Your enthusiasm for childhood toys is infectious! It really brings me back to the days when using your imagination was key in making great vehicles that you just didn't have. Keep up the great videos and your love for GI Joe!
I bought my son an ambulance that had dirt bikes and an atv that he used along with the Joe vehicles I bought at a yard sale for $20.00. It was used as an undercover vehicle or troop transport depending on what he was doing.
As a kid I had some knock off brand police chopper, it was blue so I had Cobra use it, but it had a real light under it so you could make it a search chopper, it also had a clear hooked handle that you connect to a knob above center portion of the blades that made them spin & activated the light. That made using it easy & realistic seeming flight & hover! Also had a cable! That thing was the bomb! The crappy figures it came with looked terrible but they were the same size as Joes so it worked!
Man oh man... while we still have lines that share Joe scale today; I feel gems like your chopper are all but extinct. The playing field is a lot narrower. I’d love to see pics of yours!
GI Joburg. Wish I had pics, sadly I don’t. I also sold all my stuff in a yard sale once I was too old to really play with them, your channel brings lots of good memories back. Thanks for doing it. Kids today don’t know what they missed!
I use to do similar things with Transformers when I was a kid. (An "Orguss" toy I had as a kid used to be my substitute for Arcee. I'd never seen the Orguss animé so I never felt any sentimentality to the original Mecha.) As for vehicles that could carry G.I. Joes, I used to use a 1:18 scale General Lee from 2000. To drive the General, I got Mego's Bo and Luke -- who for some reason, unlike the rest of their toy line, were built like 1982 G.I. Joes -- unscrewed the bottom from the car body, sat them in the seats, and carefully reassembled the car.
Heh! Not gonna make any quick getaways if that’s how they enter the vehicle! But I’ll bet even dated Mego figures look good inside the car. Nice! And was the Orguss figure grey with a brown head and green optics? I had something like that.
@@gijoburg I think the Orguss figure was a bluish-gray (if you've seen Hogan's Heroes, the color of that 6-wheeled "staff car") with brown secondary parts and red eyes. Laying Orguss on his back, bointing the feet and toes forward, tucking the wings underneath and tucking the arms, hands and backplate behind the head, it did kind of pass for Arcee or Blurr's convertible roadster modes.
@@gijoburgAs for the General, here's a phot from my FB album. (I hope it displays.) scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-0/p640x640/11999741_10101761161819780_5450040509371361831_o.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ohc=cLnDeekw4HIAX9KYWox&_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&_nc_tp=1002&oh=8ddfe8f3f95c5256abf3f2efeec4cc4e&oe=5EA60F0E I always imagined "Duke" in a "Dukes Car", but never tried it.
I wish I had had more Adventure People for that exact reason! Tough to play out hostage situations when you have like five of them and no females. You start looking at the PlayMobil figures thinking: "well those could be teenagers..."
I forgot how I used to use my Fisher-Price vehicles with my GI Joes (and their figures too). Thanks for reminding me of the good old days playing with my joes splayed out and all dumped over the floor of my TV room as a kid. Before I got my Mobile command center for Hanuka, I made do with fortresses made out of simple wooden blocks or tinker toys as well. A final thought, As amazing as all those sets and figures were from 83-89 (roughly) I would have been boxed in (no flag points included) by what product put out and you helped me appreciate and recall how i needed to nudge my imagination a bit further so that I could broaden my fun with some commandeered civilian boats or motorcycles( Man, I wanted the R.A.M.) for the dreadnoks .
Hi I'm just watching your old videos on a very sunny afternoon here in England. Your video has reminded me of just how much imagination we had as kids. I used to make base's for my Joe's that were 5ft tall out of cardboard boxes. I promise that is not an exaggeration!! Each box was another level that could be accessed through ladders and hatches. Your totally right about there being loads of generic vehicles that could be incorporated into Joe or Cobra rides!! Anyway as always lots of support from me.
Thanks Matt! You reminded my of something - to this day I STILL have these enormous polystyrene shapes I used to use as structures and buildings. I even went as far as to paint them grey! Had ladders and steps too! Ah, to be a child again...
You are truly inspiring me to make GiJoe vehicles for my kids who were not actually GiJoe vehicles. I move around shops with ship toys like tractors and trucks imagining "How do I can attach some turrets, missile launchers and canons on that plus just enough armor to make it look like a military vehicle ?
A good coat of military looking paint is a start! Even a pickup truck by Bruder can look like an enemy "Techincal" (a 4x4 with a machine gun on top) with the right tone of tan!
@@gijoburg My problems start with getting the machine guns, cannons and missiles. Where do I can find a Hasbro Arms Dealers and a 3D Printing Machine ?
Great vehicles man!!! The thing you complained about of the Dragonfly was what I loved about it, the droopy rotors. The rotors droop like that IRL. When MH-60, SH-60, UH-60, AH-6, AH-1Z, and most other helicopters have their rotors strapped to the ground when on a flight line or amphibious vessel deck. I love that Chap-Mei helicopter. Time for me to look for it; I love your matte black paint job with haze grey interior, great job. When I was younger, I am older than you, born in '71, I had Fisher Price Adventure People toys. Boats, jeeps, motorcycles, a six wheeled offroad vehicle, a news van, a twin hulled boat that attached to an airplane, a submarine, etc. Zartan would frequently utilize the Fisher Price vehicles, and I could use the Fisher Price action figures as Zartan and the disguised Dreadnoks. Kids play with what they got man!!!!!!!! Great vid!
Great comment Boba! I inherited a few Fisher Price vehicles from my siblings and they saw a lot of use before I started getting actual Joe vehicles. I would strap Joe weapons to them for offensive capabilities. And you are spot on about the rotor droop. Very authentic!
Dude, awesome list! I also used to have that playmobil set. I would have gone nuts if I knew that chinook existed back then. It is just a great vehicle and fits gi joe so well! Cool vid!
Thanks! Yup, that chopper was my Tomahawk before I had a Tomahawk! It's big, tough, and even now that I have the official Joe chopper; this thing still plays a big role. Can't beat that spacious interior 😎
Awesome video. Like you, my brother and I would often use other vehicles and playsets with our Joes. AS you mentioned, Star Wars was a big part of that. We also used the Dukes of Hazard, the A-Team, and Buck Rogers as well.
Yeah man, Cobra's been going begging for a decent sub for forever. Thank goodness for the imitation brands! It's amazing how they can deliver a slew of massive vehicles in the current economic climate.
I was thinking on how I used to use the playmospace set for my joes. That one you showed as #2 came with an octagon shaped space ship that had two airlocks and multiple stations inside. I used to use it for a command center since I never got a joe base or any other large playset.
I had that space station! It’s featured in one of our vids dealing with non-GI Joe playsets. As a kid I too had none of the official playsets and stuff like Playmobil inherited from my big bro filled the gap. What a legendary toy that was?! Awesome.
There was a rather great plastic "bathtub" boat that was in black and silver that had a transparent red canopy that held a single seat perfect for GIJoe. Of course, when the bigger figures came out (same as even older sized ones) there was a great spaceship/playset from the Apollo 13 line that fit them...mainly because the Apollo 13 Astronauts they released for the line used the base bodies from some of the cheaper large Joes (The most noticeable used the, I believe, Grunt one where they even included the facial scar he had on his cheek without even trying to disguise the look).
I used to see a generic GI Joe toyline at ToysRUs and it had a few vehicles that Hasbro never did and they were huge, hanging from the ceiling! Don't know how well made they were though. Had to sub because your comment about "figures with removable helmets were also spacemen" made me laugh.
And as far as the quality of the generic massive vehicles go- I can vouch for the older stuff being of a decent quality, more robust than Joe but with corners cut here and there in terms of sculpting and detail. I speak specifically about lines like Chap Mei's Soldier Force and Power Team Elite's Word Peacekeepers. Those toys certainly filled some holes that Joe never quite got to.
I had the same playmobil spaceship when I was a kid, and I also used it with my gijoe figures. A lot of playmobil stuff works great with the vintage figures!
... and it's heartbreaking when they don't fit! I spent so much time last weekend carving out a Playmobil plane just to get figures to fit!!! Rrrr! And don't get me started on the seats in the space station!
Oh man, I loved using Tron bikes with Joes! And of course I pretended that they projected those walls of light AND they could even travel vertically up walls. Awesome times.
You should do a Top 10 Non-GI Joe figures that were fun to play with the Joes. Here are a few I can think of: Captain Power(Soaron), Star Wars(Boba Fet), Remco(Hidden Force Ninja), D&D (WarDuke), Crystar(Moltar), and so many more!
Great concept for a video! My 9 year old and I mix and match all kinds of vehicles and action figures when we play war. We make up creative excuses for why things aren't always quite on scale with each other, like radiation or mutation or aliens.... the only limit is our imagination.
Now that is something I'm going to need a nine year old of my own in order to do. Because I am a true blue slave to scale! I. Can't. Mix. Can't. Do. It.
Cool! Great vid! It was always fun mixing compatible toylines together. I had the B6 Quad and Bike but never saw the Mule in person, but wanted it badly lol.
Aw man, it was crazy. They had this massive, gorgeous white jet in the cartoon that could carry the van, and the van itself had a passenger seat in the cab behind the driver seats. Creative License...
Thanks Matt! Am I right in assuming the Chinook is far more notorious in media representation? To a layperson like me, it tends to come to mind a lot sooner than any other helo with that configuration.
@@gijoburg It probably is. The easy way to tell the difference is that the Sea Knight has a single forward landing gear under the nose and two rear ones on short pods while the Chinook has 4 landing gear sets on long side pods. Of course a lot of media misidentifies the Sea Knight as well, I'm sure. I guess I'm just picky about the difference since I served on a Navy ship that had Sea Knights and I rode in them a few times. I even got a chance to make use of that winch to be raised and lowered onto the ship in a training exercise.
That Indiana Jones truck is so great! I wished I had some basic military logistical vehicles like that back in the day. I would have gotten so much use out of it!
Are you guys going to produce another epic Joeburg style review on the tactical battle platform? Been really waiting for that production. Great narration, awesome cinematography and epic reviews. Keep up the excellent work guys!
Great idea! And after the Sea Ray, we've already got our location scouted out! But perhaps we need to show the TTBP in some more unusual settings? It's going onto the list!
One of the biggest things G.I. Joeburg brings to the table is imagination and engineering when it comes to playset functionality and utility. Your USS Flagg hull conversion is legendary and has helped many collectors benefit from its engineering. Maybe some Joeburg imaginative engineering could help the Battle Platform! I can't wait for the review! Thanks for all that you do guys!
Haha! We're no artisans really, just guys who want to get the most out of their playthings. Nothing glaringly wrong with the TTBP I must say! But maybe a full review will expose some improvement possibilities. Thank you for the praise! Glad you're enjoying our little corner of the 'Tube!
thats an awesome little collection of non joe vehicles i like the chap mei stuff especially the vintage corps stuff hope we get you the funds to come over to the states brother!!
I had the 8-sided space base from Playmobil too and used it a fair bit in conjunction with the ships. Even featured it on a vid on the channel that dealt with the best non-Joe playsets!
Thanks for sharing! My go-to special mission vehicles were the Blue Thunder Helicopter, KITT (Knight Rider), A-Team Van, some generic Jeep and the Voltron Black Lion. Heh. I'm old, lmao.
I realize this doesn't meet your criteria, but this is a perfect replacement for the SNAKE suit (which always looked ridiculous, imho): img.amiami.jp/images/product/main/121/TOY-SCL2-09734.jpg It's the right scale, and once painted up and given a few appropriate Cobra waterslides (which cost about $1.50 online), it fits right in.
The Fisher Price Adventure People Sea Explorer was the only way my Joes could get to the Tactical Battle Platform until I finally got a Devilfish. No guns but it did have a cool Sea Sled thing with it.
Woah! I had hoped I'd find someone who did! A lot of folks rattle on about the Galoob A-Team van. But how cool is that space ship? Side by side seats and it fit Joes just perfect.
Please cover playsets. I need to grab a few bases and Joe bases are either expensive nowadays, fragile due to age or poor construction ("The Pit" comes to mind), or... well that's about it.
I have a handful of playsets, but I fear far from a comprehensive list! I'll get around to showcasing the best playsets of my youth for a laugh - more Playmobil!
That white vehicle looks like the one that came with the driver "Deep Six"... I can remember the drivers name but not the vehicle name... but you know which one I mean.
Yep, I'm sure a spiffy paint job with some rust details even would make this toy totally realistic! I was crap at custom paint jobs when I was a kid, so I'm grateful I didn't attempt it!
I, myself, would not go as far as rust, but, a lesser playmo color scheme. perhaps details inside, like a pro model kit, adding realism. some civilians really add diversity and realism to the script - story. figures from other brand toys do a decent job. playmo vehicles, especially in this case, are quite convincing, good show!
Steve, you GOTTA paint that Chinook/Tomahawk chopper Cobra Blue, give it some Cobra sigils, and park a HISS in it. That is absolutely a Cobra transport which was regularly featured in the Marvel comic. I always wished they'd make one, and you have it mate!
Aw man! I only wish! I fear the HiSS is just a little too tall to fit! And what's wrong with the Helo being Cobra Black? All I need are the sigils! And a duster. Cos that thing is dirrrrrrrrty!
Great fun! Mate and I for our joes used A team van, play mobile space ufo saucer thing (That had beds, science lab, command area). A broken transformers metroplex used to be a variety of hi tech gadgetry for Joe's. And a robo cop police car, which was in a very bad smashed up way. 😊
I know I'm 3 years late but have you ever seen the Godzilla 1998 Trendmasters vehicles? They work very well with GI JOE figures and in the 1/18 scale range. They have the Apache attack Helicopter and along with the F18 Super Hornet Jet.
I love me a fresh comment on this thread… I can’t say I’m familiar with that line, and I’m really looking forward to researching it now. But I’m wary of falling down a potentially expensive rabbit-hole! Thanks Sahara!
@@gijoburg I hope you like what you see. I currently own both of them, the plastic is amazing and it doesn't feel cheap. It has a fair amount of weight on both of them. I forgot to mention. The vehicles also have damage features (like the Rattler) to add in the play value. I also think they made a humvee for this line too, like a missile launcher variant. I hope they get featured on your channel at some point! :)
I thought this video was most certainly going to include the C-130 Hercules *(AB-115 Shark)* made by *True Heroes.* Now that is a nice piece of GI Joe compatible kit.
Oh believe me, it will find its way into a similar list dealing with more recent releases. I was just being nostalgic on this one. I love that plane, and I mixed it up with some old O-ringers in our last installment of The Atlantis Factor! It's an essential toy!
Man so its been about a year+ since i stopped collecting joes, this popped up in my recommendations, and wow, it makes me really miss collecting O-ring Joes. I remember having fun customizing them, and finding odd vehicles to integrate into my collection.
@gijoburg im debating SO hard to get back in. But currently, my collection is being filled by MOTU and other 5.5 fantasy stuff. Still, i miss part swapping, customizing, and creating joes.
Sadly not. The Osprey can manage a pair of Ferrets, or some troops but that's about it. The Chinook takes first prize for space. You can drive a Thunder Machine into her.
They were great! The paint on the die-cast wasn't made to last but I loved the varied accessories. Such unique equipment and unlike anything we got for Joe. What's more, the backpacks didn't require backplugs so they could be swapped out onto Joes. Awesome.
I was a huge fan of the show "Emergency," and we found an ambulance/fire rescue vehicle at a thrift store in 1980 or so, I didn't find out until about 5 years ago that it came from the Adventure People series...suffice it to say, this became my Joe's ambulance! It worked perfectly!
Hi Dale! Sorry about the absence. Being away from home base and also having inadequate hardware has taken a toll on our output. But might I interest you in the GI Joburg podcast? Plenty of Joe chatter there; you can find us on iTunes, Podbean, Stitcher.
I inherited my brothers adventure people toys in the 80s! They were awesome, the news van was used by the dreadnocks!! They had jeeps, motorcycles! And the alpha probe spaceship! They could take a beating!!!
Oh man that Bionic Six would of been perfect for D.E.F force gijoes, Would of been cool to have a GI:Joe playset to replicate Death Wish era Cannon films. Ideally Vamps and Tanks where the best for sand and dirt. But limited for inside play.
Hmm for me my go too truck as a kid that I used was the Joker van from the 89 Batman movie. It had a back you could load a few guys in the back. Then it had in the front for two guys. Plus a plastic window in the front which Snake-Eyes or Roadblock would always crash into or throw a Cobra Trooper to take out the driver. I also used Trypitcon from Transformers (his tank mode) as a royal carrier for Serpentor or Destro with HISS or Demon tanks to surround them. And if things got serious to transform him in dinosaur mode to take out Joes (there's a stop on his back which was always perfect for a figure of Joe size. I mean come on. IG Destro on the back of a robot Dinosaur? There was also some a cruiser I owned. I don't know what it was other than a toy my dad had which he passed on to me. I used it for the Joes since I didn't really own any Joe watercraft until later on (Tiger Force forgot the name of it).
Now I want a Trypticon to try that out. Fascinating. I could never mix Joe and TF's because I just had mundane TF's that would transform into undersized vehicles. But a mechanical beast TF? Yes, that could work very nicely. Awesome!
Well, they just did a new mold of him (I just bought one not two days ago because a friend was playing the devil on my side telling me, "Hey Amazon has the new Trypticon for cheap. Come on... You know you want him. He's a Decepticon. You love Decepticons." But-- I have no idea how he fares with Joes old or Modern YET. I will let you in on an update to that when I deal with the sticker sheet first (or I give into secondary temptation and get the Reprolabels of him). Takara re-released the original version two or three years ago (I think). Trypticon was the only TF I mixed with my Joes just because of his size. That's probably your best way to go with the same old style. TFsource might still have him in stock. And yes THEY STILL DO. tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/12497/
Plus after watch the USS Flagg behind your head I get into conclusion that the ship is in perfect scale. The wrong thing in scale are the vehicles made for the toy line.
Uhhh, not even close. Have you ever seen a real aircraft carrier up close? An aircraft carrier like the Flagg would be over 1000 feet long in real life. At 1:18 scale (the size of 3.75" figures), that would be over 60 feet long (roughly the size of a REAL F-14 tomcat).
@@mattelder1971 thank you for the information. I never had the pleasure to step a feet over the deck of a real aircraft carrier. Shame on me. #REMAKETHETOMCATFOR2030
I think they deserve a list of their own! I have many of them and they are perfect toys in their simple reproductions of cool real vehicles. Yep. Definitely doing a top five of PTE. But I let this list focus more on nostalgia; toys that I played with intensely and perhaps even more than actual Joe vehicles in my youth! Stay tuned!
Both my sisters had glamor gal toys... they had a red trans am that I stole from my sisters lol. I also had the a-team van and dukes of hazzard general lee lol.
Yeah, I remember building versions of vehicles that I wanted so bad and my mere allowance wasn't enough unless I saved for a few months..and that was a lifetime back them. Thank the Joe Universe that I got a paper route! lol
I always used Fisher Price Adventure People vehicles, Gaytoys Laserforce, and a Processsed Plastics M60 tank that had the compartment in the back for storage. Even though the next two aren't technically vehicles I used a Sgt Rock Bad Guys anti aircraft gun and the Mattel Flying Aces Aircraft carrier. Even though it didn't have wheels and was slightly out of scale for my Joes I still pushed that thing all over the yard. My dragonfly copter spent a many a afternoon landing and taking off from it.
I think the biggest thrill I've gotten out of this thread is tracking down images of all these exotic and unknown toys! I am familiar with Lazerforce now; and those seem like really fun sci fi stand-ins. But I'm now very interested to run a Google search for your carrier!
GI Joburg it was from the 70's. When the older kid nextdoor moved away he gave it to me. You can actually find a video of it on youtube. It came with foam airplanes that launched off the deck with rubberbands. It was more in scale with plastic armymen. But through the wonders of childhood imagination it became important piece of some of our Gi Joe battles.
Not all of them worked perfectly; but the ones that did... whoo boy, great additions to Joe! And vehicle types we would never get from Hasbro. Like a ferry! And a crane! And a commercial passenger plane!
That line had some very cool rubber accessories I found. Like a mesh cargo net and lines and eye hooks for hitching cargo to the undersides of craft. I don't think I show it off but there's a hook under the "Chinook"! How cool? But equally cool to use it with a Dragonfly or Tomahawk!
I use to buy Joes from this cool little new and used toy store and could get lose Joes for 2 bucks. They would usually end up firecracker fodder or cyborgs or I would make new ones out of them. One time the owner took out a box filled with accessories and would let me pick out guns and backpacks and that sort of thing. I think that's where I got that ladder from but later could never figure out what vehicle it was from. I usually used that for tree forts. Also loved your use of the playmobile stuff. I use to use the gas station I had for the Dreadnoks.
Most of those were English toys I used to use tonka adventure toys they had figures about Joe size and they had some good pieces I still have the van moto bikes and kayaks and parachute but those look good but no chance getting here
I have never sadly been to a Joe Con. Only reason was because it was a choice between Bot Con or Joe Con. Bot Con was easier to see that one year. Ugh.. one day I shall go to you as well Joe Con.
It is really just so good! What pipped it for me will always be a nostalgia thing. I just have more memories attached to the older stuff. But in terms of use nowadays? That helicopter is on top. Huuuuuge!
At the time I interacted my Action force figures (yes I’m English! 😉) with my A-Team figures. If there was a job the “Joe’s” couldn’t handle, they called in the A-Team in to help out, with the occasional back up from various characters
Thank you! Yep, Joe conquered all. It stood to reason, they outclassed all other figures be it Star Wars or Adventure People. All your vehicles are OURS!
True that! I had quite a bit of FP; but you know what tore it for me was that Adventure People had narrower hips than Joes and as a result the vehicles were too often a heartbreaking near-fit!
This is my first time seeing the M.U.L.E. and the playschool spaceship, both are pretty awesome. Will be on the lookout to add to my collection. The line I most regret not being aware of is Tonka Steel Monsters. I outgrew Joe by the time it came out but the kenner aliens powerlifter would have gotten some good playtime in too.
Aw man, I wanted the power lifter too, never saw the toy in the flesh sadly. And you're not the first to mention Steel Monsters to me. I think I may have to track those bad boys down!
We got em in abundance back home, right as the cartoon aired. Toy Galaxy did a great vid on Bionic 6 and why it failed in the US market. Timing of product and toon is essential! By the time they reached Africa, LJN had learned that lesson.
And for a big chunk of time Joe went away (much like right now); these other toylines were still producing so it was a natural move. I'm glad I was forced not to be a purist from early on since my Joe collection was pretty limited. So these alternatives found a place of pride in my collection!
My favorite non Joe toy I used was the Robotech Cyclone their hands could even hold the grips
I’ll have to check that out. Love me a transforming bike!
Your enthusiasm for childhood toys is infectious! It really brings me back to the days when using your imagination was key in making great vehicles that you just didn't have. Keep up the great videos and your love for GI Joe!
I bought my son an ambulance that had dirt bikes and an atv that he used along with the Joe vehicles I bought at a yard sale for $20.00. It was used as an undercover vehicle or troop transport depending on what he was doing.
As a kid I had some knock off brand police chopper, it was blue so I had Cobra use it, but it had a real light under it so you could make it a search chopper, it also had a clear hooked handle that you connect to a knob above center portion of the blades that made them spin & activated the light. That made using it easy & realistic seeming flight & hover! Also had a cable! That thing was the bomb! The crappy figures it came with looked terrible but they were the same size as Joes so it worked!
Man oh man... while we still have lines that share Joe scale today; I feel gems like your chopper are all but extinct. The playing field is a lot narrower. I’d love to see pics of yours!
GI Joburg. Wish I had pics, sadly I don’t. I also sold all my stuff in a yard sale once I was too old to really play with them, your channel brings lots of good memories back. Thanks for doing it. Kids today don’t know what they missed!
I use to do similar things with Transformers when I was a kid. (An "Orguss" toy I had as a kid used to be my substitute for Arcee. I'd never seen the Orguss animé so I never felt any sentimentality to the original Mecha.)
As for vehicles that could carry G.I. Joes, I used to use a 1:18 scale General Lee from 2000. To drive the General, I got Mego's Bo and Luke -- who for some reason, unlike the rest of their toy line, were built like 1982 G.I. Joes -- unscrewed the bottom from the car body, sat them in the seats, and carefully reassembled the car.
Heh! Not gonna make any quick getaways if that’s how they enter the vehicle! But I’ll bet even dated Mego figures look good inside the car. Nice!
And was the Orguss figure grey with a brown head and green optics? I had something like that.
@@gijoburg I think the Orguss figure was a bluish-gray (if you've seen Hogan's Heroes, the color of that 6-wheeled "staff car") with brown secondary parts and red eyes.
Laying Orguss on his back, bointing the feet and toes forward, tucking the wings underneath and tucking the arms, hands and backplate behind the head, it did kind of pass for Arcee or Blurr's convertible roadster modes.
@@gijoburgAs for the General, here's a phot from my FB album. (I hope it displays.)
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I always imagined "Duke" in a "Dukes Car", but never tried it.
That is a beautiful General Lee. Wow. Metal construction by the looks of it. Nice!
Me and my friend use to use Adventure People vehicles and of course adventure people themselves as civilian fodder.
I wish I had had more Adventure People for that exact reason! Tough to play out hostage situations when you have like five of them and no females. You start looking at the PlayMobil figures thinking: "well those could be teenagers..."
we did the same ,I had so many adventure people and vehicles, when gi joe came out is was a slaughter of adventure people unprepared to face soldiers.
I used Adventure People as Zartan and the disguised Dreadnoks. Then they could fit in all of the narrow five POA seats, lol.
Me too!
your very creative and I'm a fan of the channel bro 👍👍 keep up the good work and thanks for the upload
Thanks for commenting! Good to have you on board! YO JOE!
I forgot how I used to use my Fisher-Price vehicles with my GI Joes (and their figures too). Thanks for reminding me of the good old days playing with my joes splayed out and all dumped over the floor of my TV room as a kid. Before I got my Mobile command center for Hanuka, I made do with fortresses made out of simple wooden blocks or tinker toys as well.
A final thought, As amazing as all those sets and figures were from 83-89 (roughly) I would have been boxed in (no flag points included) by what product put out and you helped me appreciate and recall how i needed to nudge my imagination a bit further so that I could broaden my fun with some commandeered civilian boats or motorcycles( Man, I wanted the R.A.M.) for the dreadnoks .
Hi I'm just watching your old videos on a very sunny afternoon here in England. Your video has reminded me of just how much imagination we had as kids. I used to make base's for my Joe's that were 5ft tall out of cardboard boxes. I promise that is not an exaggeration!! Each box was another level that could be accessed through ladders and hatches. Your totally right about there being loads of generic vehicles that could be incorporated into Joe or Cobra rides!! Anyway as always lots of support from me.
Thanks Matt! You reminded my of something - to this day I STILL have these enormous polystyrene shapes I used to use as structures and buildings. I even went as far as to paint them grey! Had ladders and steps too! Ah, to be a child again...
You are truly inspiring me to make GiJoe vehicles for my kids who were not actually GiJoe vehicles. I move around shops with ship toys like tractors and trucks imagining "How do I can attach some turrets, missile launchers and canons on that plus just enough armor to make it look like a military vehicle ?
A good coat of military looking paint is a start! Even a pickup truck by Bruder can look like an enemy "Techincal" (a 4x4 with a machine gun on top) with the right tone of tan!
@@gijoburg My problems start with getting the machine guns, cannons and missiles. Where do I can find a Hasbro Arms Dealers and a 3D Printing Machine ?
Stay in the toy collecting game long enough and you'll soon have more armaments than you know what to do with!
Great vehicles man!!! The thing you complained about of the Dragonfly was what I loved about it, the droopy rotors. The rotors droop like that IRL. When MH-60, SH-60, UH-60, AH-6, AH-1Z, and most other helicopters have their rotors strapped to the ground when on a flight line or amphibious vessel deck.
I love that Chap-Mei helicopter. Time for me to look for it; I love your matte black paint job with haze grey interior, great job. When I was younger, I am older than you, born in '71, I had Fisher Price Adventure People toys. Boats, jeeps, motorcycles, a six wheeled offroad vehicle, a news van, a twin hulled boat that attached to an airplane, a submarine, etc. Zartan would frequently utilize the Fisher Price vehicles, and I could use the Fisher Price action figures as Zartan and the disguised Dreadnoks. Kids play with what they got man!!!!!!!! Great vid!
Great comment Boba! I inherited a few Fisher Price vehicles from my siblings and they saw a lot of use before I started getting actual Joe vehicles. I would strap Joe weapons to them for offensive capabilities.
And you are spot on about the rotor droop. Very authentic!
Dude, awesome list! I also used to have that playmobil set. I would have gone nuts if I knew that chinook existed back then. It is just a great vehicle and fits gi joe so well! Cool vid!
Thanks! Yup, that chopper was my Tomahawk before I had a Tomahawk! It's big, tough, and even now that I have the official Joe chopper; this thing still plays a big role. Can't beat that spacious interior 😎
Awesome video. Like you, my brother and I would often use other vehicles and playsets with our Joes. AS you mentioned, Star Wars was a big part of that. We also used the Dukes of Hazard, the A-Team, and Buck Rogers as well.
I saw the A-Team van, but was there a General Lee in scale with GI Joe?! Awesome.
my favorite is a recent purchase, the True Heroes Sentinel1 Submarine. Ive set it up with the cobra forces and it looks amazing.
Yeah man, Cobra's been going begging for a decent sub for forever. Thank goodness for the imitation brands! It's amazing how they can deliver a slew of massive vehicles in the current economic climate.
I was thinking on how I used to use the playmospace set for my joes. That one you showed as #2 came with an octagon shaped space ship that had two airlocks and multiple stations inside. I used to use it for a command center since I never got a joe base or any other large playset.
I had that space station! It’s featured in one of our vids dealing with non-GI Joe playsets. As a kid I too had none of the official playsets and stuff like Playmobil inherited from my big bro filled the gap. What a legendary toy that was?! Awesome.
I had the robin hood Prince of thieves Sherwood forest playset... still my fav base for my joes
Here in Africa we had real trees! 🤣
There was a rather great plastic "bathtub" boat that was in black and silver that had a transparent red canopy that held a single seat perfect for GIJoe.
Of course, when the bigger figures came out (same as even older sized ones) there was a great spaceship/playset from the Apollo 13 line that fit them...mainly because the Apollo 13 Astronauts they released for the line used the base bodies from some of the cheaper large Joes (The most noticeable used the, I believe, Grunt one where they even included the facial scar he had on his cheek without even trying to disguise the look).
Had the mule when I was younger and used it for my joes, also used it as punisher's van
Great toy! We're the lucky ones to have that sweet toy.
I used to see a generic GI Joe toyline at ToysRUs and it had a few vehicles that Hasbro never did and they were huge, hanging from the ceiling! Don't know how well made they were though.
Had to sub because your comment about "figures with removable helmets were also spacemen" made me laugh.
Thanks for the comment and the sub! I hope you like our occasional vid popping onto your feed!
And as far as the quality of the generic massive vehicles go- I can vouch for the older stuff being of a decent quality, more robust than Joe but with corners cut here and there in terms of sculpting and detail. I speak specifically about lines like Chap Mei's Soldier Force and Power Team Elite's Word Peacekeepers. Those toys certainly filled some holes that Joe never quite got to.
I had the same playmobil spaceship when I was a kid, and I also used it with my gijoe figures. A lot of playmobil stuff works great with the vintage figures!
... and it's heartbreaking when they don't fit! I spent so much time last weekend carving out a Playmobil plane just to get figures to fit!!! Rrrr! And don't get me started on the seats in the space station!
Fisher Price stuff was great back in the day with the Joes and I could remember using the Tron cycle which provided a lot of fun.
Oh man, I loved using Tron bikes with Joes! And of course I pretended that they projected those walls of light AND they could even travel vertically up walls. Awesome times.
You should do a Top 10 Non-GI Joe figures that were fun to play with the Joes. Here are a few I can think of: Captain Power(Soaron), Star Wars(Boba Fet), Remco(Hidden Force Ninja), D&D (WarDuke), Crystar(Moltar), and so many more!
Ooooooh! Now that is a Captain Power figure I want! Aaaaaah, my wants list is too long!
I had that Playmobil sci fi craft! I loved that thing. I used it as a flying/hovercraft vehicle. Great toy!
Not all Playmobil could accommodate a Joe, but that thing did perfectly!
Great concept for a video! My 9 year old and I mix and match all kinds of vehicles and action figures when we play war. We make up creative excuses for why things aren't always quite on scale with each other, like radiation or mutation or aliens.... the only limit is our imagination.
Now that is something I'm going to need a nine year old of my own in order to do. Because I am a true blue slave to scale! I. Can't. Mix. Can't. Do. It.
Cool! Great vid! It was always fun mixing compatible toylines together. I had the B6 Quad and Bike but never saw the Mule in person, but wanted it badly lol.
Yip, I got really lucky there. One Xmas I got the whole lot. They work so nicely together.
Did the Bionic 6 have to ride on 2 MULEs, or did they send half of the team off in public transportation?
Aw man, it was crazy. They had this massive, gorgeous white jet in the cartoon that could carry the van, and the van itself had a passenger seat in the cab behind the driver seats. Creative License...
By the way, #3 is a CH-46 Sea Knight, not a CH-47 Chinook. They are similar, but the pods for the landing gear are very different.
Thanks Matt! Am I right in assuming the Chinook is far more notorious in media representation? To a layperson like me, it tends to come to mind a lot sooner than any other helo with that configuration.
@@gijoburg It probably is. The easy way to tell the difference is that the Sea Knight has a single forward landing gear under the nose and two rear ones on short pods while the Chinook has 4 landing gear sets on long side pods. Of course a lot of media misidentifies the Sea Knight as well, I'm sure. I guess I'm just picky about the difference since I served on a Navy ship that had Sea Knights and I rode in them a few times. I even got a chance to make use of that winch to be raised and lowered onto the ship in a training exercise.
Here's a good breakdown of the differences www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/ch-467.htm
And an even better article with lots of good pics of both thechive.com/2017/09/14/its-not-a-chinookvisual-difference-of-ch-46-vs-ch-47-helicopters/
Thank you! Very cool to know you have first hand experience of the chopper. I'm a little envious.
Great video! I used to use the Indiana Jones truck as a troop transport other than the APC and some Chap Mei vehicles as well!
That Indiana Jones truck is so great! I wished I had some basic military logistical vehicles like that back in the day. I would have gotten so much use out of it!
"I'm sorry Barbie, Snake Eyes and I need to commandeer your pink Corvette!"..... that really made my Sis mad.
I totally did that too! And the Barbie house was a massive Joe stronghold before she got back from school!
WarParty! At the Outpost
That's awesome
WarParty! At the Outpost, my sister just said "Barbie will drive, snake can shoot"
Are you guys going to produce another epic Joeburg style review on the tactical battle platform? Been really waiting for that production. Great narration, awesome cinematography and epic reviews. Keep up the excellent work guys!
Great idea! And after the Sea Ray, we've already got our location scouted out! But perhaps we need to show the TTBP in some more unusual settings? It's going onto the list!
One of the biggest things G.I. Joeburg brings to the table is imagination and engineering when it comes to playset functionality and utility. Your USS Flagg hull conversion is legendary and has helped many collectors benefit from its engineering. Maybe some Joeburg imaginative engineering could help the Battle Platform! I can't wait for the review! Thanks for all that you do guys!
Haha! We're no artisans really, just guys who want to get the most out of their playthings. Nothing glaringly wrong with the TTBP I must say! But maybe a full review will expose some improvement possibilities. Thank you for the praise! Glad you're enjoying our little corner of the 'Tube!
thats an awesome little collection of non joe vehicles i like the chap mei stuff especially the vintage corps stuff hope we get you the funds to come over to the states brother!!
Thanks Mike! Got some fave non Joe vehicles of your own?
The MULE reminds me off the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle from the movie STRIPES
Lol!
I always felt the same way about the HAVOC -- like an EM-50 on tracks.
I had that Playmobil space ship as well and used it exactly the same way!!
I had the 8-sided space base from Playmobil too and used it a fair bit in conjunction with the ships. Even featured it on a vid on the channel that dealt with the best non-Joe playsets!
galoob star trek tng are that size so were the voltron delux lions. Exosquad worked also
We had the Star Trek line, but for the life of me I wished we had Exo Squad. That stuff looked fun. I would have had such a jam with it as a kid!
Thanks for sharing! My go-to special mission vehicles were the Blue Thunder Helicopter, KITT (Knight Rider), A-Team Van, some generic Jeep and the Voltron Black Lion. Heh. I'm old, lmao.
Formidable list! Very cool. Thanks for commenting!
Thumbs up for K.I.T.T. I do the same thing.
The A-team van was awesome but a pain to get them back out again if they got in the back
Yep - I had the Blue Thunder chopper too. Favorite vehicle!
I realize this doesn't meet your criteria, but this is a perfect replacement for the SNAKE suit (which always looked ridiculous, imho): img.amiami.jp/images/product/main/121/TOY-SCL2-09734.jpg
It's the right scale, and once painted up and given a few appropriate Cobra waterslides (which cost about $1.50 online), it fits right in.
Oh wow! That toy looks incredible! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. It's a cool modern update to the old clunker.
fisher price "adventure people" had some great interchangeable offerings for go joe.
I had great FP vehicles. Boats, cars, helo's, subs and choppers. If this was a top ten list...
The alpha star was a main stay in my collection and early toy battle/story imaginings
Man I wished I had that toy! I studied the catalogue photo of it endlessly.
I'm pretty sure we all used the Alpha Probe until the Defiant came out...
They were great. I had a jungle set. Very well made.
I miss Gijoe. Anything from Mask would fit in perfectly. Starcom for space?
I know right? I only wished the scales matched cos all Joe fans have a fondness for MASK too.
The Fisher Price Adventure People Sea Explorer was the only way my Joes could get to the Tactical Battle Platform until I finally got a Devilfish. No guns but it did have a cool Sea Sled thing with it.
Oh man, I had an FP boat and this yellow sub. Really helped fill in the blanks of my aquatic adventures! Good toys.
Wow! I also used those two exact same Playmobile vehicles for GI Joe! :)
Woah! I had hoped I'd find someone who did! A lot of folks rattle on about the Galoob A-Team van. But how cool is that space ship? Side by side seats and it fit Joes just perfect.
Please cover playsets. I need to grab a few bases and Joe bases are either expensive nowadays, fragile due to age or poor construction ("The Pit" comes to mind), or... well that's about it.
I have a handful of playsets, but I fear far from a comprehensive list! I'll get around to showcasing the best playsets of my youth for a laugh - more Playmobil!
I had that play mobile shuttle as a very young boy, myself!
That white vehicle looks like the one that came with the driver "Deep Six"... I can remember the drivers name but not the vehicle name... but you know which one I mean.
Ah yes, Deep Six and the SHARC- Submersible High-Speed Attack And Reconnaissance Craft. And yes, that was from memory because I am a NERD!
I admit that the chinook and play bus are somewhat interesting.
I d repaint the bus however, so that it looks a bit more realistic.
well done.
Yep, I'm sure a spiffy paint job with some rust details even would make this toy totally realistic! I was crap at custom paint jobs when I was a kid, so I'm grateful I didn't attempt it!
I, myself, would not go as far as rust, but, a lesser playmo color scheme.
perhaps details inside, like a pro model kit, adding realism.
some civilians really add diversity and realism to the script - story.
figures from other brand toys do a decent job.
playmo vehicles, especially in this case, are quite convincing, good show!
i had a blue thunder attack copter from the movie blue thunder, it work for the joes they fit perfectly in the cockpit
I wished I had encountered it growing up, it sounds like it was a great toy!
Steve, you GOTTA paint that Chinook/Tomahawk chopper Cobra Blue, give it some Cobra sigils, and park a HISS in it. That is absolutely a Cobra transport which was regularly featured in the Marvel comic. I always wished they'd make one, and you have it mate!
Aw man! I only wish! I fear the HiSS is just a little too tall to fit! And what's wrong with the Helo being Cobra Black? All I need are the sigils! And a duster. Cos that thing is dirrrrrrrrty!
Great fun! Mate and I for our joes used A team van, play mobile space ufo saucer thing (That had beds, science lab, command area). A broken transformers metroplex used to be a variety of hi tech gadgetry for Joe's. And a robo cop police car, which was in a very bad smashed up way. 😊
Haha! Expect an "old friend" to pop up in the "Top 5 Playsets" vid...
I also had a General Lee from the Dukes of Hazard that I used with my joes
I know I'm 3 years late but have you ever seen the Godzilla 1998 Trendmasters vehicles? They work very well with GI JOE figures and in the 1/18 scale range.
They have the Apache attack Helicopter and along with the F18 Super Hornet Jet.
I love me a fresh comment on this thread… I can’t say I’m familiar with that line, and I’m really looking forward to researching it now. But I’m wary of falling down a potentially expensive rabbit-hole! Thanks Sahara!
@@gijoburg I hope you like what you see. I currently own both of them, the plastic is amazing and it doesn't feel cheap. It has a fair amount of weight on both of them.
I forgot to mention. The vehicles also have damage features (like the Rattler) to add in the play value. I also think they made a humvee for this line too, like a missile launcher variant.
I hope they get featured on your channel at some point! :)
I used the A team van and boat as urban vehicles for my joes
I so wished I had that toy! It totally would have replaced my "school bus". But one thing is sure, GI Joe needed a civilian transport!
Great idea for a video. i used to use Fisher Price Adventure People vehicles, as the were the right size for Action Force/GI Joe.
I thought this video was most certainly going to include the C-130 Hercules *(AB-115 Shark)* made by *True Heroes.* Now that is a nice piece of GI Joe compatible kit.
Oh believe me, it will find its way into a similar list dealing with more recent releases. I was just being nostalgic on this one. I love that plane, and I mixed it up with some old O-ringers in our last installment of The Atlantis Factor! It's an essential toy!
Man so its been about a year+ since i stopped collecting joes, this popped up in my recommendations, and wow, it makes me really miss collecting O-ring Joes. I remember having fun customizing them, and finding odd vehicles to integrate into my collection.
Jump back into the collecting any time! Channels like ours will keep the water warm!
@gijoburg im debating SO hard to get back in. But currently, my collection is being filled by MOTU and other 5.5 fantasy stuff. Still, i miss part swapping, customizing, and creating joes.
@gijoburg im glad your channel is still around. Even if im not currently collecting, i like seeing what youve all been doing and discussing
The osprey does it hold a Jeep like the vamp have the chinook and it’s great
Sadly not. The Osprey can manage a pair of Ferrets, or some troops but that's about it. The Chinook takes first prize for space. You can drive a Thunder Machine into her.
Had the entire run of the Bionic Six, but never had the M.U.L.E.! I loved toys that could mix with GI Joe! Thanks for sharing your video!
You're welcome! I had a blast shooting it! Did you have the lab playset from Bionic Six? Was it cool?
Nope! No lab playset! Just the figures! :(
They were great! The paint on the die-cast wasn't made to last but I loved the varied accessories. Such unique equipment and unlike anything we got for Joe. What's more, the backpacks didn't require backplugs so they could be swapped out onto Joes. Awesome.
I was a huge fan of the show "Emergency," and we found an ambulance/fire rescue vehicle at a thrift store in 1980 or so, I didn't find out until about 5 years ago that it came from the Adventure People series...suffice it to say, this became my Joe's ambulance! It worked perfectly!
I think I might have picked one of those up at a vintage store last year! It’s now Lifeline’s personal ride.
I miss you guys let me know when you do a new video guys have a happy holidays
Hi Dale! Sorry about the absence. Being away from home base and also having inadequate hardware has taken a toll on our output. But might I interest you in the GI Joburg podcast? Plenty of Joe chatter there; you can find us on iTunes, Podbean, Stitcher.
Where is the A team van
I know, right? I need that toy!
I inherited my brothers adventure people toys in the 80s! They were awesome, the news van was used by the dreadnocks!! They had jeeps, motorcycles! And the alpha probe spaceship! They could take a beating!!!
I was wondering when the white bus was going to come up
That van symbol looks like the one from bionic six
Haha! That's because it IS the van from Bionic Six. And I dig it.
Oh man that Bionic Six would of been perfect for D.E.F force gijoes, Would of been cool to have a GI:Joe playset to replicate Death Wish era Cannon films. Ideally Vamps and Tanks where the best for sand and dirt. But limited for inside play.
You're blowing my mind now. I have to track down a copy of this film!
lol :D check them out, some of the best Urban Crime action movies of the 80s
Hmm for me my go too truck as a kid that I used was the Joker van from the 89 Batman movie. It had a back you could load a few guys in the back. Then it had in the front for two guys. Plus a plastic window in the front which Snake-Eyes or Roadblock would always crash into or throw a Cobra Trooper to take out the driver. I also used Trypitcon from Transformers (his tank mode) as a royal carrier for Serpentor or Destro with HISS or Demon tanks to surround them. And if things got serious to transform him in dinosaur mode to take out Joes (there's a stop on his back which was always perfect for a figure of Joe size. I mean come on. IG Destro on the back of a robot Dinosaur? There was also some a cruiser I owned. I don't know what it was other than a toy my dad had which he passed on to me. I used it for the Joes since I didn't really own any Joe watercraft until later on (Tiger Force forgot the name of it).
Now I want a Trypticon to try that out. Fascinating. I could never mix Joe and TF's because I just had mundane TF's that would transform into undersized vehicles. But a mechanical beast TF? Yes, that could work very nicely. Awesome!
Well, they just did a new mold of him (I just bought one not two days ago because a friend was playing the devil on my side telling me, "Hey Amazon has the new Trypticon for cheap. Come on... You know you want him. He's a Decepticon. You love Decepticons." But-- I have no idea how he fares with Joes old or Modern YET. I will let you in on an update to that when I deal with the sticker sheet first (or I give into secondary temptation and get the Reprolabels of him). Takara re-released the original version two or three years ago (I think). Trypticon was the only TF I mixed with my Joes just because of his size. That's probably your best way to go with the same old style. TFsource might still have him in stock. And yes THEY STILL DO. tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/12497/
Not vehicles, but i used Castle Grayskull and Snake Mountain
As would I if I had em. The scale works better for Joes anyway! They can get thru the door!
Plus after watch the USS Flagg behind your head I get into conclusion that the ship is in perfect scale. The wrong thing in scale are the vehicles made for the toy line.
Uhhh, not even close. Have you ever seen a real aircraft carrier up close? An aircraft carrier like the Flagg would be over 1000 feet long in real life. At 1:18 scale (the size of 3.75" figures), that would be over 60 feet long (roughly the size of a REAL F-14 tomcat).
@@mattelder1971 thank you for the information. I never had the pleasure to step a feet over the deck of a real aircraft carrier. Shame on me. #REMAKETHETOMCATFOR2030
Hey dude, what about the peacekeepers toy vehicles? I have many of them, and they looks great for gi joe line.
I think they deserve a list of their own! I have many of them and they are perfect toys in their simple reproductions of cool real vehicles. Yep. Definitely doing a top five of
PTE. But I let this list focus more on nostalgia; toys that I played with intensely and perhaps even more than actual Joe vehicles in my youth! Stay tuned!
Both my sisters had glamor gal toys... they had a red trans am that I stole from my sisters lol. I also had the a-team van and dukes of hazzard general lee lol.
Barbie an Bratz vehicles work too just put a stick in there So they don't slide forward. 6 or 7 inch figures.
I used to build vehicles out of Lego's! Great collection of non Joe vehicles! YO! JOE-BURG!
I tried that myself! But the studs used to bug me and I never had enough smooth pieces to cover them up!
@@gijoburg That and the fact that they always had that odd rainbow color camouflage....but we had to make do for Joe playtime. lol
Haha! Yep, I had to be pretty undiscriminating with brick colour too! But the things we made?! Very inventive!
Yeah, I remember building versions of vehicles that I wanted so bad and my mere allowance wasn't enough unless I saved for a few months..and that was a lifetime back them. Thank the Joe Universe that I got a paper route! lol
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I always used Fisher Price Adventure People vehicles, Gaytoys Laserforce, and a Processsed Plastics M60 tank that had the compartment in the back for storage. Even though the next two aren't technically vehicles I used a Sgt Rock Bad Guys anti aircraft gun and the Mattel Flying Aces Aircraft carrier. Even though it didn't have wheels and was slightly out of scale for my Joes I still pushed that thing all over the yard. My dragonfly copter spent a many a afternoon landing and taking off from it.
I think the biggest thrill I've gotten out of this thread is tracking down images of all these exotic and unknown toys! I am familiar with Lazerforce now; and those seem like really fun sci fi stand-ins. But I'm now very interested to run a Google search for your carrier!
GI Joburg it was from the 70's. When the older kid nextdoor moved away he gave it to me. You can actually find a video of it on youtube. It came with foam airplanes that launched off the deck with rubberbands. It was more in scale with plastic armymen. But through the wonders of childhood imagination it became important piece of some of our Gi Joe battles.
I also had that Playmobil shuttle
I used to have a bunch of playmobile stuff as a kid that I used for gi Joe's. 😆👍
Not all of them worked perfectly; but the ones that did... whoo boy, great additions to Joe! And vehicle types we would never get from Hasbro. Like a ferry! And a crane! And a commercial passenger plane!
8:45 holy hell I had that playmobile space ship too.
Man that Bionic 6 van wouldve made a sweet vehicle for some SAS Joes
Awesome video! For my joes i had used some batman vehicles and Power Rangers lightspeed rescue vehicles and some mighty ducks chap mei stuff as well.
Mighty Ducks? That from the movie?! Vehicles really? I am Googling that right now!
yea lol not the movie it was an old 90's cartoon on disney channel here in the us you guys should check it out.
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Now I know where my cool rope ladder came from
That line had some very cool rubber accessories I found. Like a mesh cargo net and lines and eye hooks for hitching cargo to the undersides of craft. I don't think I show it off but there's a hook under the "Chinook"! How cool? But equally cool to use it with a Dragonfly or Tomahawk!
I use to buy Joes from this cool little new and used toy store and could get lose Joes for 2 bucks. They would usually end up firecracker fodder or cyborgs or I would make new ones out of them. One time the owner took out a box filled with accessories and would let me pick out guns and backpacks and that sort of thing. I think that's where I got that ladder from but later could never figure out what vehicle it was from. I usually used that for tree forts. Also loved your use of the playmobile stuff. I use to use the gas station I had for the Dreadnoks.
Most of those were English toys I used to use tonka adventure toys they had figures about Joe size and they had some good pieces I still have the van moto bikes and kayaks and parachute but those look good but no chance getting here
I have never sadly been to a Joe Con. Only reason was because it was a choice between Bot Con or Joe Con. Bot Con was easier to see that one year. Ugh.. one day I shall go to you as well Joe Con.
The Demon Helicopter looks awesome. You said it was from The Corps?
Correct! Late 90’s Corps vehicle.
Lanard? Hook it up yo!? I know this is 10 months old, but it’s still on my homepage , so....
You a fan of The Corps! bro? Check out our Graduation Day vid...
That helicopter should have been number 1 imo.
It is really just so good! What pipped it for me will always be a nostalgia thing. I just have more memories attached to the older stuff. But in terms of use nowadays? That helicopter is on top. Huuuuuge!
At the time I interacted my Action force figures (yes I’m English! 😉) with my A-Team figures.
If there was a job the “Joe’s” couldn’t handle, they called in the A-Team in to help out, with the occasional back up from various characters
I’m sorry I missed out on those figs. Inferior to Joe maybe, but who wasn’t a fan of Hannibal and the boys?! Great fun was had, I’m sure!
GI Joburg nothing to stop you from getting them now, 🤔😉👍
Awesome vid! I had my gijoes commandeering all kinds of other toyline vehicles :-D
Thank you! Yep, Joe conquered all. It stood to reason, they outclassed all other figures be it Star Wars or Adventure People. All your vehicles are OURS!
great vid!
Thanks! it's always good to pay tribute to the stuff that 'filled the gaps". Thanks for commenting!
Back in the days we had imagination! And Originality ;) ! YO JOE!
I had some fisher price vehicles that suited for gi joes nicely
I'm dying to find a MULE! A friend had it as a kid and I always liked it.
It's too cool. I'm so stoked my parents gifted it to me. Must have been Xmas '88 or '89...
Go to your nearest farm, you might find a mule there....
okay, just joking, but I couldn't resist lol
Great video. And great idea not including star wars. Tonka and fisher price had some good offerings too.
True that! I had quite a bit of FP; but you know what tore it for me was that Adventure People had narrower hips than Joes and as a result the vehicles were too often a heartbreaking near-fit!
This is my first time seeing the M.U.L.E. and the playschool spaceship, both are pretty awesome. Will be on the lookout to add to my collection. The line I most regret not being aware of is Tonka Steel Monsters. I outgrew Joe by the time it came out but the kenner aliens powerlifter would have gotten some good playtime in too.
Aw man, I wanted the power lifter too, never saw the toy in the flesh sadly. And you're not the first to mention Steel Monsters to me. I think I may have to track those bad boys down!
Steel monsters have dreadnoks written all over them
Great topic! There are so many to choose from. I still can't resist vehicles like this. I just picked up "The Beast", always wanted a bomber.
And I'm sure it does not disappoint! That is one hefty hunk of plastic!
I just saw that thing. Don't know where to go with anything
I always asked for my mother to buy me bootleg toys, because their guns fitted my toy soldiers
Nice! It's true, real fans know that the bootlegs sometimes have a few worthy pieces in the package... and they cost less too!
I swear by the Fisher Price Space Shuttle... The one with the spacewalk feature/Satellite
star wars vehicles are compatible also
Don't I know it! I had to work hard to keep them off the list in favour of a more diverse bunch of toys!
Great idea for a video. The Indiana Jones line has a few good things too.
True true true! My mind races as to the fun I could have had with that stuff as a kid.
People are saying that joecon 2018 will be the last
Yip. Hence why we are so keen to attend!
GI Joburg but for 2018 is guaranteed
I think you would enjoy "The Crazy Adventures of Dave Savage"
I'm not familiar! I better put it on the "to watch" list...
I didn't know the wench on the chap Mei helo was powered!😨 Makes me kinda rethink getting it now
The current release isn't friction powered sadly. It's a thumb wheel. Boooo.
GI Joburg 😱😱😱😱
Thanks for the heads up!
I use some power team and chap mei too
PTE stuff is great. They'd dominate the list if I was being objective. But I let nostalgia take the wheel!
Wasnt there a kind of rattler that playmobile made, I kinda remember it.....
Bionic six, nice choice.
We got em in abundance back home, right as the cartoon aired. Toy Galaxy did a great vid on Bionic 6 and why it failed in the US market. Timing of product and toon is essential! By the time they reached Africa, LJN had learned that lesson.
Many of those toys I saw and liked. I gave them no chance because they weren't GIJOE. Some of these other brands made much better vehicles!
And for a big chunk of time Joe went away (much like right now); these other toylines were still producing so it was a natural move. I'm glad I was forced not to be a purist from early on since my Joe collection was pretty limited. So these alternatives found a place of pride in my collection!