 Hello everybody hooded core commander 788 here first. I'm sorry that I am backlit by these windows behind me But right now this is the only place I have to shoot so we're just gonna have to live with that for right now This is the unboxing video for December 2018 Where I will show you everything I received from viewers this month everything that was sent to me by you guys and the reason we're doing this is because For the last few months I have done these unboxings in the weekly live stream And that was fun. It kind of added a fun element to the live stream But in the live stream somebody asked, you know, where are the unboxing videos? Well, that's a very good point and if you're gonna send something to the channel I think it actually deserves more of a spotlight. I think it deserves to be in its own video Like this one rather than just being rolled into the live stream. So I apologize for that I think that if you send something to me, it deserves to be seen it deserves to be in front of the camera. So We're going back to doing a monthly unboxing video showing everything that I received for the month One also one update Starting at the beginning of next year so starting in 2019. I am going to get a post office box For everything that you guys want to send to me So that should make it easier if you want to send something to the channel It would just be a lot easier to do so look for that within about a month or so from now I should be able to post the or give you the post office box number And so if you want to send something to me, that's where you will send it And as always I want to make clear that you do not have to send anything to me You should never feel obligated to send anything to me. I don't ask you to send anything to me But a lot of folks have been just very generous and wanted to help the channel out. I wanted to help the channel grow And just make it easier for me to make videos. So you've been very generous and you've sent stuff stuff to me and First of all, I appreciate that. Thank you very much And if you're gonna send something to me, then I'm gonna put it in front of a camera so everyone can see so That just as a way of showing my appreciation. So thank you to everyone who has helped with this channel Thank you to everyone who has donated. It's greatly appreciated. So I'm gonna go ahead and start showing you some stuff that was sent to me this month. I am going to start with this from Troy Smith. Troy Smith actually sent me his family Christmas card which is really cool the Smith family and a really nice Family letter with the Christmas card. It was very nice of Troy to think of me and Send this to me and just remember me around Christmas time and send this to my family. It's very nice Thank you Troy and Troy has helped out in a number of other ways with the channel. Troy has been very generous So this is a good time to remind everyone that anytime I receive a letter or any kind of correspondence I keep all of that. I have every letter that has been sent to me by anyone Whether it's a big long letter or just a short little note. I have kept all of it and let me show you right here This is it. This big envelope is now getting kind of thick Is where I keep Every letter that's sent to me So if if you send me a box of something and you include a letter in it I'll read all of those letters and I'm keeping it in here The reason I'm keeping these is because I want these as mementos of our time together when this channel was active and so Decided first of all to put it in this envelope, which I hope will be large enough And in large black Marker I Have put HCC 788 on here. So there's absolutely no mistake about what it is Because I'm trying to think you know about the future, but not just a few years down the road I'm trying to think about decades down the road when you know this channel will just be a memory and And you know who knows how many times I might move between you know now and 20 years from now But I don't want to lose this. I don't want this to get mixed up with other Records or documents. I don't want this to get lost. So I'm trying to make sure that We know exactly what it is. So it doesn't get lost This is something that when I'm old and gray and I'm in the retirement home I want this with me so I can read the letters from you guys and remember the fun times we had because this has become a Really amazing part of my life much more so than I ever thought it would be so the fact that Troy would send this Christmas card to me is very thoughtful and it's it's not gonna be forgotten It's going to be remembered years and years from now So I've already read the letter. Thank you Troy and I'm putting it in the envelope right here So it will never be lost. We have a box With stuff in it and this is from Peter chick wick Chick-a-wack. I'm sorry if I missed a minute mispronouncing your name Peter who includes a letter and He says that here parts I had for the Cobra Sea Ray recently purchased a huge lot of vintage Joe parts And have been just spreading love to people who needed parts. Thank you I've been through a lot in this life, and I'm happy to help I also want to throw Want you to know that I loved your YouTube channel. Thank you very much and really appreciate what you're doing there Thanks sincerely Peter chickwack. I'm sorry if I mispronounced your name, but you are very kind to send this to me So thank you very much Peter and as some of you may recall Mike Smith sent me a Boxed Cobra Sea Ray which I opened and assembled some of the parts were not in a perfect condition Mike sent me some replacement parts and now Peter also sends me some sea ray parts So what I'm going to do is I'm going to Kit bash my sea ray So that when I present it to you on camera with a in a review, I will have the the best The best example of a sea ray that I can with all of the best parts in all the best condition so Thank you for these parts Peter. Oh, there's like there's a lot of them extra missile and the pieces for the glider There's more Practically they sent me a whole sea ray. That's amazing and the wings I don't want to damage these but I'm gonna try to Pop these out so you can see them. So I now I think Mike for the for the box sea ray and Peter for some additional parts and Mike for the parts that he sent to me too. Okay, I think we got So thank you for that. It's amazing how much effort from you guys have gone into the Cobra Sea Ray So I need to review it soon I'm gonna go ahead and declare that next year 2019. I will review the Cobra Sea Ray I'm gonna put it on the schedule. It's not gonna get by me next year And in that review, I want to show my appreciation for everyone who has helped and That that's gonna be a review that is dedicated to all of you who have done this who have sent in things to the channel Just to help me out and to help me make these reviews. So thank you to all of you and thank you to Peter for this All right, let's not forget that Peter's letter goes in the envelope to Will not lose that And now we're gonna go to something that was sent to me by a longtime friend of the channel By Byron Kellogg who also has his own YouTube channel Joe Joe motion videos 82 Byron has been a friend of the channel and a friend of mine for quite some time now And he's just one of the nicest guys. So I always appreciate Byron's help His input and he's just a really really decent person. So That's really important to me being you know being good being kind and thoughtful and generous and helpful These things to me are more important than Then like what kind of toys you like? I hope that we all enjoy, you know going through these GI Joe toys and you know remembering fun times with GI Joe some of you are building your own collection, but You know to me being a good and decent person is more important than all of those things. So Thank you Byron. Thank you for being a good guy and thank you for all the help that you've given me in this channel This channel. So thank you and Byron sends to me something that is packed with a lot of shredded paper Be very careful to remove this so I don't get the shredded paper everywhere All right, he sends a box of GI Joe trading cards and What's really cool about this is it is still sealed in the plastic wrapping it's This has never been open at all And of course it's got that nice artwork from the trading card set and I'm not gonna open this Somebody went through all the trouble to preserve this, you know still sealed in the plastic I'm just not gonna open it. I want to keep it Preserves the way that it is So thank you Byron. Thank you for this but more importantly Thank you for being a really cool guy and thank you for your help You've helped me a lot along the way and I appreciate it. So thanks Byron for this and you know Good luck with your own YouTube channel and thank you for your help with this one All right Byron did not include a letter, but I can promise you there are already several correspondences from Byron and this envelope so That is something that I look forward to reading again years and years down the road. So now let's move on to the next one All right This next one is donated from someone who just wants to be credited as an anonymous donor who works at cryptic studios So that's very mysterious. Let's see what he could have sent. I have two boxes there is this one There's that and this other one's kind of heavy. Hang on Oh Whatever could be in these boxes. Okay. I had to kind of make room. Okay. What's in these boxes is amazing What's in these boxes is? essentially the entire gi joe comic book run from marvel comics Both the main series and special missions series and the Order of battle series with some extras with some extras first of all he sends this copy of City of heroes issue number one Which looks pretty cool. It's got some nice artwork in it So I am going to read that later Nice. Okay, cool And like this is a This is a book And we've got a couple a couple of these marvel treasury editions one's in better shape than the other Marvel treasury editions of issue number one of the gi joe comic book And these are cool. That's awesome. Um, and the rest of the stuff in here is just like It's it's everything it's everything is here Hold on. Let me find some of it for you. Um, he did say that there might There might be a couple missing issues like somewhere in the in the 100s, but um, the Ones that are missing from here. I think I already have them So what this represents is I now for the first time in my life have the entire Marvel comics gi joe run Every issue And like and like stuff like this. This is a licensed book through black thorn publishing Um official how to draw gi joe. That's just cool. These are just extra stuff that's in here and it's amazing But I'm trying to find let's see. They're a little bit out of order. Sorry Um, but yeah starting right here starting with issue number one I've mentioned before I didn't start writing or start reading the gi joe comic book series until somewhere I um I think late in the first year Um, I just didn't know about it. I didn't see it. Um So when I of course when I first saw the comic book series, I you know, I became a regular reader But um, I missed out on some of the early issues. And so, you know, I would read them in back issues or Reprints or like the tales of gi joe which reprinted the early issues So I was able to read all of them, but like issue number one I came in a little too late in the game to actually have that first issue. So um issue number one issue number two Let's I know there are certain issues that some of you gonna ask about. Um, so Yeah, there are two copies of issue number 21 the silence issue Yeah, this is this was overwhelming When I opened the box and saw what it was I You know, there there are some occasions where you kind of you get weak in the knees when you just you can't believe what you're What you're seeing and that's how I felt I was I was shocked and stunned and amazed and bewildered, you know origin of snake eyes Parts one and two um All these classic issues, which I mean I had some of them You know loose copies, but I had been relying on reprints a lot for my reviews But but now I mean they're all here. They're all here The nearly impossible to find issue number 155 The final issue is in here somewhere because I know because I saw it Hold on I'll find it I'll find it I want to I'm so amazed by this. I want to show Everyone all of it. Uh, yeah, there's where gijo had transformers in it We'll just we'll just gloss over that um 151 it's in here. I know it's in here because I pulled it out and I looked at it um Yeah, there it is Yeah, there's issue number 155 That one is really a hard one to find um The whole special mission series is in here. Um All of the yearbooks All of the yearbooks are in here Or all order of battle is in here, um I think about the only thing that isn't in here is like gijo versus transformers Uh, but virtually everything else that was published by marvel comics is here. Uh, this other box has Um, a lot of the the well, okay Some of the issues in like the the 60s 70s and 80s and some of the special missions issues were in here too Um Yeah, uh, except I pulled out the special missions issues already. So, you know, this this completes out the set um And uh, I would like to thank anonymous Um, this is really overwhelming Um, I have been wanting as soon as I got this I wanted to show you guys right away But I wanted to wait for this special unboxing video so everyone could see it. Um So thank you for that. Uh, this is extremely Generous and I'm going to try to make good use of it. Um since I have, um always You know had gaps in my collection I've never actually sat down and read the whole thing Start to finish. Um, I've you know, I have read every issue. I have read every issue, but Not all together not all in a row in the correct sequential order Uh, but since I have these I kind of want to do that That's what I want to do with these. I want to read every single one of them. Um So, uh, this is the first time I've really had the opportunity to do that Thank you. This is This comic book series I can't Overstate how important this was to me. Um, this Was um, this was like the core of gi joe to me. Um, it It influenced not just my Uh play time with gi joe toys, but it influenced my life in a lot of ways It introduced me to concepts that I didn't know about And it introduced me to ways of looking at the world that I might not have otherwise seen And it I don't want to overstate it, but it it kind of kick started me on a lifetime of learning Um So this is uh, I have to thank larry hamma for that For writing a series that was much more Intelligent than it needed to be for you know, a children's Children's toy line I have to thank him for putting the effort into it, but thank you to um anonymous for For this And that that's it. That's all I have to show you but uh, that's a lot So thank you to everyone who sent stuff to me this month. Uh, thank you For everyone who's ever sent anything to me. Um, I Do this for you, you know, I I used to love gi joe when I was a kid and I would have been blown away if somebody had told me that you know, um All these decades later, I would be here Sitting in front of a camera And talking about this stuff still and actually having a lot of it in my possession And I would still have the comic books to read and I would still be Um enjoying these things All these years later That kind of thing would just have seemed like an impossible dream but here it is and That has been made possible by Everyone who watches these videos Uh, everyone who has uh befriended me on this journey Uh, and um, if I say too much, I'm gonna Uh, I'm gonna get misty eyed. This is special to me. So, um Thank you. Uh, I hope everyone has a great holiday. Um, you know, I hope everyone keeps in mind that, um There are People out there that are less fortunate. Um, and everything that we can do to try to You know, make the world a little bit of a better place We should do and so, um, keep that in mind this holiday season And, um, also please keep in mind my thanks and appreciation for you. So Uh, if I get anything, uh in january, um, I'll do another one of these unboxing videos Um, but Keep an eye out for a post office, uh box as soon as I get that I'll post that everywhere So you you know, then you don't have to ask me where to send stuff. Um, it'll be posted and you know readily available for Anyone who would like to donate. So thanks everyone. And um, I will see you soon With another g.i. joe toer review. I'm looking forward to it. I hope you are too