Awesome show and tell👍 2 years a bit for me but loved it. Love mask as a kid. Now 49 with terminal cancer 😞 but this made my night. Brings back so many memories 😢 thank you ❤️
I still think these Split Seconds vehicles are ugly and poorly designed. I don't know how the Buzzard car that split in three could be so good, but these are so bad. Then again the Meteor and Slingshot were also splitting vehicles that were pretty bad. Maybe Buzzard is the outlier and exception. It doesn't help that transforming them is such a process and they seem so much more fragile than the previous vehicles. I'm also very annoyed that the awesome Corvette Stingray got wasted on that blob, not to mention the Countach! It also adds insult to injury that Gloria Baker finally got made with this vehicle, but not the Shark. The figure costumes were worse too. I don't know why we couldn't have gotten more of the traditional types of vehicles instead of these things, or just end it with the racing series. So yeah, I never wanted to collect these even after I found out about them, and I wouldn't even if they were cheap. It is good to see them all here at once though, just for historical purposes and whatnot. So I appreciate that. Wait somebody made a Shark?! Is it better than that 3D printed one, or it's that same one?
Ramen toy on Facebook is making a shark that will feel like Kenner made it but not out yet. Yes Split seconds is a mixed bag and why I waited a decade to sorta complete the series.
Appreciate you taking the time to show all these but the split second toy line was absolutely horrible. It lacked the creativity and ingenuity of the 1st 2 seasons toys. Something must of been real bad a Kenner to produce trash products.
It's painful to see what some previous owner did to Fireforce. The handlebars of the trike are not supposed to get smushed on the seat but dropped in front of it. Mine are still good, even after all these years.
I really appreciate you taking the time to show these rare toys and showcasing how they work. Entropy being how it is these toys probably won't be around in a decade or two and youtube videos like these will be the only access anyone has to them. This is essentially a time capsule. Keep it up
Awesome collection you have. Congratutations. I used to own the Julio Lopez vehicle 100% complete and in perfect conditions. When you reassemble the motorcycle you have to put the forks orizontal and only at that point you can close the grips. The way you make it, bends the grips. I also used to own Wolfbeast again 100% (my favorite). The missiles have to be fold inside the chassis in two spots on the side. Both toys were purchased in England in the same shop during a three weeks student vacation when I was 12. Didn't played alot with them as I wasn't exactly a child anymore (but at that time I still liked "model" toys and I still do) and that's why they were perfect when I sold to a collector some years ago for a good amount of money.
The handlebars fireforce are stored incorrectly. You're supposed to fold the front fork first before moving the handlebars in. That way they stow in front of the seat. I bought one when they came out and I still have it stored in the box.
15:00 Oh, snap. The handle bars are supposed to be straight. Open them and the close them around the linkage that connects the front assembly to the engine. Never realized back in the day that the Fierro is mid engine.🤣
I like the concept of Split Seconds since you get two vehicles for the price of one. Unfortunate the execution wasn't that great. The lack of guns and most of them look really lame hurt the line for me.
Awesome collection. I really appreciate you taking the time to share your collection and film the transformations. I understand there’s some risk as the parts are quite delicate. Much appreciated.
I just briefly knew of these back in 1988. But at the time I was no longer into M.A.S.K. i guess the last item I got was Vampire since it and the driver were both in the first and second season of the cartoon.
M.A.S.K. was easily my #1 favorite cartoon and toy line as a kid in 1985-86 during the first two runs. It had a sophisticated appeal to kids getting closer to their pre-teen years that Transformers, He-man & G.I. Joe lacked. Unfortunately they took a sharp 180 turn during the second season of the cartoon and the silly racing series toyline that coincided with it. It was immediately & painfully obvious (even to a 10-year old) that the second season served no other purpose than to sell more toys. It lacked the little nuances the first year had to avoid insulting our intelligence by oversimplifying the stories and making VENOM less of a threat. On top of that, the toys started being less & less detailed and more & more outlandish to the point where it became too hard to suspend disbelief enough to imagine how these contraptions could actually ever work in real life. That was magnified x100 with the split seconds series which, I believe, spelled death to the M.A.S.K. toys. One of the great mysteries of my life is understanding why they wanted to make this amazingly engineered toy line more juvenile as the target audience became older.
Great job mate, loved this show, wish I had better looked after and kept my mask vehicles from when I was younger, if only I have known that I would get better satisfaction from them as an adult then I think I ever did as a kid
I used to have the yellow bike-thing as a child. From today's viewpoint I have to say that most of the split second-transformation feel a bit forced and not that well thought through.
Agreed, and one of the biggest problems was that there was nowhere to store the translucent hologram figures. In the first three series of toys, almost every vehicle had a passenger seat in their disguised modes, but not in Split Seconds. So that second figure frequently got lost.
The afterburner figure I always used to put in arms up and face down in a superman flying pose also their is a window in the bottom to look down from it was one of the last ones I bought
With Fireforce: you don't have the motorcycle's front wheel tucked in "correctly " :P And with Skybolt you forgot to fold the wheels back (as engines)... Ow, and (I think) you could pull out the motor a bit to have it more visible.
I loved MASK as a kid and very fondly remember owning a handful of toys from series 1-3, but this video brought back a memory that I completely forgot about, which is that I definitely had Dynamo as a kid as well. The orange guns that kind of looked like penises opened the floodgates in my mind! I was into MASK for the entire run, but I’d forgotten all about Dynamo
Get you some 100 percent silicone spray and lightly spray your hinges and ruber. There might be a automotive product that will rehydrate the rubber that you could buy and spray onto a towel and apply to save the rubber on the tires. I know the silicone won't attract dust and dirt like oils or wd40. Great video
I first found out about these around 2012 too. I was exploring local collector shops where I was at and saw a complete in box afterburner for over $120 and was like, "no way!" 😳😱 (Both in amazement that there was an entire additional line, and also in an I'm not willing to pay that price). I thought I had nearly every release as a kid, so finding out about these, and thinking how they seemed like a follow-on to the vandal (which I think was the last M.A.S.K. vehicle I got as a kid), and then finding out about the euro decos, and then the Argentina ones. Oddly enough, a month or so ago, I got a FandF vehicle/figure set that scales well with M.A.S.K. for ~$10 bucks and then when target was doing the $25 off $100 toy purchase, I picked up a few extra copies. The vehicle has the M.A.S.K. type gimmicks too, with 3 buttons to push that do different things. Truly a pleasant surprise.
Man I'm glad this series never made Tulsa Oklahoma ever! Horrible idea and concept Injustice bad execution none of the so-called Vehicles really looks like vehicles at all!
Cool vid! Never seen those "Mask". BUTT they were not on par with the "'first" serie. I'll have to take a look at how the "first" serie were to make up my mind.
my years being married to my husband a veteran and fighter jet enthusiast does anyone else agree skybolt looks like a SEPECAT Jaguar nato strike fighter?
The Split Seconds line was definitely a signal to the 90's criticism of toys with guns. For some reason I had all of these. Got the yellow bike Barracuda from Sears catalog. I remember going to pick it up at their storeroom area. Which also had two arcade machines, one was the game with an ape that had a football helmet power up, I'll never remember the name.🤦♂️
Do you have a video explaining how to clean these pieces? Taking care of All the stickers without peel of the labels Recently i found some toys in my garage Thanks
I actually got most of these over a decade ago and was just very careful. My methods these days are so abrasive I would have probably made the labels worse. I suggest light moisture on and around stickers maybe damp paper towel but toothbrush on detailed areas but be gentle
Afterburner was the one and only mask toy I owned as a kid. I used to play with it endlessly. Wish I had more but honestly I was too young, 5 yrs old, to get into collecting them.. Afterburner was more than enough for me :D
I’m noticing on many of these vehicles that the windshields are all cloudy and dirty, is there a way to clean them without using caustic chemicals to eat away at the plastic?
The only Split-Seconds I had was the pink and green VW, which transformed into a stylised "bike" and a Hovercraft. And the only other MASK vehicle I had was Manta, the purple sports car which transformed into a jet. The driver was the VENOM agent Vanessa Warfield.
@@tydiriumhanger1320 What if there was a crossover between MASK and Transformers? The Transformers could be a combination of the 1:24 Alternators, and the Omnibots (those G1 post away ones which transformed from normal vehicles to attack vehicles to robot modes). Optimus Prime could come with Matt Trakker and Sparkplug Whitwicky. He could transform from truck, to a Rhino-style battletruck mode to the classic robot mode. I don't know what Megatron would transform into, but I know that he would be partnered with Miles Mayhem though. It could be an interesting crossover.
Depends on the situation. Pursuing a criminal through city streets would be far easier with a ground vehicle than a jet. M.A.S.K. was not an army, and their vehicles were designed to be adaptable to the task at hand. A jet that can turn into a car (and vice versa) is far more useful than just a regular jet.
I always felt split seconds were going to be a new ip but it didn't work out and they folded them into mask since they were the same size .they just seemed off
Thought series 3 was bad ( racing ) but I'd forgotten this horror line up lol...season 1+2 were golden ...what the fuck were they on when they dreamt up this garbage
These Split Seconds should have had their own TV show. We could have had MASK vs. VENOM in a computer-generated world. Fighting in cyberspace. I would have loved to see that.
Awesome show and tell👍 2 years a bit for me but loved it. Love mask as a kid. Now 49 with terminal cancer 😞 but this made my night. Brings back so many memories 😢 thank you ❤️
I still think these Split Seconds vehicles are ugly and poorly designed. I don't know how the Buzzard car that split in three could be so good, but these are so bad. Then again the Meteor and Slingshot were also splitting vehicles that were pretty bad. Maybe Buzzard is the outlier and exception.
It doesn't help that transforming them is such a process and they seem so much more fragile than the previous vehicles.
I'm also very annoyed that the awesome Corvette Stingray got wasted on that blob, not to mention the Countach! It also adds insult to injury that Gloria Baker finally got made with this vehicle, but not the Shark.
The figure costumes were worse too.
I don't know why we couldn't have gotten more of the traditional types of vehicles instead of these things, or just end it with the racing series.
So yeah, I never wanted to collect these even after I found out about them, and I wouldn't even if they were cheap. It is good to see them all here at once though, just for historical purposes and whatnot. So I appreciate that.
Wait somebody made a Shark?! Is it better than that 3D printed one, or it's that same one?
Ramen toy on Facebook is making a shark that will feel like Kenner made it but not out yet. Yes Split seconds is a mixed bag and why I waited a decade to sorta complete the series.
Appreciate you taking the time to show all these but the split second toy line was absolutely horrible. It lacked the creativity and ingenuity of the 1st 2 seasons toys. Something must of been real bad a Kenner to produce trash products.
It's painful to see what some previous owner did to Fireforce. The handlebars of the trike are not supposed to get smushed on the seat but dropped in front of it. Mine are still good, even after all these years.
I really appreciate you taking the time to show these rare toys and showcasing how they work. Entropy being how it is these toys probably won't be around in a decade or two and youtube videos like these will be the only access anyone has to them. This is essentially a time capsule. Keep it up
I am happy others can enjoy these. toys that come at the end of a line are usually hard to find
Awesome collection you have. Congratutations.
I used to own the Julio Lopez vehicle 100% complete and in perfect conditions. When you reassemble the motorcycle you have to put the forks orizontal and only at that point you can close the grips. The way you make it, bends the grips.
I also used to own Wolfbeast again 100% (my favorite). The missiles have to be fold inside the chassis in two spots on the side.
Both toys were purchased in England in the same shop during a three weeks student vacation when I was 12. Didn't played alot with them as I wasn't exactly a child anymore (but at that time I still liked "model" toys and I still do) and that's why they were perfect when I sold to a collector some years ago for a good amount of money.
The handlebars fireforce are stored incorrectly. You're supposed to fold the front fork first before moving the handlebars in. That way they stow in front of the seat. I bought one when they came out and I still have it stored in the box.
1st season vehicles were the best. These kinda jumped the shark.
15:00 Oh, snap. The handle bars are supposed to be straight. Open them and the close them around the linkage that connects the front assembly to the engine. Never realized back in the day that the Fierro is mid engine.🤣
I like the concept of Split Seconds since you get two vehicles for the price of one. Unfortunate the execution wasn't that great. The lack of guns and most of them look really lame hurt the line for me.
I wasn't happy with those as a kid. I thought they were ugly and impractical. Actually, I still do.
38:12 Vandal the front part goes all the down, acting like a hood.
Yes, and it looks so much better. Surprised he didn't realise this
Awesome collection. I really appreciate you taking the time to share your collection and film the transformations. I understand there’s some risk as the parts are quite delicate. Much appreciated.
Breakage is always a concern with these so I had to do some research prior to this vid. Hope it is helpful to collectors
lol these toys are so bad
I just had a few vehicles from series 1. I look forward to seeing what Ramen Toys does with this line.
Series 1 probably is the best overall and really launched this line into the hearts of many
I just briefly knew of these back in 1988. But at the time I was no longer into M.A.S.K. i guess the last item I got was Vampire since it and the driver were both in the first and second season of the cartoon.
A year earlier, Kenner was acquired by Tonka.
@@DennisTamayo I was not aware of that. Thank you for the info.
M.A.S.K. was easily my #1 favorite cartoon and toy line as a kid in 1985-86 during the first two runs. It had a sophisticated appeal to kids getting closer to their pre-teen years that Transformers, He-man & G.I. Joe lacked. Unfortunately they took a sharp 180 turn during the second season of the cartoon and the silly racing series toyline that coincided with it. It was immediately & painfully obvious (even to a 10-year old) that the second season served no other purpose than to sell more toys. It lacked the little nuances the first year had to avoid insulting our intelligence by oversimplifying the stories and making VENOM less of a threat.
On top of that, the toys started being less & less detailed and more & more outlandish to the point where it became too hard to suspend disbelief enough to imagine how these contraptions could actually ever work in real life. That was magnified x100 with the split seconds series which, I believe, spelled death to the M.A.S.K. toys. One of the great mysteries of my life is understanding why they wanted to make this amazingly engineered toy line more juvenile as the target audience became older.
Great job mate, loved this show, wish I had better looked after and kept my mask vehicles from when I was younger, if only I have known that I would get better satisfaction from them as an adult then I think I ever did as a kid
I used to have the yellow bike-thing as a child. From today's viewpoint I have to say that most of the split second-transformation feel a bit forced and not that well thought through.
Agreed, and one of the biggest problems was that there was nowhere to store the translucent hologram figures. In the first three series of toys, almost every vehicle had a passenger seat in their disguised modes, but not in Split Seconds. So that second figure frequently got lost.
The afterburner figure I always used to put in arms up and face down in a superman flying pose also their is a window in the bottom to look down from it was one of the last ones I bought
With Fireforce: you don't have the motorcycle's front wheel tucked in "correctly " :P
And with Skybolt you forgot to fold the wheels back (as engines)... Ow, and (I think) you could pull out the motor a bit to have it more visible.
I loved MASK as a kid and very fondly remember owning a handful of toys from series 1-3, but this video brought back a memory that I completely forgot about, which is that I definitely had Dynamo as a kid as well. The orange guns that kind of looked like penises opened the floodgates in my mind! I was into MASK for the entire run, but I’d forgotten all about Dynamo
Your toys were MAGNIFICENT!!!
Get you some 100 percent silicone spray and lightly spray your hinges and ruber. There might be a automotive product that will rehydrate the rubber that you could buy and spray onto a towel and apply to save the rubber on the tires. I know the silicone won't attract dust and dirt like oils or wd40. Great video
I first found out about these around 2012 too. I was exploring local collector shops where I was at and saw a complete in box afterburner for over $120 and was like, "no way!" 😳😱 (Both in amazement that there was an entire additional line, and also in an I'm not willing to pay that price).
I thought I had nearly every release as a kid, so finding out about these, and thinking how they seemed like a follow-on to the vandal (which I think was the last M.A.S.K. vehicle I got as a kid), and then finding out about the euro decos, and then the Argentina ones.
Oddly enough, a month or so ago, I got a FandF vehicle/figure set that scales well with M.A.S.K. for ~$10 bucks and then when target was doing the $25 off $100 toy purchase, I picked up a few extra copies. The vehicle has the M.A.S.K. type gimmicks too, with 3 buttons to push that do different things. Truly a pleasant surprise.
Just like you I saw those deals back then and though wow those are overpriced. Nowadays it is super crazy overpriced
Man I'm glad this series never made Tulsa Oklahoma ever! Horrible idea and concept Injustice bad execution none of the so-called Vehicles really looks like vehicles at all!
Cool vid! Never seen those "Mask".
BUTT they were not on par with the "'first" serie. I'll have to take a look at how the "first" serie were to make up my mind.
my years being married to my husband a veteran and fighter jet enthusiast does anyone else agree
skybolt looks like a SEPECAT Jaguar nato strike fighter?
The wings on Skybolt were fiddley. It erked me that they didn't stay closed in assembled form.🤣
Do It Together Agian With A Heroes Don't Give Up Villanus Now Get Balnk.
I dont remember any of these I was out after the first series didnt play with toys by the time this was out
Ty, i didn't know about this wave, i think the last wave i got had a race car with Matt Tracker and Miles
Loved the first 2series of vehicles then went downhill after in my opinion
When I was a kid I thought these toys were awesome...now at 48 I think they suck.
Don't you just hate it when kids are not responsible with there toys.
Great vids and I gotta tell ya...Jacques LaFleur is a French dude...so it's pronounced in the french style... :-)
He's French-Canadian.
I didn’t realize how many vehicles there are
19:26 I would call those "Maskticles"
I never got to see what these do before. Great informational video
Thanks it was a fun video.
Some of these took me a while to figure out so It was fun to share. Thanks
I did not even know Mask had a series 4, wow.
T-BOB never got an update? Lol
Would 3D printing some new handles for the tricycle be worth it?
I would say yes. It couldn't hurt to try it.
The Split Seconds line was definitely a signal to the 90's criticism of toys with guns. For some reason I had all of these. Got the yellow bike Barracuda from Sears catalog. I remember going to pick it up at their storeroom area. Which also had two arcade machines, one was the game with an ape that had a football helmet power up, I'll never remember the name.🤦♂️
Absolutely love these. Your vids inspired me to start collecting again
Glad you enjoyed and that you get to experience this line all over again!
Do you have a video explaining how to clean these pieces?
Taking care of All the stickers without peel of the labels
Recently i found some toys in my garage
Thanks
I actually got most of these over a decade ago and was just very careful. My methods these days are so abrasive I would have probably made the labels worse. I suggest light moisture on and around stickers maybe damp paper towel but toothbrush on detailed areas but be gentle
thanks man!!!! @@tydiriumhanger1320
Afterburner was the one and only mask toy I owned as a kid. I used to play with it endlessly. Wish I had more but honestly I was too young, 5 yrs old, to get into collecting them.. Afterburner was more than enough for me :D
I’m noticing on many of these vehicles that the windshields are all cloudy and dirty, is there a way to clean them without using caustic chemicals to eat away at the plastic?
The only Split-Seconds I had was the pink and green VW, which transformed into a stylised "bike" and a Hovercraft. And the only other MASK vehicle I had was Manta, the purple sports car which transformed into a jet. The driver was the VENOM agent Vanessa Warfield.
Those sure are some fun MASK toys and many others we never knew they made
@@tydiriumhanger1320 What if there was a crossover between MASK and Transformers?
The Transformers could be a combination of the 1:24 Alternators, and the Omnibots (those G1 post away ones which transformed from normal vehicles to attack vehicles to robot modes).
Optimus Prime could come with Matt Trakker and Sparkplug Whitwicky. He could transform from truck, to a Rhino-style battletruck mode to the classic robot mode.
I don't know what Megatron would transform into, but I know that he would be partnered with Miles Mayhem though. It could be an interesting crossover.
@@darrenbent7601Actually, you just came up with a brilliant idea. Since Hasbro owns both Transformers and MASK, this is definitely possible.
@@johnnymason2460 And...if they could also bring in GI Joe too, it could be a mega-crossover event.
@@darrenbent7601 Also a good possibility. Since Matt Trakker has already made the GI Joe team, a crossover between them is doable.
Dope.
Nice collection! I think I have one or two Split Seconds.
Such a cool channel.. Cheers from Italy!
I like the saved by the bell bug
LOL it does look like it is from Bayside
VW FTW
Love M.A.S.K! Thanks for sharing. Nice collection.
Such a fun line! Glad you enjoyed
A fighter jet turning into 2 less effective machines is hilarious to me. It happens a few times in this toy line.
Depends on the situation. Pursuing a criminal through city streets would be far easier with a ground vehicle than a jet. M.A.S.K. was not an army, and their vehicles were designed to be adaptable to the task at hand. A jet that can turn into a car (and vice versa) is far more useful than just a regular jet.
Gloria Baker, black belt in Kung-Fu...wears a karate gi. I love her choice of vehicle.
LOL still a fun show and I also look forward to the shark
@@tydiriumhanger1320 Would you agree that the Shark should have been produced? I certainly do.
Never seen theses, I don't think they ever came to Canada.
I did not remember these either from back in the day it was not until 2012 that I found out about them
I always felt split seconds were going to be a new ip but it didn't work out and they folded them into mask since they were the same size .they just seemed off
This are hard to find.. nice collection.
They were hard to find and expensive in 2012 and today the prices make no sense
@@tydiriumhanger1320
You're sitting on a goldmine 😅
Awesome Video
Thanks glad you enjoyed!
Thought series 3 was bad ( racing ) but I'd forgotten this horror line up lol...season 1+2 were golden ...what the fuck were they on when they dreamt up this garbage
Stiletto is NOT Gloria's car.... Her car was a Porche 928 that converts to a Submarine. Her Vehicle name is Shark.
In the cartoon, yes, but that vehicle was never released by Kenner. In the toyline, she had the Stiletto Lamborghini instead.
These Split Seconds should have had their own TV show. We could have had MASK vs. VENOM in a computer-generated world. Fighting in cyberspace. I would have loved to see that.
I had these as a kid. The dragster actually rotates when raised up to get the dragwheels as front wheels.
Fire Force's design definitely looks more like a Cavalier or Sunbird
It is a Pontiac Fiero. An MR2 would have worked just as well.
I believe his name is pronounced as Phonetically as Shjakes or Shjack rather than Shjaquez but it doesn’t really matter
I will listen for that when I rewatch the series but working on Thundercats now