HCC788 - 1986 Cobra Emperor SERPENTOR - vintage G. I. Joe toy review! HD S02E17
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Sources and Information:
Serpentor on YoJoe.com:
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Serpentor on 3dJoes.com:
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Air Chariot on YoJoe.com:
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Air Chariot on 3dJoes.com:
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Buz Dixon Interview, G. I. Joe Headquarters,
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Serpentor image from G. I. Joe Animated Movie, JoeToonArchive.com:
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Gallic Wars:
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War elephant:
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GI Joe Movie 1987: Serpentor Assassination Attempt:
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I used to love serpentor as a kid
One of my favorite Cobra action figures and characters as a kid. Now that I'm collecting vintage GI Joe's again as an adult he still is one of my all time favorite figures and I use to display him in the very focus of my show case because he looks so impressive on his Air Chariot throne.
I loved Serpentor when I was a kid and he is still among my favs in my collection. I always thought Cobra Commander was a whimp Serpentor was awsome and in my little Joe world onlybone person could stand up to him. For as long as I can remember mine had a chipped fang, I always imagined that was from when Sgt. Slaighter punched him in the face.
I loved his helmet. Great sculpt all around! This I command!
It looks like he’s wearing the Fortress of a Fangs from the Dungeons and Dragons toyline!
One aspect of serpentor I really liked was Dick Gautier who did a damn good job of voicing the tyrant himself.
And trying to voice a charismatic tyrant doesn't seem like an easy task.
I honestly don't mind aspects of science fiction bleeding into G.I. Joe. Power suits, advanced weaponry & vehicles, and genetically-enhanced characters I'm cool with, because it kinda makes sense for warring factions to enhance their efforts through any means, particularly in an ongoing struggle.
All of Cobra was awesome
As much as I love the commander, serpentor was my pride and joy as a 6-7 year old.
Arise serpentor, arise! Was watched as much as the movie on my VHS :)
The air chariot was so iconic to me too. Now we have drones... Im waiting for one to be made human sized... But obviously... No capes!
The creation of Serpentor comic arc was amazing!
That is glorious! This I command!
Dang the comic book suffered for a while when Serpentor was introduced. Still remember how great it was when Cobra Commander came back. Hats off to Larry Hama making the best he could with what he was given.
I was indifferent to this guy as a kid and i remember getting like three of him by accident (gifts from different people). I really loved cobra la, which is kinda weird, but i absolutely loved battle armor Cobra Commander.
I have to say as an adult i’m really impressed with this figure. May have to track one down now.
The problem with the concept of Serpentor is, what kind of battlefield strategy could he have come up with that General Hawk would not have learned about in military history in West Point?
Also that it's impossible. I tend to turn off my critical brain when watching cartoons. Kinda ruins it when you start applying real world logic.
That suggests his keen military mind couldn't invent new strategies. I think he totally could.
As a kid, I always imagined the device on his right arm was some sort of wrist-laser.
I sold all my GI Joes to my older brother. I had collected every single Cobra Commander variant. I miss them
I always thought that the device on his wrist was a remote for his chariot.
It is .
I just got my first Serpentor figure last week so I thought I would re-watch this review. Serpentor was where I got off the bus when I was a kid, however as an adult I like him. Great review and wow over 6000 views. Nice!
Thanks! This one seems to have struck a nerve with viewers.
Serpentor is an excellent figure and his vehicle is cool. I don't have his original cape. I bought like 3 repros, and they look superb, and saved me a bundle too.
I'm a huge Serpentor fan I enjoyed this video very much thank you
Cool! He is one of my favorites! I have him with his file card!
I was 13 years old when Serpentor was released and my first thought was, “That’s really stupid.” It was definitely the beginning of the decline of my interest in GI Joe; but when I saw the Cobra-La 3-pack in a Kaybee Toys store my reaction was, “That’s it. I’m out.” I wouldn’t get back into GI Joe until the 25th anniversary collection.
You missed a lot of great stuff from '88-'90.
Wasn't so into the figure myself either, but the episode 'My Favorite Things' is, well...one of my favorite things.
The 10 second blurb about CC musing about a Serpentor done in by his own chariot's air intake was pure genius. You should incorporate more extremely short "vignettes" in your videos. It really made the review.
Serpentors cape looks like it was cut from a leisure suite from the 70s, after all he is SOLID GOLD
+Byron Kellogg Ha!
I think I've seen most of your reviews now. Every single one has been informative and entertaining, thanks Hoodie
I could deal with Serpentor and even Cobra-La (I liked the characters but thought the name was stupid), but I wasn't willing to go ant farther even though I love sci-fi. When they came out with the Monstro Viper and Lobotomaxx and the space aliens, I was done. I never would've stuck around if GI Joe was too real world, but in the end they just went a bit too sci-fi for the line.
Not sure how I missed out on this figure, but glad I did. Thanks for the share Commander!
As a G.I. Joe fan, I still laugh at the fact that in the Image comic books, Serpentor came back to life for a short time. Ironically, he lost control of Cobra yet again in a civil war. Cobra Commander managed to defeat him at the end of the arc. Supposedly the character of General Philip Rey introduced towards the end of the Image series is a clone of Serpentor, but this was never officially confirmed.
It also surprises me that despite him not being as popular as Cobra Commander or Zartan, Hasbro has reissued him a few times.
With the theory and science behind cloning technology, the idea of Serpentor may not be too farfetched except for his experience of those leaders long since dead. Very good review.
Serpentor was a favorite of mine.
I was so happy when I got my serpentor figure in 1992
I knew there would be a lot of Serp haters but I like him I think he was a great character and in the comics and movie had a lot of stage presence GO SERPENTOOOOORRRR 🐍
Nice you bring me back to playing with them.
My mom sewed another layer of cloth on his cape when I first got it, so although it has this extra layer, the original cape is intact because of it.
15:42 his cape got caught in it in the 1987 animated movie
As a character in the cartoon, Serpentor was a bit silly, but as a figure, he was totally badass.
Ok, I used to have that exact same Serpentor figure/vehicle set when I was a kid, except it was one of my absolute favorite figures. In fact, I really wish I still owned it! I also thought he was hella awesome in the cartoon series and comic book series, which I also love immensely.
15:40, in the movie he does regret the design of the chariot and cape
Cobra Commander and troops: “We are cobra!”
Serpentor:”I am the cobra.”
Great review brother.
Another great review!
***** Thank you!
Zartan was as far as I was willing to go in my suspension of disbelief - this thing was WAAAAAY over the top
after watching the incredibles , i have to say it, NO CAPES!
Capes will kill you.
what an intriguing character serpentor would have been if they just had him do with all the assests they made him with to do!!
His cape got caught in it in GI Joe the movie
Great review! Serpentor is so weird, and I still don't have him, but I have his chariot oddly enough.
I have serpentor with the cape, but lost the chariot 20+ years ago
Serpentor must have designed his air chariot personally.
I think in GI Joe the movie, Serpentor did get his cape caught in the engine of his chariot. Bad idea...they should have given him a hover board or something.
if they made him look like he first did in the comics, bare chested with the cowled head, pants and cape it might of looked better. It was only after they took off from springfield and went to cobra island they ( dr mindbender,destro and the baroness) gave him his armour and flying thingy. At first I liked him but after a while he just became a even more huge buffoon then cartoon cobra commander.
Gi Joe doesn't need to be realistic at all. They use laser guns for one. Two, gi Joe has always used sci fi aspects in their stories, especially cobra. Cobra La is the highest form of cobra. I think it works within this Joe universe. I just don't get why people want a realistic gi Joe. Realism tends to ruin what is special about a brand.
Totally agree. IMHO guns were only made "slightly" realistically to resemble real weapons to please DADS - the ones actually buying the toys for their kids. A mix of firearms and laser sci-fi guns was the trademark of Hasbro.
Just got The figure back 31 years later. Excellent condition just had to go to Walmart - fabric section get a 'pirate green color thicker fabric .23 cents! trace the outline of the original flimsy torn Cape . Use a paper hole puncher for arm holes... BACK. Did not mind the DNA concept of Serpentor and the rival factor within Cobra, just the NUSANCE that came after... COBRA LAW.
Really informative and honest review. Serpentor's integration into the comic did seem a little rushed, but putting the remains in tanks, including Storm Shadow, made for an interesting revival. Larry Hama deserves much praise!
Serpentor was really Hasbro’s idea. Larry was basically forced to shoehorn the character into the comics, regardless of how little sense it made
@@johncaulfield8935 thankfully Larry Hama did not cave in to Cobra-La. Seeing Resolute, knowing how good the Movie could have been, it makes me sad. If the comic story could be fleshed out by Resolute animators, applying the same realism, how glorious.
I hear ya. Personally, in this day and age with cloning experiments and cloning sheep, and the mapping of the human genome, Serpentor isn't quite as ridiculous as he used to be... in a fictional setting, I'll buy into him. Like you said, he's just barely on the right side of the line. Cobra-La, though... should never have happened.
Serpentor’s outfit will eventually pop up on Rupaul’s Drag Race. I had a love-hate thing with the chariot- it was thin and flimsy, some of the parts were a little difficult to assemble (and keep together after assembly), and I felt it was a little “out there” in design- and yet it had a certain allure. I didn’t hate it! I even think it’s been copied/ripped off as an idea in principal over the years in movies, sci-fi, etc. Leave it to COBRA and the gang over at M.A.R.S. to create something original that actually left a legacy. Destro must be proud.
Hey man I have been watching you channel over the past couple of days and I must say I really enjoy the time and detail you put into your reviews. I will spend a considerable amount of time watching the other videos. As a major Joe collector who is kinda-sorta returning to collecting Joes....only the original RAH this channel has been very nice. It's funny listening to you because I am probably a few years younger being born in 1980 and I was fine with the fantasy elements of Serpentor and Cobra La....ironic though was I had thought they went off the rails after this. While I liked some of the characters the Joes just went too goofy. Great channel and much success.
+1980Triumph Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. I don't claim to know everything, and I make mistakes, but I try to include the information I would want to know as a collector. I hope you'll enjoy the other videos, and I have more coming up!
I dont remember owning serpentor but I did have that gold snake which i liked.
I always thought it was funny how easily the mighty serpentor gets defeated by lady jay in the intro
My interest in collecting GI Joe's stops at 1986, because of characters like corbala, Croc, and Big Boa.
Serpentors problem was that its hard to imagine destro creating anything that would detract from his own ambitions and its also hard to imagine the rank and file ever leaving off their allegiance to cobra commander whose vision and leadership was the sole basis for their worldwide success.
That said, I enjoyed the figure.
This Serpentor looks way better than the 25th anniversary version.
In the season 2 (pre-movie) episode 'My Favourite Things', Serpentor's face changes - as well as having his officially clean shaven face, he sometimes has a black handlebar moustache (like when he says 'but, I shall remember this day!', and when he's at Transylvania), a dark brown goatee (when Cobra Commander shows up for the first time, in the episode) and his 'King Takshaka' face (after Leatherneck's in hospital, after getting hit by Serpentor's 'poison dart', as revenge for 'destroying Serpentor's battle axe').
I ripped my cape as a kid. LOL Great review. This brought back great memories. I just subbed you. I look forward to watching more videos.
+kingpinpkr316 Thank you!
That is a very strange place for the air intake. I didn't know that was back there. Seems like it would have made more sense to have one on each wing
Awesome review, very thorough! Can't wait for next weeks... fairy sneezes and wishes, lol!
***** That may not be the scientific name for the material, but it is about that substantial.
Hahaha
I thought he was great. I thought the movie was great. That’s just my opinion tho. Growing up hating the commander and when they introduced serpentor , two of them. Man, G I Joe had there work cut out for them going against all them bad guys. Lol. Freaking Great times as a kid in the late 80s.
Great review bro
the finny thing is they did that in the original cartoon someoen grabed his cape and pulled it down into the intake
My friend saw Serpentor as a Frankenstein reject.
In hindsight he seems like a pretty cool figure, but I despised it when I was a kid.
I believe the target audience even back in the early eighties was boys who wanted fantasy kind of like Masters of the Universe. Even as a kid I was drawn more to the twins because of their look I like serpentor the dreadnaugts and Zartan. Characters who were colored like copperhead and Destro. Tbh most boys weren't going for the real world military look. I did like figures like Footloose Dusty and Duke. In my opinion I think the target audience was more for the fantasy element than the real world element because in reality that's what most boys wanted back then they didn't care about the realism of it they just wanted the fantasy and the sci-fi.
I hope Super7 makes Serpentor into a ReAction figure in order to place alongside Galvatron “THIS I COMMAND🐍”
What can't the brainwave scanner do? That thing is Cobra's Deus ex machina with a cherry on top.
always wished I had this figure when I was a kid! looking back at it as an adult, I wonder why they didn't make the "throne/chariot" form into some kind of armor. and no snake Spears like in the cartoon!lol
If I didn’t know any better, I would have thought you can’t stand this particular figure lol 😂
Serpentor should have B.A.T.S. as Royal Guards !!! Gold color !!!
What's even more bizarre Serpentor could pull the snakes off his shoulder and throw them at people. Another snake would immediately replace the one removed like some magical unlimited snake ammo. I think this was taken from the 1982 movie Conan the Barbarian where the villain could shoot his victims with a snake bow and arrow.
affoster79 That's a good inspiration for the snakes. I forgot that his snakes would reappear like that after he threw them.... which is possibly the weirdest sentence I've written in a long time.
the snakes always reminded me of the Snakes in the old Commandments film from 1956
Movie Serpentor found out how bad of a design flaw in his chariot was.
15:30 I remember this actually being a Chekov's Shotgun of sorts in a few episodes of the cartoon, where Joes boarded the craft and yanked Serpentor's cape into the hover-engine to get him out of the air. So this may have been a feature, not a bug, of the Hasbro design team.
I'm pretty sure that's how Falcon takes Serp out of the equation in the movie during the final fight.
Funny, I always thought the yellow neck version looked better; but I digress...
Serpentor in the IDW comics.
I had Serpentor, I thought he was badass, I never took his cape off, i didn't play with him mucg cuz I didn't want to ruin his cape
Exactly. Cobrala was one step too far but I liked Serpentor.
I am one who didn't like the Serpentor character. I felt empathy for Cobra Commander. Cobra Commander was to me the head of Cobra. If I was Cobra Commander I would've gotten rid of Mindbender/Destro a the first hint of treachury...he did try to undermind the creation process of Serpentor, but still was shrugged off by Destro and Mindbender who had zero loyalty. Cobra Commander was blamed for thier failures time and time again. No credit to the GI Joe's for thier execution and defense of any given situation. At that time the older GI Joe fans were kinda screwed as thier favorite characters were slowly getting replaced by these far out, bizarre and unrealistic characters that lacked any kind of real attributes. The stories we're getting outlandish and senseless. Alot of us fans were turned away to something else. The one bright shiny spot in that era was SGT.Slaughter, who again was bringing another aspect into GI Joe....wrestling. But that's another story for another time. Cobra Commander was always the nemesis to GI Joe to me. Serpentor was just a slap in the face to fans of the original characters. Duke was a sideman to Flint and Lady Jay...And Hawk was getting less screentime. The comics nailed it with the Civil War between the factions...should've happened long before Serpentor was created. GI Joe took a nasty turn at that point in the cartoons...
Awesome review! Cobra-La ruined GI Joe for me as well. It was never the same for me after that.
I don't like a lot of things you said, but I like how you said them. I'm a couple of years younger than you & as a naive 6 year old, I ate it up. I had no idea what DNA was but I still got the idea they were going with (on a plus, I was also learning English at the time). I recognized Sgt. Slaughter from wrestling & later had both to fight each other with their all around biceps. ..... As a kid, I also wondered what All mighty Serpentor looked like under his cowl, helmet, headdress... whatever you want to call it. I devised a plan to put his head under my dads car wheel. "Crack!"... I was sorely disappointed.
Serpentor should do the Riccola commercials. "Riccolalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Never had a problem with Serpentor. Cobra Commander to me was always analogous to Duke, who, while *A* leader, wasn't *THE* leader. I see Serpentor as more analogous to General Hawk: someone above the main guy we usually see. Like Blofeld in SPECTRE. Serpentor's introduction added another layer to Cobra IMO.
Cobra Commander was THE leader before Serpentor’s creation, so don’t give me any of that bullshit
@@johncaulfield8935 True, but not to me because of when I began watching. Since I came in after Serpentor's introduction, I have difficulty quite seeing anyone else as Cobra's leader, and don't like what I see as hostility towards him. It's kinda silly. It doesn't matter if Cobra Commander was leader before Serpentor, my comparison that he is the Hawk to Cobra Commander's Duke still stands.
Duke was the field leader for the team.
@@williamhiers1280 Also, Cobra Commander literally created Cobra. Serpent or was just a guy they created to lead them later.
Great video, as always. My Serpentor got the left eye painted with slit pupil like a snake... is it a variation or just a mistake?
I got that at the 2016 joe con
What a coinky-dink! I got mine at the 2015 JoeCon!
hooded cobra how much is a good price to pay for this figure? BTW great review
CoBra is so very Badd Like Always
Long live Cobra Commander 😂
Pretty much everything I liked best about G.I. Joe is everything you don't seem to care for. I loved sci-fi and fantasy stuff, and didn't want strictly real world toys. So I didn't care for toy cars and trucks, and the most realistic Joes were my least favorites.
The 4 episodes that make up The Movie are my 4 favorite episodes. Loved Cobra-La, Serpentor, Golobulous, all of 'em.
So you wanted GIJoe to be like Star Wars?
@@CapitanJusticia I liked it a lot more than Star Wars. I wanted it to not be boring. The early 80's stuff was great, the mid to late 80's stuff, up to 91' or so, was the best toy line ever, then after that, they went off the deep end with gimmicks and repaints. But yeah, what you wanted G.I. Joe to be was boring to me, and probably would not have kept selling for very long. I do agree that they eventually took it to far. That just happened a few years later for me than it did for you.
did he crumble? because i think the vehicle is made out of gold plastic and it's not a good plastic for toy.
What's your view on The Anti Gravity Pod, The AGP?
Great review, but you've gotta learn to suspend your disbelief and use your imagination.
Some of your complaints sounded like they were coming from a absolute realist, not a toy lover or someone that ever once sat down and had hour upon hour of fun with these toys as a child.
Like the comments about the chariot, come on man. No kid is gonna see it that way. Seriously... Lol.
But this is coming from someone (me) that to this day has never read a GI Joe comic book. The show was all I knew. And there was quite a bit of science fiction in delivering the story to people that way.
That being said, I always preferred Serpentor to Cobra Commander. He was my ultimate Cobra Warrior. Facing off against Sergeant Slaughter, good times...
Overall I very much enjoyed this review. Thanks for sharing man.
LOL. That cape/turbine design flaw though.
HCC you forgot to add in the video This I command!
The gold plastic of Serpentor was susceptible to Gold Plastic Syndrome. Especially the hips. Watching him move the figure around made me rather nervous.
The back of his headdress is 2 high above his head. Need 2 fit it like a real king cobra's head. The stripe should also be on the back of his uniform.
The batman beyond villain xander looked kinda like serpentor