You have the neck backward. Adams apple in front, neck folds to the back...

That Person came to work Drunk as Hell that Day....😅😂😅

That was a good Cobra Commander impression.🤙

great video! where do you get those cards and clamshells for the classified line?

Love your Cobra Commander mimic.

I can’t wait for the window packaging to come back because I’m not a fan at all of the soft rubbery accessories. I was able to get 3 EELS from Amazon. One came with its head off (much like your left arm), one of the fins was bent and one of the harpoons was really bent to shit. I was able to work with what I had for display. I’ve got 1 more EEL coming from Hasbro Pulse. Despite the issues, I really like this figure overall. But yeah, a troop builder exclusive is something they should have learned from the Cobra Island Cobra Trooper.

Hey !!!! How did you get those displayed like that ? Where did you get the back art for the clam shell cases ? Grest video ! New follower !

I appreciate the unbiased critical review

Nice collection! If i may ask, where did you get the clamshell/cardback for the Classified figures? Need me some of those!

Did you try pounding the head down? Maybe it's not fully pushed down on the ball joint inside the body.

2:42 "Well that's not good." 😂😂😂 That gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Build-A-Figure."

EDIT** NM, I saw the rest of the video and saw your other Eel was perfectly good and looks good. Still unfortunate and sucks that you got a factory reject. Hopefully you can get a replacement Eel that's as good as your other one. Nice display case design for the Classified figs.

Hopefully they do a restock eventually. I wasn't able to get one, and I will not pay one cent over retail.

Great Review!!

So, did Hasbro replace it? Since it’s out of stock, I wondered what they would replace it with.

Can you just swap out the neck from another figure?

Mine was the same with the neck. Did Hasbro fix it?

Is someone talking in the background? Radio? TV?

You got an April O'Eel.

As to the thin look, those wet suits fit pretty tight, so it’s pretty necessary so that he doesn’t look to bulky next to guys in fatigues. I do wish Hasbro would standardize the neck length and ball size. Beachhead looks awful without his vest too, dropped shoulders and long neck because they design the body to look “right” with the gear on.

Where is your store?

Really? They didn't use the same size connectors? Doesn't Hasbro want to re-use parts as often as possible?

Recent MacFarlane figures came detached for me (arms). They pop back in fine, just odd. A collector of 40+ years, this is new.

Neck piece might have been put on upside down?

Cover art of the worms if from the original GI Joe mini series cartoon.

You've got his neck backwards. Look closely he's got an Adam's apple.

We couldn't even get one it pissed me off so much especially since I'm 4k plus with the line so far .

Brother cut Hasbro some slack. The kids working in their factories in Vietnam might not be strong enough to push in the arms all the way. I'm mostly a Transformers guy but I do still buy certain Joes. I feel your pain. Their qc is laughable.

Hasbro should replace that for you; moreover, your collection is awesome!

Hey that's a cool display you have for your classified figures. I don't think you had the neck push down far enough if you hate just the lower neck part with the hair dryer and then push it on their heart it should go down past the peg.

Crazy how the left arm already popped off when you opened the package. And yes, I think I saw a posting of someone selling this for around $200. Crazy, right? So much custom potential, again, doesn't make sense why army-builders are made "exclusive." Just one thing though, next time, maybe not have something in the background "talking" (is it your tv or radio?). Thanks for sharing!

WAIT! WHAT? The arm was detatched? What kind of nonsense is Hasbro pulling here?

5:45 Yeah that sucks. Why? Why is it like this? That bugs me. (Rught as I wrote that you said it, alert Carl Jung 😂)

You could have listed him as "Special Edition Marvel Issue 47 EEL vs Storm Shadow and sharks."

I can never get these figures. I would like one of these eels, put together well. lol This is the problem with these windowless boxes. Plus I like to see the paint job on the figure before purchasing it.

The proportions of the neck, shoulders and collarbone are terrible. It looks like an alien or dinosaur neck FFS. Wow... that's a big fail on the Cobra Eel design. Hasbro continues to disappoint and fall even further with it's QC. Not surprised.

Awesome collection

Cobra Eel rules the world !

This is why I don't like Hasbro's no winow packaging.

I got mine today. Overall I'd say it's just ok but not one of my favorites by any means. The harpoon gun and harpoon itself are super bendy rubbery plastic. That's my biggest complaint.

While I do enjoy the GI Joe line and they really are killing it we are starting to see cost cutting production much like TBS has been going thru the last few years. Cover Girl as well came with arms popped out.

Need to get that Fortnite Shark for a photo op

Man I'm glad my eels necks aren't like that

You misplaced the neck when you put it back. The side with the Adam's apple should be in front.

You got more variety, people are different sizes

I've got a bunch of originals and a lot of the 25th anniversary joes.....this looks just like a bigger version of the 25th edition eel.....not a fan of the new size....spent years collecting 3 3/4" size figures and vehicles... And now they want me to buy all the joes again just a little bigger, and the vehicles are stupidly huge.....as a collector of thirty years I was hoping they would go smaller like mega construx did with their Masters of the universe line....with tiny detailed buildable vehicles, and highly detailed weapons and items like their call of duty and Halo line....but instead they went almost double the size, which also doubles the price, and the space they require in your collection. Collecting kids toys we used to have when we were little was great in the nineties and early 2000....but now they aren't kids toys....they are made for adults, are way more expensive, and there are so many exclusives, and comic con editions, and other things that most collectors could never afford....it's become a rich mans hobby.....and I can hardly find anything in my local toy aisles bc of the scalpers and such that don't even collect that get to the store earlier than I can and buy up all the good things and then put them on ebay for three times the price. Yeah....sorry Hasbro my old plastic dealer.....I'm out . I'd say it was fun while it lasted.....but then I realized I've wasted my life buying cheaply made little shaped pieces of plastic that once opened lose almost all value, and that I will never be able to get a third of what I invested into it back out should I want to sell. And most likely will end up in a trash when I die and they clean out my house.....I enjoyed the times we had.....but I wish I died before I saw Hasbro realize they control HOW big the piece of plastic they sell you is......😮 ......remember when the first Unicron toy came out? How it was the crown of many a collection? I have one. And now bc of the child size one Haslab made, the old one is seen as a worthless childs toy.....WHAT?? Thats what it always was.....and as I'll never have the loot to get ANY of Haslab products I guess the kids version is good enough for me......😮😮😮😮

Wow not sure what you are getting I don’t have the long neck issue at all and I got 3

There's plenty of space for at least two USS Flaggs.

Don't have any Eels yet. Torpedos proportions are perfect tho

Man, I miss the days when our toys were made in Taiwan and Hong Kong!

do you have tv/ radio on in next room? lol

Oh, you're just a casual fan of GI Joe I see. Where are the comics and cereal boxes?

I think you put the neck on backwards.

That arm is nothing. My Copperhead came with his foot broken off with the peg stuck in the foot. That doesn't happen in shipping sk it was broken and still boxed up at the factory.

Damn you got some bad luck there. Mine were actually pretty good😢

Ever since the window less packaging started, there's been allot of these Broken and or Loose parts arriving on package .like if the windows less packaging is giving the assemblers a reason to send them like this , . Without care and proper Quality Control ... 😂 Not good .guys it's very upsetting that they do this ,always remember to report this to Hasbro pulse .. I hope The Window 🪟 packaging comes back soon. .wow unacceptable.coming from them. Because we don't get our figures for Free , we pay for our stuff and expect to get them complete and fully assembled

Yeah a swimmers body but I think the figure is still too thin

Just arrived with the ugly it nek. I didnt unpack the figure i sell it or take it to the garbage bin. Damn what an ugly mistake from Hasbro. Hoped i got a good one.

Not only is it a retailer exclusive and sold out, it’s QC nightmare. Glad I passed.😂

imagine if you got that for your kid.. Christmas .. or if you re sell it as a box collector 10 years down the road right.. open box only due to QA Failure.

Very available, like arctic storm shadow. You can tell us the current price, come on.

Boy…Hasbro really just doesn’t care at all anymore. Their quality is pathetic at this point

Hmm, I suppose this explains the very limited amount of EELS in circulation. Someone at Hasbro realized their initial production batch was FUBAR'd. Hopefully the next batch have the issues resolved. Typical cheapness of Hasbro. My guess is they went with a 3rd rate chinese factory for this figure.

The feel like the quality of GI Joe Classified has been going down hill. The last few "waves" do not seem to be as nice and it seems to deal with the blind packaging now. I don't recall the window packaging figures being as crappy.

No one has any complaints about how the action figures look. The designs are great! We need window boxes and high quality plastic at a low price and distributed properly so a larger number of fans and collectors can get their hands on these cool items.

I hope my three don’t get cancelled from Amazon. I still have one as a back up pulse. But that would suck to loose the three.

You have the neck on backwards.

Yeah exclussive troop builders are absolutely poodoo. These are going a ridiculous 45-70 Blemflarks. But, I’m an addict for these guys and got 8, bleeding out the arse now, but eh, worth. I guess I should get them all opened and reattach their arms 🧐🤨

Hate those packages.

I'm getting really fed up with Hasbro and their QC issues. Its just too much. We pay top dollar for these figures and wait for so long for these preorders to be fulfilled; only to finally receive the item and find it is defective. Part of this is due to the windowless packaging. If there was a window, nobody would of bought that figure with the arm broken off. No one and Hasblo knows it. They can pass off literal crap to the customer and they won't be any wiser about it until it is too late. I for one am starting to think it is time to stop supporting Hasbro products. I hate getting screwed around like this and the only way to deal with this nonsense is to vote with my wallet. They won't get my money for substandard merchandise. They can go to hell before that happens.

If you're gonna just put the figure in a clamshell on a peg why bother getting a replacement? Take the 1 with the neck and throw the helmet on it and put it in the clamshell on the peg, kinda seems like a waste anyhow so it's not like you'd be losing out.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! MY EYES! MY EYES! You're showing a WINDOWLESS box! BOO! HISS!

I got the long neck version. 😢

This classified line has gone to hell. Actually rather satisfying, between changing the packaging and figures looking like garbage I have been saving tons of money

You have the neck backwards… how you missed it when the Adams apple was quite obvious is beyond me… 🙄🙄 EDIT: also with the long neck, have you not heard of a dremel? Just use a dremel in the neck hole, and bam long neck problem solved. Jeez…

I dont give a shit , I will not be buying one of these figures anyway , as a MOC collector those plastic free Hasbro crap blind boxes don't work for me , can't use them , if I want to look at art , I will buy a comic book.. FU HASBRO !!! MOC FOREVER !!! also i found Shipwreck at my local Target yesterday , he is my favorite Joe , held it in my hand , then simply put it back on the shelve , Hasbro will not be getting my money. FU HASBRO !!!

It’s a toy dude you guys are way too critical of this stuff get a life! I let my kid open them and enjoy..They are not vintage!! And will never be worth anything!!!

so he has an adams apple behind his neck genius?