Dragon*Con 2017 G.I. Joe Neon is Half the Battle RetroBlasting Panel
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2017
- YES I KNOW! THE BATTLE BALL WAS IN ONE OTHER ISSUE OF G.I. JOE. YEAH, I FORGOT. I GUESS THAT'S ENOUGH LEAVE TO GRAB YOUR PITCHFORKS. SUE ME.
RetroBlasting is back at Dragon*Con 2017 with the American Sci-Fi Classics Track trying to figure out how G.I. Joe jumped the SHARC in 1987! Knowing is half the panel, and neon is the other half!
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I think that might have just been the sweetest way to end a panel I’ve ever seen. Shout out to all the parents and grandparents who not only put up with our at times silly demands but actually went out of their way to meet said demands when they could. I salute you noble toy hunters.
I remember the Duke character was a coupon/send away for figure. One needed a proof of purchase or a coupon to get one, and I had neither. My Mom saved the day. She threw $5 bucks in an envelope along with a note saying send Duke. The figure arrived in the mail on Halloween. I think it was 1982 or 1983, but I’m not 100% on the year. Good times.
OMG!! They even had Hector Garrido paint Owen King's likeness as Sneak Peak card art!!! What the flying @**K!!!
Touching story about your Mom. Excellent panel as always you guys!
I remember my stepmom Alicia when I asked her hey how about this? I pointed out the USS Flagg at Toys R Us, she looked at it for a solid two minutes, Nope! Well I had most of the 84-85 line up that I opened up on Xmas that year so I cannot complain 😁
You might consider yourself a bit fortunate. My brother got the Flagg for Christmas, and I had to spend two days putting that together, plus all the stickers. And I could only put it down in the basement. While, yes, we were already, as far as G.I. Joe was concerned, the coolest kids in our neighborhood, and the Flagg put us over the top, you might say, but we couldn't really play with it the way we wanted to. We couldn't set it up in the living room. Our bedrooms were too small. And though we did take it outside, it was a pain. The Cobra Terrordrome and the G.I. Joe Mobile Command Center, and the other Headquarters, were much easier to take along with us and set up. Big isn't always better. As cool as the Flagg was, it had very limited play value. Basically, all we mainly used it for was a place to store most of our vehicles.
The Defiant, IMO the greatest playset ever....Also proud to say I still have most of my original figures in my coll. still./
This was fantastic and you got some great reactions, the room exploded over the Chuckles section. I'm so proud and pleased for you two!!! Love and support as always.
+Matt Leuty thanks Matt!
My son liked the action figures we gave him for Christmas, such as Outback, Clutch, Breaker, and Snow Job. They reminded him of the 1970's G.I.Joe dolls.
You have to be a Chicago Bears fan to get the Fridge, we were still riding high on Bears Superbowl win.
Sci-Fi was my favorite Joe! :)
I was 9 years old and got it at a Canadian Airforce Base's toy shop in Lahr, Germany.
G.I.Joe wasn't a big hit in Germany at that time and you only found a handful figures and vehicles in german toy shops, but that canadian toy shop had everything.
We had canadian GIs living in our house back then and they sometimes took us kids shopping with them (The base entrance was o.c. guarded by military police and you could only get in as guests of an airforce member).
I'll never forget when I first set foot into that toy shop, everything was so overwhelming, I blacked out for a few seconds before the light came back and I was in heaven :D
Based on looks alone I think the Cobra Raven is a mixture of design elements from both the SR-71 and the Firefox... and that's a good thing!
@@ru4skuba The toy was released in 1986 and the film Firefox was released in 1982.... So yes, it could have been inspired by the Firefox too.
And knowing too much ruined the battle.
The Vector jet also looks strikingly similar to the Star Bird from Milton Bradley. Both have a white hull, a brightly colored canopy, detachable laser turret on the back, and dark wingtips. Hasbro seems to have done a mashup of the two off-brand spacecraft.
You didn't mention Tunnel Rat. He was a good 87 figure, and he was based on Larry Hama.
I had that one! With the rucksack and removable, angled military flashlights. I loved it. Falcon and Beachhead were my other favorite military looking ones, too.
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Ya there are so many joes! And as a ww2 buff how did you just say soldiers don’t take the time to paint their vehicles?
Awesome! Loved the whole thing! Have to admit that I loved the comics more than the cartoon, but the cartoon got me into the toys.
Excellent presentation guys! Thank you 👍
Great work guys! I like Serpentor! Why? I love history so the fact he is a combination of several historical figures was great.
Thor13332 He makes perfect sense when you figure that the competent people in Cobra command would eventually get tired of taking orders from that moron Cobra Commander.
It's included with the GI Joe ARAH second season, first five episodes.. It was released a few years ago I believe. I just looked and there is a individual copy on ebay without the rest of the season.
That's true. He was a sober competent leader in the comics. Not at all like the over the top version in the toon.
In the comics Serpentor is actually quite interesting. The concept behind him is awesome, but the look of the figure is off and kind of anachronistic. He actually looks like an ancient Aztec warrior of sorts...
another awesome panel. many thanks for putting this together.
New to the channel and absolutely love your stuff ! Thanks for being real with a great sense of humor !
Ice Cream Soldier? Thank you! I'm going to win so many bets with that one. BTW, very informative panel.
My Joe days ended during 1986, but your presentation caught me up on the zany stuff I passed into my late teens blissfully unaware of.
I liked the Sci-Fi figure, mostly because I'm a sci-fi geek. Having said that, the toy line did...um...evolve in a crazy way. Joe versus aliens was what finally caused me to check out.
Loved this thanks guys!
You guys are awesome and you know your history, keep up the good work
Damn this was awesome! Thank you so much for this, I appreciate it.
Awesome presentation! Loved it.
Amazing & Informative Video. Thank you so much!
Guys you did a great job, thanks for all your hard work!! Really enjoyed the forum...
Thanks dawg.
I never collected GI Joe, it just wasn't my thing as a kid. However you guys actually made me feel like I truly missed out on something grand. Thanks for posting these amazing panels for those of us who not only missed out on some amazing toys, but also couldn't get to Dragon Con.
I believe I was in fourth grade the year of mutt and junkyard, spirit iron knife, firefly, storm shadow etc were released. There was a red headed kid named Sean in our class whose father owned a construction company and was building in nearby Albany (capital of NY, and area with two very large malls right near each other as well as toys r us and Kay bee) and it seemed every couple of days, Sean was bringing in the newest had to have figure. In my area the mutt junkyard combo was a really big find for awhile for that release year. My parents would usually wait till Christmas and my birthday and bombard me with joes, which was great but new joes were like new I phones, when the new ones were released, you had to have them yesterday! My dad would always find them for me, great father, like your mom, trying to have the best for their child even if it was not family budget friendly (within reason, I never owned the Flagg or the shuttle.) thanks for the trip down memory lane. Oh and the biggest travesty of that kid Sean having the newest joes? He did not really care about them. He was in love with football and soccer and they were just bragging point for him.
Ugh! That was like my "friend" Philip - a sports kid who had everything, including the Flagg, but didn't care about any of it.
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Yeah... Screw Sean and Philip !!!
Those 2 Malls were Crossgates, and Colonie Center Mall. Both had the BEST KayBee stores, as well as Toys R Us across the street from Colonie Center. I didnt know that dip shit Sean however I knew many "Other Seans" believe me.
@Dan the Man, yep, you are correct, those were the malls, and they surprisingly still exist today. I live about a hundred miles west in CNY now, and Utica had lost one of its 90’s malls (only Sangertown remains) and Syracuse has Destiny Mall which used to be Carousel Mall. Now that the Toys R Us in New Hartford is gone there are no real toy stores in the whole area. I used to live southeast of Albany back in the day, would be about a 30 minute trip to Crossgates back then. Surprisingly I found a bunch of new figures in the local Rite Aid back then. They were $2.99. And they always had a bunch on the pegs
This was so awesome (as always)!!! I remember as a kid when all the Cobra-la stuff came out and thinking...welp..I guess I dont like toys anymore if they are like this lololol
You summarized it so well. 1987 is the year that I stopped cold turkey buying G.I.Joe's. I saw these weird vehicles/figures and said. That has nothing to do with REAL military hardware. I just lost complete interest on what it has become. I started buying old G.I.Joe toys from Garage sales, flea markets and toy shows. I remember my dad telling me. Why do you get new ones? I just don't like them. He thought it was because I wanted to save money.
I feel the same way about Cobra LA.
I loved this!! excellent in every way
Another great panel. Interesting Chuckles and Snake Eyes conspiracy. I am from Tennessee and Breaker was my first Joe(still have the stiff arm) Breaker was from Gattlinburg and I am from East Tennessee. I never knew that Fast Draw was a Tennessean as well. Gotta find one now. Thank you Two. Awesome as usual.
i love these videos!
Terrific panel. Thanks for sharing.
The HAVOC and STUN were from 1986.
Excellent presentation and history of our beloved action heroes!
And there I always believed that I was the only one who thought Sci-Fi looked like Robocop!
I like the Con Panels best! Would love it if you guys did a video on the X-Men toys from the early 90s. Most of them are easy to get your hands on at a cheap price.
I had the Sci-fi figure when I was a kid. I retconned him into a ninja from the future.
Great panel! I loved Golobulos though. As a kid, I gave no shits for anything but immediate satisfaction and coolability. For me, Golobulos was cool enough to hang around my Boba Fett, Horenetoid, and be used as a make shift whip sword.
Good stuff! I mostly share the feelings in this video to a tee! Sometime not long after '86 was when I quit.
You know, Retroblasting is my top YT channel. Even topics that don't really interest me are presented in a very informative, entertaining and in-depth way that is fun to watch. And it's nice to learn about things that were not on my radar, it widens the horizon which is always a good thing.
Five years later and this is still the best panel of all time, in my opinion. Hilarious and full of insight from start to finish. I personally refuse to have Sci-Fi in my collection (otherwise I have a complete 82-87 figure collection, minus sub teams, which I don't care for either).
Incidentally, I quite like Serpentor. Larry Hama made him a compelling character in the comic; a formidable foe for the Joes as well as Cobra Commander himself. The figure is ghastly though, and he tended to die in battle a lot in my childhood bedroom.
Great video... I was that kid that hated military toys and loved scifi, but these changes came way too late to snag me. I actually loved the post 87 era stuff as it was rather cool and imaginative, but without the cartoon to back it up kids just didn't care.
20:07..." Chuckles the Movie " One of my favorite Joe's. If not my favorite. And I agree with your theory (Chuckles being Snake Eyes) as this theory makes both Chuckles all the more cooler. In the Cartoon Chuckles speaks, but the G.I. Joe Cartoon is not the mythology for the Toys. That " Chuckles the Movie " clip was great!
Simply great!
Yes, I agree. After Serpentor it went down hill from there. G.I. Joe RIP 1982 - 1986
Hey, they used giant Buzz Board in the Avengers: Infinity War movie! As soon as they pop up, I thought "It's the Cobra Roto-Tiller!"
Outstanding! Gotta get you two to RI Comic Con .
That was awesome!!
Micheals mom is awesome! I love this channel!
I like when RB covers GI Joe. My favorite toy line/ comic book from the 80's!
What a great video! Watched all 40 minutes of it. This was a lot of fun to watch. :)
i owned the GI joe aircraft carrier when I was a child
and he is right - I mostly used it as a table...
I got Crazy Legs just for the cool parachute harness. I never really played with the figure, but I strapped that 'chute on all the Joes that I actually dug, along with Ripcord's oxygen mask.
That harness is amazing for sure.
Neon Copperhead came befoer Sci-Fi
"Watch out GI Joe, I'm gonna get you with my alligator farm."
Besides the reasons you state, another reason to create small 3 3/4" was the prices of oil that for those times were prohibitive to create larger action figures. I enjoyed the lecture, thank you.
About Sci-fi, we thought we wasn't a G.IJoe figure when we first saw him. We thought he was GREEN TWO of the Super Sentai Team called BIOMAN. :)
I feel blessed that I was on my way to college by the the time Joe began fighting dinosaurs and aliens!
I usually just watched your reviews and restorations, never realized how entertaining and informative these panels were! Will watch them all, great content!
A lot of good info in this one, Loved the ending.
Thanks Matrix
One of my Birthdays I got the whole collection of Battle Force 2000 Vehicles. :)
My greatest lament with GI Joe was their jumping the shark and going all sci-fi instead of sticking with military realism. The Chuckles/Snake-Eyes theory is now head canon for me though. Fun fact: Ice Cream Soldier was also the name of one of Sgt. Rock's Easy Company soldiers from DC comics!
1986 When GI Joe became more articulated Adventure People.
I always liked those early 90's GI joes. I liked the crazy over the topness.
They even made a Matt Tracker figure from MASK part of the G.I. Joe toyline.
Which is kinda fitting, since it borders on the idea of MASK and VENOM being part of a shared universe with G.I.Joe and Transformers.
Good panel, but I was kind of hoping that you would have mentioned the Agent Tracker figure, which some say connected GIJoe with MASK. Also wished the cameraman would have gotten a shot of Snakeyes. But still a good panel, keep it up.
Timothy Ward perhaps, but as it tied into another popular toy line, from another company to boot, I though it was at least a mention.
I'm happy & amazed they too noticed the Casino Royale/Chuckles cross-over. Instead of CIA, Chuck was MI-6.
I did like Battle Armor Cobra Commander, always seen him fight right alongside his troops. Instead of sitting back somewhere and yelling retreat!
Despite the rest of the line that year, the bats android trooper was a cool toy.
Crystal Ball: When Dennis DeYoung joined COBRA after Styx broke up.
HA! When I asked for the USS Flagg for Christmas in '85, my dad actually told me I was "out of my mind".
Techno Viper was one of my favorite GI-Joe figures. I thought he was just totally awesome looking. I also really liked Hit & Run, Repeater, snake eyes, and storm shadow.
So there was an '86 Falcon and an 87 Falcon? I loved the 87 lineup! I also loved Cobra-la and Serpentor and Scoop! What can I say? I'm a rebel. or, I'm insane. The answer is pending.
Such a great duo. Would love to buy the both of 'em a pint someday. Thanks for being, you two!
That was a great history lesson down the darkside of the line I didn't know happened.
I absolutely love that your mom was there!
I couldn't help notice the similarly of the Cobra pogo ballistic ball and the Capsule Corp time machine from Dragonball Z, could Dr.Briefs be secretly working for Cobra? Love the show and thank you for preserving our childhood.
I love Serpentor in the comic books...he was created in a real kewl way and Dr mindbender was kewl in the comic book also but in the cartoon over the top
The Alley Vipers colouration has a purpose, believe it or not. Being in a city landscape, gi joe would have lits of apartments and rooms to bunker into, so it was the alley vipers job to ambush joes rushing out of the doors. in the heat of the moment, the joes would only see an ocean of orange and blue rushing out in those first few moment, so the orange and blue was used so that the joes couldn't target his vital areas. thats also why they have those helmets that covered their whole face.
"So now you know..."
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Always liked the color scheme of the Spy Troops Alley Viper.
Great panel as always, very professional and enjoyable to watch. Hope to see you guys live someday, if not in the UK then on a trip to the States. Keep up the great work.
You ate spot on about what brought the franchise down. 88 had a decent figure drop with the night viper, alley viper, the cobra ninja troop builder and good guy storm shadow.
Christmas 1990 my dad bought me my final Joe batch. I got some kind of gi joe vehicle base thing but after putting it together it just sat there. I was 13 by this time and I cared way more about death metal than I did about toys. I caught some flak from friends for even having the thing.
I didn't own toys again until 1997 when I started collecting Star Wars Action Fleet. Unfortunately, in 2013 I had to sell my toy collection because of financial problems.
I think the conquest was based off of the Russian S-32/SU-47 concept/fighter, not so much the American X-29.
Ya that’s why any time I seen certain characters I would buy them every time
Love your show thanks .
Replayed the 'Chuckles Movie' segment many times. Great editing! Had to go back and watch your prior Chuckles vid again. Good job M&M. Thanks for posting these for us that haven't been lucky enough to see you live yet.
Thanks for being a part of this with us, Matthew!
The addition of....neon weapons.....was the beginning of the end for this line .The true end was when hasbro stopped taking weapons off their molding sprue .
The motivation may have been different but the Joes' transition from a straightforward military toy into a more generic "adventure" toy mirrors what happened to their foot-tall ancestor towards the end of the Viet Nam War.
Great panel. I had no idea that characters like "Serpentor" and "Cobra-La" weren't really that popular with fans, well they were probably popular with cartoon fans, but probably not fans of the comics. I had at one point the "Marine Gung-Ho" figure when I was a kid, but I mostly saw it as a figure of the main character from the show "Major Dad". I also had no idea that Stephen King and his son contributed to the "G.I. Joe" toyline, but the idea of the Magician was pretty silly for a military themed toyline, that'd be like making a figure of Merlin from "Excalibur" and having him fight alongside the Joes. Also...Ice Cream Soldier, just why?!
Interesting note, the character of "Raptor Man" (the guy with the wings that wasn't "Nemesis Enforcer" from the movie) and that buzzsaw pod thing were featured in the NES "G.I. Joe" video game.
Aw what a perfect way to end the panel :D
This was 40 minutes long, but I enjoyed it so much that it felt like 10! Watched the whole video and agreed with every single point you guys made! Keep up the amazing work!
Really funny moment in this video (4:48) when Michael and Melinda both say "That's 1980's money." Ha Ha!
Had Supertrooper. Also the Battle Ball. Some of the modular base. Gold Destro. Also some of the rerelease vehicles.
Hey Mike and Melinda? Has Retroblasting considered doing a video about the Fisher-Price ADVENTURE PEOPLE? Would love to get your insights on that beloved line of toys!
Cobra commanders reaction to raptor in the comics is the perfect reaction
I loved Krazy Legs, I can almost remember the day I got him, also got the ice cream soldier
All this talk about the Joes going to space, meanwhile...
Action Man circa 1983: *laughs in Space Force*
Are you guys gonna be at Joe Con doing a presentation? I'm trying to go..that would be awesome.