I’m sad to admit that I never had the first run G.I. Joe toys. I was -1 when the toy line launched. I really got into the G.I. Joes in the late 80s and early 90s, so I missed out on a lot of the first run characters. Jango had a few of the first run characters, but due to the little brother syndrome, many of them got “battle damaged” fighting the lawnmower. So lately, I’ve been obsessed with the 25th anniversary G.I. Joe toys. The individual packages are a throwback to the original (80s) Joes.
This, basically, sparked a conversation with Jango and me. He was telling me that the original commercials were animated; which made kids think there was a cartoon to follow the toy line. So i scanned youtube to find some of the the 80s commercials (and even some commercials from my era). A lot of them were kind of neat; some were extremely funny. Boy, oh, boy its funny seeing things you thought were cool when you were a kid turning out to be lame. Oh well, you can’t deny your childhood. Enjoy!
—Decepticreep
Oh those streetfighter toys were horrible.
I still like that Guile better than Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Guile