 Commander 788 here and once again we are going to compare a modern GI Joe action figure to its vintage equivalent and this time we are looking at torpedo now version one of torpedo of course came out in 1983 and he was GI Joe's first Navy Seal in fact the first Navy personnel for the 1980s GI Joe at all and this is the 2008 25th anniversary version a lieutenant torpedo named lieutenant torpedo despite the fact that he's not a lieutenant he is a warrant officer so that's weird version one of torpedo from 1983 the second wave of 1980s GI Joe figures was equipped as a Navy frogman in a wet suit he had a spear gun for a shooting underwater he had a backpack that was an oxygen rebreather and he had a couple swim fins and that was it for accessories he was very clearly meant to be a diver even though he was a Navy Seal he was not at all equipped to fight on land and one knock that I had against this figure when I reviewed him is that his mask was not removable and that's something that I really would have preferred to have a removable mask motor torpedo has the same basic color scheme he has that gray and black wet suit just like the original now on his accessories he has basically modern updates of those original accessories and he has a few others he has that spear gun very similar to the original one in fact it's so much alike it's really hard to tell the difference between the two this is the modern spear gun and this is the vintage spear gun and as you can see it's almost an exact remold of the same accessory there's some slight differences these lines right here are just very slightly different and on version one spear gun there's a little trigger sculpted on there that is absent on the new one other than that these accessories are so close to identical that you could almost swap them out and not tell the difference in addition to the spear gun modern torpedo has a few other accessories he has a removable knife in a holster there and he has a removable pistol on this side with a really long barrel if it's in there pretty securely and he has a modern take on that old rebreather backpack that old rebreather tank nice colors on there looks really good and one nice bonus is it actually has a soft rubbery hose that links the backpack to his mask and that mask is removable and that is very nice you can remove the mask you could not do that on the version one figure modern torpedo also has swim fins and they are very similar to version one swim fins they're not exactly the same mold but they are very close and of course modern figures unlike the vintage figures had figure stands they came with figure stands and this has a codename lieutenant torpedo on it the swim fins are made in such a way that he can connect to the figure stand while wearing the fins of course modern figures have a lot more articulation than vintage figures but in the case of torpedo that's really important one of the problems I had with version one of torpedo is that since he didn't have ankle articulation he had to swim with his swim fins facing down and that did not look very natural however on modern torpedo I can just pull him off the figure stand does have ankle articulation he can move his toes point his toes downward and that is a much more natural swimming pose both the modern and the vintage figure came with file cards and these file cards are very nearly identical the portrait of torpedo is almost the same it has been modified a little bit updated slightly but the text of the file cards are very close to the same just a little bit of rephrasing on the new file card but other than that we have essentially the same character the same background the same everything on the new file card that we had on the vintage file card so which do I prefer the vintage or the modern figure well normally I go with the vintage figure because nostalgia is a large part of why I collect GI Joe however I had some specific problems with the vintage torpedo that the modern version of torpedo actually fixes it fixes the ankle articulation it has a removable mask which is something I always wanted on version one of torpedo and I got to say when a figure an update fixes the problems that I had with the old one I got to give it props for that so this is a rare occasion when I'm gonna say I do prefer the modern figure over the vintage now the modern figure has all the problems that all other modern figures have it's really meant for display rather than for a child's play thing also it has that really long stretched out proportions that modern figures have but nonetheless hey you know they did what I wanted them to do on the first version and really that's that's a good update an excellent update to torpedo that was a very quick compare and contrast between 1983 torpedo and 2008 torpedo I hope you enjoyed it and as always leave me a comment and let me know what you think of these figures do you prefer the vintage torpedo or the modern torpedo thanks for watching and keep checking back with this channel for full vintage GI Joe tour reviews I will see you next time