G.I. Joe Wolf & Sea Ray 1980s Commercial

[BrotherBadSeed]

I can't believe I've been watching, G.I. Joe commercials for the last 45 minutes. Especially when you think of how annoying the commercials were in the middle of an episode of Talespin, or Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers.

[Looseey1973]

shouldnt the techno vipers be fixin something?cobra commander would be so mad sein him on a break

[WangDugay]

LOL .. I love how the jingle rhymes ...

"Sea ray is a fighting machieen ... out to blast GiJoe to smithereen"

[45bombom]

I got the Cobra Wolf as a Christmas gift pretty cool toy. 

[SatansSpatula]

"Hey Billy, why don't you go play with your GI Joes out in the snow, next to the half-frozen stream?" Billy's parents hated him.

[hsieh811]

They should sell the  terrain/background....

[Sturmdude]

"THE TECHO VIPER!!" lol wtf?! he's not even an arctic trooper! He's just having a rave while snow boarding. Techno-Vipers are awesome like that.

[Nelley9517]

I think my brother and I mail-ordered the Wolf in the early 90's.

[Thegreendutch]

still have my sea ray tho...wooo

[HansCent]

Coooobrraaaa!

[Alexx1083]

HA! "And Techno-Vipers!" Man, not even kids knew what to do with Techno-Vipers. What's he doing? Isn't he supposed to be fixin' stuff? Naw, he's out snow boarding. No Techno-Viper knows what to do with those tools.

[GeekCreek]

@Alexx1083 Ha! I had no idea your snowboarding Techno-Vipers gag in your review came from this. Classic!

[Alexx1083]

@GeekCreek Yeah, it just worked TOO perfectly for my Techno-Vipers. They're not even doing anything on the commercials either! It's pretty funny in a classic sense too...I mean, the creators of the commerical were probably stumped on how to make a mechanic exciting. How did they get around the problem? SNOWBOARDING!!

[GeekCreek]

@Alexx1083 Would that the commercial's song would have accounted for this difficulty. Christ, I'd better watch it or I'm going to start a blog wherein I invite fellow geeks to write '80s Joe toy commercial anthems for Pursuit of Cobra and Sigma 6 toys...

Screw it, I'm off to HissTank now to start a thread... which reminds me: I really miss when JBL had more traffic, 'cause now I'm frequently forced to peruse HissTank instead, which has too much traffic...

[Alexx1083]

@GeekCreek Yeah, I miss the traffic too. It's part of the reason for my lull in reviews; the energy just isn't there as much. Still I just finished uploading my pics for the Low Light review, and I'll start writing it tommorow, so there's that! Can't say it's gona be a positive reivew, though...

[GeekCreek]

@Alexx1083 Really? Admittedly, I bought my Low Light and immediately tossed him into a baggie in my suitcase for a month, but he seems cool to me. Plus he looks like Brock Samson!

[JUSTSAYAH1972]

now seeing this 20 somewhat years later,the kid shoves his hand in sub zero water,rightttttttttttttttttttt­tt.

[luckyfcuk05]

Sea Ray is a fighting machine, out to blast Joe to smithereens!

[weazie1995]

damn i tottaly had both of those

[Chiwulf]

OMG I REMEBER THIS... We loved GI JOE back then, they used our love...

[xxashyy]

Nobody beats GI JOE!!!! A real American HERRROOOOO!

[quinnlax9]

These were towards the end of GI Joes run. Kind of cheesy if you ask me.

[1999taken]

i wave the sea ray

[whitedragonawa]

What is really interesting is this vehicle was never in the cartoon!! Did they make a lot of vehicles that were never in the cartoons or something?

[killerdugong]

ya. there were a few i dont remember seeing in the cartoon. and some of the action figures too. all the more to imagine your own adventures when you were playing with them i suppose.

[whitedragonawa]

So you are saying some of the action figures were added that were not from the cartoon? What about the comic? I remember one cobra guy who had spiked leather straps on his chest with a big metal mask and boxing gloves of some sort. Who was that guy? he had blue pants.

[killerdugong]

his name was Big Boa. i do know there were figures that came from the comic but i dont remember who they were exactly sorry.

[whitedragonawa]

Dangit I got the Cobra Wolf but I lost some of the missiles and put the wrong stickers on it in random stupid places because I was a small kid and had no clue what I was doing. I still have the driver too but his joints are so loose he is floppy due to being in water and snow all the time. I always thought he was a Ninja because of his ski mask hahaha!

[offroadranger4x4]

do u think dr. mindbender got a cold

[elvisguerra]

Wow Cobra has the best tech!

[WilliamLonghini]

I found the wolf in my parent's garage and it still has all the mis. and stickers for as far as i can tell. i can't find the driver, but i'm sure there is a goldmine of old figures somewhere in the garage/attic.

[nrmejia]

I just sold mine last week on e bay

[FattestJack]

Sea Ray is an awesome purchase! Two Toys in One!

[aussieblackhawk123]

lol i have this...still but like it got "shot down" heh!

[rexraym]

I remember this, my cousin got the Wolf for Christmas back in 1987 when we were in 2nd grade lol

[emachines007]

ok on 0:10 that kid stuck his hand in freezing water FAKE!

[lustacularlysimple]

Is that Tito Jackson doing the theme music? Rawful.

[jerodc10]

I enjoy the kids elaborate arctic playset he built just to play with his GI Joes. I bet his mom whooped that ass when she got home.

[nismoblue]

Holy cow!!!!!! How does someone have this??!! Haven't seen it since it was on TV

[iencoder]

I still had a bunch of VHS tapes from WMTW-8 Maine with all sorts of 80s Saturday Morning cartoons.

[GtheMVP]

@iencoder goldmine!

[hsieh811]

How come I could never find place like this to play with my joes, they should sell stages like these.

[punkjoes]

even as an adult when i go walking around i think, about whether or not the spot i'm in would be a good gi joe battle field or not.

[FarleyTube]

@punkjoes

That is always on my mind.

[FarleyTube]

I bought this and the GI Joe figure Fast Draw at the same time, summer 1987, and can't think of "Beverly Hills Cop II" and its theme song "Shakedown" without this stuff coming to mind because it was at that same time.

[popculturehero]

It's the techno vipers!

with everything else in this commercial I doubt that matters.

[cyric792]

I had the Cobra Wolf too. I loved the driver with his cool removable helmet :)

[harrycobra]

The cobra wolf is still one of the coolest gi joe/ cobra vehicels. Also the first one I got, maybe that has something to do with it ;) Yo Joe!

[Hordak84]

i have Cobra Wolf