I recently retrieved my Funskool collection from India, the Funskool desert fox came with the dino hunters turret as it doesn't have the shield! I only got to know this thanks to your review HCC788!!
They can team up with cobra to help contain the dinosaurs so we can finally get the Dino Hunter BAT and vipers that we all have been waiting for. Yay! More viper variants!
Did you see the Haslab Exclusive Classified T-Rex?? It's like $680,000 but it's almost funded! Too bad you only get one left arm, though... Hopefully the rest of the dino is to come !
You did a wonderful job giving the set context in regard to so many other things - Jurassic Park, previous incarnations of G.I. Joe, what was going on behind the scenes. I always look forward to the "out there" reviews when they come along (the aliens, cyborgs, mutants, oddities, the other vintage Joe lines that aren't ARAH) and this did not disappoint.
I never knew this set existed, so thanks, Hoodie, for diving into the obscure end of the pool and bringing it to mine and everyone else’s attention. While watching the review, I couldn’t help thinking that the dinosaur looked like the dinosaur in Carnosaur, the Roger Corman-produced “mockbuster” that was made to cash in on Jurassic Park’s popularity. So, in my head canon, I will always think that G.I. Joe wasn’t trying to compete with Jurassic Park with this set, they were tying in cash in on the cash-in of Carnosaur. 😂
If you ignore the dinosaur the vehicle and figures can be used alongside the rest of the toys. You could always use the dino if you were trying to create the bat cave.
There was an episode of the Sunbow cartoon (Primordial Plot S1 E 42) where Cobra did in fact, clone and released dinosaurs on an island. So there is some precedent for this subteam. Though it was many years too late and very clearly a response to Jurassic Park as you said. And also, while not in the comic book, the cover of Special Missions #25 has a pterodactyl museum model crashing into a Tiger Paw. Again, not Dino Hunters, but the closest the comic ever got.
@@ikecarr5989 Crichton admitted he took ideas from a lot of existing sources, both science & fiction, when writing the book. Most of his work prior had been set in law firms & such.
Hasbro: Whats hot right now, what can we do? Associate: People like space movies and aliens! Hasbro: Do that! Do that! Associates: They also like Dinosaurs and Karate! Hasbro: Oh my kids love that! Do that do that! Associate: People like GHOSTS! Hasbro: Do that! Do That! Associate: They like situational low brow comedies! Hasbro: We can't sell toys, I wonder why.
Holy crap. I also had that big white ape from the older adventure stuff. Got it in a box of old toys from an older cousin. Talk about a crazy flashback!
To think, there was a remake/ crossover planned and partially released in 2009/2011 with Jurassic Park. Check out Jurassic Park Dino Showdown for the few released figs.
I owned a Desert Fox as a kid. I remember getting angry at something and throwing the vehicle, which ended up breaking the wheels. I owned the Skidmark figure until around 2013 when a fire destroyed most of my childhood possessions. I also used to take the connected plastic from the accessory tree and cut them down to make bats and nightsticks for my Lego figures. The rounded design fit perfectly in the hands of the minifigs.
I actually did a commemorative coin set of the dino hunter set, with alot of pieces, including live the adventure certificate, patch, photo collage, even a written essay of the interview i held with Kirk bozigian about the set that he conceived of from the start.
Which daughter was in the T-Rex suit? LOL Ugh Robocop 3 doesn't exist ha ha. Low-Light gets promoted and team leader, I guess and poor Ambush can't get any respect. To Pegwarmers, wow, that JP playset is big and the fence being able to wrap around to make a circle cage is cool. Anti-Dinosaur Concussion Device....love it. I really think if they had done the dinosaur top notch instead of THAT, it would have made the playset better. I would have wanted to get it. Yes that string is soooo expensive ha ha. On Ebay, I bought 5 feet of it for 4 or 5 bucks. Don't remember which but it has come in handy. Dr. Mindbender riding a dinosaur...because why not. They should have kept Ambush with his original accessories. The blue plastic thumb ha ha. I had version 3 Low-Light. I really liked that version.
Man I would love to see what this could be with modern toys. Seeing cobra troopers riding raptors with guns would be cool. The modern Jurassic works stuff is cool and seeing one fight gi joe would be cool.
I got this from Toys R Us in back in 93 I thought it was a good vehicle and love the Figures were really good low light ambush in the cheap dinosaurs that came with it
I had alan grant and hated it. G.i.joe had such a high standard with many points of articulation that all other action figures were kind of disappointing.
As a kid back then, I liked some of the Jurassic Park toys (mostly the vehicles). If Hasbro would have made a commercial of this I probably would have bought it. PS: Did they even make a commercial for it?
This would've made a great Adventure People ride (but without the missles probably). And good call on the 70s Joe Action Team vibe (also without the missles, most likely); that was my favorite era of Joes as a kid and the Idol adventure being the best of the best thanks to a Power Record (Peter Pan Company Record?) If they just do finally finish producing the team in 3 3/4ths this would be a great match. Even the dinos since what we got with the Joes back then was equally less than impressive (lookin' at you, pigmey gorilla) but still loved by us all the same. PS. Awesome collaberation; Pegwarmers is great channel.
I wonder, when this vehicle was being designed, if it was originally meant to either be, or get recolored into a Cobra vehicle. Because when you look at the front of the vehicle, the shape of the "hood", combined with the "headlights" and the grill lines, it looks like a skull!
Thought the last guys knees were gonna break backwards 😱🤢. Sends a Chill thru my body every time i see that. You never lock out your knees on the leg press 🤪
I never saw the “Dino Hunters” play set as an attempt by Hasbro to compete with Jurassic Park. It was more like an attempt to capitalize on it. The set was a one shot store exclusive with an absolutely terrible dinosaur pack in. I think the purpose was to seed the idea in the heads of children that their GI Joe collection was completely playable with the very popular dinosaurs and play sets available from Kenner’s JP line.
I write about that because i interviewed kirk. He said hasbro should be able to compete by having their own version of everything, including dinosaurs, aliens (star brigade), fighting franchise (street fighter) etc, Even jf hasbro didnt dominate, they would have a piece of the action.
I never knew about this one and I guess I did not miss much. GI Joe's downfall was it starting to copy everyone instead of leading the way. If they had just stuck to the semi-realistic military stuff for GI Joe. Some scifi stuff for Cobra and left all the aliens, mutants, and apparently dinosaurs out of it... I think they could have run the A Real American Hero line for much much longer. The dinosaur looks like a squeak toy or something and is just totally out of place. I like the reissues since they gave kids like me a chance to get a toy they did not get on the first run... but not in something like this set.
>hoodie complains about military inaccuracies in GI Joe “Come on man, they’re toys, lighten up!” >hoodie makes wrong assumptions about dinosaurs “How dare you. You have insulted me and my family and have offended my soul.”
The dinosaur is the worst thing to ever come out of the GI Joe toy line, the clutched hands look like it’s begging for food (or to be put out if it’s misery) the only way to give this thing any worth, is to paint the Cobra logo on it, and let your imagination give this abomination a back story.
Love the dinosaur clutching its chest like it's being given an award.
Or having chest pains 😂
Or shocked
"You like me! You really like me!"
Great video! Thanks for inviting Jordan and I to take part in the episode.
How did I never know about this until now? That cheap dollar store dinosaur really pulls the set together.
Was it popular in 1993 when it came out? YES. IT WAS VERY POPULAR WITH ME.
Same. I got it for xmas of 93 and i liked it.
Wow, I've never even heard of this one before. I was still big into GI Joe at the time to.
I recently retrieved my Funskool collection from India, the Funskool desert fox came with the dino hunters turret as it doesn't have the shield! I only got to know this thanks to your review HCC788!!
I think the Dinosaurs on Cobra Island came from the Sid and Marty Krofft dimension...
Awesome episode Hoodie!!! 😘👍
Cant wait for Classified Dino-Hunters
Buy some mattel JP Dinos and your good to go
They can team up with cobra to help contain the dinosaurs so we can finally get the Dino Hunter BAT and vipers that we all have been waiting for. Yay! More viper variants!
Haslab?
Did you see the Haslab Exclusive Classified T-Rex?? It's like $680,000 but it's almost funded!
Too bad you only get one left arm, though... Hopefully the rest of the dino is to come !
That would be very cool!
You did a wonderful job giving the set context in regard to so many other things - Jurassic Park, previous incarnations of G.I. Joe, what was going on behind the scenes. I always look forward to the "out there" reviews when they come along (the aliens, cyborgs, mutants, oddities, the other vintage Joe lines that aren't ARAH) and this did not disappoint.
That intro was priceless. I remember looking at that set in the box at ToysRUs and thought, I should buy that and leave in the box...
I still need that Low-Light just because I want every version of my favorite.
I never knew this set existed, so thanks, Hoodie, for diving into the obscure end of the pool and bringing it to mine and everyone else’s attention.
While watching the review, I couldn’t help thinking that the dinosaur looked like the dinosaur in Carnosaur, the Roger Corman-produced “mockbuster” that was made to cash in on Jurassic Park’s popularity. So, in my head canon, I will always think that G.I. Joe wasn’t trying to compete with Jurassic Park with this set, they were tying in cash in on the cash-in of Carnosaur. 😂
I only really know Carnosaur from an old Discovery Channel show about movie magic that I saw in '97 or '98.
Welcome back HCC788! Stuff like this is in my blind for toys. It came out after I "grew up", but before I got back into collecting as a young adult.
If you ignore the dinosaur the vehicle and figures can be used alongside the rest of the toys. You could always use the dino if you were trying to create the bat cave.
"Mom can we have Jurassic Park toys?"
"No honey we have Jurassic Park toys at home."
Jurassic Park toys at home:
This set would've been better than anytime JP even the crappy dino
There was an episode of the Sunbow cartoon (Primordial Plot S1 E 42) where Cobra did in fact, clone and released dinosaurs on an island. So there is some precedent for this subteam. Though it was many years too late and very clearly a response to Jurassic Park as you said. And also, while not in the comic book, the cover of Special Missions #25 has a pterodactyl museum model crashing into a Tiger Paw. Again, not Dino Hunters, but the closest the comic ever got.
I was thinking about the exact same episode thats one of my personal favorite episodes
Made years before Jurassic Park too. At least the movie if not the book.
I actually included that in the writing on the commemorative coin set i did for the dino hunters.
In 1983, the novel CARNOSAUR, also dealing with cloned terrible lizards. About seven, eight years before Michael Cricton's novel came.out.
@@ikecarr5989 Crichton admitted he took ideas from a lot of existing sources, both science & fiction, when writing the book. Most of his work prior had been set in law firms & such.
Thank god I got the good years of GI Joe and I was too old for Jurassic Joe.
Hasbro: Whats hot right now, what can we do?
Associate: People like space movies and aliens!
Hasbro: Do that! Do that!
Associates: They also like Dinosaurs and Karate!
Hasbro: Oh my kids love that! Do that do that!
Associate: People like GHOSTS!
Hasbro: Do that! Do That!
Associate: They like situational low brow comedies!
Hasbro: We can't sell toys, I wonder why.
“A window into what was happening at hasbro at the time”
Total, desperate, chaos?
Had this and loved it as a kid. Never had any idea it would be valuable lol
Holy crap. I also had that big white ape from the older adventure stuff. Got it in a box of old toys from an older cousin. Talk about a crazy flashback!
To think, there was a remake/ crossover planned and partially released in 2009/2011 with Jurassic Park. Check out Jurassic Park Dino Showdown for the few released figs.
I owned a Desert Fox as a kid. I remember getting angry at something and throwing the vehicle, which ended up breaking the wheels. I owned the Skidmark figure until around 2013 when a fire destroyed most of my childhood possessions.
I also used to take the connected plastic from the accessory tree and cut them down to make bats and nightsticks for my Lego figures. The rounded design fit perfectly in the hands of the minifigs.
The vehicle is actually known as the “Dino-Fox”, because it was derived from a repurposed desert fox.
Well Cobra did clone dinosaurs before INGen, so this wasn't completely out of the realm of possibility.
I actually did a commemorative coin set of the dino hunter set, with alot of pieces, including live the adventure certificate, patch, photo collage, even a written essay of the interview i held with Kirk bozigian about the set that he conceived of from the start.
Nice to Have you Back. A well done review.
Cool intro HCC788 and was glad to see pegwarmers as well a cool and informative review
😂Thanks for that opening segment!😂 It made my day.😂
Which daughter was in the T-Rex suit? LOL Ugh Robocop 3 doesn't exist ha ha. Low-Light gets promoted and team leader, I guess and poor Ambush can't get any respect. To Pegwarmers, wow, that JP playset is big and the fence being able to wrap around to make a circle cage is cool. Anti-Dinosaur Concussion Device....love it. I really think if they had done the dinosaur top notch instead of THAT, it would have made the playset better. I would have wanted to get it. Yes that string is soooo expensive ha ha. On Ebay, I bought 5 feet of it for 4 or 5 bucks. Don't remember which but it has come in handy. Dr. Mindbender riding a dinosaur...because why not. They should have kept Ambush with his original accessories. The blue plastic thumb ha ha. I had version 3 Low-Light. I really liked that version.
wow! i really didnt know this set existed! and i work with vintage toys!
The dinosaur seems shy.
Now this is an awesome HCC788 review! The skits and jokes are awesome!
So glad your back Commander! Enjoyed the video
“…and the less said about Skidmark the better.” 😂
Man I would love to see what this could be with modern toys. Seeing cobra troopers riding raptors with guns would be cool. The modern Jurassic works stuff is cool and seeing one fight gi joe would be cool.
I'm sure there's an episode of the Sunbow cartoon where Cobra creates dinosaurs...
I’m right. Primordial Plot, S1, EP42.
I got this from Toys R Us in back in 93 I thought it was a good vehicle and love the Figures were really good low light ambush in the cheap dinosaurs that came with it
I had alan grant and hated it. G.i.joe had such a high standard with many points of articulation that all other action figures were kind of disappointing.
As a kid back then, I liked some of the Jurassic Park toys (mostly the vehicles). If Hasbro would have made a commercial of this I probably would have bought it.
PS: Did they even make a commercial for it?
TRU exclusive, so most likely no.
This would've made a great Adventure People ride (but without the missles probably). And good call on the 70s Joe Action Team vibe (also without the missles, most likely); that was my favorite era of Joes as a kid and the Idol adventure being the best of the best thanks to a Power Record (Peter Pan Company Record?) If they just do finally finish producing the team in 3 3/4ths this would be a great match. Even the dinos since what we got with the Joes back then was equally less than impressive (lookin' at you, pigmey gorilla) but still loved by us all the same. PS. Awesome collaberation; Pegwarmers is great channel.
It's actually badass and should've been taken seriously. It could've been a great concept
I just want that Lowlight!
I wonder, when this vehicle was being designed, if it was originally meant to either be, or get recolored into a Cobra vehicle. Because when you look at the front of the vehicle, the shape of the "hood", combined with the "headlights" and the grill lines, it looks like a skull!
I actually remember a gi joe cartoon episode were cobra commander had dinosaur on cobra's Island
You could make Dino Hunters relevant, but it might require Transformers. Either Beast Wars Predacons or Dinobots.
I really liked the metaphors at the end 😊
Ah yes the video I've been waiting for the failed semi jurassic park dino hunters with the real American hero branding. Also I love your video hcc788
Your videos are always so good. Many thanks. Hope you have a great week.
I truelly believe that they just stopped caring around 89/90. I didn’t leave gijoe; gijoe left me.
23:25 Dr Mindbender and the Cloneasaurus
Thought the last guys knees were gonna break backwards 😱🤢.
Sends a Chill thru my body every time i see that.
You never lock out your knees on the leg press 🤪
Poor dr. Mindbender, HCC whenever u will done humiliating😅 him please send it to me i will take good care for him
I never saw the “Dino Hunters” play set as an attempt by Hasbro to compete with Jurassic Park. It was more like an attempt to capitalize on it. The set was a one shot store exclusive with an absolutely terrible dinosaur pack in. I think the purpose was to seed the idea in the heads of children that their GI Joe collection was completely playable with the very popular dinosaurs and play sets available from Kenner’s JP line.
I write about that because i interviewed kirk. He said hasbro should be able to compete by having their own version of everything, including dinosaurs, aliens (star brigade), fighting franchise (street fighter) etc, Even jf hasbro didnt dominate, they would have a piece of the action.
That 🦖 dinosaur is literally throwing up gang signs at those joes
You do great job une more time,when I grew up I wood like to be you joe joe from Santo Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 joe joe 👊🏽
Some things are simply best forgotten. Notice how the weapons are still on the molding sprue, hasbro was too cheap to remove the weapons .
How could GI Joe hope to compete with a Jeff goldblum action figure with authentic Jeff goldblum action feature!
I never knew about this one and I guess I did not miss much. GI Joe's downfall was it starting to copy everyone instead of leading the way. If they had just stuck to the semi-realistic military stuff for GI Joe. Some scifi stuff for Cobra and left all the aliens, mutants, and apparently dinosaurs out of it... I think they could have run the A Real American Hero line for much much longer. The dinosaur looks like a squeak toy or something and is just totally out of place. I like the reissues since they gave kids like me a chance to get a toy they did not get on the first run... but not in something like this set.
great video
I am confused. I thought Spirit was part of Dino Hunters.
Am I weird for liking this version of this vehicle better?
IDK how you mess up pitting GI Joe against dinosaurs, but Hasbro messed it up
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Love the Croooow! T-shirt 😀
>hoodie complains about military inaccuracies in GI Joe
“Come on man, they’re toys, lighten up!”
>hoodie makes wrong assumptions about dinosaurs
“How dare you. You have insulted me and my family and have offended my soul.”
Holy crap bro, that opening killed me. Not even watched the full video yet but thank you for that.
Saludos desde Venezuela
There is a season 1 or season 2 episode were Dino DNA is used. hmmmmm? Wer never found out what happen to them..
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The dinosaur is the worst thing to ever come out of the GI Joe toy line, the clutched hands look like it’s begging for food (or to be put out if it’s misery) the only way to give this thing any worth, is to paint the Cobra logo on it, and let your imagination give this abomination a back story.
lol the opening
Nice shirt.😁
Keep the file cards
That dinosaur is a bit rubbish
Uninspired. So, why do you have it? You knew it was crap long before you purchased it.
Stop make keep ban Dino Hunting ! Dino's have a rite to life, too, evil Dino-Hunting toy companieeeez!!!
Could have been cool? 😂
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wow even chinese generic bag of dinosaurs look better thant that dino figure.
Pretty terrible. It should've alternatively been called the "G.I. Joe: Totally Run Out of Ideas" set.
Please review e Honda
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