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It’s always kind of cool to try and spot the real-life inspirations for these wonderfully weird vehicles. This rolling thunder is the mutated lovechild of the Czech “DANA” 152mm howitzer and a Scud “TEL”- transporter-erector-launcher. They’re both super topical for the late ‘80s, when this toy was released! Love your videos, they’re super calming and fun to watch, a glimpse into a past before video games and netflix. Must have been fun to be a kid back then!
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Nice!... I still have mine... I have the mexican edition that was called "Colosso", it's the same thing but with different name. I have it with the original box.
The Rolling Thunder and the Mobile Command Center are my two favorite Joe vehicles - because they're also playsets, and there's just so much to DO with them! Play features through the roof! Of course, I have never been able to find a complete Defiant...
Got a Rolling Thunder from my Great Grandmother one Christmas. Was easily my favorite toy, and I sadly played with it so much it was in pretty bad shape by the mid 90s and I was in middle school. Parts missing and a couple guns broke... sold it in a yardsale by 96 irc. Kind of wishing I had kept it now.
This came out right after I stopped collecting. I like how you outfitted it with all the original Joes. It sort of reminds me of the vehicle from issues 5/6 of the original series vs the October guard.
This was probably the biggest single toy that I had as a kid. I had a lot of GI Joe figures, and the Rolling Thunder was almost always at the centre of whatever scenario I would make up for them. Fond memories.
One of my favorite details about the vehicle was that the two giant rockets had individual, removable bombs inside of them.
I had one of these second hand, I LOVED it. I realized one Missile could destroy the entire Cobra Army. This and the Havok were my favorite
I got this for Christmas when it came out, my favorite present as a kid. Bought it again a few years ago
Always one I wanted but never got.
Ditto
Basically an ICBM vehicle armed to the teeth. I still have mine in storage somewhere, terrible code name for the driver but this was when the franchise started to lose steam. Fun review!
THIS was THE G.I Joe vehicle that I wanted soooo badly when I was 12 back in 88. Everywhere my mom looked it was always sold out. Sadly I was no longer into Joes and by the age of 15 I become obsessed(still am) with comic books and all things Marvel & DC. I do enjoy collecting the G.I Joe classified line nowadays.
This brings back a lot of good memories. I had bought this at Woolworths with birthday money. Definitely one of my favorites and I wish I still had it.
I had the H.A.V.O.C and that is usually talked about as a freaky vehicle. This makes the H.A.V.O.C look pretty tame.
Nice review. Great work on the sounds, love the attention to detail.
With the squeaky-wheels function and some engine sound effects, you could recreate the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade tank fight. 😀
I LOVED this thing as a kid. I always pretended Armadillo was like a big brutish badass that didn’t need weapons. I always had him and Roadpig brawling it out hand to hand.
The Rolling Thunder and The General were the last big GIJoe Christmas gifts I ever received. I always loved the cock pit on the Rolling Thunder, and until I had one, I would frequently build my own versions of the vehicle with Construx for my Joes to take into combat. Good times.
I went to a vintage toy store the other day and got sad I didn’t keep
All the joes I had as a kid lol. I had the rolling thunder as well. So many good memories
Damn!! I bet you the rolling thunder could single handley make America Great again!!
Loved playing with this and the big mobile base thinng but I remember very vividly thinking these are getting outlandish. They seem to be too far away from actual military type equipment
Got this bad boy myself... only missing both antennas, wich are almost impossible to find loose and when I do they are too darn expensive... but other than that it is an awesome vehicle full of cool features
Le Rolling-Thunder est mon véhicule G.I.*joe's préféré. Quand j'étais petit ce véhicule exposé dans les rayons du Leclerc de Dinan pour noël me faisait rêver. Malheureusement mon père n'aimait pas les GI Joe's. Je m'étais alors promis qu'adulte je le rechercherai. J'ai dû attendre longtemps avant de me l'acheter et un voyage à Paris dans une boutique spécialisée. Je me souviens du retour en métro et en train avec cet énorme carton contenant le Rolling-thunder en loose. Quelle fierté!! il me manque juste la boite mais un poster de chez 3Djoes fera l'affaire.
Hi can I come over to your house and play with your toys please?
What a gorgeous vehicle. I was 16 in 1988, and had my driver's license so I was appreciating my freedom from my parents having to drive me everywhere. I also had a girlfriend at the time, so I got out of collecting right around 1988. I have a bunch of figures and vehicles from 1987 so 1988 was the year I moved on to other things.
Anyway, I never got this vehicle but it is a thing of beauty for sure! If I had the room to display my GI Joe collection I would probably try to track one of these down. It sure is an incredible addition to any GI Joe collection!
You did an amazing job cleaning and restoring the Rolling Thunder Michael! It truly looks like it just got removed from the box 32 years ago!
Thank you for the amazing video of this classic vehicle! I hope you and Luana are both well, and healthy.
Nerdmasté my brother!
I've got a whole new appreciation for it after this video! I guess I've never taken the time to sit down and 'futz' with it much since getting it, but this was a great opportunity to clean and restore it and bring it to life. It's the ultimate rolling fortress! Glad you enjoyed it, good brother! Luana and I are finally on feeling better, thanks!
It's all your fault! I saw one at a great price at a local shop but didn't think I wanted it. After watching this and the points you made about matching the '82/'83s so well, I bought it and am in the process of minor restoration. I'm all giddy, though. Thanks for these great videos!
Witch is bigger rolling thunder or 83 headquarters? Btw I have the rolling thunder and I have no room to display it at full missiles out! Dang that's a big ole vehicle! Nerdmaste yall!
Love the video! Haven't thought about this one in a long time and I always thought it was the big transport vehicle from Revenge of Cobra that transported the laser core. BTW, it's pronounced Fort Wa-Chooka and it's very near the famous Arizona town of Tombstone, home of the infamous Gunfight at The OK Corral. Thanks for another great video, Michael!
I did have that monster. Gifted it to someone... No room for everything but damn, happy memories. Did keep the small vehicle thought 😎.
I got this as a birthday present that year. It had the kind of stuff I liked, from the weaponry to the design and the color scheme. I need to get it back in shape and round up all of its parts.
Looking back, I could have taken out the big missiles and used it as a sort of mobile command center.
This thing was my favorite vehicle. It was so overkill my friends hated when i would bring it out for battles. That and usually i would nuke them right away. There used to be a no nukes rule. Lol good times.
Awesome!
I have mine displayed next to my havoc. They look like father and son next to each other
Gotta hand it you, Michael - you always do an amazing job on the sound effects, etc., and this vid is a shining example, yes?
As far as the Rolling Thunder itself goes, I can only really remember having one GI Joe vehicle as a kid, namely the Persuader Laser Tank (which it would be cool to see you do a video on in its own right some day, but I digress...); it was pretty groovy as I recall - heck, it's a frickin' LASER TANK, after all(I), what more do you want in terms of coolness?! - but it looks like it would have quite frankly been dwarfed by this behemoth, right...?
PS: Speaking of thunder, rolling or otherwise; I'd love to see you do a video on my favourite Cobra-affiliated vehicle from the comics, namely the Thunder Machine, one day; or even one focusing on the Dreadnoks in general - especially since it turns out that one of them, Monkeywrench, was canonically a fellow Welshman (from Rhyl to be precise...!), and it's always nice to find characters from the same neck of the woods as you in these things, even if they are a bad 'un, yes? Thank you again for your time...Nerdmaste and YOOOOO JOE!!!
Hey, I love your G.I. Joe videos. You do a great job with your commentary and the effects. I did chuckle a bit when you pronounced Huachuca. I'm a retired Army veteran of over 21 years and I've been stationed there a number of times. So, I know it's a weird name to say if you've never heard it pronounced before LOL! This is the pronunciation phonetically (Wa-chu-Ka). Yep, good ol' Fort "We Gotcha" was the common joke. HA, HA, HA! Anyhow, I own a complete Rolling Thunder myself so again....great video. Keep it up Brother!!
The Rolling Thunder is an awesome impact combat vehicle indeed! I bought one of these off of Ebay about 8 years ago. Who knows, I just might buy myself another one, one day. A great review of 1988 Joe vehicle, Michael!
My older brother surprised me with this and the M.A.S.K boulder hill play set for my 12th birthday? Wow I don't think I'll ever forget all that cool stuff!
Had the Rolling Thunder back then. It was big, and as a kid I wasn't too sure what I could do with it play wise. That and it had super squeaky wheels, I didnt want to move it around much. But man was it impressive to have in my collection
Cobra: Wheels out Buzzboar
Cobra Commander: "We will crush G.I.Joe!!"
Destro: *coffs*
G.I.Joe: Wheels out Rolling Thunder
Cobra Commander: "WTF?!! They got a nuclear missile launcher now?!!"
My 80s GI Joe top 10:
USS Flagg
Terror Drome
Skystryker
Rattler
Mobat
Mauler
Whale
Rolling Thunder
Headquarters
Mobile Command Center
I had many GI Joe figures in the early 80s. Why is it that only a few of them actually have their rank insignia on their sleeves? Shipwreck, General Hawk, Tripwire had them, I am sure a few others did but so many didn't/
It looks like this is what the Soviets/Russians had as inspiration when they were making the S-400/Growler mobile missile system. There's no way that it's a coincidence that they both look extremely similar and both have rotating missile launch platforms in the exact same location? 😅
I dunno. Steeler was a tank commander, not a driver. For me it would have been Clutch riding shotgun with Armadillo. Steeler and Hawk in the turret. Breaker in the comms seat behind the drivers. Then Rock'N'Roll, Grunt, Short-Fuze and Zap in the machine gun seats. Stalker, Snake-eyes and Scarlett just don't seem like they belong in a vehicle. Though Stalker could be standing next to Breaker(I always kept a spare stand in mine for hurt such an occasion). I also always used the gaps between the driver's seats and the canopies for a pair of infantry for quick deployment. Flash and Grand slam could go there or Scarlett and Snake-eyes.
This was the biggest Joe vehicle I ever owned and one of my favorites. I got Thunder in a set of mail-away drivers and I didn't have the Slugger, so he was permanently assigned to the Rolling Thunder.
Breaker(straight arm) was my first Joe as well, though ironically I got him packed (in error I presume) with my V.A.M.P. I later got a second vamp and got Clutch with that one.
Awesome review!! I trust the last part about having battery compartment and firing missile are not real but the magic of MichaelMercy pixie dust!! Kindly confirm as its hard to say!! Please keep taking us back to our childhood!!
A cool vehicle would love to find one I remember back then I made one in LEGO using my classic space figures and M-Tron pieces
A very cool vehicle
The Rolling Thunder was one of the last G.I. Joe toys I ever got as a kid. I loved it. Sadly, I spent a summer with my dad and mom decided I was too old for toys and got rid of everything while I was gone.
I was listening to Butcher Babies "Red Thunder" and this came up on my playlist. My brother has been trying to get my boys into GI Joe. Who knows maybe that's why it popped up? I'm not against it.
I had one of these as a child! This thing was a BEAST!!!
You could tell by 88 the G.I.Joe vehicles were starting to get lazy. I mean, this version of Rolling Thunder doesn't even have the decals. It's big with a ton of weapons yet still pretty bland.
Rolling thunder is g.i.joes awesome power that makes cobra running scared 😰.
I'm 16 but I act like an old 80s toys to I started off with this old 90s figure I'm sorry for the 97 going backwards
I had this figure. Wow gi joe was awesome back then. Vehicles of all types. Miss making war scenarios with these great figures and vehicles. I’m lucky my parents were able to get me most of the vehicles and figures I wanted lol. The rolling thunder, the f16 jet, the raven , the three level mobile battle station, the cobra sea spray and the list goes on and on. The biggest battle station I got was the space shuttle one. That thing was huge and heavy if not for the wheels to roll it out my closet lol 😂.
Like you said Mr. Mike the 1982 joe's were really the only ones maybe along with the '83 that really had a true military feel to them. The later ones were so bright and colorful and had the muscels like Arnold Swartanagger or Sly Stallone that they looked stupid.
I could be wrong because I never had the toy. But I always believed based on what was written about the Rolling Thunder that it was actually a nuclear weapons platform. The twin missiles are actually intercontinental ballistic rockets. And like many nuclear rockets.... It had multiple warheads inside the missle for attacking multiple targets. Maybe someone can correct me on that.
my rolling thunder has squeaky wheels to. must be very common with rolling thunders nowadays
Yo joe Michael Mercy. I would have used the GI Joe Rolling Thunder as a vehicle Cobra would steal do you use the warheads and Joe would have to find a way to bring back their vehicle and powerful weapon and take it out of cobras hands
This was literally the last G i joe Vehicle i got as a kid and it was sick! ....i was 13 and really didnt wana stop collecting....but all my friends had stopped......peer preasure at its most insidious lol
COBRA LA LA LA LA!! Sorry, watching Gi Joe the movie Lol
I love my Rolling Thunder, I bought mine for 9 dollars new at a discount store, there were two incomplete boxes, I took the most complete one and most of the missing parts were on the big table where they were placed, and some in the other open box, not many, apparently many people put their hands on them and many small parts and missiles ended up out of the boxes, honest mistake, sorry but no sorry!!
How can I find my missing accessories for my joe bases and vehicles? Please and thank you
Beyond great video
To think the Tomahawk could carry that by itself ( in the comic)
Try with distilled water and soap. It’s the minerals in the tap water that’s leaving the spots.
The one I just bought doesn't have stickers either. Did the Rolling Thunder really not have any?
I used to have the Rolling Thunder but when I was moving someone stole it from me been mad ever since and had over 300 Gi Joes figures
Imagine what will happen if cobra stole the rolling thunder from the joes
The yellow missiles dont look right on them, better to just leave them all off. In fact most of the red missiles can go too, they dont fit with the aesthetics of the vehicle, i would only keep 1 missile on either side of the giant rear turret.
Honestly I always felt like this should have been a Cobra vehicle.
How does he perform advanced reconnaissance with those loud-ass pants.
I had this as a kid got it for Christmas my sister hated me for it cause she spent 6 hours putting it together lol
Would those ballistic missiles happen to be the biggest missile/bombs in the joe line??
I’d of called him Shellshock due so that thing man
Those monster misile imagine to blow cobra island with them😂went i was i kid
One of the only big GI Joe toys I had as a kid. I wish I had it now >.
I had one of these growing up. I loved it! 🇺🇸
Now also wondering if you can fit a Joe fig inside a missile silo
I had it, man what a blast from the past... Thanks.
This was the best! Christmas 1989 for me.
What did this cost you to buy and when did you get it?
1980's designer's, top notch 👌
I had this, it was my FAV-O-RIT!!!
All that noise it makes it truly worth the name rolling thunder
I would have named him AC/DC
My favorite gi joe vehicle!
the rolling thunder is a missle
my first joe what starker
When a massive artillery cannon on wheels that's already covered in a hundred different missiles isn't enough, might as well add a couple of nukes on top.
No kill like overkill, right?
And the nukes are covered in missiles...just to be safe. 🤣
growing up I had a neighbor whose son got a big stash of gi joes when he was like 6. We were both about 8yr old at the time and THIS awesome thing was one of the things he had. When his parents moved he got rid of his gi joes because he never played with them. Obviously he gifted them to me, right? nope. I miss this thing and wish he would have given them to me when he left. Even his parents knew I liked to play with them because I'd bring mine over since I had a lot of cobra stuff, like the white jet that splits in 2!
That white cobra jet that split into 2 pieces is none other than the 1989 Cobra Condor, with the Aero-Viper figure.
The W.H.A.L.E. and Rolling Thunder were my favorite Joe Christmas presents
Toothbrush, toothbrush, toothbrush, snowmobiles, motorcycles,mountain bikes and more!
thats a cool vehicle!
Good memories
How about Hardtop
Drying soapy water with at shirt typically avoids streaks and spots 😊 post rinse. The spots come from micro raises and crevasses in the paint. Hopefully that’s helpful.
Miss this bad boy
Great job cleaning it off wow...i dread it every time i get a dirty piece
I love it brings me back mike thanks love the sound effect
The Rolling Thunder theme song sounds like something Charlie from Always Sunny would write and sing...
Great video and this is still one of the vehicles that I think is a must have. Both as is, and using the base body for custom work. And, since I work there, Huachuca is pronounced wha-choo-ka. Thanks for the great content and keep it up.
I had 1. You should cover next Thunderclap. I also had that monster toy.
I had this one
Great video.
Still have mine downstairs, and unlike most of my Joes and TFs I know exactly where it is.
Awsome video
Got it for Christmas when I was 6ish. Went to school after the holiday and my little brother wrecked it on I think the first day. Still hold a little grudge