The "special rubber coating," at the time this came out, was still called SHT, Special Hull Treatment. The shipyard workers applied anechoic tiles, which would absorb sonar, and cause any bounce back to travel in different directions. It is cool they talk about this type of hull coating. The method and type has since changed. I like this vehicle. Cool colors, yet to me, it would launch underwater. Then, the vehicle could split, underwater, for the back to be either a reconnaissance sled or a retrieval vehicle, while the front could be an insertion vehicle for a diver, or an attack vehicle against surface targets. Great video, good job!!!
Excellent review Commander! I had this vehicle as a kid and got it just in time when my parents had a pool installed. Talking about many under water missions in the 80s!! Yo! Joe!
I got this one back in the day; I watched the previous unboxing and assembly video and enjoyed that one a lot because it brought some great memories of simpler times. Yes, the Sea Ray doesn't exactly belong on a top tier of Cobra vehicles, but it's not lame either -it has (at least for me) a couple of things playing on its favor. I still like the color scheme even now and the design it's not entirely flawed; the glider thing didn't work for me either when I played with it as a kid, so the solution I came up with was that the back half was simply a detachable piece that enabled the submersible pod to fly as well -nothing more. Sea Slug being such a buff figure, I often pitted him against Sgt. Slaughter.
You're tough, Hoodie. I think this is an excellent vehicle. And the driver is cool too. How much detail to you need on him? He's in the cockpit all the time covered up. I think he looks excellent.
I only picture this in one of two ways, the submarine was a whole escape pod or that back end was a booster used to extend the range of the pod when it gets near it ditched the back end and makes the rest of the insertion stealthily underwater.
I didn't really care for the Sea Ray , but I liked the Sea Slug and did army build a squad of them because they are easy to find cheap in the secondary market. Not crazy about the purple, but Cobra always had purple in uniforms with several figures. Techno Viper, Toxo vipers, too name a couple. I use them as an invading from the water force with EELS, rafts and morays. They look very uniform in their colors. Add a few Nemesis Enforcers too. The purple Cobra force. The pistols dont work for me either. There are plenty of other rifles or spear guns they can use. Great review again!
@@christianhafer9819 I agree when he’s on he’s dead on but when he’s off…he may as well be a prom dress. That said, I can’t stop laughing after he said “torpissiles.” I love this channel.
@@christianhafer9819 I am. I got mine when I was 6 and it’s always been around when I would play with my joes. Always a bridesmaid but never a bride. After all I do have a defiant from back then. Competition was high in my collection and has only escalated since I’ve started collecting as an adult lol
I used to have the cobra Sea Ray and the slug that came with the vehicle my brother's collected a lot it was hand me down my brothers had a lot of the vehicles from GI Joe
That Sea Slug has a healthy B-cup going on there. I remember the Strato-Vipers having to undergo surgery to help them cope with the G-forces, but I guess Sea Slug's surgery criteria were more cosmetic in nature. Or maybe it's a buoyancy concern?
Great honest review. I've found, and bought, 3 of them. I had one as a kid, so I really love this vehicle. I'm with you on the separation feature. I prefer to keep it together. Put 2 Eels on the bottom pegs, with 3 Sea Rays, and you've got a small rapid assault force. Use with the Moray, Hammerhead and BUGG, and the Cobra navy would be formidable. And, I always thought that the flying sub idea came from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
I had this, used it mostly as an aerial craft, with the black tail being the breakaway glider the wing section was alleged to be. The Sea Slug was just weird enough he was more of a Watcher-type, as my Joes leaned into the super-powered heroes stories, as they outnumbered my actual DC Super Powers and Marvel Secret Wars figures, and hung out with TFs.
Everything on mine broke as a kid. The canopy hinge, one of the missile tabs, and the clip that holds the halves together! Plus, it actually turned that horrible green color. I was always pretty careful with my toys but this thing seems like it was made of paper!
I must have had this as a kid, as I know I had the Sea Slug, but I don't remember having the Sea Ray. Granted I was born in '83, and this came out in '87, so that may explain me not remembering the Sea Ray.
Please try and review some of the late 90s early 2000s Real American Hero line. That was my time and a very nice revamp of the vintage line. In my opinion that was the last true Joe line.
I wish the figure was colored more like the EEL's, there were plenty of missed opportunities along those lines and excess goofy coloring. Great review!
3:49 ..no reference to the old TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"? They had a pretty iconic (ficticious) Flying Sub in that show (not the movie)....
I like the review of this toy but you have not done any on the cobra hammerhead and the b.u.g.g.,and if you get to it I want a full review like hidden features and can a modern figure fit in them thank you
Great review as always. I have to say i agree with you & using the whole vehicle as a flying submarine like the sharc. Thats how i used it when i was a kid. I wasnt going to stop playing so i could detach the two pieces. Just a dumb gimmick if you ask me, but a good vehicle overall
This is an interesting looking and designed 2 in 1 vehicle. I just don't like the idea of using other figures on the pegged areas. It is very cool to see it sort of floating. The driver reminds me of an anime castaway with a "Bucket" helmet. Great review overall.
Great review! I remember this in the stores as a kid. I didn't think it was all that great back then and still don't think so now. It's not a very impressive design.
I really see this as a small sea plane with a submersible escape pod, that might be able to be submersible for short times in complete form. That "glider" bit does not seem like a legit vehicle in and of itself
Sea Ray is pretty cool as one complete unit; Sea Slug not so much - G.I. Joe might have recruited Flash Gordon to deal with him! The 1992 Barracuda (shown at the beginning of the video) looks like a happy meal toy! These are just my opinions. Not pleasing everyone is all fun and games until someone loses an eye!
About the missiles, just treat it like cruise missiles fired from a submersible or ship when under or in the surface of the water. They even has that flat look as if trying to be less detectable close to the water surface or the ground as possible. That pod doesn't look to be a great engaging other waterborne craft so escaping is the better choice for it. Imagine it as the underwater crafts that moves udts or SEALs units to a shore or some mission and the glider as a disposable loitering ordnance delivery drone, serving as CAS to the Eels or other troops on land. As a kid, me, my brother and cousin always used it as the Sharc.
I loved this toy as a kid. I never liked splitting it up and played with it in one piece. Except I did like taking off the tail piece and having the Sea Slug ride it like the Green Goblin rides his glider.
Anybody else find the Sea Ray logo very ambiguous? Looks upside-down to me; the mouth should be on the bottom not so? They do it that way on the figure’s tampo, but that’s reversed! Very confusing!
I feel the Sea Ray would be a nice vehicle to use as Cobra version of..... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAL_Delivery_Vehicle for Hydro Vipers, Cobra Eels, and most importantly the specialist known known as "Undertow".
Just seems funny to me that a person who probably was the kid who bought the toy in the first place is talking down about a toy that he probably loved as a kid but now that he's an adult and looking at it with adult eyes he thinks it's a piece of crap personally I love that toy when I was a kid I played with it a lot yes it broke of course like many toys do in your kid and yes I got rid of all my JoJo's a long time ago but I had fun with them and I played with them I didn't just look at them and I didn't just set them on a peg and watch them so I mean in reality this guy is just an old adult who likes to collect children's toys instead of being a toy collector who loves children's toys total difference
PS plastic toys aren't worth anything unless you're willing to play with them and enjoy them as toys if you're just going to put them on a shelf and let them collect dust what's the point
so true...im a collector but its a living collection played with by myself and my daughter...these are toys meant for enjoyment...life is short, have fun
I like the idea of a "flying submarine" as a plausible thing for Cobra to figure out how to pull off, but I don't think the vehicle benefits from splitting apart. I think if the tail were a little less thin and flimsy it would look a little more solid.
About the purple colors, a friend have told me that purple is most often associated with some infectious or poisonous microorganisms in research laboratories and that's why they probably chose it for the Toxo Vipers. More often than not, Sea Slugs are voracious and poisonous creatures and I think there's one type of it that is purple. In Techno Vipers, I have no idea why. Neon purple was in fashion. Maybe all that reasoning is useless and Hasbro only used a popular color for attracting buyers.
This has a neat look, but it was low on my list that year, topped by the Cobra Wolf, Mamba, and Maggot. Interesting Cobra designs that year. GI Joe's equipment was being filled with the inferior Battle Force 2000 stuff.
I think I would have had a lot of fun with this as a kid. As Far as Sea Slug goes, he is androgynous to me. There is nothing to really indicate his faction or if he is even a part of The G.I. Joe brand. He could pass as a Sci-Fi figure from another toy line.
I think it's a sharp looking profile when it's together. I wouldn't separate it personally. The glider is a cheap gimmick. The Figure is certainly forgettable.
I could sit and watch your videos all day , all the toys I had , all the toys I wanted , and all the toys I didn't want .
The "special rubber coating," at the time this came out, was still called SHT, Special Hull Treatment. The shipyard workers applied anechoic tiles, which would absorb sonar, and cause any bounce back to travel in different directions. It is cool they talk about this type of hull coating. The method and type has since changed.
I like this vehicle. Cool colors, yet to me, it would launch underwater. Then, the vehicle could split, underwater, for the back to be either a reconnaissance sled or a retrieval vehicle, while the front could be an insertion vehicle for a diver, or an attack vehicle against surface targets.
Great video, good job!!!
Excellent review Commander! I had this vehicle as a kid and got it just in time when my parents had a pool installed. Talking about many under water missions in the 80s!! Yo! Joe!
I got this one back in the day; I watched the previous unboxing and assembly video and enjoyed that one a lot because it brought some great memories of simpler times.
Yes, the Sea Ray doesn't exactly belong on a top tier of Cobra vehicles, but it's not lame either -it has (at least for me) a couple of things playing on its favor. I still like the color scheme even now and the design it's not entirely flawed; the glider thing didn't work for me either when I played with it as a kid, so the solution I came up with was that the back half was simply a detachable piece that enabled the submersible pod to fly as well -nothing more. Sea Slug being such a buff figure, I often pitted him against Sgt. Slaughter.
Cool review of the Cobra Sea Ray and the Cobra Sea Ray pilot Sea Slug. Hasbro Inc sure has a lot of cool ideas for children's toys.
Torpissles made me laugh for half a minute, that alone deserves a upvote.
You're tough, Hoodie. I think this is an excellent vehicle. And the driver is cool too. How much detail to you need on him? He's in the cockpit all the time covered up. I think he looks excellent.
The Glider section would have been better off as an unmanned Drone.
I only picture this in one of two ways, the submarine was a whole escape pod or that back end was a booster used to extend the range of the pod when it gets near it ditched the back end and makes the rest of the insertion stealthily underwater.
Just want to say, I love your review videos! Thank you for getting me through quarantine 👍
Cobra really did have a wacky navy, didn't they?
I didn't really care for the Sea Ray , but I liked the Sea Slug and did army build a squad of them because they are easy to find cheap in the secondary market. Not crazy about the purple, but Cobra always had purple in uniforms with several figures. Techno Viper, Toxo vipers, too name a couple. I use them as an invading from the water force with EELS, rafts and morays. They look very uniform in their colors. Add a few Nemesis Enforcers too. The purple Cobra force. The pistols dont work for me either. There are plenty of other rifles or spear guns they can use. Great review again!
I’m ashamed to admit that I loved this vehicle and used it all the time. Great review as usual, Commander!
LOVED IT MAN it was awesome!
Why are you ashamed to admit loving this vehicle? It's excellent. Hoodie is out to lunch for his middling review of this superb two in one vehicle.
@@christianhafer9819 I agree when he’s on he’s dead on but when he’s off…he may as well be a prom dress. That said, I can’t stop laughing after he said “torpissiles.” I love this channel.
@@Beer-can_full_of_toes He's okay. So, are you a fan of this vehicle?
@@christianhafer9819 I am. I got mine when I was 6 and it’s always been around when I would play with my joes. Always a bridesmaid but never a bride. After all I do have a defiant from back then. Competition was high in my collection and has only escalated since I’ve started collecting as an adult lol
My brother and I kept it whole and never split it apart. We used it in the same role as the GI Joe Shark.
Must agree. I would have used it like the shark, and just kept it together. And the driver was, eh.
With two figures clipped on the bottom, it does in fact have Flintstone style landing gear lol
Awesome...love this vehicle despite the fragility ... the best way to take that apart is to remove the engine cover first nice work my friend
M.G.Villan where you been bro?
"We all died in a flying submarine, a flying submarine, a flying submarine...."
The driver looks like a Aquaman villan hahahahahahaahahhaaaa
I recall this was a boss in the GI Joe NES game
I used to have the cobra Sea Ray and the slug that came with the vehicle my brother's collected a lot it was hand me down my brothers had a lot of the vehicles from GI Joe
That Sea Slug has a healthy B-cup going on there. I remember the Strato-Vipers having to undergo surgery to help them cope with the G-forces, but I guess Sea Slug's surgery criteria were more cosmetic in nature. Or maybe it's a buoyancy concern?
Great honest review. I've found, and bought, 3 of them. I had one as a kid, so I really love this vehicle. I'm with you on the separation feature. I prefer to keep it together. Put 2 Eels on the bottom pegs, with 3 Sea Rays, and you've got a small rapid assault force. Use with the Moray, Hammerhead and BUGG, and the Cobra navy would be formidable. And, I always thought that the flying sub idea came from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
I had this, used it mostly as an aerial craft, with the black tail being the breakaway glider the wing section was alleged to be.
The Sea Slug was just weird enough he was more of a Watcher-type, as my Joes leaned into the super-powered heroes stories, as they outnumbered my actual DC Super Powers and Marvel Secret Wars figures, and hung out with TFs.
Had the SEA RAY & SEA SLUG as a kid!
Everything on mine broke as a kid. The canopy hinge, one of the missile tabs, and the clip that holds the halves together! Plus, it actually turned that horrible green color. I was always pretty careful with my toys but this thing seems like it was made of paper!
I remember saving up my allowance and sending off for this one in the mail.
It didn't come with a figure though.
I've got a T-shirt JUST like his; GO COBRA AIR CORPS!!!
I must have had this as a kid, as I know I had the Sea Slug, but I don't remember having the Sea Ray. Granted I was born in '83, and this came out in '87, so that may explain me not remembering the Sea Ray.
Great review. My brother had this, but I always thought it was goofy as hell.
So are you.
Great review
The Sea Ray was in the 1st GI Joe NES game
it makes my day everytime hoodie Coco uploads
I love the Sea Ray I think it's awesome...very visually appealing and menacing..Cool review HCC788
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HCC788, have you ever considered the striking similarity in appearance between yourself and Dreadnok Thrasher?
Please try and review some of the late 90s early 2000s Real American Hero line. That was my time and a very nice revamp of the vintage line. In my opinion that was the last true Joe line.
I like the sea ray but the Maggot was one of the best cobra vehicles and the Bugg.
I wish the figure was colored more like the EEL's, there were plenty of missed opportunities along those lines and excess goofy coloring. Great review!
It works better as an experimental aircraft than a submersible/flying wing.
Man its been awhile since I watched your videos. I remeber buying the Sea Ray at Target.
3:49
..no reference to the old TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"? They had a pretty iconic (ficticious) Flying Sub in that show (not the movie)....
A lot of stories could have been made with the sea ray, considering that it is nearly undetectable.
Torpilses i love it Great review of a sub par Cobra thing.
I like the review of this toy but you have not done any on the cobra hammerhead and the b.u.g.g.,and if you get to it I want a full review like hidden features and can a modern figure fit in them thank you
Great review as always. I have to say i agree with you & using the whole vehicle as a flying submarine like the sharc. Thats how i used it when i was a kid. I wasnt going to stop playing so i could detach the two pieces. Just a dumb gimmick if you ask me, but a good vehicle overall
What about the Cobra Firebat? Or the Cobra Hurricane regarding flying vehicles the size of the sea ray?
This is an interesting looking and designed 2 in 1 vehicle. I just don't like the idea of using other figures on the pegged areas. It is very cool to see it sort of floating. The driver reminds me of an anime castaway with a "Bucket" helmet. Great review overall.
Great review! I remember this in the stores as a kid. I didn't think it was all that great back then and still don't think so now. It's not a very impressive design.
Anyways great videos! You are so much fun!
Looks like an aerial version of VENOM's Piranha from M.A.S.K.
Careful with the notorious 1987 brittle plastic and careful with that silver tampo that is so easily wiped off!
I really see this as a small sea plane with a submersible escape pod, that might be able to be submersible for short times in complete form. That "glider" bit does not seem like a legit vehicle in and of itself
Great review as always HCC788. Why didn't they make a Sea slug like the Deep Six figurine? I guess they didn't want to use that mold over again..
Sea Ray is pretty cool as one complete unit; Sea Slug not so much - G.I. Joe might have recruited Flash Gordon to deal with him! The 1992 Barracuda (shown at the beginning of the video) looks like a happy meal toy! These are just my opinions. Not pleasing everyone is all fun and games until someone loses an eye!
Helmet looks more like Judge Dredd.
Those Manta Ray stickers being applied upside down on the vehicle are bugging me.
It wasn't a glider. It was an underwater sled lol
It's ok
About the missiles, just treat it like cruise missiles fired from a submersible or ship when under or in the surface of the water. They even has that flat look as if trying to be less detectable close to the water surface or the ground as possible. That pod doesn't look to be a great engaging other waterborne craft so escaping is the better choice for it. Imagine it as the underwater crafts that moves udts or SEALs units to a shore or some mission and the glider as a disposable loitering ordnance delivery drone, serving as CAS to the Eels or other troops on land. As a kid, me, my brother and cousin always used it as the Sharc.
I loved this toy as a kid. I never liked splitting it up and played with it in one piece. Except I did like taking off the tail piece and having the Sea Slug ride it like the Green Goblin rides his glider.
Anybody else find the Sea Ray logo very ambiguous? Looks upside-down to me; the mouth should be on the bottom not so? They do it that way on the figure’s tampo, but that’s reversed! Very confusing!
I feel the Sea Ray would be a nice vehicle to use as Cobra version of..... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAL_Delivery_Vehicle for Hydro Vipers, Cobra Eels, and most importantly the specialist known known as "Undertow".
Speaking of purple Cobra figures, have you reviewed the SAW Viper yet?
"nose generator" LOL
Just seems funny to me that a person who probably was the kid who bought the toy in the first place is talking down about a toy that he probably loved as a kid but now that he's an adult and looking at it with adult eyes he thinks it's a piece of crap personally I love that toy when I was a kid I played with it a lot yes it broke of course like many toys do in your kid and yes I got rid of all my JoJo's a long time ago but I had fun with them and I played with them I didn't just look at them and I didn't just set them on a peg and watch them so I mean in reality this guy is just an old adult who likes to collect children's toys instead of being a toy collector who loves children's toys total difference
shouldn't the back say nemisis for gi joe
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PS plastic toys aren't worth anything unless you're willing to play with them and enjoy them as toys if you're just going to put them on a shelf and let them collect dust what's the point
so true...im a collector but its a living collection played with by myself and my daughter...these are toys meant for enjoyment...life is short, have fun
The Sea Ray I had pilot I use the Cobra eel version 2
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I think the sea slug is a repurposed cobra la character he has that same purple as the nemesis guy
@BaronVonEvil yup that's another one
I like the idea of a "flying submarine" as a plausible thing for Cobra to figure out how to pull off, but I don't think the vehicle benefits from splitting apart. I think if the tail were a little less thin and flimsy it would look a little more solid.
Try telling that to the Uso eyewitnesses LOL... who knows, that could be something that they were able to get right.
got my popcorn, let's do this
Why's it a glider if it has 2 jets? Loo
About the purple colors, a friend have told me that purple is most often associated with some infectious or poisonous microorganisms in research laboratories and that's why they probably chose it for the Toxo Vipers. More often than not, Sea Slugs are voracious and poisonous creatures and I think there's one type of it that is purple. In Techno Vipers, I have no idea why. Neon purple was in fashion. Maybe all that reasoning is useless and Hasbro only used a popular color for attracting buyers.
First! Oh yeah and I had this. I liked it and the figure.
Love the Pistol
This has a neat look, but it was low on my list that year, topped by the Cobra Wolf, Mamba, and Maggot. Interesting Cobra designs that year. GI Joe's equipment was being filled with the inferior Battle Force 2000 stuff.
I think I would have had a lot of fun with this as a kid. As Far as Sea Slug goes, he is androgynous to me. There is nothing to really indicate his faction or if he is even a part of The G.I. Joe brand. He could pass as a Sci-Fi figure from another toy line.
"a formidable flying nemesis for Cobra" Shouldn't that be a nemesis for GIjoe?
I was wondering about that as well. :)
sea slug kind of reminds me of judge dredd
Torpissle
I think it's a sharp looking profile when it's together. I wouldn't separate it personally. The glider is a cheap gimmick. The Figure is certainly forgettable.
Disagree. Sea slug is an awesome figure, he's bad ass
figure is too purple
It's perfect.