GI Joburg Reviews EVERY Blue Cobra!
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2019
- It's Cobra Convergence VI. The theme this year is "COBRA BLUE", why settle for one blue Cobra review when you can review ALL OF THEM?!
Rob and Steve discuss a formidable list of blue figures and vehicles from the classic GI Joe run and determine which toys rise to the top of the pile and why.
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Love that Range Viper 👍
Appreciate the Range-Viper love. You glossed over the mortar launcher, but this was a pretty unique “flick” launcher, much more subtle than the spring-loaded excess of future lines. Great reviews and great video. C.O.B.R.A.
I glossed the launcher mainly because I lost the projectile and have made do with an off-brand flashlight ever since! Plus it doesn’t work as a finger-flick missile. Woe is me. Range Viper has a pretty lengthy history in my collection and many a drama. Left my initial one riding the subway in London back in ‘93. Would a complete FF missile launcher have pushed Range Viper into the mythical number one spot? We may never know... man needs a machine gun and a third arm to carry it dammit. Too much cool gear.
Range Vipers grenade gun is cool
3x watching tis (like a lot of GIJB episodes) .. get the same feeling of “ man I wish I could hang out with these guys” ... I’ve been lucky to call upon them as friends.. While it’s awesome to see sooo many new people join... there is something special when the OGs put something out. Another home Run gentlemen and I think a much needed after all the amazing work in Blazing Sands...( which I think deserves BEST UA-cam series of year award - If such a thing exists)
Also I piggy backed.. you showcased the 92 CC.. but I loved the 93 and featured that as my underrated CC figure
Yep, that all black CC is a stunner. And I can recall it’s use in the comicbooks I think; and the good ol artist trick of adding blue lo-lights to a black outfit to give it texture. So in that sense at least, it fit the mandate. Now I just need to track that figure down!
And thanks for commenting on the informality of the vid. It was absolutely Rob and my intention to make this a callback to all the Sunday mornings spent sitting on the carpet, surrounded by toys and playing out little scenarios as we psyched ourselves up for a game.
The Cobra Viper still remains my favorite. That design and color deco just stands out a lot.
All of my vintage figures have that nice rust accent on the leg screws. It goes very nicely with the "Cobra Blue". Your real world photography is very refreshing, I'm sure you've never heard that. Cobra has pulled off blue and black better than anyone in fashion history.
Excellent selection of figures and vehicles for this review. I dig the unique color schemes for the figures. The vehicles over time became very interactive with the missile launchers and etc.
The SMG that comes with the night landing zodiac looks like an M3 sub machine gun. U.S. weapon made in WW2 that replaced the Thomson. Very reliable, and cost effective. It served into the 70s.
Oh wow! Thanks for that. Yet another factor adding to the weirdness of this being a Cobra piece.
Awesome video. I dont know there were so many GI Joe figures out there with so many different variants. Thanks for showing.
This was very entertaining and fun to watch, I most definitely had a great time...🤘🏼💯✔
Very unique way of looking at the action figures. Nice job, gents.
The Cobra ATV, the Ferret... a favorite of mine as a child. Ranks right up there with the nearly 1oo% perfect Cobra Rattler.
I really should track one down then! Always so highly recommended.
Thanks guys!!! I needed a bit of fun today....
You are in our thoughts my friend. ❤️
The Viper really is SOOO GOOOD!
I agree. The Viper is dope as hell.
All the Cobra Commanders are a 10!, for real!
I used silver paint to highlight the puncture holes for my battle-damage paneling.ALL HAIL THE COBRA RATTLER! (which of course stands for; Rapid Assault Tactical Triple-engine Low-level ERadicator!)
Ha! Rob from GI Joburg used silver paint on his damage panels too! And that acronym is definitely up to Hasbro spec.
I liked this Convergence of yours quite well. GOD JOB GUYS! Although, I will say this Steve...as per your feelings with the twins? I feels the same regarding the Cobra Viper. I never really liked that figure at all. However, the color scheme was excellent. Me, Cobra Rattler, trooper and Officer in that order!
Nice one Marcus! Can’t go wrong with the classics; I’d go as far as to say just like Beatles vs Elvis you can like both the Viper and the Blueshirt... but you gotta love one just a little more than the other!
And the Twins never really had a defined function in my playtime. They were the commanders of a group that I had none of the figures of. And their very realistic function as financiers to Cobra was about as fun to a child as maths homework. I relegated them to Hammerhead drivers and managed to snap ALL of their kneeguards when pulling them out of the cockpits. Found a replacement set at a vintage store but still couldn’t find the love. Maybe one day I will...
Ooouuu yeah,the viper
Great Video guys. Love that early Cobra Blue. What's your take on the very first Viper of them all, Tele Viper?. Blue and Purple with a great helmet sculpt
I’ll be sure to give him a solid look over when I get one... I always passed him up as a child but I’m very close to rectifying that!
The cobra solider with silver emblem is a hang glider pilot
Surprisingly, yes! You need three or four to stop the legs from going limp at the waist, but you can get them cheap and they are more flexible then old o-rings which (at least in my case) become brittle or fall apart after a decade in an old box.
Actually the O-Ring in my Childhood Payload figure is still going strong after 30 years. I only had to replace the metal T-hook that the legs attached to.
Scrap Iron was always my favorite Cobra
Excelent review!
My son rebuilt half of my o-ring lacking joes with old LEGO rubber bands like a week ago.
I had no idea Lego had a brand of rubber bands! They a good substitute O-ring then?
@@gijoburg I confused a Lego rubber band for an o-ring a few times. They also make rubber tires for their vehicles.
@@gijoburg From the looks of it they could work.
Excellent work! I'd love to get your takes on the Detonator and Adder - neither of which are favorites of many, but which contributed to continue dark blue as a Cobra color in to the mid period.
My personal take? They’d be better in LEGO! I’m sure the necessary design tweaks are very apparent for both. The Adder needs driver protection and the Detonator needs to do away with foam missiles!
you guys Rock with your review well my favorite are Cobra vipers, ranger viper, cobra rattler and finally my favorite cobra commander metal face
This vid went down when we were at work
Sorry bout that! I guess it’s always office hours somewhere in the world!
I like the Nintendo music
Great video. You guys have a great collection. I would have to agree that Scrap Iron is underrated. He's actually one of my favorite characters next to Firefly. I imagine them being best friends. Did I mention I love G.I. Joe. I really hope the figures come back! I would be really sad if they don't. I've got a couple customs I'm considering contributing to HCC788 before this is all over.
I love the Vipers and Soldiers :) and the interrogator is an awesome looking trooper I have two of them
Two you say? Are they alternate outfits for Tomax and Xamot?! 😝
@@gijoburg they could very well be brother, do you have them in there business suits, I also have them in red, 8:00 in my video you will see them in there blue business suits, in one of my older video's. themua-cam.com/video/wehyLJqPF8c/v-deo.html
@@gijoburg I always forget Xmaot's name some times, lol in the video I said Tomax and Lomax, lol
Amazing video.
Other blue Cobra figures are:
Cobra Viper Pilot 1983
Baroness (Cobra Intelligence Officer) 1997 - my favorited versión.
Maybe Cobra Ninja Viper 1992.
Aha! Good picks! We also missed the Ferret and the Tele-Viper; alas we chose to only review the toys we had at the time!
Awesome sauce as always, Gents!
Excellent video!! The Retaliation Cobra Combat Ninja (man, how I hate that name) came with a spring loaded (I normally hated those, but this one is gorgeous and practical as a diorama piece or accessory) missile launcher in the same Asp blue and sporting the same fire asp logo on him. Just beautiful. I know you guys collect vintage stuff, but you should check that figure and any of the modern Scrap Iron. The helmet still molded in but the glasses do comes out to reveal his amazing scarred face!
Yes! We have that ASP weapon; loved all the callbacks when it came to those included pieces like CC’s heli pack and Stormy’s CLAW. I have one or two Modern Scrap Iron’s but I must have missed the ones with the removable goggles - sounds amazing, I shall look it up!
@@gijoburg I think I have all of them and I'm pretty sure they're all removable.
Holy shit! All this time and I never knew that! Now I wished I had my collection to hand, but as soon as I’m back home I shall look forward to testing this out!
@@gijoburg check those links below, it's faster:
www.yojoe.com/action/08/scrapiron6.shtml
www.yojoe.com/action/08/scrapiron5.shtml
www.yojoe.com/action/09/scrapiron8.shtml
@@gijoburg it seems that the v7 (the one piloting the Snake Trax ATV) doesn't have the goggles/visor removed on the yojoe.com but I'm pretty sure that I removed mine. I will check on my Facebook.
Great video, guys! But say, when did Quick Kick join the channel...??? xD (Wait, maybe Steve did that on purpose, to rib HCC over his review of the Shoeless Master...!)
Hehe! If I’m honest, the thought behind the presentation of this vid was very much a trip back to childhood, two buddies, sitting on the floor, surrounded by toys. But if the shoe fits... I never wear shoes indoors so Shoeless Master it is!
Interesting on the Cobra Rattler, I have to agree it is a 10 out of 10. While watching blood in the water, when wild weasel took off in the Rattler to eliminate major blood and recondo I noticed during takeoff how easily the Rattlers landing gear retracted. I was going to ask how you had your Rattler setup... Now I know.
True. I have a lot more experience with a later release - the Joe Thunderbolt release from 1997 and touch wood the landing gear on that function well and are unbroken after many years of regular play. Maybe the mold was corrected? My brushings with the 25th A release suggest that too.
@@gijoburg finally. A toy engineer who builds upon previous models then 👌🥂
I have to agree with Rob, the Hurricane deserves a 4 at the very best. The only thing that makes it desirable in my opinion is its overall look and Cobra pilot. You get the feeling of how Hasbro wanted to go so cheap to push this off on GI Joe fans, making it so much less than what it originally could have been. So Rob, I agree a four is generous.
Yowza! I’m uncovering all sorts of negative sentiment towards that plane! I always thought it was much loved!
@@gijoburg it could of been so much more. The cockpit had all those cool controls for the copilot but not even a sticker decal sheet for distinguish it and let's not talk about the terrible landing gear, yikes! I certainly had to have this as a child when I saw it but I remember the disappointment when it was assembled. It still blew the doors off of any aircraft I had for stealth and speed. The tinted cockpit cover was pretty cool. Was it just me or did the color of the pilot completely not got with the plane?
Great video! Just my opinion, but ‘Cobra blue’ is only the dark blue used throughout the original lineup of 80’s figures and vehicles. Any other shade of blue is just blue. And let’s be honest, you could have skipped all of the figures from the 90’s. That’s like watching the Titanic sink... 👍
We couldn’t ignore em! We were 90s kids! What would be your #1 figure and vehicle then?
The talking cobra commander did that have some of Chris Latta's iconic lines? And I wonder if they should get Mark Hamill to try voicing Cobra Commander?
Alas no! The sound chips were pretty rudimentary, so no recognizable voices. Legend has it they just recorded Hasbro staff members shouting words like “destroy” or “wipe-out” or “attack”. But with today’s chips and speakers you could probably have a library of classic sound bites!
@@gijoburg Which is funny since at the time these were released Chris Latta was still alive before his untimely passing in 94.
the Cobra rattler needs better landing gear that is the flaw part other wise it would be perfect, it is an awesome jet
Awesome review guys! It's funny as bad guys go, cobras one of the only if the only oh, that uses a lot of blue. Not normally a bad guy color but they pull it off!😎👍
The only one worth noting, shall we say!
GI Joburg yeah buddy! Have a great night!😎👍
Hehe, or afternoon! 12pm here in China!
GI Joburg China? I thought you were in South Africa LOL😎👍 are you building your own GI Joe manufacturing company? Because I'll buy them!😎👍
AWESOME dude's! & I would go with tha 🐍COBRA🐍 Trooper' ...🤘 jus sayin lol .
YES 8.5 tho lol ..
Favorite blue cobra, Zartan in sunlight.
Good call! Wished we had thought of that...
Great reviews guys. I give it a 10/10 Hooded Cobra Commanders. :{J
3 out of 4 dental vipers agree!
Coburg rises....
Tele Viper, ferret, cobra snake blue, motor Viper, Cobra surveillance checkpoint, Cobra adder?? As for the Joes with blue and your choice of Shockwave, the Cobra blue Joe's you should have just went with could have been Sonic blaster psyche-out, battle copter pilot Ace, battle corps Law or DEF Shockeave lol
Hey man, I only review what I got! 😝
@@gijoburg Just picking at you about your Shockwave pick lol your video, your picks brother. 👍🏽😁
Hi, that was some awesome stuff, but You forgot about the blue Baroness, Leila cobra agent , and female cobra troopers.
Kindly do an additional review on them too.
Go Joe's... Coobraaaa..hhhhhh forever,😀 loved the video
We’d love to oblige, but we don’t have those toys sadly!
I hope we can find them some day soon. That would be awesome
was the cobra viper the 25th aniversery one or not?
No, we only featured the classic 1982-1994 figures in this vid; and only the toys we personally own. Plenty of holes sadly, but what we have is totally awesome I’m sure you’d agree!
Original Cobra Commander & the Rattler.
Man,where's Robert's Collection?
The Hurricane is his, actually!
Retreat, Retreat
I heard they gonna make the figures now in 6 inch ,before the new movie snak eyes hit the theater in November 2020
You keen to give big Joes a chance, Cornelius?
Only 7 short hours to go
Booom!
All hail cobra
COBRAAAAA!!! 🐍
Hooded. Always
Vapor resembles a Cyberman from the Dr Who series.
The cobras seems to prefer the color blue, is there a reason? I never seem to see any youtuber discuss this.(English is not my native tongue)
I don’t mind translating my response, what is your mother tongue? I think the green versus blue was an important visual cue to set the good guys apart from the bad. Joe got practical military colours that worked for camouflage and realistic military equipment. Greens, tans, browns and grays. Cobra was futuristic and had all the passionate colours like red, blue, purple, black and bone-white. Thanks to such stark contrast, there will never be any doubt as to which faction a toy belongs to.
Of course there were always one or two exceptions like a good guy who dressed in black or Cobra mountaineer who liked tan!
Thanks so much for replying, i also think that way especially their main medium is tv and comics, they must diffrentiate the good and bad guys, thanks again for replying and taking ur time sir.Have a nice day.
The only downside to this is the lack of Eel from 1992 (which isn't even the best figure, but still). Nice video overall still.
And do you think you guys could review the Equalizer someday?
I can't believe we missed him! He's totally behind where I'm sitting in the vid, and he was one of Rob's childhood figs! Fortunately FormBX257 reviewed him the very next day to make up for our goof. And since Robbie has the Equalizer back in Cape Town with him, I'll see if I can twist his arm to fire off a review!
No blue SNAKE?? No Ferret?? Sad panda...
No Tele-Viper?!? Damn! Holes in our collection clearly. But we are working on it 😝
You are missing the Ninja Viper
True! Though is he not a little closer to teal?
There a ninja viper?
the 4 black details on Scrap-Iron's left thigh are stakes to secure the rocket launcher to the ground
Bloody genius! I’m totally gonna shock the Joe world with that insight every time I get the chance! Cheers!
GI Joburg thank you, love your series btw. It’s the “closest thing we’ll ever see that’s like a new SunBow episode”..,
(Is what I tell people when I’m trying to get them to actually sit through and pay attention to an episode!)
Thanks Aaron. That is the very best kind of support we can ask for. I don’t care about views or subs; I just care that this stuff reaches the kind of audience who would appreciate it. To keep Joe vital and alive as an ongoing narrative and not just stuff to collect and place on a shelf. Thanks for spreading the word!
GI Joe has the best community out of all the different fandoms out there keeping it alive, like SW fans were in the 90s. I really think the SW fans are going to really start dropping out en masse for various reasons in the next couple of years and just like in the 1980s, GI Joe is going to appear to “fill that void” with something fresh and fan driven/demanded. Just think of the different types of media that it could find it’s way into. People that don’t even collect physical toys, etc would go nuts for all the GI Joe/Cobra “skins” that could be available in video games.. I can think of so many things. They say “history repeats itself”. Let’s hope it happens.
Yo Joburg!
Are you telling me in this episode you have to go...Into the Blue? :{J
😝
No televipers?
They’d be in there if I owned any at the time! I give em a 6 out of 10. Bit plain jane for a Cobra and unlikely to be anyone’s favourite; but a useful support troop nonetheless!
I like blue
Can't believe it has been almost been 3 years since this post... 💔 😢 😳 😔 😪
Only 4 short hours to go
45 minutes!
Silver
No HISS2? Blasphemy!!!
Crap! We need a do-over! Plus we now have a Tele-Viper… wonder what rating he should get?!
Loved it! But the Night Landing is a 10/10 for me, and Rob please cut your fingernails ;)
But what about his side career as a Spanish guitar player?! Heheheh...
@@gijoburg Now it all makes sense
Giving the video 6 of 10. Would have been a solid 9, but the lack of shoes or socks dropped the score.
😝