HCC788 - 1986 LOW-LIGHT - Night Spotter - Vintage G.I. Joe toy review! S03E22

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Sources and Information:
Low-Light on YoJoe.com:
www.yojoe.com/action/86/lowlig...
Low-Light on 3dJoes.com:
www.3djoes.com/low-light.html
Sniper:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper
Image:
By davric - collection personnelle, CC BY-SA 3.0,
commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
7.62 Tkiv 85:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62_Tk...
Image:
By MKFI - Own work, Public Domain,
commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
M40 rifle:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M40_rifle
Image:
By Joe Loong - originally posted to Flickr as DSCF1108,
CC BY-SA 2.0,
commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Remington Model 700:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remingt...
Image:
By User:M855GT - English Wikipedia, self made by the author,
CC BY-SA 3.0,
commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Low-Light (RAH) on G.I. Joe Wiki:
gijoe.wikia.com/wiki/Low-Light...)
Parker Hale M85:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_...
Image:
By Armémuseum (The Swedish Army Museum) -
Armémuseum (The Swedish Army Museum) through the
Digital Museum (www.digitaltmuseum.se),
Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
"Hands-on Review: Parker-Hale M-85," Mel Ewing, Sniper Central,
Oct 24, 2014, www.snipercentral.com/parker-h...
AN/PVS-4:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/PVS-4
Image:
By U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Jeffrey Lehrberg.
This Image was released by the United States Navy
with the ID 040130-N-0331L-008
Night vision device:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_v...
Uzi:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi
Image:
By Uziel Galishto - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Dark adaptor goggles:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_ad...
Image:
By CambridgeBayWeather - Own work, Public Domain,
commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Low-Light (G.I. Joe):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-Lig...)
Lowlight on Halfbattle.com:
www.halfbattle.com/lowlight.html
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Patti Smith:
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Music:
Summon the Rawk, Noise Attack,
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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[@JoeMotionVideos82]

The night vision saving goggles were a nice touch, Hasbro really shined on this one.

[@JB0071051982]

Indeed they did, I am so glad that I got Low Light when I got back into collecting G.I. Joe action figures. As HCC 788 mentions, he has some great details in his sculpt and some great accessories as well. I do find it strange that his Uzi pegs into his right leg. It seems like that slot would fit a rifle scope or another accessory better. I am glad that his modern sculpt version has a rifle scope that you can store on his right leg, along with a break down sniper rifle and an opening backpack.

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

I recall from the cartoon, Low Light had nightmares, thus didn't sleep at night. He is my #1 favorite Joe.

[@mangalone4095]

He needs the UZI for self-defense and engaging the enemy at close-quarters, if need be !!

[@tonyjackson7610]

Low-Light is definitely one of my favorite Joes. I remember the episode of him having nightmares in junkyard fighting off rat cars, they made Low-Lights dad a little more menacing, scolding his fear of the dark, in the toon. Again, I like the darker Joe episodes, that aside, Low-Light just has that COOL factor as a badass, and agreed his old figure holds up remarkably well...blonde wavey hair n all.

[@HCC788]

I was looking for a copy of that cartoon episode to include in the review, but I couldn't find one in time.

[@entityedgenetwork2252]

tony jackson classic 👊👊

[@Cavillier1970]

@@HCC788Too bad because that was in my top 5 episodes off time. Yeah the idea of Mindbender plaguing the dreams had to be inspired by Freddy Kruger, but getting that far into a character like Low Light was beautiful and it was written by the legend Marv Wolfman. I also think besides Night Force Low Light would have been perfect in the D.E.F. which was the one sub-team I loved.

[@bryedtan]

I liked that episode yes it was a bit sci-fi/fantasy than what we would usually expect from G.I. Joe but getting more into Low-Life's personal life is great.When the character first appeared he seemed to have a bit of an angry disposition but this episode made me better understand his character the episode made me cry when I was young in part that scene when he starts shooting down the nightmare creatures and yelling for his father's approval.

[@stevewillhoite6922]

Watching this one again, still have my '86 Low Light. I always read/heard that snipers would carry a backup weapon like a pistol or submachine pistol in case they were found & needed to use something a little more close-quarter than a rifle would allow.

[@fleetwarrior75]

Between Low-Light and Firefly these two are my faves!

[@HCC788]

Both are excellent figures. I'm guessing you have a thing for the color gray.

[@Cavillier1970]

Hey HCC I was watching and I think I've an answer re:the Uzi question. In real world situations, troops like Low Light from time to time have to get involved in CQ situations, close quarters and his sniper's rifle wouldn't work in a small room as opposed to two football fields away

[@woofan25]

I would argue Scarlet was the team's first sniper - her file card said she went to USMC sniper school and was the only joe to be qualified on the Remington 700 sniper rifle. Happy you reviewed LowLight - he's still a childhood favorite for me!

[@HCC788]

That's a very good point. I forgot about Scarlett's sniper training. It's not obvious looking at the figure, since she never came with any form a sniper rifle (or any form of rifle). She did have the shoulder pad like Low-Light, though.

[@woofan25]

+HoodedCobraCommander788 agreed! Regardless, Low-Light is pretty badass.

[@rickdavis32]

I think spirit was the first sniper,just my opinion as he was a tracker. Also I still believe he looks like Rutger Hauer. Snipers often carry an AR-15 with their gear. Good review,thanks for covering my guy. This will be the guy I buy in the classified line!

[@papishow]

I used the slot in low light's leg to store his uzi - it fits!

[@JB0071051982]

Me too, although it does look a little strange when you store it there. I think that originally it was suppose to hold a rifle scope or something else before Hasbro changed their minds and choose not to include it. Still it does not take away anything from the action figure.

[@entityedgenetwork2252]

Had him back in the day, one of my all-time favorite joes

[@glennrobbins2372]

Great review! My son has all 3 version of Low Light. Again just proves my theory of the box of Joes I bought at a yard sale was handed down from sibiling to sibling.

[@jmsberetta]

great review of one of my favorite figures and characters

[@HCC788]

Thank you!

[@80sfreak42]

Wow no clue...about 1991...thank goodness..

[@Cavillier1970]

Besides Night Force I can see him being with the D.E.F.

[@jedi69outcast]

I love this and the new POC version

[@nodtomodley9114]

Low-Light, the original Mall Ninja.

[@alfonsogarcia8601]

I miss mrs. Hooded Cobra Commander😞

[@mattmanning4934]

A great Joe! Thanks for sharing.

[@HCC788]

Thanks for watching!

[@gaulergolf]

as a kid we always called him low life. my brother honestly thought that was his codename.and it stuck in our house.

[@Lowlight23]

Thanks for reviewing "the best Joe!" 😉 (I maaaay be a bit biased. Lol)

[@michaelterrell9645]

Low Light was my favorite and was a part of every mission against Cobra! Even the 30th version ia superb.

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

I always opened my Joes carefully, inorder to preserve the card art.

[@HCC788]

Unfortunately, even with careful opening, the card contents on the outside edge are usually ripped off. For some reason, not many websites list the contents, and even when they take photos of the carded figures, they don't zoom in on the contents list. That makes it a little tricky to find the contents list so I can cover it in the reviews.

[@Lowlight23]

Great user pict, mate! 😎

[@nyquist75]

beautiful fugure. the colors just pop right off my dude

[@BenKurth]

I seem to recall as a kid in the 80's that I would sometimes attach the top of the Uzi into the clip on Lowlights left leg. This might help to better explain the hoops on to of his Uzi. Really enjoy your reviews! It's great fun to reminisce about all the Joes and vehicles that I had as a kid. I probably had just about all of them (figures, vehicles and related Marvel comics) throughout the 80's and early 90's. I remember using large fishing tackle boxes to store all the figures and weapons. The slots in the tackle boxes were a natural fit for the figures. After watching your channel I'm tempted to dig through my folks basement a resurrect some of those vintage toys. Thanks!

[@johnwild8336]

Low Light was my last Joe I got as a kid. Being a new teenager, playing with G.I.Joes was frowned down upon, but I really wanted this guy. What a great figure and I though, back then, that the G.I.Joes would just keep getting better and better. Now I know that there was a lot of mis-fires after 1986. Really enjoying your channel. Thanks for your efforts.

[@HCC788]

Thank you! I hope you'll stick around! There a lot of cool stuff coming up.

[@christianhafer9819]

More hits than misses on the main line after '86, I think. The subteams, forgetabout. But, the main carded figures mostly had excellent figures.

[@BLAZE084]

A hand-me-down I never regretted having in my collection as a kid! Too bad mine only had the backpack from his accessory loadout...

[@MiKeMiDNiTe-77]

Lowlight is easily one of the best 86 Joes, I think that hes quite underated esp in media, he is the exact answer to the Night Vipers 3 years later....

[@Straight0uttaCrofton]

would have liked to have had this dude, i think "Shockwave", and maybe one or two others as an "urban" combat team - but alas I had outgrown that phase of my life by 1986 / =

[@crowningchristopher8273]

I had no idea who this figure/character Low-Light (v1) was, but the card art on the store shelf sold me on him back in the day. He reminded me of Firefly a bit. He's one of the few figures I still have from my childhood collection. His later character alone was the only reason I got interested in the DIC cartoon.

[@Christian-xc9bh]

Never fix what is not broke!

[@TTechnodrome]

I just found this video, subbed, and cant wait to watch all your videos and learn more about joes!

[@HCC788]

Thank you! I have more coming! You got here just in time for this year's COBRA MONTH starting in July!

[@christianhafer9819]

Tremendous figure. What were some "unpopular" figures you reviewed before this one?

[@bgddyphil]

love the character change

[@FriebzaEmberorOfUniverse]

Never noticed the key before. Interesting.

[@Tremain]

I don't know why most people prefer removable helmets, I much prefer them molded in. Removable helmets always look weird, like 86's hawk or they require weird collars to hold them in place, or they are too tight and ruin the head paint, or they have weird ass giant visors. Molded helmets look just right for the most part.

[@christianhafer9819]

I agree. And another thing, they're just something else to lose.

[@christopherhoward8128]

Version 3 looks like Reberto Duran

[@toy_room_of_insanity]

Really good review man! I think that Low Light was a break dancer!

[@HCC788]

He's rad and totally tubular.

[@toy_room_of_insanity]

HoodedCobraCommander788 I can dig it!

[@chadkimmel8957]

Looks like Rutger Hauer!😂

[@Cavillier1970]

I always thought he had a Clint Eastwood thing going on

[@rizzle29]

I've been collecting modern Era figures of my favorite characters as a kid... I never knew of Low Light as a kid but he is easily one of my top 5 Joe's as an adult... I think you would love the POC or 50th Low Light...

[@DareDevilDave75]

The top of his Uzi will snap into that holster thing on his side

[@yakito007]

This Low-light reminds me the Night Raven's pilot in the Joe's side. The night doesn't belong to the lovers or low light; it belongs to the Night Raven! Great review! Very funny!

[@HCC788]

The night really belongs to Michelob.

[@billislois]

the uzi is his sidearm and is for cqb.

[@HCC788]

QED.

[@dennismancilla3849]

It is not uncommon for snipers to be packing a submachine gun as a sidearm in case they have to deal with enemy who have gotten close to their position. During the Vietnam War, USMC snipers would be armed with a Remington M40, and maybe a grease gun for close in work. Personally, the Uzi if full-size, may be a bit too heavy if I were the sniper, and I'd have opted for a pistol like say a 1911.

[@billislois]

Dennis Mancilla I agree with the 45 colt,a mini uzi is also a solution.

[@adamsontalabucon3984]

A key for a car to escape the scene.

[@nealg6810]

Great review and one of my favorites!!!! I like both versions of Low Light. '86 and '89. I like the green and brown on the '89 version. Side note: Bruce Springsteen wrote the song, Because the Nigh . He should get credit. Haha. ; )

[@jimtilley1158]

1982 Scarlet is the teams 1st Sniper

[@mangalone4095]

"Green grenades" = M-67 (?)

[@mgvillanmp478]

dude I loved this guy although I did agree with the short barrel on the Uzi but that is for close quarter combat . like if he got spotted but he was a favorite ...you should see the modern update this guy got I like it might have to pick it up ...nice review my friend

[@HCC788]

I might like the Uzi more if he had a way to store it. Maybe a slot on his huge backpack, or that unidentified thing on his leg. I still think the Uzi isn't designed well. In hand, it feels really cheap-o.

[@mgvillanmp478]

HoodedCobraCommander788 yea I used to wonder why they didn't give him a place to store it ilost mine two weeks after I got him because of that

[@christianhafer9819]

@@mgvillanmp478 Careless. Lol. I hardly ever lost accessories.

[@nyquist75]

do you agree that 1986 was the last great year for gi joes? i just think overall quality went down there after

[@JB0071051982]

To a degree yes, even thought we still got some nice figures like Falcon and Shockwave in the post 1986 line up. Also some of the later figures just needed better colors and better accessories for fan to embrace them. Hasbro reused the body of Mace version 1 from 1993 to make a new version of Clutch( when they were making the comic book sets which included three action figures) and it looks really good in green paint with different arms and a new head.

[@ipokluda]

I enjoyed that special missions comic as well. Low Light kinda gave me the vibe of The Delta Force movie with Chuck Norris movie, all the special forces guys with their giants ski googles lol.

[@lazarus30001]

The Uzi would be a faster and more manuverable weapon if Cobra got the drop on his position; CQC.

[@Cavillier1970]

just about to say the same thing close quarters combat, real life snipers do come armed with smaller faster weapons, side arms etc,

[@nedflanders8968]

@HCC788 - I noticed your Slaughter's Marauders Low-Light has 2 broken thumbs, I also noticed that a lot of the 1989 Slaughter's Marauders figures in general, have broken thumbs. A lot of them. I wonder why this is. ???

[@luciferlovemonkey6750]

My Tiger Force figures had the same problem. I remember my version 1 of Duke had stiff thumbs, but the Tiger Force version the thumb bent really easily. I assume cheaper plastic.

[@George-de6hd]

Um wasn’t spirit a marksman (sniper)

[@baillergeaux]

It is ridiculous how several second versions of figures, like Low-Light's, were so physically different, and ow some late years figures could have perfectly been the second version of early years ones, like 1989 Downtown could have perfectly be named 1989 Short-Fuse and everybody would have liked it.

[@shermanvermin76]

*I* just wish Hasbro *left alone* some figures - they 'fixed things that weren't broken' when they did new versions of some figures.

[@jakubbuszko3089]

Nice ... Well I knew that guy in Maruders version .... The rifle has wihout bipod ... I lost this thing during first unpacking ...

[@HCC788]

It's super easy to lose. It may be the smallest bipod they ever did.

[@jenetteangeles6751]

Is Low Light wearing a vest?

[@HCC788]

I don't think so. It looks like a jacket to me.

[@mattlerch531]

still have my low light modified due to broken legs. I exchanged a damaged python patrol Tele viper legs with his. the scheme still works.

[@RogueTwo]

Very nice review, though I never had a problem with the new look for version 3 Low-Light, as the darker (dyed for practical reasons perhaps?) and face camouflage suited him and his job IMHO. I also liked that version 3 had fully removable headgear. I even head-swapped my version 1 figure because I liked the new head better. Low-Light's Order of Battle miniseries entry represents something of a filecard variation. In that, presumably earlier version, Low-Light was not "lost on a hunting trip" as a child. No, his abusive father set out to cure him of his timidness and fear of the dark by dragging him out to the county dump and leaving him there with a .22 rifle and orders not to come home until he'd killed 20 rats! Clearly, someone at Hasbro felt that this might be a little too dark for a kid's toy line, and asked for it to be changed. But not before Sunbow used that version of his backstory for the episode Nightmare Assault.

[@lazarus30001]

That version three is completely off the map; 'should have been a different character.

[@chrisnwi1209]

Such a great figure but I wish we could figure out what Hasbro had in mind with that left leg. It's as if they had an accessory in mind for him and decided to not use it but the mold was already done.

[@HCC788]

Some have speculated that it was for an cancelled accessory. I tried to find a definitive answer, but I didn't find one.

[@Mlopez_602]

Awesome review. I remember painting his hair black when I was a kid.

[@liteney]

Why?

[@Mlopez_602]

Brent Clouda because I didn't like the Yellow hair. It clashed.

[@shermanvermin76]

I like *two* versions of Low-Light - *this* one (this version, which has yellow hair, is clean shaven) and the (early) 1991 version (now has black hair, and grows a full black beard).

[@Thor13332]

I'm jealous. All that I have is a incomplete and paint faded one.

[@HCC788]

Keep hunting. There are plenty of good Low-Light figures around.

[@mgvillanmp478]

hahahahahaaaaaa....that trick ....lmfaoooo

[@HCC788]

I'm a magician.

[@robertallen1266]

The episode "Nightmare Assault," I think... That's where Low-Light was the hero of the day. Mindbender totally screwed up the Joes by invading their dreams. It turned semi-Freddy Krueger... But Low-Light has insomnia, and he won the day... and slept like a baby afterward. It also went deep into his issues with his Father. Anyway, last I checked, the episode is on KZbin..

[@robertallen1266]

Never mind, KZbin took it down. Season 2, Episode 24 "Nightmare Assault."

[@davidsoriente6845]

maybe Low Light was a big fan of the Michael Jackson Thriller look?

[@HCC788]

It was the 80s. We all wore strange clothes back then.

[@davidsoriente6845]

Yeah, I wore a Bon Jovi shirt, still feeling a lot of shame about that :(

[@bgddyphil]

ha!

[@cloudm.6337]

the other low light was subbed by shipwreck

[@HCC788]

I could kind buy it as a version of Shipwreck. Or as a totally new character.

[@omarlawrence5239]

His butt says made in Hong Kong. Lol.