Xmas 86 for me was unforgettable!! I received both the Terror Drome and Night Raven. But that Terror Drome was awesome and having that along with the Headquarters was bad ass!
I know I am 2 years late, but in case anyone didn't mention it the Bivouac is pronounced "Biv wack". It is a French word for a camp of sorts, often used in a military context. Oh, any the hanging item looks like a canteen, not binoculars.
Mike, I absolutely love your list! As a GI Joe collector the only surprises on your list were not having 1987's Mobile Command Center on the list, and 1985's U.S.S. Flagg not being number 1. I own several of these playsets, and I do see your point about the Flagg however. The space needed to properly display it, and the vehicles and figures to compliment it. There will never be a another playset like the U.S.S. Flagg. Not even through Haslab. I enjoyed your take on these though. Great Job!
I remember my older brother getting the terror for xmas assembling the whole thing and finding a few crucial pieces missing, A few days later my mom drove us to hasbro corporate hq where they gave us the missing pieces + General. The most exciting discovery however was that of the secret Hasbro hq toy store which had every hasbro toy you could ever imagine from obscure never heard of toys and figures to toys the ones sold out everywhere
Man good video . I was blessed to have the Terrordrome as a kid in OKC during those 80’s. Moved and misplaced pieces and just never kept up with it and then hit puberty and focus changed lol. And I agree, it was the greatest.
Awesome list bro. I owned about 2/3 of that list. I passed on the General and the Defiant as a kid due to lack of room. Wish I could say I had them all. I loved my collection so much and worked hard to buy most of it. O had endless days playing with my my FLAGG and Terror Drone. Had a huge chunk of my aircraft parked on the carrier. Id hoist my Cobra base down and have hours of setting up for battles. I wanna go back to the 80s and recapture all that fun again. Time travel anyone? Music and GIJOE was all I needed. Girls were secondary for a long time. When I left for the Air Force, I took a pic of my collection and hugged my family goodbye. Went on to be a firefighter in 1991. Guess I played the part of BBQ lol. Loved it. It was GIJOE that really amped me up to serve. My mom was pissed lol. She got over it and was proud of her kid.
This is very interesting. It's the first time I learn of a kid buying himself the Flagg, back in the day, and all the other Joe stuff. I didnt know it was something you could do I guess. Respect
They really did have the best toyline!! As a Star Wars collector I was always secretly jealous!! Like why did we not get a playset of the Imperial bunker from ROTJ? Or the thingy with the ginormous shield generating radar thang??
For more betterness: 1.Get extra vehicle bays on both sides of your 83 Headquarters to extend it. 2. Get those fake grass diorama mats 3. Have multiple Bivouac camps and at least 2 Watch Towers PURE OD GREEN VINTAGE BEAUTY
hands down my favorite G.I. Joe play set was the G.I. Joe base, I remember when my cousin got one for his birthday , we both already had a shit ton Joes and vehicles , and the addition of the base to our collection was just rockstar , I was 8 and he was 6 , we played with that thing endlessly , and yes there were other Joe play sets that came after that are better and more elaborate ( Terror Drome , Defiant , The General . ) but the G.I. Joe base was the first major play set and is number one in my book..
My favorite playset as an adult is the Cobra Hydrofoil with rescue dream team led by Snake-Eyes, they are stationed in HQ consisting of checkpoint alpha, watchtower, and outpost Defender.
LOL. You put the Bivouac on the list but not the Mobile Command Center? That's just a travesty man. Also you should have included a mention of the second G.I.Joe Headquarters from 1992 along side the original, it's a pretty good set as well. The rest of this list is on point though for sure. XD
Instead of the first one, I really liked the Outpost Defender I think it was called. A little sand bag bunker with a heavy machine gun and some extra weapons. It was a small set but I remember playing with it a lot.
You missed my favorite and the one I played with. The G.I. Joe mobile command center. It was the pride of my collection. It was the very definition of a vehicle that transformed into a play area
Man, I wanted that aircraft carrier so badly. And my god i didn't realize that shuttle ever existed.... I would've gone nuts for that thing back when i was a kid. I loved Astronauts and wanted to be one. Damn that thing is great.
Hello Mister Tyderium!! You make the best toy review videos. I do have a question.....did the new movies have their own toylines? I don't think I heard anything about them
I absolutely love this video. Thank you for sharing all the incredible place that's of my childhood. Wow kids are really missing out today on what we had as children with playsets.
Ofcourse it is hard that we will probably never get those vehicles and playsets again. Especially a new USS Flagg. Weird though that we as a community cannot afford to back the Super7 Cobra Mothership!
with hasbro doing 8 in rescales, im highly expecting a f14 and will be highly dissapointed if they dont make a bigger and better air craft carriers. my boss and i were speculating and since the 14 would be like 3 feet long and the carrier like 14 ft long if they redid the planes. it would be able to float, raise the planes, docking stations, maybe a plane launcher, and secret missle launcher
Heck they could make one that doubles for 12 inch figures. I saw a great display in Pauls Valley that had many vehicles for 1/6 joes and those are huge which sounds like what you are talking about. Thanks
Have to say, I don't recognize all of your list, due to living in Ireland and we didn't as many as the big vehicles as the US did, but I would love to own each and everyone of these... By the way, does anyone here know if we will ever get M.A.S.K reissued anytime soon...?
Speaking of the Bivouac playset, GridIron makes a fantastic version of it for Classified(6" line). Just expensive is all. Their drones are gr8 too. Fun to just peruse
I agree with the Teror Drome #1 but the USS Flagg at #6? Yes it needs the lower Hull addition to make it usable. It should still be in the top 3 just because of the sheer audacity of Hasbro to put it on the market. 1. Teror Drome 2. Headquarters 3. USS Flagg 4. Battle Platform 5. Defiant Lauch Complex
My mom has pictures of me opening the terror drone on Christmas, I'll have to get my mom to break out the photo albums one of these days and send it to you , Not the original, of course.
