 Hello everybody, hoodedcorecommander788 here, and I do not have a regular G.I. Joe toy review video for you this weekend because of certain delays behind the scenes. It's no big deal. You will get that video next weekend But I want to have something for you guys to watch this Sunday So instead of a regular G.I. Joe toy review video I am going to assemble this vehicle this box and the vehicle inside it Was sent to me by a viewer Justin Lubey. Thank you Justin for that And it was sent to me for the purpose of assembling. So this is unassembled inside this box And we are going to put it together. This is the 1991 brawler. It is a large tank from 1991 pretty cool looking box and Now I have seen this vehicle Assembled and outside the box before but I am Gleeful about the opportunity to actually take this thing out of the box and put this vehicle together For the first time I will be the first person to ever assemble this thing now the box is not sealed it is Already unsealed and I don't think the contents inside the box are sealed either But the parts are still on the plastic frame at least from what I could see I didn't completely take it out, but I kind of peeked inside to see you know see how it looked in there So the parts are still on the plastic frame and it doesn't look like this has ever been assembled before So I'm going to take it out of the box and I invite you to join me as we put together the 1991 G.I. Joe brawler, okay I have my tools here including my new nipolars that I can use to put this thing together now as with most 90s vehicles the Parts inside the outer box were in a cardboard tray So we will start by pulling the tray out. You know the tray is kind of coming apart a little bit but we have the cardboard insert tray Alright, there we go, and I'll set this box aside for now The parts inside are bubble wrap And there are the instructions. That's always helpful I've had a couple of these that didn't have the instructions and blueprints So I just you know looked it up on the internet, but it's nice to have them handy so I can actually refer to them And here we have a lot of parts as I said the parts are still on the plastic frame At least most of them looks like a couple of them have broken off Yes, there is orange on this tank But there's not only orange. There's there are other things So let's just start by getting the parts out just laying them all out. It's nice that Justin thought to Well bubble wrap inside the box because otherwise these parts would have rattled around a bit in In shipping and could have been damaged. So that just helps make sure these arrive Undamaged, so I'm just pulling everything out No particular order and let's spread them out And see what we've got Tread there's a little I don't know what And there we go. Okay, the rest is bubble wrap. We've got all the parts out. So I'm going to set the cardboard insert aside and Ladies parts out in some kind of order So I can sort them There's the treads And these are all of the orange bits Okay, orange bits orange bits orange bits All right, that goes there That goes with these those go together. Okay. All right parts sorted Make some room here Parts sorted now. I'm going to pause the video video just for a second Um, so I can do a quick read through oh The all important sticker sheet very important Uh, I'm going to pause just for a minute so I can do a quick read through of the instructions Okay, I've done a really quick scan of these Instructions and I'm pretty sure I know how to assemble it But I will keep these handy so I can refer to it for each step So for starters, it says to take the gray body, which is this right here Looks like we turn it this way And then we need to set that aside for a second. Then we need the uh orange reactive battle armor mechanism Which is this piece that is that's a really bright orange. I know a lot of you 80s gi joe fans are not gonna love the orange, but We work with what we've got it was the 90s after all It says to insert this um into here this space With the Top side up and there is a little marking here on the inside that says top so Therefore it goes This way I guess Now there it has tabs that kind of line up with some slots But um, let's see. I hope this isn't another one of those deals where I really have to force it in And risk breaking this thing. I that's one thing that really scares me about these assembly videos is Sometimes it just feels like I'm going to break this thing to try to get it on that went relatively easy though. So step one step two is to take the um gray interior section This gray piece which looks a little more silver It is a grayish silver. It's kind of dull silver, but I call this silver And oh, we got to flip this over And we've got to place it somewhere. Where are we placing it? Here let's see hold on We've got to line this up properly um Okay Looks like it goes. Ah, yes like that and it should kind of just snap in right? There we go. There we go snaps in and that provides the interior seats inside these hatches All right. Well for once this has been fairly easy step three My god, this may be the fastest assembly we've ever done and I probably just jinxed myself um, but here are these um tank treads And we need to put the wheels on These these go either way It looks like there's no front and back. It looks like they're totally interchangeable Could be wrong about that, but It sure looks that way. Anyway, we got to put the wheels on and one of the wheels um kind of popped off the Plastic frame already, but the other three are still on here using the plastic nippers using the plastic nipplers to Nipple them off There we go nipple and Okay, come on. Come on nipple. There we go Uh, yeah But we got still got some knobs on this. Let me see if these this will trim those off Yeah, there we go It's not going to roll very well with some of the uh Plastic sprues still on it. So let's um Let's trim it really quick all right That one's okay, and that was okay. Okay, so Make sure I do this right looks like the like one side of these wheels it's kind of um Geared looks like a gear and that goes on the inside So gear side in There we go, and when I say inside I don't mean the inside of the track, but what will be the inside of the vehicle So that Was Amazingly easy. I'm starting to get worried. I'm starting to worry. This is too easy I'm starting to worry This is too easy. None of our assembly videos have been this easy Um, so next step I've got to turn this over Um, and it says align grooves in track Tread with track posts on body and snap into place repeat for the other track. Okay So It's going to go like this I'm going to line up With these posts these notches with these posts Uh, let me see if I can zoom in a little bit more So you can get a little better view. Yeah, let's try that so Line up all right, I see the tabs that are supposed to grip on I think Hold on that doesn't make a lot of sense to me That does not make sense to me. Why is okay? No, I see I see All right, and this is kind of a flexible plastic. So Ah, there we go So I think it'll give enough there That it shouldn't cause too much trouble getting on I'm trying to do this facing you but I can't see it from my side But this this and needs to go I got the back end to snap on I just need this front end Ooh To snap on come on We're so close. We are so close. Come on Come on. Come on. Come on Oh, it's so close. All right. See I did speak too soon It was too easy But I've got this one tab that doesn't want to go and I do not Want to break this thing it is almost there There okay. All right had to have a little assistance with that Um, but one track on That front tab that goes right there Just did not want to go so let's try that again with the other side and hopefully it'll go a little easier so That lines up there Maybe we'll try to do the front tab first this time Front tab first Front tab first There that tab there we go. There we go. So if you're assembling one of these at home Put the front tab of the tread in first. That's just a lot easier So we got the treads on the tread has wheels and now we have to assemble the missile arm connector um And that is three pieces including This big spoiler looking thing with uh like a bar And these arms these arms arm one arm two. So let's set this Sorry set that aside Um, let me make sure they do this right snap orange missile arm connector into Green left missile arm as shown repeat for right missile arm. So there's a left and a right But is there an indicator? For which side is which there is okay? Inside here. There's an r. So that will be on the right side Uh, yeah, and right there. There is an l So there that's how it's supposed to go Right left and I assume that it's Right facing forward. So starboard and port. I hope that's what that means um, so this Connects this way Oh, I see it. I see it. It connects like this Uh and there in the back too so It connects here and here and Should just snap in snap snap. Okay. Well, that was easy Same thing on this side Exactly the same thing And this flat plastic for the most part is flexible enough that it's gonna give And should not cause Or should not give me too much trouble snapping on I'd say that but this one now is giving me trouble snapping on All right Come on now Okay lined up press Ah nope Thought it snapped in but it did not There we go. There we go All right, so that is that thing. So what do we do with this thing? This now I guess becomes a pivot point Uh, this bar And this goes according to the instructions Here. Oh, yeah Okay, check this out. It's got teeth right here and There's a tab right there. So this should ratchet once it is Connected so let's make sure it's lined up Make sure it's lined up sure it looks lined up Um Let me see let me make sure Uh connector bar ribs Uh, let's see Be sure the round missile arm connector bar ribs are on the inside portion of the body as shown Okay, so that goes like that Then what we just press it until it Until it connects Is that it? Or we don't press it in Oh, we don't press it in hold on Yeah, it doesn't press in it doesn't snap in we just rest it in just like that for now and now we take This this is what holds it on Which way is front? This way is front It's got a little seat in there for a gunner It's got two tabs here in the back. It's got one tab here in the front And it should just pop on right Sure, it's lined up Did that just pop on did that just pop on? Oh my gosh And then this should yeah with that Ratchets Ratchets Oh nice back down Beautiful beautiful next uh the main Canon orange cannon And there's an orange gun turret, which is This one so I'm gonna nip that off nipple Nipple I get to it Get that nipple. There we go. All right, so we nipple that off and this gun It goes into this hole on the Oops This little mushroom clip This plastic is a little more solid. Oh, whoops. I did it wrong. There's also a A tab so it's a fixed forward facing gun. It does not pivot There's a a tab there that goes into a slot there Let's see This plastic though as I said is a little more firm Does not give as much as the kind of Greenish plastic there But it is in There we go And what do we do with this? We place it On this bar right here. I'm gonna try to do this so you can see it Should just snap on Should hold on almost got it I say almost. I have no idea if I almost got it or not. Yeah This okay, did I get it? Did I get it? The orange plastic and the gray plastic There we go And it ratchets too Um, the orange plastic and the gray plastic does not have as much give Uh, it's a little uh More firm than the green plastic the green plastic's a little bit easier to work with All right, what's next? the um The guns we got side guns we got two side guns Are they both the same? Yeah, they're both the same so it doesn't matter which side it goes on There's a hole right there and it should It should just snap it It should just snap randomly So I can get to it a little more easily Trying to You know a lot of times I do the assembly on my side So you guys can't see it, but I'm trying to do it on your side so you can actually see the assembly assembly better But it makes it a little more difficult for me because I can't see it as well All right, there there's one And that yeah that pivots other one exactly the same thing There we go Pivots, okay What is next? Uh, grenades. Oh, that's what these are these things are Grenades well, there's a whole bunch of them. So let's just start nippling these off nipple and Nipple there we go. I wonder if I'll get demonetized for saying nipple so much. Let's see. So these go On this turret here Turret does not Um rotate it's fixed in the front Elevates obviously Um, I don't want to do a review on this as I'm assembling it, but I'm just noticing things. I like the elevation, but That that does not turn from side to side at all. That's interesting. Anyway, there are holes here Um and these grenades. Oh holes here and here. So these grenades just go in there. They should yeah just pop in Yeah, there we go There we go three there there Six pop in Don't give me no trouble now. Oh the the hole in that hole in the uh tank body was Had a little bit of flashing on it. So it was a little tighter This one's not too loose either. Yeah, there we go Yeah, this this plastic doesn't give it as much. Um, it's a little bit harder to work with But we're going to work with it. We're gonna make it work Man, I'm gonna push that in quite with a lot of force just to get that in Okay let's Get it that one doesn't want to go That one doesn't want to go but you have no choice. You must go You must go All right, as I've said before I would not open and assemble a vehicle that was rare Or you know from the 80s, but there are lots of these 90s vehicles that um are still in circulation There we go and um Doesn't really significantly reduce the number Of sealed ones and unassembled ones that are in the market. So I don't feel so bad about it. Okay, so now we got 12 grenades I'm pegged in that was not super easy, but it's done now we have The orange missiles and I want to make sure I put these in correctly Because I believe these missiles will really fire So slide orange missile into missile arm then turn missile tab to lock into launcher as shown to fire flick firing tab downward. Okay I got so Uh, let's see It goes like this And then turn it up right so there's the missile Other side It's got this kind of a tab here that goes in Toward the outside And then you slide it in until it gets to this opening right here and then turn it Up and that locks it in place And then to fire it you just push it down I guess Oh, holy crap that oh that went far I had to chase down that missile. I had no idea these missiles were that powerful Um that that went really far really fast Okay, uh last piece is this which I believe tabs into this uh reactive armor piece Um, and I believe this will pop out too Uh Push down button on okay Push down on button on mechanism to lock in place that doesn't what it okay the instructions seem to be missing a step Because it oh, okay. Here we go. Um It says press down on button on mechanism to lock into place But it doesn't say what button on what mechanism, but there we go There we go. And I think if you hit this it'll Yeah, but it's like a pop out battle damage kind of thing. All right. Well, that's okay. That's not bad So you just push it back in there There we go to lock it in place and this is a fully assembled brawler But we're not quite done Because we have the all important stickers Okay, this is my favorite part. This is our moment of then Um, and there are there's the there are the instructions for the sticker placement And let's just get started. Let's get started now. This is it's harder for me to do this me Position this a little better. It's hard for me to do this on this side So you can see I kind of have to do it on my side, but I will turn it So, uh, you can see where the stickers are placed um after each one So we're going to start in front because that's where the instructions start. These are paper stickers So they have some really nice bright colors But these paper stickers are Not quite as easy to work with as the old style vinyl stickers Um, this goes here Hold on Not as forgiving as the vinyl stickers There we go Try to get that straight Try to get it straight Well, that's not super straight But yeah, once you have these stickers on They are really hard to get off and and move so Once they're placed they pretty much have to stay May not be impossible to peel them off, but Really really hard to do without tearing the sticker Okay, so we've got two on One with some random numbers And um another one with some cobra kill marks And you can see the one with the cobra kill marks is is not super straight, but that's the best we can do Um, we also need to put a danger sticker right there. Where's the danger sticker? Uh number eight Number eight Where's number eight? Um, where are you number eight? There's number eight There we go Um, which end up that end up, okay So that let's try to center it There we go. Okay. So now there's a sticker right there Danger sticker Oh, I don't know This is a time I um I feel like I should share more personal anecdotes But I don't know if I have any more stories that you guys haven't already heard Um Well, let's see. What what might you guys not know about me? Um personal history stuff When I was 18 years old, I went to art school in Dallas at the art institute of Dallas My original plan was to be an artist. Hopefully a comic book artist but um I was pretty much totally unprepared. So I didn't do well And after a year, I returned home having not gotten a degree Uh, kind of failed on that one But um after I returned home Ah, this goes inside. Okay. This goes it's a little control sticker Control panel that goes inside this turret. So let's do that returned home got a job at a used bookstore Local used bookstore Called gardeners used books and comics um And if you are from the Tulsa area You definitely know what bookstore I'm talking about. It's uh, it's very large um And I worked there for a few years moved on um worked for um A supermarket For a while a supermarket changed the local chain that doesn't exist anymore um And then Uh, I got a job at Well at the time it was called world calm It was later. Okay world calm eventually bought MCI. I don't know if anybody's older old enough to remember MCI the telephone company Um, but world calm bought them Um, and then there was a huge scandal And people went to jail For um this big accounting scandal. There's something to google I was working at MCI world calm during one of the biggest Accounting, uh fraud scandals in history But I was not in the accounting department Fortunately um So that kind of went crazy and then um That company was bought by Verizon and became Verizon business. So I worked for Three different corporations Without ever changing jobs Uh, and I did that for over 13 years And during that time I got a wild idea that I wanted to Own my own used bookstore I loved working at gardener so much I thought you know, I know how the Used book business goes I know how to run a used bookstore. So I put some money together Rented out a space and I opened A used bookstore Didn't have comic books like, uh Gardeners, but uh just books Just books Where does that go? It goes there. There we go gijo logo Now, um, this plan might have turned out all right. Um, I did own my own business for a while Um, and it might have uh gone well Except, uh, there was one Minor issue one little hiccup in the plan um I don't know if you guys remember the huge economic crash that we had um, I don't know about How long ago like um 11 years ago like the 2007 late 2007 ish when The u.s. Economy uh went in the crapper Well, that that wasn't good for business. It certainly wasn't good for my business. So Yeah, we um Uh It basically it basically tanked us. Um So we struggled until we got to Uh the end of our lease Uh for our retail space and then we shut the business down But for a time I owned and operated A used bookstore In it's actually out here where I live now in broken arrow Broken arrow is a small city near tulsa It's really it's a suburb of tulsa although people from broken arrow don't Like to think of themselves as being in a suburb of tulsa, but Let's be truthful. It's it's a suburb It's just what it is Let's call things what they are you're a suburb whatever Anyway, it was out here and it did all right for a while, but yeah, um With the economic downturn nothing no businesses were doing very well So that was kind of the end of that. Um and I stayed in telecom for For a while But the uh company I worked for let's turn this around I want to do this side first The company I worked for um was outsourcing Some of our jobs overseas Um, I could have stayed with the company probably would have survived the cuts. I had a lot of experience there You know having been there for 13 years But I had also been going to school this whole time. I've been taking classes college courses often at night And I was getting close to finishing my degree And they were offering, you know voluntary severance packages and so I talked it over with Susan and Um We decided it's time to to finish the degree. I've been I've been working on it for Years doing classes whenever I could but it was time to finish my bachelor's degree So I took the severance package and um Took the severance package and um went to northeastern state university and um Got the credits that I needed and finished my bachelor's degree And then I moved on to what I had been planning to do and been trying to do for Almost a decade like eight years. It took me like eight years to get a four-year degree Because I was working full-time. I had a family working full-time part of that time I had a business to run. So it's not easy to get the the courses the classes that you need You know with all that going on. So yeah, it took me about eight years to get a four-year degree But I finished and uh, where does that go? Uh, this goes okay. This is something I don't like about the sticker instructions on Uh 90s vehicles is that it instructs you to place stickers over molded details on The vehicle so I'm gonna have to place a sticker right over this molded detail And I just I don't I don't like that But there's nowhere else to put it. That's the only place to put it. So I'm gonna follow the instructions But I don't like covering up molded detail with stickers There's that one and on this side So I finished my degree. I took the LSAT did really well at it. Um applied for um law school at the University of Tulsa and I'm glad I got in there. It's a good thing I got Um Accepted there because I didn't apply anywhere else. I I wanted to stay here in town or in Tulsa Because that's where my family was. I did not want to move away to go to law school So I didn't apply anywhere else if I hadn't got accepted at At tu I just would have been out of luck Uh, but I did get accepted three years of law school Um harder than I expected, but I had a little bit of an advantage I had a little bit of an advantage because I was an older student And you know, I'd had my partying years. Yeah, I partied I I had lots of friends once went to lots of parties clubs concert all of that Had lots of fun, but you know After a few years of doing that a lot You know, I kind of done it all, you know I'd been to all the parties. I'd been to all the concerts. I'd been to all the clubs and You know, I Just wasn't any there was no adventure in that anymore So I was kind of past my partying days Whereas a lot of my younger fellow students my fellow my classmates Um They tried to manage law school While also partying Um, which you can do it's possible. I've seen it done but um Yeah, so me though instead of partying all night I would read I would study And in law school I ended up doing pretty good Complete law school Take and pass the bar examination And have a couple jobs outside of law school before I get the one I'm in and Here we are So There is your assembled Your assembled brawler with all the stickers. There's a marine core emblem on it So I guess this is supposed to be a marine vehicle For gi joe. It does have a gi joe logo right there Right there But uh, there it is Thank you, Justin for Giving us the opportunity to put this thing together. Thank you all for watching. Thank you, Justin Lubey for sending this vehicle and giving me the opportunity to put it together That was a lot of fun That was actually more fun than some of the vehicles I've assembled recently It wasn't nearly as difficult as some of the other videos we've assembled on this channel And now we have a fresh out of the box absolutely mint Uh brawler to look at and it's it's quite impressive. Yes, even with the orange. It's it's quite impressive So thank you for that. Thank you all for watching. Um, sorry about not having a full review for you today Give to that next sunday, uh, and I'm already working on the video after that one So we're not giving up. We're still plowing forward. Uh, we never give up. We never surrender But I hope this is sufficient in the meantime And just um wanted to express my appreciation for you being here Watching the videos and just going on this collecting journey with me. So thank you for that and That's all. Uh, we will see you next week with the full vintage gi jo toy review and until then remember Only gi joe is gi joe