HCC788 - 1987 OUTBACK - Survivalist - Vintage G.I. Joe toy review!

[@dennislandon2236]

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.

[@pixelforge4858]

one of the best figures. he looks so great all geared up.

[@andersjrgensen2009]

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 😄

[@carlossodi9587]

It's always been one of my favorites gi Joe's!

[@Natschke_Family_Adventures]

Thank you so much for helping me relive my childhood. Your videos take me back to some of the greatest times of my life.

[@HCC788]

Thank you, Buck. That means a lot to me. Comments like this keep me motivated to do my best every week.

[@nealg6810]

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!!

[@gaulergolf]

And you are very welcome for the drawing. It was an honor to be a small part of the channel!

[@HCC788]

It was my honor that you offered to do it!

[@christianbrix5211]

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!

[@ExUSSailor]

Tiger Force Outback looked like Kenny Rogers, R.I.P.

[@TheNightBadger]

I love it when kids bear a strong resemblance to their parents!

[@Barada73]

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.

[@roeggetablet]

Outback was what snake eyes looked like before the helicopter explosion. I only used him when I did the introduction storyline

[@chief3215]

outback was 1 of the last 3 i bought in the vinage line. every good review.

[@HCC788]

Thank you! Outback would not be a bad note to end on. He was one of the better offerings from '87.

[@mangalone4095]

The boot knife even has a detailed little sharpening stone !

[@BenKurth]

Very nice. One of my favorite vintage joes.

[@HCC788]

I can see why he would be a favorite!

[@woofan25]

I have a ranger manual from 1992 and it still has that passage!

[@HCC788]

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.

[@joefan82]

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. :-)

[@HCC788]

I'm always interested in your next video!

[@williamhill638]

He was always in all my squads

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

AWESOME, great figure, great review. He is one of my favorites from 1987.

[@HCC788]

Thank you! It's easy to see why he would be a favorite for that year.

[@Bud-gk8bw]

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?

[@soterioncoil2163]

Outback WAS one of the best of the last Joes I bought before quitting too!

[@HCC788]

I agree! Outback was a bright spot (ironically speaking) in an era when the line was progressively getting weirder.

[@racerxgundam]

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

[@Straight0uttaCrofton]

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

[@grayj7441]

one of my favorites as a teen

[@christophermoody6840]

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.

[@edghlover7535]

Hahaha , SAME!

[@kleverstudios]

I thought he always kinda looked like Kurt Russell from The Thing with red hair, I like him.

[@Mlopez_602]

I too had several of these figures just for the legs. Sadly, no flashlights remain.

[@rtd1409]

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.

[@HCC788]

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!

[@Transfixed]

So...no Rainbow Bright then? That Outback comic story arc was my all-time favourite

[@HCC788]

Maybe we'll have a Rainbow Brite cameo just for you.

[@carlossodi9587]

When I saw Outback for the first Time because of his look and name I thought he was from Australia!

[@danieljohn4355]

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.

[@christianbrix5211]

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!"

[@standepain]

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.

[@juanelorriaga2840]

Wow that other mold had him with white hair?!? Damn must have been a hell few years

[@jschaffer4000]

one of my top five characters/figures. I think the special missions issue comic helped flesh him out!

[@michaelswanson6677]

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 :/

[@HCC788]

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-si9fx4xb6v]

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.

[@jacenstarhunter8988]

HCC: My favorite Chuck Norris look a like, great Review! :)

[@HCC788]

Thank you! Just remember: Chuck Norris isn't Australian! He's AMERICAN!

[@jacenstarhunter8988]

HCC: XD

[@grotezakhooi]

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 !

[@totalrobot]

That damned flashlight.

[@donaldthompson9938]

Great review. Never had V1 Outbreak just the Night Force version played with him a lot.

[@HCC788]

Someday I'm going to get me one of those Night Force Outbacks!

[@sonicmagnus5312]

my Outback, is somewhere in the outback in Wyoming, surviving

[@thephotoviper]

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....

[@HCC788]

Awesome! Another guy commented that the passage is also in a 1992 Ranger guide, so they kept it at least that long!

[@gaulergolf]

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.

[@HCC788]

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.

[@juanelorriaga2840]

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?

[@unionpacific8332]

Huzzah, an actual review!

[@shermanvermin76]

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).

[@travismiller4320]

Call her Bluff! Sneak in some cartoon episode reviews!

[@HCC788]

I have a feeling she could Force choke me.

[@papishow]

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.

[@christianbrix5211]

HCC, have you managed to pick up the international variant? I have one at home in Denmark...

[@bartdman95]

Make a one shot RAINBOW BRITE review. :)

[@kyleguiffredoguiffredo9047]

Thoes tunics are great, brings back memories, I made life jackets from yellow fabrick and fome

[@delvis7842]

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

[@kyleguiffredoguiffredo9047]

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 !!!

[@mgvillanmp478]

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

[@HCC788]

Thank you! A knife would have been good. They could have easily added a place for it on that huge backpack.

[@auryqueiroz7497]

Outback ever reminds me chuck norris

[@mikesmith2718]

Ahh the real outback review still like the other one too lol

[@HCC788]

Hah! I'll keep that in mind. Maybe we should have stuck with the Rainbow Brite channel!

[@yakito007]

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!

[@HCC788]

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.

[@_MetrallaAcme]

Iñaki Matar o Morir que bien encontrar un español por aquí.

[@yakito007]

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'!

[@_MetrallaAcme]

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.

[@HCC788]

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.

[@tyrellwhite8062]

I actually have Night Force Outback, but no accessories

[@HCC788]

Cool! I look forward to picking one up someday!

[@christianhafer9819]

I'll need to get him, but he's expensive. And Survival rubs off his shirt easily. Cool figure, though.

[@williamhill638]

Super glue solved that flashlight problem for me

[@michaelbenjmitchell1]

Outback GIJoes answer to Chuck Norris. Kind of looks like Chuck from back in the day.

[@stevenimeson902]

Wicked!!!

[@aerytful]

GOOOOO NERDS!!!

[@HCC788]

NERDS 4 LIFE!

[@christianbrix4311]

Will you review the European version that I sent you? Or maybe the European Mutt? That one was complete, if I remember correctly.

[@ericgollinger367]

...and pants are half the battle...

[@gxbouncer1]

Where did ya get that pack from ? Lol

[@HCC788]

Thanks gxbouncher :D And thanks again for the other stuff!

[@mattlerch531]

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.

[@williamhill638]

Different gun tho

[@nyquist75]

another joe on roids