Just some info, my dad was stationed in Alaska with the Army, Vietnam era. He has one of those white frost protector mask. It is nightmare fuel lol! It's fabric
HOLY CRAP!!! Is that why they did that????? Cuz it’s GENIUS if it’s the reason. From a kid standpoint, not some greedy capitalists. I bet they were PISSED!!
@relaxinandchillaxin unfortunately it's always cooperate greed they was just trying to cash in on the current state of the 90s at the time Neon everything global warming awareness hence the eco warriors all the bioshit with play doh etc
I would have to include: Law version 3: Looks more like a visionaries figure. Leatherneck version 3: looks like he's dressed to host a children's zoo presentation. Beachhead version 2: I don't even know what's going on here. and the worst figure to me: Major Blood version 3: he's dressed in velvet pajamas like Cobra sent him on a mission to take over the Playboy mansion.
In fairness, "ice cream soldier" is actually a baddass name, that goes back to WWII and Korea. The "ice cream soldier" moniker was dubbed to those who were absolutely cool under the harshest conditions, and be cool to keep a clear head. THAT said, this figure should have looked more like Sgt Savage, or a battle hardened veteran, and the name would have made sense. "Ice cream soldier's" filecar misrepresented the moniker, as the guy that shows up as a one man army. Nobody buy that with THAT outfit and gear.
Captain Grid Iron was one of my favorites as a kid. I remember getting his figure in school during Christmas time. My school would layout a ton of toys in the auditorium and one by one, each class would go through and pick a toy. I got Captain Grid Iron from the pile. It was awesome! I’d try to score a G. I. Joe every year I could. I did score another one the following year. It was Sub Zero. G. I. Joe was definitely the greatest action figure line of all time!
Big Butt Scarlet’s face looks like the evil father from Kindergarten Cop. Maybe Star Brigade was invented to help that little boy put up his tin foil lasers.
Pathfinder was a jungle specialist who went to battle with a weedwacker. I always thought that kinda sucked. Also, I'm stone cold sober and laughed long and hard through the entire Skidmark section. It's even making this hard to write because I keep laughing as I think about it. Great stuff!
I had Pathfinder! I liked him. I always pretended his weedwacker was a deadly motorized saw. Or maybe back then that's what I thought it actually was lol. Looking back now though, yeah pretty lame.
Ice Cream soldier could be an awesome action figure with a better name, different paint job and appropriate weapons. Start with an unpainted sculpt and then change everything else.
They could have called him flamethrower viper. lol 😂 but for sure changed the colour because the other version is way better as they did change the colour
The story of Ice Cream Soldier, There was rumors of a SGT Rock movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hasbro thought it hurt GI joe if there was a Sgt Rock toyline, So they started to trademark Sgt Rock character names, Ice Cream Soldier, Little Sure Shot and Bulldozer, that is one of the reason for the SGT Savage line, Little Sure Shot or Sure Shot was planned for 95 and Bulldozer was going to show up Sgt Savage line
I have Ice Cream soldier in my collection. I have no idea where he came from. There's no accessories, etc. It feels like one of my nephews just left him at the house to leave him here because he was bright orange and... yeah.
I wish you showed off the figures more in the video. For someone not familiar with the old original toy line some of the figures you talked about you should on screen for less than 5 seconds still a cool video. I just wish I got a more in-depth look at the figures even if you just kept them on screen as a static image
Some of the Eco-Warriors figures were ok IMHO. Cespool and the Toxo-zombie were cool for Cobra and as I kid I was just thrilled to finally be able to get a figure of Flint in any form.
After I got into my teens (1990ish) and quit buying toys, I noticed every thing started coming in bright garish colors. Felt lucky to have experienced the prior toy designs of the 80s!
I personally love the idea of casual attire joes. I don't think I would want them as the "main" incarnation of the figure, but kind of cool as an extra figure for scenarios when the joes are attacked by cobra while not on duty. Sort of like Tomax and Xamot in their suits.
The funny thing is that DC Comics had a character called Ice Cream Soldier, a member of Sgt Rock's Easy Company during World War II. He got the nickname due to being a cold weather specialist and being "cool in combat".
If you put Sonic Fighters Road Pig together with Ninja Force Zartan you get what could've been the most badass WWF tag teams of the late 80s/Early 90s. They display amazingly next to eachother.
That Road Pig definitely belongs on that list but you have to include Zartan V2! as a figure he looks ok but the fact that its Zartan with a neon orange mohawk, neon green pants and neon purple boots is HORRIBLE!!
Loved the Fridge and I didn't like football. Also Grid Iron was cool to me as I had seen pictures of the anti armor football grenade. It was an anti armor device made to be thrown and was stuffed into a NERF football. It was awesome.
I remember a friend giving me two of his proof of purchases so I could mail away for the Fridge. About two years later some other kid stole him from me.
Wow, never knew that version of Cobra Commander existed. How abhorrent. The first thing I thought of was Lord Dark Helmet from Spaceballs lol. And the Commander's face should never be exposed anyway! Hey Mark an idea for a video occurred to me: How about a top 10 (or 20) of the most _physically_ _strongest_ Joes? Think like who could bench press and curl the most, that type of thing. Gung-Ho, Roadblock, Sgt. Slaughter, Bazooka, Salvo all come to mind. You could do it with Cobras too of course. I can see a lot of debate and argument coming from a video like that lol.
Actually, fishing and photographer vests are popular amongst some Spec Ops and PMCs because of the multiple pockets. How dare you! Capt Grid-Iron and the Fridge were awesome! Btw, you want a big guy trainer. If you can fight a big guy, you can fight anyone. Other than that, you may be onto something.
I didn't mind Grid-Iron and the Fridge too. The Fridge kinda makes sense for like a strength & conditioning coach. I was always a big baseball guy and was bummed to learn that Grand Slam had nothing to do with baseball lol. I always thought he was an ex player, hence the name.
that version of Road Pig I'd use as the pilot for the Earthquake vehicle from 92, because who else but the Dreadnoks would "A-team" a bulldozer with armor, guns and rockets than the Dreadnoks, and ver 2 of Road Pig's colors, as garish as they are, fit nice with the Earthquake
Sgt. Slaughter isn't a military guy, he's an actor playing a role. He wasn't a marine or in any branch of the military. It just bugs me when he's treated like he actually served.
Robert "Rocky" Balboa was a GI Joe exercise, 🥊 trainer. Sly Stallone authorized the design but Hasbro removed it. Marvel Comics did list Rocky Balboa in the GI Joe roster edition.
Joes were on their way out after 1991. It went from a few mehs, to many AAAAWTF? Lost cause. Their Vehicle Collection was BRUTAL during that time. Very little to No Thought, and mostly just PLASTIC JUNK.
He does have that cabin up in the mountains, maybe there's good trout fishing nearby? 😋 I kind of liked the Bazooka though. I like to pretend he was on some RnR and got called back in for an emergency mission with no time to change. Or maybe while fishing he encountered some Dreadnoks or something?
Haha they gave captain grid-iron the powers of the hammer throwing bros from Mario Bros and those helmeted turtles from Super Mario World. The ice cream/sherbet soldier is pretty funny.
At ten years old. My favorite show and toy was GI Joe. My favorite football player was Refrigerator Perry. Crystal Ball was dumb. All the eco-warrior, Sneak Peek, Scoop, and Dial-Tone.
Hated Crystal Ball. How were you supposed to integrate him on the battlefield? Was he supposed to sneak up on someone and hypnotize them? Nope, straight up cannon fodder. Sneak Peek could have worked if (A) he was actually able to securely hold onto his 5 foot tall periscope, (that somehow the enemy wouldn't notice) and (B) if he didn't look like a doofus. Seriously, who wants a dweeb with a stupid grin and a 5 foot tall periscope riding into battle with them? Not my team of Joes back then, as Putz Peek was always the first to meet his end against Cobra.
I was wondering what that Jason mask went to... I must have thought it was so stupid, I stored it in the parts bin. LOL Good list, I'm surprised you could keep it limited to 15. 😛
Can you please do a greatest African American gi Joe figures for black history month in February? I know myself and a lot of other black followers would love that.thanks
Dude your vid gave me an awesome idea. To make my classified Starduster better (the worst classified). I'm gonna make a little fatal Fluffy to go with his cereal box. 🤣 Yo Freaking Joe!
I love this topic, I've been a collector of action figures since I was a kid and and during the nineties Gi Joe just lost me , they were definitely focused on marketing to little children and you can tell they were put of touch with even little kids , collector's and players
But Sgt Slaughter WASN’T a military guy. He just pretended to be one and made a fortune by doing so. William Perry is my favorite GI Joe figure of all time but just because he played football at Clemson.
So, ice cream, i get the idea of creating a codename for a soldier with the opposite specialty but just calling him BBQ would have been much better. Also, if they made, an OP black ops disguised as an ice cream man, THAT would have been dope (like ice cream C4 and cone grenades) and they could make an ice cream truck with secret missiles and guns. Like what kid WOULN'T buy that?! Also, the Bayblade dreidel (Blaydel) is OP. Give that guy a "space laser" and he's all set.
Speaking of 'Gung Ho' I remember money being tight as a kid so instead of one GI Joe I could get 3 Gung Ho figures for the same price. They were identical to GI Joe in make and I thought had some good figures for a knock-off.
19:30 Back in the day, I was thinking about getting the GI Joe Dino Hunters and the Jurassic Park dinosaur toys to play with together. I swear this dinosaur was from a dollar store...
I bought the one I had on clearance back in the day for something like $4.98. It's still just the G.I.Joe Desert Fox with Ambush and Low Light and they have great colored accessories. And the blonde hair Low Light in the set makes an an easy swap onto a 1991 Low Light if a person doesn't like that figures blacked out hair. The dinosaur definitely sucked. That's something that almost every fan or collector might agree on.
I must be in the minority because when I think of Skid mark I immediately think of a long black mark left on a road surface by the tires of a skidding vehicle. Never underestimate a Joe fan hearing a term/name and immediately associating it with the most low brow/toilet bowl application of the word. Hate to think what would happen if there were an operative with the code name “Booby Trap”.
man i didn't even know about the aliens or dinosaur figures. Course now that transformers is part of the same universe as g i joe it makes more sense. Here's hoping classified can do all these figures.
I had most of these. The green Firefly wasn't too bad, but his weapon did suck, but at that time they were including stupid spring loaded launchers and weird things like this and 92 Destro's dumb disc launcher. And I love G.I. Joe, and I am a football fan, I still never liked Captain Gridiron.
The 1990s were certainly the lowest point in the A Real American Hero line, although I did enjoy the commercial for the Ninja Force line with Scarlett delivering such lines as "You're the one who just rolled Snake-Eyes!" and "Tough Break!", and the non-canon Street Fighter II commercial where, apparently, Shadaloo and COBRA have merged into one entity, thus Bison (Vega in Japan) announcing "But COBRA has Street Fighters, too!".
The weird thing is his file card lists him as being from a suburb of Chicago. Hasbro was headquartered in Rhode Island, which is why a disproportionate number of Joes are listed as being from the Northeast. I think Fridge was just added because he was a popular player at the time. They probably started developing the project after the Bears' 1985 Superbowl win.
I don't like it when a file card does one of two things. The ones that make them out to be "I was born to do this" and the ones that make some personality quirk be their one defining feature dominating everything else. They can be done right, but it's too easy to get it wrong. How about a file card that says how a Joe joined the military to escape a bad family situation? Or a scientist who Cobra tried to kidnap and worked with the Joe rescue team so well they stayed?
Lol yo! hating on the dino set. It came with a cool green vehicle that went well with Jurassic Park stuff. Haha. Loved that when I was 4. Yeah that t rex felt like a cheap afterthought 😂
That was the reason the line devolved into sub-teams. It was a way for Hasbro to pivot to selling toys with more popular themes ("ninjas", "Space" "Street Fighter II" etc.) while still capitalizing on the fact that retailers had established a certain amount of space for the GI Joe brand rather than having to fight for retail space with a new line.
@ they fumbled by not coming up with a direct competitor to Power Rangers. They could have made it work. Consider, there existed a Voltron variant in the 80’s that fit 3.75” action figures in the cockpit of the lions.
I'd add the Street Fighter Joes and MK Joes. Though Goro was pretty cool. And I liked that v2 Firefly. Granted, I was an avid comics reader, and when that fig hit when they revealed Fireflys origins in the comics. Early 90s... I want to say between issues 125 to 135. Cobra was assaulting Destros Castle and it was just a wild story.
9:47 this gun ho makes the shelf warming marine dress blue look like a cool toy. That wasn’t a bad concept looking back but what kid wanted to play with a guy in a suit?
My squad named me Dryfire. During training on the M249, right after the instructor says "do not dryfire" I pull the trigger when the bolt was open.
Just some info, my dad was stationed in Alaska with the Army, Vietnam era. He has one of those white frost protector mask. It is nightmare fuel lol! It's fabric
Ha, It is creepy looking. Good to know, Maybe I need to move him to the awesome list
Fridge Perry is giving off Scooby Doo meets the Harlem Globetrotters vibes.
Euphoric Recall!!!
Although the fluorescent colors looked awful... it did make it easier to see the accessories and figures outside in the yard.
I don't know that I would miss them too much, if they got lost in the yard 😆😜😏
HOLY CRAP!!! Is that why they did that????? Cuz it’s GENIUS if it’s the reason. From a kid standpoint, not some greedy capitalists. I bet they were PISSED!!
@relaxinandchillaxin unfortunately it's always cooperate greed they was just trying to cash in on the current state of the 90s at the time Neon everything global warming awareness hence the eco warriors all the bioshit with play doh etc
Reading Ice Cream Soldier’s file card is where I said “Maybe I’m too old to be buying these.”
I would have to include:
Law version 3: Looks more like a visionaries figure.
Leatherneck version 3: looks like he's dressed to host a children's zoo presentation.
Beachhead version 2: I don't even know what's going on here.
and the worst figure to me:
Major Blood version 3: he's dressed in velvet pajamas like Cobra sent him on a mission to take over the Playboy mansion.
Yes, these all suck pretty bad
In fairness, "ice cream soldier" is actually a baddass name, that goes back to WWII and Korea. The "ice cream soldier" moniker was dubbed to those who were absolutely cool under the harshest conditions, and be cool to keep a clear head. THAT said, this figure should have looked more like Sgt Savage, or a battle hardened veteran, and the name would have made sense. "Ice cream soldier's" filecar misrepresented the moniker, as the guy that shows up as a one man army. Nobody buy that with THAT outfit and gear.
First time viewer and, now, subscriber. The breakdown of Gristle is comedy gold. Keep on keeping on.
Captain Grid Iron was one of my favorites as a kid. I remember getting his figure in school during Christmas time. My school would layout a ton of toys in the auditorium and one by one, each class would go through and pick a toy. I got Captain Grid Iron from the pile. It was awesome! I’d try to score a G. I. Joe every year I could. I did score another one the following year. It was Sub Zero.
G. I. Joe was definitely the greatest action figure line of all time!
I can see Capt Grid Iron being fun.
The U.S. military actually tried football grenades.
Big Butt Scarlet’s face looks like the evil father from Kindergarten Cop. Maybe Star Brigade was invented to help that little boy put up his tin foil lasers.
Yeah, it is a really bad face sculpt.
Pathfinder was a jungle specialist who went to battle with a weedwacker. I always thought that kinda sucked.
Also, I'm stone cold sober and laughed long and hard through the entire Skidmark section. It's even making this hard to write because I keep laughing as I think about it. Great stuff!
I had Pathfinder! I liked him. I always pretended his weedwacker was a deadly motorized saw. Or maybe back then that's what I thought it actually was lol. Looking back now though, yeah pretty lame.
Ice Cream soldier could be an awesome action figure with a better name, different paint job and appropriate weapons. Start with an unpainted sculpt and then change everything else.
They could have called him flamethrower viper. lol 😂 but for sure changed the colour because the other version is way better as they did change the colour
Maybe just try to forget and move on from this mistake.
I was gonna say the same thing
I actually found a repaint version of Ice Cream Soldier that was red in colour and renamed 'shock viper'. it wasn't terrible.
So different name, different paint job and different weapons so yeah, of course it would be a different figure so yes, it could be awesome. Wow.
I didn’t mind Gung Ho in service dress whatsoever
The story of Ice Cream Soldier, There was rumors of a SGT Rock movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hasbro thought it hurt GI joe if there was a Sgt Rock toyline, So they started to trademark Sgt Rock character names, Ice Cream Soldier, Little Sure Shot and Bulldozer, that is one of the reason for the SGT Savage line, Little Sure Shot or Sure Shot was planned for 95 and Bulldozer was going to show up Sgt Savage line
Wow, so we were going to cast an Austrian bodybuilder as Sgt Rock..okay
Ah Hell sounds like the 90s
@@mrspeigel3593 I always loved imagining Arnold saying, "Here cum der Germans".
Ice cream soldier was one of my favourite GI Joe figures.
I always thought Windmill was terrible especially considering the year he came out. He was always the first to die on the battlefield.
I would swap out windmills legs and switch them with roadblocks version 2 so roadblock kind of look like the later on cartoon with orange pants
I like the fridge. Wasn't a football fan. I just like it.
Why do you hate football and big ass women?
That’s what makes America great!
the smell??
Hey, Capt. Grid-Iron was awesome in the NES game.
Nintendo Power!!!
I have Ice Cream soldier in my collection. I have no idea where he came from. There's no accessories, etc. It feels like one of my nephews just left him at the house to leave him here because he was bright orange and... yeah.
i feel like my ice cream soldier had different colour of weapons than what was pictured in this video.
@@paddington1670he definitely has variants me and my cousin both had him my weapons where like a neon green his was like orange serbert color
I wish you showed off the figures more in the video. For someone not familiar with the old original toy line some of the figures you talked about you should on screen for less than 5 seconds still a cool video. I just wish I got a more in-depth look at the figures even if you just kept them on screen as a static image
Showing the figures or expanding on stuff might reveal this channel's non-substance.
Wow, really needing substance on a video about bad action figures? Hmm, maybe you should look inward
Sure, I try to keep it visually moving, but I see your point.
In hindsight, the Fridge trained Joe's for the annual Fish Fry Football Game mentioned on Captain Gridiron's file card. 🏈
Very late 80s and 90s was the downhill era. I remember seeing these and the obnoxious neon Eco Warriors clogging pegs at Kay Bees and Toys R Us.
Some of the Eco-Warriors figures were ok IMHO. Cespool and the Toxo-zombie were cool for Cobra and as I kid I was just thrilled to finally be able to get a figure of Flint in any form.
After I got into my teens (1990ish) and quit buying toys, I noticed every thing started coming in bright garish colors. Felt lucky to have experienced the prior toy designs of the 80s!
I personally love the idea of casual attire joes. I don't think I would want them as the "main" incarnation of the figure, but kind of cool as an extra figure for scenarios when the joes are attacked by cobra while not on duty. Sort of like Tomax and Xamot in their suits.
The Fridge was SO GOOD at being big, he could train a small guy to be big. And god help us all if chuck norris ever gets his hands on that training!
Dude, your “soccer mom” accent is spot on.
Thanks! I do an excellent Karen as well
Well done! I only knew about the first few and had that refrigerator Perry fig. He was the only Joe able to stand up to road pig!
The funny thing is that DC Comics had a character called Ice Cream Soldier, a member of Sgt Rock's Easy Company during World War II. He got the nickname due to being a cold weather specialist and being "cool in combat".
Bad Co.
If you put Sonic Fighters Road Pig together with Ninja Force Zartan you get what could've been the most badass WWF tag teams of the late 80s/Early 90s. They display amazingly next to eachother.
That Road Pig definitely belongs on that list but you have to include Zartan V2! as a figure he looks ok but the fact that its Zartan with a neon orange mohawk, neon green pants and neon purple boots is HORRIBLE!!
No. Road Pig is a great figure.
That Road Pig kinda reminds me of a Trump on steroids lol.
Character named "Duke" with something that looks like an e-collar, and the dog jokes write themselves.
Being a bears fan for life and being 6 years old at the time the fridge GI Joe action figure was awesome
Wasn't there an astronaut GI Joe? I remember he looked pretty pathetic.
Ace, the Sky striker pilot. I never understood why he wore an astronaut suit for piloting an F-14 Tomcat😂
Because the Sky Strikers flew so high.
Yes it came with the Defiant launch complex.
I think he was Count Down or Launch Pad. He was a NASA Astronaut 👨🏻🚀 . I think a O-6 Col.
@@DavidLLambertmobile His name was Payload.
Loved the Fridge and I didn't like football. Also Grid Iron was cool to me as I had seen pictures of the anti armor football grenade. It was an anti armor device made to be thrown and was stuffed into a NERF football. It was awesome.
I remember a friend giving me two of his proof of purchases so I could mail away for the Fridge. About two years later some other kid stole him from me.
Wow, never knew that version of Cobra Commander existed. How abhorrent. The first thing I thought of was Lord Dark Helmet from Spaceballs lol. And the Commander's face should never be exposed anyway!
Hey Mark an idea for a video occurred to me: How about a top 10 (or 20) of the most _physically_ _strongest_ Joes? Think like who could bench press and curl the most, that type of thing. Gung-Ho, Roadblock, Sgt. Slaughter, Bazooka, Salvo all come to mind. You could do it with Cobras too of course.
I can see a lot of debate and argument coming from a video like that lol.
Yes, good idea
I can't wait for the Classified 6-inch versions of these figures!!!
I confess I liked Capt. Gridiron!!!
He played football with The Fridge!
Grid-Iron just needed to have different colored pants, but he was alright?🤔👍🏽
I like gone fishing bazooka, he should have been on reserve duty.
I like that version as well. You know if you take frostbites body you can put bazookas head on him to make him into an Arctic trooper.
Yeah, I wished that Scarlett figure didn't have that gimmick. I wanted the character and that's what I had for a choice. :/
Same. Realistically, the only reason she got made is that it was a re-use of the Chun-Li sculpt from the Street Fighter II line.
They literally gave up and did not care if we knew....
I had an ICE Cream soldier.I love you guys and GI JOES.Zartan had a mohawk when I was a little boy.
Thanks!
Aww, I actually liked that Firefly. lol The weapon choice, I understand, but I liked the look.
Actually, fishing and photographer vests are popular amongst some Spec Ops and PMCs because of the multiple pockets.
How dare you! Capt Grid-Iron and the Fridge were awesome! Btw, you want a big guy trainer. If you can fight a big guy, you can fight anyone.
Other than that, you may be onto something.
I didn't mind Grid-Iron and the Fridge too. The Fridge kinda makes sense for like a strength & conditioning coach. I was always a big baseball guy and was bummed to learn that Grand Slam had nothing to do with baseball lol. I always thought he was an ex player, hence the name.
Fun fact, Sgt Slaughter never actually served in the military.
I owned most of the ones that you had in your screen capture for the video lol!
that version of Road Pig I'd use as the pilot for the Earthquake vehicle from 92, because who else but the Dreadnoks would "A-team" a bulldozer with armor, guns and rockets than the Dreadnoks, and ver 2 of Road Pig's colors, as garish as they are, fit nice with the Earthquake
Awesome comment!!!!
Sgt. Slaughter isn't a military guy, he's an actor playing a role. He wasn't a marine or in any branch of the military. It just bugs me when he's treated like he actually served.
Robert "Rocky" Balboa was a GI Joe exercise, 🥊 trainer. Sly Stallone authorized the design but Hasbro removed it. Marvel Comics did list Rocky Balboa in the GI Joe roster edition.
Joes were on their way out after 1991. It went from a few mehs, to many AAAAWTF? Lost cause.
Their Vehicle Collection was BRUTAL during that time. Very little to No Thought, and mostly just PLASTIC JUNK.
That was also the point where they phased out dedicated vehicle drivers.
Desert Storm era. Everything became tan & FDE color. VAMP ll had missiles. I'd say get 2 7.62mm 134D mini guns!
Anything about after 89 was pretty bad. Then when they started to add the stupidly huge *Guns* it just started the downward spiral
I'm surprised we never got "Gone Fishing" Snake-Eyes. There's gotta be a prototype somewhere.
yeah, they'll give us everything else Snake Eyes
He does have that cabin up in the mountains, maybe there's good trout fishing nearby? 😋
I kind of liked the Bazooka though. I like to pretend he was on some RnR and got called back in for an emergency mission with no time to change. Or maybe while fishing he encountered some Dreadnoks or something?
I actually like Gone Fishing Bazooka lol. He’s got that grumpy old man look lol
HOW DARE YOU BESMIRCH THE FRIDGE
William Perry 🏈
Haha they gave captain grid-iron the powers of the hammer throwing bros from Mario Bros and those helmeted turtles from Super Mario World. The ice cream/sherbet soldier is pretty funny.
"YO JOE!"
"Oh crap, Jason murdered Tomax."
Love your mom impression😂
At ten years old. My favorite show and toy was GI Joe. My favorite football player was Refrigerator Perry. Crystal Ball was dumb. All the eco-warrior, Sneak Peek, Scoop, and Dial-Tone.
Hated Crystal Ball. How were you supposed to integrate him on the battlefield? Was he supposed to sneak up on someone and hypnotize them? Nope, straight up cannon fodder.
Sneak Peek could have worked if (A) he was actually able to securely hold onto his 5 foot tall periscope, (that somehow the enemy wouldn't notice) and (B) if he didn't look like a doofus. Seriously, who wants a dweeb with a stupid grin and a 5 foot tall periscope riding into battle with them?
Not my team of Joes back then, as Putz Peek was always the first to meet his end against Cobra.
What GI Joe "jumped the shark" for everyone? For me it started with Zandar.
That dinosaur looks like he would be voiced by Jim J Bullock
😂😂😂
I was wondering what that Jason mask went to... I must have thought it was so stupid, I stored it in the parts bin. LOL
Good list, I'm surprised you could keep it limited to 15. 😛
Can you please do a greatest African American gi Joe figures for black history month in February? I know myself and a lot of other black followers would love that.thanks
Theres a lot of cool black characters for sure! I would say Roadblock or Stalker myself
@jamespaul6315 yes I love most of em..doc or alpine..iceberg
@@jessiemartinez3056 Iceberg is a low key underrated figure for sure
@jimmybacas8003 yes I like iceberg alot..that one episode where he turns into a killer whale lol
Cool idea. Yeah there's so many great characters.
The makers of the MOTU line were excited to use new pallettes for the Princess of Power lines. ^_^
I had alot of the joes on this list. I used to take the screw out of the back and take them apart to swap the pieces and create my own joes
Dude your vid gave me an awesome idea. To make my classified Starduster better (the worst classified). I'm gonna make a little fatal Fluffy to go with his cereal box. 🤣
Yo Freaking Joe!
Ah "Dress Blues" Gung-Ho...no offense to the Marines, but man I remember dozens of that figure warming pegs back in the day (alongside "Crystal Ball"
I love this topic, I've been a collector of action figures since I was a kid and and during the nineties Gi Joe just lost me , they were definitely focused on marketing to little children and you can tell they were put of touch with even little kids , collector's and players
I found a one of those bright green Firefly figures at the park when I was about 8 in the early mid 90s, that really brings back memories.
"Road Pig?"
The term is "Road Hog."
Hasbro can't even get English slang right.
But Sgt Slaughter WASN’T a military guy. He just pretended to be one and made a fortune by doing so. William Perry is my favorite GI Joe figure of all time but just because he played football at Clemson.
That's how roadpig looked in the cartoon
Man I wanted the fridge so bad. Finally got it.
Jesus, so GI JOE fought in outer space then dinosaurs? I got out of these action figures just in time. 😅
Yup. They were throwing shit against the walls, and hoping something stuck
So, ice cream, i get the idea of creating a codename for a soldier with the opposite specialty but just calling him BBQ would have been much better. Also, if they made, an OP black ops disguised as an ice cream man, THAT would have been dope (like ice cream C4 and cone grenades) and they could make an ice cream truck with secret missiles and guns. Like what kid WOULN'T buy that?! Also, the Bayblade dreidel (Blaydel) is OP. Give that guy a "space laser" and he's all set.
It like they decided GI Joe and Cobra needed neon. At least now the Jurassic world dinosaurs now are scaled to GI Joe Classified.
Speaking of 'Gung Ho' I remember money being tight as a kid so instead of one GI Joe I could get 3 Gung Ho figures for the same price. They were identical to GI Joe in make and I thought had some good figures for a knock-off.
I understand why fisherman bazooka made the list, but the figurine still looks pretty good imo.
In a world where SNOW JOB exists..... you can't put Skidmark on a list like this based only on a name.
Well, we didn't get Big Lob, the basketball gernadear so we got Gridiron the football gernadear. Big Lob made more sense.
There was a baseball ⚾️ Joe too. Short Stop or Foul Ball I think... he had a 12ga shotgun, rotary design.
@@DavidLLambertmobileHardball. His weapon was a 6-shot grenade launcher, as he was the team’s “multi shot grenadier”
What the fuck does an arctic trooper need a machete for anyhow???
The "Artic" Lorenzo Wilkerson Stalker was wierd. White snow outfit, kayak. 🤔
Polar bear attacks
That's a very cool Cobra on the wall.
19:30 Back in the day, I was thinking about getting the GI Joe Dino Hunters and the Jurassic Park dinosaur toys to play with together. I swear this dinosaur was from a dollar store...
I bought the one I had on clearance back in the day for something like $4.98. It's still just the G.I.Joe Desert Fox with Ambush and Low Light and they have great colored accessories. And the blonde hair Low Light in the set makes an an easy swap onto a 1991 Low Light if a person doesn't like that figures blacked out hair.
The dinosaur definitely sucked. That's something that almost every fan or collector might agree on.
Ouch...no one tell this guy about the proposed Rocky Balboa GI Joe figure or Big Lob.
They did end up making big lob no?
@@jessiemartinez3056 They did but not until about 25yrs later.
@@jamesrogers1554 oh ok cool,, was it a nice figure?
It was Big Boa that was supposed to be the foil to Stallone.
21:46 that last one looked like the bad guy from the Centurions but wayyy crappier.
I must be in the minority because when I think of Skid mark I immediately think of a long black mark left on a road surface by the tires of a skidding vehicle.
Never underestimate a Joe fan hearing a term/name and immediately associating it with the most low brow/toilet bowl application of the word.
Hate to think what would happen if there were an operative with the code name “Booby Trap”.
You are definitely in the minority. Haha "Booby Trap" hehehe
Dino Hunters, Mega Marines, & Cobra La. Nuff said!
Flint: Ice cream soldier, you stay here until you think of a better code name!
man i didn't even know about the aliens or dinosaur figures. Course now that transformers is part of the same universe as g i joe it makes more sense. Here's hoping classified can do all these figures.
I had most of these. The green Firefly wasn't too bad, but his weapon did suck, but at that time they were including stupid spring loaded launchers and weird things like this and 92 Destro's dumb disc launcher. And I love G.I. Joe, and I am a football fan, I still never liked Captain Gridiron.
Yes, the destro with disk launcher also sucked
On a different note, I'd like to see your views on Slaughter's Marauders vs the Renegades
The 1990s were certainly the lowest point in the A Real American Hero line, although I did enjoy the commercial for the Ninja Force line with Scarlett delivering such lines as "You're the one who just rolled Snake-Eyes!" and "Tough Break!", and the non-canon Street Fighter II commercial where, apparently, Shadaloo and COBRA have merged into one entity, thus Bison (Vega in Japan) announcing "But COBRA has Street Fighters, too!".
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Ice Cream Soldier looks like he was originally made to be a pilot.
I literally just realized Grid-iron is in Packers colors. Was this a dig at The Fridge? How many midwesterners were on that design team?
The weird thing is his file card lists him as being from a suburb of Chicago.
Hasbro was headquartered in Rhode Island, which is why a disproportionate number of Joes are listed as being from the Northeast.
I think Fridge was just added because he was a popular player at the time. They probably started developing the project after the Bears' 1985 Superbowl win.
I don't like it when a file card does one of two things. The ones that make them out to be "I was born to do this" and the ones that make some personality quirk be their one defining feature dominating everything else. They can be done right, but it's too easy to get it wrong.
How about a file card that says how a Joe joined the military to escape a bad family situation? Or a scientist who Cobra tried to kidnap and worked with the Joe rescue team so well they stayed?
Lol yo! hating on the dino set. It came with a cool green vehicle that went well with Jurassic Park stuff. Haha. Loved that when I was 4. Yeah that t rex felt like a cheap afterthought 😂
Yes, that dinosaur sucks so hard.
It seemed like the issue was that they realized that the brand was dying out. So, they just cranked out things as quickly and simply as possible.
That was the reason the line devolved into sub-teams. It was a way for Hasbro to pivot to selling toys with more popular themes ("ninjas", "Space" "Street Fighter II" etc.) while still capitalizing on the fact that retailers had established a certain amount of space for the GI Joe brand rather than having to fight for retail space with a new line.
@ they fumbled by not coming up with a direct competitor to Power Rangers. They could have made it work. Consider, there existed a Voltron variant in the 80’s that fit 3.75” action figures in the cockpit of the lions.
I'd add the Street Fighter Joes and MK Joes. Though Goro was pretty cool.
And I liked that v2 Firefly. Granted, I was an avid comics reader, and when that fig hit when they revealed Fireflys origins in the comics. Early 90s... I want to say between issues 125 to 135. Cobra was assaulting Destros Castle and it was just a wild story.
The neon green firefly was pretty bad. I bought and then was, WTFreak!!??!
I honestly loved Ice Cream Soldier lol. One of my faves as a kid.
Ha, I'm glad he gets some love
9:47 this gun ho makes the shelf warming marine dress blue look like a cool toy. That wasn’t a bad concept looking back but what kid wanted to play with a guy in a suit?
Maybe 10% of the youth market 🌈 ....
Not gonna lie..I didn't know that Gone Fishing Bazooka was a thing. Until someone on a forum said they wanted it for Classified
You should check out 1987's Chuckles action figure. Did you know '80's Hawaiian shirts were a thing?
@@forumicebreaker Magnum P.I.
After seeing that he sort of resembles an SF soldier with his attire
The big crime was that he didn't come with a fishing pole and tackle box.