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Thunderhawk is the reason I love M.A.S.K. to this day Rhino was good as a support vehicle, Same for Transformers I've always been a Hot Rod fan and didn't like him that much once he became Rodimus. Hot Rod by the way for the younger viewers is basically Bumblebee but in red and orange and the original Bumblebee was a mini autobot that could only take the body of small cars that's why he was a yellow beetle he could never be a muscle car.
This and Optimus Prime were instrumental in my decision as a kid to be a truck driver as an adult. I loved that Rhino so much. I never had my own Prime because my parents only bought us Gobots but I loved the cartoons and begged in vain for those toys.
Man the 80's was a great time to be a kid
*WHAT ABOUT MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE?*
I wish theres a Remake of the animated series,More serious this time.
I miss when things use to be MADE IN USA 🇺🇸
I was fan of MASK as a kid but only never got the Rhino back then. I finally got my hands on one of these back around the mid 90s brand new condition in the box for about $50. Still have it in excellent condition at my mom's house in NY. I remember watching the Discovery channel show Monster Garage and thought to myself... "holy moly they are building MASK vehicles"!
Haha, I'll need to check that out.
This is a reminder to all toy lovers how great we had it in the 80's MASK, GIJOE and so on. Miss those wonder days!!! Great review.
Thanks! Truly was the golden age of toys & animation!
We were lucky to be kids on hte 80s. A decade full of heroes and great cartoon stories.
Masters of the universe was and still is the best!!
Visionaries and Starcom too
Sadly, I was really hard on my toys. So, while I still have Rhino, it is really beat up.
On the subject of 80s trucks, I do also have Yatming's version of B.J. McKay's Kenworth K-100 Aerodyne with the trailer, and while it's a much less impressive toy, it's in better shape because I didn't "love it to death."
Not that sad, toys were meant for playing! Hope you got some great memories in exchange for the damage. :D
Omfg.... Looking at the little toy catalogs that came with 80's toys..... I probably spent as much time, if not more, staring at those damn things than playing with the actual toys lol.
PopeJones Wang yeah me too or drooling over the sears wishbook
I remember I had this and most of the MASK toys. I even had the gas station. Wish they would reboot this and make a movie.
Loved the gas station I had it too! I'd always come up with horror movie scenarios. Best times! Miss those days
The most underrated toy line in my opinion. Just slightly behind Star Wars, G.I. Joe, transformers and masters of the universe. I would buy any remakes from Hasbro in a New York second.
Mask was on equal if not better toy quality than GI Joe
Interesting mentioning that the eyes are the windows of the soul,because i remember back in the day when the mask show was on how we talked with friends of what kind of power masks used.The show like many other 80s-90s cartoons didn't go to the trouble explaining allot in some points,so we had our own theories for how this worked & that.That was one of the things i liked with the 80s,the mystery involved around a matter in those oldies.So i remember that with a kid talked about how the masks worked and he said to me that it was probably some kind of power from the mind and the eyes of each wearer.I remember an episode on the show that i think sato or gloria was fainted after overusing the power of the mask.Thing that showed that you could not use the power of a mask for more than it should be.
Burning question: What is the green motorcycle you've got Matt on. And... is that the G.I. Joe scale Matt Trakker?
Thanks for the great video!
Had a RHINO when I was a kid, and that was definitely one of the greatest M.A.S.K. toys IMO. I have many fond memories of hours and hours of playing with that massive rig; loved that whole line and thought all those little mask sculpts were really cool. Wish I still had those toys. 😕
Thunderhawk, Goliath, Rhino and Volcano Van were my favorite! They dont make toys like these anymore, 80' s toys rule!!!
Rhino was the only MASK figure I didn't have, my best friend did though. So I was happy. Whereas everyone else had a bunch of Transformers, GI Joes, etc, I had MASK. I even watched it on TV every morning before school.
One of the funny parts of the video was you pulled out the flier that came with it. I paused it as said, "had it, had it, had it, didn't have it, had it, had it." Then I unpaused and heard you say "got it, got it, need it, need it, got it", I couldn't stop laughing! :D
Great video. :)
One of my favorite vehicles of the whole line next to bolder hill.. brings back memories of my child hood from the 80s.
It always bugged me as a kid that Rhino wouldn't fit through the entrance of Boulder Hill. The radar dish would block it off and so you could never re-create the vehicles heading out on a mission properly.
.... lmao i had so many of those toys .... to bad i was like 6 ... and got into smashing stuff...
In France 🇫🇷, it was untraceable. A dream for a lot of children
Why did I sell all these at a yard sale????????
DARN YOU!!!! DARN YOU MICHAEL MERCY!!!!! YOOOUUUUU RAAAWWWWKKKK!
I loved Masked! These were some of my favorite toys. Rhino is such a well designed toy with durability and functionality!
i only got one the jack hammer which i still have it still complete but the chrome a little flaky, i like drive around my dino rider figures
Haha, nice.
Best M.A.S.K. review ever, am a big big fan of the toy and cartoon line. Such a shame there was never a trailer ( sporting a jet inside maybe ).
Thanks! That would have been a cool idea.
I was totally focused on G.I. Joe by 1985 and never purchased a single M.A.S.K. toy until I was an adult collector many, many years later. It is in my opinion now, one of the absolute best toy lines ever conceived. Would love to see the brand resurrected along with a big screen tie in. Your videos are top notch Michael and have quickly become my number one channel for vintage toy reviews. NERDMASTE!!!
Same here. Didn't get any M.A.S.K. stuff until a few years ago but I can see how these would have been so much fun for a kid with all the spring-loaded features. Glad you enjoy the videos! Nerdmasté! 🙏
This got a "like" from me the moment the opening scene ended. Freaking brilliant! And now to watch the rest of it...
Thanks. It was cool getting to be one of Trakker's MASK agents. :D
M.A.S.K was my favourite show in the 80's
Toys are wealth, I never liked WWF but those big ones are worth more then gold bars
The picture of the B.J and the Bear truck @ 1:11, was taken in Ventura California.
THAT INTRO WAS AWESOME!!!!! Thanks for the video man, you do great work!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Nerdmasté! 🙏
I had the orange pickup and green motorcycle. My brother had the blue Chevy tank
as much as i like mask and rhino i still concider G1 power master optimus prime as the king of the road especially his japanese release with god bomber/apex armor
Matt Tracker drove this thing? I don't remember that. I don't even remember that alternate mask. He always wore Spectra.
Absolutely loved getting this bad boy for my Bday as a kid. Along with a giant chocolate chip cookie cake. Yum
Unfortunately Rhino didn't get much play time because none of my friends had any Mask toys and I didn't have a bad guy to interact with. Eventually one of my friends got Condor, but we still didn't have a villain and the downsized scale of Mask prevented us from using Star Wars or GI Joe figures with them. Rhino sure looked cool on my bookshelf though. Great review 🙏
Thanks! Yeah the scale made it hard to interact with other lines. Can't think of any other toy line from the 80's that was the same sized figures.
Michael Mercy Dino Riders had the exact same scale figures as MASK.... same articulation as well! But they just didn’t interact well together obviously
I loved that truck. I was so disappointed when I broke off one of the front wheels. I never figured out how to fix it. I had a lot of the vehicles. Great times!
Haha I use to run around the house with a makeshift mask and say, Lifter On until I drove my parents crazy!
Haha, that's awesome. :D
You just can’t ask for anything more 80s than this. I really enjoyed the movie Breaker Breaker! Because it gave you trucks and martial arts. There was also that movie Rolling Vengeance.
10-4 good buddy! :D
Had this and other mask vehicles back in the late 80s. Great video.
Thanks!
I had this as a kid. Not sure what happened to it
i got the green bike helicopter in 1987, from a transformers sticker collection contest that gave out MASK toys. lol
Thank you for all these video's, I lost all my figures from the 80's when my parents split in 91. At least I can see other people's amazing collection's !!! Ty again !!!
Thanks, glad you enjoy them. Sorry you lost your collection but feel free to 'virtually' enjoy mine anytime here on UA-cam. :D
my childhood friend had this truck
I had rhino as a kid and absolutely loved playing with it. This was an awesome video new Subscriber.
Michael, your one of the BEST review guys out there 👲👍 i SUBD🎉🎈🎊
Thanks!
Finished! Wow, so many great memories. My friends and I divided up all the 80s lines as kids. I bought Transformers, another handled Turtles, one GI Joe and so on. That way, we got to share and enjoy them all. I vividly remember the day our MASK friend received Rhino as a birthday present... it blew us all away. Truly one of the greats.
DragonTail49 omg thats brilliant, really wish I had thought of that!
Yes! That was a great thing about the 80's and why I remember playing with so many toys that I didn't even own. There was a community attitude where we all shared our toy hauls.
Pretty sure it's been mentioned already but great video and really dig the "roll call" bit!
I used to love this cartoon
I had this toy as a child and had found at an estate sale. I had no idea it had all these cool gimmicks! What an outstanding toy!
Yeah I forgot how to use some of them and had to find instructions online. :D
I had it back in the day.
NICE, I STILL HAVE MINE IN MINT CONDITION TOO.
I remember seeing Rhino when my class got a tour of our Primary 3 class (UK - So, second grade in the US) in 1987/88 and meet our new teacher for the upcoming year, wasn't interested in the classroom/teacher, just thought it was the coolest thing ever if I got to play with it - turned out it was just somebody's toy they brought in, and not as I thought one of the classroom toys.
Too cool to be a classroom toy! :D
i apologize for the comment...i just wanted to say how lucky you are to get one of those.......
I know, I was kidding around. I do a series of book reviews on here called SOBs but it stands for "Soldiers of Barrabas," not the regular meaning. :D
I had the MASK Rhino truck in 1989 when I was 6 years old it was and still is one of the best toy big rig trucks ever made. It should of had a trailer to go with it as well. I've got G1 Ultra Magnus and G1 Optimus Prime off eBay I want to get Rhino again what can I say I like 1980s American Big Rig Convoy is one of my favorite films.
The best big rigs came out in the 80's. Loved Ultra Magnus for being able to haul other cars and combine truck with trailer.
early 90s this toys are familiar in indonesia
This is so dope. Love it. Takes me back.
I had one of this. I think I wanted a big bang for my buck, I've lost mine years ago
Had a flashback to 1985. My brother had this truck..awesome memories of this kick ass show.
I never knew Matt came with Rhino. LOL that makes for some messed up childhood missions (I was 5 sooooo I didn't care who it was he drove the truck.)
That intro was pretty cool! I didn't owned Rhino as a kid, in fact I owned only a couple of MASK vehicles back then (Kenner toys were usually pricier than other brands), but lines 1 and 2 from MASK were certainly among the coolest looking toys from that time.
I love your channel, Mercy. It’s all about good times and warm memories. Keep them coming!
Thanks! Nerdmasté! 🙏
Love it! The Rhino was one of those toys I absolutely coveted. Huge, full of features, and absolutely badass looking. Alas, the limited bank account of my parents didn’t afford many of the pricier items.
100% agree- the Rhino looks like it should’ve been the “star” vehicle in the line. I suspect they went with the Thunderhawk in an uncharacteristically kind move as the more affordable alternative to parents. I only ever had the green motorcycle that turned into the gyrocopter, but man- those were cool toys.
I get the feeling Kenner was a much "kinder" company than the others too. Just from looking at the box and the instructions for some other vehicles, there's really sweet verbiage that you'd never see a big corporation use. It was like a gramma and grandpa were running it. "We really care!" is emblazoned on one of the instruction booklets and they talk about how if there's any issue whatsoever, they want to know about it so they can fix it. Seemed to take real pride in their product, so I can see them wanting kids to be able to afford a cheaper Trakker vehicle. Hasbro on the other hand, made the leader the biggest, most expensive item and said "tough luck!" if you couldn't afford him. :D Rhino's the centrepiece of my MASK collection though, with Matt and Ultra Flash behind the wheel. :D
Michael Mercy you know what- that “we really care” thing was real. I wrote them when I was a kid to ask for a replacement green lightsaber for my Jedi Luke action figure and they sent me a huge bag of Star Wars action figure weapons- pretty much every one for every figure- with a note that more or less said “we appreciate our customers”. I don’t think Hasbro would do that- at least not these days.
This vehicle has the most awesomest features I've ever seen in a toy vehicle...💯✔ If I would have had this as a kid I would have had so much fun with this...👌🏼
Christmas of 1985..may have been my best. That year I got Boulder Hill...GATOR...Thunder Hawk...Firecracker..and Switchblade. I WAS IN HEAVEN!! The only other perfect Christmas is the one in 1984...I got Castle Greyskull, Pointe Dread...Fortress of Fangs and a Gremlins tent you put up in your bedroom...LOL
My memory isn't the best but as soon as you stated to show the truck I started remembering I had a Mask truck and car, it's weird but seeing the shinny chrome looking parts on the truck is bringing it back, Thanks Michael.
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it. Nerdmasté! 🙏
Michael Mercy 1/24 scale....these would scale with transformers altenators /binaltech.
When you get into your 30’s it all gets fuzzy.
One of my fave M.A.S.K vehicles. Great review! 👍
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed. :D
i loved my Rhino and boulder hill but the I-Roc was SO bad ass. I always had a big love for the blazer type truck jackhammer too. I used to play with boulder hill with my Joes too. I always preferred MASK to Transformers. Rhino had that awesome pop out grill for pushing stuff out of the way and I used to use Rhino's big fatty rocket/missile as my own little nuke for my GI Joes planes to drop.
Have you done a review of the GI Joe Mobile Command Center? Thats was the main thing other and the flagg(which was a pipe dream as a boy) but the MCC was big and awesome and more affordable but it just never happened. I was pretty lucky as a kid in that I had Tons of Joes and vehicles like Roliing Thunder, Mean Dog, HAVOC, Rage, Battle Bunker, and so many more as well as Rhino, Thunderhawk, Hurricane, jackhammer, slingshot, condor, etc from mask, all 4 ghostbusters plus ecto-1 and the firehouse(which got used with Joes a lot too), tons of he-man figures with both castle greyskull and snake mountain(if thats the right name), and all the turtles, kc jones, bebop n rocksteady and their big van vehicle. but when it came to Joes I always pined for the Mobile command Center, the Big space shuttle thing and headquarters playset.
Are you a collector of some of the less popular or shorter lived lines like Visionaries, Silverhawks, or M.u.s.c.l.e men?
An old video I know, but I've just started re-collecting MASK as it was a huge part of my childhood, really enjoyed the video Micheal, will be checking out your stuff more frequently 👍
Man I loved tje 80's cartoons. Just wish my family wasnt so poor and I could've owned these action figures
A little late to the channel, but I love the content. As a toy collector and child of the 80s…man do you do an awesome job on your channel. Love the extra animated shorts in the presentations. Great memories for sure,,
Probably so the paint deco wouldn't get smudged, since most kids would take of the masks of their M.A.S.K. and V.E.N.O.M. toys quite often ... personally I prefer them with their masks on any way! :D
Mr. Mercy takes his videos seriously.
Seriously fun! :D
Great video! Honourable mention for another great rig - The Snowman's Kenworth truck from Smokey & The Bandit ;-)
At 0:40 in, I see a transformer with flames. I had that one growing up. Although it did not look that good. Do not have it any more though.
Sympa cette présentation :)
Merci! :D
Oh man i'm glad i found this channel. I'm going to subscribe! I was born in 82 and my toys are all long gone so it's nice to see them again. Great editing and camera work also!
Thanks, appreciate it. :D
wow. I never had this one as a toy. But it was such a cool machine. Thanks mr Mercy, bless you and your channel
Thanks Robin! Have a great day. :D
Michael, I need your help. My '85, American first-wave Rhino came with Bruce and ALEX, not Matt. I can't find anything that supports an alternate figure release, not in articles or images. Any info on this? I never had Bouldef Hill, but I have Alex and never had the "Rhino" variant of Matt.
Christmas 1986 was all about the m.a.s.k! Many a m.a.s.k toy was unwrapped that day 34 years ago and Rhino was the Xmas king that year. What a toy (far superior then the Bolderhill play set in my book). My best memory is of waking up at 5 o'clock boxing day morning and being told off by my parents for making too much noise while playing with my m.a.s.k toys. Thanks for bring back those great memories Michael with your fantastic review.
Hands down, the coolest toyline and cartoon of the 1980's. I only had Condor, Raven, and Piranha. I wanted Rhino, Firecracker, Hurricane, Gator, Thunderhawk, and Boulder Hill. Yeah, I was a dreamer as a boy 😅😅😅. I would have done a full summer's worth of yard work JUST for Rhino. I begged my parents for Rhino once I was at my friend's down the street. It was his sweet four year old friend that brought Rhino to his house. I wanted even more after he was kind enough to let me play with it.
I needed this right now and I love you so much! Thank you!
Hasbro needs to bring these back in the same scale as the newer GIJOE figures. I'd be buying them so fast, lol.
loving your channel right now!! I've been watching the M.a.s.k. and G.i. Joe episodes all day!!
awesome love for the toys, we had the same things in common my friend!! 😀🤘
Did you ever have a friend with a pool growing up? Yeah, that's nice. I had a friend with every MASK toy made. He had Rino but also Bulldog which was another rig that was blue. And then Venom had an awesome tanker truck that folded out to an armillary cannon and headquarters.
Back in the day, I would also look at the brochure for hours and thought "need it!" Whenever I look at Rhino. Never happened. Also the brochure wasn't even mine. This is a great nostalgic video. Thanks!
Only recently discovered your channel. Awesome content. I collect Transformers nowadays. But when I was a kid I had nearly every MASK toy. Rhino being my absolute favourite. Closely followed by JackHammer.
My Mask favorite my mom got for me in Christmas a got a complete one with the 3 figures you show on eBay in a 3 day bid but I want it and I got it and love your channel
All my parents ever bought me was, "Boulder Hill," playset! 👍
You was lucky...that set was huge...my brother had that😂
I'm betting the reason they focused on Thunderhawk more is because they would have had to get special licensing for the IROC and GM probably had a clause in the contract that said it needed to be the focus of the show.
There was a similar situation in 'Who Frame Roger Rabbit', both Disney and Warner told the studio that if they wanted any of their main characters in the movie, they needed equal time on screen. That's why you get the piano duel of Daffy and Donald and the Bugs and Mickey parachuting scene.
Another missed opportunity by Kenner could have been a separately sold semi-trailer for the Rhino to pull. It would of been a cash cow. Think about it: it would of added to the size and play value of the already large sized Rhino, and could of included an extra character (or 2), another micro vehicle or dirt bikes for side missions or reconnaissance, and other cool features such as a mask-recharging storage area with an additional mask (or 2) unique to the play set. It could have been the only set where you could get the mask displayed on the wristwatch mask-alarm. Oh yeah, and it could of included a chair for Alex Sector to sit in while the Rhino’s truckin’ down the road at high rates of speed 😂
great episode! My question is how do you find the right things for all your cartoon clips to say!!! That must be hard to find all the time!!
I had Rhino. I was always Matt and mate was always Bruce!! Great memories of playing with Mask Toys in friends back garden. My friends older brother collected Transformers and we used to have battles between MASK and Transformers!! We also used several Battle Beasts from the 80s too!! LOL
Fantastic video! Thank you :)
Glad you enjoyed! :D
My cousin in France had it! It was amazing. We never got MASK in Spain, but my French aunt gave my brother and I Raven, Gator and Jackhammer for Xmas. We were amazed by the quality. It was all about GI Joes, Transformers and Masters of the Universe here in Spain. I kept being a big Joe fan anyways.
One of my favorite cartoons and toy lines! I was lucky enough to have this bad boy and still have it somewhere in the basement. One of my biggest joys is giving my old toys to my kids.
Rhino is awesome but I can see why Thunderhawk was the lead vehicle-- can't beat a flying red sports car in the 1980's!! Not to mention Matt Trakker's grey/red suit and mask (Spectrum) were better than Ultra Flash.
Great video. I wish i could do the special effects you do on your vids. I remember buying Rhino when it first came out & still have it. You should get 'Doug' on for an interview.
It did majorly suck that they never made a trailer of Rhino. It would have been the perfect opportunity to introduce a mobile command base, or even just a double level car carrier that would allow them to bring 3-4 additional MASK vehicle in since they were having encounters all over the world!
Thunderhawk was the right choice as the flagship imo. It's badass, even today. A flying car!
The boss (for lack of a better term) was going 2 be Rhino but was changed during development.
A. It was seen as too much of a rip off of Prime to be the leader by Kenner executives.
B. It was too pricey. Thunderhawk was seen as a more affordable gateway to hook kids who would want more.
But yes Rhino is the still the logo as it was planned to be the leader. Tracker was originally molded as a stereo typical truck driver w/ a hat & vest. The MASK FB fan group has a great interview w/ the lead designer/creator. Rhino was the 1st vehicle they made or at least conceived.
Great review btw. Very professional.
Another "Universe" dear to my childhood. I still seek and watch this (And other) cartoons. Miss my toys.
One "Universe" I have yet to see is; Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. I wonder if this is unknown to you, upcoming, or disregarded...