Hello everybody, HoodedCobra Commander 788 here and I'm back with another vintage GIGOTOI review and I'm doing another requested review video. Here looking at the 1983 GIGOTOI Amphibious Personnel Carrier or APC, the APC was introduced in 1983, it was also sold in 1984, it was discontinued in 1985, there was no replacement for it in 1985, and really we didn't see another troop carrier like this in the vintage line unless you account something like the mobile command center, but that really wasn't exactly the same thing, so the APC is kind of unique among GIGOTOV hickles. There were some other vehicles in the line that had personnel carrying abilities like the 1988 Warthog, but the Warthog was a bit different, it did have a small personnel carrier compartment in the back, but it was nowhere near the scale of this APC. Although the Warthog rivals the APC in size, the APC is primarily a troop carrier whereas the Warthog's troop carrying ability is more of a secondary function. There were later versions of the APC that were done in different colors, the APC was worth four flag points and it could hold up to 28 action figures. The APC had a dual use, it was a vehicle of course, but it was also a figure carrier, you were intended to pile your figures in here and you know carry them about. The APC is modeled after the real world of VAB, which is a French personnel carrier and I'm not going to say the French name because I can't pronounce it, the APC was really big, it was the largest land vehicle in the GI Joe toy line up to that point. The following year in 1984 we got the larger hovercraft killer whale, but up to that point this was the biggest land vehicle you could get for GI Joe. Let's look at the parts and the features of the APC starting with the cannon and the blueprints call this a 50 millimeter single fire auto control cannon. It can traverse 360 degrees, it does not elevate. The cannon has some excellent sculptor detail on it and it can pop out and it's held on by these three prongs. Next let's look at the canopy and this canopy has a really nice camouflage painted pattern on it and that goes all the way around and from the front to the back and this looks very nice. It also has a nice canvas type texture to it. Up in the front here it has some sculptor detail and what I guess is supposed to be part of the cannon's firing mechanism. The canopy is held onto the main body of vehicles through these four knobs that stick in the holes on the main body to on each side and to take the canopy off you just kind of squeeze it together and lift up. The underside of the canopy does not have the canvas texture pattern but it does have these tabs and I'm not 100% certain what they're for but they may be intended to go between the action figures that you can stand up inside the APC. Up at the front we have this cab cover here and that is removable. You just kind of flip it forward like that. It has these tabs that go into these notches to hold it on. The cab cover has some nice detail. It also has these portal style windows and that is clear plastic and there's clear plastic here along these sides as well. It's a nice utilitarian look. Inside the cab we have some really excellent detail on the dashboard. Some nice seats that looks really good even though it doesn't have any stickers on the instrument panel so it doesn't have any color detail or anything like that. It does have some nice sculptor detail. It has a steering wheel and this steering wheel does pop out and it is keyed so it only goes one way. It does not turn. On the floorboard of the cab it has a metal texture pattern and it has a couple foot pegs. In the main body of the carrier it has two frequently lost parts and those are the seat belts. They both peg in with a round peg at the front and a square peg at the back and these are just really long thin pieces of plastic. These do tend to get lost pretty frequently. I know that when I was a kid playing with this we didn't really use these very much so of course they instantly got lost. They're intended to go across the legs of the figures that are seated in the APC so it just kind of holds them all in, keeps them from sliding around back there and in the main body of the APC you get lots of foot pegs and two rows of seats here along the sides. That's room for 26 action figures and with two in the front that leaves a total of 28 figures that this APC can carry. The APC has six wheels three on each side and these are plastic wheels they're not rubber. They are held on with a metal dowel axle that runs between them. There's no suspension but it does roll very nicely. One very nice touch with this vehicle is all of the sculpted detail on the bottom of the vehicle. Look at that it looks like a very realistic undercarriage for a transport vehicle. That's an amazing amount of detail to put on the underside on something that most people probably wouldn't even notice. I'm not certain about APC anatomy but I'm pretty sure this one is male. On the back we have even more sculpted detail. We have some tail light covers and some sculpted on tools that looks like a pickaxe and hammer there and there's even an axe here and it has the what the blueprint's called the telescoping bumper. This bumper also functioned as a handle for the carrier so when you filled it with your action figures you could carry it by this and take it over to your friend's house or wherever you wanted to go. One thing I think is missing from this back end is a toe hook. It doesn't have a universal toe hook so it could tow some of the smaller toad weapons and I think that's a miss opportunity. It really would have been a great complete vehicle if it had a toe hook back there. Now here's the APC with its full complement of 28 action figures as it was designed to hold them. Now I could show this to you with the 1982 and 1983 action figures since it did come out in 1983 but I just got those up on display and I just can't be bothered to take them down for this video so these are just random figures that I've crammed in here so that it can be I can show you what it looks like when it's full. I have to say I don't think these seatbelts do a very good job. You have to lift the arms up in order to get the seatbelts across the laps of the action figures. It will fit on over the legs of the figures but not over the hands and even at that they don't stay in all that well so if you're not going to this thing around I don't think it's going to hold those figures in very well at all. Can it float? Oh you betcha! Like a boss! Overall the APC is a great vehicle. It's very solidly constructed for rugged play and it fulfills an important role in your GIGO collection both as a figure carrier and as a great attack vehicle. I don't normally have any interest in foreign issues of GIGO toys but there was an APC issued for the action force line for the Z-force line in the UK that was modeled after this but it's had some better features instead of just being a personnel carrier like this inside it had like a little mini head quarters with computer consoles and a little sick bay with a stretcher and that's pretty cool so that might actually be the one foreign issue of a GIGO toy that I actually tracked down. The APC is a massive vehicle and it has a lot of space inside and really I can't let that space go to waste so what I do when I'm displaying it well I've got like dozens of these figures that are in plastic bags they're not complete and so they're not ready to review and they're not ready to display so I just kind of have them crammed in the APC like this and I have like dozens and dozens of them and I just kind of fit as many in there as I can and it just it just still isn't enough I still have more and more I have the entire APC filled up I have every other true carrying vehicle filled up with these these incomplete characters and and this is my secret shame. I can't display them I have too many and yet the sad thing is I keep buying more of them. I admit I have a problem somebody please help me that was my review of the 1983 APC I hope you enjoyed it if you're thinking about getting one I hope you found this video informative if you did make sure you give a thumbs up on YouTube and make sure you subscribe to the channel I've got a lot of great new GI Joe tour of views coming up you don't want to miss them and like the Facebook page thanks and I'll see you next time Come visit packing we're outnumbered GI Joe to rescue the GI Joe personnel carrier hosts 28 members of the GI Joe team let's go go get the new members of the GI Joe team here's the PEO and strip wire get the Joe team aboard and move them out