Kid Stuff Kid Vid "Cobra Strikes!" and "Destro’s Doomsday Auction" 1986

Cobra Strikes! and ​Destro's Doomsday Auction were released in 1986 by Kid Stuff Records & Tapes under license from Hasbro. It was written by Michael Pellowski and illustrated by Pablo and Judith Marcos. The book included an audio cassette that you played back while reading the book - so you could SEE the pictures, HEAR the story, and READ the book!
These books were adapted by Kid Stuff into an "educational read-along video with vocabulary and comprehension enrichment" in 1986. The Kid Vid VHS credits John Braden with Audio Production and Alan Kirby, American Multimedia, Inc., with Video Production.
Video courtesy of Phillip Donnelly.
To see the Cobra Strikes! book, head to this page: www.3djoes.com...
To see the ​Destro's Doomsday Auction book, head to this page: www.3djoes.com...

[@TheLilith1978]

Oh my! Carson you don’t realise what you just did. Being a kid of the 80s who suffers with dyslexia my mum got me books on cassette from golden book not vhs. I had both of these on cassette and book and I would sit next to my mum trying to read and if I complete one page, Mum would hit the play button on the cassette player so I could listen to it This was a ritual every night after dinner before, I went to bed, and sometimes I would burst out crying because I would get frustrated because I couldn’t read the page properly. Listening to this reminds me of my mum thank you for posting this

[@3djoes]

That’s a wonderful story, thanks for sharing. Glad it took you back to time with your mom!

[@travezripley]

Yess!!! This is how I learned how to read when I was a baby Joe!

[@3djoes]

That’s an incredible memory

[@OldManOutback]

Incredible!!! I love learning new things about GI Joe. The art is great!

[@3djoes]

I really enjoy the art style too!

[@lthunter8329]

Damn! This is better than the 1987 Film!

[@markwhiteraven]

They try to approach the Sunbow cartoon voices. This is a very cool video. I never knew these books existed. Thanks Carson.

[@3djoes]

My pleasure! I think they did a really good job with the voice acting knowing that they were probably on a minuscule budget.

[@AlternativeMindz]

this is fantastic and I love how Narrator said Hawk but since the artist drew Duke they had to insert card art of General Hawk. this is so great thank you for posting it

[@3djoes]

Many thanks to Phillip Donnelly for sharing the video!

[@ViewpointProd]

Being narrated by speed himself, Peter Fernandez

[@mattnoon3235]

I am loving this!!! Who is the narrator? Kind of sounds like Kirk B.

[@3djoes]

I have no clue, but I think I’ve they did a great job with the voice actors

[@mattyice420]

What's wrong with COBRA Commander voice 😂

[@3djoes]

LOL, clearly Chris Latta was NOT in the budget 😂

[@danielferstendig]

Put this in yojoe collectors archive.

[@OldManOutback]

Who is Two-Star?? (From 2nd story) Was that a prototype name for an 86 figure?

[@DragonsTomeRob]

I was wondering this too!

[@MrCIAD]

I was about to ask the same question here as well! @3DJoes what's the scoop?

[@3djoes]

I’m not sure! I wonder if Dan Klingensmith might know. He’s got a ton of the old memos. Or Mark Bellomo. I know he had many of Larry Hama’s original dossiers.

[@flemingmggmail]

This was cool. Thanks for posting

[@3djoes]

Sure thing, many thanks to Phillip Donnelly for sharing the video!