I grew up poor. My parents did their grocery shopping at Aldi and their retail shopping at Value City. Value City was always a series back in the toylines. A series would generally stay on the shelves at front line retailers for about 6-8 months; then they would bring in the next series at Walmart, Target etc and the previous series would start showing up at Value City at a discounted price. It sucked having to wait (and when you're 7 years old 6-8 months feels like an eternity) but for most part I was okay with it. One advantage that I had was that I was able to see them all in action first and know which ones were worth getting and which ones were worth skipping. That all changed with MASK series 3. They were all so awesome, I wanted them all, knew I'd never have them all, and had a long way to go before I even could get my hands on a single one of them and it was torture. But I ultimately ended up with Goliath, Buzzard, Razorback and Iguana out of that series, and I was happy with that. MASK series 3 is so awesome!

After watching all three of these videos I realized how awesome my mom is! I had 80% of this whole series 1,2&3 and didn’t even realize it as kid, no internet and KZfaq yet!

My favorite has always been Manta. Last year I got a brand new Manta from the Chile lot. It is crazy to see the box and the toy all these years later, no faded colors, all brand new like when I was 8 or 9.

I used to have the Pitstop Catapult. It was one of the last MASK sets I bought. A lot of MASK sets were hard to get hold of in the area where I grew up in the UK. Mostly stores like Woolworths and Argos stocked a few along with Star Wars, Transformers and Action Force/GI Joe. The red banner section should come forward as The small flag things are supposed to be teeth/blades used to trap a vehicle. The tyres will stack together and connect together using the small tabs around the inner rims. Use the same small tabs to locate the tyres into their storage position on the base. On the fuel pump/catapult section. You place a tyre upright into the gap. Then use your finger on the back of the sprung section to push down and release to launch 🙂

This whole series could be redone with today's technology, it would be awesome, I loved it as a kid, I was 11, when it hit, love watching your videos...

By 1987 I was out of MASK and looking back the designs were just bizarre.

I’m 40 in a couple days and I had Iguana, Wildcat, and Ali growing up. I lost them as one does when you stupidly don’t realize one day you want to collect them again. I got my hands on Vampire with Floyd Malloy with original packing and awesome condition used. Anyway thought I’d share my love for this channel and fellow MASK lovers. Well done sir

Pit stop tires set upright in that big groove.

Funny you mention how the Buzzard looks like "just a nice race car...." My mother bought one for me at a yard sale in the early '90's, and I had NO idea it was a MASK vehicle for like 6 months until I had a rambunctious morning and started really testing my toys' durability....discovered the button that separates the cars from the glider portion, and was in MASK heaven! It was like getting 3 new toys of Christmas morning. Such a cool series of toys!

When I was little,i want this toys so bad but my parents don't want to buy it for me...48 years later,still i can't have it coz it's not available in the stores,you are so lucky

The spoiler on the Buzzard is removable to function as a hang glider, the figures arm fit through the holes in the bottom of it. The center character was written as a drone or robot. Then the series went nuts with the "Split Seconds" see-through figures.🤣

The mirrors on Wildcat are know as West Coast Mirrors and they were option on certain pick ups. Those orange things on the back of the truck are the controls to operate the winch and hoist on on the back of the tow truck (in real life).

Those orange things on the back of the tow truck are levers for operating the towing mechanism. Up, down, forward, back, tilt and whatever else. A set with redundant functions on each side so the operator can hitch it up from either side. Surprisingly the mask toy didn't chrome them.

All I can say is...Wow! What a collection!

I had Bandit as a kid (among a few other vehicles) and I always transformed the bike to a Quad, which works really well on it. :)

The orange pieces on the back of Wildcat are the switches used to operate the crane on a tow truck

So cool. I had Goliath and was impressed with how sturdy the racecar was built. I also had Manta and lost the ejection seat almost immediately. I also had the Bulldog(?) Cab over. I never got the rest of them (series3) as they were hard to find in my area. I'll never forget the childhood heartbreak I had when my older brother received the Rhino truck for his birthday one year. I still don't know where my parents found it, as you could never find Rhino in the stores anywhere. Still bothers me to this day! 😂

Got the Meteor at the first day of school... Fun memorys :-D I played it as being the air support for the cars and when it was shot down by Venom, the cockpit became the escape pod... I guess I never ever used the ground vehicle mode for the main section XD

Watching this takes me back. I wish I would of kept all my mask toys..... Smh. They got passed down to my younger cousin so at least that was good thing. Great video

You can also slide a figure into the back of Razorback to man the rear guns. I think the manual for Buzzard says that the rear spoiler can be used as a hang glider by sticking the figures arms through the loops. Probably why they are missing. I lost so many pieces to these toys as a kid but continued to play with them for years.

The back part of Meteor, the part where its splits off, the top part can be lifted off like a flap and acts as a monitor/interface for targeting and shooting the missile. There should be a sticker indicating a monitor... I remember that's how I used to play it...

Excellent in-depth video! I also appreciated the Chronic reference at 15:41, specifically, "Lyrical Gangbang" 💣

The "yellow gun" on Collector is a "radar scanner" with the roof becoming the dish. Pitstop Catapult's tires go into the launcher vertically, fitting between the "arms."

It is take funny to see these checkpoints toys again 30+ years (I also had the GiJoe checkpoint back then) and then spend many, MANY a working shift at one type of security checkpoint or another for work for many years, only to come full circle back to these toys 🤓

You missed the part on Buzzard where the rear spoiler doubled as a gang glider for the figures.

The wheels go into the groove of the pump when it's open

On goliath you could slide the racecar onto the black peg. There is a slit/groove on the bottom it should slide into. On the miles and maximus racer. In the cartoon the sidepods turned into motorcycle like vehicles. They popped up so they could sit upright. Thats why the tops open On the toy. The molding under the helmet is a droid that controlles the airplane. 👍🏻

The orange things on tbe back of Wildcat are the swtches to operate the crane on the tow truck. Up, down, line in, line out, etc

I loved mask as a kid every time the new series came out I would put them all on layaway and pay for them all summer. On wildcat the little orange things are the tow wench grapple controls to lift cars

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I worry we will never see this toy line make a comeback. It would just be too expensive right? They seem so complicated compared to anything made today. I would be all in if they did though!

Had Wildcat and Razorback among others when I was little. Wanted Bulldog since I also had Rhino as well but never got it. Also. You have Vanessa's mask on backwards. The red part is her visor. Your videos are a great trip down memory lane though.

Great video, a trip down memory lane! I used to have Bullit Bandit Bike/Ali Bombay, Manta/Vanessa Warfield and randomly just the Boris Bushkin figure, not sure why? Haha I'd lost almost all of it, but have been on a mission to replace them recently via eBay, just ordered the Manta car and figure earlier, so I have it all back now. Great toys, some of my favourites as a kid for sure.

Those orange pieces on the back are the levers that work the wrecker boom.

Your Goliath seems to be broken. The racecar DOES auto-transform when you pull it over the ramp with the black piece slotted in underneath the car, but normally it would also transform via a spring when you push down on the intake behind the driver. Seems the spring is missing/broken on your vehicle. Sadly, all of my vehicles have been given away by my parents, wanted to collect them back up only to find that there were none left. Fun fact: In Europe most of the droppable weapons were usually omitted (even Rhino lost its missile later in the production, first units still had it, but Thunderhawk and others rarely had the bombs or got weaker springs for missiles to make them "safer").

Wildcat n iguana got much play with me. I had always wanted and claimed Manta when I was at my friends house. He even let me borrow it one time!!! (Borrowing toys, oh man!!) Goliath I desperately need and can’t find for a decent price. So cool

Gosh I love Bulldog's semi form. I never had that one, and would have loved to have had him. His driver's mask is amazing, very "wolflike". I just wish the exhaust stacks would have flipped out instead of sticking out so far. It would make them far studier as well from an engineering standpoint in the toy's build. I would love to have a collection of semi's even just semi's and drivers. Am I the only one who think that would be cool even just like that? Maybe with a few opening doors and a gun for the driver. Love the videos, I just discovered your channel, keep up the great work! I do wish they used better plastic that would last over the years, and my biggest gripe is, how many Matt Trackers and others do anyone need? I wish they had made more original characters instead of all the character variations on too many vehicles. Cause if your guys are fighting each other, you realistically would not have 4 different Matts driving all those vehicles at the same time, lol. I like variations, but make those vehicles have their OWN drivers instead. I would paint hair and modify some of mine with model paint back in the day so I could make different people on my own. I was between 8 and 9 when I did that and thought about painting and modifying figures. LOL Thank you for sharing your collection with us and allowing us a trip down memory lane my new friend :D

Where can I buy those vintage gems now, my friend? I love the MASK toys & I’d definitely will like to own some of them. I owned a couple of the first wave of the toy line and the ATV that you showed here. 👍🏻

37:10 You insert the tire vertically to the slingshot thing.

Never really got into the toyline or cartoon when I was a kid. Still, I got the switchblade, jackhammer, piranha and manta last year. That makes my m.a.s.k. collection pretty complete for me 😄

It's a shame that there were only 10 episodes of the MASK Racing Series. I enjoyed all of them. There should have been 55 more episodes. CGI would help right now to create more MASK and VENOM vehicles and playsets.

(Watch the cartoons Dusty mask while looking the same (except for being good) is a different mask. Vacuum pulls things towards him. I’m sure it was cheeper to use the old mask recoloured rather than making a new mask. Back to the video

These and a few from Series 2 are the M.A.S.K I wish I had growing up.

The taillights u called on the tow truck are the controls for the boom line

I still hold Wildcat and Goliath as 2 of the best in the whole line. Edit, looks like the mechanism on the Goliath racecar is knackered, should be a switch at the end of the "track" underneath or push down on the air intake.

Yeah all of the episodes are on KZfaq.

Am I the only kid of the 80's who's never heard of MASK?? I swear my brain draw a blank when ppl talk about this series and toys Hahaha.

I had a brand new collector base in 1987 and that gun on the top came bent out of the box thought it was weird it was bent and not straight back then. Now I understand it was so it would close with the figure on the pegs.

hey bro, those yellow deals on the back of the tow truck are the levers for the hydraulics. cool pieces

Believe Pit-stop fires the tyres vertically

I had the Collector as a new toy. The yellow gun is bent from the beginning.

With the car that has max and myles...the spoiler also is used as a glider ...

Pitstop: The tire goes vertically in the slot.

M.A.S.K. needs a serious modern update.

Buzzard's fin is advertised as use as a glider for your figures, so if thje kid is into that, taking it off and on will wear the clamps out.

Goliath I does auto transform; II seat comes down by itself...mine does

I remember the original Ratchet toy from Transformers. The head was horrible. Just a plastic silver square with a sticker for a face. I refused to buy it. I got the dinobots instead could not find Swoop anywhere. I think that was only released in Japan and US.

Man those are some rare pieces👍👍

That formula one car (indy race) is really cool.

I had all of these as a kid EXCEPT for goliath. I only saw it in a store once or twice with its box open and various pieces on the up and down the shelf on that aisle. I didn't pick it up because I couldn't tell if all parts were there. I actually purchased it as an adult about 8 years ago. I'm surprised you didn't have the green vort-ech go alongside its counterpart, the red wildcat.

I had all of these except the toll booth. Gave them away about twenty five years ago. The door/side panel hinges on the T-bird Stocker are really fragile. Even new. 🤦‍♂️

You should patronize the nascar 500 and formula f1 themed signs

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You should put the trailer box one that you saw on KZfaq what did you do for the other trailer it looks very cool 😎

The little orange things on the back of the tow truck you are the faux controls of the tow truck mechanism

Missing cockpit gun, and rear window guns on razorback.

I’m sure the pilot of the iguana was called Lester Sludge. Not Lester Sledge.

I have a few Vortek toys bc at the time I thought.. “Huh.. they totally copied MASK”. Then I finally got Bullet off of ebay so now I have both as well.

cool

It all went down hill during/after the racing season

The motorcycle reminds me of the motorcycle from Hot Wheels Battle Force 5, complete with ghe split wheels. Dont know if it meant to fly oy be a hovercraft

Iguana was cool. I think it was the last M.A.S.K. toy I got as a kid.

You know, friend, I feel like they haven't done justice to this franchise, they haven't made a new series, nor have they made new games or toys. Also, they didn't make a trailer for 2 trailers.

4:36 something like that would be outlawed, as it'd be V.E.N.O.M.ous. Similar to a snake oil salesman.

Why can't toy company s make toys now like they did back in the day

Change Mechamical Engeneer 2 Mechamical Specialest 2 Mechamical Robot XO95 Codesign Optimus Tron.

Gloria and her vehicle? Are from what season?

Don't have the 4 wheeler or the huge cargo jet

Meteor.... It's like a wish version of a real MASK toy 😮😮😂😂 wow that was just bad

Where's the white ferrari/lamborghini?

Loose part fix rubber o rings

Fragilay? haha

I hated the series 3 ...too many weird vehicles, and some absolute abominations ...the f1 car ? What effin purpose does that serve unless they want to fix and f1 race 😂😂 ...series 3 was the jumping the shark moment