Gi Joe Mauler - Origins of a Tank
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- In this video I’m going to explore the possible origins of the Mauler’s visual styling. The Mauler definitely feels like one of the more realistic Joe vehicle designs so we should be able to determine what influenced the designers and then see how the inspiration stacks up against the reference. We'll also dive into some of the history of the tank/armored gun.
Do you agree with the final assessment? What do you think would make a fun modern Mauler 2.0?
Here are some of the sources I used for reference.
M551 Sheridan: US Airmobile Tanks 1941-2001
(New Vanguard) Paperback - Illustrated, March 24, 2009
by Steven J. Zaloga (Author), Tony Bryan (Illustrator)
Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 44:
The Rapid Deployment Force: The Few, the Futile, the Expendable
November 8, 1984 - David Isenberg
Tank: A History of the Armoured Fighting Vehicle
Hardcover - Import, January 1, 1970
by BATCHELOR John H. MACKSEY Kenneth (Author)
Modern Land Combat
Hardcover - December 12, 1988
by David Miller (Author)
US War Machine (A Salamander book)
Hardcover - December 12, 1988
by James E. Dorman Jr. (Author)
G.I. Joe: Classics (various volumes)
Marvel Comics - IDW publishing
by Larry Hama
www.military-today.com/tanks/e...
The expeditionary tank
www.angelfire.com/art/enchant...
Speculative light tank design based on historical information
www.combatreform.org/lighttank...
Article on air drop
en.topwar.ru/33761-amerikansk...
great photo references
forum.juhlin.com/showthread.p...
Lav 75 discussion
www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone...
Interesting article on the latest attempts to create a modern light tank
www.secretprojects.co.uk/thre...
Great documentation of turretless tank development
www.hisstank.com/forum/g-i-jo...
Ironman76’s great thread on the real Mauler
www.yojoe.com/vehicles/85/mau...
Amazing source of documentation on Gi Joe toys 
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ouh, it s a shock to see that this tank actually exists, I had no idea!
great work!
KABLAM! I always love a vid that mentions the somewhat underrated Sheridan.
Ps: The Mauler is my 2nd or 3rd favorite GI Joe team tank due to its massive size and awesome gimmicks.
I'm with you. The sheridan is a favorite of mine as well. I remember having a diecast toy of one as a kid and loving the look of that tank. Thanks for watcing.
This was an amazingly thorough video. I am glad G.I. Joeburg recommended your channel. Please keep these type videos coming our way.
Glad you found your way here and enjoyed the video.
Informative, incredibly in depth research and description on the Mauler . I was always a fan of when the G.I. Joe A Real American Hero line was launched in ‘82 many of the vehicles and weapon systems were fictionalized toys based on real world items , so your review fits right in to that , once again awesome job TWO THUMBS UP!!!!
Thank you so much. Glad you found it interesting.
I whish you did a video on the hiss tank
The 203 mm is probably in reference to the M1 8” self propelled howitzer. I fired it at Ft Sill. Makes the ground around you rumble.
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the insight and first hand experience. And thanks for watching!
Popular Mechanics, May 1988, cover story. almost an exact match IIRC
7:29 - that's the one. They had the best covers. Thanks for watching!
@@ActionRobotPunch I paused the vid to post, then 30 seconds later you said the same thing and my face turned beet red lol
Very cool video! Thanks for all your hard research!
Thank you. It was fun to research this subject. Glad you enjoyed it.
I had always thought the designers (Rudat?) took creative liberty with Israeli Merkava to beget the Mauler. Neat to know Nope! US experimental light tank.
Like the way you answered immediate mental questions of " What about the Lynx? Persuader?" Some nice understood balance between real world inspiration and creativity they did to make a toy.
After all that, what blew my mind secondly was the experimental chopper Skystorm right there on Pop Mech cover!
Fun stuff.
We might get some more design notes insight on the BluRay disk of the Art Of GIJoe coming out on Kickstarter by project leader who's making Operation: Recall.
Oh, and Yo Joe! on the Barbie Jeep conversion!!
That would be great to get more info on the BluRay disc. Good thinking. I can't wait for that book. And thanks for watching the video. It was so fun looking into the origins of the Mauler. I'm glad there are other people out there with similar interests.
Awesome! Very fascinating 👏.
Thank you.
Great video! I could discuss at length these.
Thanks. I had to chop so much out of this and it's still so long. It's the tank documentary I always wanted to make.
LOL--I'll tell her. We just finished rewatching those about a week ago.
I understand needing a break. The research for that must have been very time consuming. The Skystorm would be an interesting topic, though. It's one of the most fantastical of the Joe vehicles, and yet the copy on the catalog actually proclaimed "based on actual US military designs" which was an especially unusual thing to see by 1988. I've always been fascinated by how some of these designs are shoehorned into other roles. For example, the early Cobra planes--the first is a tank smasher and the second is a spy plane and yet they are both shown dogfighting the Joes' fighter planes. How would a modified A-10 Thunderbolt really fare against an F-14? Not well, I'd guess.
Anyway, thanks again for the great work and for the reply. I'll be hitting that subscribe button for sure!
Awesome and thanks!
Nice review! Great angle to take for a review
Thank you! Didn’t even think of this as a review, more just an exploration of some ideas. And we really dig your stop motion work.
Fascinating. Well researched, well thought-out, thorough analysis of the subject matter in this video 👏👌👍 kudos!
It would be great to see other videos like this in the future about other vehicles in the GI Joe ARAH toy line; both Joe and Cobra vehicles. I'd really like to see, for example, the Killer W.H.A.L.E. hovercraft or Moray hydrofoil get a thorough analysis like this; just to mention a few.
Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. I'd love to do more of these but they take a lot of time. When I do get around to doing another one the Whale is at the top of the list. I've already done a bit of research on it. Thank you for watching.
@@ActionRobotPunch You're welcome. I totally understand how time consuming making these videos can be, regardless of, I'll be looking forward to it (the W.H.A.L.E. video).
Great work! I didn’t realize that the Mauler had a real world basis.
Thanks for checking out the video.
Absolutely impressive video. The research involved and the breadth of information is astounding! Definitely an unexpected treasure find. Thank you so much for sharing!
Wow, thank you so much. I'm really glad you enjoyed the video.
This was fantastic! Really fascinating. If you ever feel so inclined I would love to see more videos like this, analyzing the influences and similarities to real world vehicles to impose some kind of logic on the form and function of these toys. (I was getting a bit of a glare from my wife, who is a huge LOTR fan, at one point though.) :) Excellent work!
Ha! Tell your wife I love LOTR. I only watch the extended versions. But the first time I saw return of the king I kept thinking it was going to end but then kept going, but that wasn't a bad thing. And I'd love to do more of these but they take a surprising amount of work to make so I'm taking a break for a while. I'd like to do the Killer Whale and maybe the Skystorm next. I love the killer whale toy. Thanks again for the comment.
Great review, and I like the way you approached it. The Mauler is my favorite Joe vehicle, but I always just thought it was based off the Abrams, but seeing the Hstv, it's amazing. Like you I just started collecting the ARAH line again at the beginning of this year, and the Mauler was my grail. I did have one as a kid, and don't actually remember what happened to it. I was fortunate to find a working one for a $100, with only a few parts missing at a local vintage shop (those parts were the large antenna, the bits on the side of the turret, tow cable, Heavy Metal's mic, waist and legs. I purchased 3D printed parts for the Mauler and found Heavy Metal's "pants", as well as a 3D printed mic. Now she's the pride of my humble collection, and not a day goes by that don't take about for a spin! 😁 Thanks for the splendid review!!
Thank you. That’s great that you got a Mauler for yourself and that you have her running daily! Definitely one of my favorite vehicles as well.
Literally a picture of a real world AWE Striker @ 12:09
Thanks for watching
Mauler it's based in one Light tank prototype with Ares gun of 75mm
I'm glad you learned some facts from watching the video. Thanks again for checking it out.
Ahh the mauler was only tracked is all, maybe a few scratches.
Thanks for watching.
@@ActionRobotPunch Thanks for your content
Just tank nerdness... Lets say the 120mm is the best size for a tank destroyer. Look at it like this right WW2....The M4 Sherman had a 56-60mm on it when it was first introduced. Then you have the Tiger 1, 60mm wouldn't even dent the armor of the tiger. 88mm canon. there was a reasons it was dreaded.... It could destroy most anything and still take hits, for days. So the British knew their artillery and long rang canons. We put our heads together, the Firefly was the product. A 3 inch canon, 76mm, 17 pound gun, (not a howitzer; Howitzers are for light armor and big explosions, anti personal.) but a tank stopper. The first real one. Was a Little little tank the Sherman. Oh P.S. look up the Strumtiger had a 380mm rocket launcher. LOLZ, Any ways so yeah. Your Mauler is a cool tank.
Sorry i can talk MM and calibers and so on for days.
Very well put together presentation.
16:27 Yeah. that's why now modern tanks can pack a 120mm to a 155mm canon but we still got long rang bigger guns. Clears throat... like 14 inch naval guns... More and more armor. Goodness.
Thanks so much.
Hahaha. It's fun to talk about, right? Kind of why I made the video. Just had all these thoughts I wanted to get out there.