GI Joe deploys a Transportable Tactical Battle Platform to hold a key position. It's bristling with weapon capabilities and manned by crack operatives... But there is danger in the water!
This is the most Thug Life shit I think I've ever seen.To have the balls as a grown man to, not only film yourself playing with GI Joes, but to do it with 100% sincerity in the hope that others will enjoy, is really some next level stuff. It's not a cheap parody, or some robot chicken crap. You honor the characters knowing each one was, and still is someone's favorite--mine being firefly. I just watched you guys do what I've thought about doing ever since the day I put it all away in the attic. You guys just said F#$% it and did it anyway, knowing somewhere there were people out in the world who would enjoy watching these figures come to life again. And the proof is in the comments. Well done, fellas. Well done.
You my friend truly "get it". I'm so glad these vids found their way to you. I foresee we'll make them for a good time to come. Maybe a solo Firefly story? 😃 Thanks for the awesome comment. It really does sum up what we hope to achieve in the community. I've shared it with the rest of the team.
Great job, definitely brings back the joy of toys and outside. Too bad you didn't have any of the Joe DEVIL FISH boats, Deep Six's SHARK or the Killer WHALE, two of my favorite vehicles. Good luck with your crowdfund, YO JOE!
I think a lot of us maybe lost sight of how much fun one can have with just a single figure. Do I regret having now played with a Flagg, Terrordrome or Defiant? Nah. But I do still enjoy traveling with just a single Joe or Cobra in my moonbag. Yo Joe buddy.
I used a cleaned out pickle jar as a submarine. Just seal that lid on tight! (Even at age 6 i knew how lame this was, but I was making due with what I had.)
Awesome!! Always wanted to see one air lifted. All them helicopter blades and cables are not a good combination! The health and safety on this thing comes straight from cobra designers!
Which is precisely why we could not activate the rotor spin feature! I think a single Tomahawk would be your safe way of moving this thing. But the toy makers had to make so with what they had to date!
So awesome, wish i could hang out with you guys. I was just watching one of my family Christmas vhs tapes and my brother got the platform on X-Mas morning.
YES!!! Hold on for a little longer boys Im back to work after the winter season and the holidays and soon ill be donating a decent amount of funds for ya
I think this might be Joburg's future style. Can't really say anything guys like HCC and FormBX haven't said already so we might as well just play with our toys!
Yep. Doing a "review" in this style robs us of the chance to fawn over how well made this thing is! And not only is it superbly detailed and textured all over but it also is completely deconstructable! What an awesome playset. We love it!
Here in Brazil this action figures in the 80's and 90's were called "Comandos em Ação", in a literal translation is something like Commandos in Action. Now, with the raise of english speakers in Brazil, we started to call them, G.I Joes, like you. I'm loving your work, congratulations!
Huh! I just remembered- I bought this TTBP local pickup style and when I got to the seller he had thrown in two bonus figures and one of them was Barbecue! Your theory has some weight! And thanks again for the generous donation sir!
Nice! On my TBP, Mainframe and Dialtone would've been in the control room, Torpedo, Gung Ho, and BeachHead would have been on the devilfish and securing the beach in a coordinated rendevous with Airborne, Halo, and Crazy legs who would have dropped in during the night. Then have the tomahawk come in with support troops from the air and the APC bringing in some more troops! love it!
neat action force decals. used to have a vamp with action force decals. thought it was a gi joe knockoff was a hand me down from a cousin. never knew what they were from until i discovered actionforce on the internet.
Well spotted! Got this local pickup-style while I was visiting my brother in England. The Barbecue figure was a bonus thrown in and the two have been inseparable ever since. Yeah man, I've always had a smattering of U.K. releases and unlike Funskool, the quality is very much on par.
Hashro needs to hire him IMMEDIATELY. HAHAHA. I have to go fix my wounded Joes A COLLECTOR THAT ACTUALLY PLAYS WITH THE TOYS! He's single handed making 40 nostalgic year olds tear up. Hahaha
There are so many possibilities with this, if you considered the Hasbro/IDW shared universe concept. It was fun to see fans of a franchise showing it some love like this series.
We held a poll on which direction to take the series, one option electing Megatron as the chief baddie, but the voters responded more conservatively. I guess we're gonna play a little more in the strict Joe world before ripping the roof off. Maybe by the time the Ninja Force show up (and half our subscribers leave!!!)
Love the camera angles and story. You guys are so creative. I just listened to podcast 108 and my heart was warmed because you said you wish you put a grade (color grade I assume) on it. That’s what i do for a living. Not many people know about color grading.
Can we outsource it to you?! Lol! I know nothing about grading; Paul knows a bit. But I'm the guy grinding these out. Stick around, we've got another installment dropping in a week or so!
I would have been in the same boat for sure. He's such an oddity, all alone, man in yellow. Fortunately I came up in the era of Eco Warriors and that made a lot more sense of the guys in bulky protective suits.
mmmmmm, I never thought of this before but, it would be possible to build a fitting wood rack to fit the platform for deeper waters. all it has to do is fit it s legs, and it could float, or be planted in the sea floor. you d have to remove the black leg extensions, and stick in the matching wood beams in the red parts. the 4 beams would need to be joined by a frame to fit the platform s dimension precisely. once painted red or grey, it d be quite good looking. short would float, and long would be quite stable, stuck in the underwater ground sand. good show guys!
Amazing! You totally should go out and play buddy! Either with a friend or on your own, the adventures you can have are limitless. Action figures and playsets help, but even roleplaying the characters yourself can be some of the best fun. I know I enjoyed my fair share of that when I was 12.
I had a spare bedroom for my play room: I’d put down a baby blue blanket for the Water. Carpet was grass/woods. Gray blanket was cement/city. I had n actual plastic runway from a corny toy play set, which I kept the runway for gi joe, plus I kept the oil barrels, gas cans, spotlights, cardboard control tower. I would use cardboard boxes, which my friend Travis- whom was a bad ass drawer...in the 3rd grade thru the 6th grade, when we played toys, he was better than any high schooler by far!!!- Anyways....Travis would paint and use sharpies on my “card board boxes”...he’d do complex computers, door hatches, other rooms that looked like u could go into that room. Plus there were actual rooms too. Plus...I’d buy GI Joe cereal, n use the cardboard super computer & weapons racks & science lab backs, that I’d cutout n put in cardboard base. Plus...I’d use Go-bot & transformer packages sometimes for the scenery, specially if they were big enough or fit in specific spot. Plus....(yeah yeah,,) I’d use sticker sheets as well. I think there was colored Xmas wrap/foil to use as base walls, floor n ceiling. Anywho, this base was used mainly as Dreadnoks base, cuz the joes had their base n water platform n a toy garage that I added next to launch pad. Cobra: had all the Vehicles in my collection mainly, cuz Cobra had the coolest by far: hydro foil, night raven, trouble bubble, fang, fang two, the worm n maggot truck thingy , thunder machine, ferret, swamp bike, serpentors chariot, rattler, hiss, missle rack that Hiss towed, the razor wheel bike thingy, the whale, scorpion , etc etc. Gi joes had their cool stuff too, but not nearly as much: Flagg of course, hovercraft, dragonfly, tomahawk, mobile Command center, marauder, the snow mobile tank with ski missiles, sgt slaughters truck, hang gliders, awe striker, devil fish, all motorcycles, ....but yeah...mainly cobra. Besides, I couldn’t afford Flagg or command center or space shuttle or their jets. I got base n water platform from a friend who quit playing, n wanted like $20 bucks total. Cardboard base, was pretty bad ass for the Dreadnoks base. Wish I could still play with toys (sigh) Although, I will be making a 3-D printed base soon!! Gong to make a lair with bar, bike garage, pop machines for lazy Dreadnoks. Working neon lights, elevator with working string, turrets n watch towers , spot light n flak. Control center n jail/torture room. And....an actual tv, that will be a 5.5” portable DVD player screen, with iron girders around it for trim. I have the blue prints almost ready, but still not sure yet with regular printer for doing decals n stickers sheets to apply to cardboard backing scenery. I cannot wait to do this!!
Bad luck with the weather that day? Whenever I watch the cricket from South Africa on TV there are gloriously blue skies. Anyway, kudos on the video, so cool seeing these awesome toys in action...
What? Never had rain delays at Newlands Cricket Ground? Yeah man, Cape Town has a Mediterranean climate with cool wet winters. But never cold enough to need heating; or hot enough to need A/C. I’m biased of course, but I don’t think there’s a more perfect climate on the planet!
I hope you do! And thanks for the positive comment. Who knew people would get a kick out of two old boys playing with their battle platform at the beach?!
Thank you! I think the stickers were okay, not all sticker sheets were made the same way and fortunately this video features a UK release TTBP which has more resilient adhesive.
Ah yes! My very talented friend and fellow GI Joburg host Paul was responsible for that custom paint job. Needed something that looked a little more "Marines" to look proper on the deck of the USS Flagg.
GI Joburg still I have to say I love watching your videos makes me think if enough if us get together would could make a G.I. Joe movie with figures that would be better than the movies.
I have no doubt about that. Fan-created content can seldom miss. We know what we like; we have no other stakeholders pushing us one way or another. Hollywood is a complicated organism alright, I don’t envy any creatives working in that world.
@@gijoburg but were grown folk now and have our own money We should have joefest in the middle of the desert and everybody bring their joes and finally settle it once and for all 💪😲🖕CO-BRAAAAAAA!!!!!
I do. Between takes there's a quick tally happening. And I've had a few near-losses and mad searches for accessories and vehicle parts. But to date I've lost one The Corps! M-16 and Beachhead's gun and that's it. Fortunately easily replaced at JoeCon!
So I’ve been looking at the platform as a centerpiece pretty heavily, and you guys use it mostly how I’d imagine it. Mostly. It absolutely flabbergasts me that the ‘transportable’ meant BY AIR. By Dragonflies, no less. The thing looks like an oil rig, and you would think it would be used as something that could be towed in like a barge and then anchored off shore as a resupply pointer support base. Seems a bit ridiculous to see it hauled through the air (no idea why you couldn’t use Tomahawks, but I don’t think they have winches…)
Tomahawks do indeed have winches. But we wanted to recreate the illustration on the TTBP box depicting four Dragonflies. If for no other reason than I don’t think anyone else has on TH-cam. Or anywhere else as far as I can tell.
@@gijoburg to be clear, not ridiculous on you guys’ part, just in general. I did like all the different dragonfly variants, though. I didn’t mean any of this as a shot at anyone. I apologize if it came off that way.
@@gijoburg that’s a big 10-4 and Cobraaaaaaaa now that I’m an adult, I have sympathy for Cobra Commander (cartoon version) all the guy wanted to do was Rule The World and his subordinates kept undermining him 🤷🏾♂️ RIP Chris Latta 👍🏾
Awwww does that mean you don’t like us?! Not to poke fun at people who do stop-motion and do it well. They have impressive skill and above all, patience. But at the end of the day they’re filming plastic toys! I’m all about playing brother, and being seen doing it. Sorry if you don’t see the merit in the approach
NOT at all! I just thought if we could 'lessen' humanoid exposure in the videos. formbx257 does it and my friends know a few tricks of Photoshop. I just want to make your terrific videos and postulate on making them better (I meant no insult, friends!) YO JOE(BURG)
All good brother, no offense taken. And you’re right - which is why, short of actual visual effects, I’ve started cutting around the human factor quite deliberately in the more recent stuff. When this vid came out we were really just reviewing it in a more immersed style... and that gave birth to what we do today!
Add to that I wish I and my friend had played even more with our JOE toys back in the 80s. If I lived in Africa, I'd be joining you dudes! Have an awesome day, and YO JOBURG!!! (BTW, are you gonna be featuring the X-30 CONQUEST in future vids? Peace!)
You guys play gijoe all wrong you never say yo joe the propellers don't turn and there's no machine gun sounds with gallons of spit coming out of your mouths all over your joes you don't know what your doing
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This is the most Thug Life shit I think I've ever seen.To have the balls as a grown man to, not only film yourself playing with GI Joes, but to do it with 100% sincerity in the hope that others will enjoy, is really some next level stuff. It's not a cheap parody, or some robot chicken crap. You honor the characters knowing each one was, and still is someone's favorite--mine being firefly. I just watched you guys do what I've thought about doing ever since the day I put it all away in the attic. You guys just said F#$% it and did it anyway, knowing somewhere there were people out in the world who would enjoy watching these figures come to life again. And the proof is in the comments. Well done, fellas. Well done.
You my friend truly "get it". I'm so glad these vids found their way to you. I foresee we'll make them for a good time to come. Maybe a solo Firefly story? 😃
Thanks for the awesome comment. It really does sum up what we hope to achieve in the community. I've shared it with the rest of the team.
Party like its 1985! Possibly your best production to date!
Ooooooooh-YEAH! Thanks!
Please keep doing stuff like this. This is amazing. My inner kid is in awe.
Trust me when I say it: this stuff is ALL I ever want to do! Expect more to come.
Man, the kids from the 80's toy commercials have grown up. Half expecting the Flagg on a floating platform to show up. Lol!
Stick around...
GI Joburg, you can count on it.
Felt like a kid as I watched this! Thanks guys 🤗
You can bet we felt like kids shooting it! Yo Joe!
Great job, definitely brings back the joy of toys and outside. Too bad you didn't have any of the Joe DEVIL FISH boats, Deep Six's SHARK or the Killer WHALE, two of my favorite vehicles. Good luck with your crowdfund, YO JOE!
Thanks so much Gary... and who's to say we don't have those cool toys?! Stick around, the battle is just about to begin!
YO JOE!!!
Oh how I wished I owned more than just 3 Joes back when I was a kid. All I had as a playset was a paper tent I made for Flint. But still, I had fun.
I think a lot of us maybe lost sight of how much fun one can have with just a single figure. Do I regret having now played with a Flagg, Terrordrome or Defiant? Nah. But I do still enjoy traveling with just a single Joe or Cobra in my moonbag. Yo Joe buddy.
I used a cleaned out pickle jar as a submarine. Just seal that lid on tight! (Even at age 6 i knew how lame this was, but I was making due with what I had.)
That's cool! And pretty original. I never did that. But I guess I had my trusty Barracuda from early on.
Love watching you guys ! Brings back memories !
Awesome!! Always wanted to see one air lifted. All them helicopter blades and cables are not a good combination! The health and safety on this thing comes straight from cobra designers!
Which is precisely why we could not activate the rotor spin feature! I think a single Tomahawk would be your safe way of moving this thing. But the toy makers had to make so with what they had to date!
So awesome, wish i could hang out with you guys. I was just watching one of my family Christmas vhs tapes and my brother got the platform on X-Mas morning.
Aw man! That would have made my day! I hope you guys played with that thing 'til bedtime!
You should upload it so we can vicariously open a brand new platform!
Ah! We shall, we have however hit a bit of a production snag, we will get it done asap!
I remember we took it over to my grandparents for Christmas dinner, and used their dining room table as the ocean, and sat the rig at one end.
Cultural lesson -- "fun" is spelled the same way in America as it is in South Africa: g-i-j-o-e.
I think GI Joburg may have its new slogan!
Cool vid! Bold move to bring all those weapons. That scared me a bit, so easy to lose them.
You'll be pleased to know, no accessories were lost or broken in the making of this series! So far...
I remember playing with that set! Thanks for the memories!!!
Anytime Shawn! Thanks for commenting. AND watching in the correct order! 😝
The Demon helicopter flying alongside the Dragonflies was a nice touch.
Thanks! I'd like to say it's a cool Easter Egg, but the truth is that I just didn't have four Dragonfly's!
YES!!! Hold on for a little longer boys Im back to work after the winter season and the holidays and soon ill be donating a decent amount of funds for ya
Music to me ears, matey!
brilliant!!! the voice work was awesome!!!
Heheh. Well that would have been a dream job...
These are like reviews with a story
I think this might be Joburg's future style. Can't really say anything guys like HCC and FormBX haven't said already so we might as well just play with our toys!
Your videos are such a joy to watch. I spent a lot of time with this set as a kid, very well designed :D
Yep. Doing a "review" in this style robs us of the chance to fawn over how well made this thing is! And not only is it superbly detailed and textured all over but it also is completely deconstructable! What an awesome playset. We love it!
Takes me right back to the days of mud piles and bathtub battlegrounds. I didn't have many Joes, just a gang of old WWF LJN figures...my favorite.
And did you perhaps have a Sgt Slaughter figure?! He a Joe, you know! And making these things takes US back too. Which is why we keep doing ‘em!
@@gijoburg I have the WWF LJN Sgt. Slaughter figure and the green camo sgt. slaughter Gi Joe to match.
@@gijoburg I actually had 2 of the WWF LJN ones but I sold the extra one not too long ago for $450.
Sweet! Top Dollar for those figs ey? You could buy more than a few GI Joe Version Slaughters for $450!
That BBQ voice is deadon
Should have muffled it slightly, cos, you know, the helmet! Thanks!
Yeah, so is SHIPWRECKS voice!
This is what you are supposed to do with Joes. Freaking sweet. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks Patrick! It had to be done! I don’t think I’ve seen anyone demonstrate a TTBP deployment online before.
This is just FANtastic!!! My inner child screaming Yo-Joe!
Thanks Robbie! I hope your inner child likes the further adventures, if TH-cam was smart enough to autoplay em for you!
This is the best stuff. Great to see Joes played with as they are intended to be.
The tigre-flage on the one dragonfly was cool asf bro!!!
It's one tasty Dragonfly skin for sure dude!
You nailed Barbecue's voice.
Aw, thanks Jase!
As a 41 year old man let me just say this YOU LUCKY SOBS.
Amazing... video and dubbing thanks a lot dude...
These are so cool. Thanks for making them.
It really was such a pleasure. The fact that they’re enjoyed is just the icing!
First time I ever saw action force decals on a base.
Got this one on a local pickup while I was in the U.K. Authentic Action Force version she is! Only difference IS the stickers!
I love it. This is my childhood on modern video.
"Shipwreck's Isle"
👍😂
Terry! You're getting a mention in episode 108 of the podcast! Without fail one of the first commentors. If not the first!
That was a pretty good rendition of Barbecue!
Thank you! He's a lot of fun to do, such a great signature accent.
This took me back to playing with my friends with our Gijoe toys
Words just can’t describe how awesome you guys are.
Thanks Russ! Glad you like our stuff!
Here in Brazil this action figures in the 80's and 90's were called "Comandos em Ação", in a literal translation is something like Commandos in Action. Now, with the raise of english speakers in Brazil, we started to call them, G.I Joes, like you. I'm loving your work, congratulations!
you notice in the cartoon and comics how barbeque always ends up on the platform? he is almost the lost naval joe :)
Totally. Have to have him and Shippy debut together. Fire and water.
Huh! I just remembered- I bought this TTBP local pickup style and when I got to the seller he had thrown in two bonus figures and one of them was Barbecue! Your theory has some weight! And thanks again for the generous donation sir!
Nice! On my TBP, Mainframe and Dialtone would've been in the control room, Torpedo, Gung Ho, and BeachHead would have been on the devilfish and securing the beach in a coordinated rendevous with Airborne, Halo, and Crazy legs who would have dropped in during the night. Then have the tomahawk come in with support troops from the air and the APC bringing in some more troops! love it!
neat action force decals.
used to have a vamp with action force decals.
thought it was a gi joe knockoff
was a hand me down from a cousin. never knew what they were from until i discovered actionforce on the internet.
Well spotted! Got this local pickup-style while I was visiting my brother in England. The Barbecue figure was a bonus thrown in and the two have been inseparable ever since. Yeah man, I've always had a smattering of U.K. releases and unlike Funskool, the quality is very much on par.
Love the video makes me want to go get my old 80's Joe's 😮
you are the best, thanks for this video!
my brother is going to love this :)
Thank you! Big respect to your bro, stop motion is VERY tough. Yowza.
The music is spot on.
Thank you! Paul from GI Joburg created the music for this one!
Awesome as always!
Thanks dude!
Love it!
I wanna play gijoe
You and me both bud. I wish I could make these every day. But... Life.
Now that drones are popular, I would think Hasbro could make an RC Heli with camera on it for Joe's from essentially a DJI clone. :{J
Great job on Shipwreck’s voice and mannerisms.
Thanks! He’s the Han Solo of GI Joe and the TTBP is his Falcon!
this video should go down in youtube history!!!!
Hashro needs to hire him IMMEDIATELY. HAHAHA. I have to go fix my wounded Joes A COLLECTOR THAT ACTUALLY PLAYS WITH THE TOYS! He's single handed making 40 nostalgic year olds tear up. Hahaha
Mission: Accomplished! And I won't be expecting that Hasbro job offer any time soon - they had to lay off about 500 members of staff this past week!
Awesome video!
Thank you! And thanks for commenting.
That looks like that was very fun to make! =D
Be sure to check out our making of vid, soon to drop!
Many thanks! Will do! ^_^
Maybe GIJoburg should help HCC788 with a special live action series like this to help his 2022 Joe Fest quest?!?! 😉
There are so many possibilities with this, if you considered the Hasbro/IDW shared universe concept.
It was fun to see fans of a franchise showing it some love like this series.
We held a poll on which direction to take the series, one option electing Megatron as the chief baddie, but the voters responded more conservatively. I guess we're gonna play a little more in the strict Joe world before ripping the roof off. Maybe by the time the Ninja Force show up (and half our subscribers leave!!!)
Great Job it will pay off man
Very encouraging words from the Commander. COBRA!!!
This is fkn awesome
That 1985 love is alive.
It's a GI Joe fan's happy place all right.
Love the camera angles and story. You guys are so creative.
I just listened to podcast 108 and my heart was warmed because you said you wish you put a grade (color grade I assume) on it. That’s what i do for a living. Not many people know about color grading.
Can we outsource it to you?! Lol! I know nothing about grading; Paul knows a bit. But I'm the guy grinding these out. Stick around, we've got another installment dropping in a week or so!
GI Joburg can’t wait to see part 2.
Yes, you can outsource to me ;)
I loved airtight for some reason as a kid but never understanded his role
I would have been in the same boat for sure. He's such an oddity, all alone, man in yellow. Fortunately I came up in the era of Eco Warriors and that made a lot more sense of the guys in bulky protective suits.
Omg you guys are awesome
for 3rd time i saw it ... i bought some of my fav joes who i had at past ... and i waiting for new videos like this .. :D
So glad you enjoy this stuff! I love hearing that these vids inspire fans to grab some cool toys and play like it's 1985! Yo Joe!
yo joe ! :D
mmmmmm, I never thought of this before but, it would be possible
to build a fitting wood rack to fit the platform for deeper waters.
all it has to do is fit it s legs, and it could float, or be planted in the sea floor.
you d have to remove the black leg extensions, and stick in the matching wood beams in the red parts.
the 4 beams would need to be joined by a frame to fit the platform s dimension precisely.
once painted red or grey, it d be quite good looking.
short would float, and long would be quite stable, stuck in the underwater ground sand.
good show guys!
I want a friend that still enjoys playing with action figures :(
Whew. Now that is the rarest action figure of all. I'm contemplating making one.
My goodness. Love the under water scenes. I may only be 11 but this is super cool.
Nothing wrong with being 11 and having an opinion. Especially when the opinion is that it’s super cool! Welcome to Joburg buddy.
@@gijoburg any rime dude
I’m 12 and I want these g.i joe things and go outside and play
Amazing! You totally should go out and play buddy! Either with a friend or on your own, the adventures you can have are limitless. Action figures and playsets help, but even roleplaying the characters yourself can be some of the best fun. I know I enjoyed my fair share of that when I was 12.
Awesome :)
Hells yeah! Thanks!
It's obviously very clear we don't need anymore gi joe movies! We have G.I. Joburg!!!
I had a spare bedroom for my play room: I’d put down a baby blue blanket for the Water. Carpet was grass/woods. Gray blanket was cement/city.
I had n actual plastic runway from a corny toy play set, which I kept the runway for gi joe, plus I kept the oil barrels, gas cans, spotlights, cardboard control tower.
I would use cardboard boxes, which my friend Travis- whom was a bad ass drawer...in the 3rd grade thru the 6th grade, when we played toys, he was better than any high schooler by far!!!-
Anyways....Travis would paint and use sharpies on my “card board boxes”...he’d do complex computers, door hatches, other rooms that looked like u could go into that room. Plus there were actual rooms too. Plus...I’d buy GI Joe cereal, n use the cardboard super computer & weapons racks & science lab backs, that I’d cutout n put in cardboard base.
Plus...I’d use Go-bot & transformer packages sometimes for the scenery, specially if they were big enough or fit in specific spot.
Plus....(yeah yeah,,) I’d use sticker sheets as well. I think there was colored Xmas wrap/foil to use as base walls, floor n ceiling.
Anywho, this base was used mainly as Dreadnoks base, cuz the joes had their base n water platform n a toy garage that I added next to launch pad.
Cobra: had all the Vehicles in my collection mainly, cuz Cobra had the coolest by far: hydro foil, night raven, trouble bubble, fang, fang two, the worm n maggot truck thingy , thunder machine, ferret, swamp bike, serpentors chariot, rattler, hiss, missle rack that Hiss towed, the razor wheel bike thingy, the whale, scorpion , etc etc.
Gi joes had their cool stuff too, but not nearly as much: Flagg of course, hovercraft, dragonfly, tomahawk, mobile Command center, marauder, the snow mobile tank with ski missiles, sgt slaughters truck, hang gliders, awe striker, devil fish, all motorcycles, ....but yeah...mainly cobra.
Besides, I couldn’t afford Flagg or command center or space shuttle or their jets.
I got base n water platform from a friend who quit playing, n wanted like $20 bucks total.
Cardboard base, was pretty bad ass for the Dreadnoks base. Wish I could still play with toys (sigh)
Although, I will be making a 3-D printed base soon!! Gong to make a lair with bar, bike garage, pop machines for lazy Dreadnoks. Working neon lights, elevator with working string, turrets n watch towers , spot light n flak. Control center n jail/torture room.
And....an actual tv, that will be a 5.5” portable DVD player screen, with iron girders around it for trim.
I have the blue prints almost ready, but still not sure yet with regular printer for doing decals n stickers sheets to apply to cardboard backing scenery.
I cannot wait to do this!!
Your childhood sounds awesome, as is your plans for a 3D printed base! Thank you so much for sharing!
Bad luck with the weather that day? Whenever I watch the cricket from South Africa on TV there are gloriously blue skies. Anyway, kudos on the video, so cool seeing these awesome toys in action...
What? Never had rain delays at Newlands Cricket Ground? Yeah man, Cape Town has a Mediterranean climate with cool wet winters. But never cold enough to need heating; or hot enough to need A/C. I’m biased of course, but I don’t think there’s a more perfect climate on the planet!
@@gijoburg Yeah, it sounds and looks amazing. Watching cricket at Newlands and playing with G.I. Joes; what a town! I'll get there one day....
I hope you do! And thanks for the positive comment. Who knew people would get a kick out of two old boys playing with their battle platform at the beach?!
is that yellow joe guy REALLY checking the missle servos? or is he just REALLY enjoying that platform?
WAHAHA! I'll never look at that shot the same way again!
ah, bbq and shipwreck a good pair of 1985 joes. sorry i am 5 years late.
Airtight too. Welcome to the party! We’re still doing these…
I love this but Did your stickers get any damage from the water?
Thank you! I think the stickers were okay, not all sticker sheets were made the same way and fortunately this video features a UK release TTBP which has more resilient adhesive.
I can tell you put a lot of thought into your films. Do you have friends that are military and/or former paramilitary that advise you on the scripts?
Does a lifetime of Living the Adventure of GI Joe count?! I done some paintball and laser tag, if that counts?! Hahaha.
@@gijoburg Thus I asked if you had friends that were advising you. :P
The grey dragon fly is realistically painted ..is that a custom repaint? Or store bought ?
Ah yes! My very talented friend and fellow GI Joburg host Paul was responsible for that custom paint job. Needed something that looked a little more "Marines" to look proper on the deck of the USS Flagg.
i'm ten and i love me some joe and this is so cool!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome to Joburg Commander! Glad you could join the fun!
@@gijoburg always a pleasure!!!!!!
did u steal the corps choppers id love to see that heist video were the joes take them form The Corps.
So would I! But in the meantime, check out our vid entitled “Graduation Day” for some serious Corps! action.
@@gijoburg seen it loved it corps did have some good vehicles so cool tou sue nom Joe things too :-)
How much would it cost for you to make a stop motion movie?
More patience than I can muster sadly... I don’t ever wanna do stop-motion!
GI Joburg still I have to say I love watching your videos makes me think if enough if us get together would could make a G.I. Joe movie with figures that would be better than the movies.
I have no doubt about that. Fan-created content can seldom miss. We know what we like; we have no other stakeholders pushing us one way or another. Hollywood is a complicated organism alright, I don’t envy any creatives working in that world.
Can I come over n play with your toys one day?😃
That is the dream my man. I wish we could all get together and play. Sometimes this world is just too damn big.
@@gijoburg but were grown folk now and have our own money
We should have joefest in the middle of the desert and everybody bring their joes and finally settle it once and for all
💪😲🖕CO-BRAAAAAAA!!!!!
Don't you worry about losing their weapons?
I do. Between takes there's a quick tally happening. And I've had a few near-losses and mad searches for accessories and vehicle parts. But to date I've lost one The Corps! M-16 and Beachhead's gun and that's it. Fortunately easily replaced at JoeCon!
Like you guys speakin’ in American accent 😀
We try!
Why is Shipwreck giving orders?
It’s naval hardware and he’s a navyman! Who else should be in charge? I suppose Torpedo, but he was busy elsewhere.
This is me if I didn't have a father
Sounds ominous! Dad kept you chained to the radiator in the basement?
Aw yee
So I’ve been looking at the platform as a centerpiece pretty heavily, and you guys use it mostly how I’d imagine it.
Mostly.
It absolutely flabbergasts me that the ‘transportable’ meant BY AIR. By Dragonflies, no less. The thing looks like an oil rig, and you would think it would be used as something that could be towed in like a barge and then anchored off shore as a resupply pointer support base. Seems a bit ridiculous to see it hauled through the air (no idea why you couldn’t use Tomahawks, but I don’t think they have winches…)
Tomahawks do indeed have winches. But we wanted to recreate the illustration on the TTBP box depicting four Dragonflies. If for no other reason than I don’t think anyone else has on TH-cam. Or anywhere else as far as I can tell.
@@gijoburg to be clear, not ridiculous on you guys’ part, just in general. I did like all the different dragonfly variants, though.
I didn’t mean any of this as a shot at anyone.
I apologize if it came off that way.
@@barryevans9486 no shots detected! 😅
I don't know if it's just me, but I can't seem to get the go fund me link to work.
Thanks for flagging this! We're on it!
Working now!
Why did you guys ever stop making these ?
Stop? Why just last week we released a 90 minute film! Check the channel page for the latest!
But you can find all our productions in the “Playmotion Adventures” playlist.
@@gijoburg that’s a big 10-4 and Cobraaaaaaaa now that I’m an adult, I have sympathy for Cobra Commander (cartoon version) all the guy wanted to do was Rule The World and his subordinates kept undermining him 🤷🏾♂️ RIP Chris Latta 👍🏾
You know what would be 100% cool-ass is if you had someone who could 'shop out the 'human factor' in your vids.
Awwww does that mean you don’t like us?! Not to poke fun at people who do stop-motion and do it well. They have impressive skill and above all, patience. But at the end of the day they’re filming plastic toys! I’m all about playing brother, and being seen doing it. Sorry if you don’t see the merit in the approach
NOT at all! I just thought if we could 'lessen' humanoid exposure in the videos. formbx257 does it and my friends know a few tricks of Photoshop. I just want to make your terrific videos and postulate on making them better (I meant no insult, friends!) YO JOE(BURG)
All good brother, no offense taken. And you’re right - which is why, short of actual visual effects, I’ve started cutting around the human factor quite deliberately in the more recent stuff. When this vid came out we were really just reviewing it in a more immersed style... and that gave birth to what we do today!
Add to that I wish I and my friend had played even more with our JOE toys back in the 80s. If I lived in Africa, I'd be joining you dudes! Have an awesome day, and YO JOBURG!!! (BTW, are you gonna be featuring the X-30 CONQUEST in future vids? Peace!)
Oh you can be assured of more Conquest action!
Corny AF! But I love it!!😀
You guys play gijoe all wrong you never say yo joe the propellers don't turn and there's no machine gun sounds with gallons of spit coming out of your mouths all over your joes you don't know what your doing