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Aliens+ Saved by the Bell= Mega neon gung ho

Sad thing, back as kid this was only version of Gung-Ho that I had among my G.I. Joe toys and I didn't have many of those back then.

He looks like a baseball umpire with the play dough

One of my favorites as a kid. Sure he is banana yellow with a can of play doh, but like you pointed out the neon 90s trends in cartoons, just made him even cooler as a kid.

'Bug hunt' is probably a reference to Aliens - it's one of Bill Paxton's lines.

I was born in 1985 and couldn't get enough of 90's Gijoes as kid! I had the bright orange Mega Marine with yellow armor, as well both smell-scented mega monsters! Uhh loved it, sorry purists.

I'm so glad you demonstrated the bio armor!

That head sculpt reminds me of Gnawgahyde. When I heard the term "bug hunt" I thought of Starship Troopers. I don't remember Play-Doh figures like this at all, I think I was out of GI Joe before this came out.

i would have thought the breaking point would have been the pyramid of darkness fatal fluffies as just as silly as cobra la. The head shot on the card just looks like it was stuck on. Another great review. love the head banging in the car during title sequence

@nerdcraftercoley7305

5 ай бұрын

Fatal Fluffies would have been an interesting action figure.

"Transformers had a Universe, G.I. Joe had a universe." Well teeeeeechnically, G.I. Joe and Transformers _shared_ one universe. So... G.I. Joe was ALWAYS Science Fiction _THE WHOLE TIME!!_ >:)

@CounterClaws

2 жыл бұрын

Jem is also in that universe too. All three series also share the reporter Hector Ramirez.

Blast-Off was my favorite Mega Marine. As an adult collector I have to say that the 90s had a great deal of greatly sculpted figures but the neon...man...it doesn´t look good on display unless you put them on a separate chelf or in a different room...closet...altogether!!

The Larry Hama quote was a very nice coda to this review. well done again HCC788!

The Mega Marines were the last figures I collected before I considered toys and action figures were deemed "uncool" to the sophisticated life of a thirteen year old boy. I didn't get Gung Ho and the rest of the Mega Marines until much later when I got back into collecting.

I had this Gunn hole figure I had a couple of those bio and Mega Marines and one of those giant monsters I had street fighter GI Joe and mortal combat searching sandwich and Sergeant Savage Eagles an extreme GI Joe the original GI Joe my brother said a lot of that collection and I had a lot of the characters I had from the 90s most of them blend pretty well

Aaahhh, simpler times. Jacked up on Surge and Fruit Roll-ups, and too young got care about proper coloring. Now, seeing one of the figures I once had, only thing I can think is..."Good gods, where's my black paint!?"

I love 90s GI Joes they are so over the top by that point and I missed most of the ones that came out after 1990 when they were og

I swear your videos keep getting better!

Awesome review bud! Thanks again so much for sharing with us!

Man I needed this review. I am still laughing. With the armor on Gung - Ho does it change his name to Play-Ho. Hcc788 you are the best.

Gald the GI Joe era 1993 was a skipp for me all though Mega marine apc was cool... but you forgot to mention that Gungho also appeared in gi joe resolute after spy troops and venom valor... Cool Review

Wasn't their "tank" basically a repaint of the Cobra Parasite, but with a spring launcher? I recall that being a real bone of contention for me at the time, where they were just doing a crap ton of repaints and calling them new figures... Then they did it with a vehicle.

@poolee77

7 ай бұрын

The Monster Blaster APC was a different mold than the Parasite. It’s actually a good vehicle excusing the neon green highlights.

I had this figure. I always thought he looked like an Umpire with the helmet and bio armor on.

That shot to Mindbender was a clean one. Nice review, I enjoyed it.

Great review

"Let's include a can of playdoh to encourage the kids to get their toys jammed up when it dries out and they don't keep it clean." It's pretty easy to see why Bio Armor didn't catch on.

I am so happy my only interaction with mega marines i have had are repaints lol The Monster Blaster repaint as the B.A.T. transport, the repaint of Mirage from the 2000 line and the Mega Viper as the convention Swamp Viper these things sucked and I think they even costed more. Great review

What, no Megadeth reference?? I'll give you 99.9% of a thumbs up. I look forward to your eventual comments on Blast-Off's card art from the Mega Marines line. But(t) if it leaves you speechless, I'll understand.

I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment Cobra la was the breaking point.

I think the bug quote is a reference to to Aliens.

I have questions about the play-doh armour, are u supposed to trim around the shoulders so the figure can move his arms a little bit? Did the play-doh mold imply that to be done with excess hanging outside of the molded pattern? Has anyone tried this so gung-ho doesn't look like he is hanged from a cross? How long can u leave the armor on a figure, a day? A week? Does it turn to stone with crystals only after 25 years? Thanks.

You're getting better at the comedy 😁

I loved the Rob Liefeld reference! XD

would love to see a Wild Bill Yankee blue review.

GI Joe Mega Marines I had that gun whole I also have the gun whole where you look like John Rambo I grew up in the early 90s late 80s I had my brothers and my own collection that my mother and my father and my grandparents gave it looking back at it now they were just going with the trends and I agree with you they look like they colonial Marines from Aliens

I have to say, the two Cobra Mega Monsters from this line were pretty cool even if the figures were eyesores.

Lol I had the one with Clutch... Man that mold

To be honest I love the Joes figures from the 90s, they are so EXTREMELY AWESOME!!!!!! Cool review, and I still have the "Moldable Bio- Armor" aka Play-Doh from my Mirage figure I got in 1993 and basically it looks the same, except that it is green.

I'm sure someone said it, but Gungho was in the live action GIJoe commercials

At least you could use green play dough to cover up his neon chest.

This was MEGA!! 😂🤣😅👍What madness, the audacity for someone to call a doll an action figure, then to think that young boys would actually like it and buy into it! Absurd! Lol

HCC, if you're looking for something GOOD from the 90s to review, you should really have a look at some of the Oktober Guard figures. They retain a lot of the 'realistic military' look that the main line of Joes was starting to lose by that point.

Love the White Zombie shirt!

did not know that green bug guy with tentacles was a Cobra Bio-Viper . It's in one of my random boxes of unidentified action figures that I've never found anybody to identify I always thought it was a Spiderman figure or X-Men. They did some really weird action figures at that time. Released under Spiderman and a few other toy lines like Power Rangers just always assumed it was from one of those toy lines. Not about to go digging it out to put up with my G.I. Joe's would probably take me a week to find that box even though I know roughly where it is. Not about to go through six hours of work to dig all those boxes out and then several days of looking through them. Actually I played with Plato when I was young and used it in the high school in art class I'm not making that up. It was one of the things we use quite a bit in high school art class. And I already knew what 20+ year old Plato looked like LOL. Personal experience of stuff being back from when you were a kid literally had a couple of sealed cans of Plato. That little gag about still tastes surprisingly minty made me laugh . Can you imagine if this subset had their own cartoon. The horror the horror. I never did get what they were thinking with the neon colors being this big shoot me sign.

That helmet is actually very appropriate for combat....given it's a straight copy of the one in Aliens. Have look at your clip in 3:39 (complete with microphone, neck protecting flap, etc). Given it barely fits on this figure, I wonder if they created the molds for another Aliens project, and then reused it here.

play...Doh!!!!! Great review my friend.

Man, Play-Doh armor LOL. I'm sure they lost all their older fans when that came out

He looks like a baseball umpire 🤣

I think if version 3 gung ho had a hat and a bigger tattoo he’d be great

add water to the dry moldable bio armor.

Gung doh..... the crayola plasticine was much better, but even then, it was a stupid concept. the media covered the only worthy Gung ho, v1... Hasbro laughed of the character, dying his mustache and eyebrows. was he a fashion victim? d. the tattoo reduction is a farce, I never bought the later versions, it was a stupid mistake not to reuse the original head mold, it would have been much better and cheaper. I can t wait to see the monsters though. good show Commander!

In the GI Joe monsters that dr. Mindbender o made I had one of them

The weird thing is this Gung-Ho could have been solid middle tier if the yellow was a nice olive drab, like the Colonial Marines mentioned, and the helmet more fitted and also olive drab. Granted I think his duty cover would have been a good return....but alas a simple utility cover isn't MEGA. The tree weapons are never fitting. The only one I could even see a character like Gung-Ho using is Muskrat's shotgun and machete. One last note, I think I know why Gung-Ho lost something in later versions, it wasn't that he was just bald, his first two firgues had his mustache seperated at the upper lip, the later ones gave him a full on Porn-Stache. Anyway, enough rambling great review, I only went on so long because when you did the Monster Blaster APC unboxing I commented never put a Mega Marine on it.....it's like you knew.....

8:54 24 year old playdough not nearly as bad as the 14 year old paint with "kidney stones" i had to use on a summer job one time

should have been named Greensleeves: Santa's Slayer

Is it just me or does the 1992 version of Gung-Ho look like Gerald”Major Dad” Mcraney

I thought those toys with missile launchers were prohibited starting early 80's ?

Gungho v1 rocks

I literally laughed out loud at the reveal of the bio armor, Hasbro was really out of it by this time, completely gone.

@christianhafer9819

Жыл бұрын

Complete garbage. 1990 was the last respectable year.

@1980Triumph

Жыл бұрын

@@christianhafer9819 agreed

@christianhafer9819

Жыл бұрын

@@1980Triumph 1990 was one of the best years, as far as I'm concerned. It's insane how far it fell after only one year. 1990 had Ambush, Freefall, Metal-Head, Bullhorn, Salvo, Sub-Zero, Topside, Undertow, on and on. Excellent year.

Where do you think Leatherneck got the idea of giraffe pants? Look at Verizon one of gung ho!!!! Lol obviously that lid was not sealed properly.

there is no Fer-de-Lance, Lousiana.

The Bio Viper was my last figure

@elizabethorfightcreations178

6 жыл бұрын

...it had a strange tangy smell

HEY GOLOBOULOUS IS AWEOME AND SO IS COBRA-LA

your defense of the mega marines is only rivaled by the defense i read in "to kill a mockingbird" i tip my hat to u, sir

Hey, could you do a Budo review. Thank you. Keep up the good work. COBRA!!!!!!!!

I never thought I'd see a figure as bad as giraffe pants Leatherneck but I was wrong. This one is worse.

The bio-armor was a Mega turd. Play doh and action figures should never go together. They action figures and story line, are pretty cool.

well the cheese is with the mega marines

I got V1, v2, v3...

Great review! I'm glad the ones my son had weren't any of the Mega Marines. There were quite a few figures from the 90's and it seemed that many had been customized. He did have Gung Ho v3 and v3.5 (?) but it looked like the legs of one was added to the other so he had an all o.d. uniform. Looking back at all the figures there were some good ones from the 90's and some that were like WTF. I'd love to see you do a review on Mace and his helmet/rocket launcher. Next to the play doh that has to be one of the most absured weapons in the line!

Thank you for doing this. You are my favorite toy reviewer. Yo are the one who I relate to the most. I wish formbmx and some of the other non american reviewers opened up a little more about there play experience. It would be interesting to get a feel for there culture through the lense of gi joe. This is a great theme month. The 90s don't get enough credit. The cartoon was bad but there were great figures that came out these years. Ambush had a great play gimmick. Pathfinder was a great Florida Joe, made us Crackers proud. Range viper was very scary troop builder. Stretcher was a great addition to medic crew plus some weightlifter love we hadnt got since Rock n roll. Topside filled in some sailor gaps Shipwreck and Wayne Golden Alexander(bronze bombers) couldn't fill. Skypatrol was great reuse of molds you wouldnt have known about if you favored figures over vehicles. Vapor and Overlord are great villans. Big Ben is solid. Immortal is good bad guy. Dusty3 comes with pet plus beret enough to justify him in my collection. Heavy Duty might be the best of the black Joes. Mercer is great update of one of most interesting characters. Interagator is one of most frightning bad guys. Dessert scorpian is murder in the sandbox. Duke3 would be ranked higher if his mold wasnt done better with leatherneck figure. The Gung Ho v3 had great sculpt but best coloring was in 2001. Bullet proof was a weak figure but always great to get diversity. Ninja force has its place. Slalker3 is great figure. Spirit3 is great diversity figure. Fishing trip bazooka is underated. Colonel courage is better than hisname suggests plus diversity. Mindbender2 is great sci fi angle joe. Duke4 is acceptable, General Flagg is also acceptable. Headhunter stormtrooper might be best bad guy ever. Bio viper and monstro viper are great monsters. Mohawk zartan really rounds out dreadnoks line up. Street fighters had there place. lifeline 4+5 serve purpose. Metalhead 2 is usable. shipwreck 2 is great figure. the alien figures get along fine in my toybox. the 30th anniversary guys all worked. Joe colton works out fine. That covers most of the highlights for me in the 90s. Some snow guys and water guys weren't very good but made it into my collection just because they round out their niche. My action figure universe is pretty out there so realism isn't important for me. we play alongside vintage and modern star wars, Marvel, or anything else in the 1/18 scale. I am a big fan of diversity so females aliens and minority action figures become a priorty.

I can see right through you, man. ;-)

While I agree with the playdough, the Mega Marines, and general 90s disgust, but the 1989 Cobra La Movie was fucken GREAT. It gave a rather interesting backstory to Cobra Commander, Serpentor, added a new enemy that could be combated, all the while adding some partially beliveable sci fi feel to the series. Its not like Sci Fi like Cobra La was unheard of in the GI Joe Series up till then, especially with Serpentor, Dr. Mindbender, and a lot of Destro's Bats, and of course, the Hydro Viper. I think all of these made GI Joe a great MILITARY sci fi epic that would span generations. The great thing up till the end of the Cobra La, is things still looked really "GI Joe" ish. The Cobra La villians looked and behaved in a way that can be expected of GI Joe. They didnt go Neon, they didnt go to crazy in the color scheme, and while yes, they were physically stronger then some of the GI Joes, especially when looking at the leaders, it was to create an "EPIC BOSS FIGHT" in toy form, something that video games were introducing at the time. When you get into neon and other over the top "acting" like the mega marines, or the "bio hazard squirt gun soldiers" then you get weird issues.

Can you do a review on the Star Brigade Si-Fi and its vehicle?

The helmet is very similar to a police riot helmet.

LOL just no! Hasbro must have been smoking some crazy weed to come up with this silliness!

look what they did to my boy

What is the clip at 20:10 from? I need to watch it. Bad. Ive lost sleep over it.

@gishmoe3088

3 жыл бұрын

In Living Color.

He-Man!!!! !!!!!!!!!

@gochem3013

5 жыл бұрын

Where?!?!?!

Not only did they miss the mark they blew by it at mach 7 ...nice work my friend still enjoying your work

They stop tryi9at Hasbro at this time didn't it.

Wow this is what I missed after growing out of joes after 91.

I ATE playdoh

Ellchh

Gut bombs??

As a 90's kid, when 80's joe fans complain about 90's joes, I hear an old man yelling at kids to get off his yard.

@johnsoehnlen4781

Жыл бұрын

You've got a good point there.

Original gi Joe joke 👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌

10:57 Save that accessories sprue, it'll be useful for basing material and making scatter terrain for your...oh wait, HEY HASBRO, QUIT CHEAPING OUT ON US, THIS IS A TOY NOT A MINIATURE.

NOPE.

24 yr old granite....lolol....hahahhahahahahaa..don't eat it ...ewww

He said semen right?

That card art. This is why I hate Rob Liefeld.

Why do you have these horrible 90's figures? You clearly don't like them, and you shouldn't as they're terrible. Do you display them? Disgusting.

Its no wonder why they tanked, this stuff is terrible!