All of these 80's toy line come back and no M.A.S.K. I can't rmrmber who made these though. Did that company go under or just not see the profitable. Or could they not pass the toy safety laws that we have today?

MASK was made by Kenner, which got bought out by Hasbro. I don't think they've tried to bring them back. Regarding why it got cancelled, I think they just ran out of ideas to keep it going, and just fizzled out.

I remember M.A.S.K well, used to wake up on Saturday mornings to watch it, even had a couple of the toys. M.A.S.K would be good to reissue or remake if they went with the newer vehicle designs of this age, but maybe the humans could be left out and the vehicles could be automated instead. Unlikely to ever happen though.

-Chuckles

ma ma ma mask!

I loved that series almost as much as TFormers. Man we had great cartoons as kids, I thank my lucky stars I dont have to grow up with yu gi oh.

I'd definetely snatch up any new M.A.S.K. toys

For those curious, you can dload virtually all of the MASK episodes off of the iaconhub on Direct Connect.

I got a whole mess of 'em...God I loved that show. The toys weren't exactly durable though... :tftounge

best direct connect hub ever

and yes, they were very fragile. Especially in the hands of a young boy all hiped up on suger

I haven't seent that show in years, but it was one of the cooler shows on TV. Maybe I'll download them off the hub just to see what I've missed all these years

im sorry but i dont remember mask.


but i would love to see the thundercats make a comeback

hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Masked crusader working over time (overtime) fighting crime!

lol, I have a ton of MASK toys in my closet actually. Most in decent condition. Few people are interested in it though...hence I haven't put it up on e-bay...now the shows I miss...Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors and The Spiral Zone...that was my stuff.

you post a pic because i have no f'ing idea what we are talking about

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cars and trucks that had stuff hidden in them heheh

btw, i dig the new sig. sixshot?

not sixshot,he is g1 seacon snaptrap.
snap trapis the only sentinent being out of the seacons,he is a coldblooded killer responsible for many autobot deaths.

snaptrap[turtlar] forms the torso of king poseidon and is commander of the seacons

my bad, He has a very similar color scheme. Snaptrap is even better

the other seacons aren't sentient. Are they just drones controlled by Snap Trap then?

just a quick thought, MASK was 1/24th scale (Just like alternators ) Perhaps it would be a cooler link to TF than GI Joe (after all Matt Tracker really should trade in his Rhino truck for an Optimus Prime!)

that would be pretty cool, but of all crossover scenarios, id still love too see a Star Wars/Transformers crossover

that would be awesome, then everyone would freak out when they saw the death star. "Ah, Unicron's back!"

Would prefer a Star Trek/Transformers crossover, Federation starships helping the Autobots fight the Decepticons. Like say...Starscream and the seekers taking on the Defiant. Would be great if M.A.S.K came back, there's plenty of ideas all around for vehicles. A M.A.S.K Lancer, with missiles in the headlights.

-Chuckles

hahaha...for real, but would prime let someone else drive him

The show got really bad when they made it into a racing cartoon....so lame.

Anyone know when MASK lost its popularity? I recall watching it but suddenly it disappeared. I cannot say I really missed it with TF, Robotech, Voltron, Thundercats, GI Joe, and anime keeping me entertained! :tftounge

i love looking at your head on my mantle!!!!

I would like a transformers/star wars crossover. Imagine, the Death Star comes to Cyberton, and just as it is about to fire its mega cannon thing Unicron comes and takes a big bite out of it. All the Imperials would be screaming and they would look like this- . Then they would crash a star destroyer into Unicron. Yes, very awesome.

nah i still want a robotech versus or a gundam versus tf

Unfortunately, the whole "triple changer" Tf idea blew MASK out of the water! 2 vehicles AND a robot as well! he he!

Mobile Armored Strike Kommand (way to go with the English there, fellas...)

MASK was very enjoyable, and I have to agree with the comment about the Racing Season. There were only a couple of episodes in that season that I liked.
It was a tv show that always ended with laughter.
(The world almost got hit with a comet, we saved it. Bee Bop did something stupid, hahahahaha.)
I mostly like shows with continuity. Robotech was enjoyable because it was like that. It had a serious story to it, surrounded with music as the most powerful weapon to use against an enemy... Which isn't that hard to believe. I'm sure if two guys are fighting, and a cute chic jiggled by, they'd stop, watch her walk by, probably agree with each other of her hotness, and then either continue to fight, or go and chase after her.
MASK is a show that could come back with potential, but all they really are, is a team of superspies with their individually modified verhicles who fight terrorists.

id still like too see the line come back, i'd buy em

Same here I would love to see Mask come back….but not as the lame racing cars that turn into fighter vehicles like what we got in the last season of Mask.

How about Starcom making a comeback? Remember the toys with all those magnets in? Ordered a couple of them off ebay myself!!

Oh, btw, for those of you who miss Robotech, i suggest you try and get hold of "Macross Plus". Set in the same universe as Robotech, only slightly further on time-wise! I've got it myself, and highly recommend it!!

Wrong! In US continuity, Snaptrap and the other five Seacons are sentient.


But in Japan, Turtlar is the only sentient one of the Seacons.

so I'm sitting here trying to remember how the theme song went...

MASK
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly--high!

I feel it comin' together
People will see me and cry. MASK!


that is soooooo not right...

okay i looked on ebay and i didnt see much....mask was a man that wore different suits? the vehicles looked nice

http://80scartoons.co.uk/ is the place to go to for more information about the cartoon.

thanks

M.A.S.K. would be a great new 80's thing to be redone. Does anyone femember Starriors?

no but i loved the thundercats and silverhawks

Starriors had weapons in their chest like a drill or saw blade and they had a wind up motor to make them move. They had those little guys in their head's like Zoids. Their was a 4 issue mini series from Marvel. They lasted for two years i think then faded away

got any pics or links?

no. But will look

http://misterhook.tripod.com/zoids/strpic18.htm

here this might help

speaking of star trek. i have a star trek/xmen crossover. I love that the Dr. McCoy's are in it together.

Yea I missed that one. I heard of a rumor of a X-Men/Transformer crossover but I think it fell through

I was huge on MASK when I was younger, and had most of the first and second wave toys; between me and my next door neighbor at the time, we had them all. I think the only one I have left now is "Volcano," the battery-powered monster van.

It was just never as big as MOTU, G.I. Joe, and Transformers, and let's not forget what really killed all of the above in the mid-late-80's: The Nintendo Entertainment System.

I agree with the comments about the racing season, but I'd have to say that the toys of that season were among the coolest (though not the most memorable) of the line. Of course, this was when MASK really "died". After the cartoon ended, Kenner released the final wave of toys: "Split Seconds." The gimmick was, the normal vehicles would split into two fighting vehicles, with the real pilot in one, and a "holographic duplicate"--a transparent plastic action figure-of the pilot in the other. These guys were impossible to find, and I only managed to snag one before they disappeared altogether; the Split Seconds are the ones fetching top dollar on eBay now.

I remember about ten years ago Kenner put out a toy line called "Vor-Tech," where the vehicles had the same gimmick and even looked and transformed just like some MASK vehicles. The toys were smaller and the plastic was cruddier, though.

Actually it's not RT canon . Mac Plus only applies to the original Macross series timeline.

For official RT canon it's RT2: The Sentinels, available as an extras disc with the final RT Macross boxed set.

For the differences between Macross, Southern Cross, Mospeada and RT head to
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I remember Vortech. It tried to bring back the old-skool days of M.A.S.K. but the toyline/series disappeared less than a year later. Too bad because some of the toys did pay homage to M.A.S.K. . I remember the cartoon was shown either before or after Beast Wars.

I only have one M.A.S.K. figure

Vortech was in a block of saturday morning cartoons along with the first season of Beast Wars and some other show that I can't remember...I'll have to dig out my old VHS tapes and confirm it

Ah, M.A.S.K....I was a greater fan of this cartoon over Transformers as a kid since I had more M.A.S.K. vehicles than Transformers back then. The M.A.S.K. toys are indeed fragile, especially the blasted doors of Thunderhawk. Manta also needs touching up on some of its gadgets. My favourite M.A.S.K. vehicles are Stilletto and Venom, both from the Split-seconds series. Rhino is rather charming too and can roughly be classified as a "Split-second", no?

M.A.S.K. was a great toy line, it's a shame hasbro doesn't consider releasing it again. Now I read that someone mentioned starriors and other series, well how about, Blackstar, the Force Five series, eh?

I have always imagined a transformers series based on giant super robots ala Shin Getter Robo style, just imagine the posibilities.

Any opinions about that?