Vintage He-Man MOTU Road Ripper restoration - Toy Polloi

This vintage Masters of the Universe Road Ripper is a toy that was meant to be played with, and played with roughly. So they are often pretty damaged when you find them. This one was no exception with a broken front well, missing stickers, damaged seat belt, and broken body.
They are also often missing the ripcord, so I tracked down a modern version that does the job nicely.
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0:00 Intro
0:54 TV Advert
1:25 What needs fixing?
3:55 Cleaning
5:05 Fixing the wheel and seat belt
14:50 Repairing other damage
20:20 Stickers
23:29 Testing the Road Ripper
24:50 Replacement Rip Cords
29:10 The final Road Ripper
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[@occamsrazor4370]

“If you haven’t seen me use it before, I don’t know what you have been watching.” Toy Polloi quote of the day lol 😆

[@itsgeekbeat]

I liked that line quite a lot.

[@thetworoos]

Awesome fixes! The replacement ripcord is the icing on the cake; I'm amazed you found something that could be modified to work! Skeletor was clearly wrong to think he was safe on those disposable cups.

[@richardromanyshyn608]

Having the high ground doesn't always pan out!

[@tntsk868]

My late brother had one of these and we had a fun time shooting this vehicle across the kitchen floor and down the steps sometimes.

[@DanyTV79]

😮 And Toy Polloi did it again!

[@y2bogus]

Love watching your videos, and your free sticker scans are a service to toy fans

[@MJKToys]

At one of the early POWER-CON shows in L.A. we had a Road Ripper race. 30 or so Road Rippers going down a Hotel hallway at once. Pretty awesome.

[@toypolloi]

Sounds great fun!

[@glynnbrown6642]

I love how you have found a replacement ripcord. I’m not a He man fan but you still did good

[@Dustin2112]

You know its gotten real when Polloi breaks out the Makita.

[@camcordernonsense5264]

I want to like motu vehicles but like childhood, I couldn't get into them. nice fix!

[@goldennugget5680]

You're the best, I always recommend your channel to every toy collector that needs help.

[@BennyLlama39]

Boy, I remember *this* thing! I'm surprised the one I had as a kid survived constant impacts with baseboards and doors. 😀

[@toypolloi]

They all took quite a battering.

[@SupercoachwithDR]

So glad I discovered this channel. So many vehicles I was almost going to dump are now going to come back to life. Thanks for the great tips mate 👊

[@toypolloi]

Welcome aboard!

[@eltenda]

Great job on a classic veichle!

[@citadelli]

Love your videos. Even if I see things that don’t apply to what I might want to work on, still a huge bank of knowledge to absorb for others things and especially customs!

[@DNeeds]

I'd love the asmr sounds of you cleaning n doing the work instead of the sped up "music over" bits.

[@tommywalker5348]

amazing to watch you take so much pride in theses he-man toy fixes 👍 id say orkos rip cord would work with the vehicle wouldn't it👌

[@maverick7291]

I had a Ripping good time watching this restoration.

[@davidandrews5215]

okay thank you for printing out the stickers for the road ripper now I can get my two redone with the stickers thanks

[@Tim-57]

Hey Dave Always like the Lego warning New drilling and cutting songs🙂 Great to watch you take your work outside for demonstration...or are you asked to do so?...haha😉 Great fix Take care and Happy Weekend

[@JoseVazquez-oq7gi]

Playing with those toys it just childhood excitement amazing moments

[@davecardoza4762]

I love how my good friend Dave can take any toy and fix it in such a way that it seems so easy & if they lose an accessory good ol' Dave can find one similar that can complement that toy & works like the lost one did, heck, sometimes it even works better than the original! Thanks Dave! You are a genius. 👍🙏🏼

[@mikesmith2718]

This really is the meaning of no toy left behind. This thing is so cheap you could have easily bought a complete unbroken one but instead you put the work in and showed some cool fixes . Love this channel.

[@jasonotoole1822]

Great restoration Dave! I recently got a vintage Road Ripper myself to go with my MOTU Origins figures and it looks fantastic. Mine is still in great shape but seeing your restoration and the stickers you produced was really great. I previously bought the replacement stickers off eBay, but will have to check them now that you have pointed out the differences. Thanks for all the fantastic content you produce. I've been watching your videos now for many years and always enjoy them.

[@Chasing80sToys]

Excellent fixes/repairs Dave👍 love the test bit in the end😁👍

[@toypolloi]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@TheUncleRuckus]

Oh wow... I absolutely LOVED this toy as child, I received this along with the Castle Greyskull play set for Christmas in like 1985-86'. Brings back a lot of fond childhood memories of playing He-Man with my friends. 👍👍

[@miggyz8975]

Awesome! The stickers do make all the difference

[@dattallaudiophile236]

No steering wheel or handlebars or pedals... I wonder how He-Man was supposed to use that thing. As always Dave, your fixes are flawless and very clever, specially that ripcord.

[@TheCrazyparrot8]

He-Man doesn't need a steering wheel. He chooses his direction and then rips through everything.

[@michaelmatthews2759]

nice as always dave, I've avoided picking these up because of how hard I'd figured they are to fix

[@sithcarebear1]

This was always one of my favorite MOTU toys. I still have mine but the cord has been missing for years. Thank you for providing an alternative!😃🙏

[@actionfigureplus]

Awesome timeless classic vehicle, gotta get the new one!

[@BronyNumber4096]

0:54 Oh jees I remember that song. 🎵"HEEEE-Man! HEEEE-Man!"

[@davidJones-mx7yw]

Very good Dave is amazing

[@kaidzaack2520]

Great fun! Have a nice WE y‘all! 👍

[@ICHIBANDIPPER]

😆Love Lego destruction, great restoration Dave.

[@mr.armandothetraveler]

Awesome work as always. Greetings from the other side of the pond, Mexico to be exact!

[@BrynSmith76]

Excellent fixes as always. The seatbelt peg looks much improved, as does the front wheel. But a quick mod of that Ninjago ripcord is perfect, it's gonna get a great many of these rippers running again I think.

[@Beedo_Sookcool]

Excellent! Thank you!

[@andrethib]

the ripcord reminds me of the old Kenner SSPs

[@korydoe4813]

My little seat belt stud broke off and my dad stuck a screw in one of the seat belt holes and that worked ok way back when. Cheers

[@isralee]

Very good work! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@georgemartinez1720]

Great fix idea dave

[@snookhammer]

Good job

[@KingofPotatoPeople]

Thanks to this channel I’ve even applied these techniques to my kids’ modern broken toys and armed with plastic weld they see my abilities as miraculous and it’s all thanks to Toy Polloi!

[@toypolloi]

That is awesome!

[@oliverbelmonte7077]

The Road Ripper has been reborn.A salute to Sir Dave, he has brought new life to a motu vehicle i never got.

[@arghjayem]

Those darn children! Playing with their toys! 😂🤣😂

[@TheCrazyparrot8]

I've been waiting for this video! I want to repair mine now.

[@toypolloi]

Go for it!

[@ponchostoybox]

Enjoyed that DM

[@a1exh]

Nice repair. I'm surprised it didn't originally come with two rip cords then you can send it back and forth

[@momokadawi8955]

Sweet ...

[@vengeance1701]

Nice half-boot Skeletor in the commercial. Very early release.

[@LMUstacker]

they are always so much better with the stickers...Now I want a road ripper, I can see the prices already going up...

[@lazer-ape]

I'd love to see you make replacement accessories for roboto and trapjaw

[@Portal2099]

Weird, Panthor looks sorta like he's a dark red in that commercial.

[@marcbrunson6986]

I have bookmarked this video. I have 2 Rippers with the seatbelt peg snapped off both of them. I was wondering if i should just trash them or see if there was some type of fix to them. I like this fix. That's the only repairs on the rippers so I think I'll fix them that way before selling them. Oh to edit, surprisingly I still have the rip cords to both rippers.

[@tylervanpeursem7627]

Great work as always! Is it possible to review/restore plasma dragons from mega bloks? I got one recently and tried to get rid of the tacky feel old plastic gets, only to peel off most of the paint :( (they came in small eggs with rubber sacks)

[@markshellard5894]

You should have had a job in there factory 😄

[@Siansonea]

You would think that Skeletor would have realized after the first time He-Man knocked down his pyramid that perhaps he shouldn't stand on top of it. 😏

[@BigBigSack]

Nice job! I wondered if you ever use any sort of rubber sheeting to make cut-outs for replacing things like the seat belt but perhaps that may have been in another video :)

[@MrDrokkul]

Poor Ram Man. He has ONE job in Eternia and He-Man has to hog up the glory by ramming the Road Ripper into Cup Mountain.

[@jeremyherndon2974]

Would of been cool to see if yours went further then the one without the replaced front wheel. To see if it really helped move right along.

[@peterparker6584]

You might also want to try a ripcord from a Beyblade toy. It's one of those things I haven't gotten around to trying yet Summers around here I've got a bunch of Beyblade ripcords and presently don't know where I put the box there in once I do find said box I've got to check see if one of them fits the road Ripper

[@PaulSmith-jk7cy]

Hi Dave, i´m new to this channel, but i´ve been watching your videos from at least six month now and i enjoy them a lot. I´ve learned so much from you and a couple of month ago i did my first He Man restoration and it felt great. Do you think you could do a restoration on a Rambo figure someday? One of the most annoying things with it is the leg inner connector that usually snaps. Rambo´s 6X6 Jeep is also a great fount of issues; specially the capot´s locks that usually snaps. Anyway, thank you so much for your knowlledge sharing and your good vibes. Greetings from Argentina.

[@toypolloi]

Hi Paul, Thanks for watching. I think Rambo's legs is the same construction as the Golden Girls figures. Check out my repair video on those. Cheers

[@jovintagle2372]

Awesome job as always. Just fixed mine about a couple of weeks ago. Coincidence?

[@georgemartinez1720]

I wonder if Carrbon Giber Rod would work for the axle

[@Agrippaiscariot666]

I don't think they're really glued they were sonic welded if I recall correctly.

[@kaylemathewcomendador6964]

I remember having one of those Fly Wheels years ago. It was pretty fun, especially if you can make a makeshift ramp for it. Are they still around or did you just find a cheap resell? Didn’t expect to get that bit of unrelated nostalgia in MOTU video. And those are some neat fixes you made there. Especially with the replacement ripcord.

[@mikesmith2718]

Sorry for the second comment but I have a few of these with broken pegs for the belt and I'm thinking now I should fix them just to have figures in a vehicle on display maybe even do custom stickers for an evil warriors version??!!

[@littlemoffrey9929]

Would using the rip cord dragster work on the road rippor?

[@masterfarr8265]

can you do a vid on the bashasaurus

[@prototypebodyhammer]

I wish there were replacment rubber seatbelts available... that's the thing broken on all of mine

[@JacknVictor]

I've made a good replacement using a thick inner tube and a craft knife that was almost indistinguishable from the original, and once I've set my 3d printer up I'm going to try printing them using flexible filament. The biggest pain is getting the bit that snapped off inside the toy to come out. Very thin needle nosed pliers and a small long thin bladed craft knife and a good 15-20 minutes of time and patience are needed. The 3d ones I print will have a little plug on the end that pops inside the hole where the original belt was. If the plastic pin has snapped off on the other side for the belt to latch on to, there are Lego pins that can be put in place by drilling the hole and glueing the new pin in. I'm sure Dave showed them in the full video of this repair.

[@JacknVictor]

I've just checked and he did in this video - it wasn't showing up as the full video when I clicked on it originally, it showed up as a short for just the ripcord (which is what I searched for) as I was wondering if Beyblade ripcords might work. I may have a go at 3d printing them with a strong pla, and maybe reinforce its strength with a thin wire inlay.

[@garybuder4645]

Any chance the Ninjago rip cord would work in the Tomy Tron light cycle?

[@JoseMedina-hs9st]

I think the problem is that since it's a old toy and they made it with cheap plastic that's why parts break off

[@jamesseitz6817]

I had that toy as kid i can't remember what happened to it

[@JoseMedina-hs9st]

Jack's Pacific is a big company here in the United States There are companies that make the wrestling toys and some of the dragon ball Z action figures

[@J_cobbers]

Great video, I love learning and watching your MOTU restoration content. I have a question about how you might handle this: I bought a road ripper off of ebay, good condition, but the seatbelt itself is cut/broken off on the left hand side. I see this a lot on road rippers available on ebay. Any suggestions on how to replace it? I was contemplating using a 'ranger band' essentially a section of rubber inner tube cut to length and design. but not sure how I would insert it into the old notch.

[@toypolloi]

I would make a belt more along the lines of the one I made for the attack Trak. It would be easier to add another peg on the side rather than insert it.

[@J_cobbers]

@@toypolloi Thanks, that's a simple and brilliant idea, I'll go check that video out for reference. You're the best!

[@nammis77]

When you wash it like that. Are you not afraid that all the original stickers will be destroyed?

[@toypolloi]

I intended to replace them all so didn't have to worry on this toy.

[@richardromanyshyn608]

Handy video. Got one with the same front wheel problem, someone model glued it back in place. I got it out of there, had a feeling about spreading the front. Sawing the next peg was a great idea. There are reproduction rip cords, I haven't tried one yet. Any ideas on what rip cord would fit Dragstor?

[@toypolloi]

Where have you found repro ripcords? I did search and found nothing.

[@richardromanyshyn608]

@@toypolloi Ebay here in US. Not correct looking reproduction, they are a different color and handle is turned 90 degrees from the teeth. More of a functional replacement than reproduction. I like your idea too. I have a bin filling with various cords that don't fit my Ripper.

[@richardromanyshyn608]

@@toypolloi KZbin keeps taking item number down. Search 'Vtg Road Ripper Ripcord'

[@richardromanyshyn608]

@@toypolloi I ordered that replacement to see what it is like. 3D printed on its side, why the handle is 90 degrees turned. Base of how it is printed is a little larger. The extra material on that side needs filed off the teeth to work properly. It feeds but not smoothly, you can see where it is wanting to chew that extra from printing material off. Bonus, they did send 2. Ordered 1

[@toypolloi]

That's interesting to hear. I will stick with my modified Lego one for now.

[@knightwolfpro4494]

I just found in a toy resale shop a Complete Road Ripper, however the inner rubber wheel only spins when you have the cord moving. As soon as the cord is out, it stops. Any suggestions on that that might be?

[@toypolloi]

Sounds like it needs some lubrication.

[@knightwolfpro4494]

@@toypolloi that's what i thought at first, or maybe pet hair go into it. so I pulled the wheels apart so the rubber one was free, and I heard something start bouncing around inside and thought, well crap i just lost the gear. Turns out it was a ball bearing that got stuck in there. I don't know if it was a a part of the wheel mechanism or just a random items that got stuck in it, but once it came out and I put the wheels back together, it worked fine, I need to find a cheap one to fully crack open and see how it's built.

[@codeartdesign]

Hey how is everything? Thanks for the video and the wonderful stickers. The REAL parameter for printing these stickers is 110.744mm x 77.47mm? Help me! Thank You... Hugs from Brazil!

[@toypolloi]

Print at 100% on A4 size paper and they will be correct. Cheers

[@georgemartinez1720]

What paint di d you use

[@toypolloi]

I cover that on the video.

[@sheltonhawthorne9369]

Why no handlebars or steering of any kind ?

[@georgemartinez1720]

Play like the tepair toys

[@RynoDBones]

I never went for the vehicles for any toys when I was a kid. Just too much to break and I realized at a young age I was absolutely going to break them. Same thing with toys that needed batteries or had "action" features. Always avoided things that I would break before it got home.

[@TheCrazyparrot8]

I never had playsets. They were expensive, looked cheap and functions would often break easily.

[@roseamelia9147]

will you buy masterverse or the cgi toys?

[@toypolloi]

Simple answer is no. I just prefer vintage stuff.

[@garyowens7454]

Reminds me of the SSP racers that were popular in my boyhood. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpavn2x6Z5iog9E It's practically the same thing.

[@TheChibitodd]

Why no race? Your fixed wheel seems to have a lot less resistance. Its should go father! We won't know unless you film it!

[@toypolloi]

I can't race myself and film as well 😜

[@nyquist75]

200 mph lol

[@JacknVictor]

Has anyone tried Beyblade ripcords?

[@toypolloi]

It's worth a try. Let me know if it works.

[@JacknVictor]

@@toypolloi @toypolloi will do. I'll ask my son to look have a look and see if he's got any left. Probably not seeing as he's 30 and lives in London now but he did tend to hang on to stuff like that. I'd rather try it with a proper one first before I buy a generic one off eBay. I'll leave a message after I've tried. Thanks for all the hard work you do by the way. You've inspired a lot of people, and it's people like you that helped us get through covid by keeping us entertained and inspiring us to have a go at fixing our own little collections. Your time and your hard work does not go unnoticed and is much appreciated.