 Wow the Stargate work. I'm on an alien planet, which for budgetary reasons looks exactly like Earth Ba weep grana weep ninnybond Come try a Greetings. I am doyen. I am an alien as you can see from my funny hat You are not wearing a funny hat and you came through the magic circle. Are you a god? No, I'm great When someone asks you if you're a god you say yes Yes Yes, I am hoody the god of GI Joe toy reviews I came through your magic circle in search of more GI Joe toys to review GI Joe our civilization has GI Joe It does That's perfect. Those were the toys that came out in the 1990s with the bright colors and the shooty things Oh, they were so fun Hello, everybody hooded cool commander 788 here This is the show where we review every vintage GI Joe toy from 1982 to 1994 this time we are looking at the eco warriors, which we have not done for a long time That's already a bad sign and it's just going to get worse. Why because this year 2023 is cursed. You see I have a girlfriend who is a fan of Stargate and through her I discovered the Stargate action figure line by Hasbro the figures and the vehicles I acquired them I opened them up and by doing so I unleashed an ancient Egyptian curse from the 1990s I can't even begin to tell you all the production issues I've had just trying to make this video Including just a few minutes ago when this camera wasn't recording the 1990s was a bright and colorful time It was also a dark time for Hasbro and GI Joe GI Joe is becoming less relevant and was having a hard time competing with the popular trends of the time One of those trends was captain planet with its environmental message So GI Joe had its own environmental squad the eco warriors And their whole mission was to protect and defend the environment Hasbro put that environmental message into practice by recycling Recycling a GI Joe vehicle. They just gave it different colors and called it something new the eco warriors eco striker was recycled from the 1985 GI Joe aw striker, but that's not the only time the aw striker was recycled It was also used for the Stargate toy line as the all-terrain cruiser We are going to look at both of those copies of a popular GI Joe vehicle this video is already cursed How could it get any worse? HCC 788 presents the eco warriors eco striker and the Stargate all-terrain cruiser This is the GI Joe eco warriors eco striker all-terrain environmental assault vehicle with water shooting cannon from 1992 this vehicle was available in 1992 only it was discontinued for 1993 in the early years of GI Joe Figures and vehicles would be available for two years in the 90s They started turning them over after only one year this vehicle did not include an action figure This was part of the eco warriors a subset of GI Joe with an environmental theme eco warriors began in 1991 with a lineup of six figures three joes and three bad guys and one vehicle the septic tank the subset continued in 1992 with three figures one vehicle the eco striker and one play set the toxo lab the eco warriors also introduced Zombies to GI Joe which was fitting the line was arguably the walking dead There was a time when GI Joe was a trendsetter by 1992 GI Joe was chasing trends Competition from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Power Rangers and video games pushed Hasbro to look for ways to expand GI Joe Into those territories even in the 80s GI Joe copied some popular trends and themes in the 90s Copying themes became less about influence and more about desperation fans of GI Joe will recognize this vehicle design right away This is a copy of the 1985 awe striker. It is recolored It has a new cannon on top. We will look at that later It is otherwise the same vehicle in different colors the copyright stamp on the bottom still says 1985 The awe striker is a well-remembered GI Joe vehicle It is in realistic military colors and it came with a driver crank case The eco striker is less remembered and did not include a driver Hasbro has a history of being frugal They will save a buck whenever they can coming up with new ideas is great But not paying someone to come up with new ideas is even better remember the 1992 Sonic Fighters Desert Apache that was a toy from a different toy line in a much smaller scale They just took out the seats so you could squeeze a GI Joe figure into it classic They didn't even need to copy GI Joe ideas for GI Joe this cross-pollination went both ways in India The Cobra Stuller stiletto became a Batman jet Several GI Joe vehicles and place heads got used for Street Fighter 2 the GI Joe toy line ended in 1994 and was replaced by Sargent Savage Hasbro still had all that GI Joe stuff lying around so when they got the license to the 1994 Stargate movie a familiar vehicle returned. This is the 1995 Stargate all-terrain cruiser Stargate was a science fiction movie released in 1994 Starring Kurt Russell and James Spader clues found in the ruins of ancient Egypt led to the activation of the Stargate Which can transport people great distances across space Hasbro released action figures and vehicles for the movie The figures were not constructed like GI Joe figures. They were much clunkier and didn't really resemble the movie characters that well I don't think the toy line was very popular You can still get these Stargate action figures meant and sealed on the card for a song wash this In the middle of the earth in the land of shire lives a brave little hobbit that we all admire with his long wooden pipe And his fuzzy little toes. He lives in a hobbit hole and everybody knows him bill bow bill bow See let's take a look at the parts and the features of the eco strikers starting in the front and in the front We have this bumper and headlights the bumper is in yellow plastic with Translucent green headlights the blueprints call these a magna cushion front bumper bar and quartz halogen infrared headlamps Next we have the front wheels. They have black plastic tires with blue rims They are attached to a black axle and suspension system There is a black mushroom clip at the center of the wheels that looks a little unsightly These front wheels will steer left and right the blueprints call these 175-70 vr 15 off-road tires and wheels next we have the main body of the vehicle The body is in a blue color. It is the same body as the awestriker just recolored blue The blue contrasts sharply with the yellow parts There is a large eco warriors logo on the front nose the blueprints call these Ultralight fuel saver body with tubular frame next we have the roll cage in yellow plastic The roll cage connects to the blue body at six points three on each side One in the front one in the middle and one at the back There is plenty of space to put two action figures in the vehicle the blueprints call this an extended eco frame Roll bar next we move on to the cockpit the cockpit has two black seats It has a center console with a shifter. It has a gray dashboard It has a black steering yoke the steering yoke will turn left and right But that does not cause the front wheels to steer on top of the gray dashboard There is a united state sticker So everyone knows who saved the environment who should drive the eco striker since it didn't come with the figure The box art shows 1991 flint version three driving flint was off the pegs by 1992 So kids couldn't get him to drive this vehicle unless they had him already Of course, you can put two figures in the cab. So in the passenger seat We will put flint's eco warriors buddy clean sweep on the passenger side of the dash There is a camera thing. It is in black plastic. It tilts up and down It has a peg on one side and a black plastic hose that connects it And that hose runs up to the top roll cage You would assume this is a control for the top cannon The blueprints call this an infrared pollution detection recording camera on the sides of the body next to the Cab there are running boards one on each side There is a lattice pattern on the floor and foot pegs for action figures next to the cab There are stickers with a star and a us flag. I think these stickers are on the wrong side They should be swapped. So the star is at the front attached to posts on the roll cage We have two antennae. They are in black plastic. There's one on each side These are the most frequently missing parts on the original awl striker And they're the same on this one. They are somewhat flexible But they can tend to permanently bend if they are stored that way for a long time on top of the roll cage We have a large yellow cannon. It's mounted on a small turret. It will pivot 360 degrees And it will elevate and lower. There's a good range of motion on it But mine is very loose and tends to not hold a position. Well, there's a purple splatter on the right side It looks like the nicolodian logo the blueprints don't have a listing for it But the box calls it a pivoting water firing anti-tox cannon. It can be used as a water gun Why? Because eco warriors figures had a color change gimmick If you hit them with the water gun, they would change color to simulate battle damage This is the only significant difference from the 1985 awl striker other than the color The awl striker had a green non-firing cannon To operate the water cannon the instruction sheet recommends you remove the cannon from the turret That may be one reason why this cannon is so loose Then you can place the tip into water and pull back on the plunger That will pull some water into The cannon once it's full that you can push forward on the plunger to shoot a jet of water The cannon is supposed to have a water activated color change battle damage But mine does not work. It doesn't do anything It may be that this purple splat is the battle damage And it's just taken on that color permanently over time But I cannot demonstrate how that works because my example doesn't have any kind of color change on it The body has blue platforms over the back wheels with the texture pattern Then we have the back wheels themselves The back wheels have the same black plastic tires and blue rims as the front wheels and the black mushroom clip at the center They are attached to a rear suspension and axle under the vehicle and that suspension system really works The underside of the vehicle has no real detail Just the interior molding of the seats behind the cab we have the engine cover It is blue the same color blue as the rest of the body It has a vent detail on one side at the very center back at the top We have a hole for a fuel nozzle the blueprints call this spill safe fuel filler receptacle Yes, this eco warriors vehicle burns fossil fuel There's a cutaway for the engine and a cutaway for the tail pipes and this engine cover is removable with the engine cover removed We see the engine. It is in gray plastic. The engine can be removed It pegs in it will peg in pretty securely, but you can remove the engine This is just recolored from the awestriker engine since the awestriker was reissued many times So was this engine the engine on the original awestriker was a very dark gray almost black The engine on the eco striker is a lighter gray The engine on the stargate all-terrain cruiser is a slightly darker gray There was also a very light gray almost white version of this engine that came with the 1987 mobile command center That one doesn't really fit in a vehicle because it has a loop on it that was made for the crane on the mcc With the engine removed. We see the empty cavity. The support frame is black and there is a molded in car battery There is also a peg and that's for pegging the engine back on at the very rear of the vehicle There's a bumper sticker that says don't litter there are clips for the engine cover So you can put the engine cover back on there are no other real features like a tow hook on the back That's okay since the rest of the vehicle has plenty of features The eco striker is a cheap knockoff of a famous vehicle, but it has the benefit of knocking off a really good one It has all the features of the original awestriker and adds the water shooting cannon The colors are garish, but the features are good. Now we get to the knockoff of the knockoff This is the stargate all-terrain cruiser. The awestriker was reissued numerous times in different forms Most of those releases were in gi joe, but in 1995 hasbro needed a vehicle for stargate That's when we got this clone of the awestriker the stargate all-terrain cruiser The only problem with this choice of vehicle. There's absolutely nothing like it in the movie Hasbro made a winged glider inspired by the bad guys vehicle But the heroes didn't have a similar vehicle the solution just reuse a gi joe vehicle Ancient egyptian hieroglyphs reveal that the stargate toy line did not even include a stargate play set But it did include a lot of reused gi joe toys I'm not saying it was lazy But it was lazy The stargate movie toy line was very limited It had only eight action figures two vehicles and one creature was barely any effort I've been able to almost complete the entire line and i've done that in just a few weeks the action figures are very simple They have five points of articulation The captain o'neill figure has a vague likeness of curt russell But the others don't resemble the actors very closely at all the figures mostly included recycled gi joe accessories They came with some spring-loaded missile launchers from 1990s gi joe figures It's not surprising that they recycled a gi joe vehicle for this toy line Some of the accessories can't even be held by the figures. That's a very hasbro thing to do They just threw in whatever they had with no regard to whether the toys worked together stargate figures were clunkier than gi joe figures But not out of place for action figures in the mid 90s. They didn't resemble the actors very well I mean, this is a reasonable representation of curt russell not perfect But this looks nothing like james spader the character of daniel in the movie looks nothing like this The character in the movie did wear a hat But not this hat. They didn't even get that right some designers at hasbro used the stargate figure Horace to mock up a proposed Manimals figure called vax that vax figure was never released But this stargate figure gives a sneak preview into something that might have appeared in gi joe if the line had continued a little longer the all-terrain cruiser included an instruction sheet But it did not have blueprints like a gi joe vehicle just instructions for assembly. Let's take a brief look at the box I did get this vehicle mint in the box and I opened and assembled it on a live stream So check that out if you haven't already It has the stargate logo and a space background and a painting of the vehicle in space So I guess it really would be an all-terrain cruiser This box art is very reminiscent of the artwork on 90s gi joe figures and vehicles It says with shooting alien blaster the box art does kind of look like curt russell The figure did not include that weapon or anything closely resembling it We have the same artwork on the top and the sides and the bottom And then on the back we have some damage because the cat partially damaged that Just like my cat has partially damaged my life. There is a diagram of the vehicle not a photograph like we got on gi joe vehicles There is a cross-sell for the other vehicle and the creature in this line There's a clip and save sort of file card for the vehicle, which is nice But the text is just some promotional copy no real text specs or anything about the vehicle I like this the stargate toy line had this egyptian hieroglyph code on the packaging Which you could complete if you got all of the figures and vehicles and that's kind of cute It's just a fun little thing thrown in the all-terrain cruiser has the same body as the awestriker and the eco striker But in a light tan color basically desert colors, which makes sense Since the movie is set in space egypt the accessories and interior color are in a dark green So we have a dark green bumper and headlights and those headlights are opaque rather than clear or translucent The features are almost exactly the same with a couple exceptions But you do have the same front wheels that turn the same black tires in the front and the back The rims that are the same color as the body and the mushroom clips at the center The wheels still have the suspension system in the front and the back that really works It still has that camera thing attached to the dashboard whatever that thing's supposed to do It has the running boards at the sides It has the removable engine cover just like the other vehicles that were based on the awestriker And of course the engine is removable just like the others In case you were wondering the all-terrain cruiser has a different size peg for the engine than earlier iterations of the awestriker So you cannot peg it into the eco striker or the awestriker. It just doesn't fit. They are not interchangeable Let's look at some of the important differences and there are some first of all The all-terrain cruiser is a single seater rather than a two-seater Because the stargate figures are constructed differently from gi jo figures and they are wider They had to accommodate that so they just took out the other seat and made a single center seat They also moved the steering wheel to the center and they have joysticks one on each side The single seat of the all-terrain cruiser is just a little too big for a gi jo figure They do not fit securely in there at all, but they do accommodate the stargate figures pretty well A stargate figure will fit in there and will fit pretty snugly and pretty securely One thing I find amusing about moving this steering yoke to the center is the figure cannot use it because he doesn't have the articulation to reach it The running boards have gi jo size foot pegs and those can be used for Both types of figures since they needed to update the interior anyway and that piece runs along the bottom They added something they added this platform in the back and this is something that was not on the eco striker Or any iteration of the awestriker. This is unique to this vehicle It has a lattice pattern on the floor just like the running board and it has two foot pegs Although you could put two figures on there I would recommend just putting one figure because it will stay on pretty securely And this guy in the back can man the top cannon or at least he could if he could reach it Let's go ahead and look at that missile launcher on the top because this is the other major difference Neither the eco striker nor the awestriker had it. It is a black missile launcher with a black missile It is a spring loaded missile launcher. It's mounted on a small dark green turret on top of the roll cage The missile launcher will rotate 360 degrees if you move an antenna out of the way And it will elevate and lower with a very good range of motion The cruiser included four of these black missiles. They are identical. They all fit in the launcher They also have these dumbbell shaped slots like traditional gi jo missiles But there is nowhere on the vehicle to peg them on so these just don't have any place to store them This missile launcher will really shoot and we usually demonstrate these spring loaded missile launchers by shooting at our old friend Dr. Meinbender, but this is not a gi jo vehicle. It is a stargate vehicle So I think Dr. Meinbender needs to get in character So we're just going to put this little headdress on him It doesn't fit too well, but we'll just kind of press that on him and now he is raw Tor Meinbender you look great doc to use the missile launcher You just press the missile into the barrel of the launcher Keep pushing back until it clicks. There is a trigger on the back You just aim and press the trigger down to fire This is why you need multiple missiles because he's just not going to go down that easily. All right. Here we go. Dr. Meinbender fire There we go. Even though this doesn't fit in stargate. It doesn't resemble anything in the movie This is a great discovery for me. I love finding these odd variations on gi jo vehicles I never would have found this if I wasn't dating somebody who is a fan of stargate for legal reasons I can't guarantee this will work for you But you should try this in your own home Check this out When he was a young man, he never thought he'd see people standing in line to see the boy king king cut Looking at how the eco striker was used in gi jo media It made no appearances in the animated series The awestriker did appear in the sunbow animated series It first appeared briefly in the episode red rockets glare and in a few episodes thereafter Looking at the comic book series published by marvel comics the eco striker did not appear as far as I can tell The eco warriors showed up in issues number 123 through 125 I looked through those issues and did not see the eco striker The awestriker first appeared in issue number 44 and was used many times thereafter It was a popular vehicle as for the stargate all-terrain cruiser It never showed up anywhere as far as I can tell there was nothing like it in the 1994 movie Nor in the episodes of the tv series stargate sg1 They could have used a vehicle like this in the tv series There was a promotional comic book for the 1994 movie But it doesn't look like the all-terrain cruiser appeared in that either Special thanks to chris pierce from comic tropes for tracking that down for me looking at the eco striker overall I feel like you already know what I think of the colors It's like a broken record when it comes to these eco warriors colors. You can just assume I think it's ugly as sin now that we've talked about that Let's move on and look at the rest of it because the eco striker copies the awestriker It has a lot of great features the details are excellent. The steering front wheels are cool I really like the removable engine cover and engine But the eco striker doesn't get any credit for those features because they all came straight from the awestriker What the eco striker adds that is truly new is the water cannon That was an eco warriors feature that was supposed to work with the color change gimmick on the figures One nice thing about that feature is you can ignore it You can just pretend it's a regular cannon like on the original awestriker The stargate all-terrain cruiser is not a gi joe vehicle It has been modified to fit an entirely different action figure line Despite this I like it better than the eco striker The colors are better the back platform is new and it would have been a nice feature on both the awestriker and the eco striker As with all spring-loaded missile launchers I can do without it But it's no worse than the water gun Even though this isn't gi joe it is a variation on a gi joe vehicle And I never would have discovered it if I wasn't looking for a stargate gift for my girlfriend This is a great discovery for me. I discovered a toy line that was small not very successful But surprisingly cool in some ways It's also very easy to collect because there aren't very many items and they're still really cheap That was my review of the gi joe eco warriors eco striker and the stargate all-terrain cruiser I hope you enjoyed it a special thanks to Mary Ann for helping with this video and for making this video possible in the first place If you liked it, please give it a thumbs up on youtube subscribe to the youtube channel and share this video with your friends That's what helps this channel grow. 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Damn it How'd you get so funky king? He lives in a hobbit hole and everybody knows him milbo