80s Kids Unite Episode 4: G.I. Joe Action Figures

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In 2023, a crack commando unit of retro podcasters joined forces on a panel at L.A. Comic-Con ORG, but were sent to Comic-Con EVENT jail for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped. Today, still wanted by 80s nerds, they are very easy to find. If you have an 80s nostalgia problem, if no one else can help, maybe you can hire the night boys. I'm gonnae. It is kids unite

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He'll fight for freedom wherever there's trouble

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G.I. Joe is there.

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It's here the G.I. Joe collection. Infantry trooper.

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Codename grunt.

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Pizuka PRODUCT soldier. Codename. Motor soldier. Code name short fuse. Laser rifle trooper. Code name flash. Ranger.Cod name. Stalker. Communication officer. Code name rock and roll. Counterintelligence. Code name Scarlet PERSON.Commando. Code name Snake Eyes PRODUCT. Each sold separately. Yi Joe from Hasbro ORG.

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What's up everybody? Welcome to this what's episode of 80s Kids Unite ORG. I am one quarter. We only have four people here today. We have no Paul London PERSON as of now, but he may show up later. But I am Corey, aka Sleazy C PERSON, from podcasting after Dark. I'm joined with me as always are Zach, the Total Snackage Schaefer PERSON,

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Dallo, the Armageddon Jackson, and Jackson and Dustin I don't have a nickname for you I do I do I do it's clutch oh yes Dustin it just goes clutch Rubin PERSON and I think I think

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Corey PERSON I think Corey your new nickname should just be sigil

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my nickname never mind we want to try to keep this maybe a kid friendly Corey PERSON, I think, Corey, your new nickname should just be sigil.

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My nickname, never mind.

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We want to try to keep this maybe kid friendly, but we'll go past that.

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Wait, wait, but Corey, Cori, Diallo PERSON's going to be, I'm going to call Diallo tepache.

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I have no idea with that. Oh, I'm a called Gallo Warp Drive. Lucky Strike PRODUCT.

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Guys and gals on this episode of 80s Kids Unite, we are going to be discussing our favorite and least favorite G.I. Joe and Cobra PRODUCT action figures.

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Now, I emphasize that because there's a difference. We're not talking about our

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favorite and least favorite G.I. Joe and Cobra PRODUCT characters. We're talking about the action

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figures. So an action figure we may love, may not be a character we actually love, and maybe

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vice versa. This topic was suggested by Patreon member Lee Germainey. And thanks to Lee, we may actually get like two more topics out of this one.

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So thank you for this one, Lee PERSON.

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And if anybody out there wants to submit a topic, well, you have to become a Patreon member to podcasting after dark or $2.

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Late fee.

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It doesn't have to be both.

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It can be one or the other.

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And we kind of keep a master list going with all you know

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both of the podcasts and everything but um before we dive into it just want to give a reminder of

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whatever feed you're listening to make sure you go check out the other podcasts uh you know that

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are out there so if you're listening to this on two dollar lay fee check out podcast after dark

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check out uh galactic actually check out territory marks you know we got all kinds of good

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stuff happening and uh tvcura as well.

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So before we jump in and again, let me just do one more caveat.

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We're discussing the 1982, the 3 and 3 quarter inch G.I. Joe PRODUCT figures.

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We're not talking about the 70s and, you know, older stuff, the bigger ones, because we are 80s kids.

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Boo.

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I know, I know.

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It's 80s up until 89, 90 perhaps.

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Yeah, yeah.

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I'm sure we could make some kind of, you know, case for something being 1990s.

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We're going to make fun of you, though, because you were, you were like 19 when you were playing with those in 1990.

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Yeah.

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No, I was not.

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I was in seventh grade.

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I wasn't, no, I was a freshman.

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You were a freshman in 1990.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I was doing the math in my head.

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I was wondering where I was in 1990.

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I was listening to the verb pipe.

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Well, I want to get us back on track, and I want to ask everybody.

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That wasn't out yet.

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What their first GI Joe PRODUCT memory was?

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Diala, what about you, buddy?

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As the old guy in the group, my first, I mean, like, G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe was like the bigger ones, the whatever.

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You just your prom was finishing up, you walked out and there was Duke PERSON.

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Listen, Clutch PERSON.

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At the limo.

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Clutch is mouthing off tonight.

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Clutch PERSON is so mesmerized by your background.

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I feel like you're trying to hypnotize me into.

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I should use that as my background for the character I have.

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Right, Zach PERSON?

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Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So I remember, you as my background for the character I have, right, Zach PERSON? Yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So I remember, you know, I remember the old figures with the full beard like Dustin PERSON's and the hair like Dustin's.

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And, yeah.

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But, you know, I remember that first time I saw the, like the commercial for the, I think it was actually for the comic book for G.I. Joe PRODUCT was like a cartoon.

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And pretty soon after the actual, you know, mass device episodes came out, I think like a year later maybe.

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Yeah.

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So, yeah, I was, I don't know.

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I was like maybe like 11, 10, 11 when those first came out.

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So yeah, I have a G.I. Joe PRODUCT for most of my life.

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I've had them in my brain, my brain space.

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They've lived rent-free in your brain.

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Dustin PERSON, what about you, buddy?

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Well, having done a retro podcasting for a while now, I've discovered about myself that I'm not very good at recalling firsts.

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So I don't remember first grade. I don't remember losing my virginity.

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I just remember sort of G.I. Joe's just kind of existing. I, you know, I watched the cartoon religiously.

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I had a ton of figures.

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I mean, they're probably my favorite figure. But I don't remember the circumstances which led me to go, oh, that's G.I. Joe. And I wish I did. You know, I wish it was like, oh, yeah, this kid was playing with them and I saw it.But I don't know. It's just like those things that are just part of pop culture. It kind of amazes me about kids, you know, like how anyone finds anything. You know, like, why is, why is Bluey WORK_OF_ART the most famous show in the world now? And how does everyone just know about it? And parents

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seem to hate it, but some parents love it. But, you know, it's just like these things of like,

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how do they, how do they come to us? And no one in my family was telling me about them.

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You know, they were, it was someone, someone out there. So I assume maybe the cartoon. I don't know.

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Yeah, that's, that's valid. Zach PERSON, what about you, buddy?

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Well, my mom was adamantly against anything commercialized or violent. So G.I. Joe PRODUCT was a big no-no in my mom's house versus my dad who didn't really buy my brother and I action figures or toys. So it was just non-existent in my dad's family. Well, my dad's house. But I remember walking home from school one day and seeing a grunt figure on the ground. And I picked him up and I coveted him and I hid him in my pillowcase at home.

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And apparently my mom found it.

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Yeah, it was, you know, it wasn't that.

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I was sick.

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I'm sure you didn't clean it.

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Oh, yeah.

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No, I cleaned it off.

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Oh, you did?

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I mean, what if a dog shot on it?

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What if it like it was like covered? It could have been. And you just put it in your pillowcase. No, no, I'm sure I took it

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home and cleaned it. I don't recall that, but I'm sure I did. Being six and cleaning it? Maybe not.

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Maybe I just brushed it off. Yeah, that seems a little, uh. It was pretty legit, though. I was like,

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I got a G. You're running off on your pants legs. That's fine. There you go. I did. And my mom apparently found it because she said, I'm going to take you to Kmart and I'm going to let you pick out three GI Joe's. And was it three? Yeah. And I've told this story before, but really quickly she said, I want you to pick out the least violent Joes of the GI Joe's. So I chose Spirit because he was a Native American NORP.

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Oh, he's a Native American NORP.

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Not barbecue, but blowtorch.

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Okay.

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Blow torch I got.

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And Shipwreck PRODUCT.

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Blow torch because my dad was a firefighter.

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And shipwreck because my dad was in the Navy. He was actually a Navy SEAL, but shipwreck was less violent looking than torpedo.

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Shipwreck PRODUCT didn't even come with a gun, did he? He came with a gun.

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He came with a parrot. But he came with the parrot, too, and a hook, I think, as well.

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Yeah, but, you know, I had like the village people of GI Joe's PRODUCT. I've said this before.

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And, but, I mean, I coveted those things as well. So those four

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Joes PRODUCT, grunt, spirit,

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blow torch, and shipwreck were like my first Joe PERSON's. And the rest is history. I as well, like I'm sure you guys did, collected the hell out of those things. You could put them in your pocket. You could take them anywhere you wanted. They were notlike He-Man. The he-man was bigger, more bulkier. It was hard to hide in your at school. Because I would bring my Joes PRODUCT to school.

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Oh, yeah, for a big fan of that book.

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Freshman year, you were just plopping them out on the table.

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I was. I was.

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I was, you know, that book Indian WORK_OF_ART in the cupboard came out about the kid who put the figure in the little chest and it came to life.

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I dreamed that my Joes would come to life and do that, which they did not sadly.

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But I tried.

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Oh my God, did I try?

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Well, I realized as I was

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asking the question, as the words were coming out of my mouth, I realized I had no answer for it on my end because I am very

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similar to Dustin PERSON. I mean, I was born in 78 and they came out in 82, so I was like four years old. They literally were just in my life, my entire life that I can remember. But I will say the first Joe PERSON that I can remember getting. I don't remember his name,

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Zach PERSON, you'll probably remember. He had like this red things on his chest, and he had a visor

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that could kind of flash flash. Flash. That was? Yeah, that was the first one I got.

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Yeah.

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I was literally just talking about that guy the other day to a parent who's like, that was my first job.

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And I loved how the plastic visor thing could go up on his helmet and down, like, sort of over his eyes.

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I don't think I had a completed version.

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I think I got one from like a used toy mart ORG or something like that, but he did have the helmet.

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I didn't have the backpack.

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I think he came with a jet pack or something i didn't have that i think so but yeah so so that was kind of like

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that that's the first one i remember but so like like dustin i just it just was in my entire

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childhood and you know as much as obviously like i had a lot of star wars toys had a lot of heman

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toys it's some transformers but by and large i had a massive amount of g. i joes and I had a lot of He-Man toys. It had some Transformers, but by and large, I had a massive amount of G.I. Joe's PRODUCT and I had a lot of vehicles, too. And one day we're going to get around to listing our favorite and least favorite vehicles as well, because I had a shit ton of those. But yeah, G.I. Joe PRODUCT was just, like, in my life, my entire childhood.

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Yeah, and I think it's worth noting that that first wave of Joe PERSON's that ever came out, like the first eight, I believe it was, was stalker, breaker, who looks a little bit like clutch, Scarlet, rock and roll, Flash, who you mentioned, and then Zapp PERSON. Grunt. Grunt and snake eyes. I believe those were the first eight, if I said.

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And this was sort of goggled snake eye.

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Like, he's kind of got eyes, sort of.

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Yeah, it's kind of based.

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The first original snake eyes was, yeah. Yeah, it wasn't the one with the visor. That was the second version that they came out later.

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That came on 84, I think.

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Yeah.

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Can we all agree, like, that visor, Snake Eyes PRODUCT is the better version?

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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Well, you know, watch that show The Toys that Made Us WORK_OF_ART and they tell all about that, that Snake Eyes PRODUCT was just a generic figure that they sprayed painted black,

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and it was the cheapest one to make, and it was the biggest seller of all the Joes PRODUCT at that time. I actually had a memory unlocked that I think you mentioned the like the old school G.I. Joe's and I remember actually having a dream a dream. You know how like have you ever had a dream like where you won the lottery or something and then you won every night baby.

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Yeah. And you wait like you think you won every night baby yeah and you wait like you think you won and you wake up and you're like oh that did i didn't actually yeah i remember i remember

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being a kid and having a dream that i had that g-i joe like the the big figure because i never

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actually had one i just remember they were out and uh i remember just like the big doll figure yeah

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the big doll figure and then i remember coveting it you know like in the dream and like oh i had it

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and i woke up but it wasn't there. That was my first experience with that kind of situation.

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Oh, wow. And your first experience with G.I. Joe's.

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You woke up, you're like, there's a thing called G.I. Joe, and I must have it.

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Yeah, yeah.

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That's hilarious.

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I always wanted that stalker figure, by the way. I thought that stalker figure was rad.

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I liked in the comic books. They really made Stalker PERSON a bigger character by the way. I thought that stalker figure was rad. I liked in the comic books. They really made stalker a bigger character in the comics. And as much as I loved the cartoons, I read a lot of G.I. Joe comics. I was also obsessed, weirdly,with Vietnam GPE when I was a kid. And I mean, all my favorite characters had a Vietnam GPE background. Frank Castle, you know, was in Vietnam GPE.

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All the Joe PERSON's. That's not weird. That's what was happening at the time, you know? Right. Like everybody that was making content at that time had, was, like, grown up in that Vietnam GPE era. So that's when all those movies are coming out and everything.

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Diallo, did you read the comic The Nom by Marvel ORG?

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Yeah, yeah. I remember. I didn't read it regularly, but I read some issues. I remember when it was out, yeah.

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Did you also read the G.I. Joe PRODUCT comics, too? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I remember. I didn't read it regularly, but I read some issues. I remember when it was out, yeah. Did you also read the G.I. Joe comics, too?

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Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, the G.I. Joe PRODUCT comics are, especially, I think, was like, the first 20-something issues. Like, there's a figure or character that, like, as Quinn the Eskimo PERSON, which to me is one of the greatest characters ever made that never ended up being a figure.

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Didn't they make them into a figure in the Super 7 EVENT do it?

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Super 7 PRODUCT lame ones did.

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Those figures suck.

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But yeah, those I remember, like the drama of the original.

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And then there was another character, Dr. Venom PRODUCT from the comic books.

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That was like it was a great character.

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I remember when, like, Quinn and Snake Eyes PRODUCT, they, like, got, they thought they had died. And they were in this bunker that had sunk and they had to get out. And it was like a, it was like a whole arc of them trying to get back to the Joes PRODUCT. And, yeah, those, those G.I. Joe PRODUCT comic books were, were amaze balls. Yeah.

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Yeah, they were.

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Dustin, did you read those back in the day?

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Because I don't really know. Did you read a bunch of comics when you were younger? I did.

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I think we talked a little bit about it at some point, and I told you that I didn't store them properly, and you almost had a heart attack.

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Now it's coming back. Now the pain is coming back.

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No, why?

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The pain. Yeah, you're like, you didn't alphabetize them, and you kept them in the... But I was like, oh, no. Now the pain is coming back. No, why? The pain.

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Yeah, you're like, you didn't alphabetize them and you kept them in the...

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But I was like, no, they were, you know, they were stored.

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We basically reenacted the scene from mall rats.

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Yes, yes, exactly.

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But yes, I did read some of the comics.

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You know, yeah, here and there, but I wasn't die hard collecting in the series or following any

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storylines.

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I think I probably was more akin to you again as well, because I read them, but I never

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collected them like in order and was like, oh, I need to keep reading it.

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The first comic book that I actually actively collected was the Punisher WORK_OF_ART, and then I moved on

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to X-Men WORK_OF_ART at the time.

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And I don't know if anyone knows this one.

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Diallo, maybe, a DC miniseries, 13 episodes called Haywire WORK_OF_ART.

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Sounds familiar.

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I'm not super, I don't know of it, really.

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It's kind of a deep cut, but that was the first comic book that I ever actually completed

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the series, and I had to go and track down issue 13 to do it.

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But we're not here to talk about comic books.

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Even if they are G.I. Joe PRODUCT comic books, we're talking, we're here to talk about our favorite

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and least favorite action figures in this venerable line of toys.

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And so what we're going to do is we're going to go around

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and we're going to do our favorite and least favorite G.I. Joe

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and sort of do them together, and then we can discuss them, you know, as per person. And then we'll circle back around, same order, and do Cobra PRODUCT as well. So, you know what? I'm going to just be looking at my screen.So I'm going to say, you know what, Zach PERSON, we're going to go counterclockwise for me. And Zach PERSON, why don't you kick off what is your favorite G.I. Joe PRODUCT action figure. I did just want to interrupt real quickly because I wanted to,

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I wanted to commend Zach on having the best origin story, number one, of remembering not only what,

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you know, what you saw on the street,

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but then the first three that you bought on that day with your mom,

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this sets the stakes pretty high, I think,

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for whatever you're about to say.

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And I agree. I mean, you do have the best one out of all four of us.

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Anyway, kudos to you.

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I appreciate that. Thank you. I appreciate that. Well, this may let down one person in the night boys group and not the others. But my favorite G.I. Joe figure is from 1987, I believe. And his name is Outback PRODUCT.He's the survivalist. And I'll pull up a... Wait, what? Outback PRODUCT. He's the survivalist and I'll pull up a... Wait, what? Outback PRODUCT?

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Yeah. The hiking instructor.

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So, yeah, my favorite G.I. Joe is from 1987. He is

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Outback PRODUCT. And my least favorite, and I guess I'll talk about

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Outback after I reveal my least favorite Joe. My least favorite Joe is from later on in the toy line toward the tail end, I believe it was from 1989. I could have my dates off on this one. But he is Captain Gridiron.

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So Captain Gridiron and Outback PRODUCT. And I'll just briefly talk about each one.

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So, um, wait, I, I see why you like Outback PRODUCT because he has a really tight t-shirts

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that you like.

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So, well, okay, so let me describe.

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I did say, oh, that's a total Zach PERSON.

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That's a Zach PERSON shirt.

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Your arms are sculpted exactly the size of Outback PRODUCT.

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So Outback, uh, he, he looks an awful lot like Chuck Norris PERSON.

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And at the time, I was obsessed with making my Joes PRODUCT into, what do you call it?

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Movie characters, right?

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So I did a John McLean where I took a GI Joe and a Duke PERSON's head, painted his

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hair black, put on quick kicks legs, because you could take the screw off the back, interchange

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the bodies. I made a John McLean. I made a commando. Well, I wanted to make a McCready PERSON from the

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thing. And I thought this was the closest I could get to a McCready PERSON from the thing. It's the survival. I thought he was super badass. Yeah. so his backstory is he is like this outdoor survivalist. But the comic book apparently delves deeper into his backstory, one in which he like leaves stalker quick kick and snow job behind because they're like captured by Cobra PRODUCT. And he's able to escape and he doesn't want to leave them but they like force him to leave and is this bigemotional thing he has going on but uh the shirt survival is actually an acronym for his from the u.s. army ranger ORG handbook the acronym stands for s size up the situation you undo haste makes waste are remember where you are v vanquish fear and panic for S, size up the situation. You, undo, haste, makes waste. R, remember where you are. V, vanquish, fear, and panic. I, improve your situation.V, value living. A, act like the natives, and L, learn basic skills. So, that's, uh, I thought that was pretty badass. He comes with a cool, like kind of machine gun and a backpack. Not accessory-wise, not nothing to go Gaga PERSON over. And then we flip over to Captain Gridiron.

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Captain Gridiron. What an asshole.

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He's just an asshole.

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So his backstory is he's like this jock football player at West Point ORG and graduated in the top of his class.

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This is all on their bio cards, by the way, on the back.

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And other G.I. Joes were put off a bit by his, by his attitude because he's kind of cocky.

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And he talks with like a John Wayne PERSON kind of tough guy at a like cadence.

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And then you get down to the nitty gritty of his weapons.

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He's got football grenades.

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And his helmet that he wears looks like a football helmet. I thought he was so stupid. I owned him. Of course I did. And I just thought he was so lame. So in the pantheon of G.I. Joe PRODUCT characters, this one I voted personally as being thelamest of the G.I. Joe's. So Outback PRODUCT, personally as being the lamest of the G.I. Joe. So Outback, my favorite and Gridiron PERSON, my least favorite. You know, I'm looking at Captain Gridiron right now,

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and not going to lie, I don't hate him. I'm just like, I'm like, he doesn't look terrible. He actually comes with a lot of accessories, which is nice. Like, that's actually really cool. I mean, it is kind of lame, yes. And by the way, Outback PRODUCT is awesome. I always thought he was a really cool character. I actually never owned him,but I thought he was really cool. But Captain Gridiron PERSON, I think what's really holding him back is his name. I think if he had a cooler name, he might have actually maybe fared a little better, but as is, I've never even seen himbefore, which is really weird. Like, I've never even heard of him.

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If you watch the season three of G.I. Joe, which most people did not, it's the Sunbao PERSON season. It's terrible. It's trash overall. He's one of the main characters throughout that show. And you're just like, you you know it's just so in an unbelievable world it's unbelievable.

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Dialo thoughts on Captain Gridiron and Outback PRODUCT? Yeah.

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I don't know man like out.

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I mean I don't like either of them. Hey, that's why they're my picks, not yours.

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Well, I mean, it's, I don't know. I just, I don't know. Outback PRODUCT just looks, I don't know. When did this come out?

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Outback came out in 87.

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I believe Captain Gridiron came on to 89. I could be wrong, but.

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Yeah, I mean, these, and I think with a couple of my picks, at least one of them that I don't like,

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we, you know, like, when I think about X-Men WORK_OF_ART, there's like a sweet spot of characters I like, and then after a while they had to, like, they're like forced to come up with new characters. And they just start just coming up with crazy stuff just because they have to. And that's how I kind of feel about G.I. Joe. And so especially that like in everything post, uh, G.I. Joe PRODUCT, the judge of the movie on pretty much I'm not i wasn't a big fan of so that probably is why

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these just don't really spark anything for me at all like i don't i'm looking at i'm looking at

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outback and i'm just like what like what and then he's survivalist he's so he's kind of normal look

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i think that's why i like he's pretty simplistic you know he's pretty he's just he's survivalist. He's so, he's kind of normal. Look, I think that's why I like him. He's pretty simplistic.

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You know,

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he's pretty, he's just,

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he's a really tight t-shirt.

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He's what you wear now. I mean,

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he really is what you wear now. And if you could carry a backpack. Yeah, that literally what I look at that, I like literally, I'm like,yeah, that's definitely like a Zach PERSON.

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Yeah.

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It's like you've modeled your entire life as outback as his physical specimen. And then for Captain PERSON, I mean, for like for what, kind of what Qu what Core is saying, like I don't, I don't hate that Captain Gridiron PERSON.Like he looks fine. There's just, yeah, I think it's like the name maybe. I expect him to be more like a football player or something. Like I don't, I don't.

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It should have been Fred Perry PERSON, the refrigerator's name.

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Yeah, I don't get his deal. But he should have been Fred Perry PERSON, the refrigerator's name. Yeah, I don't get his deal.

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But, uh, he, I mean, it looks, it looks fine.

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I don't like, you know what, I don't like that, on the figure.

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I don't like the orange, like that bright orange with the orange pants.

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Yeah, with the green.

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It just looks weird.

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Everything looks weird. I mean, he kind of looks like, um, I can't think of the, of that. Like he looks like a cross between like Bazooka PERSON and some other character. Yeah, I know

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what you mean. I can see that. Stalker.

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Like he looks like a mismatch of characters. I don't know. Sorry. Sorry.

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He looks like. Oh, no. He's lame.

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I mean, he looks like when you ask your neighbor

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who's like really intense to go play

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paintball.

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And that's what he comes out with.

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Totally.

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I'm ready.

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I got my helmet.

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You're like, dude, you don't need a fucking helmet.

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That is exactly what it looks.

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Actually, that's the one thing you do need when you play paintball.

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But you don't need the fucking, you don't need the face guard.

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You need the, you need the.

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Dustin PERSON's like, when you play paintball, you don't need any goggles. That's preposterous. Well, it's like, he's like, he's like, this you play payball, you don't need any goggles. That's preposterous.

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Well, it's like, he's like, this is like a little bit of a metaphor or whatever. I don't know the word I'm thinking of, but it's like if you ever play like softball, it's the guy that comes out with like a full baseball uniform.

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And everybody else is just like, hey, we're going to have to play.

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Right. That's kind of what he, that's kind of what his vibe is. Yeah. Like he looks like he's a little bit over, overdressed. He's overdressed, but he also has combined multiple sports where he's like, I've got the football helmet.I've got the, you know, the Kevlar PRODUCT vest. I've got the gun. These are like my hunting pants. I'm also in camouflage for some reason because I'm going to, you know, you're not going to be able to see me, but you're like, but we're not in a desert. We're not going into a desert map.

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I also don't think you need the captain. I think the captain in his name is, you know, yeah, that's probably his rank. But just calling him gridiron would make more sense. He just seems like, yeah, that was kind of the thing.

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That is a great point.

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He was kind of one of the leaders in the season three series.

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So maybe that's why they gave him the captain moniker.

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But also, too, like the image of him, the illustrations, which are always badass on the cards, the blister cards of the G.I. Joe PRODUCT figures is really detailed. And then his is like, there's no camel at all. It's just his, you know, his arms and his boots in the picture are camouflage, but then the actual figure himself,he's just like, it's, it's olive green. That's it.

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Well, can I also point out that on the blister card, it says hand-to-hand combat specialist, and he comes with the most weapons

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that I've ever seen a GIO come with.

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This is true.

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This is true. This is true.

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And I will note, yeah, close up, you can see he's got a little bit more definition of the

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camouflage, but yeah, I just think he's kind of lame.

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I don't know.

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I think it bugged me so much because I was like he's wearing a football helmet.

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Like, I don't, that bugged me.

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And he has football grenades.

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There was a figure who were a baseball cap.

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I forget his name.

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I like that figure, but he came with a, you know, the gun and predator that the one guy had?

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It was like a grenade launcher gun.

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Yeah, Poncho PERSON had.

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Punch, yeah.

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My favorite member of the rescue team.

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Me too.

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Let's a respect on his name.

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Sorry, Poncho PERSON had that gun.

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And this G.I. Joe PRODUCT came with that gun and I, and the, the figure

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was kind of lame, but it was the accessory that did it. Those football grenades really rubbed me the

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wrong way and the, it's just, yeah. The grenade launcher gun, are you talking about, um, range

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viper, the, that viper with the brain? This was a joke. Okay, because range viper also came with a

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grenade launcher that, you know what? They probably used? They probably used the same accessory and put it on a cobra character.

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His name was some sort of baseball player.

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Hardball.

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It was hardball.

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Hard ball.

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Yeah. Hard ball. Yeah.

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Hard ball.

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Dustin PERSON, you didn't kind of get a chance to do like full thoughts and everything. He kind of got cut off a few times. No. Well, I mean, I think I did. I mean, I basically, you know, I think outback is Zach PERSON. Gridiron is lame.Perfect.

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And Gridiron was released in 1990 for clarification.

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Okay. So when Zach PERSON was a freshman in high school then?

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Yeah. Walking around. He's got his grid iron in his pocket, His Chuck Norris PERSON book and his other pocket.

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First day of school, ready to rock and roll, baby.

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You got part of that right. He's like, you can call me Captain Gridiron PERSON. Do you play football? No, he's my favorite Joe PERSON character.

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Diallo PERSON, you're up, buddy.

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Favorite and least favorite G.I. Joe PRODUCT action figures.

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I'm still trying to figure out what Captain Gridiron's deal is.

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He's a hand-to-hand specialist, baby.

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Yeah, but it's like, why name him Captain Grit PERSON? Like, they put the football mask on him. But that, like, that's it. Like. Right.

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The football grenades, too.

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Like, but there's nothing else about him that, like, says football.

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Like, this is so... Yeah, which is ironic, because it's funny because we had refrigerator Perry as an says football. Like this is so...

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Yeah, which is ironic.

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Because it's funny because we had Refrigerator Perry PRODUCT as an action figure.

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And he had that football mace toy or something?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I don't...

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Yeah, that's why...

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That was great.

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I had that figure.

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I did too.

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Oh, wait a minute.

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Hold on a second, Zach PERSON.

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So when I'm looking this up, the Captain Gritiron PERSON action shot

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that you had sent me earlier

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is the one that I was like,

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this is very phallic.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It looks like he's launching three penises,

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like straight up in this.

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I don't have this picture, Zach PERSON.

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Yeah, Zach PERSON, where's that photo?

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That's what you got to put up.

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Okay, I will put that in.

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So, yeah, so those missiles,

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those missiles that come with the figure.

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This is crazy.

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They actually get loaded onto his rifle.

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Listeners, we are going to compile all of these pictures.

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We will put them in the show notes so you'll be able to see them at your leisure.

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So please don't crash the car.

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Penises.

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Looking for penises.

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All right, here we go.

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Hang on a minute.

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In the chat right now.

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Look at this grid iron.

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Whoa.

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Wow.

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So the picture that everyone's looking at,

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gridiron comes with all these missiles,

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and the football grenades go on his legs.

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Those are missiles. Those are cocks.

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The missiles go on the extension of this gun, which doesn't even look like it.

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It looks like, you know, when you get a toy and it has all the extra plastic connected to it and you got to detach that.

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Yeah.

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Throw that.

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That, it look, the gun looks like all that extra plastic is still attached to it but it's part of the gun yeah

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i see it i see that wow yeah those are just dildos so he's captain dildo he just fires

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dildos at people okay yeah you know i it's funny because he looks dramatically different in

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that picture than he does on his blister card. And the helmet on the blister card looks so much better than that shitty helmet right there on the toy.

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So I retracted my statement that I made earlier that I thought that he might be slightly cool.

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The blister card artist did a bang-up job making him much cooler than he is.

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Agreed.

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He's such a tool.

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Yeah.

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He's a tool.

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Yeah. It's not centered. Hised. He's such a tool. Yeah. He's a tool. Yeah.

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It's not centered.

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His helmet.

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His mask is like off.

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It looks like he just.

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Off kilter.

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That whacked.

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Diallo PERSON, your favorite and least favorite

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G.I. Joe PRODUCT action figures.

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So my favorite G.I.

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Joe action figure was a character named Snow Job. And who I once was in the car with my parents and I said blowjob PERSON. And they never acknowledged that I said that. To this day, I wonder if they caught that. And it was totally an accident because it was a word I had learned from a friend. And anyway, you know.

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Of course.

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We all know.

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And then the other character, and these lists are actually always really hard for me because I'm not really like a binary person and what I like and don't like so much.

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So it's hard for me to like really say.

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But I have like a range of things.

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And this character I'm not a favorite of is Dusty PERSON.

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Okay.

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What didn't you like about Dusty PERSON?

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His stupid hat?

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Yeah.

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Just like it's just sort of like.

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Stupid name.

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Yeah.

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It's just like try harder.

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I don't, I mean, I don't know what, like, I don't know what to say,

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you know, like, it just, I just don't, there's nothing, there's nothing that I can, like, pinpoint.

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I just didn't like the little, like the, whatever thing he has draped over his head, the,

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the, the camouflage on his face, face. Why are you in the desert?

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Which is ironic because the other character I like is the guy that's in the snow.

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So, but yeah, I just, I don't know.

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I just never.

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And it's like, I don't know. It's like he never was like my favorite figure. But, you know, there's a bunch of figures I don't like for G.I. Joe. So this was just one of the ones because I actually kind of, for the most part, picked from the era that I was collecting and because I didn't really

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collect like past a certain date because as Dustin said, I was like, you know, 19 and in the

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problem literally would have been in the problem. And these are out. Some of these were out. So

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I did pick one. But anyways, we'll get that later. But yeah. So yeah, I were out. So I did pick one.

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But anyways, we'll get that later.

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But yeah, so yeah, I just didn't. I did not like Dusty PERSON. I don't know why.

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So I'll say real quick for Snow Job PERSON. I love characters that are either in the snow. Like I love the Snow Viper PRODUCT. He's not my pick, but I love that character. And I also love characters that go like underwater, like the cobra eelor something like that.

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And I always thought it was cool that

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Snow Job PERSON had skis that came with them. Like talk about, you know, hell, we could do like best, you know, Joe PERSON's with the best accessories.

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Yeah. And that would be one of them. Dusty PERSON, I was never personally a big fan of that character. I kind of don't think he's that cool looking. The only, I was never personally a big fan of that character. I kind of don't think he's that cool looking. The only thing I'll say is I always thought it was kind of neat, though,that his gun came with that tripod stand.

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Yeah, I thought that was kind of neat when they had little extras like that. And even just having soft goods on the helmet, I thought was kind of neat. Even as a kid, I understood that that was a little bit something extra. But for the most part, I never had a dusty toy. And I never was like into his character either, even though that's not really what we're talking about. But I just, I never, I never personally cared for Dusty PERSON.

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I never hated him, but I never really cared for him.

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Dustin PERSON, what are your thoughts on these two characters? Well, speaking about Dusty, I got Dusty. I never hated him, but I never really cared for him. Dustin, what are your thoughts on these two

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characters? Well, speaking about Dusty, I got Dusty because it was close to my name Dustin PERSON.

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And then I just kind of regretted it. He is a very lame character. I'm in total agreement.

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There's not much to him. Even, you know, even like seeing him in

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the cartoon later, I was like, eh, like I didn't relate to this character at all. Like, oh, his name's dusty. People call me dusty. That's, that's it. That's all, that's the only connection I have to this. So I'm with you there. And then, you know, Snow Job, I feel like is one of the, the foundational Joe PERSON's where he was kind of tough to avoid even. It was just like, you know, that picture that we're looking at now of him kind of crouching. And I feel like that's, that's iconic GI Joe to me.

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You know, I, yeah, I think it's just like a good

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It's like, it's like going into the best of, you know, and being like, yeah, absolutely. G.I. Joe's PRODUCT fight on land, sea, air, snow, desert.

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Space.

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Space at some point, yeah.

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Yep.

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So.

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Zach PERSON, thoughts?

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So Snowjob PERSON, I loved. My only complaint was that I wish, I like the, the, Zach, thoughts? So Snowjob, I loved.

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My only complaint was that I wish, I like the 25th anniversary figure because you could actually take the helmet off and the goggles off and everything like that.

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I wish you could have done that back in the day.

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I know he can't because whatever.

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Because oftentimes in the cartoon, he would be, he'd have his helmet off, or he'd have the hood off or the goggles off.

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But he was in my storylines with my figures, he was Outback PRODUCT's brother. So, you know, they were always linked up and going off into the wilderness together.

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They're both gingers. So yeah. So which is the older brother and which one was the one that would tee bag the other brother?

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Wow.

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So Snow job was the older one.

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Thank you, Dustin PERSON.

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You know where I'm going.

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And I'm elephant man, elephant man.

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And, you know, Dusty PERSON, yeah, Dusty's lame.

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You know, it shocked me that in the cartoon, he actually got an episode devoted to his character where he was the traitor.

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He joined Cobra, but it all ended up being a ruse and was wrapped up all night.

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It was like a two-parter also.

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And like, this guy gets a whole two-part episode, this guy?

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But I always thought he was kind of like milk toast.

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And he reminded me of like, okay, he's a desert grunt.

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Like he's a very basic character.

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And even I wish the helmet on him could have come off.

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Because if you ever watch the show, 90% of the time, he's without the helmet.

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Yeah.

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He's just, you know, and the face paint too.

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And you're like, oh, it doesn't even look like the character on the shell.

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Lame.

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Right.

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Anyways, yeah, I echo it. It's a solid pick for a, for a least liked Joe PERSON. Yeah.

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The snow job one, I remember when it first came out because it was like you had that first wave, right?

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And then when the second wave of characters came out and they were just like a, like,

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you know, a lot more colorful and popping. And I just like, for some reason, like, the snow drop character just really like

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popped out and resonated for me. I remember I had it and I had the snowmobile. I remember one time we went up to like Tahoe for like a week and I brought that.

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I brought that up with me and there was snow like it was during the winter. And I skied him down little, you know, like in front of the house that we were staying in and stuff. So he just like the, I think the idea of him is, from an action figure standpoint, was just really cool.

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Like you couldn't really like, you know,

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had Star Wars WORK_OF_ART and other stuff and everything was, um, a bit more standard and there was something about him that just felt a little bit more functional or fun or something. I don't know what it is. And yeah,and Dusty PERSON's just like, I don't know, man, you're there. With his like short boots.

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Was he in that episode when they go to the

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alternate universe?

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No, he was not. I thought the same thing,

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Diallo PERSON, that was going to ask the exact same

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thing. I thought that was Dusty PERSON. Who was that?

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What is it called Worlds Without End PRODUCT or

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something like that?

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So the original Joe's, it's like Steeler, Grunt, Clutch, and, and Breaker PERSON, I believe.

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Maybe it's Steeler PERSON I'm thinking of.

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Yeah, it might have been, yeah.

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I think it was Steeler, Clutch, and Grunt PERSON.

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Those are the three guys that stay behind because they find their corpses.

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Yeah.

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You know, we will definitely cover that show, whether 80s Kids Unite or TV Obscira ORG. We'll go down that road because that two-parter is phenomenal, in my opinion. We have to do favorite Joe PERSON episodes.

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Yeah, no doubt.

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Yeah, we should definitely should. All right, well, moving along.

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Dustin PERSON, what are your favorite and least favorite G.I. Joe figures, action figures. Well, you know, favorite-wise, you guys have obviously connected me to Clutch PERSON and how he looks like me.

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And Clutch PERSON was not, Clutch was not in my G.I GI Joe PRODUCT wheelhouse at all.

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But similar to Diallo PERSON, I really did enjoy the snow, the snow guys a lot. And so my favorite, my favorite G.I. Joe is a Joe named Frostbite PRODUCT, who was the driver of the snow cat. I know we're not talking about vehicles, but an incredibly, incredibly cool vehicle. He looks like Dustin PERSON also.

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And my, right? And kind of looks like me, right? Yes. And my least favorite is is fucking

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footloose. Just your most standard, boring, basic,

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here's just a trooper guy named Footloose PERSON.

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And, you know, I don't have a ton to say about it.

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Frostbite PRODUCT I really enjoyed, you know,

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yeah, putting in a lot of different scenarios.

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He came with a really cool like M16 PRODUCT.

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With a giant scope on it.

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That thing's awesome.

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Giant scope, yeah.

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Giant, badass scope.

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And, you know, he was not anybody that I was ever encountering in anything outside of the action figure world.

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So I never saw him in cartoons.

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I don't even know if he was in cartoons. I've never pursued that avenue to find out. But yeah, you know, he was just a great character, all white. I really enjoyed the snow camouflage aspect. And Footloose PERSON is boring.

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Certainly is.

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Zach, thoughts on these two? So, yeah, frostbite I never had. I didn't have that snow cat. I wanted that snow cat. I think there were like three, I want to say three snow-centric GI Joe's PRODUCT,snow job, frostbiteite and then Avalanche PRODUCT.

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I think that was the last one.

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I thought Avalanche PRODUCT. Yeah, okay, but he's not in all white though. Right? He isn't, but he's a snow figure.

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He's a snow character. I think he's got some green or something like that. But what I liked about Frostbite PRODUCT was that he had like the fringe. The fringe was a different color than the rest of his outfit. And that Snowcat vehicle, we'll do an episode on Vehicles Lee PRODUCT.Don't worry. We will get to that Lee PERSON. And again, if you want to sign up and join our Patreon to suggest topics, please do so.

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But yeah, Frostbite PRODUCT's great. And then Footloose PERSON, yeah, he's late. I mean, he looks like a vietnam soldier which is fine he's very basic um fun fact he's one of like the most coveted gai jo ORG figures though apparently he goes for buku bucks on ebay and then the 25th anniversary figure that came out is like off the charts expensive because it was so limited so footloose apparently is a popular characteramongst collectors and he was in the

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Excalibur PRODUCT episode

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where of course

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Storm Shadow PERSON slices pillars

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with the Excalibur PRODUCT sword and

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they fall on footloose. Footloose PERSON is like the one guy who gets captured by the cobra and it's actually kind of a cool storyline so he was kind of cool in the series, but the figure is very generic. He just looks like he could be, I mean, if you want to recreate full metal jacket, there's your guy.If you want to create Hamburger Hill FAC, there's your guy.

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If you want to create, uh, recreate casualties of war or platoon, there's your guy.

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Or was it, uh, the Vietnam GPE TV show,

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well, back in the day, too, remember that? Oh, yeah, Vietnam GPE. I think we've talked about it so much. I forgot what, I think it had a different name, though. I don't know.

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If you want to create off limits with Willem Defoe and, and, oh gosh, what's his name from Tap and in White Knights WORK_OF_ART?

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Gregory Heinines PERSON.

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There you go.

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Because I think he had a mustache in that, I think.

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No, no, did he?

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You're talking about Tour of Duty WORK_OF_ART?

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No, I'm talking about Off-Limates PRODUCT.

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Tour duty, yes.

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Tor duty was the Vietnam GPE TV show.

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Thank you, Diallo PERSON.

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That's right.

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Diallo, what are your thoughts on these two characters, these two toys?

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I, so I don't know.

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Like, it's funny because I don't not like Frostbite PRODUCT.

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Because Snowjob was my dude, when Frostbite PRODUCT came out, you know, I viewed it like as a replacement

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for like, you know, my guy.

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So I didn't, no pun intended, warm up to him, you know, very much.

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And there were a couple other characters that, like, that were replaced later, too,

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for other, you know, for other Joes PRODUCT. So I had that same sort of, like, feeling about them. But, but he is a cool, he is a cool character. And then Footloose PERSON, I'm, like, I'm neutral. Like, he actually, he's very, like, he is very like Vietnam GPE coded you knowVietnam GPE soldier coded and I you know vague like you know I don't know that he was very prominent in the cartoon very muchI kind of hear his voice in my head

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I know he's fine I kind of like the Lee I kind of like the leaves or whatever he had in his helmet the helmet was cool yeah I thought the helmet was and. I kind of like the leaves or whatever he had in his helmet.

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The helmet was cool. Yeah, I thought the helmet was. And it came off, too, by the way.

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Yeah.

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But other than, I don't know, other than that, yeah, just, uh, let's, let's make some toys.

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We got to make, we got to make another figure.

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We got to make some more money.

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We need some variation.

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You know, got to sell some more stuff.

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That's how I feel about a lot of a lot of

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these yeah pop papa needs a new helmet um yeah i'm actually i actually don't hate uh footloose um you know

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i probably wouldn't gravitate towards him if i was a kid um but if he was in if i had somehow

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acquired him i would have found uses for him and put him into some scenarios and everything um i

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actually liked frostbite as a kid.

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I never had him. I don't think I had the Snow Cat PRODUCT either. I had the Cobra PRODUCT version that had this weird slope to the front of it. And Rockets came out. I forgot what that was called. But that was sort of my snow thing that I had.So I never had Frostbite. But I always liked Zach PERSON, I'm with you. I like how his fur is like a different color white than the actual outfit is. But I actually like how he's got that pistol in the front too, like that front holster pistol.

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I thought that's, I think that's really cool. But yeah, I mean, I could see why you wouldn't care for footloose. I mean, he is kind of like a basic bitch, basically, you know.

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But, you know, I could find uses for him, though, probably mainly to shoot with my BB gun or

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something. Wow. Wow. Found him on the sidewalk and put him in your pillowcase.

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Yes, something like that. Exactly. Without cleaning them off first, of course.

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All right. Well, I am last up, and I will, I'll go now with my favorite.

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So, I'm the youngest out of everybody here.

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Mine made his debut in 1987 as a part of the Battle Force 2000 PRODUCT subset.

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And I'm talking about Dodger PRODUCT. And real quick, by the way, this subset tradition would continue in 1988 with Tiger Force and Night Force and then in 1989 with Python Patrol and Slaughter's Marauders ORG. But this was the first one, and I remember this when they kind of came out with this like this whole sub team or whatever, Battle Force ORG. But Battle Force 2000 PRODUCT. But I loved Dodger PRODUCT. Oh, and I'll give my least favorite and i'll talk about him bothand my least favorite gijo character god damn chuckles i fucking hated chuckles as a kid

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a k a.a philip m provost he debuted in 1987 um as a kid i was like what the what is this like person you know like he has like just a pistol. Like, who are you? And then, you know, I know we're not talking about character wise or whatever, but G.I. Joe PRODUCT, the movie didn't help anything, uh, with him because he didn't do anything cool.So I remember seeing, uh, uh, chuckles like on the pegs. And literally as a kid actively, like like as a nine year old kid being like uh no that that character is stupid so but let me go back to dodger because he's one of the later ones uh like he came out in actually 1987 too so it's not like one of the like the earlier ones but the and so he comes

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with like this cool sort of futuristic armor because you know in the year 2000 that's the future

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um in the year 2000, that's the future. In the year 2000.

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Yep, exactly. But what really worked for me for him was that he doubled as a colonial Marine NORP. Because back in the 80s, we did not have any aliens toys whatsoever. Those Kenner's toys didn't come out until the mid to late 90s. And this, Dodger PRODUCT was the closest that we had to a Colonial Marine PRODUCT.And I say that because he's got the camera or like it's either a camera or a light on his shoulder armor. He's got like another camera on his helmet. I mean, you can tell he's a ripoff of a Colonial Marine. He's got actual armor as opposed to like, you know tell he's a rip off of a colonial marine. He's got actualarmor as opposed to like, you know, Dusty PERSON who has like no armor whatsoever. Like he actually has like an armor piece on his chest. And yeah, I just, I thought he was really cool looking. I actually had other characters from the Battle Force 2000 EVENT, but I kind of, I never played with any of them as much as him. And seriously, out of all of my G.I. Joe characters, I played with Dodger PRODUCT the most. And because he was pretty much a colonial Marine NORP. So, Zach, thoughts on these two?

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So Dodgers ORG rad. Corey said this to me the other day. And I was like, oh, that guy sucks. And then I realized, I'm like, no, no, no, that, no, that guy does not suck. I was getting myself mixed up with another character of Corrie PERSON's that he was showing me. He's got spikes on his gun where he holds the, like the trigger or whatever.So he could, I guess, bash someone's brains in with that if he needed to. Yeah, it's a total Hicks PERSON looking figure, which makes sense. And it tracks while you would, that would be your favorite, because it is your favorite. And I think it's super rad. Chuckles, I actually like Chuckles because it was the closest we ever got to a Miami Vice WORK_OF_ART figure. He's an undercover, he's an undercover cop, well, an undercover Joe PERSON.But come on, he's supposed to look, he's supposed to kind of be a, a Duke PERSON character. I will say the, the classified version of Chuckles that came out last year or the year before. It's in this deluxe, very retro 80s box. It looks amazing. It's a total homage to Crockett from Miami Vice WORK_OF_ART. The cartoon version of Chuckles PERSON was super lame.He just was this big dof, dufous. This character, I mean, it's a Hawaiian NORP shirt with fatigue, so he's got terrible style. If that's what an undercover Joe PERSON is supposed to look like, I'm like, where is he going in that outfit? It is kind of lame. But I thought it was like, you know, I thought it was a, it was my Crockett. So I kind of liked it because of lame. But I thought it was like a, you know, I thought it was a, it was my crockett. So I,

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I kind of liked it because of that. In my head, an undercover Joe PERSON would look probably more akin to Mercer from Sergeant Slaughter's, you know, Marauders NORP, because, you know, he was like ex-vipers,

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so his outfit had a little bit of viperness to it. And I, I would think like an undercover

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Joe PERSON would look more like that.

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Agreed. Not like an asshole wearing a Hawaiian NORP shirt.

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Asshole.

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Asshole.

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Dustin, what are your thoughts on these two?

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Dodger looks very cool to me. I've never, this is my first exposure to Dodger PRODUCT. I've, I've not familiar with him at all. The Battle Force 2000 PRODUCT,. I've not familiar with him at all. The Battle Force 2000 somehow I did not encounter that at all. But yeah, it looks very cool. Looks like a, you know, a soldier.And Chuckles seems kind of like if Nick Nulte PERSON,

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you know, like a young Nick Noltey PERSON, you know, like a young Nick Noltey, you know, pre-hard times, I guess.

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I think it's like 48 hours meets teachers.

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Yes, exactly.

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I mean, he really, being the undercover specialist doesn't, is hilarious to me.

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Yeah, he doesn't look like he's going undercover.

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Right. You're not blending in with that.

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Right.

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Maybe keep the gun underneath the shirt or something.

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I just like, what are you? No, man, I'm just a tourist. You know, you're like, um.

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But clearly you weigh like 250 pounds all muscle, you know?

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Right. Yeah.

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But again, it's like the artwork and then the figure are two different realities.

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So different. This is probably one of the biggest differences in figures.

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It's like the figure just looks like the saddest little, I'm a starfish. Like it looks like he has a starfish on his shirt but it's a flower but either way

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it does oh my god now I can't

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it's like sponge bob PERSON he's wearing a sponge bob

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oh my god

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now I hate him even more

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so

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hey it's Patrick

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yeah that's what it seems like to me so but then what is his um is he have like a bow staff or a crutch or something like what is he no that's the the hol a crutch or something? Like what is he?

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No, that's the holster for the pistol.

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Oh. I got to admit that's kind of cool because it goes around his chest. Okay. It's like a piece of plastic. Yeah. But it's actually the holster for the pistol. Okay.Got it. Got it. Yeah. I mean, he doesn't do much for me. So I'm certainly with you. Diallo PERSON.

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Yeah, Dodger PRODUCT looks pretty cool. I think the sleeveless look is a little aggressive, but it's fine. The little headphone thing is actually pretty cool. Like the microphone or whatever, the Janet Jackson PERSON headphone.

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That actually is really cool.

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The gun design is interesting because it's like it reads future and this is like Battle Force 2000 PRODUCT, I guess. So like they made the gun look like more lazery than like a, you know, modern military weapon.

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So that's kind of cool. Yeah. And like you, like you said, the Stars ORG, uh, look to it definitely makes it register.

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Um, I'd never heard of them. So there's that. Yeah. Um, and then, yeah,

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chuckles I remember from like the G. I Joe movie, I think. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, yeah, I mean,

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like, like, it's like, it's kind of like just like annoying. I don't know. He's like,

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it's just loud and annoying that it's a, that shirt like, I see, I kind of, it's like, it's kind of like just like annoying. I don't know. He's like, it's just loud and annoying.

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It's that shirt, like I see, I kind of see what you're trying to do. And, you know, in a way, I almost feel like he deserves his own series on CBS ORG, you know,

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because there's like a story behind it. And yeah, he reminds me of like a cross between like Magnum P.I. and Steve Regal, the WWE wrestler from back of the day.

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Yeah. I'm a man. Yeah. That's just what I look at because it's just there's, there's a lot going on there. And it's just out of. But also I get really annoyed by most of those characters from like G.I. Joe PRODUCT the movie on.Like most of them I just don't like. So there's that.

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You're not wrong. You're not wrong, buddy.

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And real quick, guys and gals, everyone noted Dodgers ORG gun.

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I actually, Zach PERSON, I used dial tone's gun when I played with him because I thought it was remotely the one that looked the closest to maybe a pulse rifle.

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So there was dial tone and then there was mainframe.

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So you're a dial tone guy?

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Sorry.

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What was the one that with the big backpack? Mainframe.

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Mainframe. Sorry, I always get them confused. I loved mainframe. He almost actually made my favorite because I love that backpack and I loved his gun too.

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But I didn't like his figure. I like his accessories better.

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Yeah, Dialtone ORG. Dial tone was the one with, was it dial tone with the mustache?

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Shit.

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Anyways, yeah, Dialtone and mainframe were very similar characters. And Mainframe PRODUCT was later, like, newer.

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Like, he came out later, right?

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No, they came out, I believe, the same time.

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Same way. Okay.

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Yeah, so dial tone looks like a bray, like a French NORP resistance fighter.

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Yeah, from World War II EVENT.

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Yeah, before anyone, anyone pulls off the side of the road,

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dial tone is the one with the big backpack, and he looks a little bit like Jack Flack from Cloak and Dagger WORK_OF_ART with the beret.

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Yeah, that's the one I had. Dialtone ORG. Mainframe PRODUCT is the guy who got more screen time on G.I. Joe, who was a little more hunkier. He had the love affair with Zerana PERSON. Yes, yes. But Dialtone ORG, I loved his backpack, and I loved his gun. And I loved how the backpack had this, like,

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mouthpiece that you could actually move up and down. I thought that was really cool. Well,

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we did our G.I. Joe PRODUCT action figures, favorite and least favorite. Let's go through our Cobra favorite and least favorite. Cobra. La La La La La La La La La La.

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All right.

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So am I the first one to jump into this?

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Same order.

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Yep, we'll do same order.

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Okay, so really quickly, my favorite and my least favorite actually come from, they have a close connection. So my number one favorite cobra figure is Zartan PRODUCT.

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And my least favorite cobra figure is Dreadnock Thrasher PERSON.

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So really quickly, Zartan was the first figure that I ever had that A could change colors. B, came with a mask of an alternate face you could wear. And C was like the most kind of bizarre looking of the G.I. Joe's when G.I. Joe came out in 84. I mean, the rest, Zartan is probably one of the most well-known characters in the history of G.I. Joe's. I just loved that he was so unique. He was the most unique cobra figure up until this point. Excluding Destro PERSON even. Excluding Destro even. I just love Zartan PRODUCT.

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I love the fact. Heavens the Murgatroyd PERSON. And then we get the Thrasher PERSON. So Thrasher PERSON came with the G.I. Joe PRODUCT, the Cobra PRODUCT vehicle,the Thunder Machine PRODUCT. So his weapon is a lacrosse stick,

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first of all.

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No, no. His weapon is the thunder machine.

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So fuck you, Zach PERSON.

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He's one of my favorite characters.

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Okay, so let me tell you why I don't like him.

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It's not the fact that he has a lacrosse as his weapon. I love his vehicle, by the way. And by the way, Maryland GPE and lacrosse is our sport of our state.

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Fuck you, Zach PERSON.

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So, Thrasher PERSON was a spoiled child who always got his way.

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And his parents were crippled in a car wreck, which may or may not have had anything to do with his repair work on their brakes.

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So he's a little bitch, and I didn't like that about him.

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That being said,

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his figure,

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the figure itself is not the worst looking.

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It's more like the backstory.

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He's just kind of like, he was just kind of like, you didn't earn your spot, you little sniveling shit. You, like,you're not a badass. You're just kind of a troublemaker with a badass mad Max car. So that's why he's my least favorite. Yeah, but did you know all that stuff about like that all the back story?

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The backstory is on his card that you buy? It's on his, it's on his card. It's on his, it's on his

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card. It says he's a spoiled child. It says Thrasher PERSON was spoiled as a child by his middle class

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parents who never disciplined him in fear that this would stifle his energies that he might need later in life.

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Why would he put that in his bio?

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Well, because the bios were always weak when it came to the villains.

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The person at like Cobra head of HR ORG is like, do you really want to put this on your bio card?

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Thrasher PERSON, this is not the best look.

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It says you murdered your parents, I think.

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That's what we're implying.

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I think so, too.

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And it's like, I think Thrasher PERSON thinks that that's a cool thing, but no, it's not really.

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And then, you know, not, I know we're not talking about the cartoons, but in the cartoon, he was the wimpiest of all of the dreadnocks.

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Yeah, I do know that. I'll go first on this one. Zartan PRODUCT's one of my favorites as well. I can still remember a friend of mine as a kid had him, and I was like, oh my God, he's so cool. So for me,the biggest toy gimmick I will always love is glow in the dark, but my second favorite toy gimmick is clear plastic, and my third favorite toy gimmick is color changing. Love third favorite toy gimmick is color changing love color changing so zartan hit that um i take umbrage with you hating thrasher i loved him he also he

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doubled as a road warrior toys because we had no road warrior or mad max toys back in the day

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by the way guys and gals catch a theme going on with cori i actually like to use my characters or my G.I. Joe PRODUCT toys to play out other scenarios. So he was the closest thing

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we had to a wastelander. What about road pig? Roadpigs even better. I loved him too. He was

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also one of my wastelanders as well. But I mean, I will concede the vehicle is the cool part

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of Thrasher PERSON. That's why you like him.

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Yes, I get it.

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I didn't put down the vehicle.

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I gave it props.

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Yeah, no, I know.

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I get it.

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But yeah, Zartan PRODUCT always awesome. Fucking love Zartan PRODUCT. Diala, what are your thoughts on these two?

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Yeah, I mean, Zartan PRODUCT's awesome. You know, no. He was, yeah, the color the The gimmick of the color changing Was cool Um I never had Zartan PRODUCT, but he was coolUm This uh, Thrash or was he in that like second wave of dread knocks?

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He was. Yeah, he was. Which they, once again. And like, yeah, that's why I,

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Because I read like, yeah, like I did the dreadnocks Like that first wave, whatever, Like one of the guys read like yeah like the dread knocks like that first way whatever like one of the guys looks like one of the dudes from a king of the hill the blonde one

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and then yeah but then that second way I liked uh was it Zoran PERSON wait what was the

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Zara and um they were

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they were twins right I liked Zirana but yeah you did but uh yeah I mean I don't know man They were, Yeah, they were twins, right? I liked Zerana PERSON, but,

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yeah, he did.

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But,

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yeah, I mean, I don't know, man. He's fine. I never, like, I never, like, I know he existed. Like, again, like, I'm, obviously there's a theme here where I'm very dismissiveof everything post, or like, you know, right around the G.I. Joe movie after,

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for me, G.I. Joe PRODUCT, the movie stopped being cool after the opening sequence. And then after that,

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I'm just kind of like, oh, it's fine. Yeah, he came out when the, uh, the, the, the, the, the,

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the, the, the, the series of serpentor being made. Yeah, okay. Yeah.

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Yeah, that tracks. Yeah, it's, I mean, he's fine. I don't know. He's like looking at it. I mean, it's actually actually really ugly. Like, he.

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That's what I, yeah.

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He has the V.

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What are the Vs PRODUCT on his chest for? Well, they're like, you know, violence or something.

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He looks a little bit like, he looks like Corey Feldman PERSON, I think, to me too. Corey Feldman PERSON.

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He has a Corey Feldman PERSON look to him with his dippy-d-do hair.

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That is so specific.

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Well, he has like rockabilly sort

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of hairstyle, right? Yeah.

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Yeah, he looks like the honky talk man.

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He does look like the honky talk man with abs.

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He does have crazy abs.

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The toy does have wild abs.

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But then in the show, he's so sniveling, but I know we're not talking about the show.

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Dustin, what are your thoughts on these two?

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Zoltan PRODUCT, you know, I think it was just...

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Zoltan PRODUCT.

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Zoltan PRODUCT.

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The great Zoltan PRODUCT machine.

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Is that what it isn't big?

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Yes, it is. Or is it. I thought it was Zoltar. Yeah, Zoltar. Oh, yeah, the great Zoltan PRODUCT, Zoltan. The great Zoltan machine. Is that what it isn't big? Yes, it is.

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Or is, I thought Zoltar PERSON.

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Yeah, Zoltar PERSON, Zoltar.

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Oh, yeah, the great Zoltar PERSON. Zartan PRODUCT, I feel like the gimmick of color change is, you know, that's what it is. I think if you're going to say that he's the master of disguise, I was really kind of like, okay, so he changed his color, but how,

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you know, if he didn't have the extra face,

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and I didn't have him, I didn't have him, but I just feel like the whole concept

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of a master of disguise, and even speaking to a greater thing with like GI Joe's PRODUCT, where like I feel like the masters of self always are wearing the brightest colors. They stand out.

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You're like, you're supposed to be a ninja. You're supposed to be like, you know, able to come in and out of any scenario.

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So I don't, I mean, I don't love him in the same way you guys do. I think that it's kind of like, okay, he turns blue. Like, we hadn't seen that before. So that was cool. But as a GI Joe, like, what does that do for me? Okay, he's not going to, I don't know. So, and certainly the whole dread knocks in general were very cool and badass. But yeah, but it's like what you're saying, Corey PERSON,it's like, are we more connected to the gimmicks because we love the gimmicks? And this was the first, I think. Yes.

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Dustin PERSON, I'm picking up what you're putting down. I said, like I thought it was kind of cool. The Zartan PRODUCT was kind of cool just because like the color change aspect. Um, but it never really connected with like the, I mean, it looks watching the cartoon. I know in the cartoon it was like he couldn't like it was like the light bright light turned him blue or whatever. So it wasn't even like that was like a feature of his power.Um, and his, his like master of disguise thing never really like vib feature of his power. And his, his, like, master of disguise thing never really, like, vibed with his look. I don't know.It was, like, it was really weird. Like, he could have looked like anything. Why did he have to look like that?But, like I said, like he, and I also probably why I never really had him because I could have. And I just never had Zartan PRODUCT because I probably didn't really,

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didn't really resonate with me like some of the other figures did.

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I'm picking up what you're putting down.

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I still think it's cool, but I definitely could see that.

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And as a kid, I didn't know what was on his head.

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I was like, is that his hair?

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Right.

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Or is that a hood?

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And if it's a hood, it's not attached to anything.

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It's dusty. It's another dusty.

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It's like that.

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It's another dusty.

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He's simply dusty.

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It's like that figure from, it's like that character from Fat Albert WORK_OF_ART that had the, that had the, people thought it was a shell, but it was really just like a hoodie.

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Yeah, mush mouth.

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Yeah. No, it's.

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Dumb Donald PERSON.

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It's actually Dumb Donald PERSON. I think. Oh, yeah, you're right.

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You're right.

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Yeah.

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I thought it was just weird.

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So he comes with the backpack and inside the backpack is where you put the mask of the, of the extra face.

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And I always thought that was kind of creepy and cool at the same time you know and how you could slip the mask on his face and

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could you take his chest armor piece off? Yeah the chest armor came off too. Yeah the chest armor came off and then he had stickers that uh color changing stickers that you can apply to his armor as well. And it just was like the most just different.

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It was such a weird, it was like,

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it was the first kind of Marvel super villain character in the Cobra PRODUCT line, you know.

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Up until this point, they were all terrorists.

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And this guy was like a weird marauder, you know.

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And he came with the sled too, right?

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Like he was, he was like a deluxe toy in that regard.

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Yeah, there were two versions of them, the one that came solo and then this one in the one

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that came with the green sled as well, yeah.

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Okay, okay.

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Dustin, we didn't get your thoughts on Thrasher PERSON.

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Oh, yeah.

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I mean, I think Thrasher PERSON, I'm not familiar.

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He's giving me like Liberacee, Sigfried and Roy PERSON vibes.

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That's tracks, yeah. You know, this half Liberace Sigfried and Roy PERSON vibes. That's tracks. Yeah.

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You know, this half-shirt I think is absurd.

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I don't understand that at all.

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Yeah.

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Don't like him.

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Can't stand you.

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All right. Well, Diallo PERSON, what are your

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favorite and least favorite cobra action figures?

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So my favorite cobra, one of my favorite cobra action figures is the first Cobra PRODUCT commander with the mirror face.

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Oh, yeah.

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Classic.

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And then my least favorite, I actually never heard.

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I had never heard of this character, but I was looking at this list.

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And I just was like, what?

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This is like, I didn't intend for this to be my rant on like why I hate like G.I. Joe from a certain point. But this typifies like why I hate G.I. Joe from a certain point.

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I just a hate's not the word.

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But this figure Raptor PRODUCT.

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I don't know.

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The cobra, the cobra falconer.

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What? Just.

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W.T.F.

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Just what.

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But yeah, Cobra Commander PERSON is just like, like the classic. I remember when it came out. I just, it just looks cool. I don't know. It's like the classic. I remember when it came out. I just, it just looks cool. I don't know. It's like the blue with the silver and it had like the little cobra insignia on the chest.I used to like the gun that he had was actually like was pretty cool. I don't know why. And yeah, I did like, I longed for that the hooded version though. Because like I, when I like read the comic book, he was always wearing the hood. And so I was like, why don't they have that one? And eventually I think I got it. I'm not sure. But this one was really cool. I actually think I'm not sure. I might have like sent away for this one. I don't know if it was out in the very, very, very first wave. I think it was the second wave but

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yeah i remember send i remember getting like the little codes on the like taking the little

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tags on the back and sending them in sending them in and then getting a coper commander figure so that was the first one that i of him that i had um yeah and then this raptor man i just like it's just so i mean mean, it's so ugly. It's so dumb. And just like, it's what happened. Like, we, we've got to crank them out, guys. And you start, you start doing stuff. And like, you know, like I said, like, it's why at a certain point I stopped liking X-Men WORK_OF_ART. I, it's a certain point, or I, I started liking G.I. Joe. You know, it's like they just, it, they just, it, the, that, the, the, the, I said, I, I'm a certain point. I, the,Men. I started liking G.I. Joe.You know, it's like they just, that spark of creativity was gone. And it just, like, it just feels a little cynical at a certain point. And we got to get crazier. Like, you know, it's like we got to go.

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Escalation, right? Yeah, yeah. And I think that's where it is. It's like you can't, it can't make sense because we have to go extreme. G.I. Joe PRODUCT extreme.

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So we have Raptor PRODUCT who I don't even know like you're a falconer.

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What is that? I've never seen.

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I've seen. Yeah. I've seen falconers. I've seen falconers in real life.

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And none of them look like that. Not a single one.

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There is a falconer that I saw once that was at, like, nearby at, actually where I used to work.

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There was like a, there used to be like a falcon. Like he would like actually have a falcon that would fly around in this big complex, business complex, and then catch it. And he looked nothing like that.

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He didn't have a hood. And would that look like a bird and a cape.

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Like, what, what is this? What is this?

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It's madness. It's mad. And Diallo PERSON, you have no idea how close he was almost my least favorite as well. We almost had overlap on that one, buddy. Everything you're saying is how I felt as a kid when I saw him. I was like, this is preposterous. I don't want a degrade superhero or super villain in my G.I. Joe PRODUCT line. I thought he was stupid, absolutely stupid. Now, that Cobra Commander PERSON is my favorite Cobra Commander. I never had him as a kid.I had, the only Cobra Commander PERSON I ever had was Battle Armor Cobra Commander PRODUCT, which Zach PERSON, I think, is SunBow era, pretty much.

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It's after he gets brought back to

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life after he's a snake

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in G.I. Joe, the movie. And I can literally remember standing in the Toys R Us FAC and getting that toy, like asking my parent for that toy. Like, I, you know, at that age, you don't know anything's coming out. I just walked into a Toys R Us, and there's all these new G.I. Joe PRODUCT figures.And I was like, oh, my God, that Cover Commander PRODUCT is really cool looking. But I always wanted this version. This is my favorite version of Cobra Commander PERSON. I'm with you, Diallo PERSON. I think the gun was really cool. But for some reason, what I really liked as a kid is that his pants went under his shoes.

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I didn't understand it, but I kind of loved it.

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And I was like, that's really cool.

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Yeah.

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I like that.

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I like that too, the way his like little, the tat, like, whatever they call him.

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Yeah.

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I love that about the design of this.

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I was like, oh, that's really cool looking.

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So, yeah, I absolutely adore that Cobra Commander PRODUCT.

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And fuck the Cobra Falconer PRODUCT.

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Dustin, what are your thoughts on these two?

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Yeah, I mean, obviously, Cobra Commander PERSON,

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you can't go wrong

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with him.

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You know,

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excellent choice.

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I don't have much to say

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because everybody,

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literally everyone in the world

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knows,

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if you know G.I. Joe PRODUCT, you know Cobra Commander PERSON. And specifically this one,

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the most iconic, I think, from our childhood. Raptor I had,

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and one thing that we are not, that we are not able to see is that his wings were so unimpressive when you put them on the character.

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They just kind of, they didn't open in a majestic falcony way. They just kind of hang, they were limp. They were limp little ends.

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Oh, no.

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So Silver Hawks PERSON, he was not. Oh, it was the most unsatisfying thing to have because you're like,

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he doesn't even seem like he could fly if he wanted to.

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Which, you know, was kind of depressing.

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So he's not, yeah, he's not a great, he's not a great jo.

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Was his, was his, were his wings like the capes on some of those Star Wars WORK_OF_ART figures like

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Lando or Besbin Leah PERSON or something like that?

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It was fabric.

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It's just limp.

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It was just, it was fabric.

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It was in plastic.

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Just, yeah, just like limp, limp fabric. I'm sure we could easily find a photo of it.

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But there were holes. They weren't clips that held the wings on. It was holes in the wings, and you put his hands through the holes.

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You put his hands through the holes, and then they would just limply hang over his hand. And you'd be like, oh.

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What is that?

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What is that?

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It was a blanket.

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It was a blanket.

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It was a blanket.

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That's really what it was.

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Going to a concert and wrapping yourself up and a limp falcon wing.

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Oh, God. Oh, God. That's sad. I'm sorry that you had that, Dustin PERSON. I'm so sorry.

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It's almost as bad as having sneak peek or something, you know, which who didn't make any of our list.

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But, man, now he was close to making my list.

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You can add me to that condolences list because I had Raptor PRODUCT as well.

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And I think, um, like he was, yeah, super lame.

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There was nothing.

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There was no backstory.

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He wasn't in the cartoon.

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I don't, I wasn't reading the comics at this point.

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So I don't know if he actually even got brought up into the comics.

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It's a weak excuse of trying to make a character out of nothing, you know, just there was no back, like, no basis for it, you know. This is at the point, too, like they had Crockmaster PRODUCT already. They had Nogahide PRODUCT. They were trying to do all these animal villains, villains with animals, you know, and.

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I loved my Crockmaster PRODUCT toy.

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No, so I'm saying, like, Crockmaster PRODUCT was cool. Naga Hyde PRODUCT was all right. Crockmaster PRODUCT was great. Like, they had already done that, but I guess they needed another wing guy to compete with Spirit PRODUCT, who that had come out three years prior or four years prior.

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Right.

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Yeah, I always thought that he was, like, a counterpoint to Spirit PRODUCT, maybe,

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because they both have the birds.

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Well, they both kind of, not to, like, he kind of had an indigenous look to him as well. I don't know if he's from like South America LOC or if he's supposed to be from, you know, the Southwest LOC, who knows. But one thing that I think is worth mentioning for Cobra Commander PERSON that was cool was his blaster attached to his back. And that was like there was an indent on his back.

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And that was really cool.

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I always thought that was neat.

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It didn't always hold very well,

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but I just thought it was a cool little gimmick.

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And yeah, I mean, the bird that Raptor PRODUCT came with is cool.

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But his Coachella EVENT Blanky and his, like, he would fit in really well at Coachella actually.

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The Burning Man PRODUCT.

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Yeah, Burning Man slash Coachella EVENT. And yeah, I mean, whatever. Like never, Condor Man flopped from Disney ORG. So why would they think Raptor PRODUCT would be a success? But apparently there's a new version of Raptor PRODUCT coming out from the new toy line.

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The classified, the new classified series?

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That's a rumor. Yeah, I saw a head sculpt online. So would not be surprised if they bring back this lame character for some reason.

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All right, sure. Why not? Why not? Dustin PERSON, what are yours, buddy?

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Yes. All right. Top cobra villains. My favorite, favorite, one of my favorite figures ever was the bats, the battle android troopers, the robots, the indiscriminate will mow down anything on the field.Just really loved, loved that character. And then my least favorite is Big Boa PERSON, the cobra boxing trainer.

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No, no, I love Big Boa PERSON.

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Do not like Big Boa PERSON at all. And so on the bat side,

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the picture's coming up.

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On the bat side, you know, right? I love the color scheme. The figures come with, uh, a black backpack, what do we got? A silver hand, a silver gripper arm, a silver laser attachment, a silver torch attachment. Um, a lot of, uh, a lot of room to imagineate. And then this amazing, um, you know, chest that was kind of a, um, I don't even knowwhat you call that texture where you can kind of see the inside, but it kind of, it had a great feel to it.

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Yeah, like a hologram kind of, not a hologram, but like that.

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Yeah, kind of.

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Like lenticular or something. Lenticular or something. Lenticular.

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Lenticular.

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Not to be confused with glenticular or testicular.

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No, yeah. Really, really great. Yeah, and then Big Boa PERSON, I just didn't understand how we're kind of kind of incorporate the boxing guy into the boxing guy with, you know, he's got the Mad Max sort of spiky. You know, I mean, I could easily see him being in, you know, in Thunderdome, Corey PERSON. So I don't.

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I mean, he was for me.

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Yes. Yes, I'm sure he was.

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With the mask and the gas thing and the piping and all this stuff.

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But I, you know, I just think similar to maybe like Captain Gridiron where it's like you have these kind of weird concepts.

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Like why are we throwing boxing gloves onto this guy you know for arguably no reason so that's it i welcome your thoughts um well i'm gonna

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start off by saying that the bat almost made my my my number one as well um i love that toy

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i think that head sculpt is fantastic. Obviously, it's kind of Boba Fet PERSON-ish a little bit. But as a kid, I loved characters that had one robotic hand or something that you could take

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on and off or whatever. And the fact that, like, yeah, you could put multiple attachments onto his hand. It was amazing. I think I have like three bats. Not at like at once. I think they, you know, would get onto his hand. It was amazing. I think I had like three bats, not at once. I think they, you know, would get broken. I'd get another one.The bat was a staple. I absolutely love the bat. Like I said, it almost made my number one slot as well. Big Bo was in my top five, like, of the ones I was looking at. Because I played with it like crazy as a kid. Like, what you're saying, Dustin PERSON, I don't disagree with you.I understand like it's like what is this? And like, why would it be on the battlefield? Now, you kind of find out that he's more of a cobra trainer. Like, so you kind of wouldn't expect him to be on the battlefield. But at the same time, it is kind of a silly concept. But like as a kid, once I took the gloves off, I was like, oh, he just fits in theMad Max PERSON world. And I already have multiple characters that can work that way and have, you know, Thrashers car, the Dreadnock PERSON vehicle. So I was like, this is perfect. He can fit perfectly into that

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world. But I never played with him as I am the cobra boxing trainer guy. Like, I never did

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that. But the bat, bat's classic classic i fucking love the bat i think it's amazing and it's a great toy like the the toyification stuff that it has going on is fan fucking

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tasic absolutely amazing so uh zach what are your thoughts on these yeah i love uh the bats i

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you know one of the cool things about that toy line or like the cobra troopers the Crimson Guard PRODUCT, you could buy multiples of them and have like an army or a wave. I didn't do that. I wish I could. I did have some friends that did that.

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The cool thing about them was you could do this. I didn't do that.

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I mean, because it was so, it was so expensive, you know.

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It was an expensive proposition. Yeah, because you go to the toy store and your parents are like, well, you can pick out one or two figures and you're like okay well i want five of this one your mom offered you three you could have gotten three bets

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it's kind of like stormtroopers you know like for star wars like some people had like multiple for some reason i had multiple hammerheads that oh yeah bats were not available uh i don't think they were hard to come by. I don't think I actually owned a bat.

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I wanted a bat because I love the fact that you could take their arms off and interchange

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with parts.

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It was so cool.

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Yeah, I never had the bats.

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I'm realizing now.

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What a bummer that was because they were super cool.

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So I was super envious of anybody that did have.

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I did have a friend that had several of them.

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And I'm like, ah, that's so awesome how you have like a wave

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Big Boa PERSON. I thought he was cool. I like the fact that you could take his gloves off but then yeah, I was like what's the point?

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Because you're not going into battle like that. It's worth noting that in 1987, G.I. Joe magazine, which would do like one-off storylines, has a cover with Falcon fighting. No joke, he is fighting Big Boa and Raptor PRODUCT. And so at the same time and in a vehicle. So I think that's interesting.

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They're fighting each other?

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Falcon and Big Boa are battling Falcon, Lieutenant Falcon, which is Duke PERSON's little brother.

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Anyways, yeah, like the classified figure of Big Boa PERSON that's coming out looks really radical.

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The bat character, like, it's, it's funny because it came out during the Sergeant Slaughter PERSON era of, the miniseries with Serpentor PERSON, and it was supposed to be like the dominant force. And for like two episodes,it was. And then suddenly it was gone,

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which is a bummer, because it was a really cool character. And they were robots. And who doesn't like a robot?

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Yeah, and you could also shoot them and kill them, too.

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Yeah, that was always fun. Blow them up.

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Diallo, what are your thoughts on these two?

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The bat was cool.

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I think when we covered that comic that, yeah, that Saturday morning cartoons comic that IDW ORG put out,

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yep, the bat was in it.

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Yeah, they were all of it. Yeah, so they were, I thought they were cool, like a good, it made more, like, it made sense, more sense to have something for the G.I. Joe's to shoot at and destroy, because they were always fighting against the cobra troopers before, right?

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You can never, like, destroy them, but with the robots, you could, you know, destroy them.

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And, uh, Boa, you know, destroy them. And, uh, boa, you know, once again, I think that that's in that realm for me. But, uh, you know, I was actually kind of when you guys were talking, I was looking at some the, the classics figure. And actually, actually looks pretty badass in there in the, uh, the G. I. Joe classic series of figure of big boa

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oh the new one the class yeah the new one yeah he looks kind of badass in that picture so i can't lie um but he but he he looks more like um like a mortal combat figure than he does you know i can see that yeah then he does like a gi jo um but the actual like the actual old school one i mean he's fine i don't you know you know. I can see that. Yeah, then he does like a GI Joe PRODUCT. But the actual, like the actual old school one, I mean, he's fine.

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I don't, you know, again, I'm very obviously just very dismissive of a lot.

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It just seems like everything they were just throwing stuff out. And I'm in nothing, nothing really felt, I don't know, authentic to me, I guess.

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I don't think you're wrong. And I'm the youngest of you, all four of us here. So, like, you know, of course the latter ones are going to be the ones that I was, like, going to remember more. But, I mean, Diallo PERSON, I don't think those gripes are wrong. Like, I think you're right. I mean, obviously, he's the cobra boxing trainer.Like, he's not coming out in wave one.

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You know what I mean? Like, no one's thinking of that back then.

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Yeah.

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It takes years to get to that point of, of dredging the well, you know what I mean?

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Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's like, I, I mean, half of these I don't even, you know, I remember, like, again, it was like up until, I mean, I wasn't even, I was playing with them up until about, you know, 84 would have been like the latest, really. And then I, like, aged out, you know.

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And so I was like, too, like, I would have gotten beaten up if I got caught playing with toy, like playing with them at after that point. My brother was much younger than me. He got a lot of these figures. So I still was able to like, you know, if I like play with them or whatever, see them.

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He had like the, you know, I think he might have had one of the bats. He had that like that blackbird cobra jet.

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And he had a bunch of those toys. Yeah. Yeah. So like I kind of saw through him. But I just without me even critically, I wasn't because I wasn't watching things being like, I don't like this. It was just sort of like it wasn't resonating and I just started finding myself going away, especially like right around the time

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that, uh, that, like the post-Gi. Joe the movie stuff was coming out. I just stopped watching it.

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But I, and then when I'm looking back, I'm like, yeah, that's why. Like a lot of the characters just sort of, I don't know, they were just throwing stuff out and it didn't really. But I, like, again, this classified series, Big Boa PERSON, that's a cool, I actually might buy it. I was going to say,

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I might have already pre-ordered it. Yeah, like I actually might buy that. I like that because I like

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the little cobra on his boxing gloves.

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Yeah.

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He looks bad. He looks badass here.

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Maybe that's, you know, that's a, maybe that's just like, you know, the sculpting and stuff is a lot better that it used to be back in the day.

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So maybe that's, maybe that's what I'm going to sound like an old man. You know, yeah, bats were cool and all. But back in my day, I had the, that battle armor that cobras would go into, Zach, what was that called? Yeah. Yeah, the histank. I mean, yeah, bats were cool and all, but back in my day, I had that battle armor that Cobras would go into, Zach PERSON, what was that called?

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Yeah, I forget what it's called. I mean, no, yeah, yeah, I know it's the white big, the, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, and you'd have to have a figure in there for it to, like, actually stay together, otherwise they would kind of fall apart. Yeah.

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I love that thing as a kid, but that's a vehicle. I considered that a vehicle, so that's not an actual, you know, action figure.

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Was it a Venom PRODUCT suit?

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Yeah, I believe so.

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It was something like that.

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It was on the G-I-Joe PRODUCT video game.

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It was called Snake PRODUCT.

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S-N-A-K-E.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's Super 7 PRODUCT.

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Zach, didn't Super 7 PRODUCT put out some kind of toy, like robot toy or something?

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They did.

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But I will say the armor was kind of lame because it fell apart really easily when you put the figure inside it because it clipped around the figure.

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And suddenly you move the figure and you're like, oh, it's just falling apart.

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It was all loosey-goosey.

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But it looks so cool, though.

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I like the way it looked.

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In the cartoon, it was an actual robot.

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It wasn't the actual figure inside.

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So, yes.

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That was one of the ones of my brother had, too.

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I remember going to play with that guy.

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Yeah.

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That's so funny. Yeah, they, the bats are cool. They, I think they were a little, like, they were a little more inspired. And I remember just like my feeling. I remember when they, they were in that last wave of figures that, like, were, like, remotely interesting to me.But they were also in that wave where they were like I think they were kind of spit and so I think that's the same way where like they

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changed roboch maybe was I don't know right yeah to the newer outfit where he kind of has that that

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patch that orange patch on his chest yeah he's got like a white shirt yeah white shirt yeah and I just

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was like why and I think that there was yeah there was some other stuff that they did at that, I don't know. Just kind of. And he pushed a button on his back and he rhymed. I'm just kidding. I wish he had done that for the movie. It would have made sense. Right. But anyway. All right. Well, I'll bring us home with my, my two. All right. So my favorite is another one that's older from 89.

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I am talking about the Cobra Urban Assault Trooper, the Allie Viper PRODUCT.

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Loved that as a kid.

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And my least favorite debuted in 1987, Cobra PRODUCT's fucking hypnotist Crystal ball

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What a piece of shit

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When I saw him as a kid

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And like his one accessory Is like this

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This stupid shield That had some kind of Again like a lenticular type of thing Where you moved it, it makes motions And he looks dumb I mean like when I was a kid I'm not gonna lie to you all, I fucking hated Dr. Mindbender PERSON.Thought that dude was dumb as fuck. And then this guy comes out, and I'm like, well, this guy takes the cake.

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I hated Crystal Ball PRODUCT. Hated him. But Ali Viper PRODUCT, Ali Viper, by the way, COBRA G.

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G.I. Joe Declassified. He was the first declassified figure that I bought was the Allie PRODUCT Viper one because I was like, oh my God, I love this toy as a kid. I loved how colorful he was because he's 19, what did I say? He was the Alley Vipers, 1989. So he's at that peak of 80s colors. Those Intertech 80s colors is the Allie alley viper i love that he had a shield i love that i loved his gun that he came with and he came like with this like like face mask kind of armor thing thought he was fucking badass dude i played with my alley viper so much i love that toy crystal ball can go fuck himself.

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Zach PERSON,

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what are your thoughts on these two?

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Well, Allie Viper came out during the Sunbow era DATE,

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the third season of G.I. Joe PRODUCT.

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And I mean, there was so many bad characters during that time. Just like the Ninja Force PRODUCT came out at that time too. I hated them. It was just over the top. So at this point now, we've just let ourselves go as far as being covert or like hidden.

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There's no, I love the alley viper's look. He's no alley viper. Like if you're hiding somewhere, you're not hiding in that outfit. You're not hide unless you're in, you know, jumbo's clown room alley, you know, or something.I don't know. I have no idea. But I love his look. It's really unique and cool looking. He's creepy looking. Not to be confused with night creeper leader, which is another character that sucked.

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Yeah.

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No, I can see why you like him. He's very much a Corey PERSON figure.

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Like he's Mortal Kombat meets Mad Max PERSON.

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Yes, he is.

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Yeah, I love it.

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And Crystal Ball, yeah, your original one, Dr. Mindbender, I was going to defend Mindbender and just say that, you know, simply he's the guy who helps resurrect Serpentor PERSON.

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Again, it's not the, it's the character is different than the toy.

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But, but that, but I also hate Dr.

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Binder PERSON, the character too, so. Yeah, but it's kind of like this weird Dr. Frankenstein looking dude, um, with, with six pack abs and an old man face. This is like, I don't know, um, he looks like a like a guy who should be on password, like a game show in the 70s, you know, and like a washed up actor.

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He looks like Vincent Price, actually.

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Yeah. He did he like his career as a, as a hypnotist at the Magic Castle FAC didn't go very well. And now he's joined Cobro PERSON's forces. I like the shield. I always tripped off of like lenticular or hologram type stuff accessories. But he's a very Joe Schmo PERSON looking character.He's supposed to be exotic, I guess. Yeah, he's lame. I could see why. And it's part of that era of just like, wop, w just like Whop, Wap, Wap, Wap, you know,they're just throwing darts at the wall. Larry Hama PERSON is not creating characters anymore. They put him on the back burner and they're like, bring in this kid. What do you think, Ike PERSON? I want to see hypnotist.Okay, we're going to do a hypnotist. What else? I want to see a mustache. Okay, we'll put a mustache on him too. Okay, we're good. Done. Yep, he sucks. I can see why. Okay, we'll put a mustache on him too. Okay, we're good. Done.Yep, he sucks.

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I can see why. I think you would like the mustache, Zach PERSON, because you love, like, mustache father figures with gray hair and must, you know.

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Yeah, but he's a villain. He's a villain, though.

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As far as you know. He could be undercover.

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He could be a great guy.

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He could be Chuck PERSON's dad.

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He's too, like, no, I don't know. He's not doing it's dad. He's too like, no, I don't know. He's not doing it for me. He's not doing it for me. Dustin PERSON, keep your thoughts going, buddy.

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What do you think of these two characters?

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Well, Allie Viper PRODUCT looks totally rad. I have never heard of this character. I've never seen this character. I love the outfit. I love the shield. Another, like, looks like, you know, your neighbor that's taking

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paintball way too seriously again. Yeah. Let's go. Here we go. Um, really, really cool. If I had, yeah, if I had known about this character, this is definitely a character I would have, I would have played with a lot, uh, because it's, yeah, I love, I love the colors. I really, yeah, I like everything

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about it. Um, crystal ball, I did have. Oh, did have oh my I did not like him and but I'll tell you

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it was really fun to make him be the villain and he was the guy that everyone

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pounded on just like beat the shit out and I'll tell you like the thing with him is like

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he looks like an older he he's just looks old.

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You know what I mean? Like every G.I. Joe guy, you know, has a certain like age and quality and, you know,

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and Cobra.

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Like this is like, I am an old creeper.

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Like he's an old creeper.

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He's the guy who you would see on the fucking like, watch out for this guy.

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He's going to kidnap you posters.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Everywhere. He drives a van. He drives a van. He drives a van. He drives a van. Watch out. he drives a van he drives a van watch out don't

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leave the bus stop alone you know like right the crystal ball guy's coming for you he's going to

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hypnotize you and get you in the van so um but you know that's great because like if you love to

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hate you know a character and i could have william the refrigerator parry just you know take his

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football mallet and you know know, pound that guy.

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It's very satisfying.

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So he looks, he's got like a Craven from Spider-Man kind of a thing too, like a little.

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Yes.

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Yep.

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He does.

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You know, no, but actually, Dustin PERSON, you bring up a good point.

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Like, it is nice to actually have a character in your toy collection

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that you give no fucks about

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so that you can just destroy him

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with all the other characters. I think there's actually something nice about that, or something

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necessary about a character like that. Right. For sure. Diallo PERSON, I know what you're going to say

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about Ali Viper, because that is definitely Sumbow PERSON era, but, uh, what are your thoughts, but... No, actually,

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it's funny because, like, this character, thoughts, but, uh, actually it's funny because like this character,

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like, so if you had to put him in your least favorite, I would be like, uh, maybe.

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Like, but there's something about that character that feels like what cobra should like would be now the whole urban assault part doesn't fit right like because I don't know what like what urban I don't know what city like is we're running around with like bright orange like but that but this actually that actually looks like a figure that would come out in like the second, like that second wave of like cobra. Like with just, you would need like a little bit more of a like, I don't know, a job.

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Tone it down just a little bit. Well, like a job description more. Right.

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Okay.

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You know what I mean? Like if it was like he was the, I don't know, tech supervisor. I don't know what it is. But I do like the, so the figure itself is pretty cool. But the picture on the box I actually like better because I like the blue. Like there's a lot more blue in it.And I think that that kind of like tones it down quite a bit.

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And but the shield's pretty cool. I don that kind of, like, tones it down quite a bit. But the shield's pretty cool. I don't know what, like, why it's shaped like that, like what the shield does, but I think that that's cool.

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So Ali Vipyper PERSON is actually right. It doubles as a spike to the chest. You can turn it, like, jamming into someone's chest.

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Yeah.

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A lot of chest. And then, yeah, you know, it's funny because, like, I, when I was looking at the, like, the pictures, oh, I have to say, I don't think I ever heard of Allie Viper PRODUCT. But then when I was also, when I was looking at the, the pictures of the figures and I was going to like the later ones.

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I actually saw Crystal Ball and I thought it was Dr. Mindbender at first, but just from a quick glance and I realized it was a different one. I never heard of Crystal Ball PRODUCT and like, yeah, I, Dr. Mindbender PERSON was going to be like one of the characters I didn't like either.

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So. Yeah, buddy. Yeah.

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So I just, yeah, it's not, I don't know. It, it's funny because like, so like urban, at least like the urban assault trooper title I get. I don't get the, the, the costume doesn't like vibe with the idea of like being an urban assault, uh, you know, position. But like, it's hilarious that like, it's like, oh, yeah, like, he's our hypnotist, the hypnotist. Like everybody, everybody's got a

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hypnotist and he's our hypnotist. That's what that's hilarious. Yeah, yeah. It's like everybody,

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every you, you go to a place, you have, you have, you have like your middle manager, you have, you have your CEO,

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and then you have your HR, and then you have your hypnotist. That's hilarious.

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Like, cobra hypnotist. It's like a job title that everybody has one, and that's theirs. The cobra acupuncturist figure was dope.

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It was so rad.

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Pinhead, his name was pinhead, but that, you knowurist figure was dope. Yeah. It was so rad.

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Pinhead PERSON. His name was pinhead, but that, you know, there was some legal things going on with Hellraiser PRODUCT, so they couldn't, they discontinued the figure.

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The cobra masseuse.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So it's like, it, yeah, just like, and it just like it looks ugly.

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Kind of looks like it would be, um, actually like a character from, uh, Buck Rogers PERSON.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like it looks like a, uh actually like a character from Buck Rogers PERSON. Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, like it looks like a cross between Tiger Man PERSON and some other character.

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But yeah, like the Tiger Man PRODUCT was rad. The picture on the box looks like Vincent Price actually.

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Yeah, yeah, it does.

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And that, I mean, at least the Vincent Price part's cool.

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But yeah, I don't even get like, I don't know, the little hypnotist shields, whatever.

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Was he on the cartoon? Right, like, what are you supposed to do in battle like you have to be like i'm you somebody's about to shoot you and you're

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like no no wait wait look into my shield like how does this even work yeah it's just it's a but yeah

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like i guess like you know like like i was saying like at this point they were just like i don't know

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they were just doing stuff yeah and uh but yeah, the AI Joe decoder ring.

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Allie Viper PRODUCT is kind of cool.

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One thing I'm noticing, too, it's like at this era, like, I don't know.

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No offense to you guys that were a little younger when you were getting these figures.

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But I laughed because I noticed how they had to put Cobra PRODUCT enemy on the box.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Like you because you were like too dumped to like, you know what I mean?

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It's like,

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it's like,

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I get it.

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Like,

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whatever.

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It's just funny.

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They didn't put G. I. Joe hero on there.

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Yeah, it's just like, I don't know. Maybe it was for the parents. So that the parents, I don't know what it is.

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Right. It's just funny in the shopping and buying the wrong thing. It's just funny that it's like on there because, like, because you know they put it there because like it was like answering a question somebody had about like, oh, is this guy good or bad?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Maybe because this was in the same era that Tipper Gore PERSON was trying to, was trying to ban video games or something.

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So maybe like in there.

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The parental advisory stickers.

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Yeah, like a two live crew is like

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yeah, so maybe that's why

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they put it on there.

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I do

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ultimately appreciate all of our

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differing opinions and like

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you can kind of paint a psychological picture

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with some of us, probably talking about myself, as to why we chose a certain guys we chose. Or Corey PERSON, like you can kind of paint a psychological picture with some of us probably talking

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about myself as to why we chose the certain guys we chose or corey like you obviously it caters to

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your interest as well i just think it's awesome that it's none of us overlapped which was surprising

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yeah no and we didn't prep it or anything like we didn't you know plan this and and we almost

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did on a couple of them but i'm glad we didn't i think this was was awesome uh lee i hope you enjoyed this one i mean this is now our longest episode of 80s kids unite a show that was originally intended to be maybe 30 minutes it didn't even feel that it didn't

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even feel like i know because it's fun we're talking about gai joe something all four of us love

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and that's the thing is like when when you know, I sort of threw this topic out to the group,

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I didn't, I fully expected all of us to have played with G.I. Joe's.

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This wasn't going to be a scenario where none of, like, some of us didn't see live aid or something like that.

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I was like, no, there's no doubt in my mind that every single one of us here has some sort of love for G.I. Joe PRODUCT. So this was

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awesome. And I definitely want to do another one for vehicles. And I definitely want to do another one for

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characters. Because like I said, there are characters that I loved and hated that don't translate

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to how I felt about the actual action figures. So that comes down to all the, all you patrons out

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there. You know, if you want us to do a topic that

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you're like Jones PERSON in for, oh, do this show. Do a topic on mask toys. Even if it's something we're not

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familiar with, we'll cover it. And like we did with live aid, some of us knew stuff about it. Some of us

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had no recollection whatsoever. Some of us were at Target buying Mary PERSON's crackers. So, you know, like, you literally can suggest any topic and we'll, we'll do it justice. And Lee PERSON, you know you got your money's worth because, like you said, Corey PERSON, it's our longest episode. It won't be our first or our last. Well, it was our first, but it won't be our last. That's right. And, you know,

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like I said earlier, no matter what feed you're listening to this on, make sure you go check out all the other podcasts that we're, all four of us are creating, Tudar Lefie, territory marks, Galactica ORG actually, podcasting after dark, TV obscure. What am I forgetting, guys? Anything?

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All right, very good.

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Smartless.

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How dare you?

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Is my wife listening right now?

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Because she listens to someone. I'm trying to fool her.

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Another review you didn't ask for?

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Did you say that one?

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There you go.

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Another review you didn't ask for, the first Noel Chronicles WORK_OF_ART as well. So yeah, guys and gals, thank you all so ask for, the first Noel Chronicles WORK_OF_ART as well. So yeah, guys and gals, thank you all so much for being Patreon members to both of our shows, either or. And like Zach PERSON said, you can submit any topic you want to. And if you've already submitted, submit again. We keep an ongoing list and we kind of highlight what we've already done, but we'lljust keep adding them to the list. So we hope that this show keeps going. And also we hope that it becomes a live show one day when we're out at LA Comic-Con this year, which is actually in October. So we're going to have to talk off air about what we're doing about that this year.

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Right. But thank you all so much.

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And how do we end 80s Kids Unite ORG?

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We say, the only caveat is that the topic you suggest has to be the show Werewolf WORK_OF_ART.

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Yes.

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Oh, you know what I might add to? Whatever you do in life, just make sure you don't blow out your O ring. Okay. Because the O ring was the thing that connected that.

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Yeah, too soon.

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Too soon.

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Too soon.

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I think I've already blown out my O ring this week.

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I mean, it was waiting out my arena this week. I mean,

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he was waiting for someone to say something. Oh, wait, can we just say one thing that, just as far as action, G.I. Joe names that there's a character named Backblast PERSON.

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Like, an actual character was named Backblast PERSON.

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I don't remember that character at all.

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Yikes.

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That's amazing.

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Yikes.

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All right.

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Well, on that note, guys and gals, we will see you next month with another episode of 80s kids unite.

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Yo, Joe PERSON. Cobra PRODUCT. La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la La La La La La La La La La La La La. 80's Kids Unite ORG is brought to you by

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Hungry, Hungry Hippos ORG, The Loudest Tabletop Game in History. And by Nickelback, Zach PERSON's favorite band. If you'd like to suggest topics for this show, go to the Patreon of either $2 late fee or podcasting after dark, or both.All links are in the show notes. We love you.

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