 This episode of HCC-788, brought to you in part by... Non-stop Pop! Non-Stop Pop! Definitely an actual comic strip, and not just an extensive enterprise's front for a cartoonish super villain's attempts to take over your world fools! Hahahahaha! Cough Cough Cough! Pardon us. Yes. Definitely a comic. And here it's time for another vintage GI Joe toy review and it's time We haven't done it for a while, but it is time to get back to the dreadlocks and we're gonna do it by looking at Road pig really like this figure. I like this figure so much. I have his initials on the back of my jacket. See SROAD PIG. Road Pig gets his name from the term Road Hog Which is what we call a driver who takes up more than his fair share of the roadway But he's not called Road Hog. He's called Road Pig because Pigs are funnier. So let's get our motors running and head out on the highway and take a look at the 1988 Dreadnock Road Pig This is Road Pig the Dreadnock from 1988 He was first available in 1988 and was also available in 1989. He was discontinued for the year 1990 There was no new Dreadnock introduced that year, but in 1989 We did get Nogahide. Road Pig is a very interesting character particularly in how he is portrayed in the GI Joe comic book He is shown as having multiple personalities and we will talk more about that later. Road Pig was a Dreadnock And the Dreadnocks were a motorcycle gang that originally were predominantly Australian and were probably inspired by post-apocalyptic movies like Mad Max. The Dreadnocks were led by Zartan who was introduced in 1984 as the master of disguise He was an assassin who also operated in the swamps. After the introduction of Zartan in 1985 We got the original lineup of Dreadnocks, Buzzer, Ripper and Torch And they each had their own special weapon and personality and they're all just wonderfully anarchic. Zartan's brother Xandar and his sister Zarena joined in 1986. Also in 1986 we got Monkey Wrench and Thrasher, the driver of the Thunder Machine 1986 was a big year for Dreadnocks. In 1987 we got a new Dreadnock called Zanzibar, the Dreadnock Pirate And he came with a vehicle called the Air Skiff. Then of course Road Pig was introduced in 1988 and we got Nogahide in 1989 so Road Pig was one of the later Dreadnocks. By the time he joined there was already a very large gang There were fewer Dreadnocks in the later years. In fact after Nogahide there weren't any new characters introduced There was another version of Road Pig in 1991 as a supersonic fighter and in 1993 We got another version of Zartan in Ninja Force. Let's look at Road Pig's accessories starting with this one just to get it out of the way His spiked battle shield. The battle shield has minimal detail and it clips on to his wrist there's the clip there and This is probably my least favorite of his accessories, but it's not terrible at least when it clips on to his wrist It doesn't obstruct anything else But there just really isn't much to it now that that's out of the way Let's take a look at what many people probably consider to be his best accessory his cinderblock hammer This is his signature weapon. It is unique. It is strange and it is perfect for Road Pig It fits the character much in the way the original Dreadnocks weapons Fit those characters. It is absurd. It's over the top But so is Road Pig now let's look at his projectile weapon his high powered crossbow Which also clips on to the wrist. There's the clip there similar to the battle shield And you can see that it has a bolt and the bolt has a bulb at the end And so maybe this is an explosive bolt. We don't know But this is not a bad weapon. It's okay. I still think the cinderblock hammer is the best But I can accept this another nice thing is that since it does clip on the wrist You can put the cinderblock hammer in either hand and he can still carry his other weapons His final accessory is the high density impact pads and these look like modified american football shoulder pads But they are heavily modified and they just look great some great detail on these the right shoulder has these layered armor plates And the left shoulder is spiked And it has some very nicely detailed buckles here This kind of implies that the straps are supposed to go under Road Pig's arms But we don't have the straps there. We just have the buckles still very nicely sculpted Wonderful stitching detail on the front and back now that we have his accessories removed We can look at the articulation on Road Pig He had the standard articulation for gi Joe figures of 1988 Meaning he could turn his head from left to right and look up and down He could swing his arm up at the shoulder and swivel at the shoulder all the way around He had a hinge at the elbow and could move at the elbow about 90 degrees He had a swivel at the bicep and so he could swivel his arm all the way around The figure was held together with a rubber o-ring that allowed him to move at the torso a bit He could move his legs apart about so far He could bend his leg at the hip about 90 degrees and bend at the knee about 90 degrees Let's look at the sculpt to design in color of road pig And the first thing I'd like you to notice is that he is an exceptionally tall figure Comparing him to an average high gi Joe action figure He is a bit taller Not a great deal, but enough to be noticeable Road Pig is also a very wide gi Joe action figure. He is exceptionally bulky His chest and arms are huge much larger than the average gi Joe action figure He is more along the lines of a sergeant slaughter Now sergeant slaughter had very large arms and a very large sculpted chest Whereas road pig's entire midsection is just massive looking at road pig's head He has a flat top with white hair and a red stripe that goes all the way around. That's very striking He has an earring in his left ear road pig has a reputation for being ugly In fact, that's the main focus of his file card, but I don't think this face looks ugly I think it looks more cherubic But he does look odd enough to be a dreadknock His chest is totally bare with just some sculpted muscle detail Same on the back No other detail at all. His arms are very unique on his right arm He has a couple random black straps And on his left arm on his hand. He has a black glove Just one single glove. He may have been trying to look like Michael Jackson It was the 80s after all more importantly on his left arm He has a tattoo and this tattoo design is usually associated with anarchy The circle a has been an anarcho punk symbol since the late 70s And I think that fits the dreadknocks kind of have an anarchic edge to them on his waist He has a very plain black belt and in front he has this What looks like a leather studded crotch protector, I guess his legs are also really interesting He has black trousers plain on the left leg and on his right leg He has a brown strap and he has three silver bolts for his Powered crossbow and they are about the same size not exact but pretty close And I really do like this when they coordinate the sculpting on the figure with the accessories Really bonus points for that. Then finally he has brown boots with silver armor plate on them And we have some sculpted on screws on the side and I just really like these. They're so unique and so well done This totally bare chest is kind of difficult to grade because you could look at it in two ways You could look at it as just a lack of detail They skimped on the detail in the chest and just didn't make a lot of effort for that Or you could look at it as instead of detail on the chest They took what would otherwise have been a sculpted on detail on the chest and made it into an accessory the shoulder pads So I kind of tend to look at it as the ladder I think that the totally bare chest without detail is excusable because I really like the shoulder pads And I like the way road pig looks with them on. Let's take a look at road pig's file card It has his faction as the enemy. It doesn't say cobra. He is a dreadknock It has the portrait of road pig here and this portrait looks a lot uglier than the action figure does It has his codename as road pig and he is a dreadknock. His file name is donald deluca And that is the name of a real person He is named after a hasbro design director with that name don deluca His birthplace is go blue michigan and instead of listing specialties It lists his arrest record And this is kind of amusing his arrest record includes speeding reckless endangerment littering assault grand theft auto usury felony spitting petty bribery passing stop school buses at high speeds Hey, why does he have a serial number? He is not u.s military personnel and never has been as far as we know This middle paragraph says when road pig was born the doctor held him up and said this is the ugliest baby I've ever seen he was expelled from kindergarten for milk money extortion and dishonorably discharged from the cub scouts After being kicked out of a low-life outlaw gang for smelling worse than was acceptable by even their standards He joined the dreadknocks as a probationary member They're having a hard time making up their minds about this one So he's such an unpleasant individual that even the dreadknocks were not sure they wanted to take him They banned him from football games because he stopped the clock His mother had to tie a pork chop around his neck so the dog would play with him He went to visit the empire state building and he got strafed I tell you beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone this whole file card riffs on his ugliness and Crassness it reads like a list of you're so ugly jokes That's right. My mother had to hang a pork chop around my neck so the dog would play with me Oh, that's not all. I'm so ugly. I have to sneak up on my mirror I get no respect no respect at all road pig did have some gi joe media appearances But they were somewhat limited He did not appear in the sunbow animated series But he did appear in the later deke animated series Although in that series at least every reference that i've been able to find He appeared in his version two colors road pig did have a fair number of appearances in the gi joe comic book That's where the character was mostly developed He first appeared in issue number 83 and that issue was titled road pig There were two important character traits that road pig had in the comic book One he was infatuated with zarana zartan's sister though zarana never returned his affection She would sometimes use his feelings for her to manipulate him. His other character trait was his split personality He had the donald personality, which was smart and articulate His road pig personality was brutish and violent similar to bruce banner and the hulk multiple personality disorder now known as Dissociative identity disorder is a controversial diagnosis. There is disagreement over how to define and diagnose the symptoms It's also diagnosed in women far more than in men Whether or not there is a clearly defined mental illness that causes multiple personalities It is a popular literary device Uh, we seem to be fascinated by the idea of multiple people inhabiting the same body We see it in uh, dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde in the incredible hulk in the lord of the rings smeagol and golem It's a variation on the idea of one person occupying two bodies as we see with tomax and zamot multiple personality disorder entered pop psychology with the 1973 book civil by flora redis schreiber Which was turned into the 1976 film starring sally field looking at this figure overall I'm going to call this a top tier figure. I'm partial to the dreb knocks anyway And road pig is a worthy addition to the game. So problems with the figure I think maybe some of the accessories were not entirely necessary But I really like the cinder block hammer And I guess I could criticize the plain chest with no detailing at all But I really like it with the shoulder pads on I think it looks great So I think that more than makes up for it the character is entertaining and well written Larry hama clearly enjoyed writing the dread knocks and he put a lot of flair into road pig It's really too bad that later in the gi joe toy line. They didn't focus more on the dread knocks They had all these other sub factions, but they seem to have forgotten about one of gi joe's first sub factions But in 1988 the dread knocks were still going strong and road pig was a great example That was my review of road pig. I hope you enjoyed it If you did do a few things for me first like this video on youtube subscribe to the youtube channel Like me on facebook follow me on twitter support me on patreon and share this video That's what keeps this channel growing and don't forget. We have a group project We're working on right now see my previous video and send me your grunts grunt gets no respect at all But we're gonna try to get him some respect. Oh since she has to be in every video Here she is. These pretzels are making me thirsty. You've already done that one Thanks for watching chat back next week and remember only gi joe is gi joe Road pig