Mean Dog Review
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024
- GI Joburg reviews the 1988 Mean Dog from Hasbro's GI Joe toyline.
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An aggressive looking machine, and I like the brown and olive-drab colour scheme.
I lost interest in collecting Joes in about '92, when they started to use seemingly random, fluorescent colours on the figures and vehicles.
The Mean Dog reminds me of my favourite vehicle I owned as a kid, "The Maggot".
A big-ass gun and three combining modules.
I'm so tempted to start my collection over again!
drew gardner do it! You can cherry pick the stuff you dug most. But believe me, it's a slippery slope! You keep finding excuses to hunt for more toys. Come to think of it, GI Joburg needs a Maggot...
I really wish I had that toy
This is the vehicle really got me into GI Joe collecting; I am young and have been a big fan of Mattel's recent toys of Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, and I always liked GI Joe but never had the motivation to collect anything from them until Mattel's new toyline came out. U see, Mattel's toyline is in the same exact scale as GI Joes both modern and vintage. So I decided to buy some joes and use thema s extras in my photographs, but then I grew more curious so I dived into the cartoons, comics, and the movies and I was astonished with the franchsie. It's full of unique characters and the unusual and exotic designs of the vehicles made me want to collect. To begin my GI Joe collection, I wanted to get a medium or large vintage vehicle with a unique design and not too expensive on the after market. That is when I found the Mean Dog! Its such an awesome vehicle that I can see being used in real life, so I'm now planning on saving money amd buying one fully complete. I just subscribed to the channela nd I cant wait to get involved with the GI Joe comminity! Yo Joe!
Welcome to the party Soundwave! Yep, it's not rocket science to say that Joe should be essential to every toy enthusiast - particularly if you like the scale. There's an appeal to these toys that is evergreen. I wish you the very best of fun with these awesome figures and vehicles and accessories and playsets! And and and and...
One of the few Joe vehicles with no engine to speak of, lol! Good review, love the outside fire, you are braver than I am, plastic and fire are a bad combination.
I can see two friends having some awesome fun with this, then the little brother comes outside..."mom said you have to let me play too." "Ok, here, you get to be the canon, and...Zap (he has straight arms and is missing a thumb so he is rarely played with anyway."
Little brother appeased!
Haha, something pulled from your own childhood perhaps? Here, play with Zap! 😂
And yeah, there was a roadside fire I pulled up at late last night. I reckon the fire was the least dangerous factor there (hi ways. Johannesburg. Late at night...)
It wasn’t my personal Mean Dog anyway! 😝
got this vehicle , totally war torn :) ive set it on fire (for battle damage ) added camouflage on it and such :) nowadays my 9 yr and 6 yr old nephews plays with it and love it !! when they are at my moms house its so cool to see they actually play with it like i did back in 88/89 and then . YO JOE !!!
+Lego Forestman Impressive! You've put it through hell and it's still a toy worth playing with! Awesome!
Awesome... If it is possible, can you do a review on all the GI Joe Battleforce 2000 toys and figures?
Hello! I missed this comment! I hope Formbx257’s series catered to your BF2K needs!
you guys are absolutley brilliant i love safaz best joe reviews iv seen better thn form, lunacy just alot more informative and fun i like those guys their grate 2 but this is by far the most coolest to watch great , props from nz. lukka bru
Thanks for the Kind words. We love the toys and love reviewing them so stay tuned for more, As we have some pretty exciting stuff lined up.
This is a bad ass vehicle. Still one of my favorites.
I never used that front area for figures. Always kept it closed. I just kept it as a 2 vehicle form. Great review bro.
Cheers! Agreed, to the more practical child, that front area housed the engine I reckon. It just occurred to me how one could scratch-build an engine in there! Baddass. I hope some capable customiser does a number on this vehicle. The potential is there!
I had this toy ...but sadly it's broken ......how can I get these toys ..please reply
The scout has E-drive for better sneaky / stealthy operations.
It was a cool toy, but how that unstable turret passed Quality Control I'll never now
Too right. This beast is an artillery piece sorely in need of some deployable stabilizer legs!
I need the rear cannon driver and missel boxes and then mine is complete
Just ordered up one today!
the heavy assault counterpart to COBRA's Maggot
True. And a rare moment of Cobra doing it first and GI Joe playing catch-up!
I’m late to the party, but…
It seems like, as nonsensical as this era was for realism for the Joes, the deployment function is a bit of a high point for me.
As with the Battle Force 2000 vehicles, and in conjunction with them, you had a lot of vehicles for the Joes that had fortification abilities. If you had a convoy of the Battle Force, a Raider, a Mobile Battle Bunker, and a Mean Dog (Ok, yeah, that’s ten vehicles, including the Pulverizer) you’d have a pretty formidable and fully mobile base, and a fleet of vehicles to boot.
So true! Vehicles like the Mean Dog and BF2K fleet eliminated the need for the small battle stations. Who needs a LAW when you’ve got a vehicle that deploys an artillery emplacement? Thanks for joining the party!
@@gijoburg I feel like the older battle stations are good for supplements. They’re like the day to day part of Joe life.
I haven’t got much to go on aside from thirty plus year old memories, but I don’t feel like Cobra had a lot of deployment-centered vehicles aside from the Maggot, at least not as far as emplacements. Cobra got a lot of mini-vehicle deploying vehicles, like the Mamba, the BUGG and the Hammerhead, but I feel like the counterpart to Battle Force (which, by the way, doesn’t deserve the haters in my mind) is the Iron Grenadiers, because they, as far as I’m aware, were apparently supposed to be the next generation of Joe toys, and Destro’s guys got some rather WTF (but admittedly still cool) vehicles…
I pretended the main gun was a Gatling laser and the 50 cal. was a heave antipersonnel blaster. ;)
Sounds deadly. A rapid fire rotary laser? Devastating.
so wild dog has a twin brother who's a chopper pilot
Totally. Might even be triplets with Star Viper. But they all have Keel Haul’s d*ck.
@@gijoburg lol
Funny thought: the Joes have more close AAA vehicles in their arsenal then the real world US military.
The real world US military never faced a foe like Cobra! Gotta always have a few Equalizers or Mean Dogs in your armour formation to combat the threat of CLAW drones and FANGs!
Agreed. The real US military hasn't had to fight without air superiority since the Vietnam War.
Another smashing review guys! thanks for sharing
Can the Mean Dog fit the 25th and/or the 30th anniversary figures.
It does indeed! The double jointed knees are gonna come in handy for the internal seating, but you should be able to get the hatch closed. Roadblock and other heavies might present a bit of a challenge. But at least the seats don't make use of backplugs or other deal breakers.
any way i can get it again today?
eBay my friend. Also, Facebook Marketplace, depending on where you live and how many use it. Shipping will set back a bit, but worth it if you don't have one yet.
I didn't know the Mean Dog did all this, or I don't remember knowing.
Knowing is half the battle!
Yep, I went there.
Another member on the prestigious family of Autobot Prototype Rejecteds or Not so beauty like a Mustang but kicks harder than a Mule no matter the configuration aka not so fancy but far effective.
Yessir. That awesome weapon is unprecedented in the toyline. What you don't see is the support vehicle that has to follow the Mean Dog around with ammo!
@@gijoburg Each toy keeps making me think: what if Transformers was exclusively made with military vehicles ?
Mmmm, I guess the "Robots In Disguise" angle would kinda be lost. But they'd be just what young me would've wanted. But I guess that's the Joe fan in me! Sportscar
It looks like a mad max truck
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO JELLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fan of the Mean Dog, Sarge? Just your kinda ride, might be a bit snug for a bigger fella like you tho.
The fire power more than makes up for it. Would come in real handy against General Blitz.
Mean dogs got a bad bite!!!!
40 mm laser gun!!!
You realize how ridiculous those analogies sound don't you? "It's really a 40 mm and it would tip over" "Where is the engine?" "Where is the ammunition?" It's a FAKE TOY!!! You realize GIJOE IS NOT REAL do you?
Wow thanks for pointing that out. For a second I was really concerned that all this stuff was real and that we were somehow professionals on the matter. Oh well, guess we'll just have to settle with being guys that enjoy Gijoe, who love to embellish our toys with our imaginations.