All "Nobody Beats G.I. Joe" theme song commercials.

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I remember about half of those. That one with what looks like basically Power Wheels and Big Wheels for the figures was hilarious.
 

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Did Stan Lee narrate those?

You mean Larry Hama?

Wow, watching those you can see almost exactly how GI Joe went from peak performance to jumping the shark... Good memories though, mostly.
 
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Ah, I read "narrate" as "write," as in writing the script/music for it, thus the Hama question. Yeah, pretty sure that's not him. I remember his narration (or at least intros and outros) from Spidey and friends and the Hulk cartoon.

I did think it was kinda cool that they got a lot of the Joe/Cobra/Destro voices right from the cartoons. I remember, even as a kid, thinking that some of the animation from the commercials was far superior than in the actual shows, and wishing the shows were more like the commercials.
 

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Yeah, no kidding. I believe Kurt Russell started out in some kind of military toy commercial.



:D
 

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Would be fun to see the behind the scenes stuff for some of those commercials.

"Okay kids, really try to pretend you're enjoying playing with these!"

They probably had a bunch of theater kids doing the acting who all hated military stuff :)
 

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Ha! I can picture snooty kids who think that they are too good for toys. Or boys in the industry who might be a bit, effeminate.
 

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Would be fun to see the behind the scenes stuff for some of those commercials.

"Okay kids, really try to pretend you're enjoying playing with these!"

They probably had a bunch of theater kids doing the acting who all hated military stuff :)



Ha! I can picture snooty kids who think that they are too good for toys. Or boys in the industry who might be a bit, effeminate.

:lmao:

I went to school with one of the kids in the Transformers commericals :lmao: