HCC788 - 1990 Sky Patrol AIRBORNE - Vintage G.I. Joe toy!

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[@blissex]

Great review, this figure reminded me of my grandfather who was in charge and making parachutes during wwii, he was in the navy and made the rank of senior master chief with his gold stripes, before he passed away he gave me all his metals he have ever earned from wwii to the Korean war, he made sure no one died from his prachutes, he even made his men undue then reassemble the parachutes if he notice it wasn't done the right way, he may have not fought but he played the most important part of the war and that's what made my grandfather a true gi joe in my eyes

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

Brandon. I'm having trouble with my Facebook page. The account is frozen. I appreciate your friend request. That was really cool of you.

[@SoloFalcon1138]

Did you ever notice that Sky Patrol had ridiculously high ranks, especially for G I Joe?

[@marshallsnyder145]

Fond memories of my dad tossing this guy up in the air again and again till he FINALLY deployed his chute!

[@ryanricks]

handkerchiefs make EXCELLENT GI Joe parachutes. i had hours and hours of fun with this as a kid.

[@brzilla1235]

Same! That and twine. I also made one from a Ziploc bag!

[@asm42]

You forgot his starring role in the original total recall.

[@reddeadbandjam]

I call him Skyborne.

[@jasontompkins8180]

Do people skip the intros? They are missing out.

[@christianhafer9819]

I may or may not get the Sky Patrol figures. At least they're just not repaints like Tiger Force and Python Patrol and such.

[@Buff88]

Original Airborne is the only Airborne. But the new figure from 1990 was at least cool looking

[@temazros6112]

I tend to confuse *Ripcord* (=Caucasian), *Altitude* (=African American?) & *Airborne* (=native American). Can anybody out there shed some light on this confusing matter for me please ? ? They all are HALO jumpers-aren't they ? ? ?

[@mangalone4095]

They actually WORKED !! These were a ton of fun, we threw them from 3 storie apartments LOL

[@paulwalsh2344]

Methinks Hooded Cobra Commander could have benefited from some training from Airborne... hmmm ? ... well this poseur Airborne anyway... I'm not just trying to be a b@ll buster here either. Let me explain. I think HOW the chute is packed is key to it's deployment. You showed folding it up and curling it up, kinda like a spiral. I never had any of the parachute GiJoes, well I had the '83 Airborne, one of my favs, but never had a parachute, BUT I used to have a few parachute toys as a kid, like a WWII paratrooper, kinda like an oversize Little Green Army man with the parachute attached to a ring atop his helmet, and I had a Spider-man parachute toy, almost exactly the same size and gimmick. Here's how I learned (through trial-and-error) how to get the chute to open almost flawlessly. When folding the chute from open, fold it like an accordion, like a paper fan, in a zig-zag pattern, and then do the same when folding it down once it's down to it's linear shape, to have the "Z" pattern let it naturally spring itself open. Make sure to carefully do the lines that way too. I think you'll find that helps immensely and hopefully you do that for the future Sky Patrol reviews. Also, I wasn't a very athletic kid and couldn't throw very high, so always did it from the top deck of our steps. And only once did I toss it in the air because I'd inevitably end up tossing over my shoulder and... yup, you guessed it... right on to the roof. Also, I was never opposed to modifying improvements to my figures either, like strapping a #26 rubber band for posters around torsos for uncooperative backpacks or to strap a pistol to a figure's thigh or his rifle across his chest. I won't complain if you decide to do this if it's to protect your figure from tragic parachute injury !

[@SimpleTricksNonsense]

the original Airborne was cooler. He was one of my first swivel arm grip figures and when the Dragon Fly came out he and Will Bill were always flying around. I also preferred that he came with more realistic gear.

[@AceSWhyld]

Nice figure. Dig the whole look. Gun is a bit oversized, but still cool looking. Could have done without the chute. Never was a fan of throwing my joes around. I must agree with you, change the name. There was already and Airbourne, and he was cool. Or redo the head a bit and keep him the original character with and updated look. Speaking of Updated looks. Keep the thin beard. Fits you well.

[@thomasmoore4723]

Yeh the only Airborne was the 1983 version

[@dirus3142]

Sky Patrol should have been made of Air Force and Army pilots. A new version of Ace and Slip Stream should have been the leaders. Then have two or three new characters. The new "Airborne" is a good figure. However it would have been better if he was given a new name. Edit: Parachute assembler? No, there is a term for that, it's called rigger. His job is rigger. Riggers maintain, parachutes, and pack them. It's a term carried over from sailing. In the Navy riggers would maintain the sails and rope lines of the ship. A parachute is similar.

[@jordel2010]

I have to say that I really loved the parachute gimmick of the Sky Patrol figures, nevertheless, the only Sky Patrol figure I got back in the day was Static Line. They only way I manged to get the figure to somehow skydive was by completely deploying the parachute beforehand and then throwing the figure from the top of a considerably steep slope just past the backyard of friend's house where we used to play out a lot of GI Joe scenarios. About this figure in particular, not to get too much into the current political climate, but I have to say Hasbro did drop the ball by not sticking to the original Airborne character or instead making a brand new character out of this figure.

[@ComicTropes]

Great episode. As just a figure, it looks great. Usually I dislike repaints but this one is very well done. The laziness of the codename is unfortunate. But even more unfortunate is the fact that the parachute gimmick really doesn’t work. I bet a fair amount of Sky Patrol figures got broken trying to make them float. In fact, I don’t think you should risk testing the other 5 figures when you review them. Just use this clip to explain what happens.

[@dereknorth7916]

Hey HCC!! I would LOVE to see you review the Cobra Hiss tank version 2! It was my favorite cobra vehicle as a kid

[@deadsweetheart1]

Why not call him crazy legs version 2

[@biokido575]

Airborne looks like he's about to snap. That is some unflattering artwork

[@Shockwave-ob2tx]

Maybe he's upset that with all that silver he'll make an easy target...

[@paulwalsh2344]

Actually, if you're trying to protect from (Robot Chicken Nerd voice) lasers, you'd want to have reflective parachute material wouldn't you ? I mean, the HAL looks beefy enough to shoot something down, but lasers aren't really that powerful enough to damage anything metal armored like in Star Trek... yet, unless it's to blind your enemy or give them radiation burns or blow holes in light nylon chute material.

[@roberthill3207]

83 airborne one of my favorites one of the first 12 gi Joes that started my obsession have a great day.

[@MadisonCarter]

Great review. If I had to figure out the version thing, I'd likely go with Airborne II v1, but that's just my preference. I have a sneaking suspicion they already had this guy ready to go under a different codename and someone in the bean-counter division realized they needed to retain the Airborne trademark and made them use that instead at the last minute.

[@Shockwave-ob2tx]

You're hilarious opening makes me think of making and painting a built figure for Cobra, and calling him The Plague. But which figures to piece from? Hmm... And Skypatrol "Airborne" looks like a stereotypical government goon like you would see on the X-Files, especially with the helmet on...just the type to steal someone's code name...

[@robonintendo]

Don't drink bleach! Use it topically, duh.

[@paulwalsh2344]

And don't even think about inserting a UV lava lamp up anywhere !

[@supersho93]

Great Review, and definitely like the beard, it gives you that Commander Riker look. :)

[@raypaz2947]

Omg 😂😂😂😂 You are the best. You actually launched the figure into the air. Hilarious. I love your channel.

[@badape3620]

Hey HCC788 I can relate to the whole being quarantined and imagining things. I could have sworn all my figures where pointing their weapons at me. As for this review. To describe this whole sky patrol line, one word SHINEY! I wish I had a car chromed like the shy patrol vechicals!

[@christianhafer9819]

That's not the way to do the parachute. You go up to your deck, or a 2nd or 3rd story window, open the parachute all the way, and toss it off ,or even drop it gently, and it'll work perfectly. The directions be damned!

[@torpedo8384]

Seatbelts save lives! And now you know! WOJM! Whoot!

[@mwc1707]

Its strange, they could have just made his hair black and used the original's name and just modified his file card. I wonder if there was an issue that kept them from doing that.

[@TopLevelJiuJitsu]

I always had to throw it very high for it to deploy

[@brandonkeisler86]

The original Airborne is my favorite GI Joe of all time 🙂

[@nickfrancis]

The cartoon barely showed him, and showed Flint, Ladyjaye and Shipwreck, way to much!🤷🏽

[@christianhafer9819]

Weird.

[@peterang78]

We already have a sky patrol. It call, Silverhawk! ( insert silverhawk theme ).

[@agnethaladuff8559]

Very cool video review of the 1990 G.I. Joe Sky Patrol Airborne and tell us what it is, what it isn't and what it should have been. Thumbs up for your review video HCC788.

[@jasonkerest2517]

Here's a thought; what if Sky Patrol Airborne was renamed Ripcord(and given Ripcord's correct bio on card and a slight tint of orange to his hair) and Sky Patrol Altitude was renamed Airborne (with Airborne's correct bio on file card), and THEN given one of the 2 file names to Airwave so that Airwave and Col. Courage would have different file names...? Just a thought!

[@ljkelty1766]

Great review! SP Airborne (along with Drop Zone- after a 30 year wait) and I really like the figure. I was surprised by how expensive Sky Patrol figures have become over the last few years, i.e. $40+ for most.

[@gishmoe3088]

The prices tag is AAFES (American Armed Forces Exchange Service) which means it was bought in a PX. Which means there was no sales tax and even possibly bought overseas. This may or may not justify being priced about a dollar more than the average figure in 1990, just fyi.

[@joehodgett3376]

I couldn't help but notice the price tag AAFES Army & Air Force Exchange Service.He was originally purchased at either an Army PX Post Exchange or Air Force BX Base Exchange. I had the the leader of Sky Patrol "Skydive he was the one in the blue flight suit originally worn by the Cobra Gyro Viper" I found the parachutes deployed best when you dropped the figures say out of a tree or second story window , as compared to throwing them in the air.

[@Chris.Mc83]

As strange as this is about to sound, the face sculpt on the Sky Patrol Airborne looks kinda like Captain Rhodes from 1985s Day of the Dead! (For anyone out there who's a zombie movie fan.)

[@alexklimkewicz7191]

Chris Mc.83 I was thinking that same thing! Just need to paint the hair and eyebrows and it would be a dead ringer for Joe Pilato.

[@Chris.Mc83]

@@alexklimkewicz7191 That it would! 👍

[@cowpuddles4851]

Great choice of topic, Hoodie. The original Airborne is my favorite Joe and the reason why I became airborne when I joined the Army. Problem is, Airborne is a helicopter assault trooper, making him air assault, not airborne. Air assault rappels out of helicopters, while airborne jumps from planes. Big difference and a different tab on your uniform. Also, the pandemic is a hoax. Don’t fall for it.

[@edaniels240]

That's same thing Hasbro did with Sky High for G1 Transformers where it were 2 different Autobot characters (a Pretender and a Micromaster) sharing the same name

[@russellharrell2747]

Maybe hasbro was insinuating that the original airborne met with an accident...and this guy took his place? Maybe it wasn’t an accident...

[@jasonmaiden5026]

This one is from past my time but I made many parachutes from plastic bags for my figures. I even air dropped my Cobra Stinger with chutes made from large leaf bags! They all seemed to have worked quite well.

[@williamkincaid3465]

Hey.. the mustache is working with the goatee. you should leave that as it is. As far as this Airborne goes the face sculpt always reminded me of Kurt Russell and I put it on the black Cobra Commander figure how to make a Cobra Commander unmasked quite frequently.

[@albertglass2594]

Do not stress yourself. You have many videos I am trying to catchup. How do I get a code name. I have fond memories of playing with my airborne solders.

[@raypaz2947]

Did airborne get taken out when a bunch of joes were killed in the marvel comic book line? Maybe this is airborne 2? I’ll have to look back through those issues.

[@redvitaminblue]

It's a controversial and contested practice: tranfering the same codename or title to another character. Comic books have an especially long history of doing this -- Goliath, Power Man, Robin, Flash, Ghost Rider, Captain America, Thor Thunderbird, Firestorm, and Starman are but a few examples. Some of the time it makes sense within a given continuity and is grudgingly accepted by readers, but most of the time it is totally reviled by fans of the previous character. In this particular instance, I think I'm okay with Airborne II taking up the mantle since this practice wasn't attempted very often with GIJoe back in the 80's and 90's. When it happens all the time to many different characters for no good reason, that's when I start flipping tables over like I'm an action figure with an arm-flexing battle gimmick.

[@markmierau5189]

I still have this figure but I totally do not remember a parachute.

[@Deadduck2pt0]

Not related to Nicki Six? Hmm I wonder if he is related to Six from Blossom?

[@white-dragon4424]

Very bad concept, making all their parachutes and vehicles silver. Like you said, the enemy would see you for miles around, even at night! Not only that, but the vehicles would show up on radar like a son of a bitch. The paint might deflect lasers, but not the millions of bullets, shells and missiles that would be firing at you from all directions! It seems like a unit where you'd send your worst enemy.

[@joejupiter4138]

Whatever the circumstances of their sharing a code name, both men served their country at the risk of their lives. In my book, they're both real.

[@talesfromthebutchside5613]

Why wasn't he named Sky Airborne?

[@cronocomics]

I think the distance is not enough for the parachute to open.

[@NerdGasims]

The 83 Airborne is a air assault trooper and Air Assault just doesn’t sound good as a codename in my opinion. Air assault and paratrooper is different. Sky Patrol Airborne has jump wings and is a paratrooper meaning he went to Airborne school so it’s fine he has the codename in my opinion. Also when I was in the army anyone that graduated jump school and got their wings was called airborne, I didn’t go to jump school but in my unit we had three guys that did and they were all called airborne. It was great when all three were together and you could just shout “hey airborne” all three would look over and the just point at one and tell them to come over to go inspect a vehicle

[@simnf75]

Whats the name of the hard cover book ( not a comic book) that was reviewed here several months ago? It was a fiction revolutionary war era story.

[@beauyerks7413]

Man ....nothin was better than that first visit to the store after the years new figures came out.....I had this store called ..Best .. near by which was mostly a catalog order store ,but it had toys on premise. They were always the first to have the new season and the first to have a good sale!

[@TheGreatDayne1983]

Maybe the Original died and this guy is his replacement?

[@RhinoRobM]

I just realized with the coloring of that figure, ditch the parachute gimmick and give him a sniper rifle, he would of made a better second version of Low light than the guy they came out with

[@inmjoh]

As a kid we used a rubber band to keep the parachute backpack attached to the figure.

[@slavinben4484]

most likely hasbro wanted to keep the trademark or planned to re release v1 but lost the mold

[@vosnumber1]

we used to put these in a three man slingshot and shoot them into backyards!!! ahhhhh the 80's

[@hillbillyharper4008]

Another great video commander 🤟🏻

[@bobspangle8411]

another great review always worth the wait dont know about the u.k mainland but i did not see any sky patrol over hear in northen ireland

[@dkres82]

Wonder if we’ll get a Metalhead review this year.

[@NickBartolo]

Beard looks good man!

[@MCDJACDC]

Man, I can't believe how fast the time files on these videos

[@jeromekennedy330]

I hope you do another Shy patrol figure

[@Ship-security]

The Government issued the code name?

[@ZBR_ProXP]

AAFES are stores on military bases. Maybe that's why the high price? I guess they sold toys for soldiers to send back to their kids? Or am I wrong about AAFES, lol.

[@deadsweetheart1]

ZBR aaefes stores really only sold uniforms pins and boots to soldiers and airmen your probably thinking of the PX that sold civvy stuff and beer

[@Kranekick1985]

Need to throw it higher. Good review.

[@Tobysgmc]

Jiffy Pop parachute

[@tntsk868]

do you have starduster?

[@CgfLandon]

Rip cord

[@edwardjacobs4042]

When I first bought my Static Line figure back in 1990, I had to unfurl the chute in order for it to work. The pack stayed on for two throws and mysteriously disappeared. The chute was cool at the time. Good review.

[@delvis7842]

I think the modern versions of the sky patrol called him Airwave? I could be mistaken, and wouldn't be surprised if I was! Have an awesome day! Thanks for sharing!

[@mistermustachio336]

Great video. I have a couple of questions: so Airborne is the Bizzaro Low-Light? How well does the mail-away parachute work? My brother and I spent too much time making unsuccessful homemade parachutes for Crazy Legs. This video reminded me of that. Thanks!

[@anionhero]

Great video! I agree that it was simply laziness that had them give the same code-name to a different character. Of course, kids who played with G.I. Joe in 1983 probably wasn't playing with them seven or eight years later. So, they probably figured it was safe to simply re-use the code name rather than make either a real version two or a new name altogether. Still that doesn't excuse their laziness.

[@jasonyoungberg2115]

I saw one of the other SP members was Skydive and another Joe named Air Raid. Those are also names of Transformers in a subgroup of jets. Hasbro should have taken another name from that group for Airborne like Silverbolt.

[@glennrobbins2372]

Great review! My son had him as well as a couple of the other Sky patrol figures and the chrome Skyhawk. That version of Airborne served as either the pilot or one of the jumpers. Because of his colors he was part of what my son called the urban assault team. That was any grey, blue, or red figure.

[@ps3598]

I liked the fake airborn but i am biased since it was my first figure ever, having great time watching this review and sipping on my aperol bleach. Thanks!

[@daveyardbird7430]

I had Static Line as a kid. To get the parachute to work I would open it up, pinch it on the logo and drop it out of the upstairs window. Remember it working fairly well.

[@itros14]

Thank you for the video bro! By the way looking Good With Beard

[@roberthill3207]

Love your channel thumbs up stay awesome and have a great day everyone.

[@Jake_E57]

I used to use this version of Airborne when I wanted to unmask Snake Eyes.

[@jjmuse75]

Just ordered Airborne & Skydive the other day.

[@MiKeMiDNiTe-77]

The SP figures are some if the best of the entire line.

[@MrBull-zc6xt]

That parachute looks like a a pop tart wrapper.

[@marcusvasconcelos5634]

Muito bom amigo o seu vídeo

[@h.b.hatecraft953]

It's not theft if it's won in a war and the Indians lost the war and were still granted land of their own. That's something that no other victor has ever done. Just like when we won California from Mexico in yet another war we paid for the land when America had no legal obligation to do such a thing. Honestly we've been nicer than any other country I can think of pre WWII. As for Airborne, the Sky Patrol figure is the best and I never had a problem getting the chute to work. Sounds like you got some performance issues. 😉