HCC788 - 1990 UNDERTOW - Destro's Frogmen - Vintage G.I. Joe toy review!

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[@flemingmggmail]

Thought on the face mask covering an eye. Giving that these guys are meant to operate in extremely low-visible environments, maybe the mask gives up an eye to provide a HUD. The sea sled could mount sonar which is fed to the mask HUD along with targeting data for the torpedo. The data could travel over a cable attached to the air hose.

[@christianbrix4311]

One of my favourite army builders, and one of only a handful of 90s figures in my collection. Top tier in my opinion

[@christianhafer9819]

Absolutely top tier! Hoodie is a critical son of a biscuit! Fantastic figure in every way.

[@nothere853]

I don't usually comment, but I appreciate what you're doing and want to say so. Subscribed immediately 2 months ago:-)

[@Stormtrooper53]

Undertow is the name of one of Tool's best album, therefore it is the best name for this guy.

[@drozwalker9]

This figure looks pretty cool and a new one on me. Its great to learn more about GI Joe from the 90s.

[@GumbosGhost]

the collector club did make him in proper IG colors, he look fantastic

[@pabcalderon]

But it pretty expensive and hard to get one of those fellas

[@ivane5110]

If this guy had come out a decade earlier he'd have definitely found himself fighting my Mego Pocket or Super Powers Aquaman (much more suitable than the Adventure People swimmers). The helmet being removable is cool, but the trident is the winning piece (even if its execution leaves something to be desired). I think the Iron Grenadiers could've been more successful if they'd be sold as an entirely independent criminal organization without any connection to Cobra.

[@shane3674]

I seriously have to mention this because the coincidence was too funny. I literally just farted right before you asked if anyone “smelled anything” 😂 The timing was awesome!!!

[@snakeeyesdeclassified]

I'm looking forward to COBRA CONVERGENCE 6!

[@danielferstendig]

Did u know undertow also came with hole chested variant?

[@tonyjackson4078]

They really tried to stick with the Grenàdiers as a subteam. I think they barely eek out the Dreadnoks in members, and beat them easily in vehicles.

[@ginodescalzi6476]

I got this one as a birthday present, one of my favorite figures. Nice "Naked gun" reference XD "I love it"

[@rtd1409]

Fun review and I love the IG faction and wished it was developed a little better.

[@johnsoehnlen4781]

This is definitely a good figure. I really like the head sculpt and the removable mask. All the frogmen, both Cobra and Joe, were good figures.

[@christianhafer9819]

Excellent figure. Top tier definitely! Hoodie is an overly critical SOB. Perfect figure. One of the Top 5 of the 90's, I bet.

[@johnsoehnlen4781]

@@christianhafer9819 I can honestly say Undertow ia top 5 original character figure from the 90s. And by that I mean figures that didn't have previous versions in the 80s. Top 5 of all figures 1990 through 1994 is a subject I'd have to really study to be objectively fair.

[@christianhafer9819]

@John Soehnlen Perhaps. But, what I'm saying basically is that lousy Hoodie is selling him way short. Middle tier? Get the hell outta here! Top tier all the way. Love his color scheme. Not too bright, just perfect.

[@johnsoehnlen4781]

@@christianhafer9819 No argument from me there. I just found the spear that goes with him from an assortment of accessories I put away 25 years ago.

[@christianhafer9819]

@@johnsoehnlen4781 Good. All mine are complete. I don't want incomplete figures.

[@lesteralvarez903]

I liked the review. Name does not fit the figure but the mask and skiff are very good. Thank you Commander

[@russellharrell2747]

Undertow look like they should have been the second version of EELS. Or maybe an elite version of them.

[@Flassh81]

Man you really got my nostalgia going. Forgot about this guy. Loved him.

[@rjh7101]

Undertow and his Sea-Wyrms would have been cool.

[@chrisbeyond1879]

Great video as usual! Hope all the talk of shafts, hoses, and pegs doesn't get you demonetized!

[@lo1bo2]

I'm impressed with this figure and accessories considering it's year.

[@marcbrunson6986]

I had a few Grenadiers as a kid. I like this group. Undertow was a really cool figure. I stuck his trident down his pants too ha ha. Destro would actually be my favorite.

[@jakeproven256]

6:45 Or Aquaman.

[@DareDevilDave75]

I’m with you, I love the Eels. Undertow is not a good name for a builder

[@manofaction1807]

SHARKS WITH FRIKKIN' LASERS!!!!!

[@MiKeMiDNiTe-77]

Great video for a great figure. Can you please do vids on Night Creeper Leader and Headhunters Storm Trooper? 💣💥

[@PaulMcGillTV]

If that is your art work, I have to say that it has greatly improved. Good job.

[@10roadblock]

HCC788 he swim's in shit 🤣🤣😂😂 got me bust'n a gut too funny gr8 review keep them coming

[@ivan363]

💚💪🏾

[@subzero9113]

Aewsome Episode HCC! acn you please do some more episodes on the Iron grenadiers and Destros Organization? Next to the Dreadnoks these were My Favorite Enemy forces.

[@robonintendo]

Love the shirt!

[@pelicanphuucker4life]

Destro, as the head of M.A.R.S....an incredibly wealthy man. Sadly, I know how much "Joe-Old-Heads" or rather the kids who became Rawhides in '82 with the INITIAL Joe Team or OG-13 and their "Joe-Old-Heads" experience were all pretty similar....in '82, at whatever age they were, they fell in love with the figures, the characters, comic/sunbow series and almost lived happily ever after!!! the catch? Well by '85/'86 all those J.O.H.'s, or Joe-Old-Heads, were frankly sick of drab, olive green military realism....they collectively dreamt of characters/ figures like Sci-fi, Dr MindBender, Serpentor etc....Hasbro assumed that the answer was in outer space in neon colors but it actually came from much closer...under your own feet even!!! Well...if your feet are standing in the Himalayas.... and yes Joe-verse, O.J.H's prayers were answered in the form of the last mutant and human/reptile hybrid, the ULTIMATE and ABSOLUTE divine ruler of Cobra, the overseer and guardian responsible for Cobra-La and its inhabitants and finally the divine and most noble birthright, as the last of the lines of the Ancient Serpent King's....those King's who feared no other people and forged an alliance with all inorganic lifeforms in a pact of battle against the humans Cobra-La so resented. Hoodie Co-Co had failed and Globbie wouldn't dream, the one unforgivable crime in the entire community....and not literally moments after sentencing Co-Co to deaf....wasssss oncccccce a man....and besides, though it was through Pyschic Motivator it was NOT Dr. MindBender who did all the work, travel and research on DNA and creating a clone from genetically splicing the DNA of multiple historical characters and even Sgt Slaughter...it was, as channel He-Bro would say, "GLOBBBBEEEEUS" and now would be Serpentor's time to emerge the true Cobra Emperor. Ok....I'm getting carried away!!! But just imagine these future Joe-Old-Heads-In-Training after having played with this "realistic military action figures" line for 4 straight years WITHOUT Manimals, Space Marines, War on Drugs, *Destro's break away military force* , Co-Co and the Coil, no battles to win for Mother Nature aka the environment....like ALL environments, no dress up days like "normal uniform with......TIGER!!!!" or the really creative "let's let's wear black....at night!?! And then stay up all NIGHT!!!" or even "dying their uniforms basically into primary colors stripes...Blur, Green, Brown? No flying tank and no submarine jetliner, no SPRING LOADED ACTUALLY WORKING ACCESSORIES OOOOOOOR the rad neons they came in....no monsters, science fiction or anything HIGH FANTASY like 99.99% of future Joe-Old-Heads were begging for....until... Along came G.I.Joe: The Movie. You wouldn't ever believe it in a minion years if you saw me yet I told you I was a Joe-Old-Head! I'm not. I turned 1 year old in August of '92....so my earliest memories of Joe, figure wise, was the '86/'87 line....I never had a proper Duke as a kid but I did have Gen. Hawk, Wayne R. Sneeden aka #4 ranked officer in the Joe outfit just behind Flint, Duke and General Hawk...and despite my more youthful and exuberant and really, really good-looking Joe-Generation or Joe-Gen being new to the brand and loving Sunbow and tolerating the film a great many in our class did in fact have SOME movie-centric figures...I had Cobra-La, Sgt's misfits, Lt Falcon, Jynx, Law&Order, TunnelRat and while I'm sure several youtube hosts had any number of Chuckles figures, 5/6 opened and on display and 7-10 more that were left on card...so while FormBX had 13 odd Chuckles and Timmer was pushing 20 and that MY Joe-Gen was the target consumer my Rawhide team was short a Big Lob and a Chuckles, Joeburg was short a Shaun and Steve Simpson because Fritz Von Erich made em a deal to leave South Africa and go to Dallas Texas....so they could do Fritz's fig hunts for him and get evry '86/'87 Joey from the mississip and west and the Crocksh!tts be damned... So....I suppose my point is that for MANY a Hard-core Joe Collector the film was their swan-song because.....how could you ever top it??? But after walking away from Joe...those OG JOE-OLD-HEADS from Joe-Gen era #1 stopped following the brand and also, allegedly having #2 turned 21 during the premiere and overcoming any nervous feelings in the presence of the opposite sex....so at 22/23 they had no bills truly, and theyre succeeding or nearly succeeding in talking to, taking to dinner, not being rejected by and for a few touching/kissing...so Joe's are the last to ship out and the first to respond to anyone in need.....well you can imagine how many Joe-Gen's went AWOL and so with all that, it makes sense, for you guys to not fit grasp the dissolution of Destro's Army.....GLOBBBBEEEEUS, in a major d!ck move left Serpentor holding the bag and the tab/bill for all this...and so Cobra filed chapter 11 for restructuring and have come in to the black quick, quickly, quickest very recently. Sadly Destro's Despoiler overheated somewhere in Gary, Indiana and was like to be surely....goodnight. But Destro ACTUALLY divorced The Baroness and filed for chapter 7....he said he was looking to go back to school and that ruling the world wasn't even appealing any longer. Hehe yes....in the end Cobra self destructed...and General Clayton Abernathy has sworn his life to keep it so.. Destro was last spotted outside of Milwaukee with his new wife and over summer vacation as he is now a 9th grade English Literature teacher. Cobra Commander is still plotting domination somewhere in the dark quarters....he's aligned with Mr. FireFly and with Mr. ZARTAN and being funded by M.A.R.S. new C.E.O. MacGregor "Greg" Darcloning....a second cousin to Destro and a babe in arms in 87--90 with no preconceived opinions of anyone. Of course you must remember that I've been really sick for 7-8 days and Also just or in 60 hours this week at work...I think I'm delusional right now and all that might have been an episode of Sienfeld? If you'd like to rep as a Joe-Old-Head OR the real you is a Joe-Gen era from my days....the point is we're all in on something special and we're all inclusive... Even dreadnoks!!!! So Hoodie Co-Co, FormBX257, Timmer and Joeburg and on and on.... let's all sit and watch the Joe's defend Lady Liberty and kick a bunch of SCALE!!!

[@craighofmann638]

TL;DR

[@SnapDragonProto]

Great vid as always hcc!!!!

[@wraith6776]

cool

[@fuse557]

He was one of the last few figures I picked up back in the day. I thought he was a great figure.

[@chewinbubblegum2695]

Do you personally do the artwork for your video thumbnails?

[@calanon534]

Keep up the awesome work !!

[@michaelpytel3280]

The Barracudas would be a better name than Undertow. The color on the suit might be camouflage with red and green Algae.

[@danielherrin]

Was there not a Classified Friday this past week?

[@christianhafer9819]

Fantastic, top tier figure all the way, you overly critical SOB. The colors are perfect, his weapons are perfect. Maybe he trained the barracuda, like Aquaman or something. Voltar has a condor, Shipwreck a parrot, Spirit an eagle, Mutt has Junkyard, Snake Eyes has Timber, Spearhead has Max, etc. Some of the best figures come with animals. I'm sure he controls it some way. Get over yourself. Gosh dang!

[@nestorperena8629]

are you sure that's water?

[@diegoborges3716]

If the green parts were black it would fit more perfectly into Destro's ranks, imo.

[@DareDevilDave75]

Maybe mud viper? And lose the fish

[@STRAKAZulu]

Getting strong Stinky Diver vibes on this one. Completely forgot I owned this figure.

[@danielferstendig]

I see Stinky diver.

[@mechaman7818]

1:41 "We're making an alliance with The Enemy." "Who?" "The Enemy." "Which enemy?" "THE ENEMY." "Uhhh?" "The Iron Grenadiers. You know, Destro's Enemy!" "Wait, they're Destro's enemy? I thought they worked for Destro." "...I hate you, Fred 4."

[@cruizerdave]

Not bad at all. Maybe the fish Is used to smack Joes around.

[@manofaction1807]

So is this one guy or a bunch of them?

[@kilroywashere513]

Funny, yet gross.

[@jakeproven256]

I never liked Voltar, the character was just bland to me.