Spent my afternoon babysitting my nephew and we ended up watching Operation: Dragonfire on your channel xazyl. We had pizza n chocolate milk and now I’m now he taken home a scoop figure for show and tell tomorrow. Thanks for uploading the whole mini series. There might be hope for younger generation yet. Yojoe!
...and no reference to him having once been a snake was ever made again. Even in this mini-series, his face goes back to normal, human looking skin the second he puts on his old uniform.
The first season (1990-1991) of the DiC series was mainly standalone episodes that focused on establishing new team members and plots. After the "Operation Dragonfire" miniseries in 1989, the DiC show lowered the animation budget and began a series of two part episodes, which often told a deeper story involving more dramatic life and death situations for the Joes. The theme song called "Got to get tough... Yo Joe!" and underscore for both seasons (1990-1992) were provided by Stephen James Taylor.
Doesn’t make sense if the first season is 1990 while Operation Dragonfire" miniseries was in 1989, the mini series should be after the first season and not before 😡
@@luyenhuynh3747Think of the mini series like a show pilot. This miniseries was AFTER a real American hero and Gi Joe the movie. GI joe in particular did many five part episodes in the middle of their seasons.
This “movie”; the actual movie with Cobra La, “Worlds without Ends” and “Arise Serpentor Arise” were my favorite Joe cartoons. The joes actually seemed like they might lose and Cobra was a real threat. That’s what made them great! Thanks for sharing this 😊
i actually liked this better than the Serpentor movie. I remember waiting for new episodes of this one and Serpentor seemed kinda lame lol... Cool idea at first with the DNA and all but then it just went downhill
Operation Dragonfire was a great story, it doesn't get nearly as much credit as it deserves in the GI Joe mythology. Thank you for sharing this awesome piece of GI Joe history!
Hans, I completely agree. I loved this one as a kid, and I still love it now. There were so many characters here that didn't get to continue on after this point, and that's a shame. At any rate, it's great to run into others who appreciate this one. Cheers!
This is excellent. I like the fact that also the Sunbow music is used here and there, as to ease us into the new series. Animation of the vehicles is just beautiful.
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Mark! This was the best of the DIC animation in my opinion. It wasn't all bad from here but it was of lower quality for sure
@@eastcoastshine2009 I'm very impressed with the continuity here. Typically a new production would ignore the previous show, but DIC continued it and even made a powerful story of re-humaning Cobra Commander from a snake.
@@JLvatron Actually the lack of continuity was the problem. They restored the Commander (A short temper narcissistic bully like Serpentor woulda been awful with the kids lol) then went such a different direction with the show that most fans jumped shark
AYYY MY MANS COBRA COMMANDER BECAME A MAN AGAIN! Or, rather, "something approaching a man" as he put it. Watching my fav G.I. Joe character slowly degenerate into a snake in the movie all the while saying "I was once a man" was rather disturbing, glad to see him back as basically his old self. Love how that line was also the first thing he said when he was changing back in this, nice call back to the movie. And he finally got vengeance on Serpentor as well, all the while acting like his regular old self, attitude and all! Loved seeing that!
@@xazylsclubhouse How true, ha! I'm sure they'd prefer him over Serpentor though, love seeing the good ol' "G.I. Joe Vs Cobra Commander and his army" again.
@@sharanquiett9972 I mean ok… but if you watch, he didn’t become a man.. he turned from a mutated cobra into a humanoid serpent man, and stayed like that. In the cartoon continuity cobra commander was either a cobra la nobleman who was disfigured… a mutated cobra and finally a serpent man.
I was a child of the 1980's. I never cared for the DIC continuation of GI Joe, except for the five part pilot, Operation Dragonfire for doing a good job in reset everything to the dynamic for Cobra that it was in the first season of GI Joe.
The acting was good, the art work was good, it was like they ran the stories thru steering committees that really didn’t understand what GI Joe was about.
Yep. It was great and how Cobra Commander came back. They Had to because cobra was losing recruits, in house fighting, and no one to blame for defeats. Joes were out of jobs,soon.
I was a fan since the M.A.S.S. Device aired in '83. I don't remember Operation Dragonfire ever airing, but I did watch the DIC Series when it aired in Syndication. I was not a fan of the DIC Series, but at least this movie explains how Cobra Commander was no longer a snake. I also remember in the '90s when the U.S.A. Network Cartoon Express would air the DIC Series intro with the the Marvel/Sunbow episodes.
I hate to break this to you but if you recall correctly Golobulus is the one who ordered Cobra Commander exposed to the spores turned him into a snake not Serpentor.
Some of them like General Hawk, Duke and Scarlett will appear later in the series but they will look and hear so different that they are practically new characters.
I wish Sunbow would have done a season three and then handed it off to DIC. DIC shouldn’t have cheaped out on the animation and just picked up where things left off.
I will say, I like how Scoop's story was handled in this mini-series. Because he just was another unwitting victim of Cobra's manipulations by being tricked into thinking G.I. Joe destroyed his parents' home in the hopes to recruit him, which made Leonard realize he screwed up and wanted to make things right.
I had completely forgotten about this. The G.I. Joe movie is etched in my brain. After it came out it my interest in the toys and comics peaked, but because of timing of when it aired the show became increasingly harder to watch. Thanks for posting!
I must have missed this mini series as a kid. I distinctly remember the episodes after it and obviously the OG series, but I don’t remember seeing this!
Absolutely Amazing!,TOP SHELF!, WELL DONE! G.I.JOE Operation Dragonfire the Five Issue Tv Mini-Series from DIC! Was Successful but also very good, featuring the 1st Cartoon Appearances of 1.Scoop,2.BackBlast,3.Downtown, and 4.Long Range ,the 1st cartoon Appearance Of ThunderClap and Long Range The 1st Cartoon Appearance of Slaughter's Marauders (Sgt.Slaughter(leader),Members 1.Barbacue,2.Mutt,3.Spirt,4.Footloose, and 5.Low Light, Scoop revealed to be a Joe but also a Member of G.I. Joe, on Cobra's side The 1st Cartoon Appearances of 1.Alley-Viper,2.The Frag-Vipers, 3.Night-Vipers,4.Annhilator's, 5.T.A.R.G.A.T. S, & the Newest Dreadnoks 5.Gnawahyde,also The Rise and Return Of Cobra Commander, The 1st Cartoon Appearance of Phyton Patrol The Fall of Serpentor the 1st cartoon Appearances of New G.I.Joe and Slaughter's Marauders Vehicles The 1st Cartoon Appearances of New Cobra and Pyhton Patrol Vehicles And many more, also thanks for sharing Xayzl keep up the great work have a good day and YO JOE.🙂👍🇺🇲⚖️🦸
One thing I'll never complain about the DIC era is the music. That beat that starts at 16:55 is awesome, and I wish there was a way to hear it on its own and for bit longer.
I have no idea this even existed. Cobra Commander came back to life or humanity. That's how he got the new suit. As a kid I knew had a new suit but I didn't know anything about this. Or maybe I did maybe I just don't remember. But I don't think I saw this LOL I was always thinking God Cobra command that has such a terrible ending. Once a man LOL but he came back huh
I remember clearly an alternate version of this mini series in which the Sunbow music was then replaced with the music DIC used in their regular 1990 G.I.Joe syndication run.
Thank you for uploading, I had never seen this! I enjoyed the heavier focus on character development, but the Scoop-LowLite plot seemed to drag a bit. Also, the lack of background music in some scenes really left a void. I always wondered how they could re-human Cobra Commander after the movie, and this was done really well. So long, Serpy! lol All in all, given this was no longer Sunbow produced, they did a good job.
@@xazylsclubhouse I'm honestly surprised at how well it was done. Typically the previous show cannon gets overlooked when a new company is in charge, including the huge plots to be resolved (Cobra Commander a snake).
Scoop and Low Light were great troops for Cobra Commander taking out Serpentor for him in which they enjoyed doing so. Cobra Commander's Python Patrol were the coolest faction of Cobra in GI Joe History.
I had the comic that showed the new cobra commander. I do not remember the story, but I had to wait forever as my mother was at the doctor. We went to a Walgreens, or something like that, and I grabbed snacks, drinks, and the G I Joe comic. I wish I still had it. I thought the new cobra commander look was epic.
He wasn't the real C.C. in the comic but an imposter that took his place when they thought he was dead. The comic and animated series both had different continuities.
In the comic the “Armored Cobra Commander” was one of the “Freds” (Crimson Guardsmen) who took the chance that no one would recognize him in the armor when CC was thought dead. It was decided that since the Baroness was the only one who had seen CC’s real face she would identify if this new CC was the real thing. They went into a private room and made a deal so Baroness told everyone he was CC. The real CC showed up later and killed him and took his command back. The Armored suit is still my favorite version of CC. I also liked the Armored version of Serpentor in the DDP comics but I was in the minority of people that liked those comics
You know...all the times I arrive at home before 400p to watch every episode of the Joes...I've never watch this before..Bless you f/ uploading this!!!
I actually met Sgt. slaughter a couple of times at convention called joefest I’ve cosplayed as lt. Falcon Sgt. slaughter is a very nice person he told me once he liked my lt. Falcon cosplay I’ve got mean pictures with him . Yooooooooo joe”
Had no idea that the DiC series used the way better background music from the Sunbow series. Makes the cartoon more enjoyable and the transition much easer. LOVE THIS.
I remember watching this when it was on TV when I was in 5th grade, watching it now I realize the superb level of animation. Saw all of the Japanese names among the artists and realize this was more or less the American produced Japanese Anime of GI Joe! How cool!!! DIC should have kept this art style and had less ridiculous stories...
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse David! Thanks for sharing this memory with us. I agree with the level of animation. It did drop off considerably afterwards
Anyone from Cobra that was in the movie's climactic battle and doesn't appear in the DIC series, I assumed died during that battle or the explosion at its end. That includes Xamot, Tomax, Mindbender, and most of the Dreadnoks.
@@xazylsclubhouse Serpentor did refer to Gnawgahyde as a Dreadnok in part 1. As far as I know this is the final time the term was used in the DIC show. Additionally, IIRC, Gnawgahyde was the final Dreadnok introduced in the toyline.
I loved the Cobra-La storyline in GI Joe The Movie. Golobulus, Nemesis Enforcer, Pythona were great characters. The back story of Cobra-La was amazing and adult oriented. Cobra-La was an advanced civilization, and then came the ice age. Cobra-La retracted underground, and humans advanced. Cobra Commander's trial and punishment was shocking and memorable. Then they wasted this beautiful storyline in DiC series. And too bad they wasted Serpentor. He was created by Golobulus using the most genius humans' DNAs. Great backstory. Art work is also terrible in DiC series, compared to Sunbow.
Serpenter sucked imo. It was obvious that they used him to create the Megatron/Starscream relationship on their show in hopes of it renewing interest in their products
Cobra Commander didn’t really have a choice . I always wanted to quit Cobra, help the Joes by giving their secrets for a deal, or forming his own terrorist organization from scratch. He couldn’t go back to Cobra- la.
WIth the sunbow music, which I saw on tv back then and is also on the Shout DVD. I think the DIC music (which I never saw on tv with Operation Dragonfire) might be more common online. I'm sorry that Operation Dragonfire was the only thing GI Joe had for tv in 1989 (for that matter, Mass device and Revenge of Cobra were the only things for 83 and 84). There could have quite a few other miniseries that year if not a whole season, even if there couldn't have been a 1987 or 88 season.
I like how this has the sunbow music like at 35:58. just as the DVD release has. It is also the version I saw on tv back in early 1991 (I didn't see it when it first aired). The version I've seen online contained the DIC music.
Wow, cool. Never seen these in my country. Going to watch it later on. Thanks for sharing this👍 It even has Rob from Joburg in the first minutes already. 😉
I didn't even know this existed. This is actually pretty bad ass. To me, the animation is better than Sunbow as well as the sound effects. They could've went a little different on some of the voices though. Overall it's pretty cool seeing the FRAG vipers, Night vipers and the later characters animated that I never got a chance to enjoy as a kid. Good stuff!!
Is it just me or is Cobra more competent in this mini series then they are for the rest of the DIC series? Also Destro have a relationship with Zarana is kind of unusual considering we all know how much Destro hated her brother.
Operation dragonfire is considered around on par with sunbow, and yes, cobra was more deadly, and way less cartoonish than they were in dic season 1 and especially season 2.
The return of Cobra Commander RIP Chris Latta aka Cobra Commander aka Starscream. RIP Dick Gauntier aka Serpentor aka Rodimus Prime. Love reliving my childhood its awesome to see they great shows. Most of today's cartoons just don't have no souls I can't relate with them. If it not Japanese Anime DragonBall and old skool I don't watch. They turn Serpentor into a iguana lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂and Destro dump the beautiful Baroness for Zarana 😊.
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I'm surprised Hasbro won't just upload the DiC series themselves. They've put up the entire Sunbow, Sigma 6, Resolute, and Renegades series on their various RUclips channels already, might as well just put the remaining series online as well.
Love how it takes off right after the movie and has the spirit of the original ARAH. Missed this the first time. I did get a DVD of the show after this movie, don’t know why this wasn’t included.
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Check out Sgt Slaughter in the SWC here: ruclips.net/p/PLGTn5mjEVe3cwdKWuKuBOoM5Id4qIkUIi&si=RYWHhH-fpAjsTPkN
This is the only part of the DIC era I consider canon to the Sunbow cartoon.
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Austin 😎
International hero just doesn’t have the right ring to it
I like it 🤷 Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Paul 😎
GI Wooooooooke
When did they change it? 🤔
After GI Joe the Movie and before the Got To Get Tough theme
I call bullshit
Spent my afternoon babysitting my nephew and we ended up watching Operation: Dragonfire on your channel xazyl. We had pizza n chocolate milk and now I’m now he taken home a scoop figure for show and tell tomorrow. Thanks for uploading the whole mini series. There might be hope for younger generation yet. Yojoe!
Yo Joe! Thanks for sharing, I love stories like this
Wow the dropoff in quality from Sunbow is light day to night. At least my favorite character C.C. was transformed back into a 'humanoid'
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse jlusk999
...and no reference to him having once been a snake was ever made again. Even in this mini-series, his face goes back to normal, human looking skin the second he puts on his old uniform.
1:13:05 When Destro "Dumped" Zarana! 😂😂😂😂 Freakin Hilarious!!!!!!
😂😂😂😂 Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Bradman77 😎
Zarana is a loser.
Hell, I wish I had one of those back in the day!! I would've put that to really good use!! LMFAO 🤣
I imagine the goofy yell when that happens.
Alright, who else just came here for Cobra Commander ?
Welcome Austin! Come here for Cobra Commander, stay for the fun
@@xazylsclubhouse, of course, I love the GI Joe.
@@austinurban7860 Yo Joe!
@@xazylsclubhouse, YO JOE!!!
@@xazylsclubhouse, Just for the hell of it, I will subscribe to you. Keep up the great work.
At least Cobra Commander is back at running Cobra. I really hate Serpentor.
Me too 😂
@@xazylsclubhouse😂
Serpentor was just too arrogant and impatient. Hence, he always blamed everyone else for his own failures.
And that's why they replaced Cobra Commander in the first place 😂
This , I command!!!!
I always wondered how cobra commander came back in a new suit. Thanks so much for posting this!
Knowing is half the battle! Thanks for watching jb mmm and welcome to the Slaughterhouse 😎
The first season (1990-1991) of the DiC series was mainly standalone episodes that focused on establishing new team members and plots. After the "Operation Dragonfire" miniseries in 1989, the DiC show lowered the animation budget and began a series of two part episodes, which often told a deeper story involving more dramatic life and death situations for the Joes. The theme song called "Got to get tough... Yo Joe!" and underscore for both seasons (1990-1992) were provided by Stephen James Taylor.
Thanks for the info! Welcome to the Slaughterhouse susanfit47
Doesn’t make sense if the first season is 1990 while Operation Dragonfire" miniseries was in 1989, the mini series should be after the first season and not before 😡
@@luyenhuynh3747Think of the mini series like a show pilot. This miniseries was AFTER a real American hero and Gi Joe the movie. GI joe in particular did many five part episodes in the middle of their seasons.
Thatz A FACT ✌️😏
@@luyenhuynh3747 MAN GO SITTT DOWN 💺 🪑 U O.K?🤷🏾♂️
This “movie”; the actual movie with Cobra La, “Worlds without Ends” and “Arise Serpentor Arise” were my favorite Joe cartoons. The joes actually seemed like they might lose and Cobra was a real threat. That’s what made them great! Thanks for sharing this 😊
SGT DH, welcome to the Slaughterhouse 😎
i actually liked this better than the Serpentor movie. I remember waiting for new episodes of this one and Serpentor seemed kinda lame lol... Cool idea at first with the DNA and all but then it just went downhill
Mines was the wrong stuff. It had a cool message!
I would add "Pyramid of Darkness" and the "There's No Place Like Springfield" to that list.
@@shumoon1 are these ones on RUclips? I would like to watch them I never saw those ones.
Gotta love Sgt Slaughter. He was absolutely perfect for GI Joe and made Slaughter more of a household name.
agreed 💯
I figure if he didn't go to g.i.Joe he would've been one of the "famous guys who drink lite beer from miller.
@richferguson6860 and he was in the wwf wrestling too. But prolly not if GI Joe was not in his resume
@TheKilgoreKid but THEN he got his Country back 😎
@TheKilgoreKid
Operation Dragonfire was a great story, it doesn't get nearly as much credit as it deserves in the GI Joe mythology. Thank you for sharing this awesome piece of GI Joe history!
You're welcome Hans!
Hans, I completely agree. I loved this one as a kid, and I still love it now. There were so many characters here that didn't get to continue on after this point, and that's a shame. At any rate, it's great to run into others who appreciate this one. Cheers!
@@AustinTXSlasher welcome to the Slaughterhouse 😎
@@xazylsclubhouse, happy to be here! Thanks!
@@AustinTXSlasher Here here! Cheers to you good sir!
Hasbro got us hooked and excited with Dragonfire and pulled the rug from under us. Zarana was a ruthless character and she was turned into a bimbo.
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse freddyvidzs
There was one episode where she dated a Joe and was made fun of for it. They tried to fix her.
@dansmith1661 that was Mainframe 🕶️
This is excellent. I like the fact that also the Sunbow music is used here and there, as to ease us into the new series. Animation of the vehicles is just beautiful.
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Mark! This was the best of the DIC animation in my opinion. It wasn't all bad from here but it was of lower quality for sure
too bad about the awful voice dubbing
Some of the music is actually stock music made by robert j walsh, the guy who did most of transformers soundtrack.
@SgtSlaughtersSlaughterhouse animation style yes it was Sarge
Cobra Commander being a Snake is pretty much the only reference to the movie.
And being in the Himalayas!
It'd be silly for them (DIC) to do references to a movie they had no part in creating. They clearly wanted to take the series in a different direction
@@eastcoastshine2009 welcome to the Slaughterhouse 😎
@@eastcoastshine2009 I'm very impressed with the continuity here. Typically a new production would ignore the previous show, but DIC continued it and even made a powerful story of re-humaning Cobra Commander from a snake.
@@JLvatron Actually the lack of continuity was the problem. They restored the Commander (A short temper narcissistic bully like Serpentor woulda been awful with the kids lol) then went such a different direction with the show that most fans jumped shark
This was great!! I'm not a big fan of the DiC series, but this mini series really its the mark!! Thanks for posting this up!!!!
Yo freakin Joe 😎
Agreed. This was the only DiC-produced GI Joe show that I liked.
@@fhb3 this is for sure the best of the DIC era
AYYY MY MANS COBRA COMMANDER BECAME A MAN AGAIN!
Or, rather, "something approaching a man" as he put it.
Watching my fav G.I. Joe character slowly degenerate into a snake in the movie all the while saying "I was once a man" was rather disturbing, glad to see him back as basically his old self. Love how that line was also the first thing he said when he was changing back in this, nice call back to the movie. And he finally got vengeance on Serpentor as well, all the while acting like his regular old self, attitude and all! Loved seeing that!
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Gojira Guy! Im glad you enjoyed the return of Cobra Commander tho I'm sure the Joe's could have done without him
@@xazylsclubhouse How true, ha! I'm sure they'd prefer him over Serpentor though, love seeing the good ol' "G.I. Joe Vs Cobra Commander and his army" again.
@@Blotzwave and this we command
well, serpent-man.
@@sharanquiett9972 I mean ok… but if you watch, he didn’t become a man.. he turned from a mutated cobra into a humanoid serpent man, and stayed like that. In the cartoon continuity cobra commander was either a cobra la nobleman who was disfigured… a mutated cobra and finally a serpent man.
I was a child of the 1980's. I never cared for the DIC continuation of GI Joe, except for the five part pilot, Operation Dragonfire for doing a good job in reset everything to the dynamic for Cobra that it was in the first season of GI Joe.
Operation Dragonfire is the best of the DIC era in my opinion 🙏
The lone gem of the DIC era.
Yeah it's a bit down hill from here. Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Phillip
After this the shows were awful.
Even Victory at Volcania was tacky.
It does get tougher to sit through an episode
The acting was good, the art work was good, it was like they ran the stories thru steering committees that really didn’t understand what GI Joe was about.
Yep. It was great and how Cobra Commander came back. They Had to because cobra was losing recruits, in house fighting, and no one to blame for defeats. Joes were out of jobs,soon.
I was a fan since the M.A.S.S. Device aired in '83. I don't remember Operation Dragonfire ever airing, but I did watch the DIC Series when it aired in Syndication. I was not a fan of the DIC Series, but at least this movie explains how Cobra Commander was no longer a snake. I also remember in the '90s when the U.S.A. Network Cartoon Express would air the DIC Series intro with the the Marvel/Sunbow episodes.
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse SGZartan 😎👍
This isn't an actual movie. It's episodes put together.
@clintsaines9274 correct, hopefully conveniently so 🙏
I remember it airing in the morning
@@NerdLantern Yo Joe 😎
Looks like Cobra Commander got his revenge on Serpentor.
Serpentor was once a man 😂
I hate to break this to you but if you recall correctly Golobulus is the one who ordered Cobra Commander exposed to the spores turned him into a snake not Serpentor.
Serpentor did dethrone CC as the head of Cobra though. And to be kept as Serpentors pet would be pretty humiliating 🤷
Yes you're right. Goloblus was the one who, placed the spores, in front of Cobra Commander.
Serpentors transformation was only temporary
I love how the original Joe's had enough brains to retire before this season ruined the OG franchise 😂
😂🤣😂
Actually Stalker is in this cartoon in his tundra uniform
Some of them like General Hawk, Duke and Scarlett will appear later in the series but they will look and hear so different that they are practically new characters.
That's an interesting way of saying "no longer available on store shelves."
@@MisaelCastilloBrenes Don't forget Snake-Eyes, Low-Light, and Storm Shadow switching sides.
I wish Sunbow would have done a season three and then handed it off to DIC. DIC shouldn’t have cheaped out on the animation and just picked up where things left off.
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Jason 👍
GI Joe may be an international organization, but I guarantee you that the US is picking up the tab.
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse 😎
Wow Gi Joe really did brainwash a generation. Americans still believe the US gives away free stuff to poor countries! ... bravo Gi Joe!
My history teacher told me Israel picks up the tab with stuff like this.
What gave it away? The fact the intro says "real American hero."
@@C-White-88 Israel only picks up coins.
Very awesome never seen this. Filled with so many awesome joes. Thanks for posting it.
You're welcome mate 🍻
I will say, I like how Scoop's story was handled in this mini-series. Because he just was another unwitting victim of Cobra's manipulations by being tricked into thinking G.I. Joe destroyed his parents' home in the hopes to recruit him, which made Leonard realize he screwed up and wanted to make things right.
I completely agree. Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Bryon 😎
I had completely forgotten about this.
The G.I. Joe movie is etched in my brain. After it came out it my interest in the toys and comics peaked, but because of timing of when it aired the show became increasingly harder to watch.
Thanks for posting!
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Dan-Ger Zone!
I must have missed this mini series as a kid. I distinctly remember the episodes after it and obviously the OG series, but I don’t remember seeing this!
@@Beer_Baron_ same here! It's a pretty good transition series
The ONLY good GI Joe program from the appropriately named DiC Entertainment.
It's the best of the later series
Drinking game: every time a character is voiced by Maurice Lamarche take a shot, you’ll be hammered by the 20 minute mark. Thanks for this!
That's a dangerous game but I'm all in! Welcome to the Slaughterhouse auvelier 😎
J.basham . I miss watching this when I was a kid growing up . 43 now still love to watch it . Thank you for this .
Thanks for watching and welcome to the Clubhouse 🕶️
IGUANOR! 😉
Makes sense 😂
Absolutely Amazing!,TOP SHELF!, WELL DONE! G.I.JOE Operation Dragonfire the Five Issue Tv Mini-Series from DIC! Was Successful but also very good, featuring the 1st Cartoon Appearances of 1.Scoop,2.BackBlast,3.Downtown, and 4.Long Range ,the 1st cartoon Appearance Of ThunderClap and Long Range The 1st Cartoon Appearance of Slaughter's Marauders (Sgt.Slaughter(leader),Members 1.Barbacue,2.Mutt,3.Spirt,4.Footloose, and 5.Low Light, Scoop revealed to be a Joe but also a Member of G.I. Joe, on Cobra's side The 1st Cartoon Appearances of 1.Alley-Viper,2.The Frag-Vipers, 3.Night-Vipers,4.Annhilator's, 5.T.A.R.G.A.T. S, & the Newest Dreadnoks 5.Gnawahyde,also The Rise and Return Of Cobra Commander, The 1st Cartoon Appearance of Phyton Patrol The Fall of Serpentor the 1st cartoon Appearances of New G.I.Joe and Slaughter's Marauders Vehicles The 1st Cartoon Appearances of New Cobra and Pyhton Patrol Vehicles And many more, also thanks for sharing Xayzl keep up the great work have a good day and YO JOE.🙂👍🇺🇲⚖️🦸
Thanks for all the information! That's outstanding 👌 Yo Joe!
Thanks for putting this up. I’d not seen it it before in its entirety as I could only find very low res videos of it.
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse paulsenior33 ! I hope you stick around and enjoy some of our other content. Yo Joe!
The only two redeeming parts of this show was bringing the original voice of Cobra Commander and Sgt Slaughter
@@DanWalls-q4f Sarge is the best
Yo F’N Joe! Thanks for sharing the goodness mate 🍿📺 🤓
Not sure how long it will be up so enjoy it while you can 😬
@@xazylsclubhouse Serpentor: ‘and I am not a bloke’ 😆
Great seeing Slaughters Marauders
One thing I'll never complain about the DIC era is the music. That beat that starts at 16:55 is awesome, and I wish there was a way to hear it on its own and for bit longer.
@@DarkWizard83 it's pure 🔥
I have no idea this even existed. Cobra Commander came back to life or humanity. That's how he got the new suit. As a kid I knew had a new suit but I didn't know anything about this. Or maybe I did maybe I just don't remember. But I don't think I saw this LOL I was always thinking God Cobra command that has such a terrible ending. Once a man LOL but he came back huh
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Philip, I'm glad I could offer you some closure 😎👍
My first ever episode with Sir Pentor... and obviously I havent seen this movie. Thanks for again broadening my knowledge of Sarge and GI Joe!
It's technically a 5 part mini series that I have cut together into one big episode but hopefully you enjoy the show! Yo Joe!
I’ve watched most of the GI Joe series and movies back then and I didn’t know that there was this kind of movie. Awesome 👏
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Thanks for this! I forgot how good it actually is.
It's the best of the DIC animation
@@xazylsclubhouse absolutely. There was so much potential for it too.
Thanks for putting this together and sharing this video. Great stuff. Love the old skool classic Joe series. Be well. 🤙. YO JOE!!!
Yo freakin Joe! Thanks for watching 😎
I remember clearly an alternate version of this mini series in which the Sunbow music was then replaced with the music DIC used in their regular 1990 G.I.Joe syndication run.
"Got to get tough"
Thank you for uploading, I had never seen this!
I enjoyed the heavier focus on character development, but the Scoop-LowLite plot seemed to drag a bit. Also, the lack of background music in some scenes really left a void.
I always wondered how they could re-human Cobra Commander after the movie, and this was done really well. So long, Serpy! lol
All in all, given this was no longer Sunbow produced, they did a good job.
Thanks for watching and welcome to the Slaughterhouse 😎 It's the best of the DiC episodes that's for sure
@@xazylsclubhouse I'm honestly surprised at how well it was done.
Typically the previous show cannon gets overlooked when a new company is in charge, including the huge plots to be resolved (Cobra Commander a snake).
@@xazylsclubhouse agreed!
I love this saga!!!! Great storyline and characters
Yo Joe 😎
No Duke. No Scarlett. No snake eyes. No stalker ? .......
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Dwayne If you keep watching you'll see at least one of the Joe's you mentioned 😜
Stalker is in his v2 tundra uniform
And lookin pretty cool too 🕶️
Destro with the trap door bed ☠️
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse 😎
Scoop and Low Light were great troops for Cobra Commander taking out Serpentor for him in which they enjoyed doing so. Cobra Commander's Python Patrol were the coolest faction of Cobra in GI Joe History.
Yep fan of the line and Tiger Force.
Thanks for sharing this movie! Now I’m hooked on Python Patrol figures!
You're welcome Raymond those Python Patrol figures are pretty cool. Especially Copperhead
I had the comic that showed the new cobra commander. I do not remember the story, but I had to wait forever as my mother was at the doctor. We went to a Walgreens, or something like that, and I grabbed snacks, drinks, and the G I Joe comic. I wish I still had it. I thought the new cobra commander look was epic.
Thanks for sharing! I love stories like that. Really takes me back to my own childhood. Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Wynfrith
He wasn't the real C.C. in the comic but an imposter that took his place when they thought he was dead. The comic and animated series both had different continuities.
In the comic the “Armored Cobra Commander” was one of the “Freds” (Crimson Guardsmen) who took the chance that no one would recognize him in the armor when CC was thought dead. It was decided that since the Baroness was the only one who had seen CC’s real face she would identify if this new CC was the real thing. They went into a private room and made a deal so Baroness told everyone he was CC. The real CC showed up later and killed him and took his command back.
The Armored suit is still my favorite version of CC. I also liked the Armored version of Serpentor in the DDP comics but I was in the minority of people that liked those comics
You know...all the times I arrive at home before 400p to watch every episode of the Joes...I've never watch this before..Bless you f/ uploading this!!!
You're welcome! Thanks for tuning in and welcome to the Clubhouse 🕶️
By no means am I a fan of the DIC series. I DO love "Operation Dragonfire" though!
It's the best of the bunch as far as DiC is concerned. Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Torri!
@@xazylsclubhouse Happy to be here!
Awesome how you found the International heroes theme song version. Hey that looks like the Marauders deco of low light
This is basically the Slaughters Marauders Mini-Series
I commented too soon. It's marauders deco of all of slaughter's crew! Too excited.
YO JOE! I like G.I. Joe and I like Sergeant Slaughter.
I actually met Sgt. slaughter a couple of times at convention called joefest I’ve cosplayed as lt. Falcon Sgt. slaughter is a very nice person he told me once he liked my lt. Falcon cosplay I’ve got mean pictures with him . Yooooooooo joe”
Yo Joe 😎
I never saw this one as a kid. I didn't even know it existed! Thanks so much for posting!! YO JOE!! 🤘😁🖖🇨🇦
You're welcome Colin 🙏
Had no idea that the DiC series used the way better background music from the Sunbow series. Makes the cartoon more enjoyable and the transition much easer. LOVE THIS.
Thanks for watching Franklin, and welcome to the Slaughterhouse
Thanks for posting. First time watching. Not bad at all
It's the best of the DiC animated episodes that's for sure. Welcome to the Slaughterhouse The Wicked One 5150 😎
Absolutely amazing! Top Shelf! Thanks for posting!
You're welcome 😎
GI Joe would make and awesome RTS game.
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse 😎
I’ve never, ever heard of this movie before today.
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Frank 😎
thank you for uploading
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I didn’t realise that there were versions of “Operation: Dragonfire” that had Sunbow background music!
Knowing is half the battle
@@xazylsclubhouse LOL :-D
Thanks
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Howard 😎
@@xazylsclubhouse YAO JOE ✌️😏
I remember watching this when it was on TV when I was in 5th grade, watching it now I realize the superb level of animation. Saw all of the Japanese names among the artists and realize this was more or less the American produced Japanese Anime of GI Joe! How cool!!! DIC should have kept this art style and had less ridiculous stories...
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse David! Thanks for sharing this memory with us. I agree with the level of animation. It did drop off considerably afterwards
Hasbro wanted to go the cheap route and DIC could deliver for them at a much lower cost than Sunbow.
Well it definitely shows
Hasbro were/are cheap phuqs.
After all of these years, I finally saw this movie, lol. I never knew how Cobra Commander got turned back into a kinda man.
@@davissunglasses knowing is half the battle
My head hurts. For the last 30 times around the sun, i would have bet everything they said "a real American hero".
@@matthewrenko7586 they ordinarily do! They switched it up here after GI Joe The Movie
I which these episodes two times a day five days a week and I had no other choice
Got to get tough, Yo Joe 😎
This restored everything to status quo with Cobra.
Though I wonder what happened to Mindbender, Tomax and Xamot?
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Cunning Smile Good question....I guess nothing good 🤷
Anyone from Cobra that was in the movie's climactic battle and doesn't appear in the DIC series, I assumed died during that battle or the explosion at its end.
That includes Xamot, Tomax, Mindbender, and most of the Dreadnoks.
Do they even use the term Dreadnok after the movie?
@@xazylsclubhouse Serpentor did refer to Gnawgahyde as a Dreadnok in part 1. As far as I know this is the final time the term was used in the DIC show. Additionally, IIRC, Gnawgahyde was the final Dreadnok introduced in the toyline.
@@PatricksCrazyPlace knowing is half the battle 🕶️
Gold Mask Destro,'nuff said
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse TheChaves 😎
I loved the Cobra-La storyline in GI Joe The Movie. Golobulus, Nemesis Enforcer, Pythona were great characters. The back story of Cobra-La was amazing and adult oriented. Cobra-La was an advanced civilization, and then came the ice age. Cobra-La retracted underground, and humans advanced. Cobra Commander's trial and punishment was shocking and memorable. Then they wasted this beautiful storyline in DiC series. And too bad they wasted Serpentor. He was created by Golobulus using the most genius humans' DNAs. Great backstory.
Art work is also terrible in DiC series, compared to Sunbow.
Serpenter sucked imo. It was obvious that they used him to create the Megatron/Starscream relationship on their show in hopes of it renewing interest in their products
Cobra Commander didn’t really have a choice . I always wanted to quit Cobra, help the Joes by giving their secrets for a deal, or forming his own terrorist organization from scratch. He couldn’t go back to Cobra- la.
I had no idea there was a miniseries after GI Joe The Movie! I waited 37 years for this!
Knowing is half the battle 🕶️
@@77acacosta Theres now a live action movie starring Channing Tatum
I don't remember seeing this before, but it actually is quite good, I like it!
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Philip
@@xazylsclubhouse thank you, just subscribed!
@@philipdefibaugh5683 I hope you enjoy it here
@@philipdefibaugh5683 I hope you enjoy it here
18:56 awwww, he just wants the Baroness cuddles.
Who doesn't 🤷😂
*_"International Hero."_* This is when GI Joe began to lose its identity.
This feels like Great Value G.I. Joe.
WIth the sunbow music, which I saw on tv back then and is also on the Shout DVD. I think the DIC music (which I never saw on tv with Operation Dragonfire) might be more common online. I'm sorry that Operation Dragonfire was the only thing GI Joe had for tv in 1989 (for that matter, Mass device and Revenge of Cobra were the only things for 83 and 84). There could have quite a few other miniseries that year if not a whole season, even if there couldn't have been a 1987 or 88 season.
Operation Dragonfire is at least the best of the DIC animation. Welcome to the Slaughterhouse!
I like how this has the sunbow music like at 35:58. just as the DVD release has. It is also the version I saw on tv back in early 1991 (I didn't see it when it first aired). The version I've seen online contained the DIC music.
Wow, cool. Never seen these in my country. Going to watch it later on. Thanks for sharing this👍 It even has Rob from Joburg in the first minutes already. 😉
It's very Scoop heavy 🎥
Chris, it's what happened to bring CC back after the movie met heavy criticism (to my opinion, rightfully so) of what it did to CC
34:29 What’s Destro suddenly doing on the Joe’s side? And when did he get his original helmet back?
🤔😂
l wish they kept the original Lady Jay's voice
It is a bit odd hearing our favourites sounding different. Except Sarge, naturally 😎
I'm still disspointed Croc Master never appeared in any G.I.Joe cartoon.
Same here man. Same here
I never knew about this series!
My inner child thanks you.
THE ARIES
@@thesun3548 knowing is half the battle welcome to the Clubhouse 🍻
I didn't even know this existed. This is actually pretty bad ass. To me, the animation is better than Sunbow as well as the sound effects. They could've went a little different on some of the voices though. Overall it's pretty cool seeing the FRAG vipers, Night vipers and the later characters animated that I never got a chance to enjoy as a kid. Good stuff!!
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Eric, I'm glad you enjoyed Operation Dragonfire
Long before we had any hope of digital and dvd’s; I bought a copy from someone on ebay
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Rodrick 😎
@@xazylsclubhouse thank you
This is when the cartoon takes a trun for the worse
Hasbro switched over to DIC because they were cheaper...and it showed.
🤯OMG...I've never seen this. Thank you for sharing.✊🏿✊🏿
Hate they didn't use all the original voices over people.
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Aholu
Can you please do the G.I. Joe the Movie with the Sgt. Slaughter intros
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse John McCall! I do have several of the Movie intros on the channel but not the full Movie itself
@@xazylsclubhouse Okay. Do you have the Sgt. Slaughter Intros on here. I really like those
Most of them can be found in this playlist:
ruclips.net/p/PLGTn5mjEVe3fXqAZOD2SBUQ9eLvA45QDd
@@xazylsclubhouse I found some of it. I remember them Sgt Slaughter Segments before the G.I. Joe the Movie Part 1-5 on the USA Network
@@johnmccall1909 I'm still trying to find a couple of them!
Yo yo yo! Thank you for this! I have not seen this in a long time you rock 🤙🤙🤙🤙
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Is it just me or is Cobra more competent in this mini series then they are for the rest of the DIC series? Also Destro have a relationship with Zarana is kind of unusual considering we all know how much Destro hated her brother.
Yeah it's gets pretty silly after Operation Dragonfire
@@xazylsclubhouse Cobra Commander pretty muchwent from a threatening villan to the level of the Disney version of Captain Hook from Peter Pan.
Baroness crippled Cobra by bringing CC back! They were winning here before she made him humanoid again.
@@scockery welcome to the Slaughterhouse 😎
Operation dragonfire is considered around on par with sunbow, and yes, cobra was more deadly, and way less cartoonish than they were in dic season 1 and especially season 2.
The return of Cobra Commander RIP Chris Latta aka Cobra Commander aka Starscream. RIP Dick Gauntier aka Serpentor aka Rodimus Prime. Love reliving my childhood its awesome to see they great shows. Most of today's cartoons just don't have no souls I can't relate with them. If it not Japanese Anime DragonBall and old skool I don't watch. They turn Serpentor into a iguana lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂and Destro dump the beautiful Baroness for Zarana 😊.
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse Nightshade Brown 🙏
I just looked him up
It said his last name was Christopher Collins!
And he was the original Mr Burns on the Simpsons 🤯
This dic produced g.i joe cartoon is more lighthearted in tone than the serious tone in the sunbow produced g.i joe cartoon.
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse CHRIS!
The music had alot to do with it. Plus the character plots seemed more drawn out over the 5 eps.
Still pretty good!
not sunbow, marvel productions
What happened to force field at the end? They should had both force field, and invisibility military.
those new theme lyrics really bother my inner child.
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse 😎 I dig the inclusion of International heroes
Shit. I forgot this one existed! Haven't watched this show in 25 years so thanks for the upload.
Thanks for watching Barnabus Collins and welcome to the Slaughterhouse 😎
God forbid the song say “American”!!
There are a LOT of international fans of GI Joe 😎 Welcome to the Slaughterhouse
Sgt. Slaughter saying save yourself? Retreating? He sounds like he joined Cobra😂
Well he did turn heel in WWF after this 😂
This might get copyright struck...be careful...
It was instantly claimed by Hasbro, and rightfully so
@@xazylsclubhouse
Let them come after you and they shall feel the Full Force of the Slaughterhouse!
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I'm surprised Hasbro won't just upload the DiC series themselves. They've put up the entire Sunbow, Sigma 6, Resolute, and Renegades series on their various RUclips channels already, might as well just put the remaining series online as well.
@@0Aberration welcome to the Slaughterhouse 😎👍
Love how it takes off right after the movie and has the spirit of the original ARAH. Missed this the first time. I did get a DVD of the show after this movie, don’t know why this wasn’t included.
@@bestsloppymemes probably licencing issues 🤷
1:02:21 1:02:22
My favourite part!