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1987 GI Joe Defiant Playset | Retro Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ย. 2017
- Dan takes a look back at 1987's GI Joe Defiant playset.
It's big and beefy and weighs a ton with lots of different play spaces and vehicles that detach.
GI Joe had to do something to follow up the USS Flagg and the Cobra Terror Drome and The GI Joe Defiant is what they came up with.
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Max headroom incident reference? We really are getting retro!
Thank Producer Greg. I didn't even know it was a thing until I saw this video.
Toy Galaxy he created a masterpiece for all the newspaper nerds!
I was taking a swig of coffee when the second one popped up. Damn you. Damn you all. Mostly Producer Greg though.
Akutomi - this was actually a clip from a t.v channel that was hacked back then and still unsolved who did it.
For a second I thought it was just me...
My parents were "defiant" in that they flatly said NO WAY when I asked for this for Christmas. The tears permanently discolored my cheeks, and broke the fragile hinges to my heart leaving me unable to ever open up and truly love, so I feel I managed to capture some of the experience of ownership.
As long as you have come to terms with it.
Love this video, largest playset I had when I was a kid was the G.I. Joe Terrordrome still have it, but the one I really wanted was a Fort Max, finally remedied that a few years ago with the Encore reissue, it's everything I thought it would be way back when, awesomeness. Thanks Takara!
I’m so glad you brought this segment back, it’s an absolute favorite.
Largest play set I own was Cap Power and S. F. Mountain base, was not as fancy but it was the first toys I bought on my own after working my first summer job 😁
You had that beast? Lucky sucker. I only ever saw it in pictures. John and the rest of the Soldiers of the Future had to make due with my old Castle Grayskull, which by then had been used by not only He-Man but the Autobots as a home base as well. Hand me down H.Q. LOL
The segment was never really GONE per se... just had other things to do ahead of it.
Logan Cracraft yeah man, I really miss that beast
Would you believe me if I told you I have three Captain Power PowerBases? Because I do. I kind of went overboard with my Captain Power collection. Maybe I don't need 9 Power On Energizers. But I think I do need 9 in case I lose 8.
@@RWhettstone do you have a channel.
I remember seeing the tag for this at a Toys R Us and being in awe. I did have the reissued Crusader which saw much playtime. I need to look into restoring it though as it is no longer complete
1986 was the last year that I played with toys. I got all the gi joes including the Flagg, Terror drome etc. all the star wars , transformers, he man, castle grayskull, mask, shogun warriors, clash of the titans, matchbox etc. all that shit but this was the one that I should have bought. i remember seeing it in the store and was blown away but I was too old to play with toys and moved on. oh well.
When I saw the Max Headroom break in, I laughed so hard I choked on my own spit. I grew up in Chicago, and was watching Dr. Who when that happed.
I too was the proud owner of the GI Joe Headquarters (1992) and had that shuttle repaint the Crusader (1989)
Love the retro review segment! My biggest play set was the TMNT technodrome.
Okay, the Max Headroom bits LEGIT creeped me out.
Good god dan those max headroom intervals were exactly as terrifying as you intended them to be
That's all Producer Greg. I didn't even know the Max Headroom intrusion was a thing until yesterday.
Very clever insert of the pirate TV takeover ;-)
Wow, the Max Hedroom interruption... deep cut!
I miss my G I joe action figures. Oh man miss my childhood.
tactical battle platform, killer W.H.A.L.E., and G.I. Joe headqurter were my biggest playset/vehicles. loved the max headrom referance
I'll never forget when I seen the Max Headroom pirate when I was watching the WGN news.
Really? Holy cow. It creeps me out and I didn't even know it was a thing until today.
Toy Galaxy it creeped me out as a kid.
I was one of the "lucky" kids to get a FLAGG for Christmas...and to this day I regret ever getting it. I still have it with the box. I'm not even sure why my parents got it for me. Between the two of them they made about 12,000 dollars that year. Probably helped that my Dad was huge into toys and made me keep most of the boxes and crap that came with them.
Wow. Thanks mom and dad.
The biggest I had growing up was probably Tracey Island from the Thunder Birds, complete with all the hidden compartments for you to hide the Thunderbirds in before takeoff. More recently though I bought the new Titans Return Fortress Maximus. That thing is huge.
How old is that Tracey Island? What year?
The '90s one I believe. If memory serves, I got it in a garage sale as a kid, back when those were still a thing. There weren't any actual Thunderbirds with it, so I had to buy them all myself (or more accurately, my mum did when I dragged her along to the toy shop). As a result, not all of them quite fit in their little compartments as they weren't the ones the playset was designed for. From memory, the pool couldn't close over the Thunderbird 1 I had, but with a little imagination, I didn't care.
I've still got it tucked away somewhere. I don't think it's worth heaps, but it's a nice thing to have.
Nice!
My lil brother got this for Christmas one year. It was awesome!
I had this as a kid. I woke up one xmas morning to it. One of the best things I owned. A few years back at a flea market i had the chance to buy one for 200 bucks.... wasn't collecting Joes again at that point. Now thinking about it just makes me sad.
There's so many pieces. So many fragile pieces. So many white parts that discolor.
I bumped into this TH-cam channel about 2 months ago and have seen most of the videos already. I really like the show and look forward to the newest episode all the time. Keep
up the good work!
Excellent. Thanks! Glad to have you aboard.
I'm not a GI Joe fan but you guys make this thing look so cool that I still want one.
Oh man it's so big. I don't know if you really know what you're getting into.
Maybe I can live in it, since I'm probably gonna have to sell my apartment to afford it.
The biggest playset I had as a kid was the TMNT Sewer Playset. As an adult collector I have both the Flagg and Defiant.
Do you keep them in the same room? They're huge.
Great video! The largest set I owned as a kid was Transformers Fortress Maximus.
That was big. Especially for TFs.
I was also lucky enough to get Metroplex, Trypticon and Scorponok but FM was easily my favorite!
The largest one I had was a cobra tank that had a detachable submarine? I don't remember what it was called, but it was huge and it was the last joe vehicle I got before I grew out of it entirely. It was retired in the same way I retired all of my vehicles once I destroyed them enough to become unplayable. With fireworks. Yup, I did my part to make other people's toys more rare and valuable. I completely destroyed mine.
I don't know which was biggest, but my brothers and I had the Gobot walking command center, Yoda's hut, Castle Grayskull, and the giant snake vehicle thing from Starriors... As an adult, I bought the DotM Cyberverse Ark.
Biggest play set I own is the USS Flagg. That’s a recent acquisition however I do still have my Defiant I received for Christmas in 1987. I have just gotten the few missing parts and repaired the broken ones. I spent 3 hours last night just cleaning the stripped down gantry crawler. Tonight I will start reassembling after dinner. That’s the scary part. I also have my childhood General complete. If I don’t come to my senses soon I will be on the hunt for a Terror Drome in the near future…fingers crossed for either outcome lol.
Biggest playset I had was the Incredible Crash Dummies Crash Test Center. Despite it's simple design (it was just a plastic base with some walls and spots to add different obstacles) it was a lot of fun and surprisingly durable. I think we tossed it or gave it away during a move. I almost wish I still had it but it was barely holding together after years of brutal testing. Good times.
Simple design is where it's at with those larger playsets. The Flagg is just a big plastic table.
I may have mentioned this in one of the other videos, but my brother and I bought this from the JC Penny catalog in '87 when we were kids. Everything in this video is so spot on. It weighed a TON. You could never really roll it anywhere, cause those wheels would snap right off. And it was definitely a two kid mission to crank it up to get it into launch position. We actually still have it, sitting in the basement of my house. Sadly not in the greatest condition, but man, that thing was the best playset ever.
It's something that I wasn't able to get until I was an adult so I don't have any connection to it from growing up. I can tell you that I would have lived in this thing if I had owned it when I was 10.
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God I loved that Law v3. I was a sucker for the 90s line.
It is not necessarily a bad figure, I just don't know why it's LAW.
Largest play set I owned was actually the Defiant... yea. It was a hand-me-down from my older cousin. I no longer have it anymore but I gotta tell you guys, it was a sick playset to own at the time.
I probably would have lived in it if I had owned it as a kid.
I've only seen one of these toys never had the chance to play around with the thing I do own my castle grayskull tho. Thank you guys for making this video.
If the GI Joe RAH line had continued strong after '87...I wonder what crazy vehicle/playset they would have done next...maybe a Cobra asteroid base.
Whatever that Cobra Helicarrier thing was would have been cool. The one that crashed into the Flagg.
@@SecretGalaxyTV yeah that would be damn cool....Kickstarter or Hasbro Custom Lab?
I got this for Christmas on 87 from my Dad.
You delivered what you promised Mr Larson. Fantastic video.
Thank you Mr. Alfaro.
I had all the big Joe playsets except the Flagg. Loved the Defiant complex and although it was cumbersome and awkward to move around the house, I managed at 10 y/o. Just don't rely on it's handle to pick it up. It was especially nice that the whole Shuttle and booster were completely finished and not hollow plastic for the undersides. Of the biggest sets, I still preferred the Terror Drome to the Defiant.
I don't know which I would have preferred as a kid. I think I like the Defiant overall more... but that opening dome for the Firebat is magical.
The largest toy playset I ever owned was Castle Grayskull.
Yes! Same it holds a special place in my heart as well as some other figures
Superb video as always! I never got into GI Joes oddly? Watching your videos makes me greatly regret that!
Start with something smaller than the Defiant. Ease into it.
I can only imagine that watching this video with no knowledge of the Max Headroom incident must be incredibly unnerving.
Joe is the greatest toy line ever.
Love how there is always a bobba fett.
great video guys
I was fortunate enough to have three playsets as a kid: Snake Mountain, Ewok Village, and the Imperial Shuttle. Not sure which one was the biggest. Pretty sure they are all still in my parents’ basement somewhere.
Of those 3 the shuttle is definitely the largest in terms of surface area. But if you took off that tail and the wings... there's not much going on. Ewok VIllage and Snake Mt had more play value.
this is awesome. but the largest playset I ever owned was the 1983 GIjoe headquarters. I actually was only 1 years old when it came out. but in the late 1980's me and my dad were at a garage sale and I saw this guy have every Gijoe made.. so I asked him to get me the headquarters for my birthday. I played it a lot until I finally broke it and tossed it out.
Castle Greyskull was my biggest playset growing up.
Loved it. My cat would lay in the jaw bridge. I have a picture of that somewhere...
I saw this as a kid at a yard sale for $20, probably around 1990. I wanted it so bad, but my mom wouldn't buy it.
I made sure to show her recently how much one sells for today.
I wanted that G I Joe space shuttle when I was a kid back in the 80's but naver got it.
Hey! That's not a space BOAT, it's a space TRUCK...even if it does look uncomfortably like the Decepticon, Scourge...which I noticed even as a kid. And when you have the bay doors open, and the shuttle/launcher sitting upright, it sooooo reminds me of the Sean Connery sci-fi movie Outland...ah, good times... Annnd my biggest playset, was the Death Star
I never picked up on the Scourge resemblance. Now I can't not see it.
Great stuff.
Not sure what was more invasive in this episode. The Max Headroom hack or all them damn Bobas on a Joe playset. Which also led me to wonder, have you ever decorated your Christmas tree with just the Boba Sett?
Not just Fett, no. Action figures, yes.
X-Men Blackbird, Batman Forever Wayne Manor and Mumm-Ra's Tomb were the only really big playsets I owned as a kid. I also remember we only had the front half of Castle Greyskull for some reason and a legless AT-AT.
Max Headroom was a nice touch.
Great video. Epic vehicle
Since I might be one of the few classic Doctor WHO fans here (just a guess, awesome if I'm wrong), I can tell you the Max Headroom incident occurred during a broadcast of Horror of Fang Rock, an episode from Tom Baker's run as the Doctor.
You're definitely not the only one. In fact, there's other folks here in the comments that were watching when it happened.
Love it! Great review!
Thanks!
Cleverest episode yet.
And I thought Manta Force was where it was at! Largest playset I ever owned was Greyskull. Always wanted Cat's Lair, but my parents said not a chance - and got a Thundertank instead, and as a result had to deal with several homeless Thundercats...
Those are the moments where you had to come up with "on the road" scenarios for the figures. Reasons they didn't have a base. Alternate places where they could crash for the night.
Was that the original clip of the signal high-jacking Max Headroom? Because that has to be the cleanest version I've seen yet.
Also, hysterical. I was actually watching Channel 11 when they did that.
Producer Greg doesn't mess around with his source material.
Growing up we had the ghostbuster house but I was probably more enamored with the X-men black bird and sentinel.
It's a perfect creation in this form and all other forms like in the appearance of the comics and the toy commercials.
Such a beast of a toy! I wonder how much it was new back in the day....
Never mind, you mentioned the price. lol
This would make a perfect Haslab.
I owned the Defiant as a kid. The box was larger than me (at the time).
You might still fit.
If we ever see an updated defiant playset it wll be a $700 haslab project
Awesome review, but I do wonder what the heck is The Headman doing in space with the Joes. Perhaps he is "helping" them fly real "high" up into the sky, or maybe assisting them with "lighting up" their engines.........yes I know those were some bad puns.
As for the Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion, it is too bad you didn't post this video on the 22nd, which would have been the 30th anniversary of the incident. I just looked it up because I kind of remember hearing about it back in 1987, and I noticed the date that it happened.
We JUST missed the anniversary. So close.
Found the launch pad from this set sitting next to a dumpster in 91 i was 11 and it almost killed me as i carried this up the stairs to my apartment it stayed on our balcony where i would play with it for hours i had a collection of bootleg Joes from the 99 cent store and a string raced i got for Christmas but for 2 years i faithfully played with this until that day when we had to move and i left it behind next to dumpster from whence it had come
Nice retro review!! I wonder how many people r remember Max Hedroom?? I owned a Hive as a kid, that thing was huge!! I was pretty spoiled...
Woul love a new sturdy version
I wanted that G I Joe space shuttle when I was a kid back in the 80's but naver got it.
Greyskull or Snake Mountain or The Voltorn Castle.
I remember seeing this the aircraft carrier and terrordrome in the BEST catalog and wishing I could sell off some siblings for them... those were the days.
LOL @ the Chicago Max Headroom hack! What the what, dude?!? :)
I'm pleasantly surprised with how many seemed to know what that was. I had no idea when I watched the video. Producer Greg had to send me the wiki link.
My biggest childhood toy was either the Joe Mobile Command Center, or my Shogun Warriors Godzilla.
Shogun Warriors are in a class of their own. HUGENESS.
I had one. Unboxed, assembled and moved across my room, alone! I was 11
woah that is one f***ing huge toy...would like to own one of those...sadly u dont get those kind of toys today
I was just looking at a 3 foot tall Hot Wheels parking garage at the store. Pretty cool... but not even close to this beast.
Epic video just like the toy!
Keep it up Dan
I didn’t even know this thing existed
My biggest playset as a kid were a stack of Books, that can be anything, from a maze that G.I.Joes and Transformers have to walk thru or a building the the Ghostbusters have to climb to get the Stay Puff Marshmallow man. :D
I was expecting to see more Boba Fetts in the video, by the way.
That's a great play set structure. I spent a lot of time on a set of bookshelves in my grandparents house that was floor to ceiling and about 8 feet long. Alpine was in charge most of the time.
I know this is an old video but I’ll still leave a comment lol.
I was young when these toys came out so I’m going off the scale of my younger self. My largest would be G.I. Joe’s the Cobra Mamba, Zoids electronic battlesauris, or The board game Hero’s Quest. Wish I owned all three still :-(.
great video so cool
Thanks!
largest play set was probably G1 Omega Supreme transformer (still have it no box though) Largest toy from physical dimensions was the Imperial shuttle from Return of the Jedi. with the wings unfolded it was larger than I was.
I remember seeing the Imperil Shuttle box at a store and thinking "yeah they're not getting that for me."
Star Wars Death Star (4 stories high!) & the Sears exclusive one! I also had the G.I.JOE Headquarters.
Only large G.I. JOE playset I would buy if it came back with updated sturdier parts.
Snake Mountain (which I still have), Kenner's Death Star and Millenium Falcon (which my parents made me give away; boo!), and the G.I.Joe Thunderclap (which is also part vehicle, part playset, so doesn't really count, but I still have it!).
Snake Mt is all about that mic. I use mine for karaoke.
Castl Greyskull was easily the bees knees when I was a kid. My best friend has Snake Mountian. That wasn’t the only reason he was my best friend. But it helped.
I can't believe you were friends. You should have been enemies, obv.
My biggest set was when I took over my Sister's My Little Pony Castle. I asked to paint it grey because I was using it for battles and my sister hadn't touched it in years. So many castle sieges...
The biggest playset I had was the land we lived on when my parents would lock me out of the house because they didn't love me. Either that or Snake Mountain.
I always wished my yard had some more natural elements to play with. Growing up in military neighborhoods we generally had a backyard that was about 15 feet x 15 feet of just flat grass. There might be a park (open field) nearby with like... a tree or two. Great places for safely riding bikes... but not a lot of giant rocks or caves or streams or anything else.
There were definitely some adventures. I had few friends growing up, but one day one of them and I were wandering around in the woods, and saw water up ahead. No idea where we were. Just wandering around, we happened to stumble across the Chattahoochee River.
But man...neighborhood friends, video games with your buddies, Dungeons and Dragons...none of it. Kind of lonesome really. My best friend for years was my Atari. Life, man.
I really was a spoiled shit back in the day. I trashed this set from constant play. I miss it.
For me, this was the Holy Grail of toys when I was a kid. Close behind it was the Star Wars Imperial Shuttle. Such a waste GI Joe did not continue the space theme. To me Starcom: The US Space Force was the closest thing we got to the Joes in space. Thanks for the video and thanks for the memories. If this was re-released now, I would find a way to buy one, that is if the wife allowed it :)
I cannot imagine them ever approaching something of this scale ever again.
Sadly, I think you are right, but then again we did get a huge and updated Castle Grayskull from Mattel not too long ago and the Titan Metroplex, Fortress Maximus, and the Trypticon are very impressive in their size and detail and I just got the Batman The Animated Series Batwing and that thing is huge. I never thought that any of these toys would see the light of day but now I have them all. Hasbro could even do a subscription and sell the Defiant Playset piece by piece like Mattel did with their huge Lion Force Voltron. I would be on board for that.
All true. That Grayskull is huge and that Batwing is insane.
KO companies out there should take a stab at this. If they can give us MP Megatron, why not a space shuttle?
Even as a build-a-playset. Release 4 parts a year.
I actually had this as a kid. I'm tempted to share this with my parents, though my memories of playing with this set (and the box that was large enough for me to crawl inside of and treat like a 1-person submarine) are probably better than the ones my parents have of me going off to college and leaving them with this hunk of plastic that nobody could move by themself up until they sold it for $50. Especially if they hear about how much it goes for now.
$50? OUCH.
30TH ANNIVERSARY MAX HEADROOM HACKING REFERENCE FOR THE WIN!!!
If i remember correctly the whole thing weighed around 18kg. i got it for my 10th birthday (Nov.1988) & it actually weighed just a bit more than i did at 10 years old & was almost as tall as i was. i was an extra tiny/skinny kid (& i've grown into an extra skinny 43kg adult) & i THINK at that age i was around 17-18kg & it was just slightly heavier than me.
The biggest playset I've owned was the ninja turtles sewer lair playset, from the circa 2003 Tmnt series
It's pretty big especially for a line of figures that size.
My best play set ever was a comforter and a shoebox.
You take the shoebox and throw the comforter on it.
Instant mountain base play set.
That's how you do it!
Terror Drone or 83 GI Joe base
Childhood me is jealous. Heck 35-year-old me is also jealous, probably more so than childhood me.
As a kid I knew I wasn't getting it so I never really missed it.
Confirmed: Dan Larson was the Max Headroom guy. How old is Dan?
+DesignerCore I was 11 in 1987 when it happened so I've got a pretty believable alibi.
The club just redid Hardtop in the FFS 6.0 that just started shipping. Don’t think we’ll see a payload before the end of the club, but they did Hardtop justice in my opinion. Just thought it an interesting tidbit if you hadn’t already seen him. Really great segment Dan, and Prod. Greg!! Brought some cool memories back...
Oh, and for the record....
I still love Max Headroom..... as much as I love intestinal flu.
I still like the novelty of Max Headroom but that signal intrusion version is creepy.
My parents only got me this in '87, because, I laid a constant guilt-trip on them for the 2 previous years for not getting me the Flagg.