HCC788 - 1993 MEGA MARINES GUNG-HO! Vintage G.I. Joe toy review!

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Information and Sources:

G.I. Joe Mega Marines Toys Commercials:

90's Commercials Vol. 86

Credence Clearwater Revival:
Image:
By Fantasy Records - eBay itemphoto frontphoto back,
Public Domain,

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme Song:

X Men Opening Theme (High Quality)

Aliens (1986): Colony Approach

Canadian Border Patrol

Image of Pouches McPouchy Pouch by Rob Leifeld

Napoleon Dynamite - Rex Kwon Do demo:

G.I. Joe The Movie - Clip 4

Ultimate Guide to G.I. Joe vol 2 by Mark Bellomo
Forward by Larry Hama

Music:
Tied Up, by Silent Partner
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Radiohead - Creep

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[culturewarrior]

watching a grown man get angry over childrens toys makes me very entertained. subscribed.

[Mecha]

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.

[thousandwolves]

Aliens+
Saved by the Bell=
Mega neon gung ho

[jameswtu]

He looks like a baseball umpire with the play dough

[Michael_Johnson_]

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

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.

[gabe]

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.

[JomasterTheSecond]

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

[McClaneEver.]

I'm so glad you demonstrated the bio armor!

[dukewilliamshane]

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!!

[affoster]

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.

[leegray]

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

[lonesquiff]

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.

[ralang]

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

[pathogenoxide]

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!?"

[ericfresh]

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

[dalesanteford]

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

[cronocomics]

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

[jamesberryjr]

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.

[Pegwarmers]

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