Kid Stuff Kid Vid Cobra Strikes and Destro’s Doomsday Auction

Wow, talk about a blast from the past! Coming to us courtesy of Phillip Donnelly via 3DJoes comes a pair of books on video, “Kids Vids”, to be exact, including “Cobra Strikes!” and “Destro’s Doomsday Auction”. Here’s the breakdown from Carson –

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: https://www.3djoes.com/cobra-strikes-1986.html

To see the ​Destro’s Doomsday Auction book, head to this page: https://www.3djoes.com/destros-doomsday-auction-1986.html

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I absolutely love things like this, as it’s an example of just how far reaching the brand was – Not just toys, but educational tools as well. Many thanks as always go to PJ and Carson for cataloging and sharing these glimpses of G.I.Joe’s past with us!

Did you have these Visual Audio Books? If so, were they these titles, or different ones? I’d love to hear about it!