 It's hoodie Coco. It's hoodie Coco Merry Christmas everyone. I'm I'm cosplaying a Christmas tree right now It's hoodie Coco, I'm wearing I'm wearing this garland and Alistair thinks it looks exactly like a cat toy and he's very upset Very upset that I don't want to play with it So hello Happy Happy holidays everyone. Merry Christmas Welcome to the HCC seven eight eight Christmas extravaganza Now I this was supposed to be the big Christmas special right and I had Dean Martin booked To to sing on this show Dean Martin was was gonna sing on the show It's gonna do a whole number and then I find out that Dean Martin is dead So Dean Martin's canceled. No like so Dean Martin's off the show You know, that's something you kind of got a let a guy know in advance So how is everyone welcome back happy Tuesday Hello, hello Chris from comic tropes. It's always nice to see you here Very very good YouTube show a great YouTube show Hello that the killer weezer and my quest and jump in general and Jeffrey ball and mcdj acdc and Michael Mitchell and Big gay Dave and the killer weezer again and Terrence and Lester and Rob and Brady and Sparkster hey sparkster. How you stop it? I'm sorry. I'm not telling sparkster to stop it. I'm the cat is trying to get my my water Sparkster says just watch one of Dean's old roasts the other night So if you haven't seen those those are really funny. Those are really funny and Don Rickles was was often a guest on those he killed Don Rickles hilarious Anyway So here we are Terrence says, I hope JLS comics is here Yes, JLS. I don't know if JLS comics will be here, but he often is and I like I like that guy's show as well Hello, Anthony Romo. I Thought you were a fine quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, you know, you did a good job. You did your best Hello Andre so Yeah, so yeah that Apparently Dean Martin Was from an earlier generation look I don't Time is relative. Time is relative. Hello, Johnny. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here. Hey, it's toy connections. Merry Christmas Hello, Gray Fox And oh, thank you comic tropes for the super chat thoughts on cobra claws is coming to town thoughts on cobra claws is coming to town if Cobra has shrinking technology They don't need to use that to To defeat GI Joe they could take over the world just with that You know that I feel like that's one of those schemes that if they had just come up with a better plan They could have probably achieved world domination So yes, hello Christian bricks. Hello Denmark from the United States from Oklahoma. How do you do? Oh, it's 3 a.m. There Thank you very much for for your commitment and your dedication. I had to start a little bit early I had to start a little bit early this evening Because I had other stuff I had to take care of so in fact I barely made it I barely made it, but I did make it. Hello Evan. Nice to see you I'm wearing as you can see. I'm I'm cosplaying a Christmas tree And the cat the cat is very very upset That he can't he can't play with the garland. In fact, he's pretty mad. He's steamed We may see him later. He's yeah, I hear him up over there Hello the figure six pack Merry Christmas. Hello, bloody card. Hello to you. How do you do? Hello, DJ? So in the spirit of Christmas, I do have stuff to open I I did make it to the PO box. I made it for once and so I have stuff hang on I'll show you. I'll show you. I got I got these I got these from the PO box and we will open those on this show So yeah, here comes the cat Hi, buddy, this is it's actually really not very easy to keep to keep on Normally I use this for my in for my holiday striptease But we're not doing that tonight. It's a family show Hello, Roberto Carvajal. Nice to see you. Thank you very much for being here. Hello, Nuevo Laredo Tamalopas from the United States. Thank you very much for being here. Hello the photo viper Hello, white Vegeta. Thanks everybody for being here. It's really nice to see everyone. Hello, Jerry Who's ready for the sky striker? Jerry brings up something that I was going to bring up In this show as well. Hello, Gussie. Thank you for being here Hello, Nester. How do you do? yes Apparently all of you got the same email that I got and that is the sky striker The Haslab sky striker will be ready to ship Next month Hello treasures for trigger. Hello, Japan from the United States. Thank you very much for being here. Hello rat face I hopefully everybody's doing well Yes, the killer weasel got his email today. So yes, apparently apparently Apparently the Haslab sky striker is It's gonna ship here in just a few weeks maybe within about a month Which is great because I've been looking forward to it now. We had already We had already got the The word that the the sky striker had shipped from the factory to the United States But now we're getting the notice that they're about to ship to the individuals now I don't know exactly how I feel about the sky striker I mean, I don't know yet because I don't have it yet. I will see we'll see But I am excited to get it Because I've been waiting a long time for it and at this point it's like It almost doesn't matter like how good or bad it is I'm just gonna be happy to get it. That is the key I think I've just discovered the key to business success is To wait a really long time Before delivering, you know, what what you've sold to somebody So that you know, even if it's lackluster even if it isn't, you know, the best ever They'll be glad just to get it. That's it. That's it. So Hire me as your CEO corporate America. Hey, Green Yeti. Nice to see you haven't seen you for a while Hello raisiner nice to see you. Yes. Yeah, Mary Jomas How is everyone so far everyone is all right, I've got I'm cosplaying a Christmas tree here now I'm I'm no Joe Colton cosplay. I'm no Mary mercenary, but this is the best Christmas tree. I could do I Couldn't find a star to put on the top of my head Nice idea nice idea comic trope so those would be very expensive roller skates But I know I do want to get it I want to get it and I want to put it side-by-side with the vintage sky striker and see how it is. Hello, Doom hugger Nice to see you. Thank you very much for being here So Like I said, we've got stuff to open. I've got the stuff from the P. O. Box Which I just showed you a moment ago right here So we will we will Go through that Greeny says I turn 18 in two weeks. How did the tie? But you were just you're just like this this big When started watching the channel with three. Yes, you were 13 and now you're almost an adult. That's crazy That's crazy. Well, I'm happy early birthday and and it's awesome that you're still here It's nice to see you. It was nice to that we actually met in person So that was actually cool too, but it's nice to see you here and happy Happy early birthday to you Daniel here is calling you a ho ho ho, but I don't think you're a ho ho ho I don't know what what the person purposes for that insult. I'm just saying happy birthday Not calling anybody a ho ho ho Now if you if you happen to have a machine gun Then I think that's worth a ho ho ho but anyway, I don't know you like I Was pretty I was pretty proud of this my my opening gag It's hoodie Coco the hoodie Coco is here Anyway, so yes, yes so So this is the the Christmas special. Oh, thank you Joe fan 84 for the super chat Shout out to us Joe fan and Devin stuck closing tonight. Oh Goodness gracious still able to watch you though But may the force be with you. I hope the the closing goes well I know how that feels I do I do But thank you very much for being here and thank you for the super chat So yes, I have stuff to open. It's always best when I have stuff to open on the live show because It there's less of a chance that I'll go off on some weird tangent. Oh by the way By the way, okay. No, I think it time out time out hold all discussion. I just remembered something You remember last week when we were talking about We were saying that Hasbro needs to release GI Joe classified series figures with realistic smells You remember and then we speculated about what those smells might be For figures such as a skid mark or backblast Thank you for the super chat comic tropes any memories of getting GI Joe for Christmas a little bit. Yes But let me let me complete my thought here because after the show I thought of the perfect name for the GI Joe figures With realistic aromas realistic smells That would be the smell fee series Hasbro give us the smell fee series Action figures with real smells Thank you very much Hasbro You know how to contact me if you want to hire me for marketing and promotion Hello, Randy biker. Nice to see you Um We'll get to deliver to yeah, I hopefully hopefully so renegade biker. Hopefully me too so let's uh And a green yeti managed to get a classified sergeant slaughter for 30 bucks at a toy show That's not bad. I opened the sergeant slaughter on this show. In fact, it's a pretty cool character. Hello Sergeant Curtis Schultz of hello Detroit from the United States. Thank you, Rob Vegas for the super chat Shout out loud to Phil and Zazz and the gang for the awesome stream of thon over the weekend. That is referring I to Zazel Zazel does a show Sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse. I have been on that show. Make sure you check out that show That's a really great show as well and Rob Rob Vegas also has a YouTube channel Make sure you check out Rob Rob's YouTube channel as well. See the smell fee series see Smelfie series That's that's what it is. That's that's what you call it I know I do want to give back to Chris's super chat question memories of getting gi Joe for Christmas one specifically jumps out to mine and that would have been I guess 1983 When I got the the the headquarters command center It was a big gift that was like a big GI Joe gift for Christmas and I think it stands out because it was so big and I got a Lot of use out of that thing And the thing the same thing happened to it that happens to most of them like little pegs broke off and you know pieces went missing But but yes, yes that I do remember getting the 1983 headquarters As for for Christmas that was that was that was a memorable a Memorable gift that's that's the GI Joe Christmas that most jumps out into my mind Yeah See, yes, you're exactly right Matt But I think there's precedent for this because there was that he-man action figure that with realistic stink You know the skunk guy, you know stink or the skunk figure that actually smelled bad So there is precedent There is precedent, so we're not breaking new grounds there necessarily But not out not all of them have to smell bad, right? Not all of them have to smell bad He can have some of the smell good not not beach head because we know he doesn't wear deodorant Yeah beach head beach head should smell like BO, you know But you know just because not everybody will want in smelly action figures So you you put those under their own label. They're only their own Umbrella of the smell fee series You're welcome Hasbro. Give me a call Give me a call So yes Merry Christmas to everyone I am I am I am out of my mind Well, it might be a dumb gimmick, but it might just work it might sell You know because that really would add a fourth dimension To to the action figure to give it some real realism Have thought about sending Timmer a python patrol Officer aka banana man That's it not that's not a bad idea. I thank you for bringing up Timmer Half the battle. This is Tuesday. That means there's a new episode of half the battle in this case It's a compilation. He did a compilation of his winter is coming episodes The Timmer took a week off Because he had some stuff, you know go on and needed a break and he posted about that on on Twitter So my condolences to to Timmer and hopefully you feel better soon Sorry that you had those experiences. It's it's always Understandable if you need time off and that's that's always okay But I just you know, I hope you're doing well Timmer And I hope that you are able to get back into the the holiday spirit so thanks for mentioning Timmer because I want to make sure to To let everybody know to to catch half the battle on Tuesdays I guess I should let everybody know to catch what's on Joe mind on Fridays I was actually able to make it to a live what's on Joe mind episode And I was actually in the live chat a bit On Friday, so that was nice I've been missing those episodes and I finally made it to one and hopefully I can make it to the next one too because I really like those guys and I like their show So yes so Some ideas before we go into like I said, I do have I do have the the the post office Stuff to open and I will oh come on. Thank you for the super chat comic tropes. Do you have? All of your outstanding gi Joe orders good question. I have everything Let's see Except well, I mean the sky strikers coming the has lab his tank is not ready yet And I don't I did order, but I don't have serpent or Because I did not get into the I didn't get the first Offering of serpent or I had to get them on the second time around because they were they sold out really fast on Serpent or so so the answer is no not yet, but I have all of them that I'm expecting to get in the near future So we're we're caught up. We're caught up and and hopefully That sky striker will come soon and I've really got to get the HD camera out and and do a proper comparison of between The has lab sky striker and the vintage sky striker. I really want to see, you know, what did they improve? What did they not improve? You know, what's what are the differences? I really I really want to do that That's that's really the main reason why I ordered it is because I wanted to see how it would stack up to To the vintage one raising or got his serpent or that's great. That's great And I know some other people have got serpent or I haven't because like I said, I ordered late. So, you know, I was expecting to get mine later So that's okay. That's okay. It's they sold out before I was able to jump on board the first time but But anyway, so yes So I guess the answer is I haven't gotten all of The things that I've ordered From Hasbro Pulse, but I've got all the things that I was expecting to get by now Can now says greetings from sand springs greetings sand springs from the United States. You're not very far from me Not very far at all. That's that that's just the stones throw away Hello pains toy samples. Nice to see you. How do you do there? Nice? Thank you very much for joining Did I is there anybody you snuck in that I didn't say hello to hello to everyone? In case in case you snuck in Ratface has a review of serpent or that's awesome. So make sure you check out ratface's channel for his review of serpent or I I'm looking forward to it. I really that's another one that I'd like to see of course that one's a deluxe Figure comes with a small vehicle just like the vintage figure But I'm very very curious about it. I'm very curious about it. So But like I said, I I wasn't expecting to have it by now Because I was late ordering it. So so I know a lot of people already have it, but you know, I I'm still waiting Yeah, I mean Zen Think about what the think about what the dread knocks would think about the smell fee series with the dread knocks Think about that, you know, think about what aromas. I mean how you well I mean grape soda and chocolate covered donuts, right? Hello, Bill. Nice to see you. Happy holidays. Thank you very much for being here Okay, I guess at about 8 30 my time, which is in about 10 minutes I will I'll go ahead and open The the boxes that I got in the PO box. That'll be our our Christmas gift Opening and unboxing. This is really a pain in the butt This this seemed like a much better idea than it actually was and the cat is is he's right here just staring at me Just just staring at that the shiny things hanging from my neck and shoulders Wishing he could get his claws on them anyway There's anywhere out there have a general or they don't want please send me One a general action vehicle you talk about like the general from like 1990 like the big vehicle. I don't have that. I don't have that yet That's actually one of the few large vehicles that I still need to acquire and I'm trying to hold out until I can find a complete one because There are lots of incomplete ones out there and they can They can they can be kind of pricey it had they have a lot of parts they have a lot of parts So So Trying to complete an incomplete one could be quite difficult Oh Running a biker asks about the packaging insert for a Zerana. I haven't seen it yet. I haven't seen it I saw I I cannot judge I can't I can't judge yet He says it has a Cobra logo instead of a dreadlocks logo. That is interesting though You would expect Zerana to have a dreadlocks logo. I mean wait, where's See Zartan here Yeah, see Zartan Zartan has the dreadlocks So you would expect his sister Zerana To also have the dreadlocks now Zerana in the comic book series at least Zerana did seem to work for Cobra in in maybe a more formal role But she was she was a dreadlock she rolled with the dreadlocks she hung out with the dreadlocks Ripcord was smell like fresh air. You know what you know what sent the ripcord Smelfie series figures should smell like ripcord should smell like candy apple That that's it. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here I should probably just shine sign off now. Hey, it's jealous JLS comics. Hello JLS comics Somebody was just mentioning that they were hoping that you would be here because they like your show I like your show too. So so thank you. Thank you for being a board. Thank you for being here Um, so We got we got a few more minutes before I start opening I got three boxes here that I got in the the PO box Peanut butter Peanut butter so I think if you if you you know read the the old Marvel comics Ripcord smelling like candy apple, I think makes sense. I think I think I get it I think I think that makes some sense. You might get it So anyway, yeah, see see it's a one person gets it one person gets it So anyway This is gonna be great this is this is the Christmas extravaganza I did Book the blue man group For this show I did the blue man group was gonna come on the show and Perform for the Christmas extravaganza But the blue man group canceled canceled They all got sick over the weekend and they all turned green blue man group is green They had to cancel so So, yeah, that's that was but you can just imagine how the great that was gonna be, you know How great that was gonna be If they had been here, but blue man group had to cancel Because they're green That's it well for it's good thing for you bad a because they bad ape is afraid of them Yeah, they blew it They blew it so So So, yeah, they so a slightly less spectacular Christmas extravaganza So the cat is right over there, and I just know he's gonna head he's gonna like sneak up behind me Don't do it What are you doing? Hey, whatever you're doing cut it out. I don't I don't know what you're doing, but it's probably not good I don't know if you you noticed but he Used to hear a jingle he used to hear a bell He's not wearing the bell because he got his collar off So we gotta we gotta do something about that too because I really like this guy having a bell on him like keeping an eye on on The on the cat What will he give Alistair for Christmas? That's a what I think that we're gonna get Alistair for Christmas is a 10th life You know the cats they don't they don't want things. They don't need things. What's a cat actually gonna use? It's got nine lives So I think a tenth is maybe the most useful thing For me he collects them apparently But but anyway Razor that the now good Good question Good question Because we had booked manhain steamroller to be on the show We booked manhain steamroller to be on the show They cancelled out of steam just they ran out of steam Bad Abe, thank you very much for the super chat. Happy Hanukkah. Happy Hanukkah to you too and happy Hanukkah and holidays to everyone. Whatever you happen to celebrate This time of year and if you don't Celebrate anytime anything this time of year. What's what's wrong with you? I'm kidding. I'm okay It's just it's okay. You don't have to celebrate anything. Some people don't celebrate anything But but if you do Happen to celebrate anything. I hope it's a good whatever you celebrate But but thank you bad Abe. Happy Hanukkah and happy holidays to everyone So yes, yes It's actually not he's leaving me alone Alastair is leaving me alone right now Where's the weirdest store you ever got a GI Joe like a drugstore or flea market. Oh, let me think That's a that's a good question and I'm I'm not really sure I'll have to think about that one I'll have to think about that one Bad Abe celebrates both more gifts see that's genius that's smart that is smart. Yes Yes, the Festivus for the rest of us absolutely. So yeah, we will get to the airing of grievances that'll be in the The the the the third half of the show will get to the airing of grievances and then followed by the feats of strength Robbooked Grand Funk railroad, but the train got cancelled see like this So the show basically the show that this is the show guys look I tried to get all of the entertainment. I Tried to get all of the entertainment Dean Martin is dead Dean Martin dead Mary his miss X. Thank you, X. Glory. So that's a pretty good one that I like that Mary his smiths It would be a his smiths if we would get our his tanks Michael found iceberg at the bottom of a lake and the Titanic found iceberg in the middle of the ocean if you can imagine that Just kind of ran into it And I have feats of strength feats it well one of my feats of strength is lifting these These boxes it is about time To open these boxes that I got in the PO box So I guess we'll get started on that that'll let'll stop me from going off on yet another tangent So I got three boxes in the PO box. I Showed them to you earlier. One of them is really big So I won't be able to fit that one on the on the table But but I'm gonna start with this one and thank you to everyone. I will reiterate again You do not need to send anything to the PO box Especially now because I'm not making it to the PO box to check it very often So that is something that you absolutely can't hold off on I'm not really able to do the The like the regular monthly unboxing videos like I used to do I'd like to get back to that. I would like to get back to that But I'm just not able to do that right now. So just keep that in mind But these folks did send them say some things to the PO box and we will open that. Thank you. Thank you Michael I'm glad somebody appreciates them. I'm doing the best I can here. I'm doing the best I can so We're gonna start with this one this one. I believe I know who this is from but I've got I've got to open it It's this one and I did cut out the purse. I cut out the the addresses So I won't accidentally show anybody's address on you know live TV Thank You Josiah. Thank you Bad Ape says his wife wants an m60 for Christmas I would worry about that I Would worry about what she wants to do with it I Would worry that if I got my wife an m60 for Christmas, it might be my last Christmas I I would I would be a little bit concerned Okay, so let's this let's open this one. This has a little letter It is I I did know who it was but I wanted to check the letter first. This is from Diosauce Thank You Diosauce very much Diosauce has sent a number of things and it's much appreciated So it says Well, hold on I got to read it first to myself before I read it aloud Okay Okay, I thank you Diosauce. There's nothing too personal on this card But the card does spoil what's in the box, so I'm not gonna read it out loud I will show you what's in the box and I'm gonna as with all things that are written to me. I will I Will keep that I keep all correspondences I have in fact I have my big folder my big folder With my correspondences is getting quite full, but I keep Don't fall I keep all of The letters and cards and things that are sent to me. So now let's see what Diosauce sent I will hold on I have I have sharp object somewhere Yes, I did cut the boxes open, but I haven't looked inside so I don't know if there's anything that I need to cut In the box so we start with a Gijo item one that I did not have Uh It is a fun co-pop Duke So now I will be the envy of Diana Davis Diana Davis thinks she has a great Duke collection, but does she have fun co-pop Duke number 46? This is cool. I fun co-pops are fun part of the pun for what they are Oh with this some stuff in here. There's hi. Hey some buttons Hey, check these out Hey, I like these and then and then the GI Joe sticker. That's it's upside down Now this is nice These are cool. Look that we got Duke and Cobra Commander and Optimus Prime and Megatron. That's that's nice. That's really cool. I was just gonna pull out Pull out Duke fun co-pops are not Toys per se they're definitely not action figures. They're barely articulated. That's not really their purpose, you know They basically, you know, you just they're for putting on your desk at the office And you know just like showing off your fandom a little bit. I know some folks collect them And yeah for what they are they're fine They're they're meant to be you know cute One thing I like about this Duke is that he has he has his backpack So that's that's cool. Not not quite like the vintage backpack, but he has a backpack. That's kind of nice He's got his Got his pistol there. Nice. That's so that's cool. That's cool So thank you for that. Let's see. Let's see what else we got. I'm gonna put this back in the box So I don't lose it For me, I'm trying to not do this directly in front of the microphone So you get a bunch of loud plastic creaking Okay, so next thing we got okay. We got some transformer stuff We've got we've got a pink one a very very masculine pink Transformer I have no idea what it transforms into this looks like some kind of dinosaur tail doesn't it? Looks like a dinosaur or something or other So, yes, like so this this is A transformer that is secure in his masculinity You know, he's he's a robot, you know, he just doesn't really have a gender but you know it We tend to refer to them as he anyway, so So, so there's that there's this one and and And Okay, the continuing along Name the pink transformer. I Just thought of a name right off the top of my head that I cannot say on a family show. That's I'm gonna just keep my big fat mouth shut. I'm gonna get demonetized So and then next is Skeletor and this is from the The modern he-man figures the ones with the nice articulation. He's got some elbows He's got some knees And and not a bad Skeletor face Now now speaking of which now you may think hey, this is not Christmassy but Did you know there was a he-man Christmas special? Have you seen that he-man Christmas special? You should see the he-man Christmas special. It's hilarious It is one of the funniest things and pep-to-bismal. That's that's good. That's I like it So yes, but and so, you know the co-starring Skeletor here So that this is festive. This is festive. I'll put this back. I'm trying to not lose things So I'm trying to put things away as I go. What do we got here? All right, this is interesting. Let's see. This is the last thing in the box and It is Oh, hey, I know what exactly what this is. Yeah It is a Nekka Gremlins and this would let's see Wow, it's got like multiple faces. That's cool. Yeah, check this out Now that's that's really cool Little Mogwai there and like you can put as different expressions on his face It is it's a little bit horrific to rip off the face of a gremlin but but gremlins were that the movie was kind of a Christmas horror movie. Oh, hello, Mary Ann. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you very much for joining I just got a gremlin So yes, it's it is gizmo. It's not one of the the mutated ones He comes with some various Christmas what nots and I I worry But so I'm not supposed to feed him after midnight, but I and I assume that's midnight here But like what if the the gremlin doesn't know time zones What what if he what if he's like he just crossed time zones and he's got you know jet lag And does that count? I don't know. I'm not really sure what the rules are there, but also there are these I guess these are yeah, these look like stickers, but some Some Christmas stickers. So thank you dial sauce for this. That's really awesome. Thank you very much, sir Hey, it's sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse. How do you do? We were just? Just talking about you earlier. We said lots of nasty things We spread lots of rumors Destroying your reputation. I'm not really not really we said nice things But But but hi Yeah, Mary Ann is late to the party. Fortunately, you know, everybody who's late, you know has to bring snacks for everyone Hopefully you brought you brought some snacks for everyone, right? So in it just just you distribute the snacks and I'm gonna move on to the next package. So this is this is number two Um Hello, Park Boilin. Nice to see you. Thank you very much So this is is package number two from Brandon Knight It has a it has a website on it. Thank you Brandon Brandon has been a long time friend of the show. So why is this doing this wire wire? Why is the? Live chat having blanks in it. That's weird, huh? I Have no idea why it's doing that. I'm not doing that. It's it's that's the that's computers that that's like Internet is doing that. Hey, it's peg warmers. Yes, it's very festive here peg warmers I'm opening. I'm opening packages that I got at the PO box And this one is from Brandon Brandon longtime friend of the show. Thank you so much Brandon I appreciate your support. Hello Joker and Sean Beckett So let me open this And there is oh, there's a card Let's see There's an adorable puppy All right, let me I'm gonna read this To myself to see if it's something that's safe to read aloud Okay, this is okay, this is okay, I think I can read this aloud because I Have I have not tried turning it back Hey, Alistair go turn the internet on and off and back on again. See if that helps Yeah, let me let me try refreshing because that is pretty weird the cat just like ran into something Let's see. All right. Hang on everybody. I'm gonna refresh this and see if it helps Well, I will we shall see we shall see okay anyway, so Brandon writes dear HCC 788 that's that's me How are you doing? I'm fine. Thank you for asking You're maybe wondering what's in the box. What's in the box? What's in the box? Well something to show you that gi Joe is not dead yet. Hope you enjoy them and do a review on them Okay, very interesting. I'm doing good at work and making good money. That's awesome So if I save enough money, I will finally come out to Joe Fest It will be great to meet you and the gi Joe community keep up the good work. Always remember g gi Joe is gi Joe You're a Joe pal Brandon night. So thank you Brandon Congratulations on the job And thank you for being such a longtime friend of the show. It's very much appreciated. Hello draws Nice to see you. Thanks for being here. Merry Christmas. I Draw draws missed my opening show. Hold on this. This was my opening joke. This is how I opened the show It's hoodie Coco I'm hoodie Coco That's the best joke I've ever done anyway, so so I'm gonna open the the box from Brandon I see what it is and He is right. He is right gi Joe is not dead now. Some of you will be from familiar with this We have the classified retro Walmart figures Walmart exclusive. We have Lady J and We have the Baroness and an industry. I have not done an Actual full review on these and I do need to because there are some significant differences between the standard issue and these Releases I do think I Do think that this Baroness figure is a really good figure. This is a very nice rendition of the Baroness It probably does not top not probably I don't think it does top the The original target exclusive the one that came with the motorcycle But nonetheless, it's still really good. So so thank you very much for this Brandon And thank you for being a friend of the show. I'm going to set this set this aside Draws may make a mocha may make a make his own hoodie Coco So and I know as with the other card, I will keep this card with my correspondences. Thank you very much that leaves that leaves one Really big box to open And I have no idea what it's in. This is from Corey according to the label. This is this is the size of the box It's too big to fit on the table Set it right there Okay, so let's see Let's see what we got. Let's see See what Santa brought us Okay, well, this is interesting plastic pillows Perfect. This is great. I can sleep on them You know, I can I can use them to like cushion my back, you know on my chair That's that's awesome. Thank you. Thank you very much Oh We have a letter as with the others. I will read this to myself very quickly Just to make sure that there's nothing too personal in here that I can't read Allowed, so let's let's read this real quick uh-huh uh-huh Okay, so Chef Corey is who sent it. Thank you chef Corey And I will I will this is okay. There's nothing too personal in here So I will read this aloud. It says dear HCC 788. That's me. I Hope this packet package finds you well. It did find me quite well It had no problem finding me at all Um, I have had the pleasure of hunting down and repairing some classic GI Joe items Unfortunately, I do not have a home for them. Hopefully You can or know someone who can give them a good home best wishes chef Corey 2000 ps keep up the great work Thank you very much chef Corey Thank you very much for that and I will keep this Keep this letter with my other letters. Thank you. So let's let's see what's in the box In addition to these wonderful This wonderful plant, you know, this is almost worth it all by itself here right now Um, yeah, there was going to be a retro crimson guard That'll be great for army building. It'll give you a little bit of variation On the crimson guard. That's that'll be a good one. Okay. So what do we got here? What do we got? A couple things that I kind of recognize. Let's see um Let's see right off the bat We have A lunch box and this looks to be about a 1986 lunch box and it feels like It may have the thermos in here. Oh my goodness. It doesn't have the thermos in here. It has a vamp Really nice vamp as well. Um and Uh with the It can I love the vamp. I love the vamp. Hey, it has the steering wheel as the It has a steering wheel. That's that's often missing. That's awesome. So that's a really great start right off of that Thank you, Cory. I was expecting to find a thermos in there and I found a vamp. That's awesome And then we have uh, oh interesting. Okay, check this out That's you know, who this is we talked about him just a few weeks ago uh It's dr. Meinbender. It's very very limited articulation dr. Meinbender Um here. He's he's not shirtless. He's he's wearing a lab coat And let's see we've got oh, no, no, no, no, I dropped an accessory. Um Uh, we've got this guy and I and I admit this I don't know the name of this guy I believe this is from the new sculpt era. Um, it's something like a A hybrid kind of in between The the vintage and like the fully modern construction Um, I have a few of these figures, but not a lot of this is this era. This is a little bit of a uh A blind spot in my collecting. I don't know a lot about this era of figures, but There is one of my favorite characters here's a stalker who appears to be from The same era at least he has the same construction And in the backpack that fell off, but there you go. There's stalker and then finally we have Now here's a classic It's sergeant savage Not sergeant slaughter. Oh, no It's sergeant savage and this is great because this I mean these guys are basically this the same size as the vintage figures But you can see how much bigger the sergeant savage figures were From the vintage figures. So that's awesome. So that that was in the lunchbox. I cannot wait to see what we got next Thank you, Cory. Thank you very much and thank you all for being here and and uh Joining me for this christmas extravaganza This christmas extravaganza Um, I I had several acts acts booked, you know um Yeah, I actually I had mariah carry booked for the show mariah carry booked to sing on this the christmas extravaganza cancelled Cancelled actually I cancelled that one as soon as I realized that mariah carry was booked. I was like no way Absolutely not Get her off the off the schedule Don't really don't even let her get on the plane Yeah, it's me to the araya may carry arike Is what I said So it's it's a kind of a stripped down You know show Uh, john. Hello, john carling the the great artist john carling happy festivist to you as well I'm wearing my festivist reef um I'm cosplaying a christmas tree here Thank you very much for joining and and for those who um Who are coming in late? I am opening the boxes that I received from the po box So it's sort of like christmas sort of Sort of like christmas a little bit So, um Uh, this is and this stuff is from quarry. So I'm going to the next favorite christmas song You know, um, I was asked this recently And I don't know that I have a favorite christmas song But I do have Uh, a favorite christmas movie My favorite christmas movie is earnest saves christmas Best christmas movie a great movie santa claus great one. That's that's a great movie. Okay, so i'm moving on I've got more stuff to open from from quarry. So there's this box within a box So let's see what we got here Uh, let's see. We've got more of these plastic pillows very well packed very well packed Nicely done. Oh, I see one thing I recognize one thing here Uh, okay Okay, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I see this. All right. I recognize something We have a pulverizer A pulverizer Pulverizer was always I was always amused because at the back it has the sticker that says dead eye But that's that's like that's not the name of the vehicle It doesn't have like its own vehicle name and um, I believe this one was designed by guy casady I think this was a guy casady vehicle um If I right. Yeah. Yeah, because he's he snuck his name into it. You see you see the uh You see the the casady Yeah, so guy casady Um designed this vehicle and he snuck his name onto one of the stickers. So that's Clever very sneaky um and it includes Um the missiles That's something that's often missing on the pulverizer not many other things are usually missing on the pulverizer Um, yeah a tank without threads. It's got what it doesn't have threads. It has wheels But the wheels have like like suspension. They're like the wheels are are articulated. Check that out Um, and then also included is backstop with accessories Now that is that is lovely and I have not reviewed The pulverizer and backstop yet. So that is actually really helpful. The cat is already in the box The cat is already occupying the box that I'm trying to empty right now And show you guys so um, oh wait, hold on a second here. There was something else in the Yeah, there's there's this yellow ladder that goes to something else I didn't want to leave that in there. I didn't want to forget it. Um, I'm trying to put these in a There is no safe place from the cat And now now he's got his he's playing with the garland. You can play with it as long as you don't Rip it off of me. That's that would be uncomfortable. Okay. So next box within a box from kori This actually has an address on it. So i'm trying to try to be careful not to show it on On camera. Oh, check this out Well, yeah Uh, ha ha ha this is cool. Uh, this is one that you should know pretty well It's our old favorite the fang helicopter I'm a big fan of the fang Love it one of my favorite helicopter designs and it comes with Uh, the infamous That's right infamous missiles the the missiles That are so hard to keep on this thing These crazy things, uh, this is a classic This is a classic So that that's that's beautiful. That's gorgeous Uh, so thank you for that kori. This is lovely Uh, awesome. Awesome. Um, I definitely do not want the cat to mess with this. Don't mess with it All these are going in a safe place by the way. I'm I'm gonna Watch out for them. Uh, that brings us to Two vehicles from the 1990s. Check this out. You'll like that. You'll like this. You ready You're ready. Okay. One of these I've already looked at but it's it's uh, it's a fun. It's a fun one it's the Oh, what was this called the the battle bunker? Check this out. This is It's got the the pop out missile rack Yeah, this this is one that had it had a little bit of a Uh An appearance in the comic book Um, it's a very fascinating vehicle tons of detail on it Lots to do with it lots of places to put figures. It does have the rather infamous 90s Clips the the seat clips Those it was it was a nice idea to try to use something other than back pegs to keep figures in vehicles but Uh, but but they're they're rather infamous now Um, yes. Yes, w w jd 85 allister has shown up and he's going to leave these things alone Come on, dude. In fact, he's right here There he is Hi How you doing? Look, they're right there. Can you see them? Can you see yourself? You're not even looking. Hey anyway, so yeah, there he is There's all this stuff around so that brings us to the last thing the last thing in the box and And now I'm being attacked by the cat because I'm wearing a garland around my Person and okay the last thing Uh, you should yeah, you should like this this one am I Hold on. Hold on. Let me make sure that I'm Doing this right so this Let's see Oh, I'll just show you here it is This is the last thing in the box and I was trying to remember how it worked Because there is a way to Unfold this am I going to remember how? Yeah, because all right this um Welcome to ford america So it's a tank It's also sort of transforms into And I don't know it's it's got like a this battle Damaged wall with like blast points is really nicely detailed This is something that I've got a lot of requests To review and I didn't I don't have a complete one. In fact, I don't know if this is complete But if it is That means I can review it So here's a here's canon and this this ladder I believe goes with it. I'm just not sure Where it hooks on but uh, but yeah, so it's uh, it's a tank and it unfolds into like a A brick wall It trans it's a transformer You know, you think you think hey, this is just some regular brick wall, right? You know Nothing to be worried about there Oh, what what should I be scared of a brick wall and then the brick wall? transforms into A tank Yeah How about that? So that that is awesome. Thank you very much. Cory. I'm going to protect these things from the cat I've got to protect them for myself first um But anyway, so that that's everything that's everything. Thank you to everyone Thank you to everyone who's been here. Thank you to everyone who sent stuff to the po box Thank you to everyone who's stuck with me through the show Um, I will say a couple of things on a more personal note um, I maybe And probably will be returning to Doing reviews full time as you know, my my main activity so Hopefully that means you get some full reviews in the near future For those of you who have stuck with me on a patreon. It's very much appreciated That is something that uh, that will be a great benefit in the future and and I greatly appreciate your Your continued support, but thank you to everyone Uh, you know forward america is almost a joe sized mast hoy. Yeah, kind of yeah, you could yeah, you could look at it that way Uh, I thank you peg warmers, uh for reminding everybody to hit the like button But it is time It is time to wrap up. It's kind of late here and it's been a really Really long day for me. So I am ready to be cool. Did I say hello to peter? I'm hello peter ang nice to see you. Thank you very much for being here now that I'm leaving I say hello Will allister be in the reviews. I might as well put him in the reviews. He's he's more popular than me Oh, thank you comic tropes for the super chat. Um to full time Well with that super chat, I will be able to do it. Yes Thank you. Um, but uh, uh, uh, but do check out comic tropes and peg warmers and uh, jls comics and sparkster and rat face and all the other guys who have Shows That are in the live chat right now Because we want to support our gi joe community and the guys who are out there creating things I didn't I don't know that I said, uh, hello to andrew. Hello, andrew andrew the guy's so nice They named him twice. Well, good night Now that I've said hello, I'll say goodbye like that beatle song um But uh, but anyway, thank you everyone. I am gonna wrap it up. We'll be back next week. Let's see. What let me what is Let's see next uh, Tuesday is the That's oh, wow Um, no next Tuesday is the 17th and after that is is now that's january. What am I doing? Um looking at the wrong month is what I was doing. Okay next tuesday is the 20th So we do have one more tuesday before christmas. Oh, thank you the killer. We are for the cat. He will appreciate that And I'll I'll write him a check He'll he'll uh, thank you from the from the the cat Uh, but anyway, thank you all Uh, I will stay good night and I will see you all next week. See you later everybody. Good night