Hey, Bolo buddies. Thanks for watching. Okay. I've got a bread and butter Bolo video for you guys I've got 28 Bolo items coming your way items that I sold for $35 or less and I'm gonna tell you where I got it what I paid for it and what it sold for These items I've picked up at thrift sales thrift sales thrift stores garage sales estate sales Facebook Marketplace and YouTube auctions. All right, let's get started. Oh my goodness thrift sales, I guess there could be a thrift sale All right, the first item I sold is this Disney store Windchimes Snow White adorable Actually a subscriber Of my channel pick this up. It is chosen goods reseller She has a YouTube channel with some reseller content. So definitely go check her out, but she Really likes Snow White and this little piece is adorable So she picked this up for $22 and I did give her free shipping on that so $22 free shipping so super super cute and it kind of Catches the light behind it and it's kind of see-through its glass. It's really really cool and I want to say I don't know if it's a vintage vintage, but it is definitely Retired Definitely not available anymore. So very cool item and that came from a garage sale and cost of goods was probably around a dollar All right, the next item are these vintage hand crocheted starched ornaments and these are pretty cool They're handmade and people use them as like decorations for like baby showers and different things like that But I took a best offer of $20 on these the buyer was all in for 2908 and I picked those up at a garage sale for like a buck The next item sold pretty quickly this came from a garage sale It is a shakman Japan handmade bisque mannequin doll Jointed with a wood body. It's definitely very interesting Actually surprised that mine sold as quickly as it did because there were quite a few others listed I Feel like I did okay with my price. I was competitive But somebody did offer me 15 so I went ahead and took that My cost of goods was $2 and 50 cents. They had $5 on it, but it was like come back on Saturday, I think it was and everything's half off. So I got it for $2 and 50 cents Byer paid the shipping on that so they were all in for 23 55 The next item came out of a Dibble box that I bought from Donna telebot Alino's YouTube auction This one again, I had no idea what this thing was it's Taiyo pistol grip oil glass cutter Um Yeah, just an odd off-the-wall item again I learned so much from the Dibble boxes because there is always Random miscellaneous stuff that she has picked up in storage units and buyouts and she'll just throw a hodgepodge of things in a box And it's called a Dibble box. I call it a Great box for resellers to buy So look for Donna's Dibble box Sold this for $15 and the buyer was all in for 24 21 and I do have Donna telebot Alino and Auctions for you linked down in the description of the video if you want to check out their YouTube auctions and selling events All right This plush bear came from a Goodwill store I paid a buck for it and I sold it for $29 and 20 cents and the buyer paid shipping The only thing that was wrong is that the battery compartment had this little break in it So it was still fine. It's still sold for decent money. It has this little flap that covers it So not a big deal. It worked great. It was adorable and had the original tags The next item is this Fisher price boat Definitely be on the lookout for this it sold super fast for $25 the buyer was all in for 32 35 It's from 1972 and I believe it goes on the top of a camper So it's kind of like a replacement boat but my cost of goods was approximately two or three dollars for that I bought a whole bunch of little people Fisher price from a garage sale and I Lauded it all up. It was the same garage sale where I got the wood doll so I lauded everything up and it was half off and Actually, I just Started to cross post some of my items over to Facebook Marketplace and I'm using list perfectly to do it So I'm starting on eBay and then I'm cross posting my items to Facebook Marketplace I did a video on it and the items that I picked to transfer over were actually Fisher price little people the vintage wood people and I've already made two sales from that video So check out that video if you want to learn how to cross post I have other videos that show you how to use list perfectly to cross post from eBay to Mercari and Poshmark That's what I always do. I'm kind of I'm gonna try Facebook Marketplace especially because I sold those two items so quickly. I like that But if you'd like to check out list perfectly, there is a link down in the description of the video you can use referral coupon code BOLO buddies all one word that'll get you 30% off your first month and It's fantastic. It's gonna get your things listed quickly and you're gonna see Results from that because there's different buyers on different platforms I'll have an item that'll be sitting and sitting and sitting on eBay. I will put it on a different platform and it will sell So there is definitely something to Different buyers being on different platforms. So I highly recommend cross posting. I love it And I like selling on multiple platforms. I will say that eBay is by far my best platform So if you're not on eBay, definitely consider that Okay, so this lab puzzle is like shaped like a dog. It's adorable and I picked this up at a thrift store for 50 cents I just figured somebody would buy it because it's a dog and somebody that has a lab probably would think this is pretty cool and This sold for ten dollars and ninety four cents and the buyer paid the shipping The next item that sold is this vintage marks guns of Navarone. I think that's how you say it It's a place at replacement rifle rack and you can learn more about this on prime time treasure hunters channel at the thrift battle I shared about this item and the other items that I picked up at the same time So definitely go check that out. I sold this for 18 dollars and 25 cents and The buyer paid shipping The next item is this Paul patrol rescue pup Arctic ter terrain vehicle and I sold this for $21 best offer and I picked this up at a thrift store for two bucks and the buyer with tax and shipping was all in for $29 and 55 cents. This is a harder to find vehicle. I've never seen this one before so when I saw it I thought that it would be a quicker flip because of the fact that I've never seen it The next item that sold is this vintage Collegeville costume and there's a whole story behind this and if you want to hear that story you can go over to my Sourcing with Bolo buddies YouTube channel. It's a what sold video and I believe I put costume in the title and you can check out the story behind this The person messaged me on eBay and it's just a really cool story So I ended up selling that for 16.05. The buyer was all in for 23 08 All right, these cracker jacks boxes This is like the little toy or whatever that came inside of it I don't know why I picked these up, but I did and they ended up selling pretty quickly. It's kind of funny I Don't know. I just kind of went with it I know some vintage cracker jack stuff can do well and I'm like, you know what? I'm just gonna grab these boxes It was that in a state sale. I had not much in it. I don't know how much I kind of bagged some stuff up And got a deal so probably less than a dollar, but it sold pretty quickly for $10 and 95 cents and the buyer paid shipping The next item are these vintage splash bombs balls They're by prime time toys. I really don't know what they are. I Bought a whole bunch of them. I can't remember where I got them or why I picked them up because it's not something that I would normally pick up. I Don't think they came in a mystery box. I Don't know you guys. I cannot remember where the splash balls came from, but I do have more listed They've been kind of long tail, but I did make Decent money on them if I could remember what I paid for them. I know I didn't pay much. Let's put that way I sold these for $19 and What did these come from that? I got it free garage sale Hmm They may have I'd have to go back and watch that video. I Cannot remember where these came from. I just feel like it's not an item. I would have bought if that makes sense Okay, so these sold for $19 and the buyer was all in for 28 89 and I don't know if they like fill up with water and when you throw them at people they like splash I don't know what they do, but I do have more listed. I should get one and Get it wet and see what it does All right, the next item is this jingle bell rock musical animated light-up Christmas book It did have some issues. This was in one of my thrift videos I still bought it because it's animated and super cool, but this needs glued back to the book I went ahead and took a best offer. Oh, nope. I'm sorry This sold for my sale price of $26 and 25 cents The buyer was all in for 35 30 and I got that at a thrift store for $4 The next item that sold is this vintage Navarone play set top floor guys This is the top floor. It does have some discolorations I did disclose that and it sold for a best offer of $14 the buyer was all in for $20 and 53 cents for that Here's the ramp from the same play set again. It's got some discoloring Sold it for $14 and 99 cents on auction It's not very big just a replacement piece and The buyer paid shipping so this one is more from that play set and it sold for 1999 and this one is a replacement door that sold for 1999 so all in for both those items. It was 33 Oh, no way. I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry This was a separate sale. This one was 1999 plus shipping is what this sold for This one is the replacement door and this right here this turret so these 1350 on that and 1999 on that so the buyer was all in for the two items 33 49 with tax and shipping 40 58 Blaze in the monster machine bumper man truck.   This also came out of a free box I sold this within Probably 10 hours of listing it was somebody local and they asked if they could come pick it up And I don't normally do that, but they were like literally like Probably two miles from me so I just went ahead and dropped it off on their porch and I had to go into town anyway, so it was just easy to drop off I sold this for twenty seven dollars and seventy five cents and the buyer paid tax.  I did local pickup This mixed lot of 50 wood track Trains It's the track in these trains right here. I got this at the Ben's and I will tell you that that track does add up So probably had well, I don't know five or six bucks in that with the track and it sold for Hmm I Think thirty seven forty nine, but the buyer was all in for forty dollars and sixty cents The next item are these vintage hallmark Christmas cards with children nativity scene at paper dolls So kind of like an ephemera type deal. It's paper Christmas card cute cute cute Somebody's probably gonna craft with that it sold for eighteen dollars and seventy four cents the buyer was all in for 2575 I got it at a garage sale for around 50 cents The next item is this bobble head dog. It's a flocked little lab And I picked this up at a garage sale for 50 cents and sold it for 17 dollars and 25 cents The buyer paid shipping and tax was all in for 2370 The next item I sold are these cast iron owls and they're like home decor. I don't know if they're like cooking Molds or what exactly they are But I picked those up at a garage sale for two bucks and I sold them for a best offer of 25 plus shipping The next item is this fort night gold Midas Action figure thing and I looked this up at the sale comps looked really good sell through rate was decent But there were quite a few listed so I was competitive with my listing price And it sold for 26 25 super fast in the buyer paid shipping The next item is this vintage 1983 Kurt Adler Christmas Carol ornament mini book I recently did a video on this and I said this is an item to definitely be on the lookout for these items So quickly and for decent money. I sold this for 20 dollars. The buyer was all in for 20 $24 so definitely a Bolo item The next item is this brats rock and angels microphone. I honestly thought this was gonna sell a lot quicker It was tested and it did work. It sold for 22 49 the buyer was all in for 29 40 So then A swim skirt, I don't get excited about clothes. I mean all sales are good sales, but I Shouldn't said that I do get excited about every sale, but I would but it was gonna be something cool that I could share with you guys and it's not it's just close All right, the next item is this vintage western Germany 10 like something cool like this I could have been like oh, I sold this vintage western Germany 10 Instead of oh, I sold a swim skirt. I sold this for 20 dollars and The buyer was all in for 31 dollars and 74 cents. This came from a garage sale super pretty colors neat item I just used the tape measure to show the measurements and Yeah, the bottom of the box the writing and just take lots of pictures guys pictures are worth a thousand words Is that what they say? All right, you guys Thank you for being here. Thank you for watching That concludes my 28 bread and butter Bolo items to be on the lookout for when you are outsourcing That was ridiculous. All right, you guys. Thanks for watching You


So our Baltimore Ravens names have been buzzing a lot at the wide receiver position And that's usually an annual thing But this time it's been buzzing in a lot more positive light because of course weeks ago Which a lot of people seem they they forgot about the Raven sign wide receiver Nelson Aguilera I'm gonna start calling him Aggie.  So it's like, okay. All right, let's go and then recently There's been all this news and speculation and rumors and whatnot about them potentially acquiring one DeAndre Hopkins So that that could be really nice and then on top of all of that Rashad Bateman, he like, you know what? Hey, I'm tired of them talking about everybody, but me Let me put out this video. Show them boys that I'm healthy.  So it's a beautiful thing about when you think about the potential of these Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Like a position that for so long Has been a weakness for a long time. It's been a weakness It could possibly possibly Be a strength and I would love that But anyway, those are those receivers are who's been talked about already, but the Baltimore Ravens are like, you know what? Let's give these fans something else to talk about Let's bring in somebody else and that was Tariq Black Why receiver formerly of the New York Jets, but why receiver from Michigan? So it might have got put on by a certain hardball. What not but hey, who knows, but it's all good So welcome to Tariq. Welcome to the Baltimore Ravens. Um, what do we know about Tariq Black? Well in the NFL, there's still a lot of unknowns There's still a lot of to be determined when it comes to his status in the NFL Reason I say that because when you look up his numbers, he just has just one catch for 10 yards In in the regular season, that's the only numbers that he's gotten in the NFL thus far But that could change in the future. So we'll see how that goes But he is big guy big for a 6-3 And when I watch I try to look up film the only thing I found was highlights though And y'all know I don't I'm not really a big fan of just highlights because that only shows the good stuff I want to see the good stuff the bad stuff everything in between I like to see stuff doing like a full game When the ball is coming your way when the ball is not coming your way. Are you blocking? Are you still running your routes? Are you giving up on plays? Are you playing through the whistle? What are you doing that? That's that's what I like to see everything Um, but we did see highlights. Oh and but some highlights that I do like watching Is my guy simply because you know simply like That dude is he is the best man. He is literally the best at what he does and I'm always proud of simply he'd be doing this thing So any Ravens fans that want to do want to look up highlights. You can go to simply as 10. He'll he'll put you on man but anyway, um with Tariq black When he catches the ball He catches it with his hands, which is great. And then I know that sounds so like oh I mean, that's what receiver is supposed to do. Right, but he catches Catches the ball with his hands. I'm catching with that body So even though it's something that you think is like, oh, that's so normal or whatever. Not everybody does it But as soon as he catches the ball, he tried to shoot up feel quick Like so he is a quick receiver even for being 6-3. Uh, he knows how to use his body Well, and that's a good thing because that can only Help and it seems as if in michigan seemed like he was a little bit of a deep threat A bit like he and them now, um Again, there's still a lot of unknowns about him though It's a lot of unknowns about him because uh, we talked about how In the pros so far It's been a lot of unknowns as far as uh, his production and what not because he only has one catch for 10 yards But looking at his numbers in college, uh, we'll start in 2017 um At 2017 in michigan, uh, he had 11 catches for 149 yards in one touchdown Then in 2018 in michigan, he had four catches for 35 yards And no touchdowns and then in 2019 the numbers went up a little bit He had 25 catches for 300 323 yards and one touchdown So with him, uh, his catches he he averaged 2017 he averaged 13 and a half yards per reception Or from from those 11 receptions 2018 he just averaged 8.8 yards reception 2019 he averaged 12.9 yards reception and then in 2020 when he played for texas He had 10 catches for 240 yards. So he averaged 200. I mean excuse he averaged 24 yards per reception So when he does catch the ball It's gonna be for a nice little chunk of yards man. It's gonna be nice for a nice chunk. Um But again, there's still it's limited it's limited information on what we have about, uh, Tariq black So I know especially given the the limited information that we have already Um, given the limited, uh, production that the ravens have to look at it's going to be an uphill battle form It's going to be really tough for him to make the ravens roster even if they don't get deandre hopkins Which hopefully they do but even if they don't get a deandre hopkins because there's still the draft There's still the possibility of them drafting a receiver um There's a possible There's still maybe demarcus rovingson. He could be a sort of safe post draft option for the baltimore ravens at wide receiver Um, you still got the guys on the practice squad. You got a shammar bridges I think they I think they brought benjamin victor back to the practice squad again, too Um, so he he's up against a lot a lot And then you got the guys that right now Based off of right now They're locks to make the roster obviously odell beckham jr. Rashad bateman devon duvenay After that, that's it for me as far as locks those three are locks right now with the ravens current situation Where I see with those three are locks at this moment if they add somebody Then a couple of those could change But I just I don't think james pro shea is a lock right now and I don't think tylen wallace is a lock right now I actually think tylen wallace has more of a chance to make the roster than a james pro shea And again, that's not a diss to james pro shea at all. It's not based off of his ability I think it's just based off of the ravens. Just I think they just I think they they they've given up on them. I think they're done with james pro shea And I say that based off of last year Based off of the lack of usage of james pro shea Even when receivers were going down, you still didn't see him Even when receivers were hurt, you still didn't see him And then when he was out there, there was a lot of penalties and whatnot and it just it was rough, man It was a really rough season for me. It seemed like the ravens are just like no, we're done That's what it seemed like to me. I'll see but anyway with with with to rick um This I think this is like a Just a sign in for some depth for some training camp depth for some OTA's depth for some mini camp depth for just for depth right now. So He got to use every opportunity that he gets though to make a bigger as big of an impact as he possibly can Because again, like I said, he's up against a lot. Um, if he could possibly make an impact on somebody Hey, the sky's the limit because you just never know you never know all that takes us opportunity We don't hear hearing so many stories over the years of different undrafted free agents different Undrafted rookies and whatnot late round picks guys that just it seemed like all right, man This this guy ain't got a shot But they end up turning into something so we'll see what happens with him um Throughout training camp and all that throughout OTA throughout all the whole the entire process man um, and I think I think the best bet for him the uh, I think right now the the Probably what what would be uh, the best option for him or obviously the best option for him will be making a roster But I think the best chance that he has at making Uh, the ravens team will be making the practice squad um Even in there and like I said earlier even that's that's gonna be tough because you have guys already on there Who have been on the ravens already who have been on the practice squad already? Who have been obviously in the nfl already so they got a little more experience than you Especially with the familiar familiarity that they have with the ravens So that's a leg up that they have on him. So again, it's gonna be really tough But I am interested to see uh, how he works man. So that should be fun to watch But anyway shout out to Tariq black tb Welcome to the ravens and team keeping clean. I love y'all. I appreciate y'all and we out I hope y'all have a really great day


Hello everybody, hooded Cobra Commander 788 here. I'm back with another vintage GI Joe Toy Review and this time, hey, we are looking at one of the most iconic and beloved GI Joe characters of all time. Of course I'm talking about the 1984 GI Joe Heavy Machine Gunner Roadblock. As you may know, Stalker is my number one favorite GI Joe character and Roadblock maybe not number one, but definitely in the top 10 and maybe in the top 5 of my favorite GI Joe characters. There have been a lot of versions of Roadblock, but let's take a look at how Roadblock appeared when he was first introduced in 1984. This is Roadblock, GI Joe's Heavy Machine Gunner. He was first introduced in 1984. He was also sold in 1985. He was discontinued in 1986 when this figure was replaced by version 2 of Roadblock. As the Heavy Machine Gunner, Roadblock took over the duties of Rock and Roll, who was GI Joe's first machine gunner in the first wave of GI Joe action figures in 1982. When Roadblock was first introduced in the GI Joe comic book in issue number 22, it was Rock and Roll who paid Roadblock respect for Roadblock's ability to handle his big 50 caliber machine gun. Let's take a look at Roadblock's accessories starting with his machine gun. This is an M2X machine gun, and what this really is is a modified M2 Browning, 50 caliber machine gun, sometimes called the MADUS. This is a pretty good representation of the M2 Browning. It looks a lot like that real world weapon. Main modification on here is the M2 usually has like a double grip here in the back, whereas this has a pistol grip. If you look at the artwork on the card, it almost looks like a pistol has been grafted onto the end of this weapon. To go along with his MADUS, Roadblock has a tripod which can be mounted on his backpack. The tripod has a hole which fits in this peg here on the backpack. Mounts the machine gun on the tripod by threading this peg through the hole on the tripod, and there you go. This is a very low sitting tripod, so Roadblock really needs to fire the gun from the prone position, which is good for maximum cover and accuracy. You can have Roadblock standing with the tripod on the gun, but I don't think it really looks good that way, so I usually leave the tripod on the backpack. Roadblock's next accessory is his helmet. He came with a light green helmet, which more or less matched the color of his gun. This is a standard helmet. It's much like the helmets that came with all of the 1982 G.I. Joe action figures like Rock and Roll. But as you can see, this helmet that came with the earliest versions of Roadblock did not have the holes in the sides. Later versions of Rock and Roll did have a helmet that had these ear holes like Rock and Rolls. Another figure that came with this light green, no holes variant helmet was the earliest versions of Duke. Roadblock's next accessory is his backpack, and his backpack is an orangey brown color that pretty much matches his pants. This backpack is not very well detailed. It has this handle here, but it's a little bit thick. I don't think I would put that in the action figure's hands. Don't use that as a handle. And of course it has this knob here on which you can mount the tripod. And that is very small and it sticks out and that can crack off very easily. You see a lot of backpacks with that little knob missing. And finally it has a removable ammo box. This ammo box pegs into this little peg right here. And that's another peg that can crack off very easily. Just goes in that hole on the ammo box here. The ammo box is very simple and there is no ammunition belt, nor is there an ammunition belt sculpted on the action figure, unlike the bandoliers on Roadblock here. So you just kind of have to imagine the ammunition being fed into the machine gun. This is not exactly what a real .50 caliber ammunition box looks like. If you want to know what one really looks like, it looks like this. Let's look at the articulation on Roadblock. He had the standard 1984 articulation, meaning he could turn his head from side to side like that. He could also lift his arm up at the shoulder and swivel it all the way around. He had a hinge at the elbow so he could move at the elbow about 90 degrees. He had a swivel at the bicep so he could swivel his arm all the way around. The figure was held together with the rubber O-ring so he could move at the torso a little bit. He could move his legs apart about so far. He could move his leg at the hip about 90 degrees and he could bend at the knee about 90 degrees and that's a very tight joint there. It's so tight it makes me nervous to move it. Let's look at the sculpt design and color of Roadblock, starting with his head. The sculpt on the face is good enough, I suppose. I don't really have any complaints about it. He's got a mustache there, a little sole patch kind of thing on his chin. You can't really see his ears. His ears aren't very pronounced there. One thing I don't like about this head is that he has a very narrow head but also very long.  The head sculpt on version 2 of Roadblock is a bit better even though they sculpted him with an expressive face which I don't really like. They did manage to give him a normal shaped head which I think is a lot better. I'd really prefer to have this head sculpt on this body. Looking at his chest, he has a very large chest. He's very barrel-chested. I think this is meant to convey his very muscular frame. He has a camouflage tank top and over that he has black straps. Those are straps for his backpack. Even though this is supposed to be a very muscular figure, his arms are really average size. No specially sculpted muscle tone in his arms. We have some green gloves and we have a green watch and a green glove on his left hand. On version 2 of Roadblock we did manage to get more muscled sculpted arms but what I really wanted to see was a very muscular frame and arms like on Sergeant Slaughter. That would have been more befitting of the Roadblock we saw in the cartoons and the comic book. On this piece he has a black belt, a reasonably detailed belt that looks pretty good and then he has these brown trousers that are sort of a slightly orangey tint. This orangey brown plastic has a tendency to be very fragile so you'll see a lot of these 1984 Roadblocks with broken crotches. On his right leg he has a green knife with a strap. On his left leg he has a black pistol holster with a pistol and this is a little unusual. Especially when I see pistols sculpted on the left leg of a figure that's an indication that he is left handed. However, I don't think Roadblock was ever portrayed in any of the media as being left handed. Then on his feet he has some pretty standard black boots and these boots are kind of an odd shape. His toes are sort of bulbous there, they sort of bulge out. It gives his feet kind of a weird shape. I do not use a figure stand with this figure because of the very fragile plastic. I'm worried about cracking the heel off of the foot with a figure stand. But case in point, even though I've been very careful with this figure and tried not to put any stress on the plastic at all, still I've got a chipped heel right there. So this is very fragile plastic so do be extremely cautious with it. Let's take a look at the file card and normally I only have the file card but for Roadblock I have the full card back. The figure would have been packaged on a card very much like this. You can see the artwork on the front of the card here, it says he's the heavy machine gunner codename Roadblock. It's got the contents of the card listed along the edge here. Fortunately, there's some of that still on there. Often, when the card is opened up and the plastic bubble is ripped off, it rips off the card contents too. So I think it's very unfortunate that they put the card contents along the edge there. Clipping the card around, we can see the cross cell with all of the other GI Joe action figures that were available at the time. He was worth one flag point just like all other GI Joe action figures. And here we have the file card which we're encouraged to cut out and keep. The file card has his faction as GI Joe, it has a portrait of Roadblock, that was from the artwork on the front of the card. It says he's the heavy machine gunner, his codename is Roadblock. His file name is Marvin F. Hinton. His primary military specialty is infantry heavy weapons, and his secondary military specialty is Cook. This secondary military specialty of Cook is very important to the personality of Roadblock. His birthplace is Biloxi, Mississippi and his grade is E4. This section says, Roadblock's dream was to be a gourmet chef. He was working as a bouncer to earn money to attend the Escoffier School in France when an army recruiter convinced him that the army could train him to be a chef. Since Escoffier School is referring to Auguste Escoffier, who lived in the late 19th and early 20th century, he was a French chef and the author of many books on French cooking. Roadblock's preference for gourmet food is reflected in his early appearances in the GI Joe comic book. Roadblock joined but found army menus and preparation techniques to appalling, surprise surprise, transferred to the infantry. With each career move, he's moving farther and farther away of his ultimate goal to be a gourmet chef. That expert M2 Browning 50 caliber heavy machine gun, and that really is what this accessory is supposed to reflect, even though it's called an M2X. All Warsaw-packed heavy machine guns, M16, M1911A1 Autopistol. This bottom section has a quote. It says, 50 caliber Browning weighs 84 pounds. Add 50 pounds for ammo, that's about 134 pounds of steel, generating 2,930 FPS in muzzle velocity. At a cyclical rate of 550 RPM, anybody who can handle that doesn't need a machine gun to keep me away. This bottom quote really doesn't say anything about Roadblock at all. It really talks about how massive and powerful his machine gun is. So massive and so powerful that it really probably wouldn't be possible or even practical for Roadblock to fire at handheld like this rather than mount it on a tripod. Looking at this figure overall, of course this is an iconic GI Joe character, one of the most beloved characters in all of the history of GI Joe. So it's hard to really knock Roadblock as a character. The figure has a few flaws though. The head sculpt is weird and really the head sculpt for version 2 of Roadblock is much better. Even though Roadblock did not appear with his helmet very often in the GI Joe cartoon or the comic book, the figure looks better with the helmet on. I do like the uniform of version 1 Roadblock better than version 2 though. The grey pants on version 2 are okay but I don't care for the bright green and version 1 just looks more combat ready than version 2. I would have liked to have seen a more muscular build but I guess the sculpting of the time just wasn't up to the task of creating a really big bulky muscular figure. Fortunately they did improve over the years and I really would have liked to see a Roadblock that was about the size and the build of a sergeant slaughter. I think that would have reflected how he appeared in the different GI Joe media. Just a quick height comparison with an average GI Joe action figure rock and roll. You can see Roadblock is not really any taller so really the only way they represented his more bulky build was with a larger chest piece. The color choices are really good on this figure. I think the greens and the browns and the blacks work very well. It's a nicely balanced color scheme and a really good action figure overall. I just wish it didn't have the weak points with the weird head, the very fragile plastic and not quite the muscular build that this figure should have. I'm still going to put this figure as a top tier figure though. How can you not have version 1 Roadblock as a top tier figure even with the flaws? I love this figure as a kid, played with it all the time. He had to be on all the missions. This was just a great iconic figure and as a kid playing with it I got a lot of great memories of it. Roadblock was very prominent in GI Joe media. He made many appearances in both the cartoon and the comic book. In the GI Joe cartoon series, Roadblock spoke with this weird kind of rhyming pattern. Essentially almost every line he spoke was in rhyme. And really why? Just why?  No more rhymes now, I mean it! Anybody want to see that? Roadblock really shined in the GI Joe comic book where he was portrayed as more than just a big guy. In issues number 28 and 29, he literally puts the guns of the killer whale on his back in order to save the entire team. But after he does so, he still doesn't take the credit. He gives the credit to his teammate, Deep Six. As powerful as that scene is, it is impossible to reenact with the toys. And in issue number 39 he reveals that when he was younger he was a boy scout and a choir boy. Now, Gung Ho thinks that that's all sissy stuff, but Roadblock really doesn't care what others think.  He exudes self-confidence and integrity. He was a very strong character in the comic book and in that sense he was a lot like stalker. Now in the GI Joe toyline we did not get a lot of African-American characters, but it was very strong, very good writing in the comic book that kept these African-American characters from just being the token black guy. So I have to give great kudos to Larry Hama, the writer of the GI Joe comic book, for how he handled these characters. And it's worth pointing out that in another issue of the GI Joe comic book, Roadblock beat Storm Shadow with pure muscle over skill. The live action movie GI Joe Retaliation, Roadblock was played by Dwayne The Rock Johnson. And the character as he appeared in that movie was different from how he was in the cartoon and the comic book, but I still thought it was pretty good. I thought it was a good update. And he still had, I think, the important characteristics of Roadblock. And this is how Dwayne Johnson appeared as Roadblock in plastic form as the battle-cotta Roadblock. You can see there are quite a few differences between the new Roadblock figure and the original. You can see the new figure is quite a bit taller. There's a difference in scale here. That's a reasonable likeness of Dwayne Johnson as he appeared in the movie. And the new figure, it does sort of keep the same spirit of the original, kind of sort of a little bit. Except this guy is supposed to be a ninja. Here's a brief history of GI Joe tough guys. When I was first playing with GI Joe toys back in 1982, Rock and Roll was the tough guy on the team. He was the muscle, really, because his file card mentions weightlifting and he came with a really big gun. In 1983, though, we got Gung Ho. And he was portrayed in the comic book as being very tough and mean. And he has some kind of sculpted on muscles on his chest. So he became the muscle on the team. He became the team's strongman. Then when Roadblock came out, he kind of took over that role. And he was definitely portrayed as being the strongest and biggest and bulkiest character on the team. After Roadblock, really the next character that took over that role was Sergeant Slaughter. And it's even visible in the action figure. He's sculpted with these huge bulging muscles. And in the GI Joe media cartoon and comic book, he was portrayed as being very strong, very tough. In kids' playtimes, these tough guy characters were imbued with superhuman strength. And really, that's how Roadblock can carry this massive machine gun and fire it from the hip is because when kids are playing with this, you sculpt a few muscles on a guy. And all of a sudden he has Superman powers. So when I was playing with these figures as a kid, nobody could beat any of these characters. They were just too strong and too tough for any Cobra opponent. That was my review of the 1984 Roadblock version one. I hope you enjoyed it. And if you're thinking of getting a Roadblock action figure, I hope you found it informative. If you liked it, don't forget to give it a thumbs up on YouTube. And don't forget to subscribe. I've got a lot of great new GI Joe toy reviews coming up. You don't want to miss them. And don't forget to check me out on Facebook and Twitter. 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