I lost my Outback figure as a child. Years later, when I was digging out an old evergreen shrub, I found him. He was a little the worse for wear, but surprisingly well intact for having survived several years in the wilderness. So I can attest to his skills as a survivalist.
@andersjrgensen20096 жыл бұрын
This was my all time favourite. It really takes me back. I didn't call him outback though. Not being able to read the file card at 5 years old and after loosing the file card.I eventually ended up just calling him "Survival". I switched the gun with one of those brow M16 to fit the colours a little better. I really loved this one... Thanks for the review 😄
@pixelforge48584 жыл бұрын
one of the best figures. he looks so great all geared up.
@nealg68107 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for reviewing Outback!!! He is my all time favorite G.I. Joe. Great review. And thanks again. Always fun to see Mrs. Hooded Cobra Commander and Jr. Hooded Cobra Commander!!
@christianbrix52115 жыл бұрын
Always my favourite as a kid, and still is. That Borovia storyline was amazing, but he was a bit under-used for my liking after that. Great review!
@Natschke_Family_Adventures7 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for helping me relive my childhood. Your videos take me back to some of the greatest times of my life.
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Buck. That means a lot to me. Comments like this keep me motivated to do my best every week.
@gaulergolf7 жыл бұрын
And you are very welcome for the drawing. It was an honor to be a small part of the channel!
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
It was my honor that you offered to do it!
@Barada736 ай бұрын
The fact that the SURVIVAL printed on his shirt is an acronym from the Army Ranger handbook, gives me the impression that he's dressed like a military instructor at a military school. Since it would be some of the most high intensity survival training that the military would offer (considering that GI Joe is supposed to be the most elite of America's Special Forces), then the instructors would need to be highly visible in case a trainee got into some real trouble during the course and had to call for help.
@TheNightBadger7 жыл бұрын
I love it when kids bear a strong resemblance to their parents!
@carlossodi95873 жыл бұрын
It's always been one of my favorites gi Joe's!
@joefan827 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing Outback, but never getting him as a kid. I love the "soldier on his own" idea with figures like Outback, Ambush, etc. If you like Night Force Outback, you might be interested in my next video. :-)
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
I'm always interested in your next video!
@Bud-gk8bw6 жыл бұрын
Superb review, as always. Interesting choice of surname for the survival expert- Alexander Selkirk was the marooned sailor who lived alone for years on a remote island and was the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe. Also- who else reckons that Outback versions 3 and 4 look like a Village Person?
@ExUSSailor4 жыл бұрын
Tiger Force Outback looked like Kenny Rogers, R.I.P.
@mangalone40954 жыл бұрын
The boot knife even has a detailed little sharpening stone !
@standepain7 жыл бұрын
HOLY CRAP! Not sure how but my Outback still has his flashlight in his leg!! I had him laying loose in a box so I'm not sure how that happened...pure luck I guess.
@roeggetablet7 жыл бұрын
Outback was what snake eyes looked like before the helicopter explosion. I only used him when I did the introduction storyline
@JoeMotionVideos827 жыл бұрын
AWESOME, great figure, great review. He is one of my favorites from 1987.
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
Thank you! It's easy to see why he would be a favorite for that year.
@racerxgundam7 жыл бұрын
i agree with you wholeheartedly on outback, he was top tier all the way. great accessories. I had zero problem with his white shirt back in the day because i never viewed him as a field operator.....he was busy teaching the joes how to S.U.R.V.I.V.E. !!!! :-D
@BenKurth7 жыл бұрын
Very nice. One of my favorite vintage joes.
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
I can see why he would be a favorite!
@Straight0uttaCrofton4 ай бұрын
this seems like a pretty cool figure - i feel like i could have gotten past the t-shirt i always had my bivouac playset out in the backyard, far away from HQ and everything else, and this guy would have been a good choice to man it
@christophermoody68405 жыл бұрын
Outback always seemed like an extreme Tri athlete to me. I remember when I was a kid and I first saw the pic for the character on the back of thr box of another character I was buying... I thought his name WAS survival.
@edghlover75355 жыл бұрын
Hahaha , SAME!
@williamhill6385 жыл бұрын
He was always in all my squads
@carlossodi95873 жыл бұрын
When I saw Outback for the first Time because of his look and name I thought he was from Australia!
@Transfixed7 жыл бұрын
So...no Rainbow Bright then? That Outback comic story arc was my all-time favourite
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
Maybe we'll have a Rainbow Brite cameo just for you.
@woofan257 жыл бұрын
I have a ranger manual from 1992 and it still has that passage!
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
Cool! I tried doing a search for a more recent version with that passage, but I wasn't able to find one. It's cool that they kept it at least until 1992! I think it's great that the file card had a citation! That's pretty sophisticated for a kid's toy.
@kleverstudios7 жыл бұрын
I thought he always kinda looked like Kurt Russell from The Thing with red hair, I like him.
@soterioncoil21637 жыл бұрын
Outback WAS one of the best of the last Joes I bought before quitting too!
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
I agree! Outback was a bright spot (ironically speaking) in an era when the line was progressively getting weirder.
@rtd14097 жыл бұрын
I remember how much fun I had when Outback came in and sadly the flashlight vanished very early on! Nearly immediately! And for some reason I could never get the webgear to sit on mine correctly.
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
The web gear is kind of tight. I struggled a little with it, but I was able to get it to work. Although the flashlight is cool, it is also tiny and perfectly camouflaged to disappear in the grass!
@chief32157 жыл бұрын
outback was 1 of the last 3 i bought in the vinage line. every good review.
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Outback would not be a bad note to end on. He was one of the better offerings from '87.
@juanelorriaga28404 жыл бұрын
Wow that other mold had him with white hair?!? Damn must have been a hell few years
@totalrobot4 жыл бұрын
That damned flashlight.
@Mlopez_6027 жыл бұрын
I too had several of these figures just for the legs. Sadly, no flashlights remain.
@donaldthompson99387 жыл бұрын
Great review. Never had V1 Outbreak just the Night Force version played with him a lot.
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
Someday I'm going to get me one of those Night Force Outbacks!
@jacenstarhunter89887 жыл бұрын
HCC: My favorite Chuck Norris look a like, great Review! :)
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Just remember: Chuck Norris isn't Australian! He's AMERICAN!
@jacenstarhunter89887 жыл бұрын
HCC: XD
@grayj74416 жыл бұрын
one of my favorites as a teen
@grotezakhooi6 жыл бұрын
11:18 ? Rambo first blood ;) cool to know i wasnt the only one customizing my joes switching parts like that , made a lot of "civilians " back then :) hehe Yo Joe !
@thephotoviper7 жыл бұрын
great review!!! not sure about the '69 rangers manual, but I've got a regular army issue survival manual from 1975, and it uses the same acronym for survival, so the file card is probably accurate in that regard....
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Another guy commented that the passage is also in a 1992 Ranger guide, so they kept it at least that long!
@gaulergolf7 жыл бұрын
Those issues in the early 60s were some of the best issues of gi joe. The book lost its way after issue 50 (in my opinion) but those ones were bright spots.
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
There were a few bright spots after #50, but they were fewer and farther between. It must have been difficult to work in the weird stuff Hasbro was pushing out. There was also a bit of fatigue creeping in. The last couple years of the series are painful to read.
@jschaffer40007 жыл бұрын
one of my top five characters/figures. I think the special missions issue comic helped flesh him out!
@michaelswanson66777 жыл бұрын
l agree. This outback was one of my favs! Him and Chuckles actually.. and then I gave up GiJoes.. well , me mum took all my Joes away from me in '87 :/
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
I agree, his appearance in Special Missions really helped. That was the strength of the Special Missions series. It gave some of these characters more opportunities to develop.
@user-si9fx4xb6v6 жыл бұрын
Big fan of the Special Missions comic book stories myself. It is fun to see G.I. Joe fight other foes in more realistic situations and as you said see underused characters shine. I have not read all of the issues yet, but the ones I have I have really enjoyed.
@yakito0077 жыл бұрын
I have the European tiger force version of 'Outback' which is one of my favourites. In spain 'Outback' is named 'Jungla', Jungle in english and the card is a bit different because the word 'Survival' is spanish translated (Supervivencia) and every word has a bit different description. I didn't know that in europe there were some exclusive figures. Thanks for your review! PS: I still preserve his lantern. LOL!
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
Thank you! And congratulations on still having his light. Yes, the Tiger Force Outback is a popular figure. A lot of people like him, and that's totally cool. It is just not one of my favorites.
@_MetrallaAcme7 жыл бұрын
Iñaki Matar o Morir que bien encontrar un español por aquí.
@yakito0077 жыл бұрын
Jajaja, pensé que era el único frikazo made in spain del G.I.Joe pero resulta que me encuentro a más gente! En realidad me aficioné a este canal cuando subí un vídeo del videojuego de G.I.Joe. Para documentarme empecé a ver los vídeos de HCC788 y me quedé enganchado. Me encantan sus reviews, su humor y su manera de hacer las cosas. No me extraña que su canal crezca. Un saludo Metralla y recuerda que 'only G.I. Joe is G.I.Joe'!
@_MetrallaAcme7 жыл бұрын
Iñaki Matar o Morir me muevo en foros de facebook como Gi joe adictos, custom warriors, Gi Joe latinoamérica y otros (el inglés no es mi fuerte por eso estoy en espacios en castellano y también visito continuamente canales como éste al que estoy suscrito). Un abrazo desde Málaga.
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
Estoy muy contento de que hayas encontrado mi canal. Usted comenta en cualquier idioma, simplemente no ridicule mi estilo de pelo o sentido de la moda. Eso fue una broma, pero no sé si Google Translate es transmitir eso.
@danieljohn43557 жыл бұрын
Outback gets a pass on the white t-shirt as he is a training instructor. Perfect figure. I appreciate your camo poncho though. Too bad he didn't come with a knife like the one he threatened Leatherneck with.
@christianbrix52115 жыл бұрын
They kissed and made up though! Outback gets shot in combat, and Leatherneck returns fire on the enemy vehicle and says "You shoot my friend, I frag your ride!"
@kyleguiffredoguiffredo90475 жыл бұрын
Yea!!! Allwase wanted this Joe ,he was discuned before I was into GI Joe , thanks again and could you do Topside, crazy leggs, sneak a peak, free fall, thanks !!!
@sonicmagnus53124 жыл бұрын
my Outback, is somewhere in the outback in Wyoming, surviving
@auryqueiroz74977 жыл бұрын
Outback ever reminds me chuck norris
@unionpacific83327 жыл бұрын
Huzzah, an actual review!
@mikesmith27187 жыл бұрын
Ahh the real outback review still like the other one too lol
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
Hah! I'll keep that in mind. Maybe we should have stuck with the Rainbow Brite channel!
@bartdman957 жыл бұрын
Make a one shot RAINBOW BRITE review. :)
@shermanvermin766 жыл бұрын
Outback (I've already posted - I like *two* versions of him) [and I've already posted *what* two versions of him I like] has a namesake in Transformers - one of the Mini Autobots (and, coincidentally, but as you'd expect with a name like that, was Australian).
@travismiller43207 жыл бұрын
Call her Bluff! Sneak in some cartoon episode reviews!
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
I have a feeling she could Force choke me.
@mgvillanmp4787 жыл бұрын
awesome video man thumbs up I had this one ...I just wished he had a actual knife you could slide in the backpack like falcon and shockwave ...but still he a good one
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
Thank you! A knife would have been good. They could have easily added a place for it on that huge backpack.
@papishow7 жыл бұрын
Outback was one of the last figures si bought as a kid. GI JOE started to get weird. I'm. Ow back in and now I'm only looking for realistic looking figures from 1988 on back.
@juanelorriaga28404 жыл бұрын
How many Aussie Joes were there? My wife was from AzuS but lives with me in NYC now but her brother was into the figures and although the card was a bit different and I think some molds but could be wrong but I think there was another joe Aussie Recondo or something?
@williamhill6385 жыл бұрын
Super glue solved that flashlight problem for me
@christianbrix52115 жыл бұрын
HCC, have you managed to pick up the international variant? I have one at home in Denmark...
@delvis78427 жыл бұрын
if anyone ever finds my old Outback figure, you'll know it might be mine because the flashlight will be glued right into the leg. it didn't fit in his hand, and I didn't want to lose it! the same was done for my Night Force version!lol
@stevenimeson9025 жыл бұрын
Wicked!!!
@christianbrix43112 жыл бұрын
Will you review the European version that I sent you? Or maybe the European Mutt? That one was complete, if I remember correctly.
@christianhafer98192 жыл бұрын
I'll need to get him, but he's expensive. And Survival rubs off his shirt easily. Cool figure, though.
@kyleguiffredoguiffredo90475 жыл бұрын
Thoes tunics are great, brings back memories, I made life jackets from yellow fabrick and fome
@tyrellwhite80627 жыл бұрын
I actually have Night Force Outback, but no accessories
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
Cool! I look forward to picking one up someday!
@michaelbenjmitchell12 жыл бұрын
Outback GIJoes answer to Chuck Norris. Kind of looks like Chuck from back in the day.
@ericgollinger3673 жыл бұрын
...and pants are half the battle...
@aerytful7 жыл бұрын
GOOOOO NERDS!!!
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
NERDS 4 LIFE!
@mattlerch5317 жыл бұрын
i didnt need chuck "rambo" norris, or snow job on 'roids unmasked. i had enough jungle specialist/trainers in my collection. still would like to know where my recondo and footloose went. been AWOL since '85. though outback's gear is proper, he needed a knife or some climbing gear too.
@gxbouncer17 жыл бұрын
Where did ya get that pack from ? Lol
@HCC7887 жыл бұрын
Thanks gxbouncher :D And thanks again for the other stuff!