HCC788 - 1985 SILVER MIRAGE motorcycle - Vintage G.I. Joe toy review!
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2018
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Information and Sources:
Silver Mirage on YoJoe.com:
www.yojoe.com/vehicles/85/silv...
Silver Mirage on 3DJoes.com:
www.3djoes.com/silver-mirage.html
1942 ZUNDAPP KS750 MILITARY MOTORCYCLE WITH SIDECAR MOUNTED MACHINE GUN
Revivaler,
revivaler.com/1942-zundapp-ks7...
Silver Mirage on Halfbattle.com:
www.halfbattle.com/85equip.htm...
G.I. Joe Issue #44 on YoJoe.com:
www.yojoe.com/comics/joe/joe44...
Silver Mirage on Joepedia:
gijoe.wikia.com/wiki/Silver_Mi...
Happy Days instrumental theme
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero comic book by Marvel Comics
G.I. Joe the animated series by Sunbow,
"Cobra's Creatures,"
"Captives of Cobra, part 2"
Music:
Chipper, Big Rock,
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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One of the best sketches yet. The neighbours must wonder what the hell's going on in that house.
You sir have a girl with a very good sense of humor.
I remember getting the Silver Mirage and being excited to play with it. It was the first G.I. Joe toy I rage-quit after it practically disintegrated running across 1980's shag carpet on it's first run. I'm glad mine wasn't the only one built so poorly...
Just got this baby,no blueprints so thanks for helping me put together another vehicle! YO JOE!!
I am glad that we can go back and see these videos when the family was still together.
Lol i was listening to Skinny Puppy Cleanse, fold and manipulate right before I watched this.
Big thanks to Ms. HCC on that one. Great review of a SubPar motor bike.
This guy and his wife are too funny bless you both
I've watched this review several times now.. it never gets old. HCC788. Thank you AND your awesome famiy!!!
YOOOO JOE!!!!
Wow that intro was comedy gold
I always wanted one of these!
great skit. you hit on everything i like and hate about the silver mirage. i had it as a kid, lost the missles almost immediately. i rarely used it after that.
What a guy! Thanks for the punt Hoodie! Great review too!
What a hunk a hunk of hoodie Coco hes dreamy 😍
FLINT looks like he was on PROF X's wheel chair when you were showing the side car in detail. :)
I don't know about you guys but I didn't have any issues with mine. Then again I liked to take care of my toys since it wasn't often I could get new ones.
That being said, I liked playing with just the motorcycle without the sidecar more.
I had a Mirage. Second hand from my older cousin of course, but it was a fun toy, till you loaded up the side car then it was a pain to keep it together while in play. I bought one supposedly MIOB only displayed by a military toy collector, and after displaying it, on a shelf fully assembled, not touching it the pegs from the mortar launcher snapped, and several missiles had fallen off.
That Skinny Puppy jacket is amazing! Great review also!
Wow! you are a skinny puppy fan too!! I approve! :-)
Another awesome review HCC 👍 love the skit and your wife is awesome too
Great review! Never owned either motorcycle, but like both of them.
Nice job channeling the Fonz!!! By the way, I think the LCV Recon Sled could count as a motorcycle; for the driver rides it similar to the way Batman rode the Batpod in The Dark Knight.
The rear missiles will work very well until you sit a second person on the motorcycle. Imagine the burning at that person's right left after the missiles are launched. Another great feature that probably won't work at real life. Thanks for the great review.
That backpack blast shield can sit really nice on the side car the very top of the shield has two spaces two put the gun handles in
The rear missiles remind of the bike Chuck Norris rode in the Delta Force.
I remember my mom buying this for my friends bday. I was super jealous. I never owned it.
I never had an issue with the Ram motorcycle mainly because I used model glue for the entire thing so it would stay together
Love the content! Yo Joe
I dig the Skinny Puppy jacket!
Wow, with your Wife's Hair like that I had a Flashback of General Kala.... she must do that Cosplay and you Ming The Merciless
Dig the jacket man thumbs up slick .....I always wanted this one but I never got it nice work
Nice Blondie reference at the end, there.
es una grandiosa coleccion
I remember getting this baby when I was about 7. Took me forever to put it together and the wheels wouldn't spin. My brother had the RAM and man was I disappointed with this thing. Wasted a day putting it together and could barely play with it.
The only way those rear facing missiles would work is if they had timers on their warheads, otherwise an explosion at that close range would easily take out the bike as well.
As for that thing you attach to the rider's back, it would actually increase drag and weight, not reduce it. As you said, it would only work if it was armour protection for the rider. As a matter of fact, it's not a bad idea to protect the rider in such a way, especially if it's made of lightweight material like Kevlar.
Coolreview
I totally thought Mrs. HCC was waiting for Sergeant Slaughter.
True story; this was my most cannibalized vehicle ever. I had used the side seat as a replacement seat on my Tactical Battle Platform, the missiles could peg into one of the other vehicles (I forget which one), I used the mortal launcher as a mounted weapon, and I used the engine inside another vehicle.
My first laugh of the week at 0:10
Great intro! Lol
Excellent choice! The Silver Mirage is very aesthetically pleasing, bar none. But it doesn't hold a candle to the classic RAM, when it comes to durability. My mirage is in many pieces, the forks break easily as is the aforementioned side car pegs. Durable construction, my tukas! Your skit was hilarious. How many MPGs does your hog get? Lol
This dude is hilarious
I never had a Silver Mirage I always thought it looed weird in silver ( I was never a fan of BF 2000 vehicles either ) I did get the 97 Duke with the Silver Mirage though, talk about a disaster that line is flimsy anyway but I had to super glue this to get it to stay together
I have to say it: This was one of the few Joe toys I didn't like. I got it the same Christmas as I got the AWE Striker. I loved the Striker but I hated this. For some reason the plastic was warped on mine and didn't really want to go together correctly. I couldn't understand why the handlebars didn't 'turn' the wheel, and I think maybe something broke on it right away. I have genuine memories of putting it together Christmas day, and then by the end of the day I didn't want to see it again - something that rarely happened with new toys.
your reviews always include great research and knowledge on the real world vehicles the toys are based on. this is the second time you reviewed a motorcycle toy and I was again a little disappointed by some of the inaccurate terms you used in reference to motorcycles. The rail that wraps around the seat is a type of grab rail for the passenger. overall a nice review and I like the Mirage. I had the RAM. Mine came from a Revel or Monogram model kit version sold in hobby shops. It was a joe size model kit of the RAM. Does anyone else remember that?
Still have mine, but it is so fragile the connection pegs broke on first drop. Better looking bike than ram. Rubber tires, rubber seat awesome. And the BOMB DISPOSAL went with Bazooka who was my first Joe in 1985. That bike details and feel felt valuable..quality for less. Love those designers back then giving kids amazing toys for less
its a shame that the more recent gi joe lines did not remake this vehicle...its a great design in my book...easily eclipsing the ram..but its shoddy construction is an Achilles heel too large to ignore. i would have rated it exactly like u have.
Oh an extra Lady Jaye. I was about to say. She was in terrible condition.
I'm Dating Myself, but I'll say it
'Cause that's the kind of scene that I dig... Baby, you're the ginchiest!
I thought the rear ‘missiles’ were hand thrown grenades that happened to be dart shaped. I don’t have the blueprints anymore but I thought that was the description in the instructions
The blueprints don't have a listing for them. The instruction sheet calls them "grenades," but I don't think they would be hand-thrown grenades with that shape and mounted as they are.
I had one of these. It didn't last long at all.
17:04 just to point out airtight and bazooka are way to awesome characters to be listed under nothing characters like crankcase and heavy metal.
My silver mirage all too soon became the wreckage heap one of my teams would stumble upon. Looks great... just SO flimsy.... and what was that back piece with the tab? I think mine went MIA very soon after purchase.
🤣 I think I love you man.
Nice review !!! How much does it cost on Ebay ???
Brother had one of these. The play features rate among the highest for this class of vehicle, but the fact that it easily falls apart in so many ways makes it, to me, not quite worth it.
The ram was so much better I ended up with 6 of them over the years
I strangely think I have one sitting in a box somewhere.
accurate review if anyone has built one of these things its basically a model kit and the flimsy parts make it feel like that ive bought so many parts lots i have three or four of these incomplete or repaired from breaking lol everyone please check out gijoburg and their gofundme!!!!
Hey hey! Thanks Mike!
Why was the sidecar on the wrong side? The box art has the sidecar on the regular American passenger side, but the toy and the picture on the back are the mirror image.
Squaresville man.
Go Grease Lighting!
The JOE's got so many motorcycles it was just sad the Dreadnok's a biker gang got none until way late in the series and that tricycle they did get was pathetic and a trike not a bike. At the very least they could have launched a recolor of the Silver Mirage and Ram for the Dreadnoks to use.
My Mirage was sturdier brand new, but became flimsy overvtime
Get rid of those training wheels and live dangerous. 👍😎...😂
Your handlebars are backwards
surely, this was a hasty design, it was very fragile, I rarely used it because of this flaw.
this is one of the instances where a longer life span would have been better,
with only a 2 years shelf life, Hasbro never bothered to improve on the construction mold.
also, like you, I think that the color scheme was reversed, it should have been green with a grey engine and pipe.
it also makes me wonder as to why they never thought about making a ninja motorcycle,
or a Harley custom for the dreadnoks, done right, they would have sold well.
of all the joes vehicles, this was one that was logical to have more than one to transport and attack.
I never bought more than one joe vehicle when a character was included as the driver.
if the vamp did nt include clutch, I would have bought more than just one.
sometimes, Hasbro shot itself in the foot by including specialized drivers.
and the comics and cartoons did nt much push for that angle with the ram and flack.
also, the shelf life was so short, that having many was difficult, unless you were rich.
there were years where I did nt get to have the complete catalog offering in spite of my best efforts.
it was pretty difficult to have a matching cobra army to make a serious opposition.
Hasbro would have made much more money on a longer life span and study their products better.
discontinuing and stuffing us with that much products made it a race where nobody wins, it was alienating.
good show Commander!
the side gun looks like an upside-down engine to me...
I've heard of 'gunning your engine' but this is WACK!
The box art is weird. Mutt's arms and shoulders are huge, and he's leaning forward, but the sidecar is so small. Where are his legs?
Did the "motorcycle" fart after being revved up? :-D
Bitchin'
Lol, nice bike?😂😂😂
It's a shame to hear this is so fragile, because it really does have a lot of detail and features for a small vehicle.
The silver mirage is mostly style and little substance it seems.
I found this a fragile toy and
The first cycle was so much better than this one. Let’s just keep throwing crap on this cheaply made toy.