Vintage Attak Trak Masters of the Universe Repair Guide - Toy Polloi

He-man and the Masters of the Universe Attak Trak is a great vehicle, but has a few common issues.
The motors often don't work, the battery cover is missing, the seatbelt is long gone, and the stickers are worn or missing. In this video I cover all those issues and get a much loved and well played with vintage toy back up and running. Restoring it to it's former glory.
#vintagetoys #motu #restoration
0:00 Intro
2:50 Getting it running
5:33 Cleaning
7:24 Making a battery cover
15:39 Replacement seatbelt
17:01 Stickers
22:48 All applied and battery cover painted
23:40 Replacement wheel bands
25:07 The finished toy
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[@mykeg2401]

That handmade battery cover was very impressive

[@bencecil1507]

I dont even collect heman toys or Action Man toys, I just enjoy watching this, it is very intresting.

[@toypolloi]

Glad you enjoyed

[@martinschmidt101]

I fully restored an attak trak last year. I have four original rubberbands sealed in the bag, but they dried out, so I couldn‘t use it. Instead I used black rubberbands from tatoo maschines I bought on E-bay. That works very well. My seatbelt and the battery cover is original. The stickers are replacements in good quality. To care of the old plastic, I use always Balistol (a german weapons oil you can use for so many things to care on). Great job, and greetings from germany.

[@rvdberg1981]

Thank you for enhancing the stickersheet and making it free for personal use!

[@toypolloi]

You are so welcome!

[@unorthdoxcleric6953]

@@toypolloi Yes cause the guys on Ebay do charge a bit.

[@LMUstacker]

battery cover=masterpiece. I love when you work on the MOTU means of transportation!

[@craigcarter8867]

As kids we used to cut strips of old bicycle tube for the tracks.

[@gunnersmate7482]

Nevermind the haters!! I've learned so many valuable tips, tricks and custom ideas from you informative videos. Your love for these wonderful old toys is so apparent and refreshing in a world gone wild for the latest greatest things.

[@Skraboing649]

Dave, if you ever do some more Toy Polloi badges, you should definitely include the phrase "...snugger fit". 😄👍

[@toypolloi]

Ha ha. Not noticed that one before. Thanks :D

[@brianartillery]

It's a clever toy - the MOTU vehicles were unique in how they moved, eschewing basic wheels and tracks.

[@123neiloborne8]

just sitting here waiting for Eddy's review...

[@robturner3117]

Never really into MOTU but this is a fantastic restore

[@gjb301]

Another excellent video!!! Thank you so much for sharing your innovative ideas and approaches to bringing life back to these wonderful toys. A job very well done!!! It's very kind of you to offer the decals. I look forward to reconditioning my Attak Trak!

[@korydoe4813]

Love that wash up music! You know you made it when you have your own theme music! Cheers

[@barnacleburrito3728]

exactly

[@CaptainArrrgh]

Groovin tunes up in here.

[@MrLethal1986]

A brilliant source for cheap rubber are bicycle innertubes, I always keep my old tubes that are beyond repair. I think poundland sell innertubes, I wouldn't trust them on my bike but would be ok for something like this. Great content thanks for sharing.

[@Dorelaxen]

The goofiest, most impractical, yet most awesome thing in the He-Man line. Always wanted one.

[@Zinontoysandhandmadeconstructs]

Thank you so much,for your motu videos.You helped me to fix my vintage motu figures and vehicles.thank you mister.

[@toypolloi]

Happy to help

[@TheMelvor]

Gigapixel is pretty legit. Worth the price in my opinion. Keep up the solid work. Oh yeah, great music selections, as usual.

[@bentbilliard]

I just figured out a cool way to make the stickers look more like the originals aka vintage-ish. I printed them out on plain paper, used double sided sticky tape on the back and after applying them I used clear nail polish on them. The Polish of Na-il soaks into the paper and it makes them a bit shiny. It saturates the colours and makes them look older.

[@Elshiem]

I'm from Argentina and see that you used the Top Toys stickers scans. Is good to see that you make new version, now i can restore mine. Thanks :D

[@toypolloi]

Glad you like them!

[@cscape1973]

That edit at 0.35 makes it look like you though He Man up in the air and he lands on his feet........well done 🤣🤣

[@DarioDarrow]

18:07 Gigapixel did an amazing job on that old fluffy scan 😯

[@briansadler5460]

Another awesome video Brother. Always suspenseful. Always rewarding. Thanks again.

[@Rich77UK]

I really must on with my collection. I loved he-man back in the day. Best toy line ever. I'd still love a guide to re-flocking Panthor.

[@bencecil1507]

My dad and his brother buried his old human 12 inch figures in my grandpa's backyard, I tried so hard to find them with a shovel. Sadly not luck.

[@GermanNightmare1976]

Seriously, you're the best! I might actually get around to fixing mine up now. ♥ Thank you!

[@barnacleburrito3728]

same

[@ReynoldsReviews]

Brilliant Dave!!!! Just waiting for my attak trak to arrive, this video will help me no end 👍🙏

[@johnnyj7007]

Great video! Another fantastic restoration, always impressive and entertaining

[@toypolloi]

Thank you very much!

[@wesleybruner2169]

Great job! It’s amazing how just cleaning up a vintage figure/vehicle will make it look brand new again and how well the toys were made back then. Great job, also, on the decals!

[@carterlogue3234]

Keeping this in mind when I get mine

[@truckshackley373]

I want Colin Furze or the Hacksmith to build a full-size version of this one too

[@Chasing80sToys]

Great video Dave. Top tip on the wheel belts👍

[@jeromyfisher297]

Need to get a Mr. clean Magic eraser to remove the scuff marks from the plastic that what my son and I use on our Frankenstein Star Wars toy builds. Love to channel, look forward to the next episode. My son says hi hello from Wichita.

[@toypolloi]

I don't like those magic erasers. They are quite abrasive and can damage the plastic.

[@atariboy9084]

I have 6 of these three fully competed and the other three are missing wheels and even side cannons but love your idea on the battery covers.

[@BrynSmith76]

Great restoration, great detail on the stickers and that replacement battery cover is awesome

[@loganjorgensen]

Wow that upscale software is great, that's one of the biggest pitfalls with scanning old print items the Halftone factor, wonderful there is something to remedy that. Used to scan comic books and it always looked bad, like a photocopy of a photocopy in image quality drop.

[@toy-roundup]

I still own mine as well

[@Spooncoker]

Love your videos the tutorials are very helpful

[@AllysonA8281]

Hey there Dave! I hope you are well. Great vid as usual my friend. I always love the rugged build of the classic MOTU toys. I could just hear in the plastic, as you handled it how durable it was. These things took major beatings from us kids and they still work and are as solid today as the day they were made. Thank you good sir.🙏

[@jurtubia]

Perfect !!

[@Runningbowels]

Brilliant!

[@Beedo_Sookcool]

Beautiful!

[@ICHIBANDIPPER]

Thanks Dave, perfect as always.

[@husseinadib7666]

Just wonderful 👏👏👏👏👏

[@manko8852]

Toys are fun!

[@jonboldrey5339]

Love the motu! Nice 2 dave!

[@steve1315]

Good work.

[@Portal2099]

wooo hooo! I've been waiting for this!

[@toypolloi]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@Portal2099]

@@toypolloi I sure did! I never would have thought about the tape deck bands. I was thinking more of some sort of adhesive backed rubber that I would need to cut out or something. Thanks for this!

[@benflay6038]

Very nice one I would love to get back

[@ultramanz4006]

Dang, I really wanna get one of these!

[@artbytheanomaly6010]

Great video and an awesome project. Well done

[@toypolloi]

Thank you very much!

[@michaelmatthews2759]

Fantastic video as always dave, now I just need to find one to repair!

[@Retrorauner]

Fantatstic Video and a great help, thank you!

[@rubenfigueroa5373]

I was looking forward to this one. Great work 👏 👍👍.

[@toypolloi]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Tim-57]

Hello Dave 🙂 What an interesting vehicle. Your fixes and touchups make it look great! Thanks for sharing and take care.

[@mikesmith2718]

Downloaded the stickers for an extra I have earlier lol great timing

[@toypolloi]

Nice!!

[@PabloZiete]

Fantastic!!!

[@toypolloi]

Many thanks!

[@jasonkowitz4598]

Now this turned out awesome. I will be working on mine soon. Love how u show us how to do these restorations for ourselves. Keep up the great work!!!

[@eltenda]

Great video ...and great toy

[@toypolloi]

Thank you 🤗

[@eltenda]

@@toypolloi 🤙🤙🤙🤙

[@davidtexmex1616]

Smashing work on this, the battery cover looks great. Fond memories of this, I’m sure I used to attach a passenger at the rear of the vehicle 🤔

[@RMAILLER]

Nice job, also I thought the mate stickers didn't look quite nice, the glossy ones look a lot better

[@kitudiaz3460]

A good matter could be how to modify vehicles to make the figure sit properly

[@looselycollected7505]

On the tread bands, I was looking at stepper motor belts. The rubber belts that are used on filament based 3D printing machines to move the machine parts around. Haven't found anything exact yet. But they do have a similar tread pattern which hooks into a drive gear on the motors of the printer.

[@Dustin2112]

He-Man has Tri-Clops's arms on. I did the same thing when I was a kid. I never liked the unpainted gauntlets on He-Man.

[@toypolloi]

Yeah, I made this guy out of parts I had. Body and legs are he-man, arms from Tri-clops, and the head is a repainted French Prince Adam that was covered in blue pen. The end result looks really nice.

[@yunoyuluvit]

I bought a bag of black rubber bands for mine, but they're kind of a really dark grey. I think the belts are much closer to, if not the same as, the originals.

[@toypolloi]

I was thinking of getting rubber bands as well. These came up while I was searching and I thought they looked a closer match.

[@yunoyuluvit]

@@toypolloi The elastic bands are okay and would do the job, but they come with that distinctive smell, as well. I'm curious to see what the inevitable Origins version comes with.

[@unorthdoxcleric6953]

What a guy

[@grotgrusson5124]

Super nice and interesting video as always. Do you have any suggestion on how to make a replacement armor (chest plate) and shield for He-Man? =)

[@greenlanternhg5141]

Nice! 😲 at this point, is there any Masters Of The Universe toys you haven’t worked on?

[@toypolloi]

Loads and loads. I don't have that many MOTU toys really.

[@looselycollected7505]

Go to an automotive or tire shop. Somebody that sells tires and inner tubes. See if they have any busted inner tubes. Use them to cut out the belt parts.

[@felix9100]

What about cutting a 4mm (or better 5, because the stretching will thin them out) strip of a bicycle innertube for the rubbers?

[@toy-roundup]

Whats the Facebook group name? Great job on such a great motu vehicle.

[@TheTWRModeller]

Say, would the MOTU origins figures fit in with these old MOTU vehicles?

[@squirejj224]

Thank you so much for this video, now I can go and fix mine. I will have to see if I can find rubber for the belt, currently I'm using a 7.5mm wide cable tie, cut to length and rounded the edges. Is there a reliable way to de-yellow the clear plastic on the wheels?

[@toypolloi]

Thanks. I never have much luck de-yellowing clear plastic. If often causes it to go cloudy. So I just leave it as is.

[@squirejj224]

@@toypolloi Thank you, will just give it a good cleaning then.

[@peternguyen8275]

Hi, one of the legs have come off my attack trak. I have no idea how to attach it back on. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.. love ur videos

[@toypolloi]

Do you have all the bits of plastic. One of the wheels on this was broken and I quickly repaired it with plastic weld. Didn't show it as there was really nothing to see.

[@peternguyen8275]

@@toypolloi hard to tell for me. I bought it with the wheel separated, so i cant tell if its missing something or not unless i try to pull off another wheel to compare.

[@toypolloi]

The orange part of the wheel should have a cylindrical pole sticking out of it that is pushed over the metal rod in the body. DM via any of my social media channels if you want send a photo of it. Cheers

[@itsgeekbeat]

Why is there no normal plastic weld at amazon?

[@sxhbk]

your heman is so shiny? painted arm bands ?

[@toypolloi]

He's a Mish mash figure I made from the remains of a few. Arms are from Tri-clops. Head is from Prince Adam. The rest is a He-man.

[@GodWeenSatan]

Had this as a kid and actually forgot all about it. Wonder what even happened to all the vehicles I had. I saved all the he-men but the vehicles disappeared

[@tomatogoat]

Where do you get these contact cleaners from?

[@toypolloi]

Check out the toolshop section of toypolloi.com Cheers

[@looselycollected7505]

If I wait long enough, are you going to make replacement stickers for all of the MOTU stuff I need to replace stickers on? 😁

[@toypolloi]

Most likely. It may take a while as my project list is quite long. I will get to them all in the end I hope.

[@looselycollected7505]

I was mostly joking. But being as I have a huge vintage collection, and they are all loose, most of my MOTU could use new stickers. So it wouldn't hurt me if you eventually did. I appreciate all the work and thank you for sharing the downloads with us. Now to go find some decent photo paper to print with.

[@looselycollected7505]

I started following you on Instagram. If you find up my Instagram(BurningHeartCustomCreations) I have up pics of my collection there. Although I've picked up more recently and still need to build some more shelving to get it all displayed better.

[@MrDrokkul]

Where do you get off fixing the toys that you own! HOW DARE YOU! Making a new battery cover?!? What gives you the right? Are you Mattel or a licensed representative of their company? Did you get PERMISSION? That battery cover will obviously spontaneously combust when those knock off wheel bands cause He-Man to wreck and kick the bucket leaving all of Eternia to fall under the unscrupulous Mwah-ha-ha-ha of Skeletor. You should leave broken incomplete toys broken and incomplete! THEY BELONG IN A MUSEUM!!! Okay I couldn't think of anymore dumb stuff to say so well done! Good find on the tape belts as wheel bands! Great video!

[@juliantognacci7413]

JUST POST THE DEGOBAH SWAMP ALREDY!!!!!!!!!

[@toypolloi]

A few more weeks. I have a backlog of videos to release and I try to vary what gets repaired each week. Next week is Star Wars, but not the swamp.

[@juliantognacci7413]

@@toypolloi 😢

[@luiscarlosbohorquez]

Nice job and thanks for restoring my children's toys, but I have seen in many of the last videos that you say many times, example "THE BATTERY COVER" they did not look good that you put them in later and I don't know why you don't do it at the time of the video If it is due to laziness or you want to show that it is a poor job, it also happens with the paint match, I think that those of us who see your video deserve a quality job with a final result that meets the best of your effort and although I understand your premise is to spend little money and do it well greetings.

[@toypolloi]

Thanks, I think. Some fixes don't need to be perfect, it's always good to remember that. And the battery cover is a great example. It's hidden on the bottom of the vehicle and will never be seen. Currently the UK is in lockdown and has been for many months so I can't go the shops to find the exact match of paint so I just use what I have. It's not perfect but it does a good enough job for now. In future when I can get out and properly pick up paint again I may come back to this and repaint it. For now it works just fine. Things do not need to be 100% correct to be enjoyed. Wabi Sabi all the way.

[@RichAlot]

My electric lawnmower doesn’t require that much batter power 🤣

[@squirrelkilla7371]

3D printer. Needs to be your next purchase

[@l8tondillon-gray49]

I can no longer take offence at the skill and care taken. I have moved on to take ofwall and am considering which other boundaries I can prefix of!

[@MrJibaku]

This was a noisy toy. My dad hated this thing and looked at it hatred. People this thing took huge batteries 🔋

[@toypolloi]

All MOTU are very noisy. The Dragon Walker is just as bad. I can only run them for a minute or so before it gets to much.

[@MrJibaku]

The dragon walker... the toy so loud you had to yell over it to do dialogue. You never stop me Skeletor! Whatt?! I SAID!!!

[@ViewpointProd]

don't use gigapixel, it introduces artifacts and dosent tesemble the original scan

[@toypolloi]

What would you suggest?

[@sofaking7045]

I keep buying Japanese toys how do I stop?

[@toypolloi]

Do you want to?

[@sofaking7045]

@@toypolloi I dunno lol, no other country makes anime girl dolls