Off-topic, but I have to say the Retroblasting theme song is not only catchy AF, but legitimately fits in with the classic style (or as we say; vintage) of the 1980's cartoons for which is channel's focus!
The "where were the helmets stored?" question bugged me as a kid too. I eventually settled on the idea the helmets were made of special materials that were light weight and collapsible, so that they could be stored close the roof of the vehicles or in designated compartments (such as the in the Camaro's seatbacks, so that the the helmets were actually coming from behind the seat and over rather than from directly above ).
M.a.s.k was awesome ! Love watching your videos! Brings back the good ol days! Even though we had to use our imaginations but that's the part of being a kid i guess
This series falls into pretty much all 80s-90s cartoon. It was great as a kid teen. If you look back at it. It is just the same formula. I still love it though. Along with plenty of other. COPS. Silverhawks. Thundercats. He-Man and MOTU. Voltron. Pretty much every Saturday morning cartoon. It’s fun.
Another great video! Mask toys were not distributed in Spain, and we didn't see the TV show till the '90s (T.T). Strangely, some Mask computers games (developed in Europe, I think) were published and I remember myself trying to figure if they were based on any kind of TV show or comic book (no wikipedia in the '80s ^^')
GREAT opening theme! And the writing and editing are somehow EVEN TIGHTER than before. You guys been hidin' yer light under a bushel before now? RetroBlasting Phase 2 begins RIGHT NOW! Roll on to Trakkin' the Mayhem! Part 2! Tex (H.E.L.M.E.T.= Hierarchal Executive for Lies, Murder, Extortion, and Terror.)
@Retroblasting 0:30 Seconds Straight up, I NEVER got any M.A.S.K Toys... BUT I WANTED THEM SO BAD!!!! M.A.S.K and Transformers were top of my christmas list every year!!!!
I forgot to mention that I like how Melinda demonstrated, using your real-world gull-wing-door car, that the helmet deployment mechanism would bend the laws of physics inside the Thunderhawk. :)
My third favorite from my childhood. #2 is Bionic Six ! (Also aged pretty well) #1 is Gargoyles ! ( Not to top ) And in germany we got Homer Simpson´s Voice for Miles Mayham ;)
New subscriber here...this channel is awesome love seeing the old toys that I grew up with and still collect today with great information as well!! Keep up the awesome work! More MASK and GI Joe please!! Thanks again!!
Good job once again.. I like the new intro too. I was never a M.A.S.K. fan as a kid and only watched a handful of episodes. As an adult, I can now appreciate how cool their innovation and how cool the vehicles were.
I had Matt Tracker and his car. After a sleep over at a "friend's" house across the street, I went home to get some sugary cereal goodness for breakfast. Less than 15 minutes later, I returned and found them smashing my toys and throwing them in a trash can. He gave me VENOM's plane/helicopter to make up for it, but it wasn't the same. I loved that gull-wing car.
I can clearly remember when I finally got the Thunderhawk for one of my birthdays and found that there was no robotic arm for the helmet in the headliner, I was so bummed..lmfao!!
You sir, have earned my subscription. You are literally living my dream with all your rad toys from the 80's. I'm 37 and my 27ys old girlfriend thinks my old MASK toys are awesome! Like most child adults like myself, we only wish we could have kept all our rad toys from the 80's.
I would love to see a big budget live action version of MASK but I wouldn't trust Hollywood to do it justice since they ruin everything else they touch.
RetroBlasting's videos keep getting better and better. I don't remember the MASK cartoon very well, but I do remember Scott and T-Bob being... uh... overly prevalent. Having said that when my then-best friend (the previous owner of the big MASK collection that you acquired not so long ago) got the Scott/T-Bob action figure set... I wanted one, too!
Cool! I'm really looking forward to it! The Centurions cartoon was shown on television, here in the U.K., but the toys weren't widely available..it took me many years, & ebay, before I got to play with 'em. A bit like Jayce & The Wheeled Warriors, as far us kids in England were concerned, it was just a cool cartoon shown on Sunday mornings. Until the internet came along I didn't know Wheeled Warrior toys even existed.
Is there a way to see an review of Insectoids, Visionaries, Inhumanoids, Jem, Bravestar, and/or even C.O.P.S.? They all had toy lines and a cartoon series that were similar to other cartoon series.
Love the new intro and setup guys. :) The irony is that our military actually has helicopters that turn into planes while flying. I guess to combine the maneuverability with speed. Google the "cv-22 osprey", (though, the Switchblade looks alot cooler).lol
My little brother had every MASK vehicle and figure that came out. I was 15 when the comic and the cartoon came. My little brother would bug me to play MASK with him. I was all over that! Lol! I do have the 1st edition MASK comic book.
The redundancy of some of the vehicles is pretty funny. I was hoping there would be one that was a Jet Ski that transformed into a Sea Doo. What a missed opportunity.
Loved MASK, had Condor and Raven, my fave vehicles from the show...Unless I haven’t yet seen another video (just discovered this) you left out season two, in which MASK and VENOM were retconned as rival racing teams...Interesting trivia note, Scott was voiced by Brennan Thicke, son of Alan Thicke, Brennan also voiced Dennis The Menace in the cartoon series of the same era...
Good joke: Casually showing you have the actual car in a scene lasting 10 seconds. Bad joke: Rubbing into the viewers faces that you're so "cool" for having the car for 2 minutes explaining a joke.
I was in my mid Teens when MASK came out. It was one if not the last Cartoon I would watch before School each morning. I did not get the toys because I was too old at that time for toys like that, I was more into Music and clothes by that time. I dio remember younger kids in my neighborhood who did have them and I whished this came about 5 yrs earlier so I could play with them and my Star Wars Action Figures together. Make MASK a different group and have them battle with SW, G.I.J., and Lion Voltron together like I did with my wild imagination.
Good stuff here, thanks for this. They were/are definitely cool toys, but kinda surprised you're giving the cartoon props? Even as a kid I thought the vehicles had way more personality than their drivers/pilots. Anyway, nice review - hope you cover C.O.P.S. some day as there's only a handful of half-arsed videos on youtube at the moment. I'd like to see you pick the toy line/cartoon apart...
That joint is hilarious about where did the helmets come from in the vehicles but you know as kids we weren't thinking about that. We were too hung up in the action of it all. However, as adults we do have questions. An unrelated question I have is (about G.I. Joe) how in the world did COBRA always manage to get into G.I. Joe's airspace, fly right over top of their headquarters and start blowing things up before the good guys could scramble and fight back? Weren't G.I. Joe an elite military group? Surely COBRA shouldn't have been able to get anywhere near the Joe's base before being intercepted. Things that make you go hmmmmmm...haha!
MASK did have the best Theme Song of any 80's cartoon. The Digital look to the animated opening along with the distinctive electronic 80's theme song always got me pumped up to watch MASK. The only real negative about the toys was their scale. They were a smaller scale than the GI Joe and Star Wars figures/vehicles, and it limited their playability/use to only with other MASK sets.
I got the box set a few years ago, and I hate to say it, but after rewatching it, Scott was the smartest one of the group. He always found the hidden temple or whatever they seemed to be looking for whilst the MASK team seemed to have no idea where to go, they just drove around in circles. Invariably, they found VENOM because they had to rescue Scott, but then again, it should worry you that your ten year old and his knob of a robot sidekick have more idea of what's going on than your super computer and geniuses in hi tech helmets. Maybe I'm just old now, but he seemed to be much less annoying than I remember from my childhood as well.......T-Bob though.........ummmmm........yeah....he was just.....yeah
About the helmets coming from "nowhere" when they're in their vehicles...you might as well add that to the list of unexplained things like: where did Optimus Prime's trailer always go when he transformed? Or how did Adam West and Burt Ward get into their costumes while sliding down the pole into the Batcave???
The intro of this video is spot on. M.A.S.K. was the shit and I secretly loved these more than most but MAN did this toy line suffer from a craptastic cartoon. The intro was AMAZING, best of any 80s cartoon. That song rocks. The toys are nuts. But that damn show bored me to tears and it was impossible to be a fan as a kid when every other kid felt the same way and just gave up on the property.
