Nissan Toys 2 - GI Joe Adventure team

The sequel to the classic Nissan Toys commercial - remixed.

This clip was a victim of politics and a Mattel lawsuit and was seen by very few people. This is the remixed version with new sound effects and music, to give it less of a commercial feel and more the look of an adventure movie. The gang at Vision Crew created all the miniatures and sets, and of course deserve the credit for their great representation of a classic 1970's GIJoe.

The fictional characters in the credits are all Hasbro trademarks, because Hasbro, unlike Mattel, got the joke. At the time of the Nissan ads I was working with the Hasbro GIJoe team and the characters in the credits of this remixed version are my way of poking fun at the Big M.

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• nissan toys
• gijoe
• barbie
• adventure team
• gi joe
• Hasbro
• Ken

[dangeroustoys56]

Great follow up to the first video- actually this is the first ive seen this one. The first video is definitly the most memorable tho.

[adventuretom]

The first one was certainly unique, and a breakthrough, but the animation, and production values, on this are much better.

[Oophorectomy]

Great vid, thanks! I wanted to ask (since you were there) if you thought G. Wayne Miller's Toy Wars accurately depicted what was going on in the industry at the time?

[adventuretom]

There was a LOT of politics at the big H at that time. Sadly if forced some good people from the company.

[DorrieBelle]

Aren't 'Kimber Benton' and 'Eric Raymond' also in-jokes ? Those are the names of Jem characters, made into dolls by Hasbro in the mid-80s. "Mike Triumph" seems to be a good name for a GI Joe, I don't know if that's a Joe joke.

I enjoyed it - thanks for posting !

[adventuretom]

Yes. Since Jem was a Hasbro license, the characters are named after Jem's sister Kimber and arch rival Eric Raymond. Mike Triumph is a GIJoe character from the 1970's Adventure Team line. All part of the swipe at Mattel. Oddly enough when Toy Story came out, it was Mattel that embraced the use of Barbie and Hasbro refused the use of GIJoe. Part of the quick management turnover in the big toy companies.

[bitchyb73]

poor inadequate Ken hahahaha.

[ostin258]

i like the adventure team better than a reguler G.I. JOE

[QueenBoadicea]

"Dedicated to the Power of the Kung Fu grip." LMAOUIC X`D

[awazha]

:D AWESOME and then SOME.. lol

[gravultratarist]

OK!!

[randomusprime]

Awesome is not even good enough of a word for this. But it's awesome!

[fleaOWNS]

what animation was that

[eleeking]

Only G.I. Joe is G.I. Joe, great video!

[Stepper11]

Very cool. I'm getting a yellow Nissan Xterra. Going with the yellow cuz it reminds me of the Joe Adventure team support vehicle I played with as a tike.

[LLCoolPass]

wait is this real? when did they do a sequel commericial to the classic one of the 300z?