HCC788 - 1993 STARFIGHTER and SCI-FI - Star Brigade - Vintage G.I. Joe toy review!

[@timf7413]

This was the last GI Joe vehicle I got as a kid. I was largely done with the line by 1993, but I just couldn't say no to one last vehicle that actually came with a pilot, since that had been largely phased out in the 90's (and was one of my favorite things about GI Joe toys)

[@jasonkerest394]

An interesting anecdote for the Cobra Stellar Stiletto... The gun used on the front was a remold of 1986 Transformers Hot Rod's larger gun.

[@mattlerch531]

You have been recruited by Starfleet command to battle Xur and the Kodan armada. Good luck starfighter.

[@ryanbwags]

It's the Star Legion! Not Starfleet command.

[@HCC788]

*Star League

[@HCC788]

If it gets hairy I'm going to use Death Blossom.

[@grios5530]

Dope.

[@chrisferguson9787]

@@HCC788 so in ur army when a vehicle driver has to get out for whatever reason....vehicle disabled, arrive at the objective or whatever they are just defenseless unless they can pick up an enemy weapon? all my drivers, pilots etc have weapons!

[@whozyourdaddy]

Funny how much they shrank down that Joe logo on the box. It was almost as if they were flirting with the idea of Star Brigade being an entirely different line but just couldn't pull the trigger.

[@tilarium2]

I never minded Star Brigade, in fact, in the 90s my GI Joe adventures included Transformers, Star Wars and some other crazy stuff.

[@delvis7842]

Thanks for the review of Scott Baio in space!lol

[@jedi69outcast]

This was also used for a Batman toy . It was black and silver jets on a cardback a few years ago

[@adamverwolf9499]

my GI Joe ended in 1989-1990. So seeing that the line went on is cool, to a point. The direction the line took was not a good.

[@MCDJACDC]

Crazy how time flies. I remember when the Star Fighter was fairly cheap misb on eBay, not any more and thos alien figures...wow $$$. Still, I must admit that after all these year Star Bridge is growing on me.

[@secaII]

Don’t remember these as a kid, but like the starfighter as a space jet without the orange rockets and launcher. Nice review!

[@KJ-tz7vc]

Now that you mention it, the Starfighter and Sci-Fi look a lot like they're from Lanard's Star Force series. I have this set and I'm fond of it, but I'm scared to death to place the helmet on Sci-Fi's head lest I scratch the paint off his bouffant. If only the helmet was a little larger or softer...

[@HCC788]

I was expecting the helmet to be soft. I was surprised when it wasn't. With that head, a soft helmet would have been a lot better.

[@nerdcraftercoley7305]

I loved the 1993 and 94 era of G.I. Joe. I'm a SciFi nut. My favorite thing is Star Wars and anything space related so the aliens and space themes are great.

[@mattdawg83686]

I had no idea this existed. The last gasps of a once great toy line.

[@plee501pl]

Agreed, never really got into the space side of the series. Thanks for the share Commander!

[@Alverant]

It happened after the Transformers crossover so I thought they should have made a comment about how the robot was made from cybertonian surplus parts.

[@HCC788]

Thank you for watching! Even though I don't love the space stuff, I gotta get them all for the show.

[@plee501pl]

HoodedCobraCommander788 No doubt about it, Commander. I appreciate all of the efforts that you put forth as it pertains to your great, insightful and highly entertaining content.I consider myself to be a Private in the Hcc788 Army!

[@TerryTurner]

Oh yeah, had this when I was little. My favorite version of Syfy.👍😎

[@HCC788]

Cool! I'm glad I was able to find your favorite version of the figure!

[@btrainbraydeboisseranc7570]

Hey hcc788 just wanted to let you know that I appreciate your videos so much and all the work you do to bring them to us all:) keep up the good work thank you very much!

[@HCC788]

Thank you for watching! I appreciate you very much!

[@btrainbraydeboisseranc7570]

No problem I love it:) thank you

[@Alverant]

I respect a person who honors a lost bet.

[@HCC788]

When you lose you just gotta be a man about it.

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

I'm glad that you did this one. I was looking at purchasing one, now I definitely will. Excellent job with the review, you were unbiased as always. The shampoo joke was pretty good. We are square on the bet! You took it well, my friend. The hat looks good on you. Lol

[@darkphoenix3781]

Great review, I am not overly familiar with the Star Brigade line, but I do like some of the figures I have seen, namely the Cobra Commander V7, the Astro Viper, the T.A.R.G.A.T. , the Blackstar and the orange Sci-Fi with the gray helmet. The latter I was sure I would not like but I did.

[@Lots43]

The original bright green Sci-Fi uniform was nuts but I love it.

[@ralang999]

Hahaha! Enjoyed the word salad in the file card. Quasar velocities??? another great review Commander, thank you!

[@ralang999]

"techno slammin visuals" LOL! I also seem to remember a serious overuse of "Cyber" as a prefix throughout '90s

[@Sturmdude]

Kind of crazy to think that Hasbro didn't put more effort into Starbrigade. If they were going to reissue old stuff why not the Defiance of all things? It finally had all the Joes in space gear it needed!

[@NerdGasims]

I had this vehicle and figure as a kid. The star fighter didn’t fit with sci-fi so I never used the two together. I liked using sci-fi version 3 as a cold weather trooper when I was a kid. Also fly eagles fly! Philly! Philly!

[@HCC788]

Was there a go-to pilot you used for the Starfighter?

[@NerdGasims]

HoodedCobraCommander788 I would use Skydive from air patrol since on my Skydive figure when I was a kid his parachute pack clip broke. He matched the colors of the jet and to me he fit in more as a pilot. Sci-fi version threes color scheme matched with Subzeros so I used them to as cold weather troops.

[@NerdGasims]

I used Skydive from Skypatrol as the Starfigher pilot when I was a kid since by that time the clip on the parachute pack of my Skydive broke off and the only other Skypatrol figure I had was Altitude. The color scheme on Sci-fi version three matched with Subzero so I put them two with Snowjob and had a small arctic squad of Joes.

[@NerdGasims]

Also since Skydive was part Skypatrol I felt as a kid he was more of a pilot then Sci-fi.

[@mikesmith2718]

im not a fan of the star brigade stuff because im into the military theme more than this stuff but i do appreciate the vehicles and figures as a collector and i recently got this mib and it was fun putting it together and looks good with the other crazy 90's stuff great review hope you liked Black Panther!

[@HCC788]

Thank you! I did enjoy Black Panther very much.

[@michaelpytel3280]

I actually like the figure and the vehicle, but it fits more with Star Wars than GI Joe. And Sci-Fi 's face looks kind like Han Solo, a little bit. Laser Rockets? Maybe Laser guided Rockets. Laser communication with the rockets. LiDAR or Lasers Launching rockets. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_rangefinder en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion

[@soterioncoil2163]

hi-yo Sci-Fi away!

[@johannesmakila2459]

Compared to new figures that they produced for Star Brigade back then these re-issues are solid toys and seem fine to me. I mean even not that great re-issues are always far better option than figures with less articulation. That said from new toys that they made for Star Brigade Armor Bot was interesting attempt to give G.I. Joe they own mech. Sure it wasn't very good attempt but still they did try.

[@uhhuhhuh100]

I think this vehicle is a nice vehicle to go against the Stellar Star Stiletto. I had the Stellar Star Stiletto growing up. I liked it, but played with it as an ordinary jet, not as a space vehicle. The Starfighter, in my opinion, is one of the better G.I. Joe vehicles made in the 1990's.

[@psychoticbuzzsaw]

I was shocked when I saw the thumbnail lol I do have a soft spot for the Invader though

[@HCC788]

I still need to get the Invader.

[@tarkentonlarry9973]

I never could get the concept , of why they colored the G.I. Joe's so brightly with purples, orange or bright pink or lime green. This was one reason why , I think my son ; always seemed to pass up this G.I. Joe line of action figures I noticed he went to the militaried colored figures instead.

[@Pegwarmers]

I have an issue with his helmet. You need a helmet that seals in space, not that open face section. Keep practicing that Eagles fight song!

[@nyquist75]

thanks for making a new intro, that "silent kill" guy was creeping me out

[@maxbrandt6]

Really looks like Hasbro was floundering in 93, the G.I. Joe Starfighter has about as much appeal as any generic outer space type toy-line one could find at an Eckards in the early 90s.

[@gwiber]

The head difference was probably because they used the same mold. Use of molds would reduce or remove details as they got older. Since the heads are the same, with some softening differences, that seems to be the case.

[@agnethaladuff8559]

Very cool video review, not the toy but the review of the toy. Thumbs up.

[@davidjosephclemente4477]

I always thought this version of sci-fi body would look somewhat good on an ace V1 head since his suit kinds looked like ace from the sunbow animated series only if his chest wasn’t blue but grey as well

[@Tremain]

spoiler alert: rubber nose cone still hurts like hell.

[@SylentEcho]

To those who love this era of GiJoes and missed out on the '80s magic - you missed out!

[@georgelea4297]

A fantastic review HCC and I love the MST3K reference

[@samfrito]

Most of the reissues just screamed desperation. The Star fighter and the Stellar Stiletto both look so budget, but I did like canopy and cockpit. I wish the SHARC got revised to have a similar style cockpit.

[@keithivey6786]

It is hard to believe that the same toyline that gave us great toys like the skystriker, night raven, terror drome and so many other great toys simply ran out of creative ideas. Instead of being the leader in action figures they seemed to copy other franchises instead of standing out from the crowd like they did in the eighties. They could have done the Starbrigade sub team more justice than adding aliens to the line trying to capitalize on Star Wars which was a toyline they out did in the begining with the articulation and vehicles early on in the Joe line. It was like Hasbro forgot the identity of Gi Joe and by the end Joe was fighting aliens and hunting dinosaurs and lost any touch with reality.

[@Kill3rGr1zzly]

OK, I'm just gonna say.... that MST3K film is some AMAZING footage. :)

[@AceSWhyld]

By the time all this came out I was already done playing with toys. But had it come out earlier I would have been fine with the space element of it all. But looking at what was released, I think they could had done a much better job of it. Make the aliens less cartoonish. Better colors. And no battle armor. And I never liked spring loaded weapons. I was just fine with making the actions myself. Other than that, eh whatever.

[@nyquist75]

the vertical take off and landing concept was ahead of its time rite?

[@joejupiter4138]

That hat looks good on you, Commander.

[@Beer-can_full_of_toes]

I still have mine and I’m thinking of refurnishing it with the silver parts from the stellar stilleto.

[@joeblaster8770]

I think if you do it right the space toys could work.

[@Canoby]

The Starfighter being a reuse of the Stilleto never bothered me. The US government could have bought the plans off of MARS, upgraded it, and put it into service. TBH this is probably the least lame part of Star Brigade

[@mgvillanmp478]

Excellent review my friend ...I never really paid attention to gijoe after 1990 but I think I like the Cobra one a little better though

[@HCC788]

Thank you! I like the Cobra vehicle better, too. And the Star-Viper may not be the best figure, but that black uniform is still much cooler than white.

[@mikewilson858]

I’m not a fan of lasers in Gi Joe. Even as a kid I knew lasers were not good weapons. Growing up I know that the army does experiment with directed energy weapons to deal with drones. Larry Hama knew enough to make lasers basically high tech blow torches. I like the idea of Gi Joe in space. But the Stilletoes exposed engine details don’t make sense. The Natzis designs were more realistic. The Cobra Pogo was a great idea for a lunar weapon system. The stiletto needed more attention to what it was supposed to be, a space launched attack vehicle

[@ZedKaizoku]

cool review and especially the knowledge of him in the comics but in the Dic animation he appeared in 2 episodes evy i found and general confusion

[@rtd1409]

Was he inverted when he did the 4G negative diver? And if so was he giving the bird? You know the finger???

[@DisobedientSpaceWhale]

The 90s were XTREME!Another reason I disliked the cartoon - they were all laser troopers, as you said yourself. I just bought a Starfighter from eBay UK for the equivalent of 12 US dollars, delivered. Full Force! 🚀

[@josiahalcorne7568]

This really makes me sad for 90s kids. It's really too bad that Hasbro and Kenner couldn't get it together once they became one company. Everything should have been in the same scale and grounded on two key lines Realism in G.I. Joe and Sci fi in Starwars. If kids needed a space ship for Joes do what we did and use the starwars ships. The Terminator, Waterworld, VR Troopers, Aliens and Congo toylines would still be popular with collectors if you could have mixed them in with Joes and Starwars. Hasbro should have done this in the 80s with COPS and Inhumanoids too.

[@sparkster1701]

Now that's an idea!!!! I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one merging my toy lines together back in the day.

[@josiahalcorne7568]

There were maybe 25 joes worth having in the 90s vs close to over 100 quality 80s Joes. With a couple of Waterworld bad guys added to Dreadnoks a Linda Hamilton and Sigorney Weaver thrown in would have enhanced the line and might have created support for more lines that could have had a domino effect like Starship Troopers.

[@HCC788]

Kirk Bozigian has talked about how they made their decisions at the time. They felt the action figure market was saturated and couldn't sustain another brand. So instead of creating new toy likes, they released them under the G.I. Joe umbrella. That's how we got Street Fighter II in G.I. Joe. Of course, Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers were able to thrive in that "saturated" market, so I'm not sure Hasbro's logic was very sound.

[@josiahalcorne7568]

The turtle line by 93 and the Power Rangers were basically the anti Larry Hama toy lines. Where Larry Hama was able to create a back story that made sense for hundreds of characters Turtles just said now put funny hats on them or make them sports themed or some other lazy gimmick, and the Power Rangers were that multiplied by the fact it was just 6 repaints of the same figure.

[@sparkster1701]

I'm with you on that. Then Hasbro goes cheaper on the Street Fighters and reuses them for the movie figures, plus a few Joe vehicles. Did the same years later with Mortal Kombat.

[@mokin-rui717]

What was going on in corporate leadership during this time?

[@wuenfrildelcid9245]

To be fair we already are considering making a space force

[@rictusmetallicus]

POGOBALLISTIC BATTLEBALL! MOSH IT UP!

[@pagehill3440]

There was a plane, maybe in the late 80s, that had rear propeller. How hard is that to review because I haven't found anything on KZbin?

[@Loveistheirwholehapp]

What are you going to do once you review every GI Joe toy?

[@williamthompson5504]

Predacons just couldn’t stick with Predaking. They had to become an Alien and then go so far in time, that it/they evolved. Somehow Predacons somehow went back in time to become robots in poor disguise.

[@jakubbuszko3089]

Well Am sorry your loss commander ... First I was thinking that Countdown cosmonaut also Defiant shuttle was right place to me . Laser missiles maybe they miss guided as a word . Don't worry about this dawn of mark . In 94 Hasbro purchases Microprose company who made game especially military simulators & strategic game so they give order to turn my favor X Com series into crap . The fall was started with X Com Apocalypse & what was hurt with X Com Interceptor . Also they f raged FASA company & sold them into Microsoft in 99 . :(

[@kaylemathewcomendador7614]

I honestly wouldn't call the vehicle bottom tier but barely in the middle tier just like the figure, mainly because the vehicle looks nice but the fact that its just a remold of an old toy with barely any interesting adjustments really drag it down. Plus I don't mind G.I Joe in space that much honestly. But nice video overall.

[@bobastu]

Age and experience makes this toy even more comical, lol. Great review though, I loved your humor! I hated the spring loaded toys! Pilots in the Air Force and Navy are commissioned officers. Army uses warrants to fly helicopters. Stating he completed his Master's degree, he already had a Bachelor's degree. Why wasn't he a commissioned officer already? Grunt went back to college to seek a commission. They should have included he attended OCS (released a Louis Gossett Jr action figure lol) and was now an O-2, or at least included that part in the comics to explain the toy! This action figure faux pas is still nowhere near as bad as renaming Ripcord, and making him Specialist Altitude. Ripcord was my fave figure and had a good comic storyline. Why don't you do a review about the atrocities of reassigning characters, making their history obsolete. Sorry, digressed! Still have not forgiven the first Joe live action movie. Lol!!!!!!!

[@wuenfrildelcid9245]

And there's already countries that have space forces in their military

[@slavinben4484]

I think your forgetting version 4

[@wuenfrildelcid8427]

That's true about GI Joe, but now we have the U. S space force, so space troopers are real now go Joe.

[@black0sheep]

Huh, Sci-Fi looks like Ace's animation model

[@sirgrunt99]

could you change out the weapon on Vehicles?

[@LukeWarm05]

Electronic instrument repair? So...he fixes synthesizers and drum machines. Those military specialties are more diverse than I realized.

[@HCC788]

*rimshot!*

[@racerxgundam]

ship = low middle tier....sci-fi = close to the bottom. best thing i can say about sci-fi is his hair. SHAME that glorious mustache from the comics didn't make it to the figure.

[@cyberfrank-bx2nv]

what a mess... the defiant was a great looking vehicle, and a feat as far as size goes but... aside from being attacked on the ground, playwise, or for dios, it s pretty much useless. space was just not a good thing for the joe line, it should never be mixed with it. playing, or making dios with such big planes as the skystriker was hard enough. either way, you just don t get enough fun for your money. I liked the stilleto, but the pogo sucked, and this thing just takes the cake, and it tastes bad. I m happy that you reviewed it however, if only to make me feel good about not getting it. also, I m always curious about what it looked like in detail, and your opinion makes it a blast, ha, ha! if there was any good reason for Hasbro to sell this crap, it was for your review of it. and, for $10, it was worth a laugh, was it not? ha, ha! for sci fi, well, I liked him in his v 1 version as most of the other figs. while for some other characters bright colors were bad, for him, it seems fitting. I still hate the 'replacement' concept however, like if Flash was dead or something... in 2018, I find that the 82 looks still holds pretty good for Flash and most of the crew. only Hawk, Zap, Short fuse, and Grunt look like they d need a little more, but I felt like that in 82 anyways. the same head molds were a downer as well, Hasbro really pushed it too far afterwards though. aww, if my 2 cents made a dollar, I d be rich, ha, ha! good show Commander!

[@christianbrix5211]

Only GI Joe is GI Joe. Except Action Force. That's also GI Joe. And Comandos Heroicos... And Comandos Em Acao... Come to think of it, lots of things are GI Joe.

[@josephnicolino8529]

You're not a fan of pro wrestling or the Philadelphia Eagles? Man that hurts 😁

[@dirus3142]

These two Sci Fi figures look pretty good. Helmet is OK, and the gun could have a better design. Give a blue painted stripe along the outer seam of the pants and arms it would look better. The character would work better as a crew member for the Defiant, he is not a pilot. The Starfighter just looks dumb. It is far off from the vehicles that look like they could work in the real world.

[@haroldcarfrey4206]

An inverted g force manuever in space would kill the pilot

[@dazbri4384]

Its funny when a toyline tries to be something its not , and fails completely, STAR JOE'S

[@nobdydoh4263]

It is shameful such a good head sculpt was wasted to a figure of which the helmet is so integral.

[@THEWATCHERISLOOKING]

This was a definite skip for me. When this came out. It was the end of my Joe collecting. The stiletto was the version I got on this and it was the end. I think it was the last vehicle I ever got.

[@calanon534]

Considering he got a master's degree, he should have been re-enlisted as an Officer or Warrant Officer. Just saying.

[@mikewilson858]

Hey, this is corporate America! What your parents did to preserve society is boring! What ever trend is hot is what’s important. No more Gi Joe Fire Fighters or Soldiers. Let’s have some Gi Joe You Tube influencers! Can we get Big Boa to take a fall for Logan Paul??

[@jasondismuke4837]

"Jews in space!!!!"

[@robertlogan5354]

Was that file card written by an 8 year old? Or maybe mad-lib style?

[@Transfixed]

Tsk, whitewashing in G.I. Joe