The B.A.T.S figure was my favorite action figure from the GI-Joe line. I collected myself an army of them by going to swap meets, toy shows and thrift stores back in the day. Good times!
toy shows in the mid 80s? I had this as a kid, sticker fell off and all but it was far from my favorite. I am actually shocked that it's popular lol Where i lived G1 Storm Shadow and Snakeeyes were impossible to get. I could never find them till the third versions came out and i didnt care for them as much. I liked Crimson Guard more than BATs My favorite was prob my own creation out of broken joes lol
I'm glad you pointed out the flesh tone on the artwork. That always led me to suspect Cobra was recycling the bodies of fallen Blue Shirts. No need to invent a highly complex robot body when you have a dead human body to work with. Just need to figure out how to trick it into not decomposing!
I had the same theory. They invented Compound Z to take care of that. It would have been macabre if the Modern Zombie Viper was wearing BAT clothes, and then the Convention Box Set showed them with damaged helmets, and mix of cybernetic faces, rotting. Eewwwww!
The clothes would keep dust and grit out of his joints. I love the concept of a retreating Cobra force unleashing a horde of B.A.Ts as a last resort tactic.
Great review, I have 8 cobra bats, complete and perfect, it wasn't easy or cheap, with my vipers and bats I will conquer the world, maw ha ha ha ha ha....oh wait did I say that out loud.
Nice dude! I have 18 complete BATs, but a few of them are complete with an asterisk since i bought repro chest decals and a couple of repro attachments. I started buying repro attachments for the BATs i bought incomplete because i had 3 or 4 attachments in a row that i purchased that had backpack pegs broken off in them. I was tired of having to deal with that, so i started buying repro parts for many of my incomplete BATs, unless the parts were from a seller that I'm cool with and not an ebay seller or store that i don't know personally. After all that, i feel your pain. It's tough finding those attachments for a good price.
1. Love the opening. 2. Loved B.A.T.s as a kid. I had three of them. One was self aware much like Data from Star Trek, and he commanded the other two. We also used the flame thrower as a machine gun, and the laser as a grenade launcher.
Among all the 1985-86 cobra line-up, when I went to the toy store with mom, this figure was my first pick, I loved it. I remember we were playing at the backyard with some childhood friends and the hand attachment fell down from my grip and landed into some rubbish and small stones, I lost it from sight and I was hysterical and almost crying, finally I spotted it and I could calm down.
The B.A.T. was my first Cobra action figure and just like that fellow on the video, I remember having felt drawn to this figure first by its looks (design features and color scheme) and then by the attachments gimmick. The vintage B.A.T. is, to me, one of the coolest action figures from the 1980s.
I remember watching an episode of G.I. Joe not to long ago, where a B.A.T is dropped from (I think) the Night Ravens pod. Anyway The B.A.T. crashed through a barn's roof. As the B.A.T. comes out the barn it has a pitch fork in it's cheast. The B.A.T. looks up at the NRaven as it just leaves it sparking and on fire but still active (I thought it was very dramatic).....I thought the story was going to be about a defective B.A.T. getting it's revenge on Cobra for leaving it.....but then I sadly realized all the drama the scene had was to show the B.A.T.s were expendable. But hey that would have been a cool episode, a B.A.T. killing it's maker........
Yes, that was the episode My Favorite Things from season 2. The B.A.T had been tasked with stealing a painting of Grigori Rasputin for Serpentor, since he was collecting items that belonged to him in past life's (since he was created from the DNA of many different military minds, leaders and authority figures). The B.A.T. was sliding down a mountain top where the Night Raven was flying below it. The intention was for the B.A.T. to land inside the pod, but the angle of its descent was not right, so it tossed the painting inside the pod before it crashed through the roof of the barn.
BAT was one of my faves as a kid - the changeable arms felt like an extra play feature, and the lenticular chest made it more visually interesting. 'They wanted to do a chest hologram but it was too expensive'... and then a year or so later we had 'Visionaries' with chest holograms from Hasbro. I think the BAT might have been the original basis for the Visionaries figures!
In my head canon the BATs were Robocop style cyborgs. Cobra has a finite pool of manpower so they can’t let little things like catastrophic injuries keep their troops off the field.
I love your honesty in these vids! The BATs serve the same purpose as the battle droids in SW; both troopers are a way to show damage by lethal weapons, while still maintaining a child friendly experience! Personally, I too preferred a sense of realism, yet I accepted a lot of the sci-fi aspects of the comic. Starting with the Brainwave Scanner, I always imagined BATs had the transferred consciousness of a Cobra blue shirt or Viper, reduced down to basic needs. The idea of GI Joe having green shirts always rubbed me the wrong way. Expendable nameless (mostly) soldiers who became cannon fodder. Great review!
The B.A.T. is certainly one of the best designed figures. Also, I'm impressed you made it through the whole video with only a single Batman reference. HOLY RESTRAINT BATMAN!
@@MrKerseyif Hasbro was smart they would remake the vintage BATS and make a trooper pack with the B.A.T.S. snow serpent, Cobra Elle's, Viper, cobra solider and officer, all in the vintage O-ring style,
@@cobra-emperor6starwars665 true, if they were smart, they would have made new figures the old way. BATs, Cobra Vipers, Crimson Guards, Snow Serpents, Cobra Troopers, EELs and other awesome figures that stood the test of time.
Have 3 B.A.T.S units myself. My original one that is played with but still complete. A second one bought off Ebay in pristine shape, and a B.A.T.S. Mk II in pristine shape. I always imagined that the original B.A.T.S. was like a walking tank. Very tough, extremely armored but slow with baseline intelligence. They could run just not very fast and they were able to figure out basic situations, but not much else. Small arms fire and even rifle fire would have little effect. Gotta use heavy weapons, Armor piercing etc. The MkII was more intelligent and faster and more agile but that was due to lighter armor. Small arms had little effect still but standard rifle fire was effective but the extra tactical skill the MkII had made them hard to handle. Both on the field made them a nightmare to deal with. I didnt care for Overkill so he never existed in my Joeverse.
A friend of mine that lived in the same apt building as me we both were die hard joe fans and we both deleivered newpspers and when we got paid we’d go to the closet Toys R Us in Brooklyn and we would keep buying a BATS to make a bat army we also did the same with the EEL,Vipers,Blue cobra soliders,Crimson guard,etc and would pool them together we had a lot of fun and we recorded all our figures together on VHS and I know I have the tapes somewhere in the storage room in the basement of the Apt building I live in now.The BATS were my 2nd fav figure (No one beats “Hit N Run”)
I always loved the bats, though no story ever used them to their true potential. I have always hoped that hasbro would make a 12 inch version as a giant juggernaut! good show!!!
I had a B.A.T. as a kid, but I always used the "laser" attachment as a grenade launcher - it had a much bigger barrel, so I imagined those grenades on the chest could be dropped into the breach and fired like a mortar to give extra range. Besides anything else, it seemed a bit more feasible to me than an arm-sized laser weapon, given that most other figures in the range with lasers seemed to require a huge backpack power source, and the B.A.T. would need enough power just to function normally... it didn't seem like there'd be enough batteries stored inside it to power something which normally required a rucksack's worth (at least, not with enough space left over for its innards!). Clearly that logic doesn't work in the context of the cartoons, where everyone had a pocket laser gun for a sidearm, but I was always more of a comics guy...
32:15 Only just now realised it's a Richard Nixon mask the BAT is wearing, never picked up on that as a kid. Also always thought the laser attachment was a drill of some kind. The things you teach us! Great review as always, might be time to pack in the day job and go full time with this...
Another great video (as always). The B.A.T.S. figure is very cool and well deserving of its favorite status. I wonder if its popularity led to the shift in GI Joe to more sci-fi and out there concepts or if that was just going to happen.
this was one of the last good Joe lines Dude . GI joes were my FAVE !!!! i still love all this stuff and im 42 . and no . im not a loser living in moms basement as most like to think about adults who dig figures . iyts a great art form , like comics . especially if you grew up in the 80s . kids are missing out big time nowadays
I remember hunting for this figure for months when it came out. When I finally found one, I played with it until it was pieces. Well done on your review sir.
The way I see it, both Mindbender and Scrap-Iron probably contributed to the creation of the B.A.T.s: Mindbender was the programmer who created the AI systems and other technologies that went into the B.A.T., but Scrap-Iron was the Engineer who built the actual body of the B.A.T. prototype.
Great review, just had to look for custom action figures while you described this neat figure, the Soundwave and Shockwave redecos are nicely done and a so 80s!
I've never owned a B.A.T, so I never knew that was a sticker on the chest. I just assumed it was sculpted details with a clear plastic window over it, like the modern version. About the memory thing, when I studied psychology in college, we learned about how unreliable memories can be. Your brain basically rewrites your memories every time you recall them, so events that are going on when you recall a memory can get written into that memory. This could account for your memories of the non-existent B.A.T. weapon. This is also why journaling is so important, especially as we get older.
When I got the B.A.T. as a kid I wondered how the B.A.T. changed his own interchangeable hand and weapons on his right arm. He would have to take off whatever he had on his right arm with his left hand, set that down, then grab whichever thing he wanted on his right arm out of his backpack and install it with his left hand, then pick up the original thing he had sat down and store it in his backpack.
I never owned (or really wanted) a BAT as a kid. It just wasn’t my thing for some reason. However I really like the card art. Just the way the head is positioned. It’s completely blank “face”... staring straight on at you... staring directly into your soul while you stare back at it seeing nothing there. No soul. You look at it and wonder what it’s thinking or what it’s going to do to you as it reaches back for another weapon. No way to relate or reason with it.
Loved the Battle Android Troopers ! I always considered them to be the natural evolution of the original S.N.A.K.E. project. They were great in the cartoon and in the comics. It makes total sense to me why Cobra Commander would have ordered these to be mass produced and deployed to attack G.I.Joe. Thank you HCC788 for doing such a great job on the review and for the entire Cobra Convergence IV event !
Love the channel HCC,bats are my favorite cobra troopers, loved em so much I bought 4 25th.anns,2vintage to complete the destro bat-grenadier army 👍🤖🖖had 2 chill on watching the channel cause you're influential in my over collecting addiction dude lol
Beautiful I had to stop several times and catch my breath. The 1986 year for the figures was truly amazing and one of the final perfect series of figures in my opinion. I like 1987 but not as much as 1986 and 1985 were such pinnacles of design and they almost weave together so well like they should have all come out at one but were spread out on a two year set. I have almost always ran my B.A.T.S with the claw looked so great holding a Joe midair with it! When my Mom came home with some fresh figures from Thrifty across the street from us the B.A.T was one of the first I got as I recall and was so special I kept the full card with the Thrifty price tag still on it to this day! She threw a $10 on the table and told me to start trotting and see the huge bins full of the figures they just emptied out of the shipping cases. Vipers were also the order of the day that night!
I beg to disagree, although 85 was a cool year, for me the 90 set was the coolest. Radical colored figures and every figure ess well done in design and look.
Personally, I don't understand people's complaints about G.I. Joe becoming "too sci-fi." I've always associated sci-fi elements with the 80s toys. I am aware that when it first debuted it didn't have many, if any, sci-fi elements, but I find that era the least interesting as a result. Gimme B.A.T.s, Serpentor, and the Toxo-Vipers! I find that the mix of realistic and science-fictiony elements enhance one another.
It’s the Mandela Effect. The Mandela Effect sounds like one of those schemes that Cobra would have orchestrated back in the Sunbow cartoon of the 1980s anyhow. One of those 5-part “Collect up all the pieces” episodes. Dr. Mandela and the Mandela Device. Keep altering people’s minds until they remember Cobra Commander always being King of Earth or something.
The BATS are great my only gripe is ever since I was a kid I thought that they shoulda had the same colours and wider head like the package art otherwise their awesome always loved the arm attachments
Had to get 8 bats for slaughter alone. They have bat stickers on ebay so they feel complete but sarge still beats them all. Also think Trap Jaw was an influence.
I'm not sure how familiar you are with custom creators. But there is an Iron Grenadier BAT made by a custom creator. Could be Black Major that makes them.
The B.A.T. also works great when you want a large battle without going bloodbath much like Samurai Jack Genndy Tartakovsky wanted a fight like Kill Bill's battle with the 88s just use robots and the concept carried to the expo fight in Iron Man 2, I get where you're coming from but the B.A.T. Does come across more rooted than say Cobra zombies atleast you can look at the field of robotics and think somewhere down the road that could be, just consider some the weapons back in the day that seem crazy fantasy but today reality
I loved the Bats and always thought Scrap Iron created them. They were a great addition to the Joe universe because Joes could finally shoot humanoid enemies, instead of missing all the time. Great review on an outstanding figure.
Regarding your false memory about the Gun, maybe you got an error. They factory could have packed the gun by accedent. That's my tought. A friend of mine had a Road Blaster matchbox car with 2 back parts of the armore and no front part of the armor. That's why I think the B.A.T. you had as a kid came with an extra gun. I once saw a Yoyo with a cigarette bun fused to the glue betweem the card and the platic bubble. And the cigatte had a Chinese brand coz the letters used chinese characters. It was a brand i've never seen in my country.
Seems funny that in the GIJoe cartoon, the Joes' aim improved when fighting the BATS.
The B.A.T.S figure was my favorite action figure from the GI-Joe line. I collected myself an army of them by going to swap meets, toy shows and thrift stores back in the day. Good times!
What do you pay for a complete bat?
Still have them?
toy shows in the mid 80s? I had this as a kid, sticker fell off and all but it was far from my favorite. I am actually shocked that it's popular lol Where i lived G1 Storm Shadow and Snakeeyes were impossible to get. I could never find them till the third versions came out and i didnt care for them as much. I liked Crimson Guard more than BATs
My favorite was prob my own creation out of broken joes lol
I'm glad you pointed out the flesh tone on the artwork. That always led me to suspect Cobra was recycling the bodies of fallen Blue Shirts. No need to invent a highly complex robot body when you have a dead human body to work with. Just need to figure out how to trick it into not decomposing!
I had the same theory. They invented Compound Z to take care of that. It would have been macabre if the Modern Zombie Viper was wearing BAT clothes, and then the Convention Box Set showed them with damaged helmets, and mix of cybernetic faces, rotting. Eewwwww!
I remember breaking a thumb off one of my Flint fingers and replacing it with an extra BATS arm. Then he could punch through anything.
The clothes would keep dust and grit out of his joints.
I love the concept of a retreating Cobra force unleashing a horde of B.A.Ts as a last resort tactic.
the most i get out of my wife when it comes to GI Joe is............''how many of that guy do you need?"
Variants, reprints, customs, and repaints. There's your answer.
@@dubuyajay9964 the answer was..."as many as it takes"
The judges will also accept, "That laundry isn't going to do itself, ya know. Chop chop."
Great review, I have 8 cobra bats, complete and perfect, it wasn't easy or cheap, with my vipers and bats I will conquer the world, maw ha ha ha ha ha....oh wait did I say that out loud.
Nice dude! I have 18 complete BATs, but a few of them are complete with an asterisk since i bought repro chest decals and a couple of repro attachments. I started buying repro attachments for the BATs i bought incomplete because i had 3 or 4 attachments in a row that i purchased that had backpack pegs broken off in them. I was tired of having to deal with that, so i started buying repro parts for many of my incomplete BATs, unless the parts were from a seller that I'm cool with and not an ebay seller or store that i don't know personally. After all that, i feel your pain. It's tough finding those attachments for a good price.
Every army builder understand that
1. Love the opening. 2. Loved B.A.T.s as a kid. I had three of them. One was self aware much like Data from Star Trek, and he commanded the other two. We also used the flame thrower as a machine gun, and the laser as a grenade launcher.
Among all the 1985-86 cobra line-up, when I went to the toy store with mom, this figure was my first pick, I loved it. I remember we were playing at the backyard with some childhood friends and the hand attachment fell down from my grip and landed into some rubbish and small stones, I lost it from sight and I was hysterical and almost crying, finally I spotted it and I could calm down.
The B.A.T. was my first Cobra action figure and just like that fellow on the video, I remember having felt drawn to this figure first by its looks (design features and color scheme) and then by the attachments gimmick. The vintage B.A.T. is, to me, one of the coolest action figures from the 1980s.
I remember watching an episode of G.I. Joe not to long ago, where a B.A.T is dropped from (I think) the Night Ravens pod. Anyway
The B.A.T. crashed through a barn's roof. As the B.A.T. comes out the barn it has a pitch fork in it's cheast. The B.A.T. looks up at the NRaven as it just leaves it sparking and on fire but still active (I thought it was very dramatic).....I thought the story was going to be about a defective B.A.T. getting it's revenge on Cobra for leaving it.....but then I sadly realized all the drama the scene had was to show the B.A.T.s were expendable. But hey that would have been a cool episode, a B.A.T. killing it's maker........
They also imply the bats willfind his way back at cobra
Yes, that was the episode My Favorite Things from season 2. The B.A.T had been tasked with stealing a painting of Grigori Rasputin for Serpentor, since he was collecting items that belonged to him in past life's (since he was created from the DNA of many different military minds, leaders and authority figures). The B.A.T. was sliding down a mountain top where the Night Raven was flying below it. The intention was for the B.A.T. to land inside the pod, but the angle of its descent was not right, so it tossed the painting inside the pod before it crashed through the roof of the barn.
BAT was one of my faves as a kid - the changeable arms felt like an extra play feature, and the lenticular chest made it more visually interesting. 'They wanted to do a chest hologram but it was too expensive'... and then a year or so later we had 'Visionaries' with chest holograms from Hasbro. I think the BAT might have been the original basis for the Visionaries figures!
Hoo rah! to the Slaughtress! Go get 'em, Mrs. HCC!
1986 brought us some of the best action figures. The BAT being one of them. Thanks for the shout out B!
In my head canon the BATs were Robocop style cyborgs. Cobra has a finite pool of manpower so they can’t let little things like catastrophic injuries keep their troops off the field.
I love your honesty in these vids! The BATs serve the same purpose as the battle droids in SW; both troopers are a way to show damage by lethal weapons, while still maintaining a child friendly experience! Personally, I too preferred a sense of realism, yet I accepted a lot of the sci-fi aspects of the comic. Starting with the Brainwave Scanner, I always imagined BATs had the transferred consciousness of a Cobra blue shirt or Viper, reduced down to basic needs.
The idea of GI Joe having green shirts always rubbed me the wrong way. Expendable nameless (mostly) soldiers who became cannon fodder. Great review!
The B.A.T. is certainly one of the best designed figures. Also, I'm impressed you made it through the whole video with only a single Batman reference. HOLY RESTRAINT BATMAN!
The first version is the best version of the BATS,
I agree, best design and color choices.
@@MrKerseyif Hasbro was smart they would remake the vintage BATS and make a trooper pack with the B.A.T.S. snow serpent, Cobra Elle's, Viper, cobra solider and officer, all in the vintage O-ring style,
@@cobra-emperor6starwars665 true, if they were smart, they would have made new figures the old way. BATs, Cobra Vipers, Crimson Guards, Snow Serpents, Cobra Troopers, EELs and other awesome figures that stood the test of time.
@@MrKerseythat is what I am sayin as well, the old O -ring vintage style we all love
@@MrKersey have you seen my collection I will sub you back
I vividly remember having Overkill and his interchangeable hand and that backpack... oh boy I annoyed my family with that backpack.
Have 3 B.A.T.S units myself. My original one that is played with but still complete. A second one bought off Ebay in pristine shape, and a B.A.T.S. Mk II in pristine shape. I always imagined that the original B.A.T.S. was like a walking tank. Very tough, extremely armored but slow with baseline intelligence. They could run just not very fast and they were able to figure out basic situations, but not much else. Small arms fire and even rifle fire would have little effect. Gotta use heavy weapons, Armor piercing etc. The MkII was more intelligent and faster and more agile but that was due to lighter armor. Small arms had little effect still but standard rifle fire was effective but the extra tactical skill the MkII had made them hard to handle. Both on the field made them a nightmare to deal with. I didnt care for Overkill so he never existed in my Joeverse.
I always thought that the B.A.T.S. were inspired more by Trap Jaw from He Man than Terminator.
Or roboto who was the good trap jaw.
@@hugoguardado2977 maybe for the see through chest otherwise Roboto and BATs don't have much in common.
@@stevenjohansen3827 see trought chest, removable hand/weapons, both are androids.
@@hugoguardado2977 i didn't remember he had enterchangable hands
A friend of mine that lived in the same apt building as me we both were die hard joe fans and we both deleivered newpspers and when we got paid we’d go to the closet Toys R Us in Brooklyn and we would keep buying a BATS to make a bat army we also did the same with the EEL,Vipers,Blue cobra soliders,Crimson guard,etc and would pool them together we had a lot of fun and we recorded all our figures together on VHS and I know I have the tapes somewhere in the storage room in the basement of the Apt building I live in now.The BATS were my 2nd fav figure (No one beats “Hit N Run”)
I always loved the bats, though no story ever used them to their true potential.
I have always hoped that hasbro would make a 12 inch version as a giant juggernaut!
good show!!!
One of my favorites from my childhood!
Bats also have to wear uniforms with distinctive insignia in order to comply with the Geneva convention as a lawful combatant. 🤣
I had a B.A.T. as a kid, but I always used the "laser" attachment as a grenade launcher - it had a much bigger barrel, so I imagined those grenades on the chest could be dropped into the breach and fired like a mortar to give extra range.
Besides anything else, it seemed a bit more feasible to me than an arm-sized laser weapon, given that most other figures in the range with lasers seemed to require a huge backpack power source, and the B.A.T. would need enough power just to function normally... it didn't seem like there'd be enough batteries stored inside it to power something which normally required a rucksack's worth (at least, not with enough space left over for its innards!). Clearly that logic doesn't work in the context of the cartoons, where everyone had a pocket laser gun for a sidearm, but I was always more of a comics guy...
I always assumed it was a grenade launcher as well. Where is it confirmed to be a laser weapon?
32:15 Only just now realised it's a Richard Nixon mask the BAT is wearing, never picked up on that as a kid. Also always thought the laser attachment was a drill of some kind. The things you teach us! Great review as always, might be time to pack in the day job and go full time with this...
The B.A.T. v3 is my favorite. It's the v2 mold with g1 color scheme. A group of them together look pretty cool.
That's the Mach 3 BAT right? Those are cool. I dig the Inferno BAT too.
Definitely one of my favorite figures from my youth.
Another great video (as always). The B.A.T.S. figure is very cool and well deserving of its favorite status. I wonder if its popularity led to the shift in GI Joe to more sci-fi and out there concepts or if that was just going to happen.
this was one of the last good Joe lines Dude . GI joes were my FAVE !!!! i still love all this stuff and im 42 . and no . im not a loser living in moms basement as most like to think about adults who dig figures . iyts a great art form , like comics . especially if you grew up in the 80s . kids are missing out big time nowadays
When I was younger i had a small army of these guys.
Awesome!! Cannot wait for Cobra Convergence VI and JoeFest 22' !!!🍻🥃🤝🎧🎼🎵🎶
These videos are my guilty pleasure!
I love the BAT! Great episode! The collaboration bits worked in great.
I remember hunting for this figure for months when it came out. When I finally found one, I played with it until it was pieces. Well done on your review sir.
Dr Mindbender was a dentist .... not even a real doctor in the 25th anniverary comic book and i'm so happy to see the 25th version on your review
IMHO, I always thought B.A.T.S. stood for; Battalion Android Tactical Sentry
I’ve been searching for this review forever.
$3 - $4 per figure is about what I remember. It took me 2 weeks of allowance to save up for one.
The way I see it, both Mindbender and Scrap-Iron probably contributed to the creation of the B.A.T.s: Mindbender was the programmer who created the AI systems and other technologies that went into the B.A.T., but Scrap-Iron was the Engineer who built the actual body of the B.A.T. prototype.
Great review, just had to look for custom action figures while you described this neat figure, the Soundwave and Shockwave redecos are nicely done and a so 80s!
17:05 wow that prototype BAT arms like dope I wish they kept it like that and I love the black accessories instead of grey looks more intimidating
I've never owned a B.A.T, so I never knew that was a sticker on the chest. I just assumed it was sculpted details with a clear plastic window over it, like the modern version.
About the memory thing, when I studied psychology in college, we learned about how unreliable memories can be. Your brain basically rewrites your memories every time you recall them, so events that are going on when you recall a memory can get written into that memory. This could account for your memories of the non-existent B.A.T. weapon. This is also why journaling is so important, especially as we get older.
Thank you, HCC788! This might be the best G.I. Joe action figure review video on RUclips. And I've seen a lot. Keep 'em coming ;)
When I got the B.A.T. as a kid I wondered how the B.A.T. changed his own interchangeable hand and weapons on his right arm. He would have to take off whatever he had on his right arm with his left hand, set that down, then grab whichever thing he wanted on his right arm out of his backpack and install it with his left hand, then pick up the original thing he had sat down and store it in his backpack.
the backpack full of prosthetics is too cool
my all time Favorite along with Toxo Viper Version 2
G.I. Joes had Robots like since 83
I never owned (or really wanted) a BAT as a kid. It just wasn’t my thing for some reason. However I really like the card art. Just the way the head is positioned. It’s completely blank “face”... staring straight on at you... staring directly into your soul while you stare back at it seeing nothing there. No soul. You look at it and wonder what it’s thinking or what it’s going to do to you as it reaches back for another weapon. No way to relate or reason with it.
I still remember one episode from Arise Serpentor, Arise. Beachhead had taken out a group of BATS with a rocket launcher.
Loved the Battle Android Troopers ! I always considered them to be the natural evolution of the original S.N.A.K.E. project.
They were great in the cartoon and in the comics. It makes total sense to me why Cobra Commander would have ordered these to be mass produced and deployed to attack G.I.Joe.
Thank you HCC788 for doing such a great job on the review and for the entire Cobra Convergence IV event !
I wanted this figure so badly that summer. I wish I'd gotten more than one.
I can't believe the figures were $2,99 back then, now a new figure today that size is about 20 dolllars.
The B.A.T. is my favorite all time Joe figure. I have only 3 vintage ones and 7 moderns. Great review.
Deeeeeeamnnn i forgot about scrap iron. I liked that figure alot!
i have 3 complete BATs, (one keeps dropping its chest hologram though) they are my favourite gi-joe figures
These Android's served well for me.
Love the channel HCC,bats are my favorite cobra troopers, loved em so much I bought 4 25th.anns,2vintage to complete the destro bat-grenadier army 👍🤖🖖had 2 chill on watching the channel cause you're influential in my over collecting addiction dude lol
Fun and amusing opening. Thanks.
I still have mine from when I was a kid. Pretty decent condition missing all those accessories though.
17:26 Why do people like translucent computer cases? The motivation is very much the same, I think. Mindbender's just the ultimate PC master race guy.
This is the first figure review that didn't make me wince at the arm swivel lol
Beautiful I had to stop several times and catch my breath. The 1986 year for the figures was truly amazing and one of the final perfect series of figures in my opinion. I like 1987 but not as much as 1986 and 1985 were such pinnacles of design and they almost weave together so well like they should have all come out at one but were spread out on a two year set. I have almost always ran my B.A.T.S with the claw looked so great holding a Joe midair with it! When my Mom came home with some fresh figures from Thrifty across the street from us the B.A.T was one of the first I got as I recall and was so special I kept the full card with the Thrifty price tag still on it to this day! She threw a $10 on the table and told me to start trotting and see the huge bins full of the figures they just emptied out of the shipping cases. Vipers were also the order of the day that night!
I beg to disagree, although 85 was a cool year, for me the 90 set was the coolest. Radical colored figures and every figure ess well done in design and look.
I remember i had some B.A.T.S missing the hologram chest piece .
Personally, I don't understand people's complaints about G.I. Joe becoming "too sci-fi." I've always associated sci-fi elements with the 80s toys. I am aware that when it first debuted it didn't have many, if any, sci-fi elements, but I find that era the least interesting as a result. Gimme B.A.T.s, Serpentor, and the Toxo-Vipers! I find that the mix of realistic and science-fictiony elements enhance one another.
Finally!! The B.A.T.S!! Loved the V1 and V2 figures, even going as far to have about a dozen of them for "Spare Parts".
Definitely a Pinto reference. Although the joke was fairly tired by '86.
didnt have a BAT as a kid so i never noticed the flesh on the BAT.............finally gives the clothing a reason to be.
Great review Hoodie CoCo
Cool figure. I should get a couple more.
I had the 1990 version and I loved it
Excelente video amigo. Gracias por compartirlo
I think it would be interesting if @HoodedCobraCommander788 your wife was really the Baroness in disguise.
No way I remember the bat having the same gun! I know it did.
It’s the Mandela Effect. The Mandela Effect sounds like one of those schemes that Cobra would have orchestrated back in the Sunbow cartoon of the 1980s anyhow. One of those 5-part “Collect up all the pieces” episodes. Dr. Mandela and the Mandela Device. Keep altering people’s minds until they remember Cobra Commander always being King of Earth or something.
I always had 2 BATS to man guns on a Cobra vehicle or plane.
Talk about an epic review! This was awesome from start to finish!
heck, yeah, these reviews just get BAT-ter and BAT-ter!
The B.A.Ts greatest enemy is Sgt.Slaughter
The BATS are great my only gripe is ever since I was a kid I thought that they shoulda had the same colours and wider head like the package art otherwise their awesome always loved the arm attachments
Totally forgot about Overkill. Loved the little dual machine guns that popped out from his chest.
DD batteries for when he gets hungry. Lol.
the opening had a better plot than Dark Fate
Why does the Bat have to roll up it's sleeves lol!!!! He's wearing trousers??? Great review as always.
Oh my god she has that vintage 7 in one gun!
We need a Classified B.A.A.T and Overkill.
Good job
Very good review of the B.A.T. and it's a awesome action figure.
Anyone noticed she handed him Cobra Commander's handgun?
Johnny Ruttley what else would hoody coco use?
Just love the little details awesome
Had to get 8 bats for slaughter alone. They have bat stickers on ebay so they feel complete but sarge still beats them all. Also think Trap Jaw was an influence.
I always wanted an iron grenadier BAT WITH A METALLIC gold head.
I'm not sure how familiar you are with custom creators. But there is an Iron Grenadier BAT made by a custom creator. Could be Black Major that makes them.
The B.A.T. also works great when you want a large battle without going bloodbath much like Samurai Jack Genndy Tartakovsky wanted a fight like Kill Bill's battle with the 88s just use robots and the concept carried to the expo fight in Iron Man 2, I get where you're coming from but the B.A.T. Does come across more rooted than say Cobra zombies atleast you can look at the field of robotics and think somewhere down the road that could be, just consider some the weapons back in the day that seem crazy fantasy but today reality
Shame no one has made a custom chest plate piece for version on B.A.T.s like on the Classified version. At least, not yet.
I loved the Bats and always thought Scrap Iron created them. They were a great addition to the Joe universe because Joes could finally shoot humanoid enemies, instead of missing all the time. Great review on an outstanding figure.
One of the best and most popular figure from the 80's joe line! Awesome TERMINATOR intro too!
I remember getting what looked like a grey AK-47 with my BAT
...and having two hologram stickers on Visionaries more than doubled their price...
interesting! they always had AKs in the comics
Regarding your false memory about the Gun, maybe you got an error. They factory could have packed the gun by accedent. That's my tought.
A friend of mine had a Road Blaster matchbox car with 2 back parts of the armore and no front part of the armor. That's why I think the B.A.T. you had as a kid came with an extra gun.
I once saw a Yoyo with a cigarette bun fused to the glue betweem the card and the platic bubble. And the cigatte had a Chinese brand coz the letters used chinese characters. It was a brand i've never seen in my country.
I like to see a review on the B.A.T. version 2, it looks great! 👍😎
Excellent work! I don't think I ever looked at that special detail on the back! Learn something new every time. Thanks HCC!
Great review! You never fail to entertain with your reviews!