M.A.S.K. in Ireland

Pigman II

1/3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmv5sWXt_z0

2/3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQlxv-lgKbw

3/3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPIfachwH-E

neil_hosey

OMG I used to LOVE this program.. gona have to watch these.

Armin_Tamzarian

That's quality, I loved M.A.S.K.

I wish me Ma hadn't thrown out my Snake Oil truck and poor little T-Bob.
Damn you Mother...

(runs off singing to myself... Mask Crusaders, working all the time fighting crime...)

Brien

By the curl of a leprachauns nose, that episode was great...ish

Pigman II

"We sure Lepre-CONNED V.E.N.O.M! lol"

ixoy

I haven't watched it yet, but in honour of my avatar I'm still giving thanks!

What other kids shows have gone to Ireland - Captain Planet did, along with Jackie Chan and TMHT.

Mhmm...weetabix

ixoy wrote: »

I haven't watched it yet, but in honour of my avatar I'm still giving thanks!

What other kids shows have gone to Ireland - Captain Planet did, along with Jackie Chan and TMHT.

I'm pretty sure Gargoyles had an episode set in Ulster with Cu Chulainn!

The Don

Mhmm...weetabix wrote: »

I'm pretty sure Gargoyles had an episode set in Ulster with Cu Chulainn!

They did. God I'd forgotten all about that. The Banshee was the bad guy in that episode iirc.

I've some of the toys in my attic

Armin_Tamzarian

hellboy99 wrote: »

I've some of the toys in my attic

Dammit, so jealous.

You were probably one of those spoilt kids who got 'Boulder Hill'
and the massive Triple-Changer Megatron while the rest of us were fobbed off with Gobots...

Armin_Tamzarian

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Dammit, so jealous.

You were probably one of those spoilt kids who got 'Boulder Hill'
and the massive Triple-Changer Megatron while the rest of us were fobbed off with Gobots...

I wasn't that lucky, I got Bravestar & Visionaries instead

toe_knee

Visionaries......nearly forgot all about them....how could I

Armin_Tamzarian

hellboy99 wrote: »

I wasn't that lucky, I got Bravestar & Visionaries instead

Bravestar, so lame ...

However that's nowhere near as bad as the time I waited all year to get
a Hornby railway set for my birthday.

The day finally came and what did I get?
'Etch a feckin Sketch'.
WTF like, I went mental.
Me Ma's excuse was that the shop had run out of Hornby train sets but
the shopkeepr had assured her that 'Etch a Sketch' was the "next best thing".

Instead of recreating the Dublin-Cork line I was, well, drawing a line
and a pretty pathetic one at that...

notahappycamper

Ah the memories! I used to collect the comics of MASK as well!

raindog.promo

I got boulderhill. I only got rid of it about 3 years ago cleaning out the attic with a load of other mask toys.

Boulderhill rocked.

Myles Mayhem's helicopter/plane thing was excellent too.

Armin_Tamzarian

I always wanted Boulder Hill, that little fecker Billy Ryan from down the road got one of course, he got everything.

My only decent present ever was Snake Oil.
Unfortunately I was a rather shrewd young fella and noticed that my Snake Oil was the same one that had been on special offer down at the 'Tallaght Town Centre' due to some missing pieces...

P.S. Myles Mahem - What a class name...

Pigman II

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

I always wanted Boulder Hill, that little fecker Billy Ryan from down the road got one of course, he got everything.

My only decent present ever was Snake Oil.
Unfortunately I was a rather shrewd young fella and noticed that my Snake Oil was the same one that had been on special offer down at the 'Tallaght Town Centre' due to some missing pieces...

It was called 'Outlaw'. I had it too. Great toy.

It's weird that you mention special offers. I also remember some cut-price Outlaws doing the rounds back in the day? IIRC the RRP for it was around £40 and I think I saw one in a shop for around £20 and pointed this out to my ma. Even as a little kid I understood the value of money and thought it was really interesting for it to be going so cheap, but for some reason my ma was silent and disappointed looking. Didn't bother me of course because I had got mine 'free' from Santa Claus.

Armin_Tamzarian

Pigman II wrote: »

It was called 'Outlaw'. I had it too. Great toy.

It's weird that you mention special offers. I also remember some cut-price Outlaws doing the rounds back in the day? IIRC the RRP for it was around £40 and I think I saw one in a shop for around £20 and pointed this out to my ma. Even as a little kid I understood the value of money and thought it was really interesting for it to be going so cheap, but for some reason my ma was silent and disappointed looking. Didn't bother me of course because I had got mine 'free' from Santa Claus.

Yep, that was probably the one that my cheapskate auld fella picked up.
The box was battered and the green box thingy that you plugged into the side was missing.
What was that shop called, Tutthills, Tomy's, meh who cares.

You know I'm not sure if I ever knew that Outlaw was the proper name.
That 'Snake Oil' sticker misled me.
It's all coming back to me now though.
That big missile was great.

Photi

God, I never realised how many toe-curlingly bad puns were used in MASK.

And now I want to kill the stupid kid and the robot.

raindog.promo

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/mask/mask.html

I still have the volcano monster truck around the house somewhere It was the best christmas ever when I got that.

DenMan

Nice one OP. What an awesome sereies. Everytime I see Maximus Mayhem he reminds me so much of Chief Irons from Resident Evil 2.

Jip

Just remember that between my bothers we had Switchblade and Condor, very cool toys.

MrDazzPants

MASK was another of those favorite cartoons as a child. I also had some of the toys, I had the thunderhawk and can't remember the names of the others . I think my mother gave them away when I grew up and moved out, stupid mother :mad:.

bonerm

The thing I never understood was how any of them held onto their dayjobs? Once Matt Tracker would call for them they'd immediately run out in the middle of their work (whether it be cooking a pizza, teaching a class or washing a dog etc) often with humerous results! :mad:

stone roses

mmmmask!!!!!!!!! 80s to the core!

:-)

Holmer

I loved those toys so much, and I remember getting up really early on Sundays to watch the cartoon on the Wide Awake Club with Timmy Mallett. I had a good few of the toys, I remember I was the only child in my class who had ever heard of them. All the other little hicks in my class played with those die-cast farm machines, and there I was with my Mask stuff, turning my nose up at them.
I remember I got the thunderhawk first, and I had the bad guy with the black motorbike (Vampire?), the Switchblade (Miles Mayhems Plane/helicopter) Raven (Uber-cool black corvette than turned into a flying hydrofoil thing, coolest fúcking toy I ever owned!) Mayhems henchmen were Sly Rax and Cliff Dagger, he was meant to be really thick. Had their vehicles too, The jeep and the motorbike/sidecar that was a submarine. Think I got Mask toys for every Xmas and birthday from ages 5-10, I wasn't a rich kid who just bought them willy nilly

Sephiroth_dude

That used to be my favourite cartoon as kid .

bonerm

Watched a few eps over the past few days. The stories are not too bad, and quite enjoyable but a little repetitive.

Every episode went as follows:

• Tracker and son in some exotic location.
• Some strange unexplained geological phenomenon will occur.
• Tracker decides VENOM is behind it.
• Tracker calls in the MASK team
• Cut to VENOM spilling the beans on their plan and listing their demands to local government*
• Mask team investiages the problem.
• MASK gets ambushed by VENOM
• Big showdown between MASK and VENOM vehicles.
• VENOM eventually loses and retreats. "Next time MASK!"
• MASK guys celebrate their victory and have a laugh about some ironic observation (usually involving Scott or TBob)
• Finally a "Lesson of the day sequence".
• (every episode would also have a subplot with nancyboy Scott Tracker and his amazingly annoying robot T-Bob. I mean this thing would give JarJar binks a run for his money in the irritating stakes)

Some other observations
1. Show was very sexist. It's clear the Gloria Baker character is only there as the "token female" to please the studios. Every second episode she gets rendered unconcious and has to be rescued by one of the blokes. Also nearly everytime she's called up for a mission her "civilian scene" involves either shopping or her demonstrating an inability to drive.

2. VENOMS ransoms don't make any sense? Often they'll demand payments ranging from $1million - $25million. However for example if you looked at Miles Mayhems vehicle SWITCHBLADE the thing must have cost several HUNDRED million to build so why is he dealing in chump change? (real Dr. Evil stuff going on here!)

That said tho, I think a reworked CG tv show of this or a live action movie could be a great success if they ever felt like making one. Basically the show is the best of Transformers and GI Joe mashed into one.

Holmer

bonerm wrote: »

Watched a few eps over the past few days. The stories are not too bad, and quite enjoyable but a little repetitive.


Every episode went as follows:

• Tracker and son in some exotic location.
• Some strange unexplained geological phenomenon will occur.
• Tracker decides VENOM is behind it.
• Tracker calls in the MASK team
• Cut to VENOM spilling the beans on their plan and listing their demands to local government*
• Mask team investiages the problem.
• MASK gets ambushed by VENOM
• Big showdown between MASK and VENOM vehicles.
• VENOM eventually loses and retreats. "Next time MASK!"
• MASK guys celebrate their victory and have a laugh about some ironic observation (usually involving Scott or TBob)
• Finally a "Lesson of the day sequence".
• (every episode would also have a subplot with nancyboy Scott Tracker and his amazingly annoying robot T-Bob. I mean this thing would give JarJar binks a run for his money in the irritating stakes)

Some other observations
1. Show was very sexist. It's clear the Gloria Baker character is only there as the "token female" to please the studios. Every second episode she gets rendered unconcious and has to be rescued by one of the blokes. Also nearly everytime she's called up for a mission her "civilian scene" involves either shopping or her demonstrating an inability to drive.

2. VENOMS ransoms don't make any sense? Often they'll demand payments ranging from $1million - $25million. However for example if you looked at Miles Mayhems vehicle SWITCHBLADE the thing must have cost several HUNDRED million to build so why is he dealing in chump change? (real Dr. Evil stuff going on here!)

That said tho, I think a reworked CG tv show of this or a live action movie could be a great success if they ever felt like making one. Basically the show is the best of Transformers and GI Joe mashed into one.

:Dit's all true!
Why did ALL 80s cartoons have a lesson of the day? He-man and all those had it too. Must watch on Youtube, and get misty eyed for my childhood

RE: ransoms: the 80s was a very turbulent time financially, maybe the exchange rates were fluctuating, esp as like you said, they always did their evil deeds in exotic locations

bonerm

MASK theme music. The full version!! :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5C0G9Ol7_Q

bonerm

I'm embarrased to admit I'm slowy working my way thru this show ep-by-ep atm and as a result I feel the previous comments I've made about the show format are now only true up to a point.

For some reason at episode #43 the show re-tools and as a result really picks up. The animation improves, the characters are more clearly defined and the humour is more cutting (Miles Mayhem in particular has some genuinely funny lines). Even Scott and T-bob are given stronger subplots and are less annoying/more heroic.

It's rare for me to say this about any show I've revisited from my childhood but I'm actually impressed with MASK (from ep43 onwards). It's a lot of fun.