M.A.S.K. - Classic Cartoon Review - Part 1 of 2 ( MASK )

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[@happiaxxident]

HELMET - High Energy Lethal Mask Equipment and Technology

[@edrice2621]

Sounds like a winner.

[@sKt37330]

We have a mask toy!

[@aaroncoffman88]

Happi Axxident Wow! Good job. I like it

[@shang6245]

Sounds awesome!

[@anthonydeuble9201]

I agree that is a good name

[@ferrjuan]

H.E.L.M.E.T. = Homeland Enforcement & Logistics Management Equipment Team!

[@dnds4]

This one makes the most sense.

[@jamesomen1602]

* giggles at the marvel bash*

[@jaybirdk7414]

No dislikes here! Brilliant!

[@oepolish]

This needs a ❤️ and a pin!

[@pastadinnertheater8657]

Bit of a stretch but it still could work

[@greatrey]

Bloody shame not a lotta people remember this truly forgotten gem of a series. Bring MASK back STAT!!

[@turtleanton6539]

Agreeed

[@WishItWas1984]

H.E.L.M.E.T = Hey Everyone Lets MElt T-bob

[@silverthorn9759]

That's awesome.

[@anthonydeuble9201]

Ha ha ha you are awesome 👍👍👍👍

[@kjk7611]

I liked/like T-BOB!🤖 He was not overbearing & not unremarkable.

[@zorpoxthedestroyer]

late to the show but...lmao

[@kenshaxon2083]

😄😄😄😄

[@DaBlueJay2001]

H.E.L.M.E.T (Heroic Enegretic Liberating Mechanics Eliminating Terrorists) There you go

[@Wolf459]

Heroic Extralegal Lawmen Mashing Evil Troublemakers! Another great one, RetroBlasting. The new intro is terrific!

[@desmondabraham3951]

80s cartoons were awesome

[@culvernile2255]

I always imagined Dan from pole position founded mask from the ruins of his old unit and changed his name to matt.

[@cybertronnation9247]

Culver Nile that's a cool alternate spin on the origin story of MASK!

[@dnds4]

H.E.L.M.E.T.: Holographically-Enhanced Laser & Mobile Expansion Team or Holographically-Engineered Laser & Mobile Enhancement Team

[@_Only_Zuul]

Highly Evolved Legit Military Extreme Tactics

[@boeingnz]

Hi-tech Emergency Launch Machines Extreme Tactical. There H.E.L.M.E.T

[@mini-conlongarm8021]

+boeingnz * Extremely Tactical.

[@cybertronnation9247]

Pretty damn cool!

[@MisaelCastilloBrenes]

Scott is the very reason why MASK wasn't my # 1 show in the 80's. I remember that at least all my friends hated him lol.

[@smallmanbigmouth2699]

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!

[@JasonGross76]

Jason here from M.A.S.K. the Movie. This is great stuff! Glad to see some appreciation given to the greatest toys of the '80s!

[@besinji2000]

Scott and T-Bob would make an awesome spin off............ Said no one ever

[@raypaz2947]

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.

[@sadjupiter502]

H.E.L.M.E.T. Homeland's Elite Latent Mobile Enforcement Team

[@robertbruno916]

My lord

[@happyhouston11]

The number of friends who didn't know about MASK was unreal. I had a few mask toys

[@Patrick94GSR]

Knight Rider, MASK and Back to the Future was my LIFE in the 1980’s!!

[@digipure]

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 ^^')

[@Logos_Ghost]

i miss my M.A.S.K. figures and those vehicles were too awesome!

[@VeritechGirl]

Basically Tracker's helmet is the equivalent of Hanks bow from the DnD cartoon! Also I LOVE Mask's theme song!😊🤗

[@kjk7611]

Veritech Girl I love the incidental music.🎼

[@killerpitdbo]

The intro is perfect for sure!! Another great video, glad the 80's still alive with retroblastings help

[@GirlofCulture]

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 ;)

[@InvisibleAvenger]

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 ).

[@toyaddic29]

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

[@stevenbaker107]

M.A.S.K. is definitely freaking awesome. I love them

[@1701Tex]

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.)

[@mcg6866]

H.E.L.M.E.T. (Hot Excrement Lying Motionless Engulfing Toilet). Hmmm... This kind of describes my last visit to a McDonald's Washroom.

[@jacksofalot5420]

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.

[@Phoenix2312]

@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!!!!

[@iapetusmccool]

4:53 ah, that staple of 80s cartoons: the control panel consisting of nothing but big, unlabelled glowing buttons.

[@Ogre302]

I know a lot of people knock the K, but hot rod and car culture had already been substituting the C for a K for decades.

[@jonathanlippe]

I think M.A.S.K. might be what planted the seeds for me to become an adult Conspiracy Theorist.

[@armoredknight8718]

Heros Employing Laser Machineguns Ending Terror H.E.L.M.E.T.

[@WishItWas1984]

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.

[@masterblaster4343]

Hella Epic Legion of man and eternal time!

[@eugenewhong2379]

Heroic Extra-Legal Mobile Enforcement Team

[@shoestringscifi]

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. :)

[@TheSsbcandidates]

When Jim Carrey´s The Mask was being made, I was under the idea it was based on this.

[@devinweathers7520]

I adore the opening and the vehicle's are freaking GLORIOUS , the writing is neat

[@ranwolf76]

I got into so much trouble with my Tae Kwon Do teacher because of the original few episodes

[@kevinalford]

I like this review, even though it's dripping with 2000's era snark-comedy.

[@whomee2]

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.

[@dxraptor]

great reviews mike i been looking all over the interwebs for someone to review classic cartoons and there toy line

[@kidchuckle]

I just realized for Mask, they must have saved so much money, by cutting down how much lip sync they had to do. (by wearing masks most of the time)

[@djnary2896]

Another great vid on an 80s line I loved. However...I disagree about Meyhem's Switchblade being redundant. The jet mode has the advantage of supersonic flight (in spite of what Airwolf may have taught you about aerodynamics, no helicopter can fly supersonic. The rotors would rip off.) And the helicopter mode has the advantage of vertical takeoff and landing, which a jet cannot do.

[@ericsmith1508]

Helping Every Mortal Every Time or Helping Each Mere Earthling Tactically

[@ericsmith1508]

***** nuh uh! the "L" is in Helping in both of them DERP! LOL

[@dnds4]

+Edward Teach Then you have an extra E (HELEMET) in both. You wrote: "Helping Every Mortal Every Timeor Helping Each Mere Earthling Tactically"

[@shoestringscifi]

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!

[@cb2k761]

God I still remember mask at 38 years old now. I had several of the mask toys. Awesome times as a kid. I would love to get my hands on the figures.

[@indetrucks]

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.

[@GenXToysGeek]

Rewatched this as I just acquired the first or short versions of the masks. Noticed that in this video you have them except Hondo's Blaster?

[@captainpaul2782]

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...

[@thegalaxybeyond1496]

"Half the time he sounds like he's on lithium." 😄😃😂😀

[@samspurgeon4222]

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

[@PHXDOG]

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.

[@CHASEMARC]

grew up in the 80's loved MASK, TRANSFORMERS, HE-MAN (and SHE-RA), THUNDERCATS, ROBOTECH, and GI JOE.

[@jamessingletn8196]

Can you do a InHumanoids toy and cartoon review?

[@manofsan]

T-bob reminds me a lot of 7-Zark-7 from Battle of the Planets

[@Antnj81]

There is a VERY fine line between a full grown adult facetiously questioning illogical plot agents in old cartoons, in am entertaining comedic fashion, and just drawing out annoying, over-analytical, knit-picking of 80's cartoons for the sake of filling time and appearing more slighted by unimportant inconsistencies, like that painful helmet logic exposition.

[@pferreira1983]

Yeah I tend to find it becomes tiresome nitpicking like that.

[@roosterj2599]

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.

[@sgzartan]

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.

[@50TBRD]

MASK, X-men, and TMNT were probably my favorite shows but my brother and I watched everything.

[@TVfanfanatic]

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.

[@patluvsvettes]

H.E.L.M.E.T. (High Energy Leaders Meeting Evil Threats)? That's the best I could come up with, sorry.

[@MforMovesets]

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.

[@PalJorgensen]

Awesome new intro! I like how the song has that 80's sound to it. Rock on guys!

[@daholiday3991]

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!

[@GarrettCRW]

The MASK cartoon, while certainly enjoyable, has HUGE FREAKING WARNING SIGNS of the absolute horrors that DiC was two years away from unleashing upon us all and well into the '90s.

[@ravagingwolverine]

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.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

We'll probably never see a real MASK vehicle at the highway but I think that would be great.

[@larissaoneiros2262]

(Melinda here) we will definitely keep an eye out for that! Thanks, Jason!

[@davistalhone9482]

Always wanted to like this show but couldn't do it. Then in recent years, ordered the DVDs excited because it was full of nostalgia let free of it for me (considering I was all about GI Joe, Transformers, Robotech, Voltron and what have you) but yea, even still, this one is just too much to get into as an adult. Spiral Zone was a better show. And there was another spin-off to M.A.S.K. called Vor-Tech: Undercover Conversion Squad. Hope you'll review each someday.

[@kjk7611]

Davis Talhone Hey thx Dave! Nvr heard about VOR-TECHS. ☺🤖

[@davistalhone9482]

@@kjk7611 Also check out A.T.O.M. - Alpha Teens on Machines - this concept just lives on and on ;)

[@VMIFerrari]

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???

[@chevy-is-a-good-boy]

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...

[@PandoraZBoX1]

I'm only a year older then you so all these figures and toys are all around the time I was growing up so its great to see them all again

[@b.lloydreese2030]

I would love an affordable gi joe/mask/transformer figure crossover toyline with vehicles

[@matthiascieslik5301]

you are so fucking right THE RED MASK CAR was my first and most beloved Toy!!! It was magical awesome!

[@stevenwalton8177]

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

[@Shockwave-ob2tx]

Transformers, G.I. joe, and Legos were my toys of choice in the '80s...with the occasional crossover between the two!

[@Beastkingzetta]

3:03 HEROES ECO LEAD MATERIAL ELECTRONIC TIMING

[@Tigerheart01]

Gi Joe was by far my number one in the 80s... but He-Man and MASK were pretty much tied for 2nd in my collection. Star Wars, Transformers, and Gobots were still in my collection too.

[@KaijuCommander]

Miles Mayhem kinda reminds me of an overweight Cobra Commander whenever he dons that helmet of his XD, but while he may not be the most impressive of 80s villains, one has to admit his design makes him stand out at least. Despite the lackluster transformation capabilities of his own personal vehicle, I will admit both modes, while completely redundant, look solid. Still, it probably would have been better to give him a land vehicle that turns into an attack chopper or jet instead, since VTOL tech existed already back in the eighties so helicopters turning into jets just wasn't practical. Regarding the tag along kid, even to this very day I will NEVER understand why so many companies STILL think that kids can only relate to their heroes if they are the same age as themselves, or if said heroes couldn't capture their imagination without an obnoxious token kid mascot that they constantly had to rescue from any and all danger due to their own stupidity. It gets even worse, when said kids actually UPSTAGE the real heroes, making them look incompetent and rendering the villains completely unthreatening in the process. I mean, its as if none of these execs were ever children themselves, as if the notion of children looking up to badass adults & wishing they could become like them someday is completely alien to them, nobody back in the day ever thought to themselves "Gee, the G.I. Joes sure are cool, but wouldn't it be even cooler if there was a kid like me in the unit?" or "Lion-O & Cheetara are cool and all, but I'd rather be the Thunderkittens, who needs super speed or the Sword of Omens when you can throw pellets at people?" or "Jean-Luc Picard sure is awesome, but I'd rather be Wesley Crusher!" XD P.S. I admit the Thunderkittens aren't nearly as bad as the likes of Wesley or the brat from Mask, but still, most kids favored Panthro and Tigra and all the other adult Thundercats even if they didn't necessarily hate the kittens.

[@frankschuler2867]

I loved these toys. They were convincing and attractive in both vehicle and transformed modes. You couldn't say that for a lot of 80's toys...I'm looking at you, Generation 1 Ironhide. Sadly, I only ever owned the green motorcycle.

[@darren2514fv]

M.A.S.K Was a international co-production with Canada/France/USA/Japan

[@canibaloxide]

I'm sure it's been pointed out that Temple of Doom had a kid in it.

[@Cavillier1970]

H.E.L.M.E.T. = Heroic ELiManators of Evil Terrorists! Even better than last night's idea. LOL

[@Cavillier1970]

This is what happens when you challenge a published fiction /mystery author. :)

[@austincorreia53]

I seriously love that you guys own a DeLorean!🤘🤘

[@ironwarmonger]

Since Mask was acquired by Hasbro, and had been integrated into the Hasbro Universe by IDW comic, any though on doing something about the new shared universe? The character back grounds, and where Mayhem got this name from are actually more interesting. I knew that G.I. Joe was originally crated in the U.S., and that Transformers (like Go bots), were just Japanese toys that were bought and sold in the U.S. by an American company. For this reason G.I. Joe is called the Flagship of the Hasbro Universe, being the only part that originated with Hasbro. I guess Mask is also American, but did not start with Hasbro. Speaking of the Go Bots, any chance of doing a treatment of them, and there Animated Series? If you already have, I had not found it yet on your channel, only found it a few days ago. In my personal opinion the Go Bots had a better back story then the every changing backstory of the Transformers, the fact they are, now (in term of the show), ultraborgs, organic brains put into robot bodies, just seamed more plausible to me then he Transformers.

[@MadTheDJ]

For the record, Transformers' comic was more sophisticated than the cartoon, also. The early issues set up a lot of detailed plot lines and characters, both Transformers and humans (G.B Blackrock, Josie Geller, Buster, Sparkplug, etc.). The constant demand by the powers-that-be to introduce and feature new characters seemingly every issue force the writers to constantly bend and twist their stories almost to the breaking point.

[@Sturmdude]

That intro is F'IN A! Can't wait for part 2.

[@theatlasproductions1]

Heroic Electronic Lazer Masters Eating Tyranny

[@EightCrosstown]

LOL! I like that!

[@KendrickHarrisKenfinity]

"M.A S K" is always perfect for never shielding our unstoppable and vastly skilled truth upholding team. Stay safe everyone!

[@torgeirlien9533]

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!!

[@NZbumblebee]

Indeed M.A.S.K was very special to the 1980s.

[@Cavillier1970]

Hey Mike I can tell you at 10:29 Juilo's MASK Streamer fired a heavy duty glue substance. I had Dragonfly, which was a great vehicle.

[@artistryartistry7239]

"They couldn't call the show 'Helmet'" I died. Then I subscribed. :)

[@tech-ryze]

Zombie alert!

[@Spudcore]

T-Bob is also part Oon. The tag-along kid alone is very annoying, but they give him a wacky robot sidekick as well to really max out the irritation factor. Scott is an absolute pain in the arse. By rights he should have met a grisly end in the first episode, his remains entwined with the twisted wreckage of T-Bob. Why doesn't Matt simply disable T-Bob's scooter form? Scott repeatedly follows the MASK crew into danger, so why keep providing him with a means to do so? Too much lithium probably.

[@edkwon]

What do you think of MASK coming back in IDW comic book form and as part of that new Hasbro Cinematic Universe?

[@michaelbryant3640]

Kayone73 I do like that there's actually a reason for the masks beyond the kewl powaz in the new comic: it's a neural interface with their vehicles

[@SciFiFan2012]

Michael Bryant yeah, the shared Hasbro universe books are pretty good so far.

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

I remember as a kid, my local channel 4 affiliate would play The Disney Afternoon every Monday through Thursday but on Fridays for some reason MASK was played and I think in place of what was usually the last Disney show in that block. I also always remember switching the channel when it did happen but the MASK theme song stuck in my head since then. And yes, the kid and robot annoyed the fuck out of me as a kid but as an adult, I don't find him as annoying anymore, just sort of pointless in the grand scheme of things. I too found more entertainment in the adults than the kid who kept fucking shit up for them. "He can get any woman he wants! What's he doing with a little boy?!" Dude: sympathy points. I'm tellin' you. The kid will buy him tons of it.