At seven years old, I was almost perfectly placed in Kenner's target demographic for M.A.S.K. . . . my first vehicle I received as a birthday gift was Gator. I think I may still have it!
Superb!!!!! Great video Dave! I love MASK!!! My Rhino is only missing the silver hatch and it’s been far harder to obtain than I expected, but thoroughly enjoyed watching this restoration Dave, hope more MASK hits your channel in the future 👍👍👍
Thanks Luke. That hatch is going for silly money. As soon as I saw I just thought I would make something. Sometimes it's just not worth spending a fortune on something that you can make, even if it's not perfect. I hope to do more MASK in future. Cheers
That was well worth the wait, Dave! Lots of different kinds of repairs. I was super impressed by the bespoke tow-hook hatch! Bring on more M.A.S.K repairs!
Genius! The Rhino is a fantastic toy to display and was a fantastic toy to play with back in the day. You are quite right that original parts are crazy expensive, I'm missing a gun from my Gator and Ebay prices cost almost as much as a complete vehicle!
It really is a clever toy. Would have been a lot of fun to play with. Absolutely incredible results on the repairs. You fired the missile so many times and was amazed it took the west and tear. And that new paint is incredible.
I had this as a kid, but only because we randomly found it at a charity shop in the early 90s. I was under 10 years old and didn't really know anything about Mask. In fact, I never knew until much later in adulthood where this vehicle was even from. It was an interesting toy but I never played with it much because it was so out of scale with everything else I had. Lovely video as always Dave.
Fantastic job Toy Polloi ! Very cool and enjoyable to see an old Rhino get fixed up. (I still have my childhood Rhino, which has many of the same issues, but is sadly missing a few more parts and coated in a thick layer of black Testors paint. May have to dig it out and show the old girl some love)
This is such an AMAZING toy. I love the entire line. I’m so excited to see what future projects you do with them. As always, another fantastic repair, Dave. Thank you🙏
I've always wanted the RHINO and the THUNDERHAWK, which is Matt Trakker's car. I think I could live without the rest of the vehicles, but I've always loved those two. All I have currently in my collection from MASK is T-Bot and the kid, which I bought because of the robot. I'm a sucker for robot toys. Robots were always my favorite as a kid, and that still holds for today as well. I used to enjoy playing with those Rascal wind-up robots as a kid, and I'd include them with R2D2, C-3PO, and Twiki from the BUCK ROGERS figures. Just loved those things! Great fixes and repairs on the Rhino, Dave! The hinge piece looks so convincing! I doubt I would have spotted that it was a repair at all! Well done! I always love it when you pull out the styrene to make pieces! I just think that you have a real knack for recreating missing parts, and I wish you'd do more videos where you show off your fabrication skills! I know you wing it like the rest of us, but by george, you seem to really be good at it! I just absolutely loved this video! What else can I say? Oh yeah...THANK YOU!
@@toypolloi I managed to acquire the THUNDERHAWK, CONDOR, and the RHINO! I needed to get some replacement stickers for both. I only needed one sticker for the THUNDERHAWK to make it complete, but almost all of the RHINO's outside stickers were missing, so I ordered some decals from an Australian seller. The replacement stickers were top-quality, but there was no instruction on where to place the stickers, so I used this video to guide me, and things turned out great! I'd love to see more MASK videos in the future (I know that you've already done a CONDOR video, so I hope you acquire more broken MASK vehicles in the future for new video repairs! Cheers!
Hey Dave! I must say that this was a fantastic restoration video. I really like The MASK vehicles & had a few when I was a child. My favorites have always been the "Jackhammer" black suv & the awesome "Switchblade" helicopter/jet. I would love to see you doing restorations on both, if you can get your hands on ones that may need some love & care. Awesome video, my friend! 🙏🏼👍
Fantastic, I think I love these types of fixes the most, the ones where you make parts from scratch. I've heard chrome paint works better with a gloss black undercoat, but maybe that's only on die cast cars using an airbrush. I'll have to look into it. That mirror paint is super expensive. It looks just like how molotow looks as well. I have a liquid chrome rollerball pen and you can see the chrome inside it and it looks very similar to that.
great work as always Dave. I am particularly impressed with the hatch made from scratch. I'm inspired now to do the same with my imperial shuttle. I need a ramp and I think it can be constructed in the same way as your hatch. Thank you for the great content.
Some really excellent ingenuity with these fixes Dave glad to see you are repairing some MASK toys. Parts really are getting rarer and more expensive to get hold of especially the smaller parts so good to see you make your own pieces from scratch :)
Great repair job, Dave. I think it would be cool to add a couple greeblies on top of the hatch, although if it would be worth it or not it's according to whoever owns one of these and how much he or she feels about their toys.
Great job on this, you knocked it out of the park, I love keeping these projects cost effective, you have certainly done that here. I just seen that mirror stuff recently and was curious, glad to see it in action.
I remember that toy. I never had that one, but I got to play with it at my dads work when I was a kid, when he worked on the ‘Mask’ cartoons. He was a prop designer/artist for the cartoons. He designed quite a few vehicles, weapons & gadgets..... I don’t know if he did this one, I’m wanting to say someone else in the team did the big rig for the cartoon, but I know he did several vehicles for the series. I often got to play with toys from certain cartoons before they ever saw the toy store shelf, because the show artists (at least the places my dad worked most of the time) often had a lot of input with the toys. I’ve come across some drawings that look like toy design and manufacturing process that he did for one of the ‘Mask’ toys and several ‘Ring Raiders’. 😜😎 I sure do miss miss him. ‘The Swaj’ aka Dad. 😜🙏🇺🇸 A really cool blast from the past. 🤓🤪😎
The MASK toys transformation gimmick lead to many common breaks. The "Switchblade"'s rotors and mechanism and the "Thunderhawk" wings are both always broken when I find them- also condor and pirahna windscreens are always broken. There are more but those are the most common
Fantastic work Dave, great results! Rhino was one of the best toys of the 80's. Just wondering, why did you use superglue instead of plastic weld on the wing mirror post? I'm gonna have to get some of that plastic weld stuff, it looks really effective.
Thanks. Plastic weld only works on certain plastics, styrene is best. Anything that is flexible or soft it doesn't work on. You soon learn what it is good for. Cheers
Awesome video! I really appreciate the effort for making now I have guide in attempting to repair my childhood Rhino. Mine has a missing door on the ejector seat area and the hatch for the mini vehicle that detach from the back of the main vehicle.👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰
I find that superglue gel type is much easier to work with than standard superglue. Especially when working with small parts. Less chance of running down a painted part as well.
Have you 5hought about getting into silicone moulding? It would have been perfect for reproducing the missile fin. Dental alginate is fun stuff! As long as you have one of what you want to make, it's great. Would be good for making replacement hands etc
I have, but there are plenty of other channels that do that already. Making form scratch is more my thing, and hopefully something you don't see elsewhere.
Really nice job. I'd like to add a few suggestions if i may. The mirror finish would look way nicer if it was airbrushed over a dark primer. I would suggest a gloss black rattle can spray. You have so much stuff in the toy box that needs rechroming , doing big batch of it would bring them up beautifully without wasting much paint. Another brand to try outside humbrol and vallejo is pro acryl - well worth a go. Love your work, keep doing the sympathetic restorations!
You should consider getting into 3D printing - that buggy cover would be an ideal project for it, and you could distribute the stl files on you site. I know printers are not the cheapest thing and that is anti the Toypolloi philosophy of being cheap and cheerful 😊 but it could really be a game changer for you. Reach out if you want some more info.
use bigger soft bristle brush and self levelling thinner to reduce brush strokes and increase smoothness. or use canned chrome sprays. as for the joint after the cement you can use high grit sandpaper to smoothen the joints up.
Great repair on an ingenious toy. I was far too old to buy the toys when MASK came out - and, being of the generation that played with metal toys, by Matchbox, Corgi, Dinky, Triang, and Tonka, they always looked to me at least, to be too fragile to play with. I love the 1980's style music you use on your videos, Dave - where could I find it to listen to, please?
Very well done,Sir Dave.The Mask Rhino is reborn once more.
At seven years old, I was almost perfectly placed in Kenner's target demographic for M.A.S.K. . . . my first vehicle I received as a birthday gift was Gator. I think I may still have it!
You are the MACGYVER of toy restoration! There is joy in bringing back to life old broken toys Great job friend
Thank you very much!
Please more MASK, this video was the best one on the channel
It's nice to see M.A.S.K. getting some attention too 😊
Never fails to amaze me how you repair toys to almost new again
Friday evening, sitting with a quiet drink and a toy-polloi repair video. always a relaxing way to end my week.
Enjoy!
Wowsers. Such a great restoration Dave. You made it look brand-new Sir 👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks. It came out better than expected :D
SWEET. Never owned any MASK toys as a kid, so this was a real treat to watch!
Fabulous repair job on 'the' most iconic of all MASK vehicles. My cousin had this baby when I was a kid. I had Piranha and my brother had Thunderhawk.
I've been following for a few years.
This is now my favourite video of yours.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
We're in our 40s you know.
Brilliant fix! Some basic tools, a little patience and a bit of effort go a long way! I love seeing old toys brought back to life!
Thanks 👍
At this point, Toy Polloi should be sponsored by a supplier of styrene ;) Great video, nice to see some M.A.S.K. toys.
This helps me give hope with my continuing project of fixing my Firecracker.
Superb!!!!! Great video Dave! I love MASK!!! My Rhino is only missing the silver hatch and it’s been far harder to obtain than I expected, but thoroughly enjoyed watching this restoration Dave, hope more MASK hits your channel in the future 👍👍👍
Thanks Luke. That hatch is going for silly money. As soon as I saw I just thought I would make something. Sometimes it's just not worth spending a fortune on something that you can make, even if it's not perfect. I hope to do more MASK in future. Cheers
So excited for this, what a Toyline MASK was! Thanks Dave. 👍
YESSSSSS!!!! FINALLY M.A.S.K. Where were this a year ago? lol. Great video. More MASK please
that tow hook hatch came out much better than I thought it would. your replacement piece (as well as the original) look not unlike a toilet lid
Wow we got the listen to the entire toy polloi soundtrack for this one.....
Vintage. Kenner mask rhino. Repair. Guide toy Polloi like 👍
That was well worth the wait, Dave! Lots of different kinds of repairs. I was super impressed by the bespoke tow-hook hatch! Bring on more M.A.S.K repairs!
this brings back memories, im 46 now and had one of these probably around 8 or 9, the side door on sleeper came off mine i played with it so much lol
I absolutely loved my M.A.S.K Rhino as a kid. Best Christmas present ever. Good job 👍🏻
I have some light projects I need to do. Your use of Legos will help me greatly. Thank you.
Another awesome video mate. Love the MASK toyline, one of the best!
Thanks again for all the videos you make for all us fans😎
Love mask restoration, it helps out before I start opening up spring toys.
Genius! The Rhino is a fantastic toy to display and was a fantastic toy to play with back in the day. You are quite right that original parts are crazy expensive, I'm missing a gun from my Gator and Ebay prices cost almost as much as a complete vehicle!
You are now officially a MASK collector! Well done, great repairs - it came out great and price was right!
Man, I love watching you work
Truly one of the greatest ever toylines. Thanks for the video!
So awesome that you did MASK! Hope there will be more to come. Bravo Dave
It really is a clever toy. Would have been a lot of fun to play with. Absolutely incredible results on the repairs. You fired the missile so many times and was amazed it took the west and tear. And that new paint is incredible.
Thanks. This was a really fun project. I like ones like this. Just making stuff is what I like best.
VERY nice work. I still own my original Rhino toy from when I was a kid. I can say without a shadow of doubt - this looks amazing!
I had this as a kid, but only because we randomly found it at a charity shop in the early 90s. I was under 10 years old and didn't really know anything about Mask. In fact, I never knew until much later in adulthood where this vehicle was even from. It was an interesting toy but I never played with it much because it was so out of scale with everything else I had. Lovely video as always Dave.
Absolutely awesome...I loved MASK as a kid and had Rhino. Watching this really brought me back to my youth. You did an amazing resto job!!
This is the Toy Polloi I have missed. No bought parts or replica 3d prints, just good old hand crafted parts. Lego destruction rules.
Gloss black basecoat would of made that chrome pop even more.
Awsome dave! Look brand new again! Ur welcome! I didnt thank us make the 5th wheel from scratch!
Thanks Jon. Parts are so expensive it seemed the best option to try and make the missing part. And I'm pleased I did.
Well done Jolly good show! Sir
Great repair on rhino amazing job toy polloi. an awesome vehicle .
This was great, awesome fix! I think you should restore a Switchblade next!
Fantastic job Toy Polloi ! Very cool and enjoyable to see an old Rhino get fixed up. (I still have my childhood Rhino, which has many of the same issues, but is sadly missing a few more parts and coated in a thick layer of black Testors paint. May have to dig it out and show the old girl some love)
Unbelievable! I'm just speachless. What an absolut wizzard you are Dave. Fantastic job! Well done mate! 👏👌👍
Thank you so much 😀
Well done Dave
Are you still working from home?
Happy Weekend🙂
I am so excited to see this! I have a Rhino at home that is in need of repair.
This is such an AMAZING toy. I love the entire line. I’m so excited to see what future projects you do with them. As always, another fantastic repair, Dave. Thank you🙏
Very nice work. You are truely a toy-repair artist.
Wow, thanks
I'm binge watching your content even though I never owned mask toys this is up there for a satisfactory video nice job
Awesome! Thank you!
Great video and restoration... I really appreciate the attention to detail and your chrome painting.
What a great bunch of fixes. Going to have to have a go at that hatch now!
What an absolutely amazing video, thoroughly enjoyed
I've always wanted the RHINO and the THUNDERHAWK, which is Matt Trakker's car. I think I could live without the rest of the vehicles, but I've always loved those two. All I have currently in my collection from MASK is T-Bot and the kid, which I bought because of the robot. I'm a sucker for robot toys. Robots were always my favorite as a kid, and that still holds for today as well. I used to enjoy playing with those Rascal wind-up robots as a kid, and I'd include them with R2D2, C-3PO, and Twiki from the BUCK ROGERS figures. Just loved those things!
Great fixes and repairs on the Rhino, Dave! The hinge piece looks so convincing! I doubt I would have spotted that it was a repair at all! Well done! I always love it when you pull out the styrene to make pieces! I just think that you have a real knack for recreating missing parts, and I wish you'd do more videos where you show off your fabrication skills! I know you wing it like the rest of us, but by george, you seem to really be good at it! I just absolutely loved this video! What else can I say? Oh yeah...THANK YOU!
More winging in the next video. Probably the most complicated thing I have made. This one was good practice.
@@toypolloi I managed to acquire the THUNDERHAWK, CONDOR, and the RHINO! I needed to get some replacement stickers for both. I only needed one sticker for the THUNDERHAWK to make it complete, but almost all of the RHINO's outside stickers were missing, so I ordered some decals from an Australian seller. The replacement stickers were top-quality, but there was no instruction on where to place the stickers, so I used this video to guide me, and things turned out great!
I'd love to see more MASK videos in the future (I know that you've already done a CONDOR video, so I hope you acquire more broken MASK vehicles in the future for new video repairs!
Cheers!
Love scratch build hatch. It looked a bit like a toilet lid before you chromed it.
It still looks a bit like that now it's chromed. Just a fancy one.
I thought that too. Maybe make a comedy loo seat variant with seat and lid lol
I actually bought the tow hook hatch off of ebay. Expensive part!
I have used one coming. Needs lots of work this video definitely helped
Good luck!
Hey Dave! I must say that this was a fantastic restoration video. I really like The MASK vehicles & had a few when I was a child. My favorites have always been the "Jackhammer" black suv & the awesome "Switchblade" helicopter/jet. I would love to see you doing restorations on both, if you can get your hands on ones that may need some love & care. Awesome video, my friend! 🙏🏼👍
MASK is amazing.
Awesome video! Get a thunderhawk! the foor bombs always got missing and the doors are always an issue
An amazing transformation! Great to see you tackle a big project like this.
Fantastic, I think I love these types of fixes the most, the ones where you make parts from scratch.
I've heard chrome paint works better with a gloss black undercoat, but maybe that's only on die cast cars using an airbrush. I'll have to look into it.
That mirror paint is super expensive. It looks just like how molotow looks as well. I have a liquid chrome rollerball pen and you can see the chrome inside it and it looks very similar to that.
Great job as always Dave. I was a total M.A.S.K fan when I was litte so this hit the mark. Love it when you make things from scratch!
Glad you enjoyed it
great work as always Dave. I am particularly impressed with the hatch made from scratch. I'm inspired now to do the same with my imperial shuttle. I need a ramp and I think it can be constructed in the same way as your hatch. Thank you for the great content.
really enjoyed that. Nice job, Dave
Some really excellent ingenuity with these fixes Dave glad to see you are repairing some MASK toys. Parts really are getting rarer and more expensive to get hold of especially the smaller parts so good to see you make your own pieces from scratch :)
Nice repair! I had loads of MASK; not this one though.
Dude you are unreal man. That’s amazing
Great repair job, Dave.
I think it would be cool to add a couple greeblies on top of the hatch, although if it would be worth it or not it's according to whoever owns one of these and how much he or she feels about their toys.
Now I'm looking at one of my other spare vehicles that could have some new parts fabricating.
Always impressing to watch:)
Great job on this, you knocked it out of the park, I love keeping these projects cost effective, you have certainly done that here. I just seen that mirror stuff recently and was curious, glad to see it in action.
You'll see more Mirror in the next video. Takes a bit of practice, but I can now get good results with it.
I remember that toy. I never had that one, but I got to play with it at my dads work when I was a kid, when he worked on the ‘Mask’ cartoons. He was a prop designer/artist for the cartoons. He designed quite a few vehicles, weapons & gadgets..... I don’t know if he did this one, I’m wanting to say someone else in the team did the big rig for the cartoon, but I know he did several vehicles for the series. I often got to play with toys from certain cartoons before they ever saw the toy store shelf, because the show artists (at least the places my dad worked most of the time) often had a lot of input with the toys. I’ve come across some drawings that look like toy design and manufacturing process that he did for one of the ‘Mask’ toys and several ‘Ring Raiders’. 😜😎 I sure do miss miss him. ‘The Swaj’ aka Dad. 😜🙏🇺🇸
A really cool blast from the past. 🤓🤪😎
Wow, that's great your Dad worked on this cartoon. And cool memories to have.
Mine needs work new parts buggie must be first. Lucky you got the radar and front grill also need the wing mirrors. I used a chrome pen for touch ups
Nice dave! Lots of problems! I new it b a big video if not 2 parter. So happy u like it!
The MASK toys transformation gimmick lead to many common breaks. The "Switchblade"'s rotors and mechanism and the "Thunderhawk" wings are both always broken when I find them- also condor and pirahna windscreens are always broken. There are more but those are the most common
Fantastic work Dave, great results! Rhino was one of the best toys of the 80's. Just wondering, why did you use superglue instead of plastic weld on the wing mirror post? I'm gonna have to get some of that plastic weld stuff, it looks really effective.
Plastic Welder doesn't work in all types of plastic
Thanks. Plastic weld only works on certain plastics, styrene is best. Anything that is flexible or soft it doesn't work on. You soon learn what it is good for. Cheers
Awesome video! I really appreciate the effort for making now I have guide in attempting to repair my childhood Rhino. Mine has a missing door on the ejector seat area and the hatch for the mini vehicle that detach from the back of the main vehicle.👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰
I find that superglue gel type is much easier to work with than standard superglue. Especially when working with small parts. Less chance of running down a painted part as well.
Your videos have helped me restore a vintage tie interceptor to like new condition!!!!! Thanks !!!
That's great to hear!
Have you 5hought about getting into silicone moulding? It would have been perfect for reproducing the missile fin. Dental alginate is fun stuff! As long as you have one of what you want to make, it's great. Would be good for making replacement hands etc
I have, but there are plenty of other channels that do that already. Making form scratch is more my thing, and hopefully something you don't see elsewhere.
Might be fun if you cooked up some custom action force sticker for off brand vehicles.
I owned CONDOR and SWITCHBLADE respectively (wishing I also had RHINO, OUTLAW and BULLDOG too)
Amazing repair
I really need to chrome mine up!
Really nice job. I'd like to add a few suggestions if i may. The mirror finish would look way nicer if it was airbrushed over a dark primer. I would suggest a gloss black rattle can spray. You have so much stuff in the toy box that needs rechroming , doing big batch of it would bring them up beautifully without wasting much paint. Another brand to try outside humbrol and vallejo is pro acryl - well worth a go. Love your work, keep doing the sympathetic restorations!
This mirror paint says it can't be airbrushed. And I try to show things most people can have a go at. It's just my way 😎
Mirror is exceptionally good, but just know that as good as it works with a brush it’s even better with an airbrush!!
Yes it does. But do tests first as some colours can go a bit white.
Amazing work!
Thank you! Cheers!
Another cool project!
You should consider getting into 3D printing - that buggy cover would be an ideal project for it, and you could distribute the stl files on you site. I know printers are not the cheapest thing and that is anti the Toypolloi philosophy of being cheap and cheerful 😊 but it could really be a game changer for you. Reach out if you want some more info.
I prefer to make things by hand. More fun, and more people can have a go at it. But maybe one day.
Great video 👍🏻 lookin good
Great job. The tow bit is called a 5th wheel.
Thanks 👍 Now I know, and knowing is half the battle 🤣
I'd stick with the Molotow pen for the chrome. It seems to give a smoother finish. Or use an airbrush with the mirror paint instead of a brush.
Awesome Dave! thanks for that cool video, i do have to say your taste in music is changing a bit, i quite like though, Cheers!
I'd like to see TP repair the spring-loaded mechanisms (unless he already did that, haven't watched it yet)
use bigger soft bristle brush and self levelling thinner to reduce brush strokes and increase smoothness. or use canned chrome sprays.
as for the joint after the cement you can use high grit sandpaper to smoothen the joints up.
I've been waiting for this video. Awesome one of my favorite m.a.s.k vehicle
Glad you liked it!
Great repair on an ingenious toy. I was far too old to buy the toys when MASK came out - and, being of the generation that played with metal toys, by Matchbox, Corgi, Dinky, Triang, and Tonka, they always looked to me at least, to be too fragile to play with.
I love the 1980's style music you use on your videos, Dave - where could I find it to listen to, please?
Awesome job, my only quibble is that that version of Matt Tracker didn't come with Rhino, just Alex and Bruce
Just checked and the toy came with Alex and Bruce here in the UK.
Awesome job…. Looks great
Thanks 👍
You should trying using a jewelers saw for the styrene, it might save you some work sanding on the back end. Awesome video as always!
Thanks for the tip!
i have that same figure and always wondered what it was and where it was from!