EP03 | 1985 G.I. JOE USS FLAGG WITH CUSTOM BASE & LOWER LEVEL
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- čas přidán 22. 11. 2023
- In this video I customize my 1985 GI Joe USS Flagg by adding a custom base which adds a lower level. I give a detailed description on how I constructed it and show the final product.
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Music:
G.I. Joe Movie 1987 Main Theme (Instrumental) ~ Ford Kinder, Spencer Michlin (Extended w/DL)
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Did you or someone you know own the FLAGG??? Let me know.
I was just like you. I asked for it but never got it.
We appreciate the shout out! Yo Joe! And awesome build.
Anytime! This was all made possible because of you. Thanks again.
I miss those Sears wish books. Great video!!
Thank you.
I remember my younger brother having this. I had the my little pony estate. Those were the good old days. When toys were toys.
Your brother was lucky and you are right about toys being toys.
I remember getting one when they first came out. It took up my dads pool table for months. Oh i miss the 80s
I'm sure you dad loved that.
Lol, yeah, he was thrilled. Those were good days
I had a cousin who had it. I remember seeing it when we would go over to his house as a kid. I thought the Barbie house was big but it wasn't even close.
I didn't know anyone who owned it. The first time seeing it was as an adult.
I had two of these monstrosities. I named the second carrier, the USS MOOSE KNUCKLE. With a ten pound bag of fertilizer, a couple slices of Irish Spring and a flashlight wired to to a lump of fertilizer in the haul I blew it up! I told my parents Fire Fly and Storm Shadow did it.
I couldn't imagine having 2 of these. Although I almost bought a second one that was customized as COBRA and was painted red and blue.
My dad and I built mine back in the day, a friend had one and we went over and measured it, The flight deck was Lauan, and the walls were 1X4's scraps double high. My uncle worked construction and we got all the wood for nothing so all we had to do was buy the paint and glue. My cousin's grandson still has it.
That is cool that it is still in the family.
Had one when i was a kid. Meant to give it to my kids when they got old enough but it got destroyed by hurricane Charlie.
I am sorry to hear that. That would have been nice to pass it on to your kids.
this is amazing. cant wait to see what you do with the catwalk. i saw another video of someone putting their headquarters below the deck of the flagg!!
I've seen that video with the headquarters and it was pretty cool. It may be sometime before I get to the catwalk.
I love it. I want to do something similar to my Flagg. Not sure I have the proper woodworking skills though.
It was pretty easy to do and didn't require a lot of tools to do so.
incredible labor of love - well done, super impressive!
Thank you very much!
Wonderful, well done from Toronto!
Many thanks!
How is Snake Eyes talking to Beachhead? lol nice setup though
Sign language of course...how else.
Sweet setup you did what I did with my flag and I got mine on wheels with plywood and 2x4 and the flag is on top of my collection
Thank you. I thought about adding wheels but decided against it.
@@rneely007 it's cool with mine being as big as it is my rack and it has pull out draws to pull shelves to access to my collection as well if you are on fb I can send you pics
I can't wait to see the updates👍
It may be a while before I get to those.
Exelente display
Thank you!
This is sooo cool brother I really like what you did here ,great job!!!
Thank you. I still have a few modifications to make. When I get to them I'll do an update video
One last detail that would be most helpful considering accidents do happen,,, why not add some locking clips of some kind??? To lock the base with the expensive top half? For the likelihood someone bumps it, that way noone ends up on the wrong side of the dirt ?
I considered doing that. I saw someone else do that and another person use the grippy mat underneath.
@rneely007 dude that grip mat is phenomenal. I forgot about it completely. Either way you have a beautiful setup my friend.
Currently the cheapest USS FLAGG I can find online as a complete oh is $1,300..average cost is $2,000. I am building one buying each peice one at a time. So far, I have spent $460 to have the flight deck, completed lower hull, and half the tower.
That's about right. I'm glad I found mine at a local shop. It wasn't complete but I paid about $675.
sick
Thanks. I like your name. A little throw back to the Garbage Pail Kids!!
I really really want someone to make a base that floats and is remote controlled and then take it to the local boating pond
That would be awesome. I haven't seen one remote controlled but I know there are videos of them floating.
Yo Freaking Joe!
That my man is TIGHT!. The Flag is standing proud. I would choke Polly for that!. Ha!!, Give me a boxed color change Zartan with Swamp speeder also.
Those holy grails keep you young.
Now I'm on the hunt for the defiant
Awesome Flagg I still have not got around to getting the wood to make my custom as of yet,
It wasn't too bad to do. I hope this video helps.
I might use 8x2 or 10x2 to get more height because I want to have two levels@@rneely007
it just has to fit through the doorway that's the only issue lol @@rneely007
Same here. Although, I actually don't have a Flagg. So I plan to build one from scratch. I'd like it to be at least 12' long, but the rooms in the house just aren't spacious enough! Lol
I was thinking to widen the flight deck when I go to raise the flagg, 12 feet I sure hope you have a lot of room for that cause that's super awesome, also check out GIDAD I think cause he did a super cool wooden flagg lots of details@@holonet1
Como quisiera tener esa coleccion.
Thank you!
Makes you wonder if ( with all going on with Hasbro), what did they do for the 40th Anniversary? Or were they going to do? Btw I LOVE your set up pal. I plan to buy another Ghoststriker ( F-16 ) to paint black with my extra Rattler flying cobra emblems..... ALSO I can't find the Flag for any less than 3k unfortunately. Maybe 1 day
It took a long time for me to find my flagg. They were selling for $1500-2000. I found mine at a local toy shop for under $700. It wasn't complete but good enough for me for display purposes.
Did they ever make a G.I. Joe submarine?
Not a traditional one but they had the S.H.A.R.C. flying sub.
@rneely007 Not true, they made one in the 90's. I forget the name of it. It's a one-man sub that rises with baking soda gimmick.
I don't know the numbers that Hasbro made in the accounting department in the 25th anniversary re-launch of 2007-2008, but most of the classic play-sets were thrown out the window without any consideration; they would have made tens of millions and was the perfect opportunity to introduce the Pulse GI JOE pre-order campaigns, of course, if it had not been for the financial crisis of those years, but for the 30th anniversary (2012-2013), the deal would have been very different. In the Classified format, it is simply impossible to be able to pay for them; no one is going to give a $200-$300 vehicle so that the "children" play for a while. Hasbro's management has killed the property year after year. As much as I would have liked to have been able to buy more of the new versions of the Sky Striker and the Tomahawk, they did not even give me the opportunity. There were very few units to sell from the beginning, all for less than $50-a wonderful deal today; now they want one eye and arm for any vehicle-theft in broad daylight!
Idk where you were about 12 years ago, but the 30th Sky Striker was at Target for $34.99 & a year later at TJ Max & Marshalls for $24.99. I bought like 12 of them. The Eagle Hawk was at TRU for $42.99 in 2013 & eventually went on green sticker clearance. I bought several as well. Some at $30, $22, $16 & even $7. If you've been collecting for the last 15 years or so. There was plenty of opportunities to acquire many classic releases & at spectacular prices.
I only started collecting big again in 2012 & had already missed a ton of 25th vehicles. I had to backfill from the after market & it was expensive! Worst yet, were the vehicles from the Spy Troops, Joe vs. Cobra & the 80's & 90's ARAH stuff!! Cost me a fortune!! Lol I have most of what I want though.
@@holonet1 I am a GI JOE "collector" from the age of 12 (1986), but I live outside the United States, paying almost $4 for one figure, and of course, I could not take advantage of any of these offers because I never found out. Another factor is the high shipping cost to my country, often multiplied by two to three times the purchase cost. I bought an incomplete Skystriker without a pilot, blueprints, or decals, as well as a Python X-30 and a 25th Anniversary Cobra Rattler, in the same conditions in 2013, which cost me around $25-$32 each on eBay, and I paid about $48-$60 for each one of them to receive them in my country. You don't want to know how much I paid for shipping the 25th Anniversary Ultimate Battle Pack; it still gives me nightmares!. But the real problem is still how information flows from Hasbro to its potential customers. My favorite example was the re-launched collection in 1998, all my favorite vehicles and figures, which I only discovered at the end of 2002 and bought some of when I joined eBay almost at the end of December 2006. Liquidations are the end of the line; they are good for those customers who have waited and can bring some good publicity to the company and the products, but they can be fatal for a toy manufacturer when a large proportion of your production ends up here, and that is precisely my point: to whom is it selling Hasbro their toys? How is it moving their products, and where is their advertising? in the Gi Joe's Club bulletins? This is why the 80's ads are still legendary!!
@JGARCIA2012FULL I often forget, that your location is also a huge factor & not just your age, as a Joe fan. It still blows my mind, that Joe has a fan base outside of the US, because I do feel it's so US centric.
Yes, I have also dealt with overseas shipping costs. Mostly from Japanese related merchandise. I can not fathom having to do that all or most of the time, because typically availability is usually within the States. The last three years have been especially brutal.
After Joe's prime years in the 80's & till the early 90's, during it's original decline. Commercialization for it was pretty much extinct. I actually was out of the loop till the 30th line had already hit. During that time, it was 30th, POC, Retaliation & Renegades heavy. ROC had come & gone, pretty much what was left over was on clearance. I'm still blown away, how they went all out on that line, for a mediocre movie. I still love a lot of figures & vehicles from that line.
Again, I missed the 1998 o-ring launches. I definitely missed some gems from that era, such as the Joe Hydrofoil & the camouflaged Joe Rattler. I did managed to find some decent condition MOBAT's, which is nice! I also actually prefer that later release, because of the nice camou. I understand it's military related, but I find OD Green, really plain & boring. Nothing like some interesting camou to spice things up. One of my favorite variations of the original VAMP mold, is from the Battle Pack, Danger at the docks. I love that Urban digital camou, it looks fantastic!!
Again, with the lost of the original fanbase demographic of 80's, the same could be said about the advertising. Again, I was put of the loop & only later learned all this through websites, Joe CZcams channels & Ebay, Amazon. I can't even imagine what it would have been like outside the States, if the information of the releases were that abysmal during that time frame. I believe most of those items at the time were all TRU exclusives. A lot of items were also, DTC only. Others still, convention or mail-away order from Hasbro.
You stated, that even in the 80's, you paid $4 bucks a figure. It wasn't much cheaper in the States. I remember a price tag of $2.49 per figure. It would vary per store. So, it ranged anywhere from $2 - $3 ish bucks on the average. The Drug stores, would charge $3.99 or so. I do remember, my cousin's lived in a city, where there was a discount store that sold Joe's for $1.49!! It was basically half price off from regular stores! Even the vehicles. I remembered being told that the Dreadknok Swampfire was only $7!! I paid about $15, I was blown away at the absolute steals, they were getting.
@@holonet1 $4 when they were sold between $1.89 and $2.15 in the US. That is a 100% price increase in a country where the minimum wage was about $200 a month; it has been around $450 for the last 18 years now (exchange rate magic). It has never been easy to collect them, and that is why I didn't do it with the Transformers line; they were simply too expensive for me. I still remember all the prices back then because I began to buy the Joes through my cousin in Miami from 1987 to 1991 (from $2.39-$2.59-$2.89-$3.19 to $3.45); he was a fanatic like me. I bought the vast majority of the figures from those years and many of the vehicles. I have always been obsessive when I collect, but of course, by 1992, there was very little that sparked my interest in GI JOEs anymore. Until I found out about the 1998 collection, from 2006 to 2009, I spent thousands of dollars and got almost everything from 2001 to 2009, including a lot of figures and vehicles from the 80's, the Cobra Night Raven S3P, the Cobra Moray Hydrofoil, the GI Joe DevilFish, etc. The 1998 M.O.B.A.T., The Spy Troops Conquest X-30, The Snow Cat, The GI Joe's Moray Hydrofoil 2005; almost every figure of Spy Troops, Valor Vs. Venom; almost all two and three pack figures except the 98's re-launch (to expensive and rare in eBay), DTC, SIGMA 6, and 25th Anniversary line, I was all in, and then they cancelled everything again; maybe that was too much for me. And of course, the new lines of Classified have sunk the prices of many classic GI Joe figures; it just didn't make sense to continue sinking money on a line that has little future outside of current collectors. The time is almost here to say goodbye to GI Joe forever!!
I agree.
Thatwillcostyouoverb$500.00now!
I know. I spent over $500 on the MOTU Origins Eternia that won't be in til next year!
@rneely007 That's right! The prime toy era is long since over. Stuff like the Flagg will cost us a few hundred bucks & will be crowd-funded, only.
$285? Assuming you could find one they go for 2-4 thousand on Ebay, mostly only near complete. Unless you're referring the increase in inflation and what $100 would be today. But we've seen what companies want to charge for large playsets now. They know adults with adult jobs are buying these and not parents on a budget so the price is the limit!
Yes I was referring to the inflation rate. Toys aren't made for kids anymore just adult collectors.
Theoretically, that may hold true, if the toy market was in it's prime, like in the mid 80's.