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 ^^')
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.
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 ;)
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!
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.
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
@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!!!!
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.
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.
Cool! I'm really looking forward to it! The Centurions cartoon was shown on television, here in the U.K., but the toys weren't widely available..it took me many years, & ebay, before I got to play with 'em. A bit like Jayce & The Wheeled Warriors, as far us kids in England were concerned, it was just a cool cartoon shown on Sunday mornings. Until the internet came along I didn't know Wheeled Warrior toys even existed.
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.
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.
I have to disagree with you on the Switchblade. A helicopter can stay in one spot, where as a non-VTOL jet is constantly moving. The two modes serve different purposes.
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.)
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
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 ).
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.
Is there a way to see an review of Insectoids, Visionaries, Inhumanoids, Jem, Bravestar, and/or even C.O.P.S.? They all had toy lines and a cartoon series that were similar to other cartoon series.
even though im not a kid of the 80s i wish i was, im so into these old toylines and tv shows my parents friends say i was born in the wrong decade, mask is a sucha great show and toyline,dont have any yet but im looking in to geting some
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.
Porsche had great success with their cars in desert rally racing like the Dakar Rally. So a 928 isn't that far off base. Yes, I'm as big a car nerd as I am 80's toys nerd.
If mat tracker adopted this boy which is a wrong theory i believe he probably did it (taking a more realistic perspective) it was some poor kid that wanted help.Or the fact that mat didn't wanted a relationship with a woman because of the dangers lurking,that's why he never married.Or if we want the more dramatic situation he couldn't had a kid because of another problem that again i believe this isn't the case in a cartoon show such as this! Scott was his son but they let you think or decide for what happened to his mother,probably killed by mayhem,or they divorced because of the dangerous life mat has in his hands.Back then they didn't put real life stuff like those in fantasy series & such because it was kids shows and wanted to have kids enjoy what they watching instead making them think hard.
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. :)
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.
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.
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.
Don't know if you'd be interested in this but wanted to show you how much we are MASK fans. Hope you enjoy this video M.A.S.K. Team assemble (Wing Wing Shoot Bag Parody)
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.
HELMET - High Energy Lethal Mask Equipment and Technology
Sounds like a winner.
We have a mask toy!
Happi Axxident Wow! Good job. I like it
Sounds awesome!
I agree that is a good name
H.E.L.M.E.T. = Homeland Enforcement & Logistics Management Equipment Team!
This one makes the most sense.
* giggles at the marvel bash*
No dislikes here! Brilliant!
This needs a ❤️ and a pin!
Bit of a stretch but it still could work
H.E.L.M.E.T = Hey Everyone Lets MElt T-bob
That's awesome.
Ha ha ha you are awesome 👍👍👍👍
I liked/like T-BOB!🤖 He was not overbearing & not unremarkable.
late to the show but...lmao
😄😄😄😄
H.E.L.M.E.T.: Holographically-Enhanced Laser & Mobile Expansion Team
or
Holographically-Engineered Laser & Mobile Enhancement Team
H.E.L.M.E.T (Heroic Enegretic Liberating Mechanics Eliminating Terrorists) There you go
Highly
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Extreme
Tactics
The number of friends who didn't know about MASK was unreal. I had a few mask toys
Heroic Extralegal Lawmen Mashing Evil Troublemakers! Another great one, RetroBlasting. The new intro is terrific!
I always imagined Dan from pole position founded mask from the ruins of his old unit and changed his name to matt.
Culver Nile that's a cool alternate spin on the origin story of MASK!
80s cartoons were awesome
Bloody shame not a lotta people remember this truly forgotten gem of a series. Bring MASK back STAT!!
Agreeed
H.E.L.M.E.T.
Homeland's Elite Latent Mobile Enforcement Team
My lord
i miss my M.A.S.K. figures and those vehicles were too awesome!
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 ^^')
Scott and T-Bob would make an awesome spin off............ Said no one ever
Hi-tech
Emergency
Launch
Machines
Extreme
Tactical.
There H.E.L.M.E.T
+boeingnz * Extremely Tactical.
Pretty damn cool!
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.
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.
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 ;)
I would love an affordable gi joe/mask/transformer figure crossover toyline with vehicles
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!
Knight Rider, MASK and Back to the Future was my LIFE in the 1980’s!!
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.
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)
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.
M.A.S.K. is definitely freaking awesome. I love them
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
Can you do a InHumanoids toy and cartoon review?
grew up in the 80's loved MASK, TRANSFORMERS, HE-MAN (and SHE-RA), THUNDERCATS, ROBOTECH, and GI JOE.
"Half the time he sounds like he's on lithium." 😄😃😂😀
@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!!!!
T-bob reminds me a lot of 7-Zark-7 from Battle of the Planets
It's a carton NOW THROW ALL THAT LOGIC OUT THE WINDOW RIGHT NOW LOL!!!! It's just a stupid old helmet no real biggie right? LOL!
Heros
Employing
Laser
Machineguns
Ending
Terror
H.E.L.M.E.T.
Basically Tracker's helmet is the equivalent of Hanks bow from the DnD cartoon! Also I LOVE Mask's theme song!😊🤗
Veritech Girl I love the incidental music.🎼
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.
Heroic Extra-Legal Mobile Enforcement Team
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.
Cool! I'm really looking forward to it!
The Centurions cartoon was shown on television, here in the U.K., but the toys weren't widely available..it took me many years, & ebay, before I got to play with 'em.
A bit like Jayce & The Wheeled Warriors, as far us kids in England were concerned, it was just a cool cartoon shown on Sunday mornings.
Until the internet came along I didn't know Wheeled Warrior toys even existed.
But Venom has great health benefits esp you don't killed or face a lot of jail time of course....LOL!
I liked t-bob
obiora obi Me too.😊
Hella Epic Legion of man and eternal time!
great reviews mike i been looking all over the interwebs for someone to review classic cartoons and there toy line
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.
HELMET: Highly Explosive League Making Enemies Tremble.
H.E.L.M.E.T. = Heroes Elicit Lasers to Metastasize Equal Testosterone
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!
3:03
HEROES
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H.E.L.M.E.T. (High Energy Leaders Meeting Evil Threats)? That's the best I could come up with, sorry.
I think M.A.S.K. might be what planted the seeds for me to become an adult Conspiracy Theorist.
Venom Engaging Helmets In Climatically Large Expeditions
I got into so much trouble with my Tae Kwon Do teacher because of the original few episodes
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.
Ummm....what about short round in temple of doom??
When Jim Carrey´s The Mask was being made, I was under the idea it was based on this.
Heroic Envoy of Limited Manpower Eliminating Threats
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.
Yeah I tend to find it becomes tiresome nitpicking like that.
I have to disagree with you on the Switchblade. A helicopter can stay in one spot, where as a non-VTOL jet is constantly moving. The two modes serve different purposes.
The only thing I can remember about this series is T Bob. I even thought I never saw the show until they showed T Bob.
Heroes Exhibiting Limitless Marvelous Extraordinary Talents.
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.)
I like this review, even though it's dripping with 2000's era snark-comedy.
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
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 ).
4:53 ah, that staple of 80s cartoons: the control panel consisting of nothing but big, unlabelled glowing buttons.
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.
Is there a way to see an review of Insectoids, Visionaries, Inhumanoids, Jem, Bravestar, and/or even C.O.P.S.? They all had toy lines and a cartoon series that were similar to other cartoon series.
even though im not a kid of the 80s i wish i was, im so into these old toylines and tv shows my parents friends say i was born in the wrong decade, mask is a sucha great show and toyline,dont have any yet but im looking in to geting some
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.
Porsche had great success with their cars in desert rally racing like the Dakar Rally. So a 928 isn't that far off base. Yes, I'm as big a car nerd as I am 80's toys nerd.
spiral zone was way better.
Kenner superpowers also had mini comics but I don’t know if that was before masters or after.
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.
VEHICLE - Very Easy Heroism In Child-Like Enthusiasm
If mat tracker adopted this boy which is a wrong theory i believe he probably did it (taking a more realistic perspective) it was some poor kid that wanted help.Or the fact that mat didn't wanted a relationship with a woman because of the dangers lurking,that's why he never married.Or if we want the more dramatic situation he couldn't had a kid because of another problem that again i believe this isn't the case in a cartoon show such as this! Scott was his son but they let you think or decide for what happened to his mother,probably killed by mayhem,or they divorced because of the dangerous life mat has in his hands.Back then they didn't put real life stuff like those in fantasy series & such because it was kids shows and wanted to have kids enjoy what they watching instead making them think hard.
Hero’s Equipped loyal,modern, ever tenacious
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?
Heroes Energetically Liquidating Mayhem's Evil Totally. 😊
I just don't understand how the mask team got to these countries matt was in so quick and it was never shown in the show.
They absolutely showed the M.A.S.K. transport aircraft in several of the shows.
Heavy Electric Lactating Moms Eating Toast............. Oh hell no, that'll never sell.
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. :)
Heroic Eradication, Liberation, and Maintenance of Enemy Territories.
Helping Every Mortal Every Time
or
Helping Each Mere Earthling Tactically
***** nuh uh! the "L" is in Helping in both of them DERP! LOL
+Edward Teach Then you have an extra E (HELEMET) in both.
You wrote:
"Helping Every Mortal Every Timeor
Helping Each Mere Earthling Tactically"
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.
Davis Talhone Hey thx Dave! Nvr heard about VOR-TECHS. ☺🤖
@@kjk7611 Also check out A.T.O.M. - Alpha Teens on Machines - this concept just lives on and on ;)
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.
Do Inhumanoids!
M.A.S.K. is most definitely my favorite.
The intro is perfect for sure!! Another great video, glad the 80's still alive with retroblastings help
Are you planning on reviewing all the action cartoon from the 80's? Might I suggest the Spiral Zone.
Where's part 2?
H.E.L.M.E.T: Heroes of Elemental Light Murdering Evil Terrorists. (Insert hair band guitar solo.....here)
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.
I'd like hear your views on Kenner's other great (& often forgotten) toy line The Centurions.
You need to do Karate Kommandoes, C.O.P.S., Robocop, and Battle Beasts!
Don't know if you'd be interested in this but wanted to show you how much we are MASK fans. Hope you enjoy this video
M.A.S.K. Team assemble (Wing Wing Shoot Bag Parody)
H.E.L.M.E.T. = Heroic ELiManators of Evil Terrorists! Even better than last night's idea. LOL
This is what happens when you challenge a published fiction /mystery author. :)
I'm sure it's been pointed out that Temple of Doom had a kid in it.
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.
Heroic Emergency Law Maximum Enforcement Team
Heros Eleminating Lethal Menaces and Enforcing Truth