GI Joe Classified Dr. Mindbender In Hand Review
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The evil master mind behind Serpentor has finally arrived! A lot of you all have just received your Serpentor & Air Chariot Hasbro Pulse exclusives, well we now have his creator in hand! So please join us for this GI Joe Classified Dr. Mindbender in Hand Review. In a stunning homage to the vintage A Real American Hero figure, Dr. Mindbender looks amazing and comes with a soft goods cape, his vintage style accessories, and parts used in the creation process of Serpentor! His sculpt and details look stunning! Also, if you haven’t already done so, please be sure to check out our HUGE GI Joe Classified Series Serpentor & Air Chariot In Hand Review! You don’t want to miss this one, as we included a special guest!




Packaging
Dr. Mindbender comes in a similar tri fold out package as Serpentor. With beautiful artwork by Dave Rapoza, featuring the mad scientist creator of Serpentor, Dr. Mindbender is beautifully illustrated on the front of the box. The package has the same type of diagonal sleeve that Serpentor has.




Decoding Dr. Mindbender’s Abilities
The sides of the package feature graphics that continue the pattern to the “crate look” of the box and have Dr. Mindbender’s number 43, plus we get to see the Classified Series File card symbols, which we will decode for you below. Being the man who created Cobra’s ultimate leader, it is not surprsing that he has great skills, gear, and mastery so let’s start from the top and work our way down!
Role
He is a Level 4 Leader and this icon represents a character with the SCIENCE icon has advanced scientific knowledge through research and breakthroughs.
Gear
He is a Level 1 at MELEE WEAPONS , which is characters with this icon use weapons that smash things in close combat.
Skill
He is a level 4 skill, characters with the PSYOPS icon use psychological attacks to influence thoughts and behavior.
Mastery
He is a level 4 at mastery at WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT. Characters with this icon test and manufacture weapons.

When you slide it off, you fold open the two flaps in the front to reveal an incredible diorama display of Dr. Mindbender’s lab, we get to see him in all his mad scientist glory inside the box.




The back of the package features Dr. Mindbender at work in his lab and also a mosaic of images of Dr. Mindbender collecting DNA from the various parts of the world and history to use for his greatest creation, Serpentor! There are floating DNA strands, scenes of him getting DNA from history’s greatest generals and conquerors, even Baroness and Destro make an appearance.

Dr. Mindbender up close and personal
Head
Bald head, handlebar mustache, monocle and all, Dr.Mindbender’s head sculpt is a stunning tribute to his vintage counterpart. He has very bushy eyebrows and piercing brown eyes. His removeable monocle is a very nice touch by Hasbro well done! Hopefully that isn’t a piece that get’s lost easily! Gotta love that huge stache!!


Chest and Back
Chest
Dr. Mindbender’s chest sculpt is very detailed as he is extremely ripped with a six pack of abs! He is totally shirtless as was his vintage figure, except for the two silver colored rivot studded suspenders that are connected to his belt silver buckle.
Back
He is shirtless, so his back is a bare flesh tone, but he is wearing his signature black soft goods cape! His cape is made of a pleather like material. One unfortunate thing I think we are all missing is his signature silver Cobra symbol on the back of his cape. It would have been a nice touch for Hasbro to include this, but they did not.






Arms, Waist & Legs
Arms
Dr. Mindbender has some guns when it comes to his ripped biceps! His arms are bare, and he is wearing purple bicep wraps and purple wrist bracers. They have a very detailed design and include silver studded accents. He also has on black gloves that have a very cool leather like texture.


Waist
On the front of Dr. Mindbender’s waits, he is wearing a black belt with a pistol holster connected on his right leg. He also has a large belt buckle where his silver chest suspenders attach to. That is all connected to a silver crotch piece. (Yes I said crotch!)
On the back of his waist, you can see his black belt that wraps around and is simply the back side of his purple pants.


Legs
Dr. Mindbender is wearing purple pants and he has on very tall black boots that have a nice leather like texture and a little silver buckles on them. This was a very nice added detail. On his right leg, he has a black rifle holster that also has a nice black leather like texture as well.



Accessories
Dr. Mindbender comes packed with some amazingly detailed and diabolical accessories.
He includes:
- vintage style electric prod and generator
- modern style electric prod
- pistol
- syringe gun
- 4 syringes
- glove
- large red glass scientific container
- small red glass scientific container
- brain
- skull



Electric prod and generator
Just like the vintage Dr. Mindbender figure, this GI Joe Classified version includes his signature vintage electric prod and generator. The end of the prod is painted in a silver color and the rest is made of black plastic. It has a very similar shape to that of the vintage accessory and includes a handle and a wire coming off the end of the prod which you can attach to the small black generator device. The generator, unlike the larger rectangular vintage version is now a cylindrical shape and has some nice details sculpted into it. He also includes a second electric prod that has a more detailed and modern design.



Pistol & Syringe Gun
Dr. Mindbender includes a standard pistol that holsters on his right leg and he also includes a syringe gun which is a fun accessory for diorama shots!



Glove
The gray colored glove that Dr. Mindbender includes looks to have a boney hand in it, and it looks like it is grasping for help. There is also a black cable molded onto it as well. I wonder who’s hand this is supposed to be?? You can also peg the glove into the larger of the two scientific containers. It looks very cool under the red translucent plastic.

Red Glass Scientific Containers
This set includes 2 containers, one tall and one short, that have translucent red plastic lids that look like scientific glass containers. Each of the lids lift off and you can peg the brain and the glove into each of them. These make great display pieces for your mad scientist laboratory scene!




Syringes
You get 4 small syringes with this set. Dr Mindbender can hold them in his hand or you can place them on the perimeter of the small container so he can hold it and it looks like you are injecting something into the brain!




Brain & Skull
There is a brain accessory piece that you can display in one of those translucent red scientific containers. You can also take the brain and place it in the skull as well .
Dr. Mindbender also includes a skull. The skull looks to have a hole cracked open on the top as if someone extracted the brain out of it…. which is kind of disturbing if you ask me, considering he also comes with a loose brain accessory. But I guess this goes with the whole mad scientist theme so who I’m I to judge?





Vintage Figure Comparison
Here you can see the various views of the new GI Joe Classified Dr. Mindbender compared to the his vintage A Real American Hero counterpart. You can see what a wonderful job Hasbro did paying homage to the vintage figure. If only the new figure had the silver Cobra logo on the back of his cape, he would be perfect!




Toy Photography fun
If any of you follow our Toy Habits Instagram page and The Toy Sorceress Instagram page, you will see the Toy Sorceress loves Toy Photography, so here are some photographs for your enjoyment and inspiration! Dr. Mindbender was a blast to photograph because you can recreate the scene in “Arise Serpentor, Arise” where he creates the Supreme Leader Serpentor! Enjoy!!!
Dr. Mindbender works on his ultimate creation Serpentor!
Through a breakthrough in cloning research, Dr. Mindbender creates the perfect warrior, extracted from the unearthed remains of some of the greatest generals and conquerors of all time!


“The last element is in place, his genius brain is now ready and soon Serpentor will live!!!!”


“Arise mighty warrior, that I command you!!!”


With those words, the mighty Serpentor awakens and begins to rise! “The greatest warrior in all the world lives!!!! All hail the supreme leader Serpentor!!”


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