I had the Tomahawk too, then my mother threw them out. All of my cool G.I.JOE toys from 1982'-86'. Such a pity, but now I'm re-collecting all of these toy lines. A little pricey, but definitely worth it and the memories come flooding back. Now my kids all love the collections I'm restoring! Thanks Mike... if you had lived in my neighborhood as a kid we would have probably played with all this stuff together!

"Remember the toys you always wanted but never had?" Yes. That is me every time I watch your videos :p

TBH, the Cobra BATS being the grunts make a lot more sense than having a lot of human recruits.

This is such a genuinely great vehicle and troop carrier

There's no need for a tandem-rotor helicopter to have a fenestron, the tail-rotor. The second rotor would counter-rotate and keep the aircraft from spinning. That's why a Chinook doesn't have one. Good video

This was my favorite G.I. Joe toy as a child. I played with it till the rotors fell off.

As a kid I had the tomahawk and loved it!! Great review and I agree it was the last to stay true to the original Joe's of the early 80's before It got to crazy!! Loved this video!!

Actually, as I was watching this video the old "Tomahawk's on the go!" commercial jingle was playing in my head (I watched a LOT of TV as a 10 yr old). IMAGINE MY SURPRISE when the video ended with that same commercial... you sir are the Nostalgia Ambassador

I loved this helicopter and lift ticket back when, actually still do

The Tomahawk was one of the best Joe toys ever made. It's highly functional and playable, but also looks fantastic on display. Mine is still in surprisingly great shape after surviving my childhood all those years ago. Good video, Michael.

The Tomahawk was one of my best Christmas presents ever...I got it and the Cobra Jet at the same Christmas and it was glorious.

I recently started selling a lot of my GI joe figures and vehicles from 1984 and later. I'm attempting to focus on 82-83 figures and vehicles. I'm after those Reagan era army green toys that I originally fell in love with. The original Arah joes were like green army men but better.

My cousin Randy had this toy back in the day, I was so envious him! He'd been collecting everything since pretty much day one but sold it all in the early 90s, he got a sweet grip of cash for that stash too!

I had this when I was little. I collect all the Lanard figures and vehicles both old and new. Its my favorite military toyline and very affordable.

This video was uploaded on my birthday and my name is joe, how fitting

I had the Tomhawk and played with it until I broke all the pieces. It was a great toy. Great memories

I loved Sci Fi. The direction Gi Joe went was Amazing. The Dreadnoughts. I loved the movie with Nemesis that figure is one of the all time best. B A.T.S blew my mind beautiful figure. I got B.A.T.S from S.F FAO Swartz's. I remember opening him on the bus.The first wave of figures classic. Very dear memory's of the first line up. Gi Joe was riding a perfect wave the hole way. I was there from day one with the 3.75 line and the last of my friends I stayed with gi Joe when it was sad I was the only one during high school. But they keep bringing the hits. I loved it all. I'm not a army buff but I loved Gi Joe.

Fantastic review! This was a great vehicle. It is by far the bridge of the classic GI Joe from the early 80's to the later 80's for when GI Joe lost its popularity and its luster. Thank you for making this video. It was spot on!

I’ve had mine since 86 and surprisingly still mint even with the rotor blades intact all this time.

I got this for Xmas back when I was a kid ... I went crazy when I opened it up

I had the hovercraft (my greatest playset/vehicle) and my helicopter was the Dragonfly, I had so many hours of playing time it was all around my toys back in the day. Not even atari or the rising of nintendo could top that.

this is definatlly one of the best joe vehicles ever. i remember a story when i was a kid and had some b day $,i was allowed to spend some on a new toy but was told i could not spend it all in one shot. i didn't want to upset my mom so i passed on the tomahawk and bought a vehicle i believe called the dessert fox,i do own a nice complete one now as part of my collection,great vid again.

"Remember the toys you always wanted but never had?" Yup, and when I started collecting G1 Transformers, I got the ones 'I always wanted but never had' first.

The Cobra Soldiers were replaced by the Vipers.

Still have mine since the mid 80s. Still in good condition. Strongly agree about Lift Ticket.

I so miss 1982! Yo Joe!!

I had at the Tomahawk. I was Cobra fan, and most of my toys and story lines revolved around them, but the Tomahawk was so cool I used it with them. I usually had various Cobra guys escape from HQ and take the Tomahawk to get away. It'd take fire, and eventually crash land (because it was too big to play with in the house for very long) and would be there shelter as they fought off the pursuing Joes.

Man, you need your own TV show.

Hands down, all time favorite GI Joe toy. Loved this thing.

I started regularly reading the comic in 89, and I swear the Tomahawk was Hama’s favorite vehicle. That made me want one, but it was too late at that point.

In the 80's I sent hasbro a layout for a P3 Orion that I wished they would have built, alas I never heard back from them, but I always had the dream I would see it in the store one day!

I just got my hands on this through Ebay. Totally complete and in nearly perfect shape. I didn't know I wanted this, till I watched this review. Thank you a ton.

Hey. So I had one of these for Christmas in the UK, around '89. It was brilliant as it was so dynamic. Many moving parts and ways for the figures to interact with it. Unfortunately, I broke the winch on assembly. You had to click pieces together on the winder but they snapped. It came with a bubble wrap envelope full of figures too, which really boosted my cast of characters to play with for many years. Lifeline & Muskrat were among them. It must have been a store exclusive with Argos as I picked it out of that catalogue, after obsessing over the pictures for months. The helicopter lasted years. Canopy hinge did too. Many of the blades broke off but were super glued back on. It was a robust toy. Looked realistic compared to the others of the time. And was featured in the movie. Its rotting in a landfill now sadly. Over time, all of my Action Force (as they were called in the UK) were bined. RIP Tomahawk. Nice video.

Just got my hands on a tomahawk. Needs a little restoration, but it is a dream vehicle of mine since I was a kid. Plus I got the British versions well. You can really tell the difference in quality and features.

The two Joe vehicles I always wanted were the MOBAT and the Mauler tanks. For some reason I never owner either one. I did have the Dragonfly, Tomahawk, Sky Striker, and the Conquest X-30. The Tomahawk and Sky Striker were my favorite Joe aircraft. The best GI Joe comic IMO was the issue that focused on full length dogfight between Ace in the Sky Striker and Wild Weasel in the Rattler. Not sure which issue it was, but I loved it as a kid..

Man this is so inspiring..makes me want to go an Ebay and pick up a Tomahawk and 8 Snake Eyes and re-enact the Osama raid..."Tomahawks gonna chase some Al Quada....bababa ba...Tomahawks gonna chase some Osama...bababa ba".

A kid from school I knew had one, was so jealous when I went to his house. 😩

I was always willing to accept Cobra having outlandish vehicles. It kind of became their schtick. After 86, even Hasbro's half-assed attempts at semi-realistic Joe vehicles seemed cheap and charmless.

Nice observation about the Tomahawk being the last true military GI Joe vehicle, during that prime time anyway. I didn't ask for the Tomahawk for Christmas but got it and accidentally broke off all the rear rotors barely two days later. Being stuck with strictly STAR WARS for so long, I didn't start getting GI Joe until the end of 1984 thanks to a birthday present so it was 1986 when my collecting became full-on and that is the one production year from which I got all the figures. I feel like I missed out a bit by not getting the major GI Joe toys from 1984 and 1985 before that but my friends had that stuff. I went crazy for the Havoc for some reason and really wanted to get the bright-colored Sci-Fi and Lifeline, even though eventually those guys didn't have much playability. Other figures were more grounded and more fun like Beach Head, Leatherneck, and Low-Light. Kind of like you about the helicopters, I didn't appreciate the X-30 until a few years ago when I bought both the remake of the original and remake of the Python Patrol one. I don't know why I didn't care about that in 1986, especially since I was majorly into the then-new "Top Gun". It is far cooler and easier to play with than the X-19 Phantom I would later crave.

Gotta admit I love the look of the Sky Raven. Never had one but it just looked so awesome in the catalog.

GET TO DA CHOPPA!!! G.I. JOE issue #96 is one of my favorites. I didn't like Snake Eyes' new uniform as much as the 1985 variant, but at least it had a cool origin story. The only G.I. JOE chopper I had was the Dragonfly, although I did have the Airrwolf and Blue Thunder choppers.

That is a freakin sweet toy.

Another excellent video. I had no idea all of the vehicles and variants that they made until recently. I didn't even know that they made a Terror Drome, until I saw one this year. I also recently saw a U.S.S. Flagg with the box, and I was thinking to myself this must have been difficult for a parent to hide this from their child for a birthday or Christmas present. Why is the Night Force series so valuable now? I should have held on to mine. Oh well. You live and learn.

You got some great videos I just discovered them. I feel sorry for you Mike, I was lucky to have the Dragonfly, and it kicked ass. The rotating cannon, two racks of rockets & missles, a rescue winch, no canopy problems, room for 2 Joes inside and 2 on the skids, and a propellor blades you controled w/ your thumb. Plus one of the coolest Joes of all, Wild Bill. He had an amazing paint job, and the detailing was awesome. If you can find one complete get a Dragonfly.

I remember getting the Night Raven from my dad when I was 4 or 5, it was HUGE to me when I was that little and I loved it. Not gonna lie, this video is the first time I’ve seen the Sky Raven repaint for the Joes, but it looks pretty awesome in that silver/chrome color way.

Believe it or not, I founded the Tomahawk near garbage cans when I was young. I recognize it now that you show it. It was in awful condition though, there was only the shell of it. But it was so huge, I couldn't believe they just threw this out.

Got it for Christmas 1990, along with a TV. I loved the helicopter, but the rotors were a nightmare.

Lol at the California Raisin on the rope!

Great video! Enjoyed it very much. I have seen the eagle in tRu on cleanse for $40. I've thought about picking it up for nostalgia...

Got me a Tomahawk as a birthday present the year of release. I remember the nubs making up the hinge of the aft ramp wore down or broke off, and may nasty hack of a fix was to drill holes all the way through both sides of the body and the ramp, and run a chunk of hanger wire all the way though, bent down on both ends.

ROFL @ the Pogo - to me, that was the defining "shark-jumping" moment

It's interesting how you said that GI Joe toys were taken out of circulation after 2 years because I got the Tomahawk in 1992, but this was in Norway where GI Joe was called Action Force.

lol! yes, i had Sci -Fi (called in Spain as Sgt Laser :s ) and i use him as short of Robocop, with armour commander Cupra! good video! btwn, i had Tomahawk too...was cool, but i ever cry for not have Night Raven...

Depressing! You are right about the vehicles and Cobra jumped the shark with Bender and Serpentor but Joe's were solid this year. Plus this was the year I started collecting. Had the tomahawk, My sister snapped off every rotor.

I always liked Tiger Force. I was out when they started wearing exoskeletons. Just like I was out when COD Infinite Warfare came out. If I want sci-fi, I will go to the things known for it

I agree with you. I loved G.I. Joe because it look like real military equipment. I lost interest when they went to neon colors. Nice videos.

Had this one, it was okay. It was around the time Sgt Slaughter came in and yeah, it got kinda weird and became too hard to get everything. The Terror Drome and aircraft carrier were huge and my parents' house was pretty small. The Joes got unremovable helmets and the cobras had removable ones, a total flip flop from earlier years.

I had no idea I could've had a helicopter that would fit all my go joes

3:58 Your allowance must have been bank!

I had the Tomahawk in the 80’s. I think it was one of my last GI Joe toys. Tomahawk was my favorite of all, with the Warthog competing for 1st place. After the HAVOC and STUN, I think I started to lose interest in GI Joe. But the Pogo really killed it for me, although I even had that one too. The MAGGOT wasn’t so bad, and that came later. But boy did I love the Dreadnok’s Thunder Machine. Maybe because my parents had a TransAM with the same front end.

"Tomahawk's gonna chase some Cobra!" My holy grail for the line was always the W.H.A.L.E. I started getting into it in about '87, but Britain lagged behind so the stuff being released was from about '85 and '86. We never got the USS Flagg or the Terrordrome. After watching this I'm tempted to get the reissue Tomahawk...

I had the Tomahawk and it was a lot of fun. The only problem was that the helicopter blades broke off.

Another great video. Thanks!

Unfortunately I didn't get the original, I got the Eaglehawk from not too long ago and I love it as a later in life stand-in.

I had this when I was 8 more less. Not only I lost lift ticket's microphone, but everything else too! :( such a shame... Maybe I'll try to get another one when I begin a new GI joe collection

I collect modern G.I. Joe Figures and I think the Eagle Hawk looks enticing, but there are two things I don't like. The rear machine guns don't pivot up or down, so they can't shoot at civilians on the ground who run or stand still while claiming they're VCs or "Viet-Cobras". The Tomahawk featured these pegs that stuck out of the seats that fit into the figures' backs, firmly keeping them in place. The Eagle Hawk doesn't, so figures precariously bounce around inside until they fall out and die.

as a 10 year old I got the Tomahawk for christmas ... LOVED it ... but the wings never went on mine right and it was a big pain the butt to me ... sadly I think I sold it off at a yard sale or maybe it survived until I sold off a chunk of my gi joe stuff to buy star wars ... but for sure mine was used and abused. hours of play.

Dang...forgot bout the tomma, never had it but it does look cool🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Another great one Mike! But i hate say this but am a fan of the Tiger Force stuff lol.

Still have mine! And still have my Terrordrome 🤓

You and me both, Retro; I SO wanted one, but never got it. The new EAGLEHAWK 'clone' is OK, but just isn't quite the same as the 86 version.

I had the Tomahawk. Part of me hates my mother for selling it and all the rest of my Joes and SW at garage sales when I was 13

I'm learning so much from your vids, really well done, wouldn't you love to know if it was indeed late and was originally scheduled for 85, I wonder whether the design team changed at that time also. I wouldn't know but does Hasbro have a museum/hall of fame which charts all it's major lines through time? Really Enjoyed. Cheers Fuzz.

It seems both GI Joe and Transformers decided to go the more science fiction route in 1986. Wonder the names responsible for that. I've never really heard of the specifics on that or seen any interviews with people from Hasbro about that either. While Kenner employees from that time period seem to be well know Hasbro I don't even know one name for sure. Maybe I'm just missing out and there are interviews around? BTW Awesome video! Almost makes me want to get a GIJoe item.

To me, I had more fun playing with the Tomahawk than the Falcon. The Falcon was cool to use as a set though.

I agree with you 100%. Tomahawk was the last of the greats. I also have to say that I hated python and especially tiger force. I only got the few of them was because the originals were discontinued. Some people paint these colors on other vehicles which is awful. Sky patrol was right behind it close to night force. Ugg. I hated these things.

I don't mean to be that guy, but isn't Sci Fi really an update of original member Flash? I recall from another video that was your favourite of all time. I jumped ship when the neon colours starting come in force and always preferred the more straight up military guys (Footloose, Flint, Dusty etc.), but truth be told, there was always that bizarre outlandish design right from the beginning.

saw this episode of toy hunter , he got 1 in the box and sold it for about 1500 $

The Night Raven is actually based on the M-21 a sub version of the SR-71. The M-21 (of which there were only two) were the carrier for a small drone aircraft, just like the Night Raven caries the small fighter.

The vehicle I missed out on was the Ninja turtles Battle Van from 2003...

Rather surprising they never reissued the Tomahawk in any of the new subgroups. SkyHawk TigerHawk NightHawk PythonHawk Marauder TomaHawk Would have liked to have seen those. Or a version in Army green like early 80's Gi Joe

I did have the Tomahawk and it was beautiful. With those later toys, some of them were still good but others weren't. I always and still feel that Cobra Commander should have been more like Darth Vader than what he was. There would have been no need for Serpentor.

Good video retroblasting. Any idea how to replace or repair a broken bottom blade housing on the tomahawk? I haven't been able to remove the broken one from the chopper itself. keep up the good work.

I wish I had insisted my parents bought me more. I had figures, I had the skystriker. and I had the tank.. but that was about it. Now, I don't have room for anything unless I put it in the attic. counterproductive

Not to disagree with you but I had the 1989 "Slaughter Marauders". They were 3 semi-realistic vehicles. The X-16 was realistic, save for dayglow orange mistles.

night force stuff is really pricey,i believe it was a store exclusive at the time which made it harder to find.

I had one of those

I had sci fi and the tomahawk an the jet and dragonfly an jeep,ok I had all of that

I was a young teen when Hasbro & gi joe started so I never "grew up" with the brand. I read the Marvel comic up until about 1990 or so. I'd glance through a comic in 1993-1995 but rarely bought any after my military enlistment. GI Joe became contrived & soap opera like.

Hey Michael my friends dads friend sent in sketches for gi Joe vehicles. and one made it into the market. The jeep toy. I'm not sure what it's name is.

I had the Tomahawk when I was a kid, used to play with it all the time. when, inevitably, too many pieces broke or went missing I tried to throw it away. My mother wouldn't let me because "It was a gift and would be disrespectful" kept the thing in my closet for almost a years before I could throw the thing a way. what's the point of keeping something that's broken?

Do you have any Jurassic Park toys to review Mike?

You don't like the bats? Riddle me this riddle me that who's afraid of the bat? i love the bats but They were super difficult to obtain when I was growing up at some point I ended up with a bat missing an arm and had no legs and that's the only thing I had of the original GI Joe line till about a year ago.i pick one up extremely cheap by accident. The damn original bats now are crazy expensive.i have one or two of the version 3 aand one or two of light version 5 or version 6 from the two thousands and I have a 12-inch version from the 2000s something line when they were doing Valor vs. Venom. Call me slightly insane but I just never got out of g.I. Joe growing up I continue to pick them up at yard sales and such.i I was lucky enough I got a tomahawk when they first came out for Christmas or a birthday. I still on it.i Got one missing a bunch of pieces that somebody threw out in the 90s and I hung on to it I recently obtained the missing pieces for it through eBay. Ironically trying to get parts for it about two years ago I bought one nearly complete and use the one that I got in the garbage to finish the other one lol. I hung on to the third one and got the parts in a group listing on eBay where a guy had them listed wrong. I've ended up with a couple more Tomahawk since then but getting the blades and a few things like the cockpit cover are crazy difficult and getting a whole one complete the price would give you a stroke. As far as I know lift tickets microphone is rattling around inside the fuselage off my Tomahawk and I haven't been able to get it out if either lift tickets microphone or Snake Eyes knife and it's floating around inside the body haven't been able to get it in one of the areas that it will pop out without potentially damaging the body By trying to separate it. I got to admit it was one of my favourite Vehicles as a kid I personally missed out on the apc!!! Wanted one but never got one and they were usually expensive at yard sales. About 80% of my GI Joe collection as a kid came from secondhand stores and yard sales I was a cheap kid. I got a pretty hefty chunk of crawler and shuttle when somebody threw it out in the nineties and I still have it. That damn thing they only sold a very limited number here in Nova Scotia more so than the flag the flag the terrordrome and rock crawler space shuttle launch pad talk up a insane amount of real estate at retail! Almost nobody retail wise attempted to carry them there just wasn't a market here in Nova Scotia you had to go to someplace like Sears or consumers and order it you couldn't just walk in the store and walk out with it. At least that's the way I remember it. I've only physically touch the flag twice both times had it yanked Away by somebody being a dik at flea markets. The terrordrome I've only ever seen in pictures! Space shuttle with the crawler only one I ever got my hands on was the one that somebody threw out never seen one at a yard sale or anything like that. I bought four of the black and white one over the last few years through eBay one of them admittedly for parts but I'm going to use that one for to eventually make a custom shuttle I bought it for $0.99 plus the shipping couple of the parts on it alone are 20 and $30 each right now. The four shuttles combined I never paid more than I think 40 or 50 bucks plus the shipping I bought them when they were going rather cheaply and now the market Has Gone Bananas so I haven't been able to get the little plastic bins that go on the back of them and I'm sure the front landing gear for one of them.

Eco-Warriors,anyone? How about the drug lord, Headmaster? Yeah, that was the end of Joes.

You forgot Adder.The last not outlandish colored toy

I can't think of the name, but it's a more generic, let's be honest, a GI Joe wannabe line, but it's got some amazing looking vehicles in it as well, do you know it? There's a sub, a Hercules cargo plane, and a few other big vehicles that I've seen. My brother had most of the Joe line from the Flagg to the Skystriker, the Terrordrome, the F-14 (or am I confusing the Skystriker with it?) while I had the Star Wars line until my mom suggested he could play with my figures, now they are all gone, both lines and my mom can't believe she let him play with the stuff, he was rough with his Joes, I took care of my figures, so now that Joes and SW figures, vehicles, playsets all are serious $$, she apologizes every time I see a new collector's guide on the two lines. My wishlist now has the old Mego figures, the Marvel and DC heroes, the Planet of the Apes, and the Six MIllion Dollar Man figures and sets on it.

Looked very expensive on shelves I bet.

Why you never got the tomahawk why I would have buy this but I was never born in 80s

Personally I think the G.I. Joe cartoon went to shit in 1986. The animation because lazy and everything was suddenly neon colored. I stopped watching it at this point.

It is not Army green. It is Olive Drab Green or OD Green for short.Just like it is Haze gray not battleship gray.