My brother, if these vids achieve nothing else, I hope they show that it's never to late to play with your Joes. I hope you get to do so again... soon!

It's in 'real life's people actually get hurt or 'killed'😮

It’s actually a GI JOE A-10 Thunderbolt from the 15th Anniversary line back in 1997! GI Joburg had that long before we had an actual Rattler so it stood in for the Cobra plane in this film.

I never get tired of hearing how much better we do Joe than Hollywood. But then I stop to think how bad those films were at representing our toyline and then I wonder: "if the bar is that low, how is this a compliment?" I kid! Thanks for the comment Russ!

He's... frisking him.

Frisky Shipwreck.

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mine too! air tight is a close second. dun worry about that prisoner tho...shipwreck took him to see a nice romantic comedy movie and have a fancy seafood dinner..plus he promised to call on Saturday!

@Fragminion Does the Convention apply to Cobra? I mean, you have to have both an Official Uniform and a country officially recognized by the U.N. under your rulership to apply for the rules of the convention. Cobra may have a uniform, but do they have their own country at this time?

Good spot! Stuntstriker!

Thank you! Would you believe the camo is an official Hasbro release from 1997?! We shot this before we had an original Rattler to hand so it had to stand in!

Ooooooh, I don't know, I think he did clip the Striker. And Ace is just too good at snapping some g's for those heat seekers to get him. But yeah, laughed out loud at your comment man 😂

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Thank you Nigel! Keep collecting! This hobby is great as is this community. Yo Joe/FULL FORCE!!!

Thank you thank you! We totally were going for that comic reference. So nice to have the ladies along for the ride

Thanks Kev, they are indeed very good and I'm lucky to have their enthusiastic assistance! I will pass on your praise!

Agreed! It's easy to overdo the Baroness but both voices were done really well. Love these videos.

@@gijoburg 0:50 in your video most real old ruins look like those Iron Ore rocks in your video :)

@@gijoburg you should take a look at all the rocks that are iron ore because all the megalithic structures were made out of them :)

You must be a real rock hound! The embattled Joe base in this sequence was shot in an old quarry! I love the sheer rocky sides and the pool of water at the bottom. A very dynamic environment to play with aquatic, terrestrial and airborne vehicles!

Thanks Troy. I'm proud of how this little thing has developed. Very organic. It happened by accident! We wanted to shoot a Ghost Striker review but the weather wasn't playing nice so we hoved off to the beach with four choppers and a TTBP! And now we have a plot! And a voice cast! Sky's the limit now! Or is that space, rather? We might do the Defiant if the votes go that way over on our Go Fund Me.

Awesome. Our job here is done!

Totally his anthem!

I lost it when I heard him singing in the back ground 🤣

Absolutely! This is a love letter from us to Larry and Rod, the lads responsible for "Shakedown"! Larry's attention to technical details I think made me the man I am today. Thanks for watching and commenting m8!

And that should be a badge of pride! To have played with them til they broke? Respect! And fortunately thru the miracle of the internet you can replace your key pieces. Or not, and just keep watching our channel instead! Lol.

But on a somber note, we. Is doing this stuff as kids too. I think we'll keep chasing this rainbow...

Heh very true I got my eye on some items if I ever get flush with cash. Now not everything broke but what did I was 'encouraged' to sell at a yard sale by my folks as I was 'getting too old for toys'. I feel for that trap and regret it. Least I kept some things from doom like some of my Gen2 Transformers and my brothers Sgt. Slaughter. That said I feel no true anguish for my destroyed toys, as they did their job until they met their end. Mostly the collector in me wishes I could have salvaged more of the goodies both for posterity and for those hard times when ebay cash would have been grand. I feel sad for kids these days who JUST play video games or mobile stuff. I mean I enjoy video games but I also went outside and made my own stories and worlds. I fought tooth and nail against Cobra, the Decepticons, the Foot Clan, you name it; or at times had the villains really win a helluva victory before the good guys got their second wind.

You're chasing the dream I wish I could go back with the mentality I do now and reaaaaaaally wow the neighborhood kids with play scenarios. Keep up the awesome work!

These are absolutely my favourite comments. Thank you for sharing and thank you for being a great parent! Glad we could inspire the fun.

Aw thanks Chris! Great praise indeed. I'm so grateful for correspondence like this, just great to know you dig these little things.

GI Joburg but I do have one question: what happens to Torpedo and Recondo?

They've been successfully medivacced under cover of darkness. They're gonna have the fight of their lives but they're gonna also have the best help anyone can get back on the Flagg. Hang in there guys!

Don't you worry Ed, there will be more!

Gotta agree with you there. And getting to play with them on a beach at sunset has only made me love them more!

Thanks Derek! I can’t really take full credit tho, the Weasel and Baroness/Ace and Lady Jaye thing was good ol issue 34; Gung Ho offers up a quote on Copperhead’s filecard... and as for Bludd and Recondo, they were two figures I had no real love for UNTIL I threw them together for Blood In The Water. I love the angle that we all start out with the purest of intentions... but we get a little older, learn some hard lessons about the world, get burned (or in the case of the Major, lose an eye!) and pretty soon your attitude is one of “to hell with the world, as long as I get my cut...”

GI Joburg Damn, I love the insight you bring; any hope for a Destro story, with....hmmm....say, haven’t seen my favorite Warrant Officer in awhile? With Destro being a relative of Lady Jaye, Flint and Destro would have some good chemistry.

Destro... there’s an angle there all right. Great character. Be a wonderful avenue to write some kind of scene between these long-lost relatives.

Heheh! Another one cribbed from Mr Hama. He did love going after accountants and lawyers...

You're awesome. And I would have totally used Loggins but KZfaq already flagged us on our Flagg vid using the Top Gun Theme.

GI Joburg oh that's so unfair. It's that kind of issue that we as viewers don't get to see. You do an excellent job and put loads of effort into a video that gets busted for using a snippet of a song.

Thanks! A little more out of the the way than my regular spots, but totally worth the drive. Sunsets make even these sexy jets sexier!

Thanks Vince! In true Hama fashion, we don't plan it down to the finest detail, rather just work it out on the fly just like we would as kids!

Hahaha! Great! It's quite a unique sound in the world of military aviation, for sure. And that must have been a lower cyclic rate setting because the higher setting sounds ridiculous! I think there is a clip here on the tube of the A-10 firing at its highest setting. Wow. It's something to behold.

Thank you Ryan! So stoked to make this dream a reality bro! Thanks for the Bones, man!

Thanks Daniel, we most certainly have made it our mission to keep doing these. I love it. And greetings from Singapore!

Thanks Teddy, we most certainly will. These vids keep it alive for creator and viewer alike!

Yeah, I got some good friends only too happy to help out. Lucky me!

You are welcome sir! Love me a dogfight.

Sounds to me like this is a popular idea! Why not have a three way fight with the Transformers too!?

Music to my ears man. Thank you for the kind words!

Wooooo! Yep, talk about dream job. But I got no problems with keeping this as a hobby. Though I’d love to have someone handle camerawork and edit duties while I just dreamed up plots and played with the toys!

@@gijoburg Taking the time to film and edit gives you some artistic merit and entertainment value for viewers, otherwise you'd just be adults playing with toys.

These toys have done more traveling than most people Sandy! Duke’s been to the Europe; Shipwreck has done tours in South East Asia...

@@gijoburg lucky toys

@@gijoburg you should check out Mega Bloks Call of Duty series, there's some pretty cool stuff you could work with..

Aw man, if only! We're about three decades too late!

Never to late to bring back a classic like this!

Thanks Terrence, we'll be in touch come Sunday about the future adventures of this channel! And thank you for commenting my man. It means so much. I'm pretty sure the ladies have had a scroll or two thru this comments section!

Mr Hama and his team are our biggest influence. No denying that!

Welcome to Joburg! Glad to have you!

Haha! You guys should have a reunion and break out some jets! If you filmed it, you bet we'd all watch it, just saying!

Thank you! Easy way of making cool looking vids: let nature show off at sunset!

Thanks Tim! Glad you like our silly little adventures. We sure as hell love making them. Our GoFundMe was successful! We made it to JoeCon and even did some extensive sightseeing in the USA courtesy of our awesome friends and backers! We posted a trio of vids on the channel called “Road To JoeCon” if you’re curious. And yes, the Rattler is 🔥 alright. Expect to see the blue variety on this channel before long. Also sporting an unbroken gunner hatch... 😝

Thank you! Once you look past the man-child holding the jet; you can’t beat a good dogfight at sunset!

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Only due to Wild Weasel's flying I'm betting could she even hope to get a good shot or maybe it was the last head on pass by that got Ace. Those two go way back, having much history, despise and respect for each other told in the comics, #34 I believe is a good reference.

All worth it for comments like this. Thank you so much. It means a lot.

Are these tears of laughter or tears of sadness?!

Thanks for commenting buddy!

...only wish I could do it more! But... Life!

So glad you came back for another go Derek! I’m going to pop the collected edition on our Facebook page as I did with Blood In The Water. And come to think of it, Aimeé (Baroness) is long overdue for a return! I purposefully didn’t play her any Morgan Lofting performances as Baroness, I love what Aims brought.

GI Joburg I never left! I watch the old episodes weekly; like the old Marvel titles when I was a kid, I don’t get bored rewatching them! Keep the action coming! It’s so much fun...sad that there just isn’t more good stuff like this. Entertainment that is not consumed by grit or how I can relate to the characters or not; just good storytelling with pedal to the medal intensity. Gotta love it! Keep up the good work, soldier! The fans love you for it!

And we love that you love this stuff! YO JOE!!!

Why thank you very much!

Thank you!

Thanks bud!

I thought of breaking the 4th wall and say "Stuntstriker!", but I thought that would be naff in an otherwise pretty visual. Yeah, I don't feel much pain in ditching the Modern. Also I modded it so it could have wings out with gear up!

GI Joburg my skystrikers has the same missing stickers around the cockpit. It seems like those were always the 1st to wear on them

Hey! Thanks Marcos. And thanks for commenting. It means a lot to us.

sorry I meant "In The Navy" LOL

Nailed it! Yep, maybe a bit of an obvious gag for Shippy, but I had to do it.

Thank you!

Thanks Allan! And thanks for commenting! KZfaq algorithms are loving us!

Thanks! Given your KZfaq handle, I take it you're an aircraft enthusiast, just like me!

Awwwww! Thanks S!

Yo Joe from South Africa Claudio!

I think Jaye might have been keeping the secrets of the top brass at that point, her position as an intelligence operative makes her privy to stuff above Ace’s clearance. At least that’s how I make sense of that line.

@@gijoburg Yeah but she lost out on that to Cover Girl who got her old slot in the intelligence service. And you got to think about the actual history between Baroness and Lady Jaye did they know each other before either joined Gi*Joe or Cobra?

@@michaelbenjmitchell1 I’d like to think Jaye might have had a dossier on Baroness. Baroness could give rocks about Jaye (just another pawn to knock off the board); but I doubt they crossed paths. You reckon they have history then?

@@gijoburg Lady Jaye's code name is a clue. Lady is title similar to Sir and Dame given to nobility and those that are knighted. They really don't go much at all into Lady Jaye's back story in either the cartoon or comics so her true identity would be mysterious. Baroness on the other hand was more fleshed out charachterwise in the cartoon and comics. But it is possible they both went to the same elite schools in Europe and also probable were rivals over Destro. LOL (Destro is a ladies man after all.) And Baroness has a history with Snake Eyes after all.

I guess at this stage Flint and Lady Jaye weren’t an item just yet, so Ace might well have been in with a chance!

NIIIIIICE! Get started man, is life getting in the way? Not even a bit of hanging space for one teeny SKYSTRIKER!?

Thanks bro! Tho I reckon it was a tie, heck maybe even a win for Cobra! They limped home...

GI Joburg "don't worry flyboy, it was worth it :D :D "

[camera tilt up to take in the sunset] [fade to black] ... maybe in this plot line Flint and LJ aren't a thing?! Hmmmm...

Uh… frisking him?! 😝

@@gijoburg 👌.

Thanks so much Aaron! Means a lot to know it took you back to those good times. We had a blast making them and showing the world. The plane is called a Shark by a company called Chap Mei for their Sentinel 1 toyline. It was sold primarily at Toys R Us.

Keep playing Marco! If these vids serve no other purpose, may that be the one!

@@gijoburg thanks I will, young spirit forever, and keep on with this awesome movies, that are better than the cartoons and Hollywood movies.

Thanks for commenting Darren! I suppose we need to observe canon with Flint and Lady Jaye being a thing; there was a draft of the script involving a kiss at sunset. But I don't think I'm ready to make my Joes do kissy kissy.

And yeah, if this involved a Night Raven, it would have been over in seconds. I hope I can grab a Conquest at JoeCon and have it square off against my Raven some day.