HCC788 - 1989 SCOOP - Combat Information Specialist - Vintage G.I. Joe toy review!

[@andrethornton3371]

I got this figure as my only Christmas present in 1990. It was given to me by my grandfather. I won't forget the lesson learned from him. Great man now in heaven. My wife honored that memory a few years ago by gifting me a carded scoop for Christmas. I got lots of feels from this video. Thank you, thank you

[@dubuyajay9964]

I hope things are better for you now.

[@juanelorriaga2840]

You were brought up right my parents were hipped back in the day and let me and my brothers and sister do what we want but when we wanted something we had to get a job and Xmas was not a ton of gifts.I wouldn’t change growing up like that they instilled a great working ethic in us.Again good on ya

[@glennrobbins2372]

My son had a customized version of Scoop from the huge lot of Joes I bought at a yard sale. He had the arms of Beachhead v1 and the legs of Beachhead v2 making the whole uniform match. My son called him Sparks and he was a radio operator.

[@Mlopez_602]

I remember scoop. I never sent him out on missions. He was always too busy editing all the PSA videos he filmed.

[@WrestlingWithDerek]

Mlopez 602 😂😂😂

[@craighofmann638]

And knowing how to make PSA' s is the OTHER half of the battle...

[@dubuyajay9964]

I put him in the General since he often was in it during the short-lived DIC cartoon.

[@roguishpaladin]

I bet he liked pork chop sandwiches.

[@dubuyajay9964]

@@roguishpaladin I wish there were minis of those. That'd be a funny accessory.

[@k-dawgbroadcasting5444]

Remember, at least in the Sunbow series, they got Shipwreck out of a Cobra club and Quick Kick from an Arctic base, still barefoot and bare-chested. Joe recruits come from interesting places ;P

[@dubuyajay9964]

And Quick Kick had candy bars! 😂🤣

[@autoneurotic]

I remember getting Scoop for Christmas 1989. I never was a fan of the yellow but I always liked the figure. He was always a techie who stayed at base or with a vehicle when I played with him. Definitely one of my favorite growing up.

[@GeekWorldOrder]

Scoop is a character I have really come to love. His strong story in Operation Dragonfire helped. I started cosplaying him last year as I do convention photography and coverage and it became a costume I could do and carry my gear in. Scoop also ended up being the costume I submitted to become a member of The Finest.

[@noclarityhere]

You cosplay Scoop!? That is so cool. I'm so glad so many people like him as much as I do.

[@VorpalDerringer]

18:14 Tunnel Rat ties the sling directly to Scoop's M16, removing the sling swivels. 18:38 Note the Iron Grenadier shown has done the same to his AKM. Nice detail!

[@noclarityhere]

A very fair review of my favourite character. That Special Missions issue he's featured in is definitely one of my favourites too, and I got Larry to sign it for me at JoeCon last year. It still makes me smile. Yo Joe! -Rob.

[@matfejpatrusin4550]

He was my first joe ever (my parents chose him to be my Christmas gift because he looked less violent). I found his character to be underwhelming then but now he's just "my first joe". And I could appreciate the great sculpt and overall quality of a joe figure even back then.

[@charliem9831]

Used Scoop a lot as a kid. But I did have him turn on the Joes.

[@hillbillyharper4008]

I loved the new intro. And on the yellow. Mr. Hama may not have had a choice. Hasbro and marvel may have put the squeeze on him. Again another great video thanks

[@FoxofMaysville]

I recall have Scoop as a poker buddy with Dial Tone, & Mainframe.

[@Sturmdude]

The camera he has was also used for an action figure of Vince Vaughn's character Nick Van Own from the film The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

[@troyt6864]

Larry Hama didn't have a problem with the yellow color but, had a problem with no casualties in GI Joe..but than again, it's a kids show. I guess the producer's didn't think us 80's kids were suffocated enough to understand real war.

[@Pegwarmers]

I always liked Scoop. I used him in my stop motion animated show Action Figure Adventures.

[@sirkowski]

That was a really well made head sculpt. I had this figure. I don't remember how I used it.

[@WWJD85]

I find it funny that Burgess Meredith who voiced golobulus also played Ernie Pyle in the story of GI Joe.

[@ROCKETJEFFMatejek]

I always thought of him as a specialist. I always used him to videotape Hawks speech in a meeting so for the other Joes who didn't make it for the meeting.

[@ROCKETJEFFMatejek]

Good job! Thank you for your information about SCOOP! Other cool Joes! Yo Joe!

[@gazz_N7]

Same with me on the color, Scoop always sat on the side lines. Great review Hoodie!

[@ralang999]

Scoop got the yellow jumpsuit leftover after Airtight and Lightfoot quit :D

[@TroySmith25]

rands999 reminds me of April O’Niel from TMNT and she was also a journalist.

[@MrKersey]

Nice to see you again, HCC and good to see you feeling better!

[@lazarus30001]

Long live the sweater vest!!! ;-p

[@Michael_Johnson_5446]

Sobering ending. Great work, as always.

[@bobastu]

Good review about a well intentioned figure. Everything about him is a conundrum. He is a combat journalist with a Masters degree in EE, yet is only an E-4. Non-combatant officers would have an enlisted security attachment. Implying he has a backpack capable of transmitting real time, combat footage, via satellite is contradictory to the huge camera they gave him to capture such imagery. Considering GI Joe was a classified unit, whose own soldiers were not allowed to wear ribbons earned due to the classification of the missions in which they were earned, the idea of any type of video being captured sounds like the Jugglers were pulling appropriations stuff again!

[@Spacefrisian]

I still have this figure, but i remember using it as my Jake Rockwell from the Centurions stand in. To be young again.

[@Stefoshark]

Hi from Canada, love your work, the review is a masterpiece, if possible I will love a full review of G.i. Joe (Blowtorch) thx, have a nice day sir, p.s. sorry for the writhing I'm French =p

[@TheSkullReviews]

Solid review as usual, nice job.

[@WrestlingWithDerek]

Great Review and awesome breakdown!

[@rtd1409]

For all these years I get him and Lightfoot mixed up and tend to forget that its Lightfoot not Scoop that I do actually have!

[@Slashman3]

Oh Snap, "HoodieCoCo here!" The dawn of a new age!!!

[@see5782000]

Very good history lesson and review. Does GIJoe have a Chaplain and JAG? Joes must believe in something and what to do after you die... Thanks.

[@wallaroo1295]

That helmet looks like the Great Gazoo!

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

I recently watched the movie G.I. Joe, starring Burgess Meredith. I highly recommended it.

[@craighofmann638]

Yes, that introduction is amazing! The movie itself gets progressively worse from there...

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

@@craighofmann638 There were parts that left me wanting, for certain.

[@nerdcraftercoley7305]

In my personal opinion the bright colors are what attracts kids to the toys. If everything was just camouflage and olive drab then kids may not have bought as many figures. I like those I like the bright colored figures and the camo figures and personally I like the sci-fi and fantasy elements just as much as the military elements. Unfortunately not as many kids cared about the military realism of GI Joe they just wanted something fun to watch and something fun to play with.

[@daymja]

I doubt if I would of worn a microwave satellite relay as a backpack.

[@troyt6864]

On another note, Scoop today would be delegated to running AFN reports and making horrible PSA commercials overseas.

[@dubuyajay9964]

That's fine. I just had the guy on Backline duty on the General.

[@fakename2212]

I think Scoop might have been the first Joe I ever had.

[@cobraisland2594]

And remember only Hoodie CoCo is Hoodie CoCo

[@basher20]

In-universe, the helmet would have needed to be oversized to fit over sound isolation headphones that he would have needed to wear given his role.

[@uhhuhhuh100]

Great review! This figure is an interesting figure. It is too bad there was no holster for the pistol and too much yellow. It's still a nice figure nonetheless.

[@jackloera4600]

I always liked the non combat Joes. They were a great story start when i played with the toys. Closest thing the Joes had to spies.

[@dubuyajay9964]

Chuckles doesn't count as a spy?

[@jackloera4600]

@@dubuyajay9964 Oh no, I forgot about Chuckles! 😮. I stand corrected.

[@dubuyajay9964]

@@jackloera4600 Chuckles cracks me up though. He's more akin to Miami Vice than military. He's almost like a civilian contractor throwback to the Pinkertons that was used for ops that required "plausible deniability" and thus you didn't want an alphabet soup agency involved. Plus, Snake Eyes and Jinx were trained in ninjitsu. And ninjitsu involves training in disguise and spying.

[@lo1bo2]

At the end I noticed the card art shows him holding the pistol in his right hand and the camera in the left hand. Maybe the art was flipped, or more likely we fans think too hard about these things.

[@jasonkerest394]

HCC 788, it is probably worth noting as you've stated in the past that you were out of GI Joe by 1989, but I stuck around for another inning that year on the strength of 1988. Snake-Eyes, Stalker, and Rock&Roll releases were also a factor. As a kid I didn't know what to do with this guy. He was an E-4 so he fit into squads fine. I had him fill kind of a Pvt. Joker from Full Metal Jacket kind of role on the GI Joe squads. To me his face has a Matthew Modine quality; if you put round spectacles on him he'd almost be a dead ringer. But what purpose did he serve? Hang out with Life-Line or Dial-Tone? 1989 was the last year I was into GI Joe. I was getting too old for it and after getting the entire regular line, the Python Patrol, Slaughter's Marauders (eeck), and couple of the vehicles I was underwhelmed and moved on to video games and comic books. Thank you for the review.

[@cronocomics]

The package art do not contribute to show what the character's position is in G.I. Joe. Wielding a gun as he "records" the action would make most of distracted parents or non reader kids to believe the camera was some time of cool bazooka and the name scoop was about that kitchen tool.

[@KirksCORNER1983]

My boy scoop just got him moc

[@kenswaney2377]

Nice. Not a Joe I have it may be my next purchase.

[@noclarityhere]

Do it! Scoop is well worth owning.

[@ROCKETJEFFMatejek]

Scoop is one of my favorite & SGT. SLAUGHTER is the other based on a real Charter. Wasn't FRIDGE,based on a Football player: "The Refrigerator." Who else is based on a real Charter?

[@user-si9fx4xb6v]

@RocketJeff Matejek, Bazooka's likeness is modeled after New England Patriots player Steve Grogan. Leatherneck's likeness is based on Hasbro illustrator Ron Rudat( who also lent his name to the character of Dusty, albit with the last name of Tudar for the action figure and comic book), Tunnel Rat's likeness is based on Larry Hama (writer of the comic book and the early character file cards). Law's likeness is based on Kirk Bozigian - a Hasbro executive who was one of the driving forces behind G.I.Joe's return in 1982 as The Real American Hero. Finally the character of Shipwreck was inspired by Billy Buddusky Jack Nicholson's character in the film, The Last Detail (1973).

[@dubuyajay9964]

"Fridge" Perry is a real man. It's sad that he's spending his retirement barely getting by in a retirement home and his own family doesn't even visit him.

[@wearenotallowedtohaveourow6543]

Hoody Coco hahaha 😘😘😘

[@aped3]

As a Elite Team that GI JOE is !!! Why was all most all the bulk team members Rank E4s ???

[@johnfriday5169]

aped3 Probably because E-4 is a respectful grade to achieve by the end of your first enlistment. You would have to prove yourself in regular military before being selected for the joes.

[@cobraisland2594]

Good review brother I enjoy your videos

[@excillon]

Thought that was a directional mic not a pistol?

[@noclarityhere]

It's a pistol equipped with a suppressor, so he can stay safe, and still get the shots he needs without ruining the audio with unnecessary gun fire.

[@TerryTurner]

Great review! #YoJoe 👏😎

[@EGOS42]

Could there be a secret connection between Scoop and Ice Cream Soldier hmm?

[@christianhafer9819]

His color isn't a big deal. You're crazy. You take this stuff too seriously. He's a top tier figure. Oh, you can plug the camera on his backpack by the way. You missed that detail.

[@johnsoehnlen4781]

Thanks for that scoop of info. I just tested it out on my Scoop figure and the camera does fit into the backpack. I've had this figure for decades and this is the first time I did this. I just wanted anybody who reads these comments after me to know it's tried, tested, and true.

[@christianhafer9819]

@@johnsoehnlen4781 Thanks. Well, there's a little nub on the backpack that correlates to a hole on the camera. It's made for that. I didn't make it up. I got it off of formbx257 or 3djoes.com, maybe.

[@erdio21]

Never understood why a classified military unit fighting a top secret terror organization would want a journalist around...but what do I know?

[@noclarityhere]

They can go over whatever footage Scoop took to see where they can get better. Kind of like how sport teams analyse their games afterwards to improve.

[@roguishpaladin]

Also, even classified and top secret operations need to get recorded so that accurate information gets up the chain of command and can be presented to the brass, the president, and Congress.

[@erdio21]

roguishpaladin those are valid points however- he’s a journalist who by definition reports the news. I’m just saying I wouldn’t want him hanging around the team either.

[@dubuyajay9964]

The US military has various newspapers, in house news programs, etc... See AFN. It's just that obviously they are restricted on what they can report on.

[@meatbyproducts]

Broadcasters, Photojournalists, and Combat Camera all go into combat when attached to unit. So someone like Scoop would see action. stop saying he is not a combat Joe.

[@phillipgatelein8591]

I just scooped a scoop today

[@Morgaine4194]

I like that you can make a figure I'm not interested in interesting

[@cowpuddles4851]

I think Scoop makes a better commo guy than combat camera. The DIC cartoon really ruined this guy for me, but he’s still a decent figure. My only encounter with combat camera came on a patrol in Iraq. I fell into a drainage ditch and mistakenly climbed a huge pile of dung for an observation position. Then they misquoted a statement I made about redeploying home, making it sound like I was afraid to be in Iraq. False news indeed!

[@dubuyajay9964]

That sucks man. Going to guess he was a "fake news" civvy and not AFN.

[@adamverwolf9499]

Nice Review But I gotta hate the yellow and the Blue/Green at least that's how it comes across in the video. The card art is Green but the figure looks Blue/green.

[@natemo82]

No grenades? That’s unusual.

[@Chris.Mc83]

My cousin had this guy, I never really cared for this figure though.

[@jjk1120]

I never had Scoop. But I had Airtight, who was equally useless.

[@craighofmann638]

Toxo-vipers appreciate your non-use of Airtight.