Probably my favorite figure from my early Joe days, and an *excellent* character, with character. Over the years, I've gotten the impression that many casual fans only remember him as "the traitor," forgetting the fact that is was all a ruse, which is unfortunate. That said, that cartoon plotline actually lines up well with Dusty's comic appearances, which, as you mentioned, always had a poignancy to them. Even his file card portrays him as a level-headed, down-to-earth individual. Dusty's great.
Yeah it's unfortunate that the traitor part of the story gets more attention with casuals. But I like the fact that he got a special two part storyline focused on him 👍 not many Joes can put that on their resume! 👍 and that Sneak peek story really made quite the impression on me as a kid! Who else are some of your favorite Joes?
@@StoriesFromTheToyshelf That's a good way of looking at it. How many other Joes got two-parters? Shipwreck (a couple times?). Flint? Duke, as the lead in the mini series. Falcon got a whole movie. Other favorite Joes? So many, but Outback (another guy like Dusty who has mainly poignant appearances), Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow (who *is* a good guy!), etc.
@G7M9W nice! I remember Putback being one of my favorite Joe toys simply because he had an actual harness for his backpack. A small detail that really made him stand out! Also he had that awesome Special missions issue with Dusty :) did you read that one?
@G7M9W too bad for Mangler though 😬 he would've made quite the interesting Joe. I actually remember having Lightfoot so it was nice seeing him have some quality usage 👍
Thanks! Yeah there are quite a lotnof interesting....and funny Joe stuff that I've actually rediscovered myself doing my research. Glad you enjoyed them too! 👍👍👍 poor Duke 😅
I always thought Dusty was in the French Foreign Legion, and transfered to GI Joe as a desert specialist. It never said anything like that in the file card or the cartoon or comic, but it made sense to me as a kid. Yo Joe
Thank you! Glad you liked what you saw and welcome to Stories From The Toyshelf! Hope you come back for more :) and I hope ta hear more from you! What is your favorite toyline? Joes? Transformers? Anything else? Let me know! 👍
The reason you dig Face-Off is because of John Woo 😂, if you haven't seen it look up 'Hard Boiled' (in my opinion Woo's Masterpiece). You will thank me later😂. Kung Fury! Yo Freaking Joe!
Habh good call! Back then John Woo was so big time and his style was unmistakable.....especially with the birds 😅 will definitely check out Hard Boiled 👍
G. I. Joe's The Traitor could've been better. As Dusty was a Desert Trooper, why should he fit in as a spy? Scarlett and Lady Jaye are spies; Duke should've forged new identities for them. Also, the McGuffin was the super armor formula- Airtight would've been more credible as he's a Chemical/Biological/Radiological Warfare expert. The Traitor was the only episode where Ft. Wadsworth was mentioned; Dusty's surname here was "Rudat", a nod to Hasbro Joe character designer Ron Rudat. For the toyline, his last name is Tadur, another play on Mr. Rudat's name. This was also the first episode where Duke goes into a coma. The Transformers' The Traitor episode was far better.
Yeah well I guess they wanted to feature Dusty as the newer toy? Anyway I still thought it was a cool episode. And I gotta rematch Mirages traitor episode again...between the two he's more associated with being a traitor 👍👍👍
The Traitor was a great episode. Dusty is cool, but he was never a favorite. He was released during GIJoe's best era where there were just too many awesome figures to choose from! Dusty also did have a desert themed cartoon ep with Footloose. But it was a pretty meh ep.
I'll choose Spirit (forest specialist?). 😂 Joe fans be like "I hate DIC Gi Joe and all the sci-fi Cobra La crap!" (Yes Cobra La is a dumb name, it's a reference to Shangri-la). "But SunBow Gi Joe rules!" (With space furries, Mass Devices, and Pyramids of Doom).🤔 Yo Freaking Joe!
Hmmm I didn't have Spirit in mind as a specialist....but I'll let that pass 😅 can you believe I only just watched Operation Dragonfire a few weeks ago for the first time in its entirety??? What's even weirder is I actually thought it was....ok 😅 nowhere near Sunbow of course...but not so bad 🤣
Hmmm that's a great suggestion. I already did one on quick kick. But yeah I think I could do that :) which death hit you the hardest? For me it was Doc.....brutal. thanks for the suggestion 👍
@StoriesFromTheToyshelf didn't know any of them died, but the alternate universe one in the cartoon. So please do one. I can't believe they got killed off. I'm loosing it... lol. You messed up my head with that. My mouth hit the ground in disbelief.
@roberthall843 yeah the original Marvel comics were quite a different animal from the cartoons. A lot of death even in the earlier issues. But that one story arc really took the cake as it seemed like Larry Hama was out to prove a point. You want death? You got it!
@StoriesFromTheToyshelf that's awesome. Love the way you put everything in your videos to tell the story. Definitely a flash back on all the cool shit I???? We loved lol. Can't wait to see that one. It may make me get back into comics. oh I will be watching the test of your videos til then so I'm sure you will hear from my again lol. You blew my mind bro, and told me my heroes are dead..lol .
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Dusty? Snow Job? Recondo? Wet Suit? WHO is your favorite Joe specific environment specialist?
I've always liked snowjob cause his code name sounds funny.
@hiddensquid7048 yeah what IS a snow job???? But yeah cool character....although for me, my snow guy would be Blizzard 👍
@@StoriesFromTheToyshelf Well I always thought it sounded like... you know...
@hiddensquid7048 yes and that's half the battle 👍
Recondo. He was cool. He was also my first Joe. After Major Bludd. Recondo still manages to hang on in my top favorite members of the Joe team.
Duke told him to so Cobra could pay for his moms hospital bill. Duke was incapacitated & everyone thought Dusty was a traitor. Lol memories
Yup! 80s cartoon storytelling at its finest right there! What were some of your other favorite Joe episodes/ plots?
Probably my favorite figure from my early Joe days, and an *excellent* character, with character. Over the years, I've gotten the impression that many casual fans only remember him as "the traitor," forgetting the fact that is was all a ruse, which is unfortunate. That said, that cartoon plotline actually lines up well with Dusty's comic appearances, which, as you mentioned, always had a poignancy to them. Even his file card portrays him as a level-headed, down-to-earth individual. Dusty's great.
Yeah it's unfortunate that the traitor part of the story gets more attention with casuals. But I like the fact that he got a special two part storyline focused on him 👍 not many Joes can put that on their resume! 👍 and that Sneak peek story really made quite the impression on me as a kid! Who else are some of your favorite Joes?
@@StoriesFromTheToyshelf That's a good way of looking at it. How many other Joes got two-parters? Shipwreck (a couple times?). Flint? Duke, as the lead in the mini series. Falcon got a whole movie. Other favorite Joes? So many, but Outback (another guy like Dusty who has mainly poignant appearances), Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow (who *is* a good guy!), etc.
@G7M9W nice! I remember Putback being one of my favorite Joe toys simply because he had an actual harness for his backpack. A small detail that really made him stand out! Also he had that awesome Special missions issue with Dusty :) did you read that one?
@@StoriesFromTheToyshelf Oh, definitely. Two of my favorite characters on the same mission, in a Special Missions issue, no less? Pure gold.
@G7M9W too bad for Mangler though 😬 he would've made quite the interesting Joe. I actually remember having Lightfoot so it was nice seeing him have some quality usage 👍
Your appreciation of old school R&B has not gone unnoticed
Ha ha thanks! Well in general I'm really anfan of music 👍 especially anything before then year 2000 😅who are some of your favorite artists/bands?
@@StoriesFromTheToyshelf it's tricky to rock a ryme, IT'S TRICKY!.
Yo Freaking Joe !
As I've said before, I'm not a Joe collector, but you made these characters sound very interesting. I love the whole double coma thing 😆
Thanks! Yeah there are quite a lotnof interesting....and funny Joe stuff that I've actually rediscovered myself doing my research. Glad you enjoyed them too! 👍👍👍 poor Duke 😅
@StoriesFromTheToyshelf I'd love to try a coma for a few weeks. It'd be a great excuse to get some rest 😉
@Norrisc761 ha ha we all could use a lotta rest 😅
Dusty’s weapon is a FAMAS F1. It’s a French assault rifle.
Yes I actually learned that after I finished the episode 😅 I wonder why they gave him a French weapon? 🤔
I always thought Dusty was in the French Foreign Legion, and transfered to GI Joe as a desert specialist. It never said anything like that in the file card or the cartoon or comic, but it made sense to me as a kid. Yo Joe
@@liteney I'm pretty sure that the French legion served as a major inspiration for his design 👍👍👍
First time watching one of your videos, I like all the inserts of logos and videos that coincide with what you said 😂
Thank you! Glad you liked what you saw and welcome to Stories From The Toyshelf! Hope you come back for more :) and I hope ta hear more from you! What is your favorite toyline? Joes? Transformers? Anything else? Let me know! 👍
The reason you dig Face-Off is because of John Woo 😂, if you haven't seen it look up 'Hard Boiled' (in my opinion Woo's Masterpiece). You will thank me later😂. Kung Fury!
Yo Freaking Joe!
Habh good call! Back then John Woo was so big time and his style was unmistakable.....especially with the birds 😅 will definitely check out Hard Boiled 👍
🤣 😂 🤣 the birds!. Just wait till you the tea house scene in Hard Boiled. KUNG FURY!
Yo Freaking Joe!
@retrojoe8290 I better not show that to my daughter....she has an irrational fear of birds 😬
I still wonder if he was in the french foreign legion. He has a famas, and wears frenchish desert gear.
Maybe? Although I didn't come across anything in my research. But it's very possible that his design was inspired by them 👍👍👍
This guy still happens to be one of my Fav. But that microscopic bipod is so easy to lose thank god i still have it
Good job at keeping his weapon intact!
G. I. Joe's The Traitor could've been better.
As Dusty was a Desert Trooper, why should he fit in as a spy? Scarlett and Lady Jaye are spies; Duke should've forged new identities for them.
Also, the McGuffin was the super armor formula- Airtight would've been more credible as he's a Chemical/Biological/Radiological Warfare expert.
The Traitor was the only episode where Ft. Wadsworth was mentioned; Dusty's surname here was "Rudat", a nod to Hasbro Joe character designer Ron Rudat. For the toyline, his last name is Tadur, another play on Mr. Rudat's name.
This was also the first episode where Duke goes into a coma.
The Transformers' The Traitor episode was far better.
Yeah well I guess they wanted to feature Dusty as the newer toy? Anyway I still thought it was a cool episode. And I gotta rematch Mirages traitor episode again...between the two he's more associated with being a traitor 👍👍👍
@@StoriesFromTheToyshelf
At least Mirage was credible as a potential traitor- he is the Autobots' Counterintelligence Specialist.
@dinomonzon7493 and he came from upper Cybertronia society and so unfair or not, garnered a lot of distrust from his more down to earth Autobots.
The Traitor was a great episode. Dusty is cool, but he was never a favorite. He was released during GIJoe's best era where there were just too many awesome figures to choose from!
Dusty also did have a desert themed cartoon ep with Footloose. But it was a pretty meh ep.
Oh I don't remember that one. Will look for it. Footloose was cool...the stoner of the group 😅
@@StoriesFromTheToyshelf It was "Hearts and Cannons" It wasn't memorable. Not bad, just....kind of there.
@cheeseburger12 thanks will check it out anyway!
He was from the same wave as Bazooka it seems. That's already got someone drawing the old eyeballs next to him.
@brettwood1351 yup that's one of the best waves character wise IMHO...I mean who can forget the classic trio Bazooka, Alpine and Quick Kick? 😅
I'll choose Spirit (forest specialist?). 😂 Joe fans be like "I hate DIC Gi Joe and all the sci-fi Cobra La crap!" (Yes Cobra La is a dumb name, it's a reference to Shangri-la). "But SunBow Gi Joe rules!" (With space furries, Mass Devices, and Pyramids of Doom).🤔
Yo Freaking Joe!
Hmmm I didn't have Spirit in mind as a specialist....but I'll let that pass 😅 can you believe I only just watched Operation Dragonfire a few weeks ago for the first time in its entirety??? What's even weirder is I actually thought it was....ok 😅 nowhere near Sunbow of course...but not so bad 🤣
@@StoriesFromTheToyshelf Dic Joe will grow on you. Just don't touch it or you'll go blind.
Yo Freaking Joe!
DIC Joe will grow on you, just don't play with it, YOU'LL GO BLIND!.
Yo Freaking Joe!
Traitor joe’s
You got it 👍👍👍
Clearly you have never been to Central Washington. The desert there is definitely dusty.
Clearly. 👍👍👍
Please do a video on all the Joe's that died in the comics
Hmmm that's a great suggestion. I already did one on quick kick. But yeah I think I could do that :) which death hit you the hardest? For me it was Doc.....brutal. thanks for the suggestion 👍
@StoriesFromTheToyshelf didn't know any of them died, but the alternate universe one in the cartoon. So please do one. I can't believe they got killed off. I'm loosing it... lol. You messed up my head with that. My mouth hit the ground in disbelief.
@roberthall843 yeah the original Marvel comics were quite a different animal from the cartoons. A lot of death even in the earlier issues. But that one story arc really took the cake as it seemed like Larry Hama was out to prove a point. You want death? You got it!
@StoriesFromTheToyshelf that's awesome. Love the way you put everything in your videos to tell the story. Definitely a flash back on all the cool shit I???? We loved lol. Can't wait to see that one. It may make me get back into comics. oh I will be watching the test of your videos til then so I'm sure you will hear from my again lol. You blew my mind bro, and told me my heroes are dead..lol .
@roberthall843 ha ha thanks! Looking forward to hearing more from you! And here's to reminiscing and recalling the great stories from our childhoods!