GI Joe Toy Commercials from the 80's

[hotkix]

I hate this dumb shit, write ur entire post, then u tube wants u to log in at which point you hit the wrong button and your entire post disappears.

[AcidBurn5009]

damn shouldnt of given all my toys away, lots of good memories

[adek5isbetterthanu]

bridge layer was dope! it came with a cassete tape with a dude that was supposed 2b ronald reagen

[neapolitanjoe]

G.I. JOE TOY LINE is the best in the world. 1982 (G.I.JOE-COBRA) to today. 30 years of glory.

[Blackboilingrobotoil]

Rock-n-roll over anybody that threatens world peace!

[stoningtonj]

awesome...sadly i never had creeks,ponds,and waterfalls in my back yard...just dog shit and grass :(

[necrokratia]

some of your commericas like the first one is from the 90;s....

[antetr76]

Dude these bring back memories. My best friend growing up and I would play with Joes and Micro machines. Funny we both went into the military. Marines for me and the Army for him.lol!

[RealityDefenseLeague]

What if Al-Qaida had unlimited resources like COBRA?

[ggp102]

Wow, listen to how they describe how Serpentor was created. Several historical figures were mentioned. Now a days kids have nothing like this, its some stupid cartoon about a construction worker and his talking tools or some talking animals that can shoot magic and speak gibberish.

[brianpadraic]

I wonder how many boys were influenced to join the military from GI Joe?

[DirtyDiesel29]

wow, I feel really old now. LOL. watching this brought back some great memories. the 80's F'n ruled. It also reminded me that I never got any of the cool GI Joe stuff. I remember drooling over that damn Aircraft Carrier. Santa never came through. What a punk.

[JisNUMEROuno]

OK I take it back I didn't have the most awesome Gi Joe Vehicle ever. I never had the freakin Air Craft carrier! LOL. GEEZUS

[JisNUMEROuno]

Holy SHIT! I completely forgot that I had the mobile command center. How could I forget that I had the most amazing GI vehicle ever! It was Awesome!

[getback9691]

How'd they get them onto the Flagg?

[highfencejumper]

I remember the gi joe personnel carrier, it was supposed to be able to float in the water, but always capsized.

[bwd81977]

Serpentor was way cooler than Cobra Commander. But when they released Cobra Commander with the battle armor, he kicked everyones ass! That silver battle armor was cool looking.

[TheRedstormshadow]

oh man i remember when each one of this things came out lol I was so mad i could get me a hydrofoil because i got a killerwhale instead so my brother only bought me one thing lol...

my old brother is the he game me a cobra terror drome for Christmas ill never forget it it felt like the day i bought my first car lol!!

[buchetta2]

Geez, great memories. Best toy franchise ever. True, it declined after the whole," Cobra La / Echo Warrior garbage". By then I was hitting my teens so it kinda just made the transition easier. I remember some kid had Baroness, & she was one of the only figures I was missing. So I went home and painted my extra Storm Shadow black & put some different arms on him. Told the kid he was a special mail in figure, he fell for it! Needless to say I got the Baroness & ran home. Hade Destro hump her all

[robotech987654321]

U.S. FLAGG aircraft carrier looks AWESOME!!!!!!

[russo83]

best toys ever i live in mexico and back in the 80`s it was so hard to find GIJOES

in mexico tnx god i live close to arizona

[Aku51]

Gi Joe hovercraft one of the coolest Gi Joe toy Vehicles ever.

[overload81]

a friend of mine had this mobile command center and i was so jealous. and ´till this day i guess it´s the most awesome g.i.joe toy they ever made.

[ogkachris]

The 80's had the best Toys, and best Cartoons!!! Period! I feel bad for the kids now they're watching some weak retarted shit nowadays. :(

[Sims2Slave]

on the second advert kid in red top woz bill gates lol

[xraycat30]

The Cobra Hydrafoil was the shit

[Deke101]

@xraycat30 Was? It STILL is!

[RealityDefenseLeague]

Lazers are so much better than bullets, bullets are so overrated :)

[RealityDefenseLeague]

Yo Joe!

[ammarhio]

Those were some sweet ass toys.

[pistonfan0]

The aircraft carrier the my #1 dream toy as a kid. There's that scene in The Santa Clause 2 where he pulls out all the toys everyone wanted as a kid. He would have had to have had a big ol' box for me.

[Luckilius]

I had that hovercraft, it was cool as hell. I used to use it in the bathtub.. lol

[bwd81977]

So the battle armor cobra commander wasnt the real cobra commander?

[ABsingh08]

I regret giving away my precious GI joes to my asshole cousins.... They broke them all in pieces ... God will never forgive them for this sin..

[gaffelnskje]

that hangarship was freakin hugh :O it had to take up a hell of a space :D

[Zoroasterrrr]

Lets all get in the hotub time machine and go to a 1984 Toys R us.

[Zoroasterrrr]

I had the hydrafoil, my prized possession at age 8. Always wanted a cobra rattler, never got one. My dad could give a shit about me as he banged the 21 year old secretary during the divorce.

[stanwardoshiro]

I miss my GI Joe toys, wish I never gave them away! Don't think the wife would enjoy seeing me spend our money on GI Joe toys........

[myred97gt]

GI Joe Videos and Darryl Green burning the Giants as profile pic. Cool ass dude.

[dgb751]

commando: code name Snake Eyes... sweet!

[rickygervais1776]

I had a lot of that stuff. Never knew anyone who had the USS Flag. Kinda makes me salivate even now twenty-five or so years later. The Hovercraft and the Hydrofoil were probably my two favorite toys ever. So f-ing cool.

[THEDUDE2117]

hell ya i had the F14 and the hovercraft!!

[ajluv600]

Not only my favorite toy franchise of all time, but probably the last of the "real" toys as the Nintendo came out towards the tail end of this show's/toy's popularity and changed the world. YO JOE!!!!!!!!

[z4rdeth]

Someone invent a time machine please.

[NYCPulpHero]

why were the commercials better animated thn the cartoons?? LOL

[miatageekscott]

Because the episodes were 30 minutes long and they had a budget to consider. The commericals were 30 seconds so they could spend more on animation...

[ColorlessTune]

Commando Attack Game? Play with own GI Joes? Best idea ever?

[NYCPulpHero]

EVER!

[Cacti88]

did anyone actually have the USS Flag?

Must have cost a 100 bucks

[ajluv600]

I never had this, but I do remember seeing it at K&B Toy Store for $199 (in 1986 dollars) but I did end up finding the Space Shuttle Defiant second hand for only $30!!! Also had a kid give me his Rolling Thunder, but a lot of the pieces were missing.

[shuboy05]

Hey, that ad for Zanzibar and the Dreadnok cycle features animation based on the one GI Joe comic illustrated by Todd McFarlane.  That large missile is definitely McFarlane's artwork since it's so obscenely huge and impractical for a missile.

[wingtalent]

It says, "The Joes Rock n' Roll over anyone who threatens world peace."

[rapiddominace]

hell yeah, thats the way the joes roll

[reanimate280]

the last commercial great...but the bridge layer and awe striker one was the best...and the hovercraft one was also legendary

[Nuklearkrisis]

Best toys ever made

[dbanerjee1981]

my childhood favourite.

[achubbykid]

lol, had that board game, addictive!

[wgiacometti]

uss is fucking fantastic!! 3:31/3:33, huahauahuha.....

[topher0002]

I wanted that aircract carrier so bad, I only knew one kid who had it, I think it was like $200 I may be wrong.

[reanimate280]

bet that kid was a douche huh?

[wingtalent]

Who do you mean- the kid who runs in to all the other kids and starts yelling : "I got the USS FLAGG!!!" Yeah and let me guess why you got it kid, cuz your parents were getting divorced and dad felt bad for you so he bought that 6 foot piece of plastic to make himself feel better about banging the 21 year old secretary at work.

[reanimate280]

@wingtalent

and now you know...and knowing is 3/4 of the war

[snakeyes1985]

@wingtalent i still got mine i still have my uss flagg ah yes going to play with it and this i command

[shuboy05]

The toy designers actually had an interesting story about designing the USS Flagg on the DVD. When they showed off the prototype to the Hasbro executives, they decided to put some extra figures and vehicles on the flight deck to make the presentation look nice. But the execs wondered why they were being shown existing toys since they didn't realize the Flagg was the new toy and NOT some display table.

[topher0002]

1:34 - 1:39 is that meatloaf singing??

[jefemaestromexicano]

these times now the toys are so shit only 3 producers do these ones like GI joe

[zzzombie888]

I wanted that Carrier but there wasn't anywhere to put it it was the size of my bed!!! Also I hated Serpentor.Gheyest character ever.

[lustacularlysimple]

Yeah, Serpentor was the period where G.I. Joe started to get stupid, with WWF freaks (Sgt. Slaughter) and a hundred different "Vipers," "Eco Warriors," all that crap. I think 1985 was really the last good year for the toy line. 82-85 Joe was believable, cool, looked good. 86+ Joe was silly shit, neon colors...

[auro1986]

well, in the real world terrorists and their organizations don't have all those code names, superior technology, halloween costumes and count dracula castles at all.

so the whole G.I. Joe concept is completely stupid.

[MrBugbear]

isn't this a box wargame?

[aerosoladdict]

da 80's had the best toys period man..

star wars, heman, gi joes, thundercats (actually those kinda sucked), transformers etc

i feel bad for da new generations..their toys dont compare

[gjc82071]

@aerosoladdict Yep, 70's toys were cool too! Early 70's thru 80's = awesome. I won't even get into the birth of video games! (Atari, Whoo Hooo!) I remember my best friends/3 door down neighbors, had a crap load'a GI Joe & Star Wars toys. We'd set'em up/have battles. ("DUDE! I did so hit you! It's a straight shot man!") SW vs GIJ or mixed sides, etc. 1 friend had a small farm w/a little shack on the property & we'd play in there/leave our set up/battles unattended/resume periodically. FUN!

[brightneighborTV]

I made my GI Joes fight my Transformers... the humans always lost Mua ha ha ha ha!!!

[bumblebee561]

man, i wish i would have grown up in the 80's their toys look way better than today

[TOALewa20]

hasbor should remake the USS Flag like it was in the 1980s.. :( sence im 14 and never really got the experience like you guys it would be fun to a a remake of the USS Flag... my mom would rather for me to sit on the floor and play with G.I.Joes then be pon the computer >_> btw i got some of the original figurs :P from a collcters store... and some new ones and ones from valor vs venom

[z4crad]

I USE TO HAVE THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER AN IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING TOY I'VE EVER HAD!! , IT WAS AWESOME to play with it endless adventures, endless games, endless fun too bad i grew up and i got rid of it to make some space to my new PSONE!

PSONE were awesome but is not the same :(

videogames limit child's imagination and make them to live already created adventures instead of making them imagine their own adventures :(

[TOALewa20]

thats.... sad.. wut is a PSONE?

[z4crad]

Play Station One its a videogame console made by SONY

[MrBugbear]

what about open-ended rpg's, with level editing software and multiplayer campaigns

[niktnad]

i just came. some of the best cartoons ever, i have xmen, gijoe turtles and xformers on dvd from walmart, we are saved from the current day cartoons.

[BillyPolaris]

I had the hydrafoil, it fell apart in the pool, what a peice of shit.

[TOALewa20]

u meen cobra crap... XD

[EvilDemonBastard]

So awesome.

That aircraft carrier was something that every kid in the 80s wanted, but few actually had it, much less used it.

I always made a makeshift base out of random furniture for my Cobra guys, then the Joes would invade and beat them.

[Galatasaryfan]

no,these toys are 100000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000000000­00 trilion times better than power rangers

[StefQc2k]

I remember when I was kid... we played outside with the G.I. Joe... 8 friends that bring all their G.I. Joe toys and gather them... what a battlefield it was...lol... great memories

[joeyandmike]

They do a commercial for a cobra toy and they show the joes destroy it

[YTsDarkKnight]

I do not acknowledge the 90s DiC show.

[spawnsc]

best toys ever so many memories

[SonicSlash1]

these toys are like 30 times better than power rangers toys.

[SonicPAJ]

Ive always hated serpentor.

[DTitus528]

I feel sorry for any dad who had to put that aircraft carrier together.

[Mysterwright]

Doood, that aircraft carrier is what made the Sears christmas catalog a standard must have. I'm sure that made more than one suburban dad about have a coronary to look at. Wait, what you want Santa to put *THAT* under the christmas tree?! You're getting the generic corps knock-off figures and like it. j/k Then of course you got one good figure and it made your day. Ask for a tall order and you'll always get better than you expected.

[brucewayne79]

I knew a kid who had the G.I Joe aircraft carrier. That thing rocked!

[bengativo6]

gi joe the best toys i had from 84 to 87.i remember i used to love the silver mask cobra guy.who does not remember great times but bad times .when the middle rubber band that kept the soldier attach to the legs to the upper body would rip and later on you d have half legs and half upper body!!great toys from the 80s

[timod72]

now i know where any director after the mid 80s got their "fast cut away" style of shooting from...

[Mysterwright]

Haha! Seriously, there is definitely a lost art to this style of American advertising.

[icebergslick]

Best toy commercials from the 80's! G.I. JOE Commercials hypnotized the hell out of me as a kid. I wanted every toy they made, and never got them. lol! I had a few though. We all had that spoiled rich friend that had everything and when you went to his house you could "live the dream" LOL!

[229095]

I'm sorry, icebergslick. I woulda let you over. That is, if you had any decent Jedi figures to trade.

[icebergslick]

HAHAHA! Touche 229095!

[229095]

Ha! Thanks! Middle age is fun again! And for the last damn time, I am NOT trading you the Night Raven for your mud-encrusted Admiral Ackbar!

[K4rt80y]

The Russians never had Zartan or Destro.

[pspboy7]

G.I.Joe was wicked. I didn't have alot but I had a blast with them. And yeah, I really regret not having them now, they are super valuable collectibles. As for the downfall of the industry, I would have to agree that after Serpentor, yeah that spelled the end of G.I.Joe. But who knows, maybe the movie will kick new life into the franchise. I doubt it, but it's a little late now hehe.

[california145]

you can count on GI JOE to knock the shit out of anybody that thretens peace!!!!

[blogmeister075]

brings back memories.. my favorite toyline. now collecting the 25th anniv collection

[edwards22b]

does cobra sorta remind u of the russians

[NYCPulpHero]

idiot

[edwards22b]

fuck wit

[NYCPulpHero]

ooooh! What a comeback!

[AmphibiousJames]

PLEASE any dudes out there remember these small Animal Humanoid toys they had a heat sensitive patch on there chest, if you rubbed it with your finger it would display the element attribute for each...(eg. the turtle guy had a water symbol obviously)

[Uncledanny69]

I think they were called Battle Beasts

[tuftone]

wow that brought back sooo many memories...

GI joe was definitely my favortie toy of the 80s. i would shovel snow and rake leaves for money to buy atari and colleco games and Gi joes.

[anforel]

yeah, i agree to some point in that, but the serpentor vehicle was pretty cool, i had it!!!

[dirtjello]

Just my opinion, when Serpentor was introduced, it was the decline of G.I. Joe. It went from G.I. Joe vs Cobra to G.I. Joe vs mutants. I remember they introduced Eco Joes in the late 80's or early 90's.

[transformersG1man]

that last commercial had all the straight armed figures...and also most 80's toys rocked if only i were born then and not the late 90's

[MARDLtransmit]

These things kicked so much ass... thanks for the memories :)

[j0nb0y5]

toys where soooo much better back then.

[erodog]

Thank goodness GI Joe created a bridge-mobile.

[nuklz]

probably the best toy collection of the 80's, although Cobra has way better vehicles and cooler looking figures. did anyone (or anyone you know) have the air-craft carrier? in today's market that would probably be worth like $2000, but you wouldn't need a kitchen table.

[YURkidding]

I had one (the USS-Flagg). It was a blast!

[binarydreamz]

Agreed best toy collection ever in the 80's and more like 8,000-12,000 dollars for the air craft carrier USS FLAGG, especially if its unopened, go look around ebay, it will make you sick that you didnt keep all your GI Joe toys/vehicles, made me sick anyway since I had damn near everyone of these toys :(

[erikszpyra]

Most of those kids in the commercial are now in jail for assault and battery. Grew up believing fighting is good. A 'long' lesson from Bubba is changing their minds

[Yzk1nv]

need sexy subscribers! plz 5

[TahoeJoe06]

one of the GI Joes had a Famas

[shuboy05]

It was always a bit odd that Hasbro actually made realistic looking weapons for the figures (that one outpost playset even had a recognizable .50 caliber Browning machine gun) yet they still fired "lasers" in the cartoon.

[alexan2dros]

great work.!

[rafaelclass]

Very cool!!