The designers back then would have to hand build the prototypes, ( up to circa 1989 at Hasbro ) they also did not just google things or use existing 3D libraries. They read encyclopedia and went on field trips seeing the real things. The passion transpires through their work. Till today.
Many of us have never recovered from GI Joe (Mattel) blowing our minds back then. You should see my GI Joe comic book collection that I've amassed as an adult.
This rich kid I knew in elementary school had a bunch of these vehicles shown. It was the biggest collection I'd ever seen, I was so extremely jealous, its also when I found out life wasn't fair😂
I get what you are saying, I used to go shopping with my mother to go to the toy section where liono and mumra was kept,and pretend I owned them till my mother told me come on let's Go 🤣
When I heard the kid down the street had the USS Flagg I ran out of my house leaving the empty house door unlocked to go see. My mom never let me live it down but I was an excited 8 year old and this thing was huge.
I still think about that today because the USS FLAG was a whopping $100 back then. Metroplex was $42, which was a lot. If I remember correctly the AT AT walker was about $25, as was Optimus Prime. I think the Mobile Command Center was about $40. And I look at todays toys and the prices of them....
I still have my Metroplex and Trypticon and all my G1 Transformers :) the prices are not for kids anymore just got The Nemesis Deception Titan for $200 an than Scalpers make it worst. That's actually accurate i remember my mom getting me Optimus and Metroplex for me an my older brother that got me into Transformers, Gi joe, X men etc as a girl i got picked on a lot. Just never really liked Barbie etc. Have a great day.
I had the general and the tank canon trucks. Played with them for hours and hours. I remember I came home from school one day and my mom had given them all to one her daycare kids. I was heart broken. My dad was pissed too. She said I never played with them and I had just played with them that weekend. Man childhood trauma coming out I think. 😆
@@yodaddy82daddy70 let's just say I could have bought a house with what I had. I took care of those things... also had the flagg. 2 grand for it, even out of box
Have them all, love the Flagg the most. And yes its huge and awesome, top 3 Christmas gift ever when I was little. My beagle would actually get on the Flagg and take naps on it. When she died we cremated her and put her ash box on the Flagg.
Me and my brother had about 80 percent of these. That uss flag my friend had because his folks were getting a divorce. 😂 man it was amazing being a kid in 84-89
I saw the Defiant toy a few times, it was massive, great description. I was in awe as a friend showed me the USS Flagg he had, it filled bedroom floors though; it was almost impractically big as a toy.
I had some GI Joe toys and vehicles. I was born in 1976. I stooped using toys when I was like 11 years old. GI Joe vehicles made by 1987 and ahead some of them seemed weird
I never saw the GI Joe Headquarters in any store. I knew it existed because my neighbor had it but I never saw it. Gemco, Fedco, Best, Toys R us, Kay-Bee, nobody had it.
Just Preordered the Soundwave Thunder Machine got Megtron Hiss Tank an Bumble Bee weird choices for Alt modes but awesome detail an did Gi joe an Transformers Justice.
I mean, the Flagg was the holy grail, right? That thing has three Sky Strikers on the deck, and those aren't exactly small! I never had one, but it was epic! I do have a vintage Terrordrome now, but I didn't have one as a kid.
They don’t make them like they use to. Was awesome I got to enjoy these 80s early 90s masterpiece gi joes. Now we only see the 6 inch joes with no updates vehicles to scale with. Not like the classics anyway. The deviant was bad ass. I had it and remember my dad carried it for me from toys r us. Thing barely fit in my closet lol
I had six out of 10 pieces displayed in this video. The four items I didn't have in this video or as follows one the cobra teradrome two the GI Joe mobile command center three the USS flag four the GI Joe general. I have never been a rich kid in any point in my life but I had most of the '80s and '90s GI Joe toys. When I stopped I was about 105 pieces short of having everything ever made mostly figures were lacking and those were mostly side missions or subgroups.
That's awesome man, I only had a smaller collection, but compared to my friends everyone thought it was huge. Not a rich kid either, my parents just REALLY didn't want me to play hockey ($$$$$ and 4am everyday) so they invested in toys for my brother and I. Working on unpacking everything this summer, I think most of it is still there.
My friend said he had a USS FLAGG but I figured he was lying just as another kid had done. One day I walked home with him from school and sure enough, up the stairs of his apartment was a fully assembled USS Flag. Only time I ever got to see it. He actually stood on it and layed down on the thing. We only got to play with it a short time before his sister (who was in a bad mood) kicked us outside because he was making too much noise.
The General was a super toy. So many features. That is until Ben Easton stole my Locust helicopter and then acted like he didn't know what I was talking about.
This was the era of toys, and also true early morning cartoons. I feel sorry for my 9 year old son that he misses out on what we had as kids!
The 1980's designer's LOVED KIDS. Their intention was to blow our minds then. :)))
I wish toys were like these now a days they can repaint the same toy over and over and get millions off it
@@jamesbodziony6602 all about the money and prices are 4x over inflation since 1984. Example $2.99 g.i. joe 3.75 in 1984 to 12.99 retro
The designers back then would have to hand build the prototypes, ( up to circa 1989 at Hasbro ) they also did not just google things or use existing 3D libraries. They read encyclopedia and went on field trips seeing the real things. The passion transpires through their work. Till today.
Many of us have never recovered from GI Joe (Mattel) blowing our minds back then. You should see my GI Joe comic book collection that I've amassed as an adult.
Rolling Thunder comes with two short range nuclear missiles. Fallout gear sold separately. Some assembly required.
This rich kid I knew in elementary school had a bunch of these vehicles shown. It was the biggest collection I'd ever seen, I was so extremely jealous, its also when I found out life wasn't fair😂
Me too
I get what you are saying, I used to go shopping with my mother to go to the toy section where liono and mumra was kept,and pretend I owned them till my mother told me come on let's Go 🤣
I used to make my own with cardboard and painting, far from original but enough to fill the imagination
I used to keep one of the toy brochures imagining one day I would own them all. At least my cousin was generous to let me play with his collections.
When I heard the kid down the street had the USS Flagg I ran out of my house leaving the empty house door unlocked to go see. My mom never let me live it down but I was an excited 8 year old and this thing was huge.
I wish we could get all the old toy commercials in HD.
not physically possible unless they where shot and edited on film, mst of hasbro's commercials where shot on film, edited on videotape.
I still think about that today because the USS FLAG was a whopping $100 back then. Metroplex was $42, which was a lot. If I remember correctly the AT AT walker was about $25, as was Optimus Prime. I think the Mobile Command Center was about $40. And I look at todays toys and the prices of them....
I still have my Metroplex and Trypticon and all my G1 Transformers :) the prices are not for kids anymore just got The Nemesis Deception Titan for $200 an than Scalpers make it worst. That's actually accurate i remember my mom getting me Optimus and Metroplex for me an my older brother that got me into Transformers, Gi joe, X men etc as a girl i got picked on a lot. Just never really liked Barbie etc. Have a great day.
I had the general and the tank canon trucks. Played with them for hours and hours. I remember I came home from school one day and my mom had given them all to one her daycare kids. I was heart broken. My dad was pissed too. She said I never played with them and I had just played with them that weekend. Man childhood trauma coming out I think. 😆
My mother did the exact same thing. Looking up what those things are worth is like slicing your wrists... absolutely painful.
@@russscott8650 o man. Thanks for the warning I'm not even gonna do that than 😆
@@yodaddy82daddy70 let's just say I could have bought a house with what I had. I took care of those things... also had the flagg. 2 grand for it, even out of box
Have them all, love the Flagg the most.
And yes its huge and awesome, top 3 Christmas gift ever when I was little.
My beagle would actually get on the Flagg and take naps on it. When she died we cremated her and put her ash box on the Flagg.
LOL That's f*cked up :)
My family didn't even buy a vehicle when I was a kid. everytime i see the gijoe collection it is a sad, depressed day. I would like to have them all.
Me and my brother had about 80 percent of these. That uss flag my friend had because his folks were getting a divorce. 😂 man it was amazing being a kid in 84-89
These make me smile, thanks.
How Kenner didn’t make a super huge Death Star to be the winner in the biggest base for action figures game I don’t know
I still have it all from when I was a kid, I was the only boy with 4 sisters, so mom took care of me lololol
The Defiant was massive, But the end all be all was without a doubt the USS Flagg, to be a kid again.
I saw the Defiant toy a few times, it was massive, great description. I was in awe as a friend showed me the USS Flagg he had, it filled bedroom floors though; it was almost impractically big as a toy.
I had some GI Joe toys and vehicles. I was born in 1976. I stooped using toys when I was like 11 years old. GI Joe vehicles made by 1987 and ahead some of them seemed weird
Some of those playsets are ridiculously huge
I never saw the GI Joe Headquarters in any store. I knew it existed because my neighbor had it but I never saw it. Gemco, Fedco, Best, Toys R us, Kay-Bee, nobody had it.
Just Preordered the Soundwave Thunder Machine got Megtron Hiss Tank an Bumble Bee weird choices for Alt modes but awesome detail an did Gi joe an Transformers Justice.
I had The General as a kid. I still have dreams to this very day where I find it burried in a closet somewhere and start playing with it again!
I mean, the Flagg was the holy grail, right? That thing has three Sky Strikers on the deck, and those aren't exactly small! I never had one, but it was epic!
I do have a vintage Terrordrome now, but I didn't have one as a kid.
i only had the headquarters in this video as a kid. my parents were to poor to buy all the big stuff lol.
They don’t make them like they use to. Was awesome I got to enjoy these 80s early 90s masterpiece gi joes. Now we only see the 6 inch joes with no updates vehicles to scale with. Not like the classics anyway. The deviant was bad ass. I had it and remember my dad carried it for me from toys r us. Thing barely fit in my closet lol
we have the HISS now :D
Takes me back AMAZING
It's Sgt Slaughter 🇺🇲💪
That Flagg tho!
@4:10 Alex Wicks Iron grenadier custom version is so much better, with not 1 but 2 rolling thunder turrets on the top board
Had the thunder clap and mobile command center. Knew a kid who had the flag ship. It was impressive then, stiĺl looks great now
estos. sieran. gugetes. 😎😎🕶
I had six out of 10 pieces displayed in this video. The four items I didn't have in this video or as follows one the cobra teradrome two the GI Joe mobile command center three the USS flag four the GI Joe general. I have never been a rich kid in any point in my life but I had most of the '80s and '90s GI Joe toys. When I stopped I was about 105 pieces short of having everything ever made mostly figures were lacking and those were mostly side missions or subgroups.
That's awesome man, I only had a smaller collection, but compared to my friends everyone thought it was huge. Not a rich kid either, my parents just REALLY didn't want me to play hockey ($$$$$ and 4am everyday) so they invested in toys for my brother and I. Working on unpacking everything this summer, I think most of it is still there.
My friend said he had a USS FLAGG but I figured he was lying just as another kid had done. One day I walked home with him from school and sure enough, up the stairs of his apartment was a fully assembled USS Flag. Only time I ever got to see it. He actually stood on it and layed down on the thing. We only got to play with it a short time before his sister (who was in a bad mood) kicked us outside because he was making too much noise.
I had the Night Force version of the hovercraft
The rolling thunder broke into three different vehicles.
The General was a super toy. So many features. That is until Ben Easton stole my Locust helicopter and then acted like he didn't know what I was talking about.
Man they dont make toys like this anymore.
COBRA!!!!
I didn't have non of them, we were so poor
If only Hasbro could give us vehicles suitable for Marvel Legends figures!
What do kid's have now..a phone I suppose.
Defiant needed 2 kids. Hahaha.