says A desert scorpion Now that is interesting that it says desert scorpion. This is the scorpion desert attack vehicle But the desert scorpion was actually the name of an action figure An action figure that was no longer on the pegs at the time this vehicle was sold But I suppose if you had The desert scorpion It would be a pretty good driver For your scorpion. So there's that Desert scorpion on the back We have two of those stickers. So it looks like the other one goes on the side here Go ahead and place that one It's good as a straight as we can and lined up as close as possible to where the sticker sheet Tells us to put it. There we go Desert scorpion on the side Uh, oh, I missed one that's supposed to go on the back number seven Number seven a warning area So it's uh, apparently that's a very dangerous area of the Vehicle and it's a required a warning and that goes Just below the gas can In that space right there there Are reasonably straight on that one next Oh, we have a step. We have two step stickers And the step stickers are very important Because if you stepped in the wrong spot, lord knows what could happen. So There are two of them and they each go on these running boards here So let's place them So you can know where to step And you don't run into trouble stepping Where you shouldn't All right, so let's Place that on I always do the stickers last but For some of this these vehicles and perhaps for this one It would have been easier to place some of the stickers before putting the other parts on Like these in particular um, I kind of have to Work around the wheels If I had to put these stickers on before I put the wheels on That would not be a problem But we got so we got some step stickers On each side Uh next what's next? Oh, um Each side of hood Uh explain that to me. How does that work? Uh, we have these These purple and black stripe stickers now. This is something I Need to make sure I understand because that doesn't make sense to me. Yeah, okay So it doing this thing that some of these 90s vehicles did that I don't like It's telling me to put a sticker that's directly over some of the molding on the hood two stickers in fact and That's not going to work very well. So I'm going to try to Place them in this space here where they will barely fit But they will not Interfere with the molding there's two of them and they Are not precisely where the sticker sheet tells me to put them But realistically, I think it's the only place where they can be So there we go. We have some hood stickers And that leaves uh only two more. There is a black cobra emblem inside a purple circle That goes on the hood the very center right here Like so let's try to get that straight or as straight as we can Okay, so that's on not bad not bad. So we got Cobra on the hood right right there And one more sticker that goes where? That goes here And that it says explosive contents Just like just like my videos Explosive contents Okay, and it's kind of pink So I guess it would be a pink explosion and that just goes right here Oh that is not wanting to go on straight. Let's let's be careful with that Because we can only apply it once It's on and that's it We have a fully assembled and stickered Cobra scorpion from 1994 With the variation that has the black body and the light tan colored hood and other accessories that was my assembly video of the 1994 scorpion from the battle course series for cobra and I always enjoy doing these. It's very nostalgic Even though these 90s vehicles are not quite exactly like the 80s vehicles I still do get some nostalgia buzz out of assembling these. So there you have it. I have all the extra pieces and packaging that I will keep in the box. I keep all that stuff Anyway, even though most people will probably throw it away I just never know if I want to use it. I may never use that stuff, but I keep it anyway But there you have it. This guy you will see in a video pretty soon But not in its own review. It's not ready for its own review yet. I still have to get the variation I have to get the one with the light body and the dark accessories. So I'll be on the lookout for that So thanks and um Although there's no new Review this week. There will be one next week. I am working on it now and I hope you enjoy that one So thanks everyone for watching I will see you soon And remember only g i joe is g i joe