@Skepticktok What Red, White and Blue? Same colours as the British, French, Australian, Dutch, Russian, New Zealand and many other nations flags too. Very International.
It's still a cringeworthy song but far better than g.i.joe, also the full force is slightly less annoying than yo joe, don't matter which one you grew up watching I think we can all agree Cobra Commander was the best character in the whole thing!
@myangeldustatymail - It's true! They could have overdubbed all the voices, but they didn't. So Flint (the Action Force leader), who came from Lincolnshire in the UK continuity, sounded American. Lady Jaye, who came from Cork in Ireland, sounded American. It was all rather confusing. The only thing that was over-dubbed was "Yo Joe!" which became "Full Force!" And of course, the original actors didn't do the dubbing.
Action Force.... An international team of Americans....... fighting a group of British Terrorists. No wonder Britain has no national identity anymore. When you grow up watching a movie where your countrymen are the bad guys it is no wonder you people have problems now. You can't even fly your own flag for fear that a Muslim will trash and burn your house to the ground... very sad...
All eighties cartoon songs have an odd appeal to them, the best was the Galaxy ranger Theme in my opinion at least. But of course they would not call it G.I. JOE A real American Hero to sell it to European markets. I am curious about the British version, we had Navy Seals and rangers and Green Berets. I assume your line had a lot of SAS Operatives which must have been cool.
You should see the couch I saw there... Very very brightly colored. And I'd say 14 bucks for a coffee table isn't that bad. Building it yourself can be fun. I actually built a CD tower from there. But we digress... I think this could have worked if it was... more spunky.
@Terrymiester You're British, right? Then don't use the term "Brit". It is actually a racist term developed by the Provos over in Ulster. It's the same as calling an Asian a Paki. So don't.
@Mangoyle Racist? Its no more racist than calling an Australian an 'Aussie' or a Scottish person a 'Scot'. Incidently, the word 'paki' isn't racist (all it is, is an abbreviation of the word Pakistan) its just the way the word is used (generally with aggression) is what makes it racist. 'Brit' is not a racist term, I don't find it racist and neither do the population of Britain, except for you evidently. So I shall continue the use that word as it is completely harmless.
@Terrymiester Paki is actually a Persian word meaning "pure". But is now a derogatry (however you spell it) term. Brit is a racist word and if you were alive for The Troubles you would know that. The population of Britain born before around '95 would be offended.
@Mangoyle well if its such a 'racist' word then the creators of 'The Brit Awards' would be in serious trouble. The Brit Awards started in 1977, 4 years before I was born (1981).
Its not racist, its used everywhere (T.V, radio, newspapers etc), in non-offensive ways, just like how I used it.
@Mangoyle 'Brits' 'Paki's' or 'Afgans'.... its a SHORTER version of the full name, how is that racist. My name is Richard, if someone called me 'Rich', 'Rik' or even 'Dick' I would not say they are racist. Most of you need to grow some balls, man the fuck up, and stop complaining about something just because you have fuck all left to do in the world. Find and do something with great meaning that serves a purpose than this petty bullshit.
I only ever knew this as Action Force when I was younger and maybe I'm being biased but I do think it has a better intro song than G.I Joe's. *Runs from the crazy G.I Joe's fans*
@Terrymiester This IS 100000000 times better and more action packed than the american GI Joe version. GI sound camp, this is fucking ACTION FORCE BITCH!! :D
@Terrymiester the new movie kinda took the GI Joe motto and the action force world wide brand and clobbered them together, almost no one outside the USA and Canada had heard of GI Joe so they took a big leap and only cared what the home audience thought which was bad cos they kinda didn't get it.
@Terrymiester No worries mate, we yanks aren't all super crazed patriots. I love my country and so should you.. nono wait that didn't come out right. LOL
While it was funny to see this intro. I find half the fun of G.I.Joe is the fact it is blatant American Regan era Jingoism. The show unintentionally turns itself into almost parody because of this.
I don't know, but taking that away does take something away from it.
The only reason the british were screwing around with this is because the americans were taking credit for everything, Real "american" hero. but with this it says "international" hero, so its not just americans but america and all her allies.
After years of the U.S. screwing up great British television(Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf), I guess it's only fair that they some of ours wrong via some dubbing slight-of-hand----but c'mon; "ACTION FORCE---INTERNATIONAL HEROES"??? Lame!!!
I dont know the internation hero part was quite good. it means not just america but the whole world. and all the members are not just from america but europe, africa, asia and south america.
but even some thing better than action force. keep the force part though.
That's essentially the point of G.I. Joe; it was essentially a jingoistic Reagan-era fantasy training kids to be good little killers for the U.S. Of A.! You either like that aspect of it or you don't!
@trashkan66 Goes a bit further back than that. The twelve inchers. When that Joe was brought to Europe he was dubbed Action Man. Then when Joe, in the US, returned as a "daring, highly trained special missions force," Europe gave Action Man a "team" name as well. : )
...it's purpose: to defend human freedom against Cobra. A ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world. Yet I don't remember the name of my third grade teacher. Priorities...
@DoctorPretorious616 Killers? GI Joe taught kids to shoot a million bullets (err...laser bolts...) and never hit a thing. My favorite bit was when they'd actually manage to shoot down a Cobra aircraft...and they'd MAKE SURE you saw the pilot float down to safety in his parachute. He'd be in the foreground, blocking all the action!
@trashkan66 For real. Looking back at this now is *unbelievable*. I'm sure if my mum saw it now she would wonder why she let me watch it when I was a kid.
Now, we have the Call of Duty games to soften kids up to images of warfare so when they're older they're not bothered by it when they see it for real.
Unbelievable propaganda - being pumped right into our kid's rooms. And we PAY for it!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!! fuck i hate this shit. it's funny how we can take refuse from other countries and turn it into gold and when others try it with our stuff it comes out like this. fucking tragic!! yo joe!!
America takes hugely successful British shows like "The Office" and "Life on Mars" and tries to reinvent them with an American theme. They never succeed but they somehow can't leave them be. Imagine a British reinvention of "Friends" - it just wouldn't work!
Actually, The Office seems quite popular in America. I'm not a fan of television myself, so I can't quote ratings, but I hear people talk about it a good bit.
BTW, I remember watching Fawlty Towers (imported with John Cleese...) as a teenager and thinking, "man, so much better than American shitcoms."
I'll agree with you on the ground that G.I.JOE is a lot better then Action Force, but I can't recall any moment when the US has taken one of our shows and made it brilliant, especially the 2 US pilots of Red Dwarf that were made.
Besides, these changes to JOE were only made to do one thing, sell toys and it did it's purpose.
hey, i agree 100%. i really wasn't referring to the television dramas. hell, i don't watch those anyways. american television in general is a disgusting whirlpool of filth and so called reality shows. i think you are right.
Wasn't there some sort of censorship rule that prevented them from using the word "ninja" at the time? I know the BBFC had some serious issues with things like headbutting for a while.
as far as i rember this was used for Action Force episodes in all honesty oi prefer the G.I.JOE identity but Hasbro Europe not just the UK thought a internationaal team would be better to market
I dont know what all the bickering is about Action Force Gi Joe, its still the same thing, just from different areas, Action Force will seem gay to other that know it by GI Joe as GI Joe sounds gay to us who know it as Action Force. Why complain its still the same thing in the end
right, because GI mean's goverment isues and action force and international hero's mean's a force made up of specialist from all over the world. But as you say why bother, i mean at least Cobra is stil Cobra, the enemy is stil the same
I'm sorry, I understand this is the UK version of G.I, Joe being called Action Force.. But G.I Joe is so much better.. Maybe it's because I grew up with the toys and comics and also Cartoon.. Even the G.I Joe movie from what I heard in England is going to be called G.I Joe and not Action Force..
International heroes are you fucking kidding me? It's G-I-MOTHERFUCKING JOE.
Real AMERICAN Heroes.
If you Brits were too prideful to call it by it's actual name and mention that they are AMERICAN heroes, maybe you should've made your own cartoon about a British Special Force fighting terrorism.
Maybe you could call it "Super-Bobbies" or "The Totally Awesome Tea Totallers" or "Monocle Men".
yeah but G.I. Joe sounds like a gay porn actor, action force sounds far better!
Anyway they cant be "real american heroes" because i didnt see one episode where they shot at their allies in it, something american forces do with frightening regularity...
Even the narrator is on fire"compared i forget his name" hes a proper old school brit actor and voice over, shame we as a country where too!!! girly in the cartoon industry either way this version was is and will always be on form, still puts the hairs up on my arms agggggh the good old days as a kid in the 80s will never be beaten ever.
Well from what I've gathered, G.I.JOE started out in 1964, Hasbro made a line of 12inch soldier toys and then a UK company licensed the toys from them and created Action Man in 1966.
The whole JOE franchises started out in the 1960s, G.I.JOE:ARAH was Hasbro making their franchises in action figure size since the Star Wars action figures were so much popular then their 12inch counterparts.
I have two episodes of these I'm thinking of uploading them but don't know how I can get them onto CD first but then what format to get them working on youtube. The episodes I have are the 'Mcguffin Device' and 'The most dangerous thing in the world.'
That first episode is 'Once Upon A Joe'. Well YouTube (as far as I know) excepts most major video formats, including Vob files which are directily from DVD, but I'm not 100% certain of that.
Gi joe is not renamed Action Force over there because of politics, but because of the toyline.
During the early 80s, there was a line called Action Force, which consiste of international fellas. The toys were constructed like Star wars toys from the past where it didn't have any orings.
Eventually, the company started to get permission from HAsbro to borrow their toy molds for their AF figs. The toys were brought over to the UK and renamed. However, they later incorperated.....
However, they later incorperated the american names and storyline in the A.force comics and figures as a way to do away with the UK story and to use US one without renamin the title of the toyline.
For instance, Baron Ironblood abandoned his old terrorist group called Red Shadows, changed his identity to Cobra and formed a new organization called Cobra. He also overpowered Red Jackal, 2nd command of red Shadows, had plastic surgey done to his metal face, and started calling him Destro.
I like this though. It's the same feeling and concept without making it a nationalist bulwark. Freedom does not belong to the US, but to all the peoples of the world and it's enemies are trying to take that away from all of us...good stuff.
Actually this makes more sense than GI Joe, and i am a Joe head. They should of made it more an international team, so the kids could say cool "X" is from my country or town or whatever. With Joe, we get the enemies being the foreigners, so non Americans get the shaft.
Zartan, Zandar and Zarana were Americans, Storm Shadow was an American (yes a Japanese American but that shouldn't matter he was born in San Francisco)... so it shouldn't really matter that the Joes were almost all Americans.
That's a very good point Graehaus. Much like Star Wars, most of the villians speak with a non-American accent and the "heros" sound like us. The dreadnoks were all Aussies. I don't know what Tomax and Xamot were but they weren't American, and Blood, Baroness, Destro, Commander, they all sounded like eastern Europeans to me.
Exactly, and that outlook always will alienate the American way from the rest of the world. marvel killed off Alpha Flight ( the only Canadian team) and replaced them with Americans (yay!) I know wolverine is supposed to be a Canadian, but he is also supposed to be 5'3", and isn't in the comics. Anyhow, I like the Action force feel. Oh well, it is a great toy and was a cool cartoon.
It wasn't really the American nature but rather because Action Force was originally a UK exclusive toyline that only gradually evolved into a pure import of G.I. Joe. As "Action Force" was the title by which the toyline had made itself known here (and which the licenced fiction used) it made retail sense for Hasbro to retain it for some years when they took it over. By the end of 1989 it was presumably cheaper to stick to "G.I. Joe".
Calling ALL ACTION FORCE FANS ! BloodforthebaronDOTcom site is gathering all forces for a BIG REVIVAL so come on over, it has a great toy archive, EVERY UK EXCLUSIVE comic is also displayed in a great gallery all free to read and they have been coloring these black and white comics and releasing an issue every week for the last 50 weeks! great site for a fun toyline
When you watch this, notice how the guy talking at the end sounds suspiciously like the guy who does the Iranu/Uvavu stuff on Shooting Stars...
LucienDark 3 months ago
Love how they are trying to make it "Internationally friendly" but they still have a fist with the colors of the American flag.
Skepticktok 6 months ago
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insomniax20 5 months ago
I still have the original comics where Baron Ironblood turns into Cobra Commander And was it Jackal who turns into Destro. Awesome!
insomniax20 5 months ago
@insomniax20
Not that look like that.
Skepticktok 5 months ago
@Skepticktok What Red, White and Blue? Same colours as the British, French, Australian, Dutch, Russian, New Zealand and many other nations flags too. Very International.
DarianAthuk 4 months ago 2
@DarianAthuk
Maybe it's the giant star and horizontal stripes that made me feel that way. I can see your point though.
Skepticktok 4 months ago
The singers and announcers for the Action Force intro sound somewhat better than the GI Joe intro.
Primus2X 6 months ago
The intro was fine, the ridiculous re-dubbing was not! LOL. :D
David315842 6 months ago
Oh shit this is kinda' catchy.
vidviewer401 7 months ago
I only saw the 'correct' intro to G.I. Joe The Movie recently and that theme song is fucking terrible, IMO. Full Force all the way.
kurntheimmortal 7 months ago
FULL FORCE rocks much more than 'yo joe'
haqatak23 8 months ago
It's still a cringeworthy song but far better than g.i.joe, also the full force is slightly less annoying than yo joe, don't matter which one you grew up watching I think we can all agree Cobra Commander was the best character in the whole thing!
macjunkielove 8 months ago
Action Force a.k.a. TEAM EURO
Beastkingzetta 8 months ago
Why does this look like a GIJoe ripoff?
BankaiIchigo12345 10 months ago
@BankaiIchigo12345 Its not a rip off. Its the same thing, they changed it from GI Joe because it sounds too "American Up Your Arse".
Already sounds better...
"Hi, I'm from Joe"...
"Cool..I'm from ACTION FORCE!!!!"
AzEvanz 9 months ago
@BankaiIchigo12345 Because Action Force was the UK//European name for G.I. Joe. As it says in the description.
David315842 6 months ago
best intro ever
eggfleece 1 year ago
@myangeldustatymail - It's true! They could have overdubbed all the voices, but they didn't. So Flint (the Action Force leader), who came from Lincolnshire in the UK continuity, sounded American. Lady Jaye, who came from Cork in Ireland, sounded American. It was all rather confusing. The only thing that was over-dubbed was "Yo Joe!" which became "Full Force!" And of course, the original actors didn't do the dubbing.
graham1939 1 year ago
The giant fist alone smashing the cobra logo makes this better then the G.I. Joe intro.
scorchx3000 1 year ago 4
Still gets the old blood pumping
FleetlordAvatar120 1 year ago
Way better than GI Joe
Mangoyle 1 year ago
I always thought Action Force sounded better with this tune. And I think it's better beIng INTERNATIONAL Heroes, rather than Team America.
[overtakes Terrymiester running from JOE fans.]
BrainComm487 1 year ago
International hero's!
masterjustin45 1 year ago
Action Force.... An international team of Americans....... fighting a group of British Terrorists. No wonder Britain has no national identity anymore. When you grow up watching a movie where your countrymen are the bad guys it is no wonder you people have problems now. You can't even fly your own flag for fear that a Muslim will trash and burn your house to the ground... very sad...
dueydueck 1 year ago
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP MY RECOLECT MY CHILHOOD
I REMEMBER SEEING THIS A AS PREVIEW ON A REALLY OLD VIDEO I HAD AS A KID. IM TRYIN TO REMEMBER IT,
THE VIDEO HAD 2 CARTOONS ON IT
1 WAS A CHARACTER OR GOBLIN IN GREEN TRYING TO PROTECT A PRINCESS
THE OTHER WAS 2 GUYS TRYING TO GET TO THE TOP OF A TOWER AND KILL SOME SORT OF ALIEN OR SUMTING LIKE DAT (THE THRILLER SONG WAS IN IT)
ANYBODY KNOW WAT IT WAS ?
IF SOMEBODY COULD TELL ME WAT THAT VIDEO WAS OR SUGGESTIONS THAT WUD BE GREAT
keithbyrne1991 1 year ago
All eighties cartoon songs have an odd appeal to them, the best was the Galaxy ranger Theme in my opinion at least. But of course they would not call it G.I. JOE A real American Hero to sell it to European markets. I am curious about the British version, we had Navy Seals and rangers and Green Berets. I assume your line had a lot of SAS Operatives which must have been cool.
MrSct1976 1 year ago
Rapid employment Force Ok Now you get paid for saving the world. If the whole world had no Money Cobra would take over That's Dumb!
jamestanzra 1 year ago
You should see the couch I saw there... Very very brightly colored. And I'd say 14 bucks for a coffee table isn't that bad. Building it yourself can be fun. I actually built a CD tower from there. But we digress... I think this could have worked if it was... more spunky.
PeachWookiee 2 years ago
Well, this is a bit bland. But dude, have you ever shopped IKEA? Their furniture is not bland. Very bright.
PeachWookiee 2 years ago
I liked the Action Force Comic and can remember this tune playing alongside many of the ad breaks when I was a kid.
That being said I prefer the G.I JOE theme to this.
paulhilton100 2 years ago
@myangeldustatymail
yeah but us brits have better swear words :)
Terrymiester 2 years ago 2
@Terrymiester You're British, right? Then don't use the term "Brit". It is actually a racist term developed by the Provos over in Ulster. It's the same as calling an Asian a Paki. So don't.
Mangoyle 1 year ago
@Mangoyle Racist? Its no more racist than calling an Australian an 'Aussie' or a Scottish person a 'Scot'. Incidently, the word 'paki' isn't racist (all it is, is an abbreviation of the word Pakistan) its just the way the word is used (generally with aggression) is what makes it racist. 'Brit' is not a racist term, I don't find it racist and neither do the population of Britain, except for you evidently. So I shall continue the use that word as it is completely harmless.
Terrymiester 1 year ago
@Terrymiester Paki is actually a Persian word meaning "pure". But is now a derogatry (however you spell it) term. Brit is a racist word and if you were alive for The Troubles you would know that. The population of Britain born before around '95 would be offended.
Mangoyle 1 year ago
@Mangoyle well if its such a 'racist' word then the creators of 'The Brit Awards' would be in serious trouble. The Brit Awards started in 1977, 4 years before I was born (1981).
Its not racist, its used everywhere (T.V, radio, newspapers etc), in non-offensive ways, just like how I used it.
Terrymiester 1 year ago
@Mangoyle 'Brits' 'Paki's' or 'Afgans'.... its a SHORTER version of the full name, how is that racist. My name is Richard, if someone called me 'Rich', 'Rik' or even 'Dick' I would not say they are racist. Most of you need to grow some balls, man the fuck up, and stop complaining about something just because you have fuck all left to do in the world. Find and do something with great meaning that serves a purpose than this petty bullshit.
AzEvanz 1 year ago
lol how can a GI Joe be "international" lol
I find it so hilarious
barneysixx 2 years ago
Yeah, how can a highly trained mission force be international... that's weird, isnt it?
Uhm... not.
Action Force rocked. The coolest toys I ever had, next to He-Man...
hcvang 2 years ago 3
I only ever knew this as Action Force when I was younger and maybe I'm being biased but I do think it has a better intro song than G.I Joe's. *Runs from the crazy G.I Joe's fans*
Terrymiester 2 years ago 25
@Terrymiester
By a country fucking mile mate. Plus the video is made out of 70% flame and explosions..
jamesremarsghost 2 years ago
@Terrymiester This IS 100000000 times better and more action packed than the american GI Joe version. GI sound camp, this is fucking ACTION FORCE BITCH!! :D
AzEvanz 1 year ago
@Terrymiester i agree better intro sorry G.I. Joe fans
Fredpimpstone 1 year ago
@Terrymiester the new movie kinda took the GI Joe motto and the action force world wide brand and clobbered them together, almost no one outside the USA and Canada had heard of GI Joe so they took a big leap and only cared what the home audience thought which was bad cos they kinda didn't get it.
it's just GI Joe now no more real american hero
balthier1983 1 year ago
@Terrymiester No worries mate, we yanks aren't all super crazed patriots. I love my country and so should you.. nono wait that didn't come out right. LOL
zuluagent 1 year ago 3
i admit its nt as successful as gi joe but sure as hell sound better
coppertweed 2 years ago 2
Close your eyes and imagine it's Jack Black singing the theme song.
Only then does it become awesome.
SoloTraceur 2 years ago 2
international heroes? wtf lol
gibadoo 2 years ago
to us brits we know it!
coppertweed 2 years ago
im british and by wachicg the i think that we are mad in a good way
spartenranger11 2 years ago
@spartenranger11 Do you hear it? The drumming, the constant drumming. cause if you do then you're right you are mad in a good way.
GODCONVOYPRIME 2 years ago
Every one should know this is GI Joe in America haha.
GeneralArrow 2 years ago
While it was funny to see this intro. I find half the fun of G.I.Joe is the fact it is blatant American Regan era Jingoism. The show unintentionally turns itself into almost parody because of this.
I don't know, but taking that away does take something away from it.
Demokirby 2 years ago
Aw i remember watching this :')
xsianylou 2 years ago
SERIOUSLY??? lmao, suckers
Sweatification 2 years ago
Full force!
rodster6 2 years ago 3
The only reason the british were screwing around with this is because the americans were taking credit for everything, Real "american" hero. but with this it says "international" hero, so its not just americans but america and all her allies.
nationalist19 2 years ago 4
After years of the U.S. screwing up great British television(Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf), I guess it's only fair that they some of ours wrong via some dubbing slight-of-hand----but c'mon; "ACTION FORCE---INTERNATIONAL HEROES"??? Lame!!!
DoctorPretorious616 2 years ago
I dont know the internation hero part was quite good. it means not just america but the whole world. and all the members are not just from america but europe, africa, asia and south america.
but even some thing better than action force. keep the force part though.
nationalist19 2 years ago
G.i JOE - Real american Hero >.>
isnt that lame..
i can understand slogan real american hero works in usa but in europe its pretty lame.. too much "US fuck yeah" propaganda..
trashkan66 2 years ago 21
That's essentially the point of G.I. Joe; it was essentially a jingoistic Reagan-era fantasy training kids to be good little killers for the U.S. Of A.! You either like that aspect of it or you don't!
DoctorPretorious616 2 years ago
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trashkan66 2 years ago
yes and thats why they dubbed G.I joe in europe.. if they didnt, the G.I. Joe wouldnt pe published in europe..
I understand people like G.I Joe for the cult thing..probably everyone here who comment are born around 80s..
but what i mean i understand europe dubbed it back then but they could have pick a better slogan then INTERNATIONAL HEROES <.<
trashkan66 2 years ago
@trashkan66 Goes a bit further back than that. The twelve inchers. When that Joe was brought to Europe he was dubbed Action Man. Then when Joe, in the US, returned as a "daring, highly trained special missions force," Europe gave Action Man a "team" name as well. : )
...it's purpose: to defend human freedom against Cobra. A ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world. Yet I don't remember the name of my third grade teacher. Priorities...
EvelTwinOfSlogmaster 2 years ago
@DoctorPretorious616 Killers? GI Joe taught kids to shoot a million bullets (err...laser bolts...) and never hit a thing. My favorite bit was when they'd actually manage to shoot down a Cobra aircraft...and they'd MAKE SURE you saw the pilot float down to safety in his parachute. He'd be in the foreground, blocking all the action!
EvelTwinOfSlogmaster 2 years ago
@trashkan66 For real. Looking back at this now is *unbelievable*. I'm sure if my mum saw it now she would wonder why she let me watch it when I was a kid.
Now, we have the Call of Duty games to soften kids up to images of warfare so when they're older they're not bothered by it when they see it for real.
Unbelievable propaganda - being pumped right into our kid's rooms. And we PAY for it!
BPL1980 1 year ago
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!! fuck i hate this shit. it's funny how we can take refuse from other countries and turn it into gold and when others try it with our stuff it comes out like this. fucking tragic!! yo joe!!
penske13 2 years ago
America takes hugely successful British shows like "The Office" and "Life on Mars" and tries to reinvent them with an American theme. They never succeed but they somehow can't leave them be. Imagine a British reinvention of "Friends" - it just wouldn't work!
jpmac2234 2 years ago
yea, but i don't watch those shows. ;)
penske13 2 years ago
Actually, The Office seems quite popular in America. I'm not a fan of television myself, so I can't quote ratings, but I hear people talk about it a good bit.
BTW, I remember watching Fawlty Towers (imported with John Cleese...) as a teenager and thinking, "man, so much better than American shitcoms."
EvelTwinOfSlogmaster 2 years ago 3
I'll agree with you on the ground that G.I.JOE is a lot better then Action Force, but I can't recall any moment when the US has taken one of our shows and made it brilliant, especially the 2 US pilots of Red Dwarf that were made.
Besides, these changes to JOE were only made to do one thing, sell toys and it did it's purpose.
BinaltechGinrai 2 years ago
hey, i agree 100%. i really wasn't referring to the television dramas. hell, i don't watch those anyways. american television in general is a disgusting whirlpool of filth and so called reality shows. i think you are right.
penske13 2 years ago
very interesting....indeed... i got the action force skystriker... :)
megapraimturvo 2 years ago
I think our intro sounds better thean the amercans.
i mean i prefear GI joe but our thme is a lot moer catcher
davegorack 2 years ago
it is very interesting.....the japanese version is also pretty cool....check it out..
megapraimturvo 2 years ago
LOL!! just like when the UK changed TMNT into Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.
HyperSonicXtreme 2 years ago
Wasn't there some sort of censorship rule that prevented them from using the word "ninja" at the time? I know the BBFC had some serious issues with things like headbutting for a while.
starschwar 2 years ago
as far as i rember this was used for Action Force episodes in all honesty oi prefer the G.I.JOE identity but Hasbro Europe not just the UK thought a internationaal team would be better to market
ttttka 2 years ago
interresting did they this intro for the entire Action Force series? because this intro was made for G.I Joe: The revenge of Cobra
asger1801 2 years ago
I dont know what all the bickering is about Action Force Gi Joe, its still the same thing, just from different areas, Action Force will seem gay to other that know it by GI Joe as GI Joe sounds gay to us who know it as Action Force. Why complain its still the same thing in the end
demon1481 2 years ago
right, because GI mean's goverment isues and action force and international hero's mean's a force made up of specialist from all over the world. But as you say why bother, i mean at least Cobra is stil Cobra, the enemy is stil the same
asger1801 2 years ago
I'm sorry, I understand this is the UK version of G.I, Joe being called Action Force.. But G.I Joe is so much better.. Maybe it's because I grew up with the toys and comics and also Cartoon.. Even the G.I Joe movie from what I heard in England is going to be called G.I Joe and not Action Force..
WarshipAngelus 2 years ago
their making it into a film action force the rise of cobra or gi joe
dim432 2 years ago
the film is called: G.i. JOE the rise of Cobra
asger1801 2 years ago
well it it called Gi joe The rise of cobra, Action force is a british version if they have it a british version
dim432 2 years ago
pahahaha, action force!!? are yu friggin kidding me?!/ real international heroes? LOLOLOLOLOLOL(OL
zokamaru 2 years ago
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WHAT.....THE FUCK?
Action.......Force?
International heroes are you fucking kidding me? It's G-I-MOTHERFUCKING JOE.
Real AMERICAN Heroes.
If you Brits were too prideful to call it by it's actual name and mention that they are AMERICAN heroes, maybe you should've made your own cartoon about a British Special Force fighting terrorism.
Maybe you could call it "Super-Bobbies" or "The Totally Awesome Tea Totallers" or "Monocle Men".
WarriorBoy 2 years ago
i like how they use the red white and blue though! lol
xatyt 2 years ago
I actually think "The Totally Awesome Tea Totallers" would have been a fantastic name for a British cartoon! That made me lol...
Deathwalker1982 2 years ago 2
gi joe sucks.... we had action man.... but that cartoon suckd....
graffsole 2 years ago
yeah but G.I. Joe sounds like a gay porn actor, action force sounds far better!
Anyway they cant be "real american heroes" because i didnt see one episode where they shot at their allies in it, something american forces do with frightening regularity...
tricky5282 2 years ago
This is funny dude.
TyStorm 2 years ago
Real AMERICAN Heroes pfffff mouahahaha
c3dr1cb 2 years ago
LOL
RolandVeasey 2 years ago
LMAO ACTION FORCE! Dude I didn't know they did that!
raventakayama 2 years ago
i developed a crush on cobra commander when i was 7
loved his costumes...he even dragged up in one episode...legend
markheim71 2 years ago
thats the one patrick allen, proper legend!!!!!
LizzyS186 2 years ago
Even the narrator is on fire"compared i forget his name" hes a proper old school brit actor and voice over, shame we as a country where too!!! girly in the cartoon industry either way this version was is and will always be on form, still puts the hairs up on my arms agggggh the good old days as a kid in the 80s will never be beaten ever.
LizzyS186 2 years ago
The narrator is the late Patrick Allen.
BlackTieWhiteNoise 2 years ago
I know this was an u.s.a show and i respect that i really do but this version destroys the u.s intro, it is awesome in comparison, i love it.
LizzyS186 2 years ago
Actually, this was the opening to one of the first GIJoe miniseries, before it became a full series.
DWolf2k2 2 years ago
Yes, but in the UK this intro was used for ALL the Action Force dubbed episodes of G I Joe.
David315842 2 years ago
This version ruled! I will never forget how much I loved this & still do :D
Retcrow 2 years ago
Also GI Joe was just called Action Man over there, if I'm not mistaken.
MEHGUHMAYN 2 years ago
Negative- Action Man was a different franchise, older than GI Joe interestingly enough.
NielsDouglas 2 years ago
Now that I think about it, you are correct. I think the most interesting Action Man was the one that dressed as a bunch of other characters...
MEHGUHMAYN 2 years ago
"Negative- Action Man was a different franchise, older than GI Joe interestingly enough. "
Actually you are incorrect there, Action Man was the UK name for the 12 inch GI Joe from the 1960s. It was made and sold under license by Palitoy
TopGunSGA 2 years ago
Well from what I've gathered, G.I.JOE started out in 1964, Hasbro made a line of 12inch soldier toys and then a UK company licensed the toys from them and created Action Man in 1966.
The whole JOE franchises started out in the 1960s, G.I.JOE:ARAH was Hasbro making their franchises in action figure size since the Star Wars action figures were so much popular then their 12inch counterparts.
BinaltechGinrai 2 years ago
i think you hit the nail on the head.
penske13 2 years ago
It's Action Force against COBRA the enemy!"
LordProteus 3 years ago
You gotta love that accent they put on "agAIYnst." :D
Timstuff 2 years ago
What I want to know is why they changed the name from "G.I.Joe" to "Action Force"?
randomstuffinc 3 years ago
Likely to get away from an American-centric theme, since the phrase 'G.I' is commonly associated with America. Either that or Copyright issues.
DWolf2k2 3 years ago
Has bro Europe wanted a less 'American' themed toy line as it was being sold overseas, hence the name change and occasional dubbing.
David315842 2 years ago
I have two episodes of these I'm thinking of uploading them but don't know how I can get them onto CD first but then what format to get them working on youtube. The episodes I have are the 'Mcguffin Device' and 'The most dangerous thing in the world.'
swiv2d 3 years ago
That first episode is 'Once Upon A Joe'. Well YouTube (as far as I know) excepts most major video formats, including Vob files which are directily from DVD, but I'm not 100% certain of that.
David315842 2 years ago
Cheesy! :D
THROBiX 3 years ago
No! AWESOME
luutnantti111 3 years ago
i only new this version of gi joe and i bet that outside of us this version it was much more popular, and of course i like venture bros.
animejoao 3 years ago
whats the name of the story where there forcing people to test a new drug its kind like toffe or something
frements 3 years ago
'Let's Play Soldier' and it's a gum made from a sap from a tree that lets Cobra control people's minds.
David315842 2 years ago
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2006tupadrino 3 years ago
I like this intro
Hexon2 3 years ago
Gi joe is not renamed Action Force over there because of politics, but because of the toyline.
During the early 80s, there was a line called Action Force, which consiste of international fellas. The toys were constructed like Star wars toys from the past where it didn't have any orings.
Eventually, the company started to get permission from HAsbro to borrow their toy molds for their AF figs. The toys were brought over to the UK and renamed. However, they later incorperated.....
FallenGemini 3 years ago 3
However, they later incorperated the american names and storyline in the A.force comics and figures as a way to do away with the UK story and to use US one without renamin the title of the toyline.
For instance, Baron Ironblood abandoned his old terrorist group called Red Shadows, changed his identity to Cobra and formed a new organization called Cobra. He also overpowered Red Jackal, 2nd command of red Shadows, had plastic surgey done to his metal face, and started calling him Destro.
FallenGemini 3 years ago
I like this though. It's the same feeling and concept without making it a nationalist bulwark. Freedom does not belong to the US, but to all the peoples of the world and it's enemies are trying to take that away from all of us...good stuff.
xraycat30 3 years ago
WOW!...Action Force heh??...very different but really cool....
megapraimturvo 3 years ago 2
Basically it was the same cartoon as G.I. Joe, but re-dubbed in places.
David315842 3 years ago
Actually this makes more sense than GI Joe, and i am a Joe head. They should of made it more an international team, so the kids could say cool "X" is from my country or town or whatever. With Joe, we get the enemies being the foreigners, so non Americans get the shaft.
Graehaus 3 years ago
You Do know that in the comics Cobra Commander was an american, and he was treated as such in the Cartoon except for the movie, right?
princerei 3 years ago
Yes, he was a car salesman, disgruntled with the American way. But Destro, Bludd most of the dreadnoks were foreigners.
Graehaus 3 years ago 2
Zartan, Zandar and Zarana were Americans, Storm Shadow was an American (yes a Japanese American but that shouldn't matter he was born in San Francisco)... so it shouldn't really matter that the Joes were almost all Americans.
princerei 3 years ago 2
That's a very good point Graehaus. Much like Star Wars, most of the villians speak with a non-American accent and the "heros" sound like us. The dreadnoks were all Aussies. I don't know what Tomax and Xamot were but they weren't American, and Blood, Baroness, Destro, Commander, they all sounded like eastern Europeans to me.
xraycat30 3 years ago
Exactly, and that outlook always will alienate the American way from the rest of the world. marvel killed off Alpha Flight ( the only Canadian team) and replaced them with Americans (yay!) I know wolverine is supposed to be a Canadian, but he is also supposed to be 5'3", and isn't in the comics. Anyhow, I like the Action force feel. Oh well, it is a great toy and was a cool cartoon.
Graehaus 3 years ago 2
agreed
xraycat30 3 years ago
so gi joe was called action force in uk
greymonX 3 years ago 4
Action Force was a British cartoon based on G.I Joe in order to make everything a little less american
Flint is the best character :D
Chauncy666 3 years ago 2
It wasn't really the American nature but rather because Action Force was originally a UK exclusive toyline that only gradually evolved into a pure import of G.I. Joe. As "Action Force" was the title by which the toyline had made itself known here (and which the licenced fiction used) it made retail sense for Hasbro to retain it for some years when they took it over. By the end of 1989 it was presumably cheaper to stick to "G.I. Joe".
timrollpickering 3 years ago
Calling ALL ACTION FORCE FANS ! BloodforthebaronDOTcom site is gathering all forces for a BIG REVIVAL so come on over, it has a great toy archive, EVERY UK EXCLUSIVE comic is also displayed in a great gallery all free to read and they have been coloring these black and white comics and releasing an issue every week for the last 50 weeks! great site for a fun toyline
jamarmiller 4 years ago 2
If you have any episodes could you please post them
swiv2d 4 years ago
I got it on dvd it kicks ass
BigBoss1876 4 years ago
The Action Force movie was incredible!
TBone85 4 years ago
I'm sorry, but I think I'll stay with G.I.Joooooooe A Real American Herooooooo, G.I Joe is theereee!
MeowMonkey 4 years ago
80s cheesiness. Love it.
jeatcleave 4 years ago 2
l like the english one beat then the usa one. soz 2 b honest lol
sexyjammy 4 years ago 2
COBRAAAAAAAAA la lalalalalalalalala
mrgund 4 years ago 2
thanks for posting this, any Action force fan should check out blood for the baron . com site out
jamarmiller 4 years ago 2