Happy New Year, Chasers! This is an excellent start to 2025, gents! My main memory or connection to SM22 isn't focused on the issue itself, but rather its trading card. Back in '91 when it first came out, I amassed a fair amount of the awesome Impel G.I. Joe trading card set (I'm still waiting for series 2!), and was able to fill in all the holes except one in the early 2000s. The last card I needed to complete the 200-card set was the one depicting this very issue. It took nearly 20 years to finally track it down, but it certainly makes this issue stand out in my mind. And can you imagine?: an open-world Joe game set on Cobra Island. That would be phenomenal.

Love the use of the stick! Great job team.

I had the Cobra Barge still have 2 of the cannons need that one back someday.

This is a cool vehicle tho somehow it doesn't interest me. Id probably buy it to hide my weed in the side cavity lol. Cheers!

Excellent show as always, Happy New Year 🎉!

To be fair, all the Snake eyes versions released in Brazil were Cobras lol. Estrela sure was on some serious shrooms back then

Wow how times fly. That's the niece Elka? I remember when she was a just a little one with Casper on your Christmas Special in 2018? I think 🤔

Soo cool 😎 🔥 🔫

Loved it watched it 3 times

I like the U.S. version but the Enropean version looks amazing 😮

Happy New Year, 'Burgers! Thanks for an excellent 2024, and all the best for the year to come!

a rattler tribute to to the song aces high next?...😀 BURG

Great episode, and to all the Joburgers out there, have a Happy New Year!

Hey joe burg. Love all your videos and talks. I was thinking of videos with my smaller scale Joe's and not my classified figures cause I can't afford the vehicles right now. Your thought on that.

How this for a new segment idea for 2025... "GI Joburg: Charlie Mike" where you guys review toys that HCC and FormBX257 have not reviewed yet. (Charlie Mike = Continue Mission)

Great episode!!! Happy New Year!!!!.......burg.

I am going to say if it is a Tom Cruise movie you bet 👍🏻 he would get that Tomcat F14 off the deck of the USS Flagg and he would use the whole deck span and hit his thrusters turbo charged baby lmao 🤣 now I going to have to google it to see if it was ever done.

RailRoad Responds: I feel the Baroness is a survivor, and she has decided that her best chance of survival is to take out Cobra, who she knows is trying to kill her. Not a fan of Risk as he stands so far, am very much waiting for the other Joe team to make their arrival. As to their readiness, I still feels that as I mentioned earlier they are still trying to keep the GIANT FREAKING ROBOTS as quiet as possible so they are keeping it as in house and small so far.

Dear GI Joburg, I must say I love your vehicle reviews were you play with the toy, in fact it was thank to the sea Ray review that I found this channel, and I hope you do more videos like it, I even have some request: the swampmasher, the cobra imp, the rolling tunder, the cobra stellar stiletto, the defeat Fox 6 W.D., The X-Wing, The R.P.V., The D.E.M.O.N., The Mudfighter, The Raider and The Razorback. Thank you and I hope you respond.

The rage is one those vehicles I absolutely love and I remember seeing it in my store. I certainly have few in my collection and certainly love the design and when I do a convoy I put rage up front along with the scorpion cobra vehicle witch too I love and I believe its perfect couple and I can see this take on joe hammer. Such a awesome vehicle.. I still love the original colour scheme and to me it’s scream desert warfare and you certainly can see gulf war had influence that era of joe and I’m ok with that. There an awesome episode from dic that showed it in action in desert and it’s looks awesome but I don’t see it replace hiss at all

I hope you both had a wonderful christmas. Night Creeper are certainly great figure and you can’t just have one in your collection. However the Night Creeper Leader is one figure I’m bit confused about to his look but I do like that panel show casein the rage as it’s fun vehicle. Anyway love to hear more about Steve adventures collecting joe in South Africa. Anyway keep up the great work

You should number your comic number as well so you can put it all in order when your done 😎

Issue #27-marvel superhero mention- a kid sees Storm Shadow and asks if he is Moon Night (1st place I heard of that hero) Great episode, thank you

A great Boxing Day gift -- thanks, gents! The Night Creepers look cool on this cover. I wish they'd been better utilized over the years (Blue Ninjas aren't necessary!). Inside, MD Bright's art is some of my favorite in ARAH. And this issue is *further* proof that Snake Eyes' face *was not* (seriously) re-injured by the Payne Brothers. IMO, the series only went about 10 more issues before getting completely whacky, so this is an intriguing era of the book for me. Regarding the interesting topic of time between figure releases, Zap is the second longest OG13 gap between v1 and v2 (9 years). The first place honors go to none other than our leading lady, Scarlett, with 11 years between her '82 v1 and '93 Ninja Force v2. Others of note, v1 to v2: Shipwreck, Zartan, Major Bludd, Wild Bill, and Ace - 9 years; Firefly, Cutter, and Keel Haul - 8 years. Clutch had 10 years (and, sadly, a shave) between his v2 and v3 and his fellow tan man v2 Grunt went 8 years before his '91 v3 (and some hair dye).

Awesome

MERRY CHRISTMAS, GI Joburg Crew! Feliz Navidad. desde Uruguay. Abrazos!

3:25 THAT moment in comic book resulted in THE BEST DUKE characterization. Flint got the proper treatment at times in the comic and that goes under the radar. But post-Trucial Abysmial Duke had so much potential..... 24:45 , I agree that is photoshop/Illustrator. That "blur" or "smudge" effect stands out to me on the Desert Striker with Flint. And I know people that I went to school with were getting internships at Hasbro, one of these people spent most of their time doing color studies of Transformers with these programs. These have to be an experimental wheel to distribute weight. It has to have been tried. It's like the big arctic tundra wheels that were used, you know the ones where they would roll the massive vehicles over people to show how they work. Low profile is very simple stealth. The "ram" may be more of a shield. With the wide body of the Rage, it's a very stable platform. Almost the opposite of the Mobile Battle Bunker to a point, in the urban setting. And it carries a lot of Cobra Troops on the pegs when you think about it. I put the figure hands on the roll bars.

Got an orginal Cobra Rage and a Cobra Fury. I really can imagine these road machines tearing up the motorways and freeways of major cities. Holding the populations hostage by attacking any emergency supply convoys coming in. Then pillaging the supplies. Which inturn they sell back to the local government or the people. For extortionate amounts or the locals can swear loyalty to Cobra. Then they can get all the supplies they need. Just got to help too to get those.

Merry Christmas 🎄

One cool thing about the Rage is that its crazy turret elevation would be decent in urban combat; that's often a limitation of real tanks' usefulness, e.g. in Grozny. Bobby Vala claimed Hasbro took the actual art and painted directly over it for re-release packaging. Supposedly this happened with the W.H.A.L.E.'s art so that if one owned the repaint box art they would technically own the original art as well. Kinda sad to think a big company wouldn't spring for all new art/materials like that!

Nice vid fellas!!! 😎🙌

Great video boys. I still have my OG 86 SCI FI intact. He wasn't a big fav of mine as it was a bit to bold. I image the sound of the laser would be like from the sniper rifle from the PS4 Star Wars Battlefield game. Where it builds up energy and then that pulse sound as you squeeze the trigger. I really enjoyed this video.

Fantastic review fellows. This was way out of my time frame but I really dig the Cobra Rage color of blue. If one were to fall in my hands I would paint it blue and deep red. Cobra viper theme.

I don’t see those wheels, if you can call them that, ever working in a desert environment

Merry Christmas, gentlemen

Great job of selling me on a toy I was critical of its usefulness. Merry Christmas.