 Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here and I do not have a full review for you this week And I'm sorry about that. I should have a full review next week But since I don't have one for you this week I what I thought we might do instead is do an unboxing and assembly of a vintage GI Joe vehicle This is the GI Joe razor blade. It is from 1994. I don't have very many 1994 vehicles, so this will be a learning opportunity for me. I picked this up at Joe con. It was pretty inexpensive It was in an open box. The box was not it was not sealed But the contents inside are still in the factory sealed bags So we will be the first to see this Actually opened up and assembled and once I get it assembled eventually in the future I'll be able to do a full review on it I have all the tools I'm likely to need to assemble this vehicle So let's open it up and put it together So let's see this just opened the flap here and these 90s vehicles all came with a Cardboard tray inside the box Pull that out and we can set the box aside Just set the box over here for a second And then this is all of our pieces here. We've got body piece here got Couple grips here. This is for the the gimmick that it that it had We've got the factory sealed contents in the bag with all the pieces still on the plastic trees It looks like quite a few pieces Another piece of the body And it looks like that that's a spring-loaded missile launcher And some skids for it. So those are all pieces Looks like all the ephemera is still here. We've got a catalog. I guess this would be the 1994 catalog So these are kind of fun to look at But I won't spend a whole lot of time looking at it right now It's got the Hall of Fame 12 inch figures here That's something I've thought about taking a look at although It's outside the normal scope of my reviews and my collection but still might be fun to look at This is a catalog here and here's this is pretty cool On this page it has create a cobra and on this page It has the gold head steel brigade where you can send off for those Those are both very rare and expensive figures now So it's kind of cool to see the catalog work you'd mail off to get them So let's set those aside for now. We have the instructions sheet With the assembly instructions, this is pretty different from Our 80s and even the early 90s instruction sheets The blueprints are very much abbreviated But let's just put it together. Oh, yeah here Probably the most important part The sticker sheet With all the stickers on it. So let's set the cardboard tray aside and let's look at step one The step one is the tail fin assembly Place tail fin on back end of lower body half with tail fin holes positioned over posts as shown Tail fin, I guess. Oh, I think it is time I believe the tail fin is in here in this factory sealed bag so all you Collectors who like to keep the vintage toys in their factory sealed bags Just cover your eyes because we're cutting it open right now And there we've done it. We've done it. It will never be sealed again Okay, take these parts out And find that tail piece Let's see. I believe I see it All right, there's the canopy. It looks like some wheels And that looks like the tail Okay, so we've got to cut that piece off of the plastic tree Let's try to do this cleanly. There we go Oh, that's already Cut. There we go. All right Oops, I missed one piece. Can I just snap it off? Yeah, okay There's the tail piece and where's the bottom half. This is the bottom half of the body We're supposed to put it in this configuration and place the tail I see there's a post right here, and then there's like a little C-clip that fits around this post It just goes on like that could not be simpler. There's the tail and then Step two it says to put the body together. So a line upper half of the body Posts with lower half holes Start at the back and secure tail fin and body halves in place by snapping posts into holes So all right, I got it. This looks pretty straightforward Snapping the top and body halves together now We've done a few of these assemblies before and we know that just because it looks Straightforward and easy and simple doesn't mean that it is so let's try to put this together without breaking it and Of course, it doesn't want to easily align Of course not Couldn't be easy So let's just keep working with it until it snaps together. Okay Okay, yeah, there we go snaps together Okay All right, everything is aligned. Okay, we got through step two And there is the the shell basically Step three says to put the landing skids assembly So we've got the landing skids aligned the landing skid notch with Copter slot as shown snap landing skid assembly into bottom of copter. Okay So, let's see. What's the front? Let's see which way is the front Right, it looks like it fits both ways so It could fit either way So I believe the okay Yeah, okay. No, that's the front. I got it. I got it Snaps together and it should just oh that was incredibly easy. All right. Very good. So landing skids are on Next step four is the canopy assembly. Here's the canopy And this it says oh, okay There are a couple of knobs here on the front and those line up with these grooves on the canopy and It looks like they should just slide right in Again, it looks easy, but it almost never is let me make sure them Let's see If I do it that way Seems like it would stretch this canopy a bit because that'd be a tight fit But there are these grooves in the canopy that this is supposed to slide right into Which is not as easy as it sounds fortunately the plastic on this canopy is a little bit flexible Otherwise, I would be worried about breaking it. It does flex a good bit though So I don't think this will break I'm not too worried about it But this lining up the knobs in the grooves there it goes Took a second, but there it goes and so it just snaps closed like that Should see hoping it should be paid pretty easy. That actually works quite well. So congratulations 1994 you're looking good Okay That stage also shows how you can put the figure in This didn't come with an action figure, but you could put a figure in at this stage So what's next the rotor blade assembly? So we have some rotor blade parts to take off the trees here looks like Let's see with rotor blade and rotor blade hub facing up Snap end of blade into each hub repeat with the other three blades. Okay, so I need to Clip these rotor blade pieces off of the plastic tree There we go. Well, that one was almost off anyway and all right for rotor blades So let's clip each one of these off I think my exacto knife might be getting a little bit dull I mean have to sharpen this thing or just replace it. It's pretty old All right, so while we do this, how's everybody doing everybody doing all right? I know for some of us It's been kind of tough times lately But you know, we're gonna get through it guys We're gonna get through it I Certainly have had kind of a tough time with my job situation Changes at work that have been very uncomfortable and unwelcome and Of course, I don't have a whole lot of say in that but I'm slowly adjusting the best I can Move this move this out of the way so maybe you can see a little bit of the Rotor blade assembly so we're supposed to have the hub facing up that's facing up We are supposed to snap each blade into place as Shown and as shown it goes this way All right. Oh, I see how it goes And again, it's a good thing this black plastic has a little bit of flex to it Otherwise the force I'm having to use to assemble this I would worry about breaking it, but I think this black plastic is gonna be fine So we've done a few live streams now. I'm trying to make that a weekly thing So how are you guys liking it? I've been enjoying it a lot And I hope you have too. I understand that the live stream is not at a convenient time for everyone Especially if you're on the US West Coast For you guys, it's probably a little too early But in the central time zone where I am I Really kind of have to do it at that time Because that's the only time that's that's possible for me But I've been given some thought to Maybe doing one that's like late night or something like that So that maybe a few people from Different parts of the country and different parts of the world can join us Yeah, maybe some people who can't join the regular live stream because for you it's too early or too late So I'll give that some thought So we're supposed to Have a rotor blade shaft And we insert the rotor blade shaft through the rotor blade hub And snap end of pivot shaft into top of vehicle as shown So where is there it is? That's what that is okay as I Finish clipping the pieces off of each of these trees. I'm tossing them in the box So they are out of my way Okay So this It's supposed to go Okay through the blades like that and then into This and that Yeah, okay Same on both sides so there that should be it There. Oh, how about that? This thing is working. You know these Some of these 90s vehicles were rather simple. I'd have to say But one nice thing about simplicity Is that they are usually fairly easy to assemble so that's not bad That's not always the case though as we've seen with some of the vehicles that we've put together Okay, so now Trolley guideway assembly. That's these pieces here It says fit posts on pulleys into lower trolley guideway half containing pulley holes fit slots on upper trolley guideway half Through tabs on lower trolley guideway then press and hold Okay, and hold halves together Check make sure pulleys are aligned properly then snap halves together Okay, that sounded rather complicated, but I based on the picture in the instructions. I'm pretty sure I know I Know what I'm supposed to do so This thing has this gimmick where it has like a pulley system, and that's what we're assembling now I probably won't test that In this video, I'll wait till I do a review on it to show you whether or not that pulley system Works very well, but I'm quite curious. I'm pretty curious to see if that's actually gonna work All right now these are the pulley wheels There are two of them come on there we go that one didn't want to go We got it. Okay All right, I want to thank everyone. I want to make sure everybody understands how much I appreciate all their Support and their help lately when I've kind of been going through some difficulties and That's not something that I'm just gonna you know keep harping on But I do want to make sure that I I thank everyone because everybody Everybody has been so kind and supportive And I want to make sure everyone knows how much I appreciate that We are going to get better This is going to Someday be behind us. We will be back to you know You know doing good things and making good things and having fun with this again It's just one of those things sometimes life throws you a little curveball All right, so that's it. That's the pulley system completely assembled a very odd looking but We'll have to see how that works Okay, the rocket launcher. That's this right here. This is a spring-loaded Missile launcher and this how does it go? It goes interesting Okay rocket launcher slides into right side of compter as shown Okay, now that's really interesting Okay, it slides. Okay, it slides in here Through the back and then there's this hole the rocket actually fires through there. So That's that's kind of different. I don't know. I think I might kind of dig that I'm not a big fan of these spring-loaded missiles launchers, but Did something a little bit unique with it on this particular vehicle Uh nice. Okay, and so the oops so the rocket would shoot out of there I might test that in this video might as well Okay, so what is this? This is a handle What am I supposed to do? Oh, okay. Oh, okay. So these handles here Yes, these tops the the spring-loaded missile launcher will also fit on there, I guess Let's see Yeah, I like that. Okay, so if I wanted to oh Yeah, okay, so you can use it like a little Missile gun here, you know grip it and you can aim at your friends and fire missiles into their faces So, yeah, okay. That's unique and interesting There are some surprises with this vehicle Okay, so Okay, what do we have here step nine. Oh On step nine it actually wants us to put one of the rockets into the rocket launcher, so Let's go ahead and do it the instructions actually tell us to test it So I guess we will let's clip these off. There are four of these Little little rockets They are all identical And yeah, my blade is getting really dull. It should cut through that with no problem So I have to replace my blade on this there we go. That's three All right, and that's four Okay, so it tells us to It tells us to test these so let's do that. Let's fire it at the box and Yeah, let's do it like that. Let's see how all this works All right, I'm trying to angle this in a way that It won't bounce off the box and fly off the table. Okay, so missile is in the launcher I'm supposed to push down on this tab on the back to fire and let's see how it works. Oh, yeah, that works Okay, so that's step nine and let's see step 10 is String attachment string. I didn't see any string Let's see here. Is this supposed to have string? Because it doesn't have any string. I'm supposed to supply my own string Tie one end of string included to one control handle as shown Fit other end of string through the guideway and you know what? No string in here Okay, so there this is something that I will have to Fix or I'll have to basically get some string for it Before I can even test that feature. So so much for that idea Cannot test the pulley feature Until we do that. So I will just set it aside for now. It's got two of these handles And a pulley that looks like it attaches to this bar here And you just run some string through it and you can you know slide the razor blade along the string. It's kind of a neat idea but It's missing a piece. It is definitely missing a piece I don't know if that was supposed to be in the factory sealed bag or not Or if it was just supposed to be loose in the box, but whatever it was It wasn't there So I did notice that the vehicle has some Universal dumbbell shaped pegs here for the Rockets so you can store them when they're not being used by the spring-loaded launcher So I'm gonna put these on here Just so they can Have a place to stay and actually they're not fitting too well. There we go. It's a tight fit on those One two three and four top and bottom all on one side. This is an asymmetrical vehicle Which is fine Gives it an unusual Look and we're really we're almost done. That is the main vehicle The only piece we have left now is see The what is this thing called the rescue backpack? No, I don't have a figure handy to show you how the rescue backpack works. I Might pause this video and go grab a figure It's interesting Go grab a figure and show you How it works, so let's try to cut this off without slicing my hand open. That would be nice. There we go All right, this thing. I'm just gonna have to toss this thing. That's this is old and No good anymore Okay, so I'm gonna pause this for a second and grab an action figure so I can show you how This rescue hook thing works. Okay. I wanted to use a 1994 figure and the first figure I grabbed from my 1994 bin was Flint version 4 and that will work just fine So there is a backpack on this And you just peg it on the figure's back just like a backpack Try to get it on there as solidly as possible that seems to work fine and When flint needs to be rescued he's not gonna stand up too well with that on but according to this you just basically Swing in and scoop him up on the skids now if you have the pulley system working and the string going through it you can fly this thing down with the pulley and snatch him up like that and rescue flint so Not bad. I can see how that could be a fun play a feature So yeah, there's that Nice little thing now kind of get it off the figure Oh, that's it does stay on quite solidly and that's probably a good idea for something like this Where you're gonna be picking it up and it'll be you know flying around through the air You don't want this to you don't want the figure to come off of it While the helicopter is flying it so that Good job on that that actually does stay on the figure quite well So now I believe we are down to the stickers. So let's see where the sticker okay One thing I noticed about these instructions That it's a lot smaller. This is a much smaller Instruction sheet then we got in the 80s and even the earlier 90 and 90s vehicles had More instructions at larger instruction sheets than this But okay, here we go. So let's do these stickers here These are paper stickers not the classic vinyl stickers. That's typical of the 90s. All right label one this razor blade Emblem there are two of them and they it looks like they peel up pretty readily And this is supposed to go right smack on the nose And let's see if we can line it up pretty good Not make it too wonky Okay Careful now. That's not too bad Okay, there is the first sticker right there on the nose and Let's see what next okay another one of those Number one labels goes on the pulley system And which way this way. Yeah, okay, so why not let's do that get that out of the way let's go ahead and Peel that one off and this one's supposed to go right here and I suppose that's helpful because You wouldn't necessarily have this attached to the helicopter all the time If you weren't using that play feature you would pop this off and maybe put it somewhere in a box or something The fact that it actually says razor blade on it makes it easy to remember what toy it goes to so that's not bad All right label number four Let's go ahead and finish putting labels on the the pulley system since I have it here Label number four is a small GI Joe logo So let's peel that off be careful with that And that just goes here try to get it straight. That's pretty straight That's one side all the same thing on the other One what happened to that string? Now that's gonna bother me This thing was factory sealed yet not complete So do I actually want to track down vintage string? Probably not. I will probably just get some Generic spring generic string to use with the play feature All right, that's done and out of the way. Well, I do want to see how well it snaps on to this bar It's got three teeth on it And it snaps on to this bar right here on the top. So let's see it should snap on Pretty easily you or not There we go Yeah, and that's a really good thing that black plastic flexes some so that's that's good And it does stay together. That's good and the blades spin freely under it It's not bad You know even with the pulley on I might even leave the pulley on It's not too intrusive. It doesn't get in the way of the blades or anything. It is kind of a big thing up there on top But it's not terrible I Can live with that. So I'll just leave it on Okay, what next? I'm trying to get the boring stuff out of the way. It's so let's do This Let's see these grip things have some labels That go on them label eight. What's label eight? Where is label eight, oh Just these little American flags is that it They actually made little American flag stickers for these grip thingies I Don't really know why they needed stickers for those at all. It's not really doesn't seem very important to me But it does say label eight Is that it? No, that's not it. Where's label eight label eight is Label eight is this other GI they want me to waste these awesome GI Joe logos on these things I do not approve. I don't approve of that at all. In fact change my mind. I'll do that. Sorry I'll do that last let's move on to Better stuff All right, there's label five which is it has three smaller Razor blade Ambulance and let's see one of them goes Here right behind the cockpit. They're pretty well So there's that And the same thing on the other side, okay carefully now Putting them at a slight angle because there's a detail on the fuselage that Makes it look like it should go at that angle That's nice. I like it. So there's that and then another one goes right there on the Body where it attaches to the tail So far these stickers are not bad. I think they are fine Pretty cool stickers and they do enhance the look of the vehicle a bit so nice all right Label three these kind of orange and black stripey labels go on The helicopter blades. Let me see exactly how those go So I can do it right. It's interesting. Let's do it. Let's do it There's one right. That's too wide These are too wide for those blades is that really how it's supposed to go That's how it says but if I put it on that way then it will cover part of the Molded-in detail If it went on the bottom of the blades it would work fine Okay, I've encountered this on some other 90s Vehicles where it's asks you to put stickers over Part of the detailing and I don't know what they were thinking But I'm gonna do it the way they tell me to And try to line it up. Oh, this is gonna be a pain Is it gonna be a pain? I do not approve of this But there it is Repeat three more times This is riveting stuff. Isn't it folks? And I thank you for joining me for these. I enjoy doing these and I hope it's not too tedious or boring for everyone out there certainly isn't a toy review and that is my bread and butter here but on this particular week To do I didn't have the time to do what I was planning on doing and I didn't really have a substitute so I Just had to Change plans Still get to that thing I was gonna do, but I'll have to do it at a future date. Okay There are those orange and black stripe stickers on the propeller blades It does kind of look pretty cool when you spin them. That's not bad It's just that the way they go on it doesn't make a whole lot of sense But there it's done Let's see. What do we do next? Oh? Label to a rescue arrow sticker. Okay, so those go on the side of the canopy Right, huh, okay the blades get in the way a bit a little tricky It goes right there right there and The next one I do love putting on these stickers and Thanks to Mike Lopez. I'm gonna go ahead and give Mike a shout out for sending me that box C-ray Which I very much enjoyed assembling. There was a little hiccup on it, but not a bad experience at all Sometimes it's just tricky to put together these old toys. We're dealing with old plastic And you know sometimes it's not as easy as it would have been, you know, it was fresh out of the box, you know 28 to 35 years ago But But usually you can still get them together Okay, then all right those American flag stickers are numbers six and the number six label goes on here Let's see exactly where it goes. It goes Okay, on this side it goes back here. All right little American flag sticker there and this one goes the other side in The last live stream. I was rudely interrupted by cicadas They were very noisy because and I was doing the live stream Outside well, I can hear them right now. I'm inside right now and they're making a hell of a racket So, okay label seven what's label seven? Label seven are these steps stickers and they go where they go Okay, they go on the skids. All right, let's just peel that off I'm trying to after I put the stickers on I'm trying to show you where they go Because I have to do it on my side and the camera is not On my side, it's on your side. So you can't always see exactly what I'm doing So I'll try to make sure to pause and show you after each step see Step stickers on these skids Trying to put them as close to exactly where the instruction sheets say for them to go. It's just two more The other side We're almost done. We're about down to those GI Joe logos that have to go on the Those grip things And I gotta say that that's I don't like that. There is not a GI Joe logo on the vehicle proper GI Joe logos on this pulley assembly But if you take the pulley assembly off There's no GI Joe label on it and that is An odd choice I have to say So yeah, we're down to these and The only way they will go is is Vertically So let's do it. Let's do it. Let's waste these perfectly good GI Joe stickers on these grip things that Most of the time you won't use you'll throw in a box and probably lose I Guess this is probably the only indication you have that these grip things even go to a GI Joe toy Because they're basically just blank. I didn't notice that they have Dumbbell shaped pegs so you can peg the missiles on there And like I showed earlier you can put the spring-loaded missile launcher on there so I guess you can have the missiles as well and just use them as like Spring-loaded guns with your extra ammunition pegged on there It's a nice try for a little extra bonus feature, but To me the the main function of them would be to work with the pulley system Which I can't show you as stated before Because I don't have the string There it is the last label is on the razor blade is Fully assembled that was my unboxing and assembly of the 1994 GI Joe razor blade helicopter I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope it was an adequate substitute for a full review this week I'm sorry. I didn't have a full review ready for you this week. I just didn't Have what I needed and have the time to put together the review that I wanted to do I don't like taking unscheduled breaks like that. I like to join all of you every week With a more GI Joe content and more GI Joe reviews. I enjoy that very much And so I'm sorry I couldn't do that this week but I do all want to thank everyone for all of your kindness and your support in these difficult weeks But if we persevere we will make it through this We will get back to normal. We've got a ways to go before we can get back to normal but I'm doing everything I can to To be in a place where I can join you every week and give you the kind of content that you expect and deserve So I want to thank everyone who watches these videos And I want to thank all of my patrons if you like this channel and you like to support it more Please check out my patreon page. I'm on social media on Facebook and Twitter, and I have a website hcc788.com That's all for this week. I will be back next week with a full GI Joe toy review. I'm working on it I hope you will enjoy it join me then and until then remember only GI Joe is GI Joe