 live I know I'm a little early but I start a little early just in case there are any technical issues that we have to fix hello everybody welcome to hour 13 wow 12 hours yesterday amazing that I'm still alive amazing that you're still alive I was really impressed with how many people were there for a lot of that time hello comic tropes speaking of somebody that was there for a lot of that time Chris from comic tropes was there for quite a while hello Sparster nice to see you thanks for being here and thank you for doing some Cobra Convergence 6 stuff so yes hello Chad yeah Taco Bell hello Lester so my voice is excuse me my voice is recovering I'm doing okay I did rest my voice like the rest of the evening and almost all of the day today so yeah the voice is recovering I'm gonna survive I will be able to still communicate and communicate and we're gonna make it through here hello Baderie Bob hello Jumping General hello Matthew hello guys welcome to hour 13 on July 5th I want to start yeah Lester was on for eight hours that is amazing that is amazing that that's people stuck around that long but yeah I was impressed and humble so thank you thank you and Sparster I guess I'm looking forward to them yeah now now that I've started my my allergies are messing with my nose sorry about that yeah I'm happy to see them Sparster happy to see you doing doing some CC6 stuff so thank you hell gas it's gas again gas is always here gas is probably here even when I'm not here hi gas nice to see you so I want to start by mentioning that today is again Cobra Convergence 6 and today is hello I thank you real out in Collins hello Jeff and no hey Sgt. Slaughter Slaughterhouse good to see you again for a second day today is Temmers day for Cobra Convergence 6 so if you haven't already please go check out the half the battle video he did a review of the mega viper quite an entertaining figure and quite an entertaining video so I I've mentioned before Timmer is a good friend and he's been very good to me and I really appreciate everything he's done and like last year when I was not around you know he he really kept the spirit alive and I really appreciate that hello Chad hello Ryan hello do Rudy hello Michael Mitchell how do you do yeah I'm probably you know I have seen I've noticed a few things from the fridge go missing but yeah the so do catch Timmer's video if you can or if you haven't already it I and I am always entertained by his stuff I really enjoy what he does so so it's his day for Cobra Convergence today Christian says hello from Chile a great channel love G I Joe current hello Chile from the United States thank you for being here thank you very much hey as Joe fan 84 I did rest pretty like a little while to fully recover that was a long I as you can tell my voice is mostly still there I did I rested the vocal cords like all day today so I think that I think I'm gonna be alright so what I am hello exploration so hello Andrew Andrew the guy so nice they named him twice happy 5th of July yes what do you think by the recent theatrical presentation of GI Joe the movie it was fun I I I giggled through the whole thing the GI Joe movie is yeah I will give it this it is entertaining it is certainly not boring so whether you think there's a lot of marriage to the the movie itself it's not boring it will keep you entertained and and I enjoyed it at that level certainly yeah tea with a teaspoon of honey you help yeah thank you thank you very much I do appreciate it before we get too far in after shouting out hey MC DJ AC DC after shouting out Timmer I want to go through the Cobra Convergence presenters for the next week so you know what's coming up between now and next Tuesday and then of course next Tuesday I will give a shout out to the guys they're producing for the following week so next Tuesday is the 12th I believe did I get that right and next Tuesday is the 12th yes so between now the 12th you have Timmer today you have peg warmers tomorrow and peg warmers has been with Cobra Convergence for several years now Kevin is a really cool guy he's been a very good friend so hey it's and it's G halo G. I. Joe Berg how do you do yes see G. I. Joe Berg has had his Timmer painted over his mega viper in virtually the same colors scheme I did as a kid great minds yes that's I actually I didn't think that looked pretty good I didn't think that looked pretty good and I wish I had some of my old customs from when I was a kid because like I wasn't really around for the mega viper but we did a lot of painting of figures and customization when I was a kid so peg warmers tomorrow on the seventh we have plastic battles on the eighth we have snooves corner cafe and we have what's on Joe mind and I believe what's on Joe mind is going live later tonight like after this show is over to talk about act after action report volume to which you can get now so I catch what's on Joe mind toy connections JLs comics on the 10th of a toy connections on the ninth JLS comics on the 10th special mission force on the 11th and forgotten figures on the 12th all of the calendar is on HCC 788.com so check the calendar keep up with the calendar I will share their stuff you know as it goes up just to make sure that everybody is able to see it and doesn't miss any of it so I really appreciate everyone who has contributed to Cobra convergence this year everybody who is still going to contribute this year and your own thing if you have any presence on creative whatsoever I would love to see you do some Cobra related stuff and send it to me so I can be put in the weekly promo video I've already got some submissions for the next weekly promo video so yeah send me your stuff and look at your stuff in front of other GI Joe fans so the rest of us know what you're doing and know what creative awesome things are going on hello big a Dave hello Eric Gullinger hello hey Rob Vegas nice to see you Rob Vegas has been active as well so thank you Rob thank you Rob very much so that's those are the schedule presenters up through July 12th we have some really good ones after July 12th hello David Sharp we have some really good ones after July 12th but I will talk about them next week just just giving a preview of what's coming up this week so 12 hours hello coffee and shame hello Game Master's hobby how do you do hello Robert Hawkins how am I still conscious I it's just coffee coffee that's the only thing keeping me going so 12 hours yesterday I was online for 12 hours and a lot of you were it were there and I had a great time it was a lot of fun I had a list of activities to try to fill the the 12 hours and I thought that you know I would have to stretch it I thought that you know I might have to try to find some other things to fill the time but actually you know what I didn't get to everything that I plan to do like for instance where is it this I was gonna build I was gonna build this this rattler construction set and I didn't get to it we did we did build the the his tank construction set this thing this flimsy fragile thing we built that hello James how do you do we built this thing and it was so awesome I think a lot of people canceled their has lab his tank or sorry has bro so yeah we did build that we did not get around to building the the rattler I was gonna do a dramatic reading of GI Joe's Saturday morning adventures issue number three did not get around to that I was going to show off some of the books that I got like I was going to do a more in depth look at like Dan clean a Smith's book I picked up volume eight at Joe Fest and after action report I was gonna discuss all of that I was gonna show you some stuff and didn't get to any of that it turns out that like the 12 hours almost went faster than I I would while it did it don't went faster than I was expecting I could have easily done hey is hello Jenna and thank you for being with us yesterday as well hello space Cobra nice to see you again so yeah I mean I easily could have done I easily had enough material to do like 14 hours I hate great Fox nice to see you yes you were there yesterday I remember in fact I I've seen a lot I'm seeing a lot of names of folks here today who are also here yesterday so that's really cool hello counter claws how do you do that is I mean I really don't know what to say it's I'm really I'm surprised I'm humbled I'm honored that you have spent so much time with me and it's been a thrill for me to spend spend as much time with you so thank you thank you very much what you didn't get to it you'd always be active activities for future streams exactly exactly taco commander yeah so Chris from comic tropes came up with a G a mad live for us and we had some fun with that and then I did story time with one of the find your Facebook's and we I kind of threw in some of the mad lib references and answers so that was fun that was an a nice way to wrap it up I think to wrap up the final hour and I'm still like I was able to tidy up around here a large yes sneak fart and Sergeant squirt oh he's got a second mad lib so we'll that means there will be a future mad lib a future GI Joe mad lib it turned out well it turned out pretty good we ended up having some fun with that yeah and thank you Rob thank you very much spirits work so I have like this whole workstation here was horribly cluttered after after the the 12-hour stream but I have been able to tidy it up a little bit but it's it needs it needs to be picked up quite a bit more like I still I still have the Baronesses the Baronesses is the Baronet Baroness I the Baron the Baronus I still have the multiple but Baronet Baroness is whatever the coral is in that the bear the Baroness is I have I still have them hanging out here like I've got the the O-ring trooper and officer just chilling over here because I haven't had a chance to like put them away somewhere or they will be safe I think we did I watched along of pigskin commandos and I think still in my Blu-ray player so yeah then that and then like if anyway like if I get nervous here like if I if I suddenly decide that I I'm too nervous public speaking and I need to hide to regain my composure I'll just I'll just put that up okay can I hang that up there so yeah I've got a plan that that's my escape plan so I wasn't sure exactly what to do this time because I don't think I necessarily have enough time to do all the stuff that I missed in the 12-hour stream like for instance judging from how long it took to construct the his tank this is gonna take a while this will take a while so maybe in the future maybe in the future so yeah and um oh yeah the I thought I could have done a dramatic reading of the Saturday morning adventures comic but I didn't it's over there it's all I didn't I didn't move it over here when that when I started genius but one thing I did want to do is go over go over these books really quickly because like they're really cool and I think that you might find them interesting since after action report has like the volume to kick starter live and it has been funded apparently so you can like go and just you know pre-order one but this is volume one and it's gi Joe comic books as the Marvel era 1982 to 1996 and you're probably saying hey 1996 didn't the Marvel series end in 1994 well yes it did but there were a few comic books that came after and there was like the Dark Horse series that came after that so this encompasses encompasses all of that sparks are I do have plans to build a rattler out of Lego pieces unfortunately I don't have the pieces in time for that that's okay understandable but I would love to see what you managed to do when you have the pieces Magnus my friend Magnus does Lego and has done some Lego GI Joe vehicles that have turned out really cool there are some amazing things that you can do with Lego some amazing customs that you can do so I just think they're really cool and I'm not a Lego guy so so I'm amazed by it like I'm always impressed by it because I don't know I don't know how you guys do all of that like I wouldn't I don't know the pieces and I don't have the brain for like constructing those so it's like it's like a superpower to me so I love seeing it and like see this thing like I'll bet I just want to talk about I'll bet there have been some better custom Lego his tanks than this guy and Pegwarmers was asking like but one thing I tried out is that you can't apparently fit the mini thing in the cockpit and Pegwarmers was asking like if you took the legs off could you fit them in that way and I'm like no you can't because the problem is not the legs it's the arms because the arms stick up the arms stick up they're too wide so like this is the absolute best you can do that is the absolute best you can do he's kind of led bit laid back there and like you have to lift the arms up and of course this comes off you have to lift the arms up to to sort of get him in there it still doesn't close right so in order to lift the arms up high enough so that his head doesn't hit the top of the canopy you have to lift the arms up enough that his arms hit the top of the canopy genius genius like I'm no Lego scientist I'm no Lego scientist but that's just it's not it's not how I would have done it as far as says I can show you my his Lego version will be sturdier I'll bet I'll bet I even have plans for the one you and Timmer love the septic yes the the legendary septic tank and true story I did send Timmer a septic tank I for real did and I sent him the box for it to in the care package if you look at the video the unboxing video that Timmer has on the care package that I sent to him like at the early part of the pandemic I did like all I was supposed to send him was the the dock figure that was one of his grail pieces right it was a convention dock action figure and and I was able to find it for him and I got it for him on on American eBay and and then sent it to him but I decided to send a bunch of other stuff too and I thought you know I mean he has a pretty complete collection more complete than I have right Timmer it terrors action figure collection is much more complete than mine so I'm like what do you give the guy who has everything I say you give him all the stuff he doesn't want so I gathered up all of every extra orange action figure that I could find and I packaged that in there I I get I sent him my extra septic tank and the box and the box that was in my review of the septic tank so yeah I sent all that to him but I sent him some decent stuff too like I sent him a 1982 lunchbox I sent him a game I sent him some other things that that were not readily and easily available in Europe so I thought he might enjoy you know having those things see 12 hours was amazing after you ended I went back and watch some other seven okay cool I'm glad you liked it I'm really glad you liked it I am the usual show T&G DS9 and Voyager at 1030 at night when I was at high school and you know much more okay yeah let's see sorry I missed some of the live chat I apologize okay oh yeah yeah yeah okay you guys are discussing the a little bit the the big hiss the big hiss tank I did order one I am not any position to order a second one right now it if I could order a second one I could resell the second one and would probably pay for both of them in just a few months maybe in after it after it ships but not in a position to do that so I just got the one I felt that it was important to at least get the one in order to have something to review I think that it's important for the channel and to to review it hello Bob's dungeon and Thane Woods and Nyquist and I'll see just put together his paint tank I got from Walmart to use in the background for my videos this month okay that's cool still huh that's cool Bob yeah the the Walmart his tank like the the retro his to the blue one Cobra Island looked at that yesterday and I have I actually have it like right there I'm looking at it right now it's over there and I do like the blue and I it got me thinking that after the Haslab his tank is done after it shipped after everybody gets it hello toys backs and how do you do I thank you see I probably could have skipped today I probably could have skipped today because I did 12 hours yesterday but it's Tuesday it's Tuesday and that's our regular live stream day and it's my opportunity to say you know watch Timmer's video that's new watch the upcoming Cobra Convergence people on the website HCC788.com and yeah keep up with your your presenters and and make sure you say hi okay and Renegade Biker also got the his and back the Skystriker so did I so did I see I think those things I need for the channel I need to be able to put it in front of a camera and show you guys James missed yesterday because working but that's okay you know real life always takes priority absolutely fine it was fun though yeah see Taco Tuesday I really had a good time like at the end of it I I was pretty happy with it my my vocal cords were not very happy with me but I really enjoyed I enjoyed the interactions I enjoyed the activities I just I just had a good time I hope everybody else did too so what is saying oh yeah the the Haslab his thing so maybe you know down the road after the Haslab his tank has shipped and everybody's got it I could I could see them doing a stripped down version like with no electronics no extra bits nothing like that like a much less expensive version a at a much lower you know a version at a much lower price point and maybe issue them in different colors like the blue one so that like people aren't thinking they're just getting a reissue of the Haslab they they can do something new because there were tons of his tanks and in different colors in fact I got think I've got yeah this is like that's that's the action force one but I think I have the nope I don't I thought I had the SMS his tank in here no I know where the SMS his tank is it's not in here but so yeah yeah so there's a red one there's the blue one up there there's been an orange one and a white one and just lots of there's a rainbow of colors of the yes yes and the septic his tank so I know that the price point on on the Haslab his tank has put some people off and yeah I get it and I always maintain that your money belongs to you you should never feel pressured to buy anything like ever so if you for any reason at all you do not feel that you can support the his tank or you just don't want it or use you know don't feel any pressure at all to pick it up however if they were to issue said stripped down version at a lower price point maybe some people who are not interested in a $300 his tank with all the bells and whistles might might look at it for a lower price maybe maybe hello yo Joe hello Chew and bubblegum hello if I already said hello to Sparks here but hello again I just trying to see if we sneak it in here but yeah it's it's something I kind of would like to see them do if they can and I I would not mind hello Chris hey Chris I sorry I wasn't able to make it to the barbecue I did I didn't want me some barbecue I really did I was unfortunately quite swamped with with video stuff and covert conversion stuff that I really had to get done and I wasn't able to escape I couldn't even get out of the house to to go to lunch locally but if there's another opportunity I would very very very much like to do it I don't think I would mind maybe some people who backed the the has lab hits would be upset if they saw the case they purchased for $300 being sold for you know half or a third of that later but I don't think I don't think I would I don't think I would have a problem with that because it really wouldn't be the same one right it would not have the light up features it would not have the electronics it wouldn't have like the extra weapons and the extra armor plate and maybe it maybe it doesn't have all of the all the pieces in the the back storage compartment so it would not be the same one you know and you to really reduce the price point you would really have to strip it down you know a lot of what you're paying for is all that extra stuff so yeah I don't think I would mind I really don't I would be happy if you know we can get the his tank in the hands of more fans and the price tag that of the has lab his that does put it out of the reach of some fans and I I really hate to for some folks to just not be able to get it but it's because they just can't afford it that that kind of sucks but on the other hand I don't think the price tag is too much for what you're getting and given how fast it funded and given how quickly we are blowing through the stretch goals apparently a lot of other people feel the same so so yeah I'm sorry I'm not keeping up with the live chat I am terrible about that prices on those will jump when they are available on the market recent saw has lab you know chronic a store they want to take see that's what I'm talking about that's what I'm talking about the production run on these even if they hit all of the stretch goals the production run of these is going to be in the tens of thousands not in the hundreds of thousands that they would have to do if they were to release it at retail so that makes it of relatively rare piece aside from just being really really laden with features hello photo viper how do you do yes another live stream I just can't help myself I am a live stream fanatic I'm a live wire you gotta watch out for me hello Kelvin how do you do yeah I just I just can't help it but it's Tuesday right it's our regular live stream day and yeah I am nothing if not attentive to the regular schedule come a tropes I'm buying it so I can retire when I'm 83 you may be able to and I hate if you retire it you it's big enough you can probably live in it you know just throw yourself a cot in the back and yeah make sure you replace the batteries so you have light got some lights inside that's my retirement plan I'm gonna live in it hey we'll start our only our own GI Joe fan his tank retirement trailer park where we can all park our giant his tanks and and and live in them you know when we're when we're when we are aged good plan good plan so yeah anyway I think I expressed a lot of those thoughts last night but I was just I was just thinking about it I wanted to reiterate that I think it would be really cool if if they did reissue the stripped down version of the his Adelaure price points to get it in the hands of more fans and maybe do it in some different colors maybe do it in some different colors or like do a blue one or do a red one so it can be like the SMS you know people would dig that that's that's a callback to a really classic vehicle set so yeah at the end of the big 12-hour special did who do his Ferris Bueller's Day off thing I didn't I ended up what I ended with what I should have ended it with was Twinkie Wiener sandwich but I ended it with like a quote from Bucca Roo Banzai because somebody mentioned it earlier in the in the evening so planning on making a remote troll yeah that is I think that's a fun idea and since it has working threads it you have that option you know it's you have that option of doing a motorized one doing a radio controlled one that of course it's not like that out of the box that's not a feature that includes I'm okay with it not being motorized I've mentioned that before like that is a feature that I personally would never use so I don't need it to be motorized but for those of you who are customizers and who are interested in doing that kind of thing it's big enough and there are some cavities in there that would fit a motor it has working threads so you can you get a rolling you get a rolling control it's going to bring my his tank to a car lot and see if I can swap it for with a smart car and see if anybody notices see it's that yeah just a spray paint the Tesla logo over the Cobra logo and just just tell them it's a new model you know it's the Tesla's new E tank or whatever the hell so yeah let's yeah yeah it'll work it'll work so yeah in case you had knows I'm all I'm phone right now I am transmitting live from my cellular phone camera because I was tired and I did not want to set up my laptop again to live stream them from the laptop so so we're doing it real basic tonight what I mean so is I can't show you the live chat on your screen I can see it on my screen though but if it goes by too fast I gotta scroll up because I miss some of it sometimes I miss some of it anyway so but we are doing the best we can we are we're rolling through we are rocking and rolling let me do something that I did intend to do last night I would like to so I got action after I should report volume one volume one at Joe Fest and it was Josh Ego being signed it for me Roger Taft was not there apparently he was not feeling well so he didn't make it at Joe Fest but Josh did and he signed it for me and I also got to hang out with them for a while I got that I got to hang with the dude I when I was flipping through this before we started streaming and like if you are a comic book fan this has some amazing details about the comic book series about the the different issues of of the the comic books about the some variants about the news fans of the different printings and how to identify them and it's got like I mean look at us you see each of those entries and it's got it's got like some symbols so it's it's coded but if you want to track down like really and truly every iteration of the comic book of each issue they have done the research here wheel of fish stupid you're so stupid see what you got me doing shame on you people shame I I blame you the audience so there's also interview with Larry Hama in here there's an interview with Rod Wiggum Rod Wiggum interview and then it goes like beyond the the the Marvel series and special mission in order of battle and the yearbooks that that we're all familiar with so yeah we don't need no stinking badgers let's see and like it includes the like tales of GI Joe so yeah yeah so so it's not that but then it goes beyond that that I I'm sure Sergeant Squirt and Platypus eyes are in there somewhere it's got everything else it's got all of the Joe appearances in Marvel age and I was aware of some of these but not all of these okay so he's got the the find your fate book series in here he's got like the young adult book series in here and then as if that weren't enough he's got European missions and let me show you these and action force action force and like I have had the fortune the good fortune of reading some action force Chris cyber tiger was generous enough to send me so I have had a chance to read some of that series it is very cool very interesting well they have ah stupid things it's falling apart just sitting here but he's actually gone through and done a summary and gotten images from from the entire action force series and that's not all it we've got we've got GI Transformers crossovers and there's apparently a lot of those especially in UK GI are Transformers and action force crossovers and yeah Tim Timmer finally reviewed mega viper yeah see Timmer had a great time with the mega viper I'm sure it's his new favorite thing so we've got he's got the the GI Joe 3d and one thing that I'm very interested in how to draw GI Joe that's what I need I need books to help me know how to draw GI Joe so and then you know goes into to Sergeant Savage and I then there's the Dark Horse series that I think you know fewer people remember it very well and fewer people go back to it's it was during the GI Joe extreme era which is kind of a blind spot for a lot of us I have covered some of GI Joe extreme not a lot but there was the Dark Horse series including a cover by Frank Miller and I remember looking at this I remember when I was in yeah first issue had covered by Frank Miller I remember I believe I was working at Gartner's at the time when I saw this and I was I was way out of GI Joe by then I had not been around GI Joe for quite some time but I saw that hey that's I recognize that hey that's a cover by Frank Miller and it's a GI Joe comic so I picked it up I looked through it I'm like I have no idea what this is I like the words in the pictures I could not translate in my mind it didn't make any sense so I I did not end up getting it but I wouldn't mind maybe going back and at least looking at it you know at least kind of getting a better idea of what it what it is there is this which is also really helpful to me and this is a first appearance guide so if you go if you go to yojo.com they do have a list of the comic books and they go through all of the the Marvel series and the comic books have they have like a a summary of the issues and they have like a a list of who is in each issue and that's great that's fine that's helpful but if I am trying to find the first appearance of a character they don't have that listed out you know and unfortunately they don't have it like on the individual characters page either like this character first appeared an issue this now there are so much websites that do that but they actually don't have all of the characters listed unfortunately so when I'm trying to figure out where a character actually first appeared you know rather than having to flip through every single issue myself and look for it which I could miss it though if I'm flipping through trying to find it and I miss a page or I don't look closely enough about a page I can miss well this this is helpful so I can I can try to not miss the first appearances you see what I'm saying you see what I'm saying are you picking up what I'm laying down are you getting it so anyway action after action report volume two kickstarter now and I like I said I believe after this live stream what's on Joe mine is gonna go live so pop over to what's on Joe mine tell them HCC sent you and I'm they're gonna talk about about volume two of this book and finally I wanted to show you this one just because I like it in the school and I just got it the Dan Klingensmith books Dan and Klingensmith has a lot to preserve like the pre production history along with Jody classified has also done a lot to help preserve the pre-production history but Dan Klingensmith has has they he's made these series of books this is volume H they're not real thick right they're not real thick but like I have barely even creased the the spine here I haven't had a chance to look through it very much but you've got the table contents and you've got it separated by year and so for instance this book has pre-production material on from 1982 it's got flash from 1983 it has the APC and doc and from 1984 it has blowtorch for 1985 it has the crimson guard and others so yeah check this out so I know there are a lot of flash fans out there I know there are a lot of flash fans hello TNT skate how do you do thank you for being here let's find it so yeah you want to see how flash was developed how the concept of flash evolved before he was released as an action figure when you've got the pre-production artwork here and as well as notes and comments and see this is this is pretty amazing and this yeah right here is that is that is not a flash action figure that is a two-up paint master that was used to produce the action figure so for those of you who don't know I like the sculptor design or the sculptor what's that Rob Vegas you're gonna be in oh it's somebody coming in Tulsa hello take me back to Tulsa I'm too young to marry so the the designer they draw the pictures and then he create kind of like a worksheet for the sculptor and they send that to the sculptor and the sculptor sculpts the parts out of they use different materials to sculpt it sometimes wax I believe Bill Merkline like to use like a two-part plumbing epoxy to to sculpt the actual figure but it's sculpted at twice the size is to sculpt it two times the size of the actual production figure right so the yeah so that sculpture this that's done on a buck right so it can have like the articulation and points where it's supposed to have them that they make a mold of that and then they the the resulting piece it's called a two-up right it's called a two-up because it's twice the size and then they they will paint that on what's called a paint master to figure out like what the colors are gonna be or like how the the final production colors are gonna look on it and yeah and from there you know they communicate with the factory and they they scale down the the two up to the actual size they use a machine it's a machine that's similar to the one that that makes a copy of your keys if you get a copy of a key at like Walmart or Autozone or whatever they use something similar to that to scale down the two up down to the smaller size so they can make the the metal mold the tooling that they will inject the plastic into and and you know sell us plastic things so that's really yeah pentagraph thank you that very good the so this has a lot of that information in it so I have a few issues of this now it's like look this that's um that's that's doc but like early ideas for doc and then later ideas for doc and all of these all of these toys and all these figures you know went through more than one more than one draft more than one version before they settled on what the final figure was gonna be and I'm really interested in that history I really am so anyway I just wanted to show off these books so that's action after action reports I got volume one at Joe Fest and then Dan clean Smith's book I got volume 8 also at Joe Fest I still I need to go through the ones I have and see which ones are missing and like fill in some of the gaps in these because this information is really helpful for researching for reviews and I've gotten a ton of really great information on the other volumes that I have for reviews that I've done so it's one of those things that I just I do as a matter of routine I always check to see you know like when I'm researching a video I always check to see if if there is an entry for it in the clean Smith's book I also check the the Belomo guide because sometimes Mark Belomo mark Belomo's ultimate guide to GI Joe also has some valuable information on the entries for the figures and the vehicles so I always check that as well I have just I have a routine that I try they I try to go through all the pertinent print research materials that I have as I'm writing the review so I can try to include some of that information in the video review so so that's been really helpful I don't have all of the volumes I need to go look and see which ones I'm missing and try to pick up some more of them so yeah that this is the kind of thing that's kind of thrilling me now this is what kind of gives me a thrill is to get get stuff like this and stuff like this that has that has information that I didn't have and yeah I I hunger for information so yes and I and thank you for listening to my to my monologue I know I haven't been keeping up with the live chat too well but but you guys you guys have been keeping it going so thank you thank you very much where the figures designed for 1995 were their figures designed for 1995 that got scrapped they're definitely were some of the 1995 figure designs have been linked and some of them actually had had prototypes made in fact while at Joefest I saw the prototype for the unreleased 1995 Baroness so yes there was there was a series that was planned for 1995 but they scrapped it they scrapped it in favor of Sergeant Savage and we all know how well Sergeant Savage did but at anyway hello Douglas Dello I don't think I said hello to you hello and thanks for being here so can you describe that the Baroness look like so I mean there's no color on the prototype there it wasn't you know it wasn't like colored like the final production figure would have been but it had like you know it had like a sculpted cobra emblem on the chest it had a head that was a pretty good update I think of the 1984 Baroness had it was it was it was it was refreshed it wasn't exactly the same but it was a nice update I believe there are some some photos out there I believe someone has some photos online of that particular Baroness figure the probably easy to start with I don't remember I don't remember but I do remember it looked it looked like a battle core figure you know battle core figures they have they have a look you know it's the sculpting of the sign it changed by the time you hit 1993 94 90 and would have been 95 so so it very much fit with the battle core aesthetic in my opinion so yeah I'll I know somebody and maybe maybe forgotten figures has that man I know that I saw them want somewhere and I may have seen them on forgotten figures site so yeah also I'll have to see if I can dig those up fishermen bazooka and giraffe pants leather neck yes so yeah this is bazooka on vacation and a leather neck who definitely killed and skinned a giraffe to make those pants very fascinating design choices I have to say unexpected unexpected was 95 Baroness an o-ring figure an old-school types it was o-ring I that I could tell it was definitely an o-ring figure I was just curious about something once again yeah I mean since you mentioned a couple of the battle core figures I thought I'd see if they're in this book that but there's some star brigade and some eco warriors but I don't see the battle for in this book but I know that they've been in some of the other books which I don't have handy of course I wouldn't have them handy but anyway I really enjoyed learning about the pre-production stuff that's at least had this phase of my collecting I'm getting more enjoyment out of that than I am get out of like acquiring new pieces for the collection and I do need to pick up the collecting a little bit I need to actually secure a few new pieces for the collection some things that I would like to review in the near future but yeah like buying new toys hasn't been the highest priority lately although it will be very soon like I said I need to I need to pick up a few things but like getting getting reference material lately has been a higher priority don't have many Joe's past 89 and that's yeah me too and for me it was mostly like 88 I think I have I had like 189 I had rock and roll version 2 89 but yeah by that time I was I was pretty much out of it so I did not learn of of like Battlecore and Star Brigade and all of that until I came back to GI Joe as an adult collector and like started looking at yojo.com and 3djoes.com and seeing a lot of stuff that I missed and I'm like wow I can't believe I missed that sure I'm sorry I missed the space aliens my show figure came in a McDonald's Happy Meal that's interesting and you remember which one it was that's really cool what about launching a crowdfunding campaign for on copy for Patreon to get parts for the Defiant I think a lot of us was supported that's an interesting idea the Defiant it has proven so expensive and difficult to to complete that it's it stalled a bit and and I do want to complete it I really do not only do I want to complete it I want to like replace some of the base pieces like some of the some of like the base vehicles the vehicle shells because some of them I think are just not quite in good enough shape to review but I don't want to start from scratch I'm gonna I want to keep most what I have and like I do have a lot of parts but there are still a lot that I have yet to do so that's an intriguing idea I think the one thing that would make it difficult for me to do that is that I have a hard time asking people for for things and for money like I have the patreon thing and that is that's that's hard that's difficult for me to do it's difficult for me to oh thank you Chad see I didn't have the live chat scroll up Chad since the chat says have you ever considered doing a favorite figure of the year list type video like picking each fear and saying a couple reasons why you picked it kind of twist on top ten videos that's not a bad idea and thank you for that suggestion I there was a an idea I had for a top ten video a few months ago but I never did it because I just don't do top ten videos I just my brain doesn't work that way but an idea like that may be a little better I may be more able to do something like that than a more traditional top ten video let's see a sparkster I know the feeling about the defiant went through four Scorponok base transformers to get a complete one yeah it's it is a challenge it really is you should combine parts from both versions of the shuttle I do I do have the crusader and I believe my crusader is complete it I even have the original wire the the umbilical wire that goes with it I do not have the umbilical wire for the defiant but I've been wanting to get find somebody who has both the defiant and the crusader who can tell me if the wire is the same is it an identical wire or is there any difference now as you may be aware that wire is just like an electrical wire you can get it at the hardware store right and that's what a lot of people do but I am a vintage GI Joe toy reviewer so to properly review the vintage defiant I can't just pop down to the hardware store and get a new wire no no I have to get an old wire that came with the defiant and the crusader that's just how I have to do it it's it's a psychological problem and I should seek help with it but but I must have old wires send me your old wires not not your new wires hello woodman how do you do nice to see you I don't think I I said hello to you hello stone great stone great creations so yeah the thing about reproductions I cannot do that for a review I can't I can't I if I put a reproduction in front of an HD camera and put that out there in a review then somebody who is out there looking for that item based on my review may mistakenly get a reproduction part instead of an original part because they were not aware that you know that there was difference so for a vintage toy review gotta have vintage parts that's that that is part of the the very character and the nature of the reviews I do on this channel that is at the very core of what I do and that is something that I cannot compromise even though it certainly would be cheaper but we got to try to do it the right way so I'm I'm trying to do it the right way so anyway hey it is it is about at the one hour point but I think like I started a few minutes early so I got five minutes okay you've been also we're about at the one hour point I got five minutes till the eight o'clock hour and my time so I hang out with you guys for a little bit longer they're exactly the same I had the define originally only figure left of it after is the payload figure that's cool that's cool yeah that is helpful because like I have a high confidence that the umbilical wire that I got with my crusader is an original one but like it's really hard to come by like original defiant umbilical wires and it's kind of it's you know that this is something where if you're really got committed to authenticity which I am then you've got to be able to find somebody that you can trust that's not going to pull one over on you and that is going to make sure that what they're send to is the authentic part and yeah yeah no I don't that don't work Matt sorry that's that's not what I do that's a hard line for me so I always welcome to check out reproduction toy channels but that is not that is not not my stick that's not what I do so so yeah we got to do it right we got to do it right or we don't do it and the defiant is a challenge but it's a challenge that I'm gonna do right so yeah anyway yeah that's that's what that's what we do but yeah since since you brought it up defiant is it's it's on hold but it's it's a huge challenge I would say this the defiant is a much greater challenge to complete than the than the flag this the flag has the found flag is much bigger and a much more sought-after item I think I think the flag is the bigger prestige item but the defiant is difficult the defiant has so many parts and all every single part is a challenge to find it can be quite expensive unless you get really lucky getting them intact is is another challenge it's the defiant is much more difficult to complete than the flag it just really is in my in my opinion you know even it's just for the sheer number of parts the sheer number of parts has lab classified defiant a mere ten thousand dollars yes ten thousand dollars and then for for and for a stretch goal you can get a cardboard diorama background we got it anyway that's cool Joe fan hey guys I appreciate all that you do I really do and even though like I was really tired after the 12 hour live stream I felt really good after it you know I just I really enjoyed spending the time with you and and chatting with everyone and you know this is this is my favorite part of the week it really is it really is and I I look forward to doing it every week and and look forward to doing it next week too so we got a couple minutes I'm going to wind down I'm gonna wrap it up I'm going to collapse I'm going to try to not speak for a little while rest the vocal cords again but I sincerely sincerely appreciate everything that you guys have done you guys really keep me going sometimes when when there's not a whole lot else keeping me going so come in here and talking to you guys is it's an important part of my of my week and and I couldn't live without it and that's why even though we were live yesterday it's Tuesday and we were alive again or yes we're alive and we're live again and thank you Thane Woods make sure you keep it up with covert convergence check the calendar HCC788.com and Timmer has the video today on the mega viper it's it's something else that mega viper pretty sweet-looking figure great-looking action figure it's got to be one of Timmer's favorites so anyway guys I am gonna wrap it up it is about the right time by my clock and I'm gonna say good night and I will see you all next week see you all later and cheerio good night everybody bye bye