G.I. Joe "U.S.S. Flag Aircraft Carrier" - 1986 Commercial
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- Опубліковано 12 бер 2012
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"The U.S.S. Flag is fantastic! It's so big!"
A Real American Hero. "Yo Joe!" - Розваги
This was the greatest toy I never got as a kid.
The Star Wars imperial walker was another for me.
Yep!
You’re not alone there!
..my parents got me everything i ever wanted ..was not into gi joe ..masters of the universe transformers m.a.s.k and Lego
I'd give anything to go back to that time.
Anything
With a shit load of old money
Same, and not just for yhe G.I Joe toys either.
You said it ! 😀
My husband bought it for Christmas for our son, who would soon have gone crazy with joy. I terrine I that it was very very expensive. Now, after almost 40 years, we still have airplanes. Due to many moves, the huge aircraft carrier is unfortunately no longer available.
Holy crap I don't even have enough room for this as a grown up lol
Living in los angeles suburbs eh? ;P
Those were good times, I miss my friends and my mother.
$99.99 was so freaking expensive for a toy back then. I just spent $300 on a freaking learning pad for my 5 yr old 😂
You think that aircraft carrier is expensive, I remember when I was a kid, I bought a Lionel toy train set for $170.
Forget the Flag... I would have killed to have a bedroom that big.
As a grown ass man i still want this toy
You can get it, it's only like $3k
@@prchristle It was $99.00 at Toys R Us when it came out
I BEGGED my parents to get me this as a kid! Instead, I just had to join the Navy for real to get to play with carriers.
A lot of toys ended up being smaller than commercials or magazine ads made them look.
Not this. This was as fucking massive in real life as they portrayed it. SEVEN AND A HALF FEET LONG!
"Where's the admiral?!"
"Not here!"
Go Brandon! LOL
The USS Flagg, Fortress Maximus, The Eternia Play set. They were in that period of the 80's where toy manufacturers just went balls to the wall and built the biggest and most expensive toys in their respective lines! Also worth mentioning the GI Joe Space Shuttle 3 in 1 play set. The box on that thing was about the size of a small refrigerator!
Dont forget the Death Star with the trash compactor basement. That thing was too awesome
They were so detailed too.
What about the sectaurs
Hyve playset
The holy Grail of toys
Pound for pound the greatest Christmas gift for boys age 8-11 of all time
Didn’t have it as a kid, got it as a adult 😎
Ah so you bought flagg expansion for gi joe deck building game? Clever move yet cool and affordable both as price and size
@@cid76 couldn’t say I ever heard of it tbh
Lmao growing up I only knew 1 friend that had that and we were amazed..he had damn near every gi Joe and cobras with the whole spread...airplanes and every thing...great times those days😀😀😀👍👍
I had that as a kid barley fit in the room 😆
0:01 I GOT IT!!! I was the same way with I got mine on Christmas morning. This was my version of the Christmas Story present 🎁
Back in the days when Hasbro drove 80's kids insane with their 7-ft. long G.I. Joe "U.S.S. Flagg" aircraft carrier playset. If your parents bought this for you, you were the happiest kid in town!
Flagg was the best christmas present that year.
Unless it was instead a Christmas visit from Randall Flagg.
So jealous I was never shrunken down so I could run around the USS Flagg and work alongside Flint and Shipwreck.
I had that thing. It was about 5 feet long. We set it up one time in the living room. After that, it sat in the garage in the box. Very sad now that I think of it.
One of my friends had it, but then again his dad was a Hasbro division vice president...
I got one and loved it
The price was so big too !!
I didn’t free up next door to a pharmacists kid. They had the biggest house in the neighborhood. I don’t know if they had room for this 😂
This was the toy I always wanted but no one ever wanted to spend the $100 it cost to get it. Not even for Christmas. The irony being that all the other shit I got probably added up to that. I found a friend that had it though and always went over there to play with it, I mean, him. Still want one damn it.
This colossal 7-ft. long G.I. Joe "U.S.S. Flagg" aircraft carrier playset by Hasbro was a must-have for 80's kids everywhere. Not to mention a financial drain on their parents, considering how expensive the gosh darn thing probably was.
The retail price was $109.99.
my buddy had this thing.
His parents must of been divorced
Mine too
This costed $100 when it released back in the day...the shuttle thing was $120...in today's inflation thats about $200.
Adjusted for inflation, it might be a little more then that actually.
It costed $110, adjusted $230
@@niceguy60 I'd love to pay either one of those prices for it today...
Love their enthusiasm lol.
any kid who had this was a spoiled brat.
Bob Nuheart a spoiled brat with the most awesome fucking toy in the world, yah.
Bob Nuheart not even. these weren't seen as spoiled at all back then. They were actually relatively cheap and don't forget...an average dollhouse at the time that was half this size was 50% more expensive or more
Cost about 250 of current usd. The price range of an average videogame console few years into market.
No, spoiled would be if it actually floats.
ShadowOfDeath24, sounds like you were a spoiled brat. I knew one kid who had it back in the day and he was.
That is HUGE!
A guy was selling this giant today at Disc Replay. Thing is crazy lol. Definitely worth a lot today too.
yo joe
*ONLY A REAL PARENT BOUGHT THIS FOR THEIR KIDS!*
Probably one who would spoil their kids rotten.
Had it. Sat in the box for a long time until I decided to put it together.
when. the commercial doesn't even do it justice...
I had this!
For real?!!! Was it a Christmas gift?!!!
I'm 45 now and I still wish I could have had something like that as a kid in the 80s.
Having been born and raised in Germany, I could only dream of toys like that. For one, obviously "militaristic" toys were forbidden, but also was stuff just way more expensive in Germany than it was in the USA, for whatever reason.
For example, I was shocked to learn as an adult that the "Castle Greyskull" playset from the "Masters of the Universe" toy line apparently cost 25 US Dollars in the States, while it cost something like 150 Deutschmarks (which back then were about 75 to 80 Dollars) in Germany, so 3 times as much.
A play set of the size and seeming quality of this aircraft carrier here would probably have cost near 1000 Deutschlmarks / 500 Dollars in Germany back then, if it would have been sold there.
I was always so flabbergasted and envious when I saw American kid's rooms in movies like "E.T.", "Poltergeist" or "The Goonies" filled to the ceiling with hundreds of action figures, toy planes and other such stuff, while I, despite being from a middle class family, could only afford a few of those things.
I had a Castle Greyskull set, maybe 2 dozen action figures and 3 or 4 vehicles and that was a lot by German standards of the time. My parents really splurged when they got me Greyskull, a "Wind Rider" and my first 4 Masters of the Universe action figures for Christmas in ..... I think it must have been 1983 or so.
That’s interesting. Thanks for sharing. By contrast, with GI Joe, military toys were the main toys we had. (I’m 45 as well) Toy guns were very big with me and my friends, too.
@@cutcreator12b To be honest, I don't even know what exactly was actually banned and what was just not sold because the adults collectively considered it distasteful or something.
I do know that the G.I. Joe toy line didn't exist in Germany because it was considered too militaristic and too "war glorifying", but then again I remember that there were toy tanks and toy fighter aircraft and stuff like that available, but not in the regular toy stores but only traveling toy sellers sold them at county fairs and street parties and the such.
The closest thing to a military themed big and fancy toy line sold in proper shops we got was the "Starcom" toy line, with space tanks and space bombers and the such. That probably was deemed different, science fiction and unrealistic enough to not be problematic.
It wasn't that guns and armed vehicles were a problem in general, they just weren't allowed to be too realistic and be too much like real weapons of war.
Toy lines like "Masters of the Universe", "Marshall Bravestarr" or "MASK" were sold in Germany.
We could buy toy guns and realistic looking water guns, but only those that looked like you could use it to play "cop and robber" or "cowboy and indian", nothing militaristic looking.
Meaning, you could get a toy lever action rifle for your cowboy costume, or a toy musket for your pirate costume or hand pistols to play a cop or gangster, but not a toy AK-47 or something like that.
Also there were no soldier themed costumes for kids, no plastic soldier helmets or anything like that.
You had to buy such stuff during vacations in Italy, Spain or other countries and bring it home with you.
Unfortunately for me my parents only vacationed in Yugoslavia and the cheap, crappy communist east block toys I could buy there always disintegrated after a few days of playing, hehehe.
Funnily enough even real guns were regulated by how much they looked like military guns back then in Germany.
My father was in a shooting club and back then the Heckler & Koch G3 was the main standard rifle of the German army and since he had served as a conscript and as a NCO and was still a reserve soldier, he would have liked to privately own a G3 to not get rusty in its use between reserve training, which happened once or twice a year.
Owning a real G3 wasn't allowed because you couldn't own real war weapons and you couldn't even own rifles that looked like real war weapons, so Heckler & Koch offered a "de-militarized" version of the G3 to customers like my father.
It basically was a semi-auto G3 with all the internal components, the bolt, the recoil spring, the magazine well, the trigger system and so on being identical to the G3, but "the furniture", the outside components were changed so it looked like a sport shooting or hunting rifle, with a one-piece wooden stock and hand guard and all that. That way it was compliant with that silly "how it looks"-law and my father was allowed to own it.
That dumb law was repealed in the late 90s and now German gun enthusiasts are allowed to own AR-15s and the such too.
One of the rare cases where gun restrictions were actually lifted again and the law got more liberal and less nanny state.
The Holy Grail of G.I.Joe toys.
Imagine if you had this on water
Flag swag
YO JOE!💥😯👏🏿👏🏿😁👍🏿
Some cgi here looks better then modern movies now ..
Shipwreck looks very indifferent about all this at 0:22
Since Shipwreck was inspired by Jack Nicholson’s character from The Last Detail, it’s just as well! LOL
This could not fit in my table lol
HOLY HELL
They were 200 hundred dollars.
that toy is the hardest piece of shit i had ever put together
budroe95 just built mine today, took 1 hour with ugly bad condition instructions. most of that was figuring it out because I bought it off Craigslist complete for $90
If Parents were onto it like in the add with those five kids they would have gone 1/4.5 for the token kid on the price for four kids. Then the kids would take turns having it at their house for the week. Then the kids and families would end up hating each other over who's the real owner of this fine ass carrier
Unfortunately I never had the flag. I had a friend that had one but he wouldn’t let me anywhere near it my only hope is that one day there will be a re-issue of this rad toy with the original box art!
Funny, I thought friends were supposed to share.
I was 16, so I was a bit past this moment in time and I had a girlfriend but if I could go back I would
le seul qui me manquait dans ma collection, mes parents n ont jamais voulu me l acheter,, trop grand et trop cher :)
Shipwreck!!
They don’t make toys like they used to
Obviously designed for American households. Only in the 80's "let's go bigger and crazier" era could someone walk to the company's board meeting, mention this idea and have it approved lol.
This is Exhibit 5,372 of why the 80s were the greatest decade ever.
Am I crazy or is the announcer on this ad Stan "The Man" Lee?
Most kids I grew up with lived in homes that were barely larger than a double wide trailer. Parents would never buy this for two reasons: too expensive and it took up waaaaay too much room
I was born in the wrong generation
Please Haslab, Make this.
The sailor with the parrot looks like he should be in the village people
Shipwreck is said to be inspired by Jack Nicholson’s character from the 1973 Hal Ashby drama The Last Detail.
It’s funny how characters from shows marketed towards the kids have references aimed at their adult parents. The muppet Rizzo the Rat is another example; he was inspired by Dustin Hoffman’s Ratso Ritzo from 1969’s Midnight Cowboy (a film that was originally received an X Rating).
..........did it float?
Considering how much it costs on ebay the thing better be RC'd as well.
No it sunk like a stone
Is that you, Pennywise?
Creepy!
I had the plane lol! How much was the aircraft carrier brand new in 1985?
It retailed for $109.99.
@@ScottRoberts then right now either loose or brand new for this year are hundreds to thousands of dollars online
Is that Stan Lee?
Loved the token black kid
Now thats a fuckin toy...muricah.
I had to pretend I had toys when I was a kid
When i was 12 i built a 2.7m uss enterprise (cvn 65) model out of cardboard for my lego jets
Just gone one. It is the cheapest piece of crap ever built. The bottom is just open space held up with 4 pieces of plastic.
This is nothing, I got the G.I Joe "European Theatre of War" set. It came in 846 shipping crates and was the size of four football fields when completely set up.